>If Marshall isn't the last stage, then it must be... YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!>Thread Question: What are your OC's dreams like? Do they ever reoccur?>Thread Task: Draw one of your OC's most unhinged dreams.>/tog/ artfaggotryhttps://mega.nz/folder/hKggRQbD#kPCbp_-Ae68nbR9cYIuRcA>/tog/ writefaggotryhttps://pastebin.com/ZdM8Hpnx>OP templatehttps://pastebin.com/CNs7J7L1>I don't know how to make a character!Brainstorming ideas and dice rolls [NEWBIE-FRIENDLY CREATION TABLES WITHIN]:https://pastebin.com/5BA85WPK>I don't know how to draw!Picrew links, Sprite-making programs and resources, and AI-generated content:https://pastebin.com/BR0sac53>I want to learn how to draw!Drawing tutorials and Drawing Program Downloads:https://pastebin.com/6pdqaJ3m>Previous thread: >>57172306
>>57189283Be on the lookout for the 2024 Compilation releasing later this thread.
>>57189286If you open this image and listen very carefully, you can hear me weeping in the shower.
>>57189312I know you said that you would split it into but I honestly think you should just make EIF into an entire single document for the madmen who want to read it from start to finish or just for people who prefer to leave off and pick up at a single manuscript
>>57189328I would absolutely love to and plan to, but I want to finish the main series first. Then and only then, when it's all laid out from start to finish, E-Chan and I will go through it for final touchups to make it perfect. Think of it like a director's cut or something.
>>57189358Mmm, this is a good opportunity to ask if you were interested in releasing a machete order for Eons in Flux. As written, the story is all out of order. How would it flow if told sequentially?
> Draw one of your OC's most unhinged dreams.That time Rose had a dream about kidnapping Piper
>What are your OC's dreams like? Do they ever reoccur?I say Yi-Yi is a frequent dreamer, she is the person who says "I had the weirdest dream last night!" Her dream recall is crazy, but doesn't look into the meaning of them all too much. She could have the 'teeth falling out' dream and think nothing of it. Most of her dreams are about bugs or cotton candy, she drools alot.I am no longer burnt out!!!
>>57189312Just checking in last minute, because I had to deal with something last minute. Are all of my longer (pdf) writings at the very end of my section? If not, make sure that they are. If so, can you make sure the order is Agent Orange, Dossier (assuming it’s being included, if not, that’s fine), TFU/SP, and then CHD at the very end?
>>57189420I don't know what that means at this time of night, boogaloo. I'll call you when I'm done shaving my head. The story was told out of order because I was making all of it up as I went, you know I don't do outlines, now it's organized in the pastebin so that plot reveals in the mainline episodes aren't spoiled by stories written after the fact. ie, The Visionary is posted after episode 2 so as not to tip the reader off to the subverted premise established in episode 1. Chronologically, I think it's pretty straightforward: Phos's childhood stories (So Overrated, Growing Pains, the Luke crossover), Azelie's childhood story takes place maybe roughly around the same time Phos first catches Scraggy; then the Visionary, Perfect Strangers, the Dossier, L'Epidemie Dansante, the Furia crossover, then the main narrative begins with episode 1. Episode 5 and Urban Legends bounce backward and forward but that doesn't seem to be an issue? Alex, am I forgetting anything?
>>57189495>Alex, am I forgetting something?I don’t have a fucking clue. Nothing about the last three suggests that they’re before the main narrative but I suppose they wouldn’t be out of place being as such, for the sake of flexibility. I guess that places all of my fan stuff before the main narrative except for the beginning and ending of The Follow-Up. You’re the one in control of the timeline, not me. I don’t think I would know if anything was off besides the aforementioned stories that weren’t really suggested to be in a particular place in time. I would suggest doing a Gerard cameo if that’s still possible, or bringing back the guy with the Aggron and having him go Mega as a miniboss before facing Franco. Oh yeah, that reminds me.>>57189358>Director’s cutDoes this mean that you’ll write in deleted scenes such as the Axel Cameo and Phos Beatdown that you originally dropped for the sake of time? What about a redux of the first two chapters with Editor’s help?
>>57189495>>57189558OH YEAH, I DO REMEMBER ONE THING, THAT SHORT STORY AT THE END OF DAISANTE, I THINK IT WAS “I REMEMBER”, THAT HAPPENS AS A FLASHBACK DURING CHAPTER 19 OF THE FINAL GAIDEN. ADD THAT IN A SEPERATE PLACE SOMEWHERE.
>>57189422Is it still kidnapping if it's consensual? >>57189431Hope you enjoyed your vacation, welcome back. >>57189558You're my living notepad for remembering trivial details. If I overlooked something, you'd be the first to point it out. >redux of the first two episodes E-Chan was the one who suggested this idea, though I'm of the opinion that episode 1 is literally perfect in every way except for using the wrong tense of backwards and forwards. 2 could use some tidying up, so on. Instead of adding more content, I would want to add more context. Drop stronger clues for future details and tie more recent information back into older works. I can't really elaborate on that without going into unmarked spoiler territory, but take my word for it. Weaving a major plot detail from Urban Legends into the end of episode 4 and hinting at it sooner with some grunt chatter so the whole story feels a little more cohesive and I can pretend I planned it all along, to give a very vague example. >ADD THAT IN A SEPARATE PLACE SOMEWHERE I take it you didn't read the fake leak for episode 7? That scene tunnels its way into the story more and more as we dive into the climax.
How do you cope, knowing you'll never make an OC as kino as Sordward and Shieldbert?
>>57190094>How do you cope?Resting easy I didn't gave my OC a dumb hairdo.
Fitful sleep, plagued with panic dreams (my belly button exploded again) and tinnitus.>>57189159Midge doesn't mind the smell, but she doesn't like that people use it to keep bugs away. It's rude. They just want to be friends.Speaking of dreams, to answer the TQ: Luke dreams are vivid survival situations during or after large natural disasters, or of him rescuing a person or Pokémon who needs it. They're always vivid cinematic and the scary ones stay with him for a while.Midge: Midge rarely dreams but when she does they reflect the version of her she wishes she could express. Sylvie: mostly vivid and color lucid dreams. She enjoys sleeping a lot because of this.
>>57190262>they reflect the version of her she wishes she could express>normal people watching The Fly for the first time: horrified>Midge watching The Fly for the first time:
>>57190342I meant a version of her that was capable of expressing her feelings, but this funny
Amandanon here, I figured it was time to try my hand at someone younger. He doesn't have a name yet, but based on my rolls:>19 years old>Hoenn>Team is Sandslash (for ground), Mawile (for fairy) and Crobat (for flying)>Sees pokemon as comrades, partners, friends etc.>Champion tier>Defended a small town from a rampaging pokemon>Hates Normal-types.I'm not entirely sure what to think about this one. I might change either his proudest achievement or his tier, considering they don't really match up. Or I may scrap this idea entirely for either my old idea of Pokemon in Space, or a spinoff following one of Amanda's students after they grow up. Any of these ideas will have to wait until after I finish A Teacher's Troubles, though. Wouldn't want to spread myself too thin, after all.
Grym from last thread :))
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>>57190569Faggot from this thread -> you
>>57190564I like him, and love the idea of one of Amanda's students going on a journey or adventuring all grown up
>>57190564The dice rolls are really just there if you have absolutely no clue of what to work with, you can pick and choose traits. But I can see the premise here. Why does he hate Normal-Types? Maybe because he thinks they're weak or too ordinary, or maybe his claim to fame was saving a town from a pack of rampaging Vigoroth or an Exploud that invited itself in and now he's leery around normals. Sandslash, Crobat, and (Mega?) Mawile would be a pretty strong core that would sweep through most of the Hoenn League, so him having the potential to be Champion-tier isn't too far off the mark.Give it some thought.
>Rukanon thread question:I often imagine Ruka's adventure with in-game aesthetics so I thought it'd be fun to ask-What game/gen/art style would you picture your OC taking place in.For Ruka I imagine she's basically playing Pokemon heartgold backwards, starting in Kanto. Also Jynx is her following pokemon. Battles probably look like a mix of heartgold battles with some of the details from gen 6 battles like trainer splash screens when battles are initiated and finished. >Ruka anon thread task-try to emulate that style as best you can.
Anons, it's been a week and I've already gone mad with power.>>57191262This is an excellent time to remind people about the sprite tools in the OP. https://www.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/pokemonblack2white2/sheet/48033/https://libresprite.github.io/#!/https://www.piskelapp.com/How have those commissions been treating you?
Pixelart is wonderful and I'm really impressed at how much some people can get out of so few pixels. I think it's hard, though.
>>57189283>Thread Question: What are your OC's dreams like? Do they ever reoccur?Strange. Full of places that are both familiar but alien at the same time. Sometimes completely alien. Often dreams about traveling, going down long roads in the countryside by car. Sometimes her dreams involve combat, sometimes she is exploring alien, completely unfamiliar places by foot, sometimes she's having a flying dream, except she never falls down until she was about to wake up anyway. But most recently she has found her mind pulled out into the cosmos itself, adrift in space as her mind fills with thoughts and ideas. Or more accurately it's been happening more often as she has gotten acclimated to Infinity Energy. It happened once in a blue moon as she grew up, but it happened at least once every few months once she got Mawlie and her energy began to truly grow and physically alter her.Cause again, she started as a child with black hair, amber eyes and otherwise was just a rough little brat that got in fights and stayed out late a lot. But making contact with Mawlie at 8 years old changed everything. The contact triggered something and her hair began to slowly become white and at one point or another her eyes became a deep, sapphire blue. That trigger caused her mind to drift into the cosmos when she slept once every few months, ideas filling her mind as she drifted further and further from the mindsets and thought processes of fellow humans and became this alien entity who's eyes are glued to the sky while everyone else's eyes are to the ground, focusing on their earthly concerns.And then came the 'dream' involving the Furia anon that I chose to implement, in which she got that book she now has that slowly fills up with knowledge about Infinity Energy.Ever since then, her mind has fallen into the cosmos several times a month, filling her mind with otherworldly contemplations in between dreams full of otherworldly places and events...1/2
>>57189283>>57192172Her dreams and contemplations range from the surreal to the more ordinary. But no matter what her mind is always thinking on that alien level, her concerns far removed from the norm of humankind as to her it feels like information is flowing into her mind from somewhere else. Sometimes about Infinity Energy and the nature of it, sometimes something else as her mind is quite literally visited by the something from the outside. The most common dream of course simply being her floating in space, thinking, contemplating, feeling as she looks down at the Earth below.This of course impacts her in her waking moments and causes onlookers to feel like she exists in a seperate reality from everyone else. Something people often cannot find the words to describe beyond that point. Like as if she's seeing real-life through a different lens than everyone else.In terms of unhinged dreams it's hard to discern what does and does not count as such. Simply because regardless of if it involves violence or not, her dreams are simply outlandish to the point some people would call ALL of them unhinged.Small collection of pictures that fit various dreams she has had; https://imgur.com/a/Jeycyie2/2
>>57192172>>57192175The images makes me want to see an image of Emily floating in space while this plays.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLquTNh0DU0
>>57189283Interest survey for the several things that I can write after Black Blaze. Ironically, I might have more writing time as I get back to college for this semester. If I'm lucky, I can finish it by the end of the month.https://strawpoll.com/GJn44p947nz
>>57192284I hate 95% of this song and the 5% I remotely liked of it were such momentary bits it's utterly criminal.
>>57192298How can you hate the most chill theme song in GTA history? Is the first pause vibe. Secong is the GTA V pause menu, and third is the GTA SA love song.
>>57192318I dunno, I just don't like it. Better Emily drifting in space theme to me would be thishttps://youtu.be/sWmmynjWEhQ?si=INEcS7_HhAeYcgwu
>>57191068Someone's upset today
>>57189283>Thread Question: What are your OC's dreams like? Do they ever reoccur?Louis hasn't really have very memorable dreams in recent years, mostly just the normal type of processing ones you'd expect of people. That's all the dreams he has and has ever had, and he'll fight you if you try to imply otherwise. When he was younger, though, he did *claim* to have a recurring dream of being a beedrill dreaming he was a person, but that can be chalked up to him being in a chuuni phase and wanting to sound cooler than he really was. It's also what led to his actual starter, a larger Weedle, being nicknamed 'Gu', rather than something more normal.
>>57189283>TQDavid doesn't have many dreams really. Ever since he served in the army, he goes to sleep, closes eyes, opens eyes, and is back to the grind. The only reoccurring dream he has is a warning one: if he dreams he is removing one of his teeth (usually the one at the left of his right canine), he knows that day something is going to happen. Something bad.Not something dramatic like "he is dead" or "everyone is sick", but something will happen that will grind his gears, and he will have to be in his best mood to overcome it.>Something unhingedHe wouldn't call it unhinged, but if he used Ultima that day, he has a "dream" where he is reliving moments of his day, through his Swampert's perspective. He knows this is a side effect of that power.>>57191262>What gen style would you use?Pokémon Emerald, since is thhe one I replayed the most. Is basically home to me.
Alright, loved ones called, archives updated, ice cream served, revolver loaded and ready. Time for the final round of editing.>>57192029This meeting of the Tiny Nigga Club is now in session. >>57192288Those vote results are so rigged, how dare you disagree with me.>>57192829Surprised the hex maniac doesn't pass a dream or two along for him.
Grym will sometimes sleep in the same bed with Circe.Grym once had a dream that she got to eat the biggest most fluffiest stack of pancakes in her entire life, and Circe ended up waking up with light bite marks on her arm.
>>57189283i've been SLAVING in the art mines to answer the thread question thing, I feel it's particularily relevant to my dork.Audrey theoretically has normal dreams, but she lives with a stinky dumb bastard ghost pokemon that keeps eating whatever she dreams.>>57193127oooh very tiny guy
>>57193127>the third lowest option selectedI told you nobody cared about my artwork! Did I get credited for reconstructing Kouji's Adventures and the Vega Interviews?
>>57193218>Did I get creditedYou always have been, dingus.
>>57193233I meant, inside of the omnibus.
>>57193127>Surprised the hex maniac doesn't pass a dream or two along for himThe answer is before he got married. When he finally ties the knot, is both a blessing and a curse.Because at one moment David is dancing with Zynthia in a shared dream, and the next she is kissing a Swampert, so she ends up waking up screaming "eww!", and him going "I shouldn't have use my powers today."
>>57193322Hey, got double dubs. Nice.
>>57193127>>57193233SUPER LAST MINUTE I KNOW BUT I THOUGHT I SHOULD TELL YOU I NEED TWO LAST EDITS MADE ON CHDOn Page 28, underline the word "shit", and on page 19, remove the underlining from the first hyperlink. Updated PDF with these changes made: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/tgyg2x12.pdf
>>57193382Every week.Every goddamn week.
>>57193212doe the stink dumb bastard ghost prefer certain dreams over others? Which of Audrey's dreams are tastiest?
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>>57191262Chibi overworld style Ruka and Jynx.
>>57191262Ideally if this were about making a game/rom hack of said adventures I'd likely pick XY or SM/USUM for it.
>>57194331Cute>>57194373I feel I could make a joke about Emily wearing her coat in a tropical beach, but I'm feeling lazy to think of anything now.
>>57194654Tropical vacation is the one time you will get her in anything other than her coat.
>>57194654I tried thinking it over until I passed out. There is absolutely nothing beyond making it a visual gag.
>>57193212This section is so aesthetic...
>>57193574he's a gremlin and he won't tell.>>57195261I'm not entirely sure what that means but thank you?
>>57195655I like the way you did the shadows in that Dream Eater; that vibrant blend of purples, magentas, and blues. I also appreciate the surrealist details in the thought bubble. It could be a brick wall decorated with graffiti and ivy with a city skyline in the backdrop, or those could be waves breaking against the shoreline with pockets of dune grass sprouting out of the sand.
>>57195704oh okay! I tried to make it look like the dream is being distorted as it's being consumed.
>>57196382Are you asking for that diss track again?
>>57196422For dat track?
Why did you put so many fucking hyperlinks in this, I have to add them all in manually, you fuck. Why couldn't you do it like Rocky? No trouble with all his links.>>57197055Yeah, for dat diss track. I think he's asking for dat again.
>>57197139Is it diss track or dat track, boss? I'm gettin' confused.
>>57197139>>57197139 #Short answer: it takes up spaceLong answer: My writing is built so that it can be reasonably interpreted without clicking on a single hyperlink. The hyperlinks are just there to supplement writing in case either the reader or the author absolutely 100% needs a visual representation. I would only ever add images that directly illustrate a scene, and I don’t have an artist nor am I an artist. Directly inserting images that have nothing to do with the story harms my writing by cluttering up pages, messing up formatting, making the story overall longer, and ultimately it would just make me look like a novice that relies on images as a crutch in order to convey concepts.About that “other thing”, I find bumpfaggotry to be boring and as such I basically never do so unless I have new material and concepts to contribute. Since I haven’t had time to organize my ideas into pastebins and have also been putting off writing those ideas down in order to focus on Black Blaze, I decided to get a bit creative with it, since I noticed that “Up” spelled backwards is “Pu”, I’ve actually already ran out of material since Malamar is in ZU and Murkrow isn’t even tiered, it’s just counted as NFE on Smogondex since it’s completely outclassed by Grimsnarl. Somehow I always feel like Phos started with 5 mons instead of 4. Did you ever consider giving her a Krookodile?
>>57197167I don't pays ya to think, ya goombah, I pays ya to look mean.>>57197265I'm just saying, Rocky made it real easy to just copypasta the text and images in one quick move, hyperlinks and all, by making it a google drive document. >Did you ever consider giving her a Krookodile?Nope. Krookodile is big muscle, like >>57197167 here. It's not really an underdog kind of fighter, nor is it particularly tricky. Having Krookodile around would just make Scrafty redundant while offering less opportunity for characterization.
>>57197269Youse got it boss.
>>57197269>I'm just saying, Rocky made it real easy to just copypasta the text and images in one quick move, hyperlinks and all, by making it a google drive document.I suppose there's a reason for me to keep using Google Docs beyond simply my own convenience.
>>57197269>Google DriveI would actually like to do this, but I don’t want to have permanent links available for privacy reasons. CHD was an exception because at the time my Windows 10 flagged it as a virus for some reason and it didn’t let me download it to upload it.
>>57197600NTA but why the hell would a permanent Google Drive link be an issue? No one can see who made it as long as you're not clicking the link yourself when anyone else is looking at it, and even then just make an alt email and connect it to your main one so you can seamlessly switch between them and use the alt as the email that posts the Google Docs.
>>57197592That's why you're the good son.
>let me do just one last quick read through before posting the upload links>it never ends it never ends it never ends it never ends it never ends it never ends it never ends it never endsReason it hasn't been finished?it never endsIt was never ending.
>>57198270
>>57198279The scariest thing is that it was fine when I looked it over a few days ago. It was fine.It was fineit was fine it was fine it was fine itwasfineitwasfineitwasfineJust gotta...go through all 782 pages, make sure nothing else got corrupted.I'm going to fucking kill myself for real when this is over. Stay tuned for live suicide.
[muffled sounds of throat-tearing rage]
>>57198270Remember when during the assembly of the first omnibus every mention of the word "Pokémon" was changed to "I" for no known reason? It's usually better to focus on one thing at a time but I think you should take a break from this. You already failed to finish EIF in a year, don't fail at finishing EIF within this month as well.
>>57198424I didn't fail to do jack shit, you fucking retard, I set my own schedule. I decide when it's good enough or not.I could have greentexted the ending months ago if I felt like it.
>>57198424>You already failed to finish EIF in a year, don't fail at finishing EIF within this month as well.Well that's rude. That story is length of a full novel and he wrote it in one year. You don't understand how impressive that is. What he has achieved in terms of sheer productivity is amazing. There are published authors whose full-time job is writing that cannot match that level of output. This is a personal project that he's been dedicating his spare time to in between work and all his other obligations. So what if he is one chapter away from completion? So what if he doesn't complete that final chapter this month? Under whose metrics are we determining success or failure here? It's not a failure by any sense of the word if a personal project takes longer than anticipated or desired. He can take his sweet time finishing the story, just like he could have taken his sweet time writing it if he wanted or needed to. Everything that he has accomplished over the past year is neither diminished or erased simply because you believe he "failed" to meet the initial goal of finishing this story in one year. He sets his own schedule. And he is the one who can choose to adjust his goals as needed or desired. He is the one that determines what standards he is working to achieve not you.
>>57198590You get used to reading his dumb standards for things after a while. I've pretty much become numb to it.
>>57198628You get used to reading his dumb standards for things after a while.I refuse. Hand me the brick. It's my turn to smash his face in until its a slimy crater.
>>57198590It’s impressive yeah but it’s also kind of disappointing to see him forefront all of his momentum. He was REALLY close to finishing off the year with a bang and then all of a sudden he just drops it to assemble some compilation that he could have assembled at any time. It’s kind of like how Game of Thrones had a season each year except for its final season which took two years to produce and sucked (although I don’t really expect EIF’s ending to suck)
>>57198650 Here ya go
Anyways it’s getting late and something that I ate didn’t sit well with me so now my stomach hurts. I’m sure Archivist will joke about how he used his newfound psychic powers to give me diarrhea. I don’t think this deserves to become an argument but come on man, I was anticipating that ending.
>>57198677>newfoundI've been psychic this whole time.
>>57198651How is he -forfeiting- his momentum by being busy with other obligations during the winter festivities? Yes, he is currently most focused on assembling the omnibus for the /tog/ community at this time, but guess what? He can chose to work on whatever he wants. It may be disappointing that he's choosing to do something else right now, but he can do whatever he wants. He'll finish Eons in Flux when he is ready and not a moment sooner.
>>57198693You *really* want an answer? He gave himself a new obligation. It’s like if you’re working on restoring a classic car and then you go to the junkyard and get another rust bucket and start fixing that one instead of the first car.
>>57198664Thanks.>>57198701What kind of stupid analogy is that? Oh my god, he's not working on the project I want him to! Well, too bad! He can do whatever he wants. You don't get to decide what he spends his time on.
At this point in time, I just need to unfuck Tweny, Silas, Ayumu, Miko/Ivy, Amanda, Hasumi, and Luke. Or about 245/782 pages.Among many, many other errors, the document getting corrupted turned any word starting with "po" into "po|" and ate whichever word followed it.You can imagine how much trouble a glitch like that would cause in a doorstopper full of Pokemon fiction.
>>57199132"I am a Pole" said the glitch before destroying The Omnibus.
Page 8. Artist is back to working on the new Emily ref sheet.
>>57199813Cool gauntlet
>>57199813Yeah, that's looking great.
