Isa and Val!!! Revealing my blorbos to the world!!!
They're essentially my takes on May and Brendan + whatever story I made based on my recent AS and Emerald playthrough. Their names are based on their ingame names I gave haha.
They're both rangers in training and are basically besties. Isa is more rambunctious and ambitious (attention seeking sometimes) and Val is the more lowkey (massive nerd) and quiet (he looks at u with his big ol eyes)
There's an entire story I've got in mind for both of them following the Emerald game, which will be for another day :)
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I keep spinning in my brain the headcanon idea of younger Maxie not at all being like how he is in present time. I like to think him as a guy that leaves no room for himself and is tied to his principles and work ethics and ideals but he wasn’t always that stiff of a person
I have more than these that are closer to game info but unfortunately they are spoilers for my emerald comic. I want to ramble about them regardless so have like loose thoughts and stuff that’ll never get explored properly in said story lol. Some are hardenshipping and (very little tbh) team related stuff as well :)
Archie grew up somewhere near slateport, and spent a lot of time at sea with his adoptive father, Mr. Briney
Archie, Shelly, and Matt are basically siblings, they met as children and lived alongside/near each other up until they did their respective studies.
Maxie grew up and lived in Fallarbor town, his mother is a businesswoman that visits every month, while his father is a local street chef. He learnt how to cook some really good recipes but his cooking skills are limited to those dishes.
He was at one point Courtney's brother figure, he kind of still is but both are a little too caught up on work to properly hang out like they did.
Tabitha is the most emotionally intelligent of the magmas, he’s the HR guy with a psychology degree.
as much as he doesnt want to show or admit to it, Maxie has a mischievous streak. He's capable of making logically and morally questionable decisions (as seen in games). Most of the time he's prepared with an elaborate excuse, though.
Archie's cheerfulness is genuine, but he's got a lot of spite and real cold bitterness in that heart and if he feels like its necessary, he will let you know.
Archie has little spice tolerance, Maxie found out about this when he cooked for him at some point in the past
Archie and Maxie share an interest and taste in jazz, especially instrumental ones. Archie learned to piano at some point in his school life, and Maxie is decent at the violin
They met pre-college. That three-four month break before attending college was absolutely bonkers for them and you can say they had a pokemon adventure of their own
that point is when they grew their teams, became pretty damn good trainers, and became good friends.
They got together a few years into college
due to some unprecedented events a good 4-5 years into work (like age range wise about 27-28ish) and differing opinions on how to move forward from said events, they broke up. For the better, allegedly.
Maxie's love for ground types, similarly to Archie stems from loving his hometown and the place he grew up in. Yeah its dry and hot and somewhat unfriendly but it's familiar. Also Numels are just cute.
Archie can drive a boat, he's got a good intuition and can basically predict weather, mostly based on observations of how the wild pokemon are acting. He also has a pretty good grasp on memorizing places and usually can tell where they are in the ocean.
Archie has little to no memory of his biological family, but he eventually understands tgat he's most likely from pacifidlog, and that it doesn't really matter because he's got a perfectly good dad right there.
Archie and Maxie had to deal with long distance at some point, back when they didn't have advanced Pokenavs with good signal tech. Because they think it's kinda fun and sweet, Archie and Maxie communicated through letters. Peeko delivered them.
Maxie dresses masc in a way that he kind of only has two modes: Asian father and Business work man. He can have a sense of fashion but he barely explored that front and at present time prefers to be more practical.
Archie on the other hand is more creative and explores several styles. He sticks to blue most of the time, though.
Inevitable old women yuri bc I love women
I have designs for the ORAS versions but I'm drawing like very many different things rn so that's gonna have to wait oungh
anyways, some bonuses under the cut, mostly panel redraws
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Happy 8th anniversary to that Pokémon tcg Twitter post :)
More trainer AU!! Maxie tripped on a big tree root in Petalburg woods lol
Ghost
It’s 11pm ummm yippee?
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I stole this meme and edited this from somewhere because I’m gonna be fr most of my fun interesting plot relevant hcs of the silly old guys from Pokémon comes from my comic’s universe (Zephyr Comet) which only has like 13 pages out and if I say anything it’ll be spoilers for literally everything dies explodes
OH MY GOD
Team magma exclusive post
I have a lot of headcanons for them that I will someday explain maybe :]
ATTENTION MAGMA/AQUA BRAINROT NATION: what ages do you see archie and maxie as? asking because I'm trying to figure out some headcanons myself and familiarize myself with their respective lore. I'd like to hear what people who've been brainrotting longer than I've ever have think :)
doing a ground/psychic nuzlocke with level caps in AS has gotta be one of my most nerve wracking Gaming experience i’ve ever had like EVERYTHING will kill you. The moment I see a grass type I quake in my boots. Fighting team aqua has been felt like actually fighting criminals. Yeah I brought this upon myself, yeah it’s fun, you should try it too!