#oras oc

[shinechermont]

I tried.

I saw I didn't post any drawing in the last few days , so I drew a little thing for a friend... or tried, at least.

Oras.

She is a really kind and cute girl! She needs so much love! It was really fun to draw her!

Aura

The bean. God, I can't say how much I love this sweet and kind girl! Ursula and Mirage are good baby markers jsjdndn

These incredible girls belongs to

@ari-cuno

(Hope ya like it, Ari!)

[crownofhearts]

MEET THE SQUAD! This is Anya's team by the time she finishes Wattson's Gym. There's her Marshtomp Freddie, Belladonna the Ralts, Pistachio the Shroomish, And Cobalt the Magnemite!

[strawberrysaur]

Ara basic timeline because. i’m putting off a task that will take me 3 minutes

10 years old — moves to Hoenn from Johto with her family, goes through the events of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and the Delta Episode over the course of like. a summer. her original team is Blaziken, Gardevoir, Latias, Azumarill, Tropius, and Banette (loosely based on my original AS team)

10-16 years old — LONG INTERMISSION where nothing especially noteworthy happens. champion duties, schooling, picking up extracurriculars, contest spectaculars, etc

16 years old — feels burnt out but refuses to take any breaks from anything. Arceus kidnaps her in her sleep and sends her back to Hisui with amnesia

16-17 years old — goes through the main story events of Pokemon Legends Arceus over the course of about a year. her team is Decidueye, Gallade, Garchomp, Walrein, Alpha Ninetails, and Dusknoir. it’s meant to purposefully echo her Hoenn team + ninetails because. uh i don’t remember

17-18 years old — goes through the Volo epilogue and finishes up catching the rest of Hisui’s pokémon and completing the Pokédex. Arceus says her work is done and sends her + Ingo back to the present day in Sinnoh. Ingo regains his memories upon returning, Ara does not.

18 years old — stays with Ingo and Emmet in Unova for a few months until Aarune (the secret bases guy) comes to Unova to reunite with Ingo (i have a headcanon that he’s Ingo and Emmet’s younger sibling). Aarune recognizes Ara, lets her know where she’s from and that everyone is looking for her still, and they organize her return to Hoenn. she STILL has amnesia btw

18-20 years old — very long, angsty, readjust to modern life, recover from amnesia, and reunite with family and friends period. formally (keyword) abdicates her position as Champion and Wally takes over as champion because I think he deserves it 👍 not sure if i want to keep it but i used to have a half-finished idea where Ara seeks out Jirachi to wish for her memories back and the infamous Inexplicably In The Future Volo appears and tries to convince her to wish herself back to Hisui instead for his Nefarious Plans. either way, Ara eventually decides that she wants to become a Pokémon researcher instead of a professional battler after enjoying it so much in Hisui

20+ — ultimately ends up feeling both smothered and out of place in Hoenn. makes the decision to enroll in Uva Academy in Paldea (because i’m incapable of not stringing together my pokemon ocs across the games I played) to get whatever degree for pokemon research. now she’s not unlucky enough to go through the events of Pokemon Violet as well (that honor goes to my oc Esme), but she is there during it. her team at this point is mostly her original Hoenn team, with the exception of Decidueye replacing Tropius because Tropius was a very old man and ready to retire. tropius being the oldest of her pokemon was actually og lore before i even decided she was going to Hisui and the replacement grass type just happened to be a very nice coincidence

huh looking back i didn’t realize how much of her actual plot is concentrated in the post-hisui half. but it’s mostly because everything else can be more or less waved away with the “events of the game”. i mean there’s a lot of details and short fic ideas in my head that don’t get mentioned

anyway fun fact is that the original Ara i designed was the 16-year-old Ara who was intended to be a “cool older sister” type character for my USUM and SWSH ocs at the time. she was actually the last pokemon oc of the originals that I made, because i didn’t have a preexisting character that I played as (my original sun save was Queenie and my original sword save was Fayette, so i had a character to build from) but my original AS save was just myself. none of this actually survived to become modern lore for her, but 16-year-old Ara in her Hoenn design (not survey corps uniform) is still my default Ara and i love her lots

[strawberrysaur]

Thinking about Ara’s design

This isn’t a “someone cheated lol” post, this is a “I designed Ara before I cared about genetics and instead of giving her mom a design that would explain this, got really attached to the default mom because she reminds me of my friends’ mom”

Also I was originally going to draw Norman and Mom but got stuck on Norman’s hairline and got mad and replaced them with their sprites instead

Actually I did give Mom one purple streak in her hair to claim that she just had dormant purple hair genes, but yknow

The reason Ara is designed the way she is, is because I designed her last of my original three Pokémon ocs. There was Queenie, my USUM oc, Fayette, my SWSH oc, and finally Ara, my ORAS oc. The first two were direct references to my original playthrough of their respective games, but Ara stumped me. I first played AS when I was about seven or eight, and played as myself, not any sort of character, and the lack of customization didn’t give me anything to go off of when I didn’t want to copy May’s design for her.

In the end, the concept I ended up going for was based on the gap between me playing AS and me playing the other games. Ara was this cool, older character. She was sixteen to the other girls’ twelve (which seemed incredibly old and mature to 13-year-old me), she was this champion who had already completed her journey six years ago, and was experienced and strong. The other two had very realistic color palettes, and I wanted Ara to stand out, so she ended up with purple hair and bright blue eyes. I’m pretty sure I also had reasoning like “Ruby = red and Sapphire = blue, so Ruby + Sapphire = purple, but since she’s an Alpha Sapphire character, the blue eyes tie her more strongly back to sapphire” or something.

I thought the best way to communicate a character who’s cool and athletic was spiky bangs and a ponytail. Because she spends her free time exploring the Hoenn region and all its water, she wears shorts over a one-piece swimsuit (because I personally have always disliked bikinis, especially for characters who actually swim) and water shoes. Looking back, her original design is a bit boring, mostly because I wasn’t used to complicated character designs at that point. It doesn’t really matter to me anymore, though, because when I think about Ara now, it’s usually either when she’s in Hisui or post-Hisui when she’s wearing different clothes.

If I had designed Ara today, she probably would have had black hair and would resemble Norman more than her mother. I probably would have used more blue than purple for her and went over the top with the swimmer and trainer aesthetic.

I’ve been wanting to draw her lately but had difficulty translating her into my newer style. It’s been a while since I drew her, and because her features were originally so inconsistent (Like, the shape of her eyes changes between two drawings at the same angle right next to each other), maybe it’s time for a redesign.

Also, I don’t know why her name is Ara. I just came up with it one day while trying to design her and rolled with it. This makes her unusual, because I usually spend at least several minutes combing through baby naming sites before naming my ocs. Technically not a “fake” name as it has a few usages across different languages, but I thought it was original when I came up with it. I don’t have the strength in me to retcon and claim that it’s short for Arabella or something similar. Her name is just Ara, not matter how badly my autocorrect wants it to be Zara

[captain-dav]

lassies cute team magma oc!

hes super cocky and pretty tough as a trainer!