Made a regional variant togepi line based on various glitch pokemon (bad egg, decamark, and missingno, + the shiny’s colors are based on Q)
Togepi, the Bad Egg Pokemon: ghost type, a bringer of bad luck
Togetic, the Question Pokemon: ghost/flying type, evolves with high friendship. It makes strange things happen wherever it roams.
Togelitch, the Corruption Pokemon: ghost/psychic type, evolves when exposed to a pomeg berry. Capable of temporarily warping reality. Despite its psychic typing, it’s incredibly hard to communicate with, and its motives as it destabilizes reality are entirely unknown. Maybe it’s just trying to make people happy?
Thought process under the cut!!
These guys are based on the pomeg berry glitch in gen 3 (from a video I saw where someone used it to train an egg to level 100), which is why Togelitch evolves the way it does + why they're ghost types, since curse is an important part of the setup. Personality-wise, they're more inspired by bad eggs being used as anti-cheat -- Togelitch is trying to make its trainer happy by doing things like duping items, speeding up leveling/egg hatching, helping them find rare pokemon, but these attempts just leave things a little bit broken. Because it evolves with high friendship, this line is very affectionate, but Togepi and Togetic feel bad for the misfortune they bring and try to make up for it as Togelitch. Their visual inspiration comes more from the various forms of missingno (colors and pixel markings obviously, but Togelitch is also based on the ghost sprite), decamark, and Q (in the case of the shiny)!
Have some bonus sketches from when I figuring out the designs
Imagine, though: Newt has never once stolen Hermann’s chalk. He doesn’t hide sticks of it as a prank, he doesn’t doodle on the chalkboard, he doesn’t use it as a prop to do bad impressions of Hermann – nothing
Now, Hermann’s other writing utensils are all fair game. He loses many pens and pencils to Newt in spite of the dividing line, and because Newt chews the tops when he’s thinking, Hermann never wants them back. But, Newt respects the sanctity of Hermann’s chalkboard
At least, that’s what Hermann thinks, until he finds out what’s really going on is that chalk is one of Newt’s least favorite things to touch in the entire world
He can’t stand the dry-squeaky-dusty feel of it on his skin. He needs to go wash it off and then find something squishy to touch just to get the sensation to go away. He hates it
And Hermann, being a considerate coworker, never uses this information against Newt
Almost never
He does find out how loud he can make Newt shriek by touching his bare arm with chalky hands, but he’ll argue until he’s blue in the face that Newt started it
