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People love to joke about them being just 'more water! more dirt!', but Hoenn actually has crazy environmental storytelling that explains where their respective stances come from, and they are far less trivial than that meme.

Their clash presents two inherently flawed and self-harming ideologies that are taken to the extreme:

🔴 one thinks the needs of a growing society can and should be prioritized over respecting nature and the habits of Pokémon, because not doing so would result in damaging people economically (think of all the urban projects that were halted due to respecting Pokémon needs) and physically (overcrowding);

🔵 the other thinks that respecting 'our roots', the ocean all life came from, is something that absolutely cannot be compromised in any way and people should feel guilty even for simply expecting their place to survive and thrive. Humans and land creatures 'betrayed' the sea, left it and its rules and now don't respect it and its creatures enough because they do not see it as their home anymore. Humanity, however, in order to be virtuous should be punished and be forced to live by the rules of the sea, because those are the original rules the world go by.

Between these two insane extremes, there's Hoenn, a region that does do the impossible to coexist in peace and perfect balance with nature, but this is simply not possible without a degree of selfishness, because humans built their own habitat and now need it Therefore, Hoenn as a society has made multiple attempts to become more urbanized, to ease transportation, but it is almost held hostage by its culture of balance, and even so the space society takes is still too much to never ever clash with the habitats of Pokémon.

The conclusion of Hoenn's plot is fundamentally that sometimes things do not need a radical change, sometimes the perfect outcome doesn't exist but current reality is good enough, it is the best balance and compromise between ideals that may sound noble or favourable in theory, but would just result in chaos in practice.

Maxie and Archie both realise they were wrong, but it is not them realizing they were childish and stupid, it's them realizing that sometimes the world doesn't need otherworldly self-proclaimed heroes who are ready to take extreme decisions for the sake of their design, it's them realizing that this is already the best possible world despite its issues, and the heroes such a world needs is people who are able to make it even better within its rules rather than trying to overthrow it.

#384 “Pre-Attack Forme” - Deoxys are believed to be the result of a mutation of an extraterrestrial virus caused by exposure to a powerful laser beam. They are highly intelligent and can fire off lasers from the crystalline organ on their chests. By emitting an aurora, they can communicate to others of their kind using electromagnetic wavelengths. Deoxys are also cable of warping their body into several known forms. By taking on a more pointed and streamlined appearance, they are able to supercharge their attack, special attack, and speed stats; this transformation is known as their Attack Forme.

(The other forms will be added at a later date)

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Playing explorers of darkness for the first time has made me nostalgic for the PMD game I played as a child. For this drawing I tried adding singular lighter lines to the shaded bits to give the impression of more depth and I think I like it. Also, I plan on adding a background option like this to my commissions.

Deoxys emerged from a virus that came from space. It is highly intelligent and wields psychokinetic powers. This Pokémon shoots lasers from the crystalline organ on its chest.

Colour and symbol charts can be found here.

This sprite was designed by MultiDiegoDani! Permission has been kindly granted for its use.