#operation birdhead

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that bald guy from pokemon

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my heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM

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god cyborg 009 has me thinkin abt the silly robot submas twins i drew

uuuhhhhhhh second image is me incorporating them into an au i have i’m just posting it b/c it has the brobots. maybe i’ll talk about operation birdhead someday idk

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ive been drawing on my phone so much that the sketches i used something other than my finger for feel like the mona lisa to me help

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Please explain the operation birdhead AU. I want to know more about your robo-submas.

OKAY I’L TRY TO MAKE THIS AS COHESIVE AS I CAN JFJFKGK it’s based off of a dream and i’m slowly streamlining it so there’s probably a lot of a few weird bits here and there + my dreams tend to be a bit brutal so this might seem edgy and grimdark but jfjfkgkgkhl

It takes place in Unova and starts in Nimbasa City with a 2v2 exhibition match between the Subway Bosses and Elesa, who is fighting alongside a guest who frequents Sinnoh’s Battle Tower (frankly, “frequents” is more like “stays there so much it may as well be his home and Palmer was tired of her being there after closing hours all the time so he told him to participate in this match;” this is my OC Jas.) However, the battle is interrupted when a massive serpent suddenly appears in the adjacent desert, immediately sending everyone into a panic. The four, being the strongest trainers in the immediate area, decide to head over with the Pokémon they brought in case any danger is brought to the other citizens.

Once on Route 4, they are greeted with what resembles a Gigantamax Sandaconda with some sort of figure on top of its head. They ready their Pokéballs to deal with the threat, but the figure slides down its slithery companion and grips the face of the frontmost trainer, sucking their life force from their body— the others freeze, another gets taken down, they run, the next one is gone, they’re sprinting away, and then last one is gone as well.

Ingo opens his eyes, his body feeling something strange that can only be described as… a numbness? Suddenly, from the side, he hears a voice.

“Wow. That is a big Rotom.”

He turns his body to the side, seeing… a large Rotom, alright. However, seeing no other humans around, he inquires, “Who said that?”

“I am Emmet. It was me, Rotom,” the Pokémon stated, grin plastered across its face.

“Emmet? Wait a second…” Ingo propped himself up, looking downwards at his body.

Oh.

Emmet seems to realize as well, his still-grinning face now displaying a sense of shock. “You are… Ingo.”

“…Yes.”

The two wander around for a long time, just talking to each other. A few months pass until they nearly encounter a swarm of cloaked figures, but hide themselves from them as they gather up multiple surrounding Pokémon. Eventually, however, after many more months, they are found by a couple of ghost-hunting strangers and a Shuppet— who reveals herself to be Elesa. Jasper, now a Misdreavous, is there as well. They do a bit of catching up (with Elesa saying “No fair you guys get to be the Electric types,”) and are told about the situation: the serpent and its shadowy companion have taken over most of Unova, and they are now gathering forces underground to form a resistance.

Among those in the resistance is a roboticist and Jas’s sibling, Bird. They end up using their resources to create new robot bodies for the two Subway twins— not a particularly easy task, but since they have experience in Rotom technology, they eventually succeed. With the help of the ghost hunters, they are able to create vessels for Elesa and Jasper as well. This process takes a couple of years overall. However, this was not only to provide humanoid forms to the deceased trainers, but as practice for the more ambitious Birdhead.

One thing about the Sandaconda— nicknamed the Great Devourer: it consumes the life energy of Pokémon, but it cannot fully consume Ghost-types. Instead, it and its companion, Iorwerth, have commanded their servants to put the leftover ghost “fragments” inside large structures that are left to guard the major cities of Unova. It is the goal of the resistance to discreetly exorcise these fragments and convince them to join in the fight against the Devourer, placing them inside a giant robot, their trump card. This undertaking is named Operation: Birdhead, named after the main creator of the robot in question.

i think at the end the nimbasa ghosts will also join in to control birdhead

here’s some more character info also

everything at the bottom of this sketch is just obsolete now since i decided to drop my original plan of having like regular ash tracey and misty end up in this universe but . yeah

Ghost Hunters (Turquoise and Faerryn)

faerryn is a man studying arceus and believes it is his calling to understand ghost types as best he can, turquoise is his assistant and is kind of like his niece now. he was reluctant to take anyone under his wing but turquoise kind of insisted hard enough that he caved and ended up enjoying it. i think chantal will also be a part of this

Gym Leaders/Elite Four

generally i think most of the unova league are in the resistance but i haven’t given it much thought as of yet

Researchers

basically a bunch of professors’ assistants picked a real bad time to take a vacation and catch up with each other and now they’re stuck in unova lmao. this is pretty much only because 1) tracey sketchit and gary oak were in my dream and 2) the assistants are some of my favorite characters. so theres like tracey, gary, goh, ren, chrysa, etc.

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literally just made these because i thought it’d be fun and/or funny to draw something cartoony but with an absurd amount of shading

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Somehow the drawing you made with Emmet saying “He’s a phantom” made me laugh. Also yay more operation birdhead content and no I don’t have brainrot over it—