#rival toby

[Image Description: Two teenagers dressed as Nat Vancey and Trevor Garbo from Smile For Me. The girl (left) has light skin, blonde hair in a ponytail, brown eyes, and a fake vampire fang in her mouth. She is wearing a long pink dress with dark pink accents and white boots with pale pink soles. The boy (right) has light skin, short messy auburn hair, and green eyes. He is wearing a long teal coat, a green striped scarf, a yellow shirt, blue denim pants, and maroon boots with pink soles. The two of them each have an arm around the other, with the girl's free hand being on her hip and the boy's free arm held up in a wave. End ID.]

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Ngl Cherry and Toby's costumes were among the last to get figured out in this series hehe. I knew I wanted the rivals to match like how the player characters do, but I didn't know how I wanted them to match. Then I thought of some of my favorite kids from Smile For Me and there ya go! :D

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[Image Description: A young boy Pokemon Trainer running along with a bird-like Pokemon flying beside him. The boy has somewhat light skin, short fluffy auburn hair, and green eyes. He is wearing a blue-grey shirt under a red button-up shirt, denim pants rolled up to just under the knee, and green and yellow Vans-like shoes. He has a purple backpack with lighter purple straps on his back, and a blue wristband with a turquoise Pokeball emblem on it. He's holding a red and white Pokeball in his hand. The bird-like Pokemon flying beside him resembles a baby cardinal, with mostly yellow feathers on the body and red-orange feathers on the wings, a blue-grey beak and feet, and large dark blue eyes. The background is a pixellated gradient of green, orange, and blue, the image as a whole framed in a lighter blue. End ID.]

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"Hey (player)! Glad I caught up to you! Wow, this journey's really something so far, huh? Pokemon are so cool! Oh, while we're here, how about a quick battle? I know I'm not the best at this, but it'd still be a lot of fun! What do you say?"

Introducing one of your two rivals in the Cantessy Fakemon project, Toby! He's a good kid with a heart of gold, very easygoing and willing to take life as it comes rather than push for anything specific. Hence he's the one who obtains the starter that is at a type disadvantage against the player (ie. Haymuth if you chose Calflame, Chikret if you chose Haymuth, etc.) I wanted to depict him with the first Pokemon he catches after getting his starter so that I could work on the sketch before putting out that survey I keep mentioning, which is a male Cardling. And yeah, if you remember back to my showing the Cardling family, you know why I'm specifying that his is a male. Give him that vibrant cardinal red, babey >:3c

Being one of the rivals, Toby's team obviously grows over time. After his starter, he obtains a Cardling that eventually evolves into a brilliant red Frostinal. By the third battle you have with him, he'll get a male Moofer, a Fakemon I haven't shown off yet that is a baby form of both Tauros and Miltank (three guesses what his Moofer will evolve into, huh). The fourth battle against him will see him start to try balancing his team a bit more to counter yours, adding something that is strong against your Starter (Carkol if you chose Haymuth, the Fakemon Spungel if you chose Calflame, or Applin if you chose Chikret). The fifth has him add an Eevee to the team, and if he had a Carkoal or Applin it will evolve into Coalossal or Appletun. His final team will consist of his starter, Frostinal, Tauros, Sylveon, and either Coalossal and Spungel (if he chose Haymuth), Spungel and Appletun (if he chose Calflame), or Appletun and Coalossal (if he chose Chikret).

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[Image Description: Three young Pokemon Trainers, two girls and a boy, each with a fan-made Pokemon. The girl on the left has light skin, shoulder-length brown hair, and blue eyes. She is wearing a pink hat with buttons and a darker Pokeball design, a light yellow shirt over a lavender one, and a tan backpack with purple shoulder straps. She is petting the head of a light blue egret-like Pokemon with a grey purple beak. The center girl has light skin, brown eyes, and blonde hair in a ponytail. She is wearing a pink crop-top jacket, an aqua green shirt, and a bag with a yellow strap. She is holding the trunk of a yellow and green mammoth Pokemon while rubbing its back. The boy had light skin and messy auburn hair. He is wearing a red shirt over a dark blue undershirt and a purple backpack. He is hugging a red calf-like Pokemon. The background is a pixellated gradient of blue, green, and orange. End ID.]

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Can't believe I finished this like an hour ago and almost didn't post it, hehe. Anyway, here's one of the player characters for Pokemon Plow and Circuit and her Chikret, alongside Cherry, Toby, and their starters. They're gonna be great friends with these little guys, and their journeys will only serve to strengthen their preexisting friendship as well!

All right, next time we focus on a trainer, it's not gonna be someone involved with the starters. Instead, we'll start to take a look at the gym leaders! And hooooo boy, the gym leaders...Cantessy's gym leaders are something else, but if you haven’t already seen my character refs, I'll clarify everything once we meet our first one!

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Toby Bullock

A beginner Trainer who’s starting his journey along with his two best friends. Toby’s got last pick out of the three Pokémon that Professor Chestnut presented to the trio, but that’s okay because he’d honestly wanted that one anyway. He’s pretty easygoing overall, tending to take life as it comes rather than trying to push for anything specific to happen. He’s friendly and personable, and he loves his friends and his Pokémon more than just about anything.

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More Cantessy refs with the “nice” rival! Technically both the rivals are friends of the hypothetical player character, Toby’s just more chill while the other is more ambitious.

When it comes to choosing starters, as Toby gets the last pick, he gets the one that is at a type disadvantage to the player. Example: if the player gets the grass-type, Cherry (the ambitious rival character) will choose the fire-type and Toby will be left with the water-type.

Toby Bullock

A beginner Trainer who's starting his journey along with his two best friends. Toby's got last pick out of the three Pokémon that Professor Chestnut presented to the trio, but that's okay because he'd honestly wanted that one anyway. He's pretty easygoing overall, tending to take life as it comes rather than trying to push for anything specific to happen. He's friendly and personable, and he loves his friends and his Pokémon more than just about anything.

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Another Cantessy ref revamp with one of the player's two rivals, Toby! He's a good kid hehe c:

Toby is the kind of rival to pick the starter Pokemon that has a type disadvantage to the player; ie. he will have [Chikret] if you choose Haymuth, [Haymuth] if you choose Calflame, or [Calflame] if you choose Chikret.

First Battle (Route 1): [Cardling] ♂ (level 8), starter Pokemon (level 10) Second Battle (Route 2): [Moofer] ♂ (level 17), Cardling ♂ (level 18), second-stage starter Pokemon ( [Soystodon] / [Kinedle] / [Heronek] ) (level 19) Third Battle (Titanic Caves): Carkol (if using water starter) / [Spungel] (if using grass starter) / Applin (if using fire starter) (level 26), Moofer ♂ (lv 29), [Purdinal] ♂ (level 30), second-stage starter Pokemon (level 31) Fourth Battle (Route 6): Coalossal (if using water starter) / Spungel (if using grass starter) / Appletun (if using fire starter) (level 34), Tauros (level 35), Eevee (level 36) Purdinal ♂ (level 38), third-stage starter Pokemon ( [Hedeomadon] / [Minosteel] / [Jabittern] ) (level 41) Fifth Battle (Route 9): Appletun (level 45, if not using Hedeomadon), Coalossal (level 45, if not using Minosteel), Spungel (level 45, if not using Jabittern), Tauros (level 46), Sylveon (level 48), [Frostinal] ♂ (level 50), third-stage starter Pokemon (level 52) Post-League team: Appletun (level 65+, if not using Hedeomadon), Coalossal (level 65+, if not using Minosteel), Spungel (level 65+, if not using Jabittern), Tauros (level 67+), Sylveon (level 68+), Frostinal ♂ (level 69+), third-stage starter Pokemon (level 71+)