The Camilo illustration is finally finished :] I think it consumed my soul in the process this took a while I'm very proud of how this turned out tho!! It's been a while since I drew something this detailed
Yapping about the harp fakemon fella below in case you're curious!
It's called Harparition (harp + apparition, very smart) and it's Camilo's new ace. I've had it in my head for a while and have some drafts of its design but I think this is the final version.
It's a dual Ghost/Fairy type because it's similar to Flabebé/Floette and Klefki's deals in the sense that it's a fairy/spirit haunting an object. In this case, a harp. Its lore is that the spirit of a deceased harper is haunting his instrument, and lays a curse on anyone who tries to play the harp. Its ribbon-like body is actually made of paper, where the harper's now trashed compositions had been written. Its head is meant to also look like a lily flower because white lillies are funeral flowers.
Its signature ability is Posthumous, which slightly boosts Ghost type moves for every ally that has fainted in battle. Posthumous is a word used to describe works that were published after the author's death (can you tell I put a lot of unnecessary thought into this). Also because of its lore I think it could also have Cursed Body as its secondary ability, but Posthumous is its signature one and the one that Camilo's Harparition has.
It has only one other stage which is its pre-evo, Lyralma (lyre + alma which means "soul" in portuguese). It's a little lyre fella... admittedly I'm not as proud of its design as I am of Harparition, I still have to perfect it.
Also, much like Banette, I think the lore about the deceased harper would be more like a folk tale in the Pokémon universe rather than the actual lore of the pokémon bc you know... there would be multiple Harparition and they all evolve from Lyralma (Banette's lore about being born from abandoned dolls completely ignores Shuppet too)
Its design is not perfect by any means and I have no doubt it would get torn to shreds by the Pokémon fandom if it breached containment/was thought to be an official design, but I love this fakemon a lot. Idk I just had a lot of fun figuring out its lore and ability. I am still very proud of the idea of naming it Posthumous ahstieifhksb
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