DxP REWRITE - Jubilife

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!

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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I'm invading you from Instagram, idk I just think your art is cool, especially when lineless art can be tedious. I'm curious on your all time favorite starter 🤔

Hello! I actually find it faster / easier than lined because I don’t have to meticulously draw clean lines, then color within them.

Aw man…I was just talking about this the other day with the mister. Water starters are my fave (big surprise I’m sure lol 🌧️💧), though I don’t know if I can pick ONE all time favorite 😅 I do have a top 3 though: the Squirtle line, the Oshawott line, & the Froakie line 🩵

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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Captain Skyla

Listening to “Liberation of Gracemeria” (Ace Combat 6) again made me want to share this adult Skyla concept I made. I like to think this was set maybe right after getting off the phone with Ansy, heading out to personally make that express delivery from Kitakami to Nimbasa City.

She’s shown up a couple times in DxP REWRITE (namely, delivering Ansy’s letter to Emmet, & flying him over to Sinnoh with Elesa), mostly because she is my all-time favorite Gym Leader - Flying-type pilot in an airport town, great design & personality, Swanna ace, etc. ✈️

In Ansy’s timeline, she starts off as a teenager learning to fly in BW, then a full-fledged pilot in her 20’s (BW2, as she flew us in game in what looked like a cargo plane). Nowadays, she’s the best pilot in Mistralton City, & maybe brought a Flying Taxi service to Unova, seeing as Blueberry Academy has one:

PS: no worries for subway fans - Flying Taxis can only take a few passengers at a time, & I’m sure there are plenty of folks who prefer to keep their feet on the ground lol.

PPS: I originally was gonna ask what Flying PKMN would be used in mainland Unova, but then the mister sensibly pointed out Braviary (especially since we fly around with its regional variant in Hisui). 🦅

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. 🪽