emotional support character hell ✨

vinyl how could you betray me in this way :(

devastating: my original plan for making rika’s work glasses backfired so i guess i’m getting a ton of masking tape and spray paint lmaoooooo

that and a noibat gijinka. and a sliggoo?
i remember drawing them a lot during one of my chem labs but i’ve moved like five times since then so i’m sure all my sketches are gone :(

i have a rotom gijinka idea for like. oh god, since 2014, that i need to spruce up. tl;dr what if daft punk helmet for rotom expressions.

steeples fingers. so what if i said i had a name. (that was technically used by pkmn already but like. i’m ignoring that.)

oh my goddDDDDD CUTE

- Anne and Rika send back stupid pictures and memes to each other regularly. Including when they’re in the same room. Mostly to see the other’s reaction. But also there will be long chains of just silly pictures from their days. Frequently of cute pkmn they’ve encountered that day.

- Rika enjoys candles! Subtle smells, forests and campfires and rain. Anne also somewhat likes them, but prefers sweeter smells, like vanilla and baked goods and flowers. They alternate who gets the candle choice.

- I feel like Rika, despite being easily fired up, tends to run a bit cold. Meanwhile Anne is typically hot all the time (which is a bummer given their intense love of fun/patterned cardigans). The thermostat in their inevitable shared living space is a contentious subject.

- Anne obviously loves to bake but they also cook pretty well too! They tend to meal prep and freeze things. Rika is more of a “protein bar and Kofu on speed dial” kinda lady. Anne has taken to bringing an extra packed lunch and offering it to Rika if she comes by to drop off Soapberry pastries.

- Rika is actually not a huge gamer at baseline, but has been getting into more games per Anne’s insistence. She’s always claimed to be too busy in the past, but she does like the VNs that Anne keeps shoving in her hands. (Anne demanded she play the pkmn equivalent to Zero Escape.)

I DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS A CADUCEUS EMOJI oh that is a /strong/ contender (i also just realized there’s a crutch and that is. also up on the list lol)

i gotta pick a different emoji for anne, literally no fun little “emoji combo” things have a bandage option, much less use it for said cute combinations. devastating. what’s a healthcare emoji.

- Anne has better-than-average-white-person spice tolerance but it’s nothing compared to Rika, who barely flinches at eating the spiciest things on menus. It’s been a point of contention when they cook—Rika has lost spice-adding privileges after rendering an entire meal inedible to Anne by accident

- Anne and Rika first met at Patisserie Soapberry, and as a result it’s still a place of great importance to them. Rika frequently drops by there to pick up whatever new pastry is on the menu and will drop by the academy to bring one to Anne. (They are appreciative. Their waistline is not.)

she spec’d completely into charisma and I respect the build 💚💜

force me to flesh them out and come up with facts. please. get the lore out of my head.

🎨 by milkkirie!

#warmupshipping

woe! late pocky day comic be upon ye

ft. rika taking advantage of anne’s ability to fluster easily. rika, please, their delicate constitution, you can’t—

#warmupshipping

woe. rika holding rowlet upon you

Forgot that it’s Pocky/Pepero Day tomorrow so have a quick little animation of these dorks before I forget again haha 😅

[ #SandwichArtistShipping #yume #yumesky #pokemonyume #pokeyume #arven ]

drawing feels hard. snapping together pieces based on directions feels like just the right amount of mental energy that I’m capable of at the moment.

finally caved and cracked open one of the lego botanical sets i got recently and now I’m so fueled i might just build all three of them. lol. lmao, even.

✨ #pokemon #art

anyway [jazzhands] somewhat an AU, not entirely sure how deep into this i wanna go/how hard I’m committing, but i do love domesticity and families but i cannot possibly see rika or anne doing anything BUT adopting, personally

to speedrun this last bit, anne does take in the kid, not QUITE prepared for it but like. they’re not gonna just leave them out in the cold. it does…somewhat fast-track a further relationship with rika (ie, legal binding things lmao), but it’s fine. they were gonna do it anyway.

it takes a meeting with clavell, jacq, briar, geeta, the other league members, and anne to discuss how terapagos’s powers work and to propose the idea of the kid potentially being somehow, SOMEWAY, related to them. startling, but possible.

but it’s weird. they have some traits, both physical and in personality, that reminds rika of someone—someones, really. herself, and anne.

rika, being part of the league, takes point in trying to get them to open up, to find out how they made it into area zero. they’re very quiet and skittish. they don’t know how they got into area zero. they don’t remember much of…anything, really. they don’t know their name either.

in an recent expedition into area zero, a team comes across a young kid (~8-9yo) somehow in the depths. which is weird, because the security measures have been buffed since the SV Zero Squad went down. how did they get there?