[WAR] ●Drawn Art●

[Elysia]

^the above deleted post was a request asking when the deadline was because I wasn't sure if I was going to make it in time, but I think I made it, so deleted for no double-posting?


First, a joke, courtesy of a thirty-second doodle in the URPG AIM Chats. This is not my actual submission (I understand we only get one?), but Felly made me.
Username: Elysia
Team: Team Yoga Bears
Link to Art: http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/...ps53fece45.png
Art Submission:

Spoiler:

Budducks, the Butt Duck Pokemon. Normal-type. Specialists spent several years trying to determine any useful function for Budduck's strange shape. They did not find any.

haha I am like twelve

Actual Submission
Username: Elysia
War Team: Team Yoga Bears
Link to Art: http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/...pseecf2d0c.png
Art Submission:

Spoiler:

(I was going to design the entire line but ran out of time. The two on the left are pre-evos, but the submission is the Pokemon on the far right which is actually colored and stuff)

Morimaga, the Silkmoth Pokemon. Ghost/Bug. Many believe that the thread wrapped around its body is used to measure the lives of Pokemon. Although it cannot be proven, Morimaga are said to cut these threads when a Pokemon reaches the end of its lifespan.

Background/designer thoughts:

Spoiler:

Never did a Fakemon before. This was really fun!

I went in wanting to do something pertaining to Greek Myth, because that's my standard fallback on things, and also because most of the good Japanese legends have been taken by GameFreak already. I settled on the concept of the Moirai, or the three fates, which are said to spin, measure, and cut the threads of life for mortals. This made the idea of a ghost Fakemon seem pretty cool (and also ghosts are fun to draw and purple is an awesome color), and I settled on Ghost/Bug because I didn't really know what other type is string-related. I based this on silkworm larvae and silkworm moths, if only because spiders are hard to keep track of all of the legs and because I wanted to incorporate the cloaky/wings aspect (the Moirai are depicted as a trio white-robed women). I liked the three-part evolution line because it fit the spinner/measurer/cutter aspect of the three fates, and here we all are.

I also wanted to subvert the typical first-route-weak-bug thing in games. As a kid, I always wanted to use my Caterpie/Butterfree because it was the first Pokemon I ever caught and we were awesome together, but statwise, the first-route bugs really start to fall behind. Here, the first evolution (Clovae, pure-Bug type, and its body is made up of dobbins but its hard to see in the sketch haha) is weak akin to its counterparts (ie Caterpie/Weedle/Wurmple), as is Lachrylis (pure-Bug), the second evolution. However, at a much higher-than-normal level, Lachrylis will evolve into Morimaga, a fairly-fast and heavy-hitting special attacker.

Morimaga is a portmanteau of "Mori" (derived from Moirai, the collective name for the three fates because Atrophly would've been great and fit with the naming scheme but not a moth as well as deriving from the Latin name of the silkworm, Bombyx mori) and "imago," the final stage of insect metamorphoses.

Also, imago is just a really fun word to say.