#and pallosand

[critterbitter]

re: your thoughts on legendaries (which is very cool and based) what’s your take on the differences between legends:arceus giratina and platinum giratina, especially since you defined them as hating the world? specifically the bit where giratina (at least seemingly) actively defended the world from cyrus trying to destroy it, after trying to do the same thing with volo’s help centuries prior?

Weird ghost worm upon yee (AND MORE ART BELOW CUT!)

Anyways, here’s my mad ramblings about Giratina and Arceus’s backstory.

Tldr: Giratina’s a conglomerate of angry souls scorned by Arceus.

(Here’s the playlist. It’s all about worms.)

How it Started.

The original one has chosen favorites over the passage of time. Heroes, legends, protagonists…

Arceus intervenes for those it loves, and the consequences of a god touching the mortal world is devastating in its entirety. One act of divine intervention causes entire civilizations to collapse. One whispered suggestion drives an entire legacy insane.

So Arceus, paralyzed by its love for the mortal world, acts very little, learning from its mistakes. Apathy soaks through every motion. And thus is the way of the world.

But people love the Originator. Religions are born from Arceus’s rare deeds, and generation on generation taught its benevolence. Imagine spending your entire life chasing after that golden light. Imagine knowing its real and there, and it loves you.

Imagine begging it for help, and seeing it turn away when you need it most.

I think those people would feel very abandoned indeed, if they spent their lives worshipping, and receiving no response at all.

Giratina is born from the abandoned, the lost, and the angry. They’re a hundred thousand souls who’s adoration turned to spite. They’re an entity who demands for Arceus to look at them, so they can finally rest.

Arcues can not look at them in full, because if it does Giratina will fade.

(Scio, beloved. For I can not let you go.)

So the Original One banishes the Unwanted Beast into the distortion world, and Giratina seethes, and starves, and screams.

(Here are two truths about the Beast Between Dimensions—

1. Some part of them still loves Arceus. Arceus is their anchor, after all— the sole reason why they exist, why they are. But Arceus can not love it back in a way that matters, and that hurts.

2. Giratina is made of a thousand voices. Some of these voices remember that there’s a world above. They miss it.)

Why Giratina attacked Hisui in PLA:

PLA Giratina’s not a new god, but they’re very, very bitter and barely coherent on a good day. Volo serves as a conduct to help unite the broiling mass of ghosts against Arceus, and thus Giratina’s hatred overcomes any flickering affections they have for the land.

It doesn’t help that Arceus intervened for Hisui, sending Akari to directly stop Volo from summoning Giratina.

(As for Volo, well.

Imagine being a child who was thrown into the future due to Palkia and Dialga’s fits, who learned his people (his world) no longer exist beyond a shadow in the history books and a single, bitter lore keeper.

Volo doesn’t remember his original culture beyond vague imprints and singing praises to Sinnoh, but he knew he was loved, and he knew his family is dust four hundred years in the past. There’s a special sort of rage in him that echoes Giratinas.)

(Why did you abandon my people, Arceus? What kind of god are you, to leave those who love you so callously behind?)

(Maybe some part of Giratina recognizes Volo, beyond a feeling of kinship.

Maybe some part of Giratina grieves because it recognized the child Volo was.)

When Volo gets his pound of flesh, (when he realizes Arceus is not beholden to him, that the inherent alien morality Arceus holds is not a personal slight), Giratina will finally rest.

Anyways what I’m trying to say is: Arceus is never a person, but a nebulous embodiment of the connection shared between pokemon and humans. It tries to experience what it’s supposed to embody, but millennia of watching people be and cease has given it choice paralysis, apathy, and a hoarding issue. If something lasts forever next to it? Good.

Giratina was once a person. (Correction, a LOT of persons.) They don’t think very linearly either, but they have context on mortal matters and are thus the more benevolent and malicious of the two. One day, time will smooth them into something like Arceus. We can only hope the two keep each other in check.

THE DIFFERENCE OF LEGENDS ARCEUS GIRATINA VS PLATINUM PEARL GIRATINA

If the ancient version of giratina is an angry conglomerate of ghosts scorned by Arceus, the modern iteration of Giratina’s a creature that’s more settled in its skin and more assured in its duties. Giratina still has beef with Arceus, but they unionized into one being who’s love of the mortal world has triumphed over its ancestral grudge. One might even postulate they have shifted their anchor from Sinnoh the god, to Sinnoh the place.

((We call this character developement. Good for you, weird ghost worm!))

(((FULL DISCLOSURE, VOLO BEING FROM THE PAST IS INSPIRED FROM FOXFALL. You know. The fic that got me into this fandom. Please give it some love.)))

#critterbitter screams into the void #pokemon #ask #mailbox #Giratina and arceus #man #might be subject to change but mmm #thinking about how pokemon canonically has ghost moshpit pokemon #looking at spiritomb #and pallosand #ghost pokemon are weird #oops! would you look at that! #chandelure and giratina as foils (they both have anchors who willingly and unwillingly abandon them) #giratina #arceus #pla lore #pla #art #sketchbook #myart #not submas related (but still worth the brainrot) #volo mention #pokemon art #giratina redesign #legendary pokemon

[dioptasesystem]

BPC Mini #4: A beginner's guide to Landot

#silly #meme #memes #gaming #pokemon #landorus #landorus therian #heatran #great tusk #gliscor #rhyperior #snorlax #Pallosand #Toedscruel #sewaddle #pokemon memes #competitive pokemon memes #sv ou #ou #smogon ou #ou memes #smogon #smogon memes #r/stunfisk #showdown memes #showdown #pokemon showdown #badpokemoncomic #bpc mini

[therobogoose]

It's rare that pallowsand gets to sample such high quality mahogany.

#pallosand #decidueye #pokemon #fanart #alola

[emilnikos]

fleep and her big sister floop

#dragapult #dreepy #pokemon #rex shut up challenge #sorry for showing my shinies so much recently i just <3 them #I ALSO CAUGHT A SHINY PALLOSAND his name is flint ^^

[cynic-view-ahead]

Day 14: castle

Sandygast and Pallosand are unironically one of my favorite Pokémon lines ever. I mean, look at them! And they're ghost type! 🏖️🏰👻

#the arts #inktober #ink #inktober2023 #pokemon #pokémon #pallosand #sandygast #day 14: castle #castle #pkmn

[ask-elite-four-rika]

{yknow… not gonna lie to y’all I completely forgot galarian yamask was also ground type. Did NOT forget its fucked up little evolution method though.}

{like… what is this.💎}

#the gem speaks 💎 #the gem mayhaps has made an oopsie thinking the only ground ghosts were like golurk and pallosand #ooc

[this-is-a-url]

What my pokemon team would be if only this game cared abt me

#I actually an close to getting a pallosand so my potential froslass is on thin fucking ice #I also still like the idea of getting a drampa sooooooooo #idk #I don't think I can even get the big arson dragon until near the end of the game to so it's not really that much of a threat tho

[sunflorafarm]

Main family photo (except Relicanth cause he was happy in his pond today)

#pokemon #pokemon farm #carnivine #ninetales #lurantis #maractus #swampert #pallosand #centiscorch #togepi #vaporeon #tangrowth #sunflora #pokemon copyright images #not my images

[torterragarden]

god Sandygast evolves way too late honestly but at least it finally did lol

#sage plays moon #i really wanted a pallosand but sandygast has been dead weight on my team for ages now #it's good now tho at least

[kickassclefable]

oops my thunder stone slipped (why i love raichu so much♡)

#pokemon #Pokémon #Pokémon sun and moon #pokemon sun and moon #raichu #alolan raichu #citra #emulation #pallosand

[dioptasesystem]

BPC Mini #7: the death of Toedscool

#silly #meme #memes #pokemon #gaming #pokemon memes #badpokemoncomic #gaming memes #r/stunfisk #showdown memes #bpc mini #toedscool #rhyperior #murkrow #great tusk #groudon #electrode #pallosand #exeggutor #pelipper #ogerpon #kyogre #zoroark #zoroark hisui #hisuian zoroark #zoroark h #tiny mushroom #gen 9 #gen 9 memes #pokemon gen 9

[ribbononline]

Almost Halloween!! Heres some Dhelmise and Pallosand sygna suits, w regular and EX colors

#been working on these all month they took surprisingly long to iron out #hardenshipping #magma leader maxie #aqua leader archie #pretty happy w how these turned out hehe #also archies design and colors are slightly different in the last picture because i hadnt ironed out the whole design yet lol #was struggling w him . but it ended well! #pokemon #oras

[monsoon-of-art]

Idk Melli kinda feels like a Mismagious to me.

You'd think so, but I already got Arezu as a Mismagius, bc she asks for a Misdrevus. Current 'Ghost List' under the cut:

Irida: Froslass or Zorua Adaman: Trevenant Mai: Cursola (still unsure) Lian: Sandygast/Pallosand Calaba: Banette Arezu: Mismagius Palina: Frillish Iscan: Dusclops (Had to) Ingo: Cofagrigus Melli: Haunter (very unsure) Gaeric: Zoroark Sabi: Gourgeist

#I still don't know what to tag this #ghost au

[front-facing-pokemon]

On the whole "Shinies are picked manually from gen 6 onwards, early shinies were auto-generated" - its... Debatable. It definitely seems like a lot were - which is why a lot of blue Pokemon become pink, such as Vaporeon and Kingra, while it would make sense for Pokemon like Gengar and Dragonite to get such horrendous shinies.

But there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. The same colours get swapped differently on different Pokemon, and no one person has figured out the formula for how shinies are determined. Then there's the "gen 6 onwards are manually coloured" theory - and that is all it is, a theory. It does seem to be the case, as some shinies are phenomenal and would definitely not get randomly swapped like that (Pallosand is one of the big arguments for that) but then there are others that are... Just not very good shinies, like Talonflame.

There's absolutely zero confirmation from Game Freak as to how shinies are decided, and there definitely a TREND that we can see involving it, but they're all just theories.

Lockstin & Gnoggin has a video called "Is This How Shiny Pokemon Were Made" which covers a LOT of information on shinies and the speculation behind how shinies are made.

i am seeing a LOT of mixed opinions on what is actually the truth here. compelling evidence from both sides, it seems? though two mentions of lockstin & gnoggin by now (though with seemingly two differing opinions about the fate of shinies pre-gen-6?) so i'm going to make a solid bet that we're all just grasping at straws and patterns for how we Think shinies are determined. is that fair enough to say? i always thought they were all deliberate and the ugly ones were just a matter of taste, with the ones that barely change being a matter of someone being lazy or something. but also i guess the "ugly" ones can be a matter of taste even in recent gens—i don't think indeedee's is that bad, and tandemaus… well, they could've done to change the actual body instead of the li'l pants they're wearing. togedemaru is definitely underwhelming. it would make sense that there's some sort of algorithmic approach to choosing shinies, especially considering how we have seen some shinies change in color over the years (see: the shiny ralts line, for example, in which they appeared purple back in the 3d gen 3 spinoffs, pokémon colosseum and gale of darkness), but then doesn't entirely track once we get to pokémon like sneasel, whose original appearance was completely different, but even after its body colors were changed in pokémon crystal and onward, it still retained the same shiny. and yet sylveon is still the only good shiny out of all the eeveelutions (sorry bleep blorp espeon and pink vaporeon), which was the eeveelution released in gen 6 (umbreon is still good, i guess, but doesn't change a ton), where we're all supposing they started "manually picking." i think all this was sparked from an ask about helioptile's shiny, which seemed to be a reference to something—i'm sure there's plenty of other shinies that fit that bill, but with over a thousand pokémon out there to come up with shinies for, are we ever gonna be able to prove that it's not just a coincidence? like i thought the nacli line was a very obvious minecraft reference but i don't think anyone agrees with me on that one. then again, they did go out of their way to name a pokémon fucking "lechonk" which i'm still not over being one of the most annoying names they've ever created. so sorry lechonk fans but i swear toby fox had a hand in naming that one

#long post #not pkmn #and thus i end the ramble with no resolution. strange

[nerdpokemonheadcanons]

Do Sandygast and Pallosand only appear on beaches or do they show up anywhere there’s lots of loose sand like a desert? And if so do they put other objects on their head besides shovels? I have to assume they were sticking other objects onto their bodies before plastic toy shovels were widely available.

Beaches are their natural habitat, yes, but Sandygast and Pallosand sometimes migrate to desert environments if there’s not enough beach available

They used to use seashells or shiny rocks in place of shovels!

[plushanon]

Sandcastle competition against a palossand, that's what you should do with your hands.

I'll write it down. Not sure if going near those things are advisable...

Maybe it would try to eat me, and I'd end up as a pallosand/bewear/swadloon three way hybrid

#plush anon #rotomblr #pkmn irl #pokeblogging #pokemon irl #rotumblr #ask