Oh Hallo Der

No way I finished him in time for his Anniversary, holy crap I didn't know.

Do you ever just spawn in a plushie of your hyperfixation?

You got any info-dumps locked and loaded for him? If not, what made you go, 'This, good, need!' for the poké? Any major changes since he first got thought of?

Hmm, good questions.

One I can answer with confidence is the second one!

Well it’s a bit of a sad-but-please-don’t-be-sad kinda story.

My grandad passed away earlier this year, around Scarlet and Violet’s release. I hadn’t handled grief before, it wasn’t a feeling I was used to, so I didn’t really know how to cope.

I bought Pokémon to make myself feel better, ended up sucked into Scarlet and found myself as a very low level trainer in an area I wasn’t meant to be in, surrounded by level 50 Pokémon while I was a wee single badge holder.

I caught the Tox that would be Cirro by just random luck, it was a crit on my first ball.

He’s been on my team as my ace since, and I made his suit to process everything too. Cirro is a comfort OC. Low-key Toxtricity will forever have a special place in my heart because Pokémon and in turn, Cirro got me through a pretty dark time.

Like “oh great- my flesh and blood hooked up with the ONE member of this god forsaken team of lunatics I cannot stand.”

Sniper is like “I better tread carefully or I’m going home in a body bag.”

Man’s 27 and has all the same hobbies as me.

So, if you’ve read the Tales from the Pizza Plex books you’ll know Sun and Moon used to be theatre performers (I bloody called it ages ago btw-.) and as part of their act Sun would turn into Moon when the lights went out. Moon was “evil” in this performance and when they were moved to be the Daycare Attendant the engineers couldn’t remove the darkness trigger that causes Sun to become Moon.

Sun is obviously uneasy about Moon. It’s clear that the whole Lights On thing Sun has is to prevent himself becoming Moon and it seems… painful? Uncomfortable? Either way.

What if this new Sun and Moon, “Eclipse” I guess (who we have actually seen once before, in this asset from the first game.)

What if one of them has PULLED the other side of their face off?

Because looking at them- that doesn’t look like a convenient break it looks like one of them has ripped the other side of their face off leaving just the crescent.

Mayhaps they’re not getting along at all like this.

Edit: Sun CLAWS at his faceplate during transformation- I completely forgot.

Miss Pauling: As long as they don’t interrupt your work we don’t care. Why?

Sniper: No reason- like I said.

Miss Pauling: What’s in the box.

Sniper: …

Miss Pauling: What’s in the box Sniper.