This is a blog dedicated to celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Strongest Mega Evolutions Specials of PokéAni and its characters. This fan event will run from 3 April 2024 to 9 April 2024. The prompts list is now published. Check them out! You can follow this blog for updates, and drop any questions in this blog's ask box, or directly at @potahun, who runs this event.
We've come to the end of the week across the globe and it's been such a blast seeing the creativity and enthusiasm that this tiny and beautiful fandom is capable of! So much wondrous imagination skilfully brought to life, and so much love given to this series 10 years after it aired! What a way to celebrate it's 10th year anniversary.
It's definitely made me emotional to see so many new fanworks throughout this event, with so much self-expression and creative exploration of ideas, headcanons, designs, stories... The TSME fandom has always been one where fans get to take the series, say "what if?" and create something new from it, and I think it's beautiful. A warm thank you to everyone who participated, whether by creating or by cheering on the side!
If you couldn't find the time or energy to participate but wanted to, don't worry. If you would like to create and post something now, please do! I will still be scouring the #tsmeweek2024 and #tsme10thanniversary tags until around May, at a much slower pace, and will continue to reblog any new works to this blog.
If I have missed some works until now, please don't hesitate to ping me with an @tsmeweek as well. It seems the tumblr tags are not always reliable! Pinging me is more than okay.
Until then, thank you again for participating. HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO TSME!!
Deadpanned comedy. There is some irp context to this: Basically Alain and Augustine call, the father figure mentions him being a responsible adult and Alain decides to make a joke.
(Yes, drawing this joke had been long overdue lol)
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Organization for Transformative Works
TSME Week Day 5 - Prompt: AU
Unfortunately it is not a story specifically made for this week, however I am updating an existing fanfiction featuring a cool slow burn rare pair and Alain being a chill werewolf. If you don't want to read everything I suggest starting from chapter 5 as that is where the plot really kicks off and said plot is continued into the next chapters.
TSME Week Day 4 - TSME x Detective Conan
(Stretching the definition of mask to not post twice on one day)
I may or may not be catering to @potahun, as I've seen them post for both these fandoms. Also an excuse to do the funky transformation effect from the anime.
The idea was to put Alain in Shinichi's place, but then I realized his story has much more in common with Haibara (working for the bad guys, turning on them, more reclusive personality and such).
You could put Sycamore in Agasa's place... <3
They're having a nice and cozy movie night :D
Alain comfort headcanons: Blankie burrito and hot choccy. Also the fam but that's just canon :3
Thought about including their mons but drawing Pokemon is hard, so you get the favorite lizard on a cup
Perhaps it’s reassurance, a reminder, that human power is not yet infinite and may never be. And he can't—won't—be truly dangerous if his power is never absolute.
Alain waits, watching the sky and sea until the water is dark, far from blue, and the sky is nearly black at the top and deep orange along the horizon.
It’s peaceful. It’s beautiful. He knows with such incredible clarity that it is not going to last.
“and when the seasons change, will you stand by me? because i’m a young man built to fall.”
there are moments of quiet—maybe even peace—between the fire, gods, and world-saving. alain finds he doesn’t know what to do with them.
(on ao3 here)
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for tsme week 2024!! a collection of missing scenes throughout (and a little bit after) tsme canon. this was an absolute pleasure to write - i hope you enjoy! a very happy 10th anniversary to tsme!!
Better late than never, right? I saw that at least @runawaycarouselhorse was expecting more Marisson in this event, so here you have it! And yes, they're both adults here. Alain's orange&yellow clothes are a callback to his clothes in the Sycamore lab flashbacks. And yes, Mairin/Manon has a key stone in her necklace.
Here are some Mairin cosplay photos I never posted here! I took these back in 2021. I considered putting on the cosplay again for today but most of my cosplays from this era are still in a box in my garage from when we got some remodeling done where I live. Still I thought the community would enjoy these pics!
we were too close to the stars
i never knew somebody like you, somebody falling just as hard
- reflections
alarin tumblr debut?? for tsme week?? i think so i think yes! u can consider this a late day 6 post or day 7 i suppose, whatever u prefer!
(in summary: my oc, rin, and alain, have lived in my head rent free for 3 years now. they mean the world to me. i love them. to me, they are THE it couple <3)
details/about them below the break
rin yukino is a hyper competitive trainer with a (shiny) mega gardevoir, goal focused and independent to the point of flaw. born and raised in kalos, but with family from sinnoh, she had spent much of her childhood fitting into her parent's mold for a perfect daughter. she was a straight-a student, principal violinist, preparing to attend a top university - at 18, she realized that wasn't who she wanted to be anymore. she became a pokemon trainer instead.
(somewhat unimportantly, her usual trainer design consists of teal highlights in her hair, orange earrings shaped like the heart that goes through a mega gardevoir's chest, and a lot of black and gray. she matches diva, her gardevoir, like alain matches his charizard. they're both extra like that.)
she meets alain viard when they're both 22, shortly after the events of TSME act 4. she's on the gym challenge, and he's... alain. they battle, and he wins. twice in a row. then they go from rivals to rivals with benefits, then maybe even friends if they weren't both so emotionally reclusive i mean haha what-
alarin, aka rin "i'm stronger on my own" yukino and alain "i only destroy those around me" viard
even if he's won both times, alain can't help but be attracted one of the few people who can keep up with him, who cares about winning nearly as much as he does, who treats pokemon battling like it's all she has. he knows the feeling. he thinks she might understand him.
she's half of the reason behind both his decision to fill out his team beyond charizard and his decision to challenge the gyms
when they fall apart, just a month before the team flare crisis, i like to think of them like a supernova. short lived but bright and brilliant. doomed from the start.
the details of their falling out are complicated, so we'd be here all day if i tried to explain.
rin fails to stand by him during the fight against lysandre. she doesn't have the courage to. but she does, however, find him in the aftermath. she helps him heal and pick up the broken pieces. that's where 99% of their relationship really comes from.
i filter them into the category titled "couples written by taylor swift's the great war" and if you know you know
because it's important to me, rin gets along great with mairin.
at first she's a bit annoyed by her over-enthusiasm. rin is cold, blunt, realistic, and introverted, mairin is the opposite of all of those things. but once she sees how much mairin means to alain she does a full 180
and mairin's only ever had older brothers (both in her biological family and in alain), so having rin around to show her how to do her hair, her makeup, AND annoy the hell out of alain when appropriate is her favorite thing ever.
they are very good at bullying alain into taking care of himself (because he is very bad at that, as we all know.)
eventually, rin will go on to become one of the kalos elite four, after malva gets arrested (for being Very Fucking Evil).
one of my favorite things ever to think about is how the random internet people would claim "rin is only with alain to try and get famous" (and also make lengthy twitter/x callout threads on how alain is a problematic person because of his team flare involvement, and therefore decently-well-known league challenger rin yukino is also problematic by proxy), only for alain to generally avoid the public spotlight (there are lots of headcanons here. in short, he goes to university) and rin to be hired as elite four. and then she becomes far more famous as a result. and then the internet trolls are like "...oh." and a majority of the general population doesn't even know she and alain are a thing, because it's only obvious if you scrolled intensely through her instagram account.
i don't know why alarin getting stupid hate threads on twitter/x is the funniest thing to me but it really, really is!!
the internet is convinced alarin is a manipulative ploy on rin's end and one day she reads one of the twitter threads making all these claims about what she's done and she just goes "bitch i did what" and finds it absolutely hilarious
ANYWAYS that is all for now!! this post is so long and this is barely scratching the surface?? they mean so much to me i'm so sorry 😭😭
if literally anybody ever wants to hear about them i will share more. i would cry happy tears.
thank you so much for reading this if you did!! i'm so glad i got to share them for tsme week!
It also works for Day 5's "Trip". Once more, happy TSME week to all, happy 10th year to the TSME gang! May they continue to have many, many adventures even if we don't get to see them all
