Iris as Mega Mewtwo Y, (The Fallen Angel stare) (The Forbidden Popsicle).
She has four other designs (Child, Teen, this one and this version but with armor, but I don’t feel like doing them so soon). This took me time, specially with the coloring, but it was worth it.
As I said before, I was unsure how to translate Iris design for Pokemon, specially to a Mewtwo, if anyone has some suggestion for how I can improve this design, please, feel free to tell.
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This part is long, so be prepared. But to summarize things up: what if Mewtwo was born as a kid and actually stayed with the scientists, raised inside the lab, also, what if the scientists wanted its brain and power separated? Creating two individuals with different purposes, but still connected to the point they Need each other to function fully.
What Mewtwo would have to overcome from those years inside the lab after it was free?
(you have no clue how many times i edited this part, holy fuck, this post needs to perfect even though i can’t yet share everything about Her and her brother). (The same way i accept criticism about her design, I also accept suggestions about how I can improve her story).
Iris story is inspired by Plato’s cave allegory, she doesn’t know how the world outside the lab is, or pretty much anything, as she doesn’t have a reliable outside source to tell her. The world is what the scientists told her, the shadows of the cave.
While her brother is meant to be the “Pokemon”, she’s the “Trainer”; he will obey her commands, but to make sure she would follow their orders (their creators), they made sure she believed that without them, she would die outside, as she’s “too sick, too fragile, so she constantly needs to be checked”. The terror the scientists put her was so intense that it created a mental block in her, where she simple cannot attack other Pokemon herself, or she will die trying, they enforced the idea they need to check everything she does to make sure she’s doing it right, she can’t adventure outside alone, or she will get lost. Etc etc. The world is only dangerous because she’s weak and naive, she’s not prepared to it yet, she needs more training, but in reality they never want her to know how to live without them.
Her childhood was full of dreams about the outside world tough, it was dangerous, but something new that she wanted to explore, as the lab wasn’t mentally stimulated enough for her mind… (She’s like a super computer, she constantly needs more information, and the scientist know that, that’s why they deprive her of it, so she can only focus on the tests they want her to do), (think like how labs deprive animals of food. A hungry animal is gonna be food motivated), but until her brother was born, they could only dream about it together.
And yes, she was born before Colonel. They’re still twins of course, same age, but Colonel was allowed to exit his tube only after achieving adult stage. They would only talk with each other during their dreams, as Colonel was in a profound sleep inside the tub, (also, have you ever heard the song: “Fish inside a Bird cage”? That’s their situation. Iris doesn’t know reality, but “reality” gets to be real in their dreams, making Colonel hopeful that they’re true too). In those dreams she was allowed to do anything, and share genuine moments of happiness someone that was just like her…
But after Colonel was born, Iris would get an intense rage against their creators after he was forced into a procedure that turned him into their perfect soldier (erasing his memories in the process, turning him into a robot). The scientists had no idea about her dreams, they had no idea about their conversations, as she never told them because she was terrified they would also want to control their dreams too, her scape, but that proved to be a curse in disguise as they didn’t understand Why she was so angry at them.
Their indifference in killing her brother caused the explosion of the laboratory, as she ordered Colonel to take them out, (why she attacked the scientist you may ask? Well, very simple: She was also made to command Colonel, even other Pokemon, to attack humans if necessary. Pokemon and humans alike are their enemies.
The scientists only proved they also were there to hurt them too). (And about “the other Pokemon”, like I said before, Iris is the trainer, therefore the strategist, she wouldn’t just command Colonel, even though he was meant to be her Ace and be the most powerful Pokemon, it was necessary she learned how to use other Pokemon too. So she wasn’t alone with the scientists growing up, but she didn’t understood those Pokemon, she couldn’t speak their language).
After this, things would play like Mewtwo origin, as they finally experience the real world… and it was ugly, overwhelming, terrifying. She would constantly ask why things were like this, because yes, she was told the outside was dangerous to her, but not exactly how it was, how it functioned (it’s like being told how the sun is bright vs experiencing looking it up for more than 5 seconds).
They wanted her to be dependent on her brother, they wanted her to be constantly dependent on them, she’s like a indoor cat that never learned how to hunt, how to distinguish friend from foul, a safe place or a dangerous one. She ran away from home after learning it was unsafe, but what now?
The difference between her and a normal house cat though, is that she has a fucking atomic bomb watching over her. They created the most anxious creature to command a weapon of mass destruction, I wonder what will happen—
Ah yes, things will take a turn where Iris and Colonel would fist fight God (Mew! X).
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About her design.
I wanted to make her look like a doll (am I a robot or a doll?) (that’s why the “joints” in her legs), it was based on the concept art of Mega Mewtwo Y:
She has green eyes. But we will only see them after she finally finds joy in life.
I also changed the ears to look like horns.
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Some facts about her:
• She constantly floats around; it’s mentally draining, but she can only rest when she really needs to. She’s so skeptical of the world around her, everything is new but equally so dangerous, that she only interacts with the world physically when necessary. It’s like a tiger interacting with the grass and rain for the first time and being terrified of how it will affect it, it’s just sad.
• She start to learn more about her psychic powers after the laboratory, like for example: how she can mentally control Pokemon.