[Image Description: Three fan-made Pokemon based around the five-lined skink with more draconic features.
The first Pokemon is a tan lizard with a long tail and blue lines along its back, small beige nub-horns, a turquoise belly, and light orange eyes. Dark blue text outlined in blue to the right of the image reads "Dranada".
The second Pokemon is a bronze lizard with a long dark turquoise tail and blue lines along its back, beige horns, a turquoise belly, and orange eyes. Dark blue text outlined in blue to the right of the image reads "Redrake".
The third Pokemon is a bronze lizard with a long dark turquoise tail and blue lines along its back, long beige horns, a turquoise belly, blue claws on its front legs, and red eyes. Dark blue text outlined in blue to the right of the image reads "Dragorge".
Dranada - Tiny Dragon Pokemon - water/dragon
Despite their small size, Dranada can be quite feisty when forced into a confrontation from which they cannot flee. The lines along their bodies provide both camouflage and a method of communication. / It lives in the tributaries of Cantessy’s big rivers until it is large enough to start migrating closer to the main river. It tends to be quite skittish and will avoid human interaction whenever possible, made easier by the lines on its body blending in with water flow.
Redrake - River Dragon Pokemon - water/dragon
It is said that seeing one the day before an important event is a sign of good luck, so it is not uncommon for people to visit rivers in the days leading up to such occasions. There’s no guarantee the river in question even houses Redrake, however, as they are quite particular about their living area. / Redrake inhabit Cantessy’s rivers, though the average person actually getting a chance to see them is quite the rare occurrence. This is partly due to how elusive they are, and partly due to humans often incorrectly identifying where they would settle unless they study these Pokemon.
Dragorge - River Dragon Pokemon - water/dragon
It lives in and around deep rivers at the bottom of vast gorges. It lays its eggs in personally carved tunnels that eventually become tributaries to the rivers they branch off from. / Legend says that a gigantic Dragorge carved out the entire Ruby River millions of years ago. While this can’t be proven conclusively, Dragorge are known to create offshoots to said river via tunnelling during mating season.
More Cantessy Fakemon, and finally we're showing off the pseudo-legendary! These guys are based around the five-lined skink, a little lizard that lives around here, with some more draconic traits like horns and fangs and such hehe. They've got some themes from the Red River Gorge and surrounding areas, such as the Nada Tunnel (pronounced "nay-duh" rather than "nah-dah", I know, I didn't expect that either when naming Dranada). Also! These guys say trans rights! ...Let me explain my meaning with that. Dranada's gender ratio is 75% male and 25% female, whereas Redrake's is 50/50 and Dragorge's is 25% male and 75% female. Now given that they "fixed" the similar thing with Azurill where there would be a chance a female Azurill would turn male upon evolution up until gen...6, I believe, I don't think a Dranada that you catch would change gender when evolving in your party. Lore-wise, though? They ab-so-LUTELY do change gender as they mature! In fact, Cantessy's dragon specialist has one that did so! Dragorge has definitely become an important symbol for trans women in Cantessy. Especially in the case of that dragon specialist. (and if anyone's got some nasty things to say about trans people in the Pokemon universe, Beauty Nova from Kalos says hi)
These guys are unfortunately exclusive to Plow Version, and their "equivalent" in Circuit Version is a non-variant official Pokemon (the Goomy line). Kind of ironic that the eighth Gym Leader in Circuit uses one as her ace, right? Speaking of which...guess who's getting shown off next :3c
Reminder that if anyone wants to suggest moves for any Cantessy Fakemon to learn and some physical stats where I haven’t yet figured them out, feel free to throw ‘em at me :3 Links to their info pages will be provided in the replies!
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