[rapid collision noises]

I was still waffling on what Pokemon to make Malbec but it was on the backburner for a bit- but while I was doing some research to refresh my memory on what originally happened in XY, something about the implication that they’d been experimenting on Metagross stood out to me and I was considering that. I just didn’t really know how to do it, or how I might make a parallel for a trainer, or how to implement the manic glitchy energy vibes—but I just combined them in the soup and I think I got something 8)

I’m still simmering the trainer side’s origins, but I think the reason he’s Fucked Up like he is and so deeply affected by the radiation of mega stones/evolution is because he was in an accident involving a Metagross years ago, at the peak of Team Flare’s run (yes I’m making another shrapnel character) The specifics are still fuzzy, there’s the potential that its mega evolution went haywire, overloaded, and exploded- or its power exploded something Else and it didn’t survive the damage.

SO SAD you can’t share captures directly… making do with janky phone caps instead

I took a crack at it with Luce and Isaac ( @pastelbelmont’s oc) and so far hair details are much more forgiving and fun 👀 I might invest in a cheap stylus so i can figure out more minute face stuff without going insane LMAO