#leo aurelio

[erisluna35]

I wonder how many people I can dupe into thinking this is a real manhwa? Haha sometimes I think Natalia pictures herself in a situation like in one of those cheesey YA books or manhwas or kdramas when it's actually... okay, it's still chaotic but the love triangle was resolved far more cleanly than that. I tried to make this as cheesey as I can but I gave up on drawing flowers. May be related to the Otome Game AU.

poses based on this template:

And here's the version without the title. In case I change my mind on the title.

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I've been on a pokemon AU mood as of late so I might as well expand the cast and assign Gym Leaders. Each gym has it's own gimmick that gets more hindering the higher up the trainer goes.

1st Gym: Ross (bug) - the main trio's teacher. They challenge his gym on their way out of the university city as the final test to formally begin their journey. His gym is in the school and the challengers fight their fellow students tournament style, that way he can get through multiple students at a time. A lot of pokemon in this gym has moves that lowers atk, sp.atk and accuracy.

Occupation: Teacher

Signature Mon: Leavanny

TM: Struggle Bug

2nd Gym: Noa (normal) - a classmate who moved back to his hometown. Instead of challenging gyms, he straight up promoted in his hometown after he graduated. He will never live the lazy bum life he wanted. His gym is just his mansion and he literally lives there. The goal is to get to his bedroom to wake him up as the challenger fights his servants. Lots of stalling tactics with protect and substitute and sleep and rest in his servants' team movesets.

Occupation: Scion, Student

Signature Mon: Komala

TM: Rest (for irony points as his main Komala can't actually use it and it remains out of reach from him)

3rd Gym: Natalia (water) - the current contest hall master who doubles as the gym leader. Aims to promote her town's tourism with events and commerce through her performances. Her gym is aquarium show based and each round is a stage. Challengers move from stage to stage until they get to the biggest one with Natalia on it. It "rains" all over the gym and it can't be changed. Between Scalds giving burns and all kinds of poison moves, the gym does a lot of chip damage.

Occupation: Contest Hall Champion and Judge, Student

Signature Mon: Toxapex

TM: Scald

4th Gym: Haruji (grass) - Shizuke's grandmother and the current shrine guardian for a legendary pokemon. Her gym is a grove and each round is laiden with traps that trigger as soon as the fight begins and automatically applies a random status on the first pokemon in line. Uses similar tactics as Shizuke with effect powders and leech seeds.

Occupation: Shrine Guardian, Berry Shopkeeper

Signature Mon: Shiinotic

TM: Giga Drain

5th Gym: Gavril (ice) - Fiona's older brother. He took over the gym after their mom retired to seal away a legendary pokemon. His gym is at a slope where the challengers slide across the slush and fight trainers on the way down to where Gavril is. Snow is a constant and can't be changed. Set ups are also prevented with rapid spin and ice spinner. Pokemon on both sides have a higher chance of getting frozen than usual.

Occupation: Pokemon Racer

Signature Mon: Abomasnow

TM: Ice Spinner

6th Gym: Travis (dark) - Zephyr's dad who runs a casino, which is also where his gym is. There's some kind of gimmick that involves slots messing with atk and def stats every time either side loses a pokemon.

Occupation: Professional Gambler

Signature Mon: Liepard

TM: Foul Play

7th Gym: Chihiro (electric) - a flashy girl who's gym is in a tall glass fashion house and works closely with Natalia, trading materials in exchange for her creations. Her gym's got a lot of elevators and conveyor belts. It's similar to Travis' gym when it comes to messing with stats, but hers messes with speed and turns. Every few turns her pokemon gain priority because of the tower's mechanisms. Electric Terrain is also on.

Occupation: Pokemon Accessory and Fashion Designer

Signature Mon: Pawmot

TM: Volt Switch

8th Gym: Leo (fighting) - Keagan's cousin who went on a pokemon journey a year before. Lost to the champion and ended up as a gym leader. His gym is a flashy stadium. There's a level cap that keeps all pokemon entering the gym stay in that level and Leo's team being ten levels over it.

Occupation: Model, Athlete, Fencer

Signature Mon: Blaziken

TM: Close Combat

Next time I'll think of the elite four.

[erisluna35]

For context, my OC Leo, the model whose poster got vandalized in the picture above... He's kinda related to the two below:

Leo's an Adrienette descendant. 😂 I swear, I didn't mean to get the show's vibe so well but like... Damn. It's like a family tradition: get your pics vandalized by haters 😈

[erisluna35]

Sometimes I think of Keagan and Leo's childhoods when despite being a year apart, they're often mistaken for twins. It doesn't help that Leo's dad had essentially taken Keagan and his older sister under his wing so it looks like he has three kids. And yet... Almost everyone would say Keagan has far more potential than Leo.

Keagan's scoring 100% on all his tests even as he's goofing around while Leo can study all night and only score like, 90%, pretty good but not effortlessly perfect. Their fencing teacher is noticing Keagan's talent and adaptability compared to Leo who takes longer to master stances. Keagan is technically the up and coming candidate mayor's son so most rich kids view Keagan as more worthwhile to get on with.

Back when they got along, Leo didn't like that he feels envious of his baby cousin.

But then his father died and his mother places the blame on Keagan... Why is the kid so needy (he was 5)? He could've asked for a butler for help, why did it have to be your father (cause he thinks of his uncle as a father figure and he wants at least one parent while his dad is too busy campaigning and his mom is never around)? He took everything from you, Leo.

It wasn't actually hard to turn Leo against Keagan. His mother stoked the worst in him.

It's also got me thinking of Keagan's own trust issues that may be caused by Leo... Who can pull off looking like him and turn almost all of his tentative high society friends against him. After all, they share the same face. It's the real reason why Keagan makes it a point to be good at remembering faces... Remember who turned against him and who didn't. The ratio doesn't look good.

And all that time, the only one Leo has never turned against Keagan was Fiona who never fell for it and Shizuke who was never worth it.

Leo totally got more of a role in S3 compared to the previous seasons. As Keagan started changing (to better support Shizuke now that he knows his secret), Leo starts feeling threatened... Especially when Keagan showed up at Fencing tryouts as a late entree and everyone was way too eager to see the rumored genius in action.

Keagan is normally easily cowed by Leo cause a part of him believed he deserved his cousin's cruelty. He too blames himself for Uncle Augusto's death. But this time, there's someone else on the line he is doing all this for. His guilt from their past isn't as important as supporting Shizubug making it up to Fiona right now. This time, he can protect them.

Step aside, Leo, he is joining the fencing team and he doesn't care if he dethrones you while doing so.

And then there's another entry joining in, and to everyone's surprise, it's Natalia.

[erisluna35]

First Love

VS

Current Love

[erisluna35]

Character Inspirations (Part 3): Leo Aurelio, Ai Tsurugi and Chihiro Tsurugi

Decided to make a part 3 with these two just for the hell of it. Here's Part 1 and Part 2.

I dunno how it happened, Chloe is everywhere with my OCs. She has so many moveable pieces... And to be honest, I would've picked a guardian character that's so by-the-book for Ai instead of Chloe, but the guardians we've been given so far are... well... they cowtow to Marinette too quickly in a way I just can't picture Ai being with around anyone, especially not Shizuke or Blair. With Chloe, she got elitism. It's also hard to pick someone from the good kids blob, cause Ai is distinctly meant to be more "mean" than "nice". She's more in a gray area really, but MLB just doesn't have that many characters staying there without eventually picking a side. I might as well update that chart on Chloe expies soon.

[erisluna35]

The complete set of front covers. If there's one thing these four have in common other than fame, it's that they're all descendants of someone from canon. Some are just more obvious than others, Ai Tsurugi being the easiest one to guess but Leo Aurelio took after the OC side more than the canon side of his gene pool.

[erisluna35]

REVERSE AU'S VIGILANTE HEROES

A cat, a ladybug and a butterfly... and in the shadows, they have the mayor's son as their guy in the chair tech support.

An emo punk. A knight wannabe. A prep in a suit. Keagan's the only one who's not loser coded and they all feel sorry he can't afford to keep any sense whimsy surrounded by the Supreme.