Another entry into #SternMultiDrift
For those unfamiliar, Thesterninator (Youtube and Bluesky) is a fakemon creator whose server I joined recently. He started a challenge called #Multiversal Drift, where you create alternate people, plots, or scenarios to the pokemon universe!
These lovelies are the thought-children of my brother, and I simply created the art for him.
Aether Foundation AU:
Alternate Universe of Sun and Moon where the Aether Foundation researches the Pokemon Afterlife instead of Ultra Wormholes, and Veiled Pokemon are alternate forms of Pokemon that can be found in areas where the veil between life and death is at its thinnest.
The entries submitted are Veiled Ralts, Veiled Kirlia, Banshevoir and Dullade. Instead of emotional feeler spikes, the Veiled Version of these Pokemon have an empty void. Looking inside them is viewed with the same superstition has looking into the hollowed hole of a Shedinja. The hoofed feet are inspired by a combination of goat and house hooves, to symbolize the negative superstition they have as well as the horse that a Dullahan would ride.
Veiled Ralts is themed after Shadow People, a recurring paranormal phenomenon described as dark, humanoid figures or silhouettes.
Veiled Kirlia is themed after Black Eyed Kids, a paranormal phenomenon resembling children and teenagers, with pale skin and black eyes.
Banshevoir is themed after the Banshee, a female spirit who is said to wail or keen when a family they're attached to is about to die.
Dullade is themed after the Dullahan, a headless rider on a black horse who acts as a harbinger of death for those it calls to.