Me today

Me today

Internet was out for basically the whole day.

Have a ton of cozy games to play.

Have FF 4-9 to play.

Have Baldur's Gate 3 to play.

Octopath 1 and 2.

I need to finish Harvestella.

But no. I went back to Stardew.

(I also write a decent chunk of fanfic by hand today, so I didn't just play Stardew)

u/Kiki-Y — 1 day ago
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No internet? No problem!

Just write by hand 👍🏻

(I am posting by my smartphone but have no home internet)

u/Kiki-Y — 1 day ago

Well good thing Supernote is mostly offline

My power and internet went out sometime last night. Thank god Supernote's core features can be used offline! (Typing on my phone's 5G)

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u/Kiki-Y — 2 days ago

Just some fanfic drafting with Supernote

Third chapter of a fanfic I'm writing. It's Fire Emblem: Awakening, set 2000 years after the events of canon. It's a reincarnation story where Robin and Chrom are reincarnated to fall in love again. It takes place in the true ending where Robin defeats Grima...but she didn't come back within Chrom's lifetime. Naga reincarnated Chrom so they could meet again. However, they don't have access to their memories (yet). Lysandra is an OC from Valm, descended from Alm and Celica. I get bored if it's just the main couple. Plus, I write slice of life and life isn't just you and your partner. So there are other characters for Robin and Chrom to interact with.

The setting is an Ylisse that's more modern day with smartphones, magitech, etc. With Grima completely gone, technology can persist and flourish.

u/Kiki-Y — 4 days ago
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Sacrifice Ruby Reference Sheet (anisatulO6 on FIverr)

Private commission done on Fiverr with Kazumi, anistaul06.

This is for an AU I've been poking at on and off since 2018 called Fear and Sacrifice.

In this AU, Summer is a double agent for Salem and attended Beacon under the guise of gathering intelligence for Salem. However, she didn't foresee falling in love with Qrow. Her loyalties shifted away from Salem, she fell in love with Qrow, and Ruby happened on accident. However, Summer left after Ruby was born to return to Salem, leaving Taiyang and Qrow alone with the two girls.

Some months later, Summer and Qrow met again while Qrow was out on a mission and she paralysed him with magic and put him into a months-long coma as well. Raven found Qrow before he died but while he was still in the coma. This left Taiyang alone with two girls under four. He struggled by himself which led Glynda to stepping in and helping him.

Qrow eventually woke up from his coma and Raven told Taiyang. Qrow handed over his parental rights to Taiyang, allowing him to formally adopt Ruby. He changed her name to Megui Xiao Long, and he moved to a central Mistrali enclave along with Glynda and Yang.

For years, things were quiet until the family had a photoshoot. It finally sunk in how different Ruby looked from Taiyang and Glynda. She knew Glynda wasn't her biological mother as that was never hidden. But she didn't understand how her hair and eyes could come from Taiyang.

Unbeknownst to Ruby, Yang had been in contact with Raven and receiving training under her. Yang knew about Qrow, Raven, and the fact she and Ruby weren't really sisters. It really hurt Ruby badly, but she wanted to meet her real father. She ended up spending time with the Branwen tribe and decided she wanted to join them. She also had Taiyang help her change her name from Megui Xiao Long to Ruby Branwen.

Also just a note, in this AU, the Branwen tribe isn't just a loose collection of bandits; they're a really indigenous culture based heavily off the Ainu (who are native to Hokkaido and surrounding areas). The clothes Ruby wears in this reference sheet are based on actual Ainu designs and clothing.

*This is an OVERVIEW of SOME of the changes made in the AU. This is not an exhaustive explanation of all of the changes, the characters, their roles, and so on.

u/Kiki-Y — 8 days ago

Any updates on split screen?

Please tell me there's something. I know plugins were a big thing, but it was stated that the hope was to get split screen out by the end of the year. This is basically the main feature I want!

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u/Kiki-Y — 12 days ago

Wow, did not anticipate the friction difference between ceramic nibs and plastic nibs!

I did own the HoM2 for a little while, but I didn't opt to use it because of the lack of sidebutton. You can mod ceramic nibs to fit into plastic nibs, so you can have an insertable ceramic nib. I got mine on Saturday, but haven't sat down to write until just now.

And wow the difference in friction!

I've been using generic EMR nibs I found on Aliexpress or Alibaba years ago that are very hard and last a very long time. I've been writing with those nibs since before I was on Supernote (2022), so I'm very used to their friction. I'm so used to there being a bit of give when it comes to the plastic nibs.

Not so with the ceramic nib. No give whatsoever. Not sure if it has more or less drag than the plastic ones or not, but it's definitely a very different feel.

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u/Kiki-Y — 14 days ago

Broke 50k for the year!

For me, that's not a lot sadly. I usually have like 100-200k+ by this point in the year.

This year's just been rough. Lots of mental health struggles that made focusing on anything for a long period of time incredibly difficult. Trying to ease myself back into writing without being too hard on myself if I only get a little bit done. Some progress is better than no progress.

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u/Kiki-Y — 16 days ago

I FOUND MY TIMELINE NOTES THANK GOD

Last night I went to start writing a story again and I realised I had accidentally deleted my canon timeline notes. I was so mad because these things are written by hand and taken while watching a Let's Play. These things took me hours to write down. I'm just doing a general overview and letting myself write things out how I want to rather than doing it all word for word.

I use e-ink tablets for all my handwritten stuff. So that means I had accidentally deleted the file off my tablet at some point. I know when it happened. I was trying to back up my files to my computer...and deleted them off my tablet instead. I didn't think anything of it at the time since it was mostly just the PDF copies of my chapters.

Well.

It had my timeline notes on it.

I looked all over my newer tablet and my cloud backup. Obviously wasn't there.

But then I remembered: I have my old tablet. I haven't updated the files to the newer version of the cloud backups I have.

AND I FOUND THE TIMELINE NOTES.

Or at least an older version of them.

I'm so fucking happy I don't have to rewatch the LP and redo what I had already done.

Bless past me for not factory resetting my old tablet!

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u/Kiki-Y — 17 days ago

Real-world religion in fics

Any advice on how to handle this?

Context: I normally do not write in fandoms set in the real world. However, I am currently writing a Persona 5 fic which is set in Japan. I plan on introducing a character in due time that's Christian. This character is not super preachy about her religion as she mostly keeps it private. However, she's meeting the MC in an online Tarot forum, so I can see her occasionally including her personal beliefs in Tarot readings. I can also see there being some discussions between the MC and this character about religion and beliefs later on down the road as they become comfortable with each other.

The main thing is I'm worried about coming across as preachy just by even having a character be Christian and discussing it in character. I know that, no matter what I do, readers may be uncomfortable due to religious trauma and unhappy about real-world religion being brought into a story pretty much at all.

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u/Kiki-Y — 19 days ago

Pokemon worldbuilding from the hospital.

No the title is not an exaggeration; I did all of this while in the hospital.

Most of this is for Sinnoh. Part 1 | Part 2

Timeline Stuff

1095 - Rail systems begin to be integrated and adopted.

1130 - The influx of foreigners and increase in travel across the region has created a strain on the traditional lineage system. The rise of the wealth merchant class and industrialisation has also caused numerous issues for it. Formerly wealthy lineage leaders have lost a lot of their power. What was once a very controlled system is now in shambles due to said leaders losing their power. More individualistic mindsets have taken hold over time, so younger people are adopting those ideals over traditional Sinnaeoh ones. They get married by themselves without approval from lineage leaders which sends genealogy records into chaos. Many also marry foreigners or those with foreign blood who had no lineage to start with. The system hasn’t collapsed but it doesn’t hold the power it once did.

1143: Sinnoh joins the League

1165 AA: Lucas raises the alarm about Hocus and the Societea poking around Oblivia to the Almian government, Erma has connections across Almia and Fiore and has been talking with them for years who have wanted to do something to help the regions including Lamont. They begin talks with the governments to set up a new entity called the Ranger Union to protect Oblivia from evildoers. To keep it from being too obvious, they want to spread Rangers across all three regions. The Fioran traditionalists and government don’t want Untouchables to get higher in the caste system, so Erma must agree that they can’t become Rangers. They must also limit the number of farmers that enter the Union. She doesn’t have much to stand on, so reluctantly agrees.

1172 AA - Cynthia’s mother born

1182 AA: Young people in Sinnoh are beginning to feel lost and disconnected with their culture. Many want to know their lineages so they begin digging into genealogy. It’s hard for many of them, though, due to many of the lineages due to many of the lineages no longer keeping records. They begin to dig up lineage connections that weren’t previously known due to advancements like DNA as well as their own skills they develop. A desire to know one’s lineage springs up among young people as well as reconnect with traditional Sinnaeoh values.

1188 AA - Cynthia is born. She is the result of a teenage pregnancy as well as two lineages that have never gotten along. Carolion, while a traditionalist, doesn’t have words for her and says she’ll support her daughter. However, Cindy doesn’t want to stay in Sinnoh due to how conservative Celestic Town is. Carolina says she’ll keep the baby if Cindy doesn’t want it. Cindy says she wants to live abroad and not be bogged down with a baby. Carolina agrees and takes the baby and allows Cindy and her boyfriend to go abroad. Cindy decides to not have any contact with the rest of her family despite loving her mother. She just doesn’t want a relationship with her daughter at all, so it’s easier to cut contact than try to maintain a relationship with her mother and not her daughter.

1196: Smartphones invented. Johto already has Pokegear and doesn’t want to invest the infrastructure to adopt the new technology on the scale of the whole region. Bigger cities like Goldenrod and Cherrygrove pay companies to install towers but it’s not region wide. Plus smaller towns and villages don’t have the ability to pay for towers to be installed.

1201 AA: Smartphones exist.

Unova History

5825 DA: Humans and Pokémon remain in constant conflict despite the legendaries’ presence. The Musketeers have to keep more wars from breaking out which has left them mentally and physically exhausted. They beseech Arceus to help which results in the creation of Eryndra. The dragon is one of the most Powerful Pokémon ever created. They stop an immediate battle that was bout to happen on [desert route]. It scorches the surrounding area and leaves the area forever left as desert. Humans and Pokémon are all left shocked at the powerful dragon who demands they stop fighting. They say that anyone—human or Pokémon—that wants to continue fighting will be killed. A truce is forced between humans and Pokémon which neither side is happy with the truce, but they are forced to agree under threat of death. Pokémon are forced to help humans rebuild. 

5531 DA: The rebuilding process has gone nicely and the relationship between humans and Pokémon are being built. Eryndra has ruled with a gloved fist to stop the fighting. The humans have started to act as trainers and guides to Pokémon despite how tense things were before. Eryndra is also beginning to train humans in capacities of leadership. Some also begin to worship the dragon though it makes them uncomfortable. They tray to speak against it, but the humans see them and the other legendaries as gods. Religious orders begin to spring up.

5341 DA: Humans begin to band together and form more hierarchical societies due to the lessons Eryndra has given them. They start to gather followers, but Eryndra puts a stop to it due to worrying about what would happen.

Philosophies of Pokemon/human relationships

Sinnoh: Pokémon are deeply spiritual beings that should be treated with respect and kindness as well as reverence due to their power and majesty—in a sense, they see them as demigods and emissaries between humans and Arceus.

Kanto: Pokémon are the very incarnation of life energy as they seem to never be stagnant and are always changing as well as manipulating and expressing energy. They are powerful and must be respected, but they can be guided to become more powerful and even more connected to life energy. Trainers act as a welly to help Pokémon keep growing. In a sense, trainers are a kind of bridge or even spiritual leader for their teams

Johto: Pokémon are seen as beings of teaching. While Pokémon can and do guide them, humans should also be learning lessons from Pokémon. They should reflect on themselves and their own lives from what they were teaching their teams. It should be mutual learning and teaching of each other. If anything, Pokémon are a bit higher than humans rather than the other way around.

Hoenn: Pokemon should be lived with in harmony and treated with kindness. Hoenntari see Pokémon as their equals and want to live in harmony with them as much as possible. They incorporate this into their design in cities with architecture designed specifically to accommodate wild Pokémon. City own/expansions are considered very carefully before being done so they have minimal impact on the environment and natural resources so they don’t harm the local Pokémon too much.

Unova: Pokémon are partners and should be treated with respect and dignity. However, humans are the leaders and teachers. They were originally outside observers who helped Pokémon grow, so it turned into humans being the leaders of Pokémon. This has been misconstrued by some people to treat Pokémon as tools at best and abuse them at worst. However, that’s a minority of people as lessons from Eryndra still resonate today.

Orre: At one time, Pokémon were seen as equals and treated well. However, with the catastrophic collapse of the environment 500 years ago, things shifted, Pokémon are now largely treated as tools for survival especially by nomadic desert tribes. Battles are less for sport and more for survival. Everything is solved through battles. Most Trainers only see their Pokémon as means to an end and battles are far more brutal than League regions. The only reason Trainers care for their Pokémon are for purely selfish and practical reasons. They only do it so they can continue to survive. Abuse is rampant in Orre and Pokémon do die regularly in normal battles due to the sheer brutality of Orran battles. Friendship evolutions are very rare due to how Trainers push their Pokémon. 

Sinnoh legendaries as individuals

(have not been named yet)

- Drakrai. A very cool customer that knows how to remain calm in practically every situation. He can and will remain even. It’s hard to get him to react to anything with a high emotion. A lot of people try to get him to react to thing but he generally doesn’t unless it’s about his family. He is quite secretive due to people and Pokémon finding him relatively terrifying. Spending so much time in the Rift. It has rubbed off on him and the energies make him seem more menacing than he actually is. He’s actually quite softspoken, gentle, and caring. He can be charismatic when he speaks. He can really rally people around him if he wants to, but he does not very often. He stood up next to Daray and helped to rally people who could banish Echofiends to help get rid of them and push them back into the Rift. Daray helped organise these people into a more cohesive order that Darkrai helped train himself. He doesn’t like having to deal with humans too much, though, as he finds it incredibly difficult to relate them. He has never spent much time around humans due to needing to spend a lot of time in the Rift.

- Cresselia. Some would expect her to be sweet and gentle, but she’s a battle-hardened veteran. She does rule over the Dream World, but she has to constantly fight back the Rift of Reverie from encroaching on the Dream World. She has to spend al ot of time making sure people don’t fall into it. Nightmares also wear her down due to how they trap others in them. She wants everyone to have sweet dreams, but the reality is that nightmares do play an important role in people’s processing. The Lunar Wing is less a guard against general nightmares and more a guard against constant exposure to the Rift. Lunar Wings are rarely given out as most people are only exposed to the Rift for a few nights. More than eight nights results in a Lunar Wing. Lunar Wings are the embodiment of Dream-type energy. With how Dream types work, it helps keep the recipient out of the Rift. They may still have nightmares in the Dream World, but it protects them against Echofiends and possession. She sticks mainly to Sinnoh but can create Lunar Wings to be distributed across different regions. Dream types rescue people and Pokémon from the Rift. If they rescue the same person eight nights in a row, they go to Cresselia and get a Lunar Wing for them. 

- Azelf. Willpower. Depsite being the one that gifted willpower, va is quite timid and doesn’t like to interact with humans too much. It doesn’t help Pokémon scared va until they were given the ability to think and be logical. Va remembers when non-legendaries were wild beasts. Va has been alive for billions of years, so the short amount of time Pokémon have been logical hasn’t overwritten billions of years of programming. Va is stubborn and set in var ways, so even var’s siblings have trouble convincing var to change. Palkia has tried to tell va how different things are now, but va can’t accept it. Not helping is the fact humans have betrayed legendaries numerous times. Sabios’ actions led to Arceus withdrawing from the world as well as the general withdrawal of the Sinnoh legendaries. The way Cyrus used va to create the Red Chain didn’t help either. Va doesn’t despise humans, but va also doesn’t like them. Va regrets giving humans the ability to think. Va thought var’s gift would be used wisely, but Va thinks that it was abused and misused. Va really just wants to be left alone for the most part. 

- Mesprit. Emotion. Perhaps predictably, Mesprit is the most emotional of the Guardian Trio. Va isn’t exactly unstable, but va can switch emotions quickly. Va simply tends to live life in the moment rather than dwelling in the apst or future. It is to the extreme, though, as only the present matters to va. Even two seconds ago doesn’t matter to va. It makes va seem scatterbrained and even flaky. Va still has memories of the past, but va doesn’t let past experiences rule var life like Azelf does. Mesprit marches to the beat of var own drum. In some respects, Mespirt is very childlike. Va is constantly happy, though it doesn’t take much to change var mood. Va does think of the future but doesn’t dwell on it. Va can keep appointments and such, so it’s not like va’s completely scatterbrained. Va simply doesn’t allow the past or future to weigh var down at all. Va can be very curious about the world and even slightly mischievous at times. Va loves a good prank and often uses var invisibility to do so. Even with what Cyrus did to the Guardian Trio, Mesprit continues to live in the moment and not be defined it. 

- Uxie. Knowledge. Uxie spends most of var time among humans in var human form. As expected from the embodiment of knowledge, va truly enjoys learning. Va spent a lot of time in the billions of years before humans cataloguing and chronicling the world. Va invented the first writing system to record the world and has billions of years of notes as things happened. Va never shared var notes with humans, though, so the writing systems developed by humans are completely divergent from Uxie’s. Uxie’s language has also developed over time, though va can read var notes from from any period. Va is the most versed in deal with humans as va spends a lot of time among and around them. Va finds humans interesting and is pleased with how they’ve used it…for the most part. Va likes that many humans are curious and want to discover things about the world and universe. Va is not happy they’ve used their knowledge to betray Arceus and other legendaries, but it’s not like va can rescind var gift without severe repercussions. The good must simply come with the bad.

Other Stuff

Dream type - not a traditional type in that it has type matchups; it’s a special secondary/tertiary typing that’s more metaphysical. It allows Pokémon with the typing to pass into the Rift of Reverie and to help protect humans and Pokémon from Echofiends and make sure they won’t be harmed by being in the Rift. Certain individuals of certain lines act as guardians of dreams and make sure nothing will happen to them. Individual family lines across regions also work with Dream-type Pokémon in a special role that’s culturally significant for every region though it differs across regions. Dream type is not mutually exclusive with any other type. Psychic is the most common typing to be Dream type, though, as their abilities were the most compatible with traversing the Dream World. 

Dream World - the real where all dreams happen and is Cresselia’s main domain. All people and Pokémon can appear in the Dream World and interact with each other randomly. The Dream world is not wholly present, though, as it’s also where most nightmares occur. The Rift of Reverie is triggered when someone experiences deeply negative emotions or traumatic events. Echofiends are the echoes of souls that never moved onto the afterlife and corrupted due to dwelling in their trauma and regrets too long. They feed off of negative emotions and need them to continue existing. No guardians of the afterlife were able to convince these souls to move on. After the Guardian Trio granted their gifts, souls were created. There was no afterlife infrastructure, so Arceus had to create it. Guardians had to be established to take care of souls, so Ghost types were put in chare of them. Ghosts are not inherently malicious; they just love some good fun because they have a solemn job. Most Ghost types don’t directly deal with souls now as individuals but fun and levity have been ingrained into culture of Ghost types over millennia. It was relegated to certain individuals i lines much like the Dream type. 

There are multiple Darkrai and Cresselia across the world, though they’re not in many places. Veshana and Rafesan of Oblivia take a unique role in the world first for the people of ancient Oblivia and now ALmia. They help people with trauma and help them expel negative emotions. The Dream World is a shared metaphysical realm where anyone can interact with anyone though it’s random. Veshana and Rafesan actually cut people off from the Dream World in order to prevent them from becoming vulnerable to Echofiends. They want to help people out as much as possible, but they can only do so much as they are only two individuals with limited consciousness. Modern therapy has decreased the need for their services, but lots of people still rely on them for dream help. They do have specific things they do that modern therapy can’t do especially on a metaphysical level. The Luminous Crystal holds all of the negative emotions that Veshana and Rafesan have collected over the years, but the Tears of Princes were removed allowing it to become the Dark Crystal. 

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u/Kiki-Y — 27 days ago

My practice paid off!

I was in the psych ward for a week and wasn't allowed any sort of device, not even my writing tablets. All I could have was a crappy composition notebook and a like 1/3 pencil.

I've been practicing neatness and consistency on my writing tablets and I'm soooooooo happy that it paid off. This is probably the neatest my handwriting has ever been in the whole time I've been writing.

Content is Pokemon worldbuilding.

u/Kiki-Y — 27 days ago

Sinnoh History Part 2

Part 1 can be found here. Please read that first!

767 AA: Things have largely settled across sinnoh due to Daray’s descendants continuing the gloved fist mentality. The eight areas do answer to the royal family but the lineages still maintain more influence than the royals. The gloved fist mentality has led to an increase in overall travel and safety which has opened up Sinnoh to the pilgrimage routes being traveled more often. The forced peace between the areas has allowed some enterprising lesser lineages to begin trading. This lets some lesser lineages begin to move up economically.

789 AA: The greater movement of people through the region has led to alarm among the most prominent lineages. They feel like the mixing is already causing issues for lineages overall. They want an official recognition system for lineages and records of everyone within their lineage. The royal family is more about keeping peace right now rather than unified policy making. They rightfully point out that this will lead to more central power as the royal family will need to have liaisons and recordkeepers across the region. The main lineages want the official system, so they begin putting one into place. 

803 AA: The Kinbound Concords are enacted, forcing everyone to register with their royal liaisons for recognition in their lineage. It also allows for lineage bearers to approve marriages. All members of lineages must be recognised by bearers, Many smaller lineages do not meet legal requirements, leaving them in a limbo place. They’re either forced to merge with larger lineages or have several smaller ones merge. This leads to all sorts of legal messes and squabbles between lineages.

812 AA: All of the squabbles lead to the Great Highland Wars. The Highland Marches and Acuity Lakelands are the least populated areas and have a much lower density than the other areas. They go to war with each other due to needing to merge and no lineage wanting to not legally exist any longer.

922 AA: The Highlands are subdued and treaties are forcibly signed. The royal family pushes lineages together for the sake of legalities due to needing peace. The royal family has also had to step in elsewhere due to smaller lineages being forced to merge and not agreeing who should marry and be allowed to rule and take over.

940 AA: It takes over a century for all of the lineage-related issues to be sorted out. However, in that time, the royal family’s influence expanded massively, causing the autonomy of the areas to wane. Lineages still maintain a large amount of influence, but no longer supercede the royal family. A period of stability then follows as Sinnoh is truly unified.

1035 AA: Sinnoh has largely been isolated from the larger world. However, a fleet of ships from Kanto, Johto, Galar, and Paldea land and want to start trading with Sinnoh.The royal family doesn’t doesn’t want to open up, but the threat of war from these regions forces their hand.

1075 AA: The trade brought to Sinnoh unprecedented peace and prosperity but deeply upset its traditional order. Foreigners that don’t understand the lineage system began trying to force a change by pushing their values on the Sinnaeoh as they also intermarry with them. Not helping the fact is a new merchant class has sprung up. These merchants intermarry with foreigners and are becoming wealthier than the old lineages who traditionally had the most control of wealth and resources. Lesser lineages have surpassed the older, wealthier ones due to being enterprising. Industrialisation is also happening despite the traditionalists and royal family standing against it.

1093 AA: An unknowing foreigner finds the sealed entrance to the Rift that Daray closed and opens it. The royal family immediately jumps into action to try to seal it. However, with all of Daray’s journals having been burned, nobody knows how to seal the portal. Darkrai comes and seals it himself and sets the task of banishing the Echofiends to a set of twins that are of the royal line. 

The commoners are outraged that the line known for protecting them failed to live up to their duty. Sinnaeoh who have spent time outside the region demand the royal family step aside and let the people rule. It’s mainly the powerful merchant class demanding it, though several prominent lineages back them.

The royal family wants to fight back and see the wider world is turning against monarchy. They agree to give up power as long as they can maintain a ceremonial rule. The monarchy is dismantled as a power, but the family is allowed to be maintained as citizens so long as they do not try to wrest power from the people.

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u/Kiki-Y — 1 month ago

Some Sinnoh history

Another post in my ongoing Pokemon worldbuilding series.

Please keep in mind that these are notes so things may not be in complete sentences.

AA means "After Arceus."

The Rift of Reverie is the topmost layer of the Distortion World where nightmares can happen if people touch it with their minds. Echofiends are non-Pokemon entities that live within the Rift and feed on negative emotions.

Also note that this does not take Legends Arceus into account. I've had some of the ideas bumping around since like 2016 and I decided to stick with those rather than attempt to wedge Legends Arceus into my canon.

  • Use idea of tribes - Daray unites Hisui into modern Sinnoh
  • Tribes are somewhat similar to Almian itopka but not identical - based off Pokémon tribe identifies with on a spiritual level - use term lineage instead of tribe or clan
  • There can be multiple lineages for the same Pokémon - rooted in geographical origins and pilgrimage routes
    • The Crown - Mount Coronet
    • Lakelands - Verity, Valor, Acuity - each has its own culture
    • Highland Marches - Snowpoint
    • Eastern Coast - Sunyshore
    • Mirelands - Pastoria/Great Marsh
    • Verdant Basin - Floaroma/Eterna
    • Pilgrimage route later
  • Dominant lineages later
  • The Crown: Celestic, Oreburgh, Hearthome
  • Verity Lakeland: Twinleaf, Sandgem, Jubilife, Canalave
  • Acuity Lakeland: additional towns/cities
  • Highland Marches: Snowpoint
  • Valor Lakeland: additional towns/cities
  • Eastern Coast: Veilstone, Sunyshore, League
  • Mirelands: Pastoria, Great Marsh
  • Verdant Basin: Floaroma, Eterna
  • Hisui essentially split into eight different regions that all had unique cultures and philosophies with dominant lineages - not necessarily royalty, but made many decisions for the areas - philosophies come from legendaries being interpreted differently and emphasised in different areas, ie Guardian Trio much more worshiped in Lakelands - all had their takes on things and led to ideological conflicts as well as over resources
  • Legendaries tried to quell fighting innumerable times but could not succeed - became frustrated with humanity and wanted fighting to end - once Arceus withdrew from world, all others in Sinnoh did aside from Darkrai and Cresselia who had to keep the Rift of Reverie and the Echofiends from invading the waking world
  • About 500 years before present, a lineage believed that the Rift of Reverie were messages from the absent legendary Pokémon - Echofiends could easily manipulate mortals desperate for guidance and made it seem like the legendaries were attempting to guide them
  • Opened the Rift and all hell broke loose due to Echofiends being allowed out - region descended into chaos due to Echofiends being set loose - Darkrai chose a champion from a lesser lineage that was a transman and sensitive to the Rift - he could banish the Echofiends easily due to strong psychic abilities
  • Region was in pure chaos due to the Echofiends being free and possessing people - Darkrai taught taught Daray how to use his powers and imbued him with far stronger ones - he spent the next ten or so years battling back the Echofiends even after the opening to the Rift was closed - all had to be returned to the Rift
  • Daray’s deeds were celebrated and all of the lineages wanted him to rule - he tried to refuse but they wouldn’t take no for an answer - forced him to take a husband and continue his line - near present day Eterna City - the castle has been preserved but Daray chose to burn a lot of his documents due to how people perceived him and didn’t want to besmirch that with his identity - chose to preserve the people’s love for their queen despite it causing him dysphoria
  • Era of Bleakness: rebuilding after the Rift crisis
  • Lake Concords: trade routes begin to establish, formal lineage recognition, pilgrimage routes protected
  • Great Highland Wars: territory disputes, ideological issues, lineage succession crises
  • Costal Opening: opening to trade
  • Dreaming Plague: issues with the Rift
  • Lineages fracturing: central governance expands, merchant class rises
  • The League Era: modern vs traditional, expansion of technology, intro to League vales vs traditional Sinnaeoh
  • Unova Revolution: 960 AA begins

1213: Galactic events

690 AA: Daray begins his crusade against the Echofiends

675 AA: Daray born

687 AA: A lesser lineage opens a large portal to the Rift of Reverie in an attempt to reach the legendaries they believe are attempting to reach them through dreams. However, all this does is unleash Echofiends into the larger world and allow humans to be possessed by Echofiends.

690 AA: A young transman from a lesser lineage from the Verity Lakeland finds himself in the presence of Darkrai. He’s told that he has a powerful ability to deal with and banish and Echofiends unlike anybody else in the region. Darkrai says he can further augment the youth’s abilities if they team up. Daray accepts and begins his crusade to close the opening to the Rift and banish the Echofiends.

694 AA: Daray manages to find the opening to the Rift and closes it with Darkrai’s help. However, the work isn’t done as many Echofiends remain at large in the world. He has built bridges across Hisui due to traveling so much and banishing Echofiends.

712 AA: Daray has traveled across the whole of Hisui and gained a reputation across the lineages of being a strong, capable leader and warrior. All of the foremost lineages in their areas beg him to rule. He tries to say no, but the amount of pressure makes him capitulate. He’s forced to take a husband and bear children despite his gender identity. Construction on a palace near modern-day Eterna begins.

725 AA: Emissaries from the Mirelands arrive, asking for help with resources. The regions is now unified but the peace is fragile due to the beliefs between the lineages being so different. Daray tries to send resources from the Verdant Basin as the Mirelands were hit the hardest during the crisis and a drought is only making things worse for them. The inhabitants of the Basin don’t want to help. Daray sends out a fighting force to make sure those in the Mirelands will get their support. Ideological differences keep spats like this keep happening over the next several decades. This keeps happening despite Daray’s leadership. He’s forced to rule with a gloved fist. He must use force to enforce many decisions, but he tries diplomacy before force. He doesn’t like it, but he understands the unification is fragile and mus have strength behind it.

737 AA: Darkrai warns Daray that his time on the planet is drawing to a close in a few years. He’s kept journals of his life but decides to burn them all because he doesn’t want anybody to know about his gender identity. Unbeknownst to him, one of the journals got hidden by a servant in a niche of a wall.

740 AA: Daray dies.

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u/Kiki-Y — 1 month ago

Pokemon worldbuilding on Nomad

Been having some fun by doing Pokemon-based worldbuilding with my Nomad 😁

If anyone wants context, I'm currently working on Sinnoh and its history.

u/Kiki-Y — 1 month ago

InkHub upload page glitch?

Hey, I was trying to write some descriptions for some templates I uploaded to InkHub, but the page tends to just freeze when I do that. If I don't attempt to write a description, the page works fine. Any ideas? It happens on both my Manta and Nomad.

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u/Kiki-Y — 1 month ago