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Ansy PKMN Timeline

When I started posting Diamond x Pearl REWRITE on my instagram, I did quite a bit of set up for new readers, including a full timeline for both Ansy & Ikrit. The mister & I (the players behind these characters) have been playing Pokémon since very beginning (though I had a very long break between Blue & Black), & now we play Pokémon together! 🩵

Ansy was born in Kanto, had a very coming-of-age story in Unova, & considers the latter her home region. It’s where Ikrit & she live to this day when they’re not running around other regions (maybe in Nuvema Town, moving from Undella in favor of a little town still near the ocean but more affordable & quiet). She isn’t the strongest battler, but she’s definitely gotten better since Ikrit started training with her. Strange things seem to happen around her though…

Her design is often inspired by the female PC, though she’s often holding an umbrella as her trainer class is usually Parasol Lady (she likes rain teams, mostly Water PKMN). 🌧️ Exceptions are in Blue (Lass) & Sword (Gardener).

PS: So I got confused with which Legendary you got in BW & BW2, so while I just played Black when I realized that’s the one with Reshiram lol, I just rewrote White 2 - I didn’t realize the Reshiram you help in the game was N’s Reshiram, so I pretended it was Ansy’s Reshiram instead (as my hc is that players more befriend Legendaries than catch them like in the anime). 😅

PPS: the time skip between BW & BW2 is officially 3 years, but since I didn’t really want to jump from 10 (when I played Blue) to 22 (when I played Black), I made it about 9 years.

Ikrit’s PKMN Timeline

Unlike me, the mister actually played through just about every single region (currently playing through Alola in Ultra Sun, the last region he hasn’t visited) along with a bunch of crazy mods, challenges, & randomizers. This translated into Ikrit: a very intelligent & capable trainer who has done a lot of traveling, mostly for field research for Hoenn’s meteoriticist, Professor Cozmo, though now he also travels with Ansy. 🌠

Ikrit’s home region is Hoenn (which is kinda funny considering that out of the two of us, I’m actually the one with family ties to southern Japan, where Hoenn is based lol!) though now he lives with Ansy in Unova when not running around other regions. His designs are also based on the male PC, albeit with a usually darker palette. His trainer class is PKMN Researcher, though it doesn’t reflect much in his design lol.

Before me, the mister didn’t really nickname his Pokémon, but we thought it’d be funny if Ikrit’s Pokémon were named after Fire Emblem characters (his favorite game series) - we had a lot of fun name these lol. The only exception is his main, Sasha the Glaceon - a long time ago, he told me he liked the name, & how it could be used for a boy or girl (PS: Sasha is a boy)

PS: OH ALSO! So the inside joke about Y, how he met a “certain girl” & she forgot - the mister had said one of his fondest memories while we were dating was replaying X & Y together. I…forgot all about it. 😅 I remember now, but yeah, that’s the joke. 😂

Sword x Shield

Highlights from Ansy & Ikrit’s first adventure together through Galar! If you want to see the whole thing, please visit my instagram at parasol_lady_ansy 🌧️

For this & the Scarlet x Violet series, I mostly just did single panel comics with a few 4 panel comics. It was the first time I really finished a series like that, so it was a big step for me as an artist, leading up to Diamond x Pearl REWRITE.

This was the first Pokémon game we played as a couple (apart from replaying X & Y a bit), & so this story is based on our love story 🩵 We met at work, & I confessed first. After a few years of dating & playing Pokémon, we were engaged & then married. Ikrit came to Galar on Professor Cozmo’s behest to study the Wishing Stars, while Ansy came a couple years back to learn about gardening (as the first run I did, I tried a different trainer class than my typical Parasol Lady, Gardener 🍃).

Small note: you might’ve noticed there being a year gap between the main story & the DLC post-game. During that gap, they went to Hoenn, Unova, & Kanto as detailed on Ansy’s timeline as well as Ikrit’s. Mostly it was to meet each other’s family & friends as they got closer.

Scarlet x Violet

Like with Sword x Shield, I decided to share the highlights from Ansy & Ikrit’s Paldean adventure, Scarlet x Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero! If you’d like to see the whole story, please visit my Instagram at parasol_lady_ansy 🌧️

While I did enjoy Scarlet & the DLC’s (going back to Unova in Blueberry Academy was a treat!), I didn’t like Scarlet nearly as much as I like (LOVE!) Sword, so this was a much shorter series, mostly focusing on the Indigo Disk DLC.

Important headcanons for this story: Ansy & Ikrit ended up on parallel timelines when they came to Paldea - Ansy was on the Scarlet timeline (Naranja Academy, Koraidon) while Ikrit was on Violet timeline (Uva Academy, Miraidon). They could still communicate across spacetime via their Rotom phones & Union Circle (spots where the timelines blur & they can meet up).

Being around all these kids really brought up Ansy’s maternal instincts, as she “adopted” Penny & Arven lol (she would still check on how they’re doing).

Professor Sada / Turo similarly fell into the parallel timeline years ago, though each concluded the other “left” following an incident with the Time Machine (the reason the timeline split in the first place). These two timelines converged in the endgame climax, & the Paldea that exists now is a combination of the two. The academies became Uva-Naranja Academy, & everyone has a combination of memories from the two timelines.

The epilogue to this series is what sets up the current story, Diamond x Pearl REWRITE, which you can read starting here!]

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PKMN Black - Ansy

One more highlights post before going back to our regular schedule of Diamond x Pearl REWRITE (& please excuse the slight style changes through these lol, as I made some of these a year or two ago, while others I made leading up to posting DxP REWRITE on my Instagram parasol_lady_ansy).

As I said on Ansy’s timeline, BW was a very coming-of-age story for Ansy, maybe the most impactful for her character as a whole. It was her first official Pokémon journey, as her very first one through Kanto was cut short (see timeline), leaving her with PTSD. Enter Rain, her then-service Eevee (now Vaporeon!) - she was given to Ansy right before she moved to Unova to help adjust to life there.

She met all kinds of friends, enemies, rivals, & even a mysterious Champion from another region. This is when she first met Ingo & Emmet (they were about 19, brand new Subway Bosses, while she was 15). Skyla was about 16, & still working on her pilot license where she can fly industrial planes (like she does in BW2), but can fly small recreational aircraft like ultralights. Cynthia was also aged down to a teenager, though older than Ansy (looking forward to when she appears in DxP REWRITE 🖤)

The last fight against N, then Ghetsis, was a big turning point for her, as that was the first time since the incident in Kanto that she finally allowed herself to be angry, synching perfectly with the fiery white dragon Reshiram. She & they have a very deep bond, & while she didn’t catch them (Ansy befriends Legendaries instead of catching them), they would come when called wherever she was in Unova. 🪽

DxP REWRITE - Jubilife

Just putting it out there now - I’ll be lifting shots from the amazing BDSP artbook to show off 1) how awesome the concept art was, & 2) what we almost got in-game, something more like Sword / Shield (DANGIT 🥲).

I also used screenshots I took to help draw out backgrounds, which was very useful as we go back to that time period to see what Mizumi’s up to.

The benefit of being someone who played Legends Arceus before BDSP is that I can look at buildings & landmarks with fresh eyes. The first moment I saw the Trainer’s School, I thought of a repainted Galaxy HQ with all the rooms & offices being converted into classrooms.

Speaking of schools, in case you missed Scarlet x Violet, Uva & Naranja Academies became one school with 2 wings (Uva & Naranja) after the separate timelines Ansy & Ikrit were on converged

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PS: a couple screenshots to help illustrate my HC - obviously they developed the design in Legends Arceus, but the elements are there. I can easily see Kamado’s office being the principal’s office, Cyllene’s office being adminstrations, flanked by the science lab (Professor Laventon’s study) & nurses’ office (infirmary), etc. 🏫

Also, with this theory, the Pokémon center is in the same spot as where you also go to rest up your team: your quarters in PLA!

Pardon the dust lol

Made some minor updates & edits on the Diamond x Pearl REWRITE cover, as well as the character profiles - added some eye color, & fixed a few mistakes I made (eg. I thought the twins’ shoes had brown soles, but they’re actually the same color as the shoe - basically I thought they were dress shoes, but they’re more like work shoes with thick, non-slip soles).

Honestly, it isn’t all that noticeable, but in case you go back, & think “hey, this looks different than I remember” that’s why lol 😂

See you with the next entry tomorrrow! 🌧️

DxP REWRITE - Very Scientific

Writing Professor Laventon’s dialogue was fun - he has quite the vocabulary (& is so very British). I also really loved how, in the game, he was there for you since the beginning, & you in turn confide in him with every crazy thing that happens (yes, even meeting your own great-great-granddaughter).

Mizumi certainly appreciated having such a safe, kind adult in the otherwise harsh past, & so can really be an kid around him (hint: this wasn’t the first time she’s borrowed his lab coat lol).

⭐️ BONUS!

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DxP REWRITE - Scarlet or Violet

Don’t worry, Professor - your confusion over the books has much less to do with your memory, & much more to do with two timelines converging (see Scarlet x Violet).

I’d thought Heath’s expedition happened more recently, more around the time Legends Arceus happens. However, going by Hokkaido’s colonization in our history that runs parallel to Legends Arceus, it happened about 50 years before Legends, as it was 200 years ago vs 150.

(I can’t wait for the Moon Festival to have mitarashi dango again 🎑)

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DxP REWRITE - Petrichor

(Casual reminder that the last time Ingo saw Ansy, she looked like she did in the Prologue)

They say smell can be very connected to our memories, as those parts of the brain are next-door neighbors. For me, back when I didn’t want to remember most things going on in my life, I had a weak sense of smell - as things got better for me, I noticed my sense of smell improved (for better or worse lol).

At this point, Ingo had known Ansy since she was Mizumi’s age (minus the 7 years he was in Hisui), & unsurprisingly, he associates her with that “fresh rain smell” Mizumi encountered in the mists around Crystal Pool. 🌧️ 

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DxP REWRITE - Two Umbrellas

We can thank a single line of dialogue from Masters EX for this moment: I was looking for inspo in his quotes when I happened on one where he offers to escort the player to their destination. From that & other things he’d say, I’ve concluded that Ingo is a bit of a mother hen - he’s the guy to walk little old ladies across the street, zero in on a child’s crying, has a first aid kit in his pocket, etc. Call it older sibling instinct (I have it too lol).

This is how I see his friendship with Ansy - starting off as walking her around Nimbasa City, then just going on walks together where they’d talk about stuff. Then if they get caught in the rain, Ansy has an umbrella if he doesn’t. 🌧️ 

Speaking of which, in case you don’t know or haven’t watched enough anime lol, she was telling Emmet that where she’s from (Kanto), sharing an umbrella can mean they’re dating (no worries, he has his own umbrella off-screen, a Tynamo one like Ingo’s Lampent umbrella).

PS: Emmet’s friendship with Ansy is basically just one long game of teasing the other - started off with him trying to make her smile as always, then she surprised him by teasing back. The rest is history. 🤭

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NPC Ansy

Drawing BW2 Ansy in that last comic with a raincoat like standard Parasol Ladies made me do it lol. Definitely nostalgic, looking up BW2 battle screenshots for this. ^_^

Parasol Lady is a trainer class who specializes in weather teams, but usually rain. There are certain moves, abilities, & types that have an advantage depending on the weather, like Weather Ball (a normally Normal move that gets a power boost & type change depending on if it’s raining, sunny, or snowing / hailing). Castform is generally their signature Pokemon, along with any with abilities like Swift Swim, Rain Dish, Hydration, or Drizzle. 🌧️💧

You probably would encounter her later on in the game (whenever Altaria evolves, around 35), but beat her fairly easily lol. Her default dialogue would be about the weather, her dear Pokémon, or maybe cloud cookies. ☁️ 

PS: I didn’t know you can catch Castform in BDSP (very rare Trophy Garden encounter), & I can’t not have Sora on the team if she’s available sooooo I did some rearranging on Ansy’s DxP team lol. I’m honestly planning on just redoing these profiles eventually (maybe after Chapter 1), but yeah, just so you guys know lol, Ansy has her raindrop baby. 🥲🩵

DxP REWRITE - Recollection

*To be clear, he also remembered (almost) all the names Ansy mentioned in the last one, but since the conversation was about Ansy as the girl who looked like Mizumi, he only mentions her here.

A lot of people asked why he can’t seem to remember Emmet - I was gonna talk about it in these next few comics, not to worry! In the game, Ingo begins to remember Chandelure & Emmet, but seems to forget right away - talking to Volo about his amnesia, he says “I can’t remember my own home, nor my family, if I had any…” I feel like Ingo would’ve concluded that the “man who looks like me” was family, so I interpreted that as him beginning to recover a memory, but losing it. 

This can happen when recovering memories. My own circumstances were different from Ingo‘s, though I imagined some things are the same, like how memories closer to your heart, good or bad, are harder to get back & retain. It’s a process to be sure, one that benefits from having kind, supportive people around you as you sort through all of that. 🩵

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DxP REWRITE - Chapter 2

Ha, I was gonna leave this minimalist like the last one, but then an idea struck - small reference to the silly chibi sprites you get in BDSP, hehe. 🩵

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More late night doodles

Verrrrrrry self indulgent. I do not care. Live life, be cringe.

Finally finished it!!!!!

Bit of a break from what I was planning on uploading, but I really wanted to share this! This is my longest piece yet, from what I know, at 7hrs and 53mins. I’ve been wanting to do the #pokemonjunerney challenge on Instagram since I found it at the end of September, and I’ve finally finished my Trainersona’s design!

Stick around if you want to find out more about her and her Pokémon!

Check her out on my Instagram too! https://www.instagram.com/p/CVP_jaJvMad/?utm_medium=copy_link

Maisie finally has a Reference Sheet!!

Ahhh!!!! I finished this on the 27th, but I wanted to wait a couple of days to post this just so I’m not blowing up anyone’s timelines.

So! This is Maisie! She’s a Pokemon Trainer OC from Sinnoh and her Pokemon Team is based on my playthrough of Pokemon Platinum. I already really liked her old design but thought that she looked too close to Dawn’s Platinum outfit.

She’s an absolute sweetheart and I think she’s one of my first OC’s that I have (that I still have lol). She and my other Pokemon OC Delaney are best friends, so keep an eye out for Delaney's ref sheet too! I'm looking for poses for her right now.

Anyways, I hope you like her, and if you’d like to read more, feel free to check out her Toyhou.se Page. She also has an ArtFight Page if you’d like to draw her during the fight!

Say hello to my babies! I only play Pokemon on nuzlocke, and these guys carried me to victory. I wuv my widdle badasses~

I promised @trainerakemi that I’d draw her something ages ago. I hope you like it, dude???

Everyone, please look at this. Look at how talented my friend is. Cibia is a doll and the most generous person to give her precious time to make people happy.

Last set of paperchildren for @thecheesecracker, @laelia-camui, @aloha-4-ever, @chaostheoryy, @master-codebreaker-slicer-prince, @disneymarina, @pennybites, @congalineofdurin, @linz3 :) I hope you like them! As always, if you want your paperchild with no background/border/whatever, feel free to contact me!

As I said, this is the last set of (free) requested paperkids; I’m a bit sad that this monthly project didn’t work out at the end…oh well, c’est la vie, I guess </3