#paradox forms

[ouarmy]

I like Scream tail, he looks like a little Glam Rock monster 💖

[norisus]

My take on an organic future paradox form of Virizion. "Venomous Thorns", poison/fighting type.

While Virizion fought alongside humans in the past, time has changed that. This Pokemon has taken up a much more hostile approach towards humans, choosing to protect what remains of open plains from the encroachment of civilization.

I've been thinking a lot about the future paradox forms in Pokemon Violet and why I don't like them.

I really don't like the implication of future Pokemon just all being robots of some sort. Both from a design standpoint, and for the depressing implications. I get that they wanted to go for a futuristic robot aesthetic, but man I would have just really loved to see how some Pokemon might've evolved Naturally in the future.

Like especially with climate change, how would various Pokemon adapt? Would they take to cities? Which wild Pokemon might get domesticated? How might an arboreal Pokemon deal with losing its forest habitat?

That might get a little close to regional variants, but at the end of the day, it's all kind of the same. Just different environmental stressors, and the time it might take for a creature to evolve to better adapt to face them.

I really would have loved to see more nuance with the future paradox forms, and in general less of a Bleak outlook for the future by at least preserving some organic biology with the Pokemon. Like one or two robots is one thing, but ALL of them??

Like it would have been amazing to have something that was horribly cloned back into existence after it went extinct, rather than a machine lookalike. Like imagine mamoswine goes extinct, and you wind up with this Pokemon in the future that's a weird, hairy copperajah that was selectively bred and altered to resemble the extinct mamoswine.

Just-- I feel like a series all about evolution could've been more creative with futuristic evolutions.

Also I like know that they've gone and said that the future paradox forms are Probably from a different timeline entirely, but the designs themselves still insinuate prehistoric Pokemon vs man-made (which would imply futuristic). So I remain a lil peeved that the futuristic ones are just all man-made with no real natural evolution.

[vitreousglassy]

made paradox forms of my fav pokemon who just also happen to be counterparts 

[reestallized]

Yesterday I had an idea for a paradox Tinkaton/Corviknight and then I did this today

[sadpearljhonny]

Faketober Day X

Sadpearl's note: ‘ mmm UFOs and old ghostly women.... Why are those ideas in my head lately?’

Inspired by the idea of the Star Wars tripods, I decided on a paradoxical tentacruel shape, which I admit, looked pretty cool, like I didn't expect it to look so cool. Their hind legs are actually energy beams, which constantly suck up everything they come across, the idea is that these beings collect and recycle hazardous waste by using their claws and these ‘legs’ to collect and recycle hazardous waste.

[riflesniper]

attack for @vinlynce :3c

[soreile]

Arhou Dex #P037, Specter Stones! This Past Paradox Pokemon is a Rock/Ghost type.

This strange Pokemon appears to be a colony of individual creatures. It somewhat resembles an otherworldly entity described in Alola’s Pokedex. It is oddly shy, and pretends to be a stone path if disturbed.

So after Scar/Vi came out I did add a few more 'mons to the Arhou dex, even though the vast majority of them were designed before it was announced. This is one of the very last three 'mons I designed, the actual last being Arhou Lurantis because my Google doc formatting was uneven. This, though? This is just Paradox Stakataka, based off a cobblestone path/a 'ruins of Atlantis' kind of vibe. The Paradox 'mons fit really nicely into some of the stuff I already had planned for the region but I couldn't just lift them without adding one past and one future form, and I also couldn't justify normal Stakataka in the regional dex but wanted Stakataka in somehow because I really like it.

[pokemontrainerkenn]

A Paradox form of Dragapult

Depth Fear, Dragon/Water

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