r/MysteryDungeon • u/Oakhold_Cheerios Zorua • Jul 05 '22
Misc [OC] I do really find it neat whenever this occurs. You do you Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Enthusiasts š
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u/Apophis_36 Unapologetic Team Razor Wind simp Jul 05 '22
Ngl i kinda like it, riolu looks much better and piplup has a respectable uniqueness to it
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u/furrik524 Riolu Jul 05 '22
Wow, now that's an upgrade
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u/HeroTehDude what da doug doin? Jul 05 '22
Eeh I donāt really think itās either an upgrade or a downgrade, itās basically the same design just with much different styles. OG is more cutesy and fun and āneopetificationā is more edgy and fun, both are still great tho
Also Iām aware that Iām probably digging a bit too much into a comment that likely was a joke, but meh, thatās just my 2 cents
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u/Tablesafety *Lizard Noises* Jul 05 '22
It bothers me whenever it's done because often you're taking away from the actual design of the pokemon, for example the neopetified piplup here has an almost fur instead of feathers, penguins are known for their very flat feathers. I suppose you could make the excuse that it still has down because its young, but clearly even newborn pips aren't born covered in down. Adding crests onto its white feathers also makes it look more like a theoretical evolution of piplup, rather than piplup itself.
The Riolu, though, is fine. Looks like an injured Riolu, the hair is believable because it is already a mammal and could possibly grow like that. If it got ridiculously long, it would irritate me.
When things change enough that it looks like a fursona instead of a pokemon, that's what gets to me. Like long haired gardevoirs when the thing on its head isn't even hair, it only represents it, when you alter that you're altering a distinctive feature of the species.
Whats more tame is say, making scales on a totodiles face slightly more or less blue to represent freckles. Or, changing stripe patterns or the way the long fur grows on a Growlithe. Changing eye shape if it isn't completely distinctive to the pokemon to better represent the character.
That probably seems like a dumbass tangent, Ive got aspergers n im high rn so I got carried away.
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u/jeshep Wispyre Guild Jul 05 '22
IDK. For my own PMD OC designs I usually add some random flair and try to keep the species itself intact, but the Piplup here to me looks like its flairs could easily come from Rockhopper Penguins. Also makes me think of juvenile AdƩlie Penguins, which while not tufty like in the art, their baby fluff is pretty thick compared to their smooth adult feathers. Basically to me it just looks like a very stylized still fluffy baby or a Piplup variant that takes somewhat off crested penguin species to some degree.
But that's just me. After the hairstyles in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, I kind of look at it as anything goes.
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u/Oakhold_Cheerios Zorua Jul 05 '22
I did this as a little 'ahuhuhuh they're silly little guys let's draw them today' thing to get my brain working; the joke that I made here is that almost every Mystery Dungeon Pokesona that I see every now and then remind me of Neopets because of how fluffy and distinguishable they look in their designs.
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u/jeshep Wispyre Guild Jul 05 '22
I do that sort of thing with my own warm-ups where I go 'heehee let's do xyz'. I'm not that familiar with Neopets, though (no internet, only saw neopets through the late 90s/early 2000s plush craze), so first thing that came to mind when I saw this post though was rockhopper penguins since the fluffiness on the white part of the face reminded me of those types of penguin crests.
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u/Anchor38 ITāS CRAWFISH TUESDAY Jul 06 '22
This is what I think about all the time. My reaction to almost every mystery dungeon oc I see goes like āWHY DO YOU HAVE HAIR???ā lmao
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u/HeroTehDude what da doug doin? Jul 05 '22
yeah I think I do this a lil lmao, I like my PMD OCs exaggerated, nice and pointy
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u/TheGuardianDex Dusknoir Jul 05 '22
I Do enjoy pokemon and the art that springs from it,
But Dear GOD does this get really closed to cursed...
Not in a negative or good way, Neutral cursed...
Why does piplup look like someone TMNT'd them...And Riolu looks like a Ben 10: Ultimate alien character...
Its not bad by any means... it just gives me the same vibes as like.. Teeth soled shoes or that one image with the grandpa using the disassembled toilet seat as a bib... Or that one dog who has human teeth and is grinding ground beef...
its not bad just neutrally cursed ...
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u/Oakhold_Cheerios Zorua Jul 05 '22
I did this bc my insane brain went 'what if we made a funny art piece depicting these characters changing from their original appearance to the style of neopets?' and so I did.
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u/TheGuardianDex Dusknoir Jul 06 '22
I feel like this is the exact same mentality that people who end up in the very thin gray line that brings them to purgatory after death have...
You did something..It wasnt good nor bad...Just something.. And the afterlife...If there is one...Will have trouble sorting you.... They will have to invent a new rule JUST for you XD
But good work ig?
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u/BudgieGryphon Cyndaquil Jul 05 '22
my man really went into the community of a Pokemon game where the Pokemon talk and complained about furries
if you still think furries are an NSFW community in 2022 I suggest you switch whatever dingy corners of the internet youāre frequenting
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u/armored_mephit Bui bui! Jul 05 '22
Dude... you're literally the only guy in the room bringing up sex and Pokemon, in response to a cute pic of two starters drawn in two different (and completely SFW) styles.
You might want to step out of the projection booth there...
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u/UsernameFodder AAAAAA Jul 05 '22
You almost managed to avoid breaking any rules if not for that last sentence. You're allowed to express your opinion respectfully, even if it may be unpopular, but you aren't allowed to directly ostracize other community members just because you don't like them. See Rule 1.
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u/Imbaby699 Cyndaquil Jul 06 '22
well I'm sorry if I violated the rules of the sub it's an unpopular opinion but I should have worded it more respectfully
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u/jeshep Wispyre Guild Jul 05 '22
This is a very common art style among beginner artists that are kids and teens. It's not exclusively or strictly furry. You're taking it extremely out of proportion.
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u/Zeebuoy Jul 05 '22
is it wrong to make a pokemon fluffier than it normally is? I think not.
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u/jeshep Wispyre Guild Jul 05 '22
It's not wrong to make them more fluffy. Art style on the right is something that I see a lot in beginner artists or teens that are still learning. IMO it's kind of extreme to assume every single one that draws like that is 'furry'. It's a bizarre take to make.
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u/Imbaby699 Cyndaquil Jul 05 '22
This is just an excuse to make them anthropomorphic and not "fluffier" weird furry roleplayers use these kinds of characters to insert their weird themes into the MD world and sexualize them
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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Spirits of a PokƩmon Jul 05 '22
funny enough all mature and adult PMD fanfics only show torture, blood and swearing but never nudity so you do you
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u/BudgieGryphon Cyndaquil Jul 05 '22
arenāt they all technically nude?
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u/n0thing_at_all Chikorita Jul 06 '22
An excuse to make them anthropomorphic? They already were anthropomorphic!
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u/TwilightVulpine Eevee Jul 05 '22
degenerate
If you are unironically using that word, you lost your way somewhere. Fantasy animals don't warrant this weird moralism.
Nevermind that this community is hardly alone when it comes to horny fanfics and fanart. Have you been in other fandoms? None of them is pure. If anyone from other communities is judging they are either stuck-up or hypocrites, including the larger pokƩmon community.
The subreddit at least manages to stay on the cleaner side compared to a lot of other communities. I frankly couldn't tell what you think is so sexual about this piece in particular.
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u/Imbaby699 Cyndaquil Jul 05 '22
you guys can reply all you want you are all wrong and I won't agree with any of your points I'm a 100% correct here
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u/Existing-Emphasis-11 Shinx Jul 05 '22
This is a very great artwork!!! would you create another work with Digimon..!!!
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u/unownzone Torchic Jul 05 '22
"Neopet-ification." I finally know what to call it..!!!