#team comet

[asterbats]

Hero/Partner Week Day 2: Role Swap (Team Comet > Team Meanies)

@heropartnerweek

Can't commit to the entire week because I'm still in my slump and I'm on vacation, sorry </3 But I wanted to do at least one day, so here's a villain au.

The idea is that both Nuri and Gastly keep their "inciting incidents" but their roles in the narrative are swapped. Nuri still sends the meteor flying towards the PMD world from her station in Mossdeep City, and Gastly still abandons Gardevoir to the Ninetales Curse.

Basically, Nuri and Chip's flaws are cranked up to the max. Nuri never got over her fear and decided to force her way into power to cope with it. She's an authority figure in Pokemon Square, and Chip, loyal to a fault, is her attack cat who would do anything for her. He's really more of the "Gengar" type in personality, where he likes to toy with others because of the power he has.

Team Meanies is still a more "antagonistic" team here. They still harass other explorers and stuff. But over the course of the story, they kinda keep accidentally fixing things, which kinda propels them into a redemption arc anyways. Gastly is forced to confront his issues a lot earlier by becoming a fugitive and seeking out Ninetales, and actually breaks the curse early as well.

Nuri meanwhile was basically attempting to redirect her guilt onto Gastly, kinda the way Gengar does in canon. Once everything is cleared up and Groudon starts rampaging, she and Chip vanish in the night, not appearing until Chip comes back in the postgame to beg for Team Meanies to rescue Nuri from Meteor Cave...

[lavenderpsyseon]

Go from surviving to thriving, hiding to shining.

[starfallverse]

in some ways, i do regret playing the original rescue team after explorers of sky because i just don't have the same nostalgia for it as several other pmd fans...its not a bad game whatsoever, obviously, it's still a good time but i am a person who does care about the stories of pokemon games (unfortunately) so this one just kinda leaves a lot to be desired story-wise to me....

it's whatever though, it's the first game and it still has really good stuff like the ninetales curse plotline and fugitive plot so i'm still willing to give it a pass for all that. just gives me stuff to work with when i wanna try actually forming a plot i like for rescue team sdlkfsdf

[starletnexus]

Viola the vulpix

Art fight attack for @elliikuma !

[pawperanimal]

even if you forget me.

[thelaststarling]

Snow Cloak

[fauxregion]

Redraw of my Team Comet leader, Astrid!

[pmd-team-comet]

Prologue Cover