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EmperorofPaldea's art thread

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Paxton Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
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Hi everyone! Welcome to EmperorofPaldea's art thread! I'm not really sure how to begin this, so let's just jump in.

I've been working on some art for the Poly Paxton AU for Legends: Z-A, and I have official art of Paxton (as of his biography) ready for all of you to view! This is Paxton's Champion outfit, which he wears when he's performing his official duties as Champion of Kalos. The outfit is mainly based on Zygarde's Complete Forme, but I added a heart motif to symbolise Paxton's love, compassion and generosity.

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Taunie Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
Official artwork of Taunie Tranmetsewlive, head chef of Restauraunt Tastopolis!

For this one I gave her a modified version of the outfit worn by the Chef Trainer class in Pokémon X and Y, with Zygrade green accents added to signify her status as head chef. The hat was taken from the arcade game Pokémon Ga-Olé, modified with a green stripe.

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Naveen Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
Official artwork of Naveen Tranmetsewlive, the Tranmetsewlive family's visual artist!

His outfit is mainly based on the classic artist garb, but with Zygarde green as the primary colour. I initially considered keeping the original orange of his hair accessories for the non-green stripes, but decided for a complementary blue-purple instead.

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Lida Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
Rounding off the Tranmetsewlive parents, here we have Lida Tranmetsewlive, head teacher of Zillions of Moves Dance School!

I changed her haircut to a ponytail because I thought it would add a sense of organised, dynamic flow to her design, and I went with a two-piece instruction suit with bottoms incorporating the Zygarde green colour motif. I also gave her a tattoo to do something with all the empty space her skin provides. It's meant to be a stylised representation of the Eternal Flower, the ends of the red stalks having a P, N and T for Paxton, Naveen and Taunie respectively.

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Seine Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
The eldest child of the Tranmetsewlive family, Seine Tranmetsewlive is the Champion of the North Lumiose League Club and my first original Pokémon character design!

I gave them blonde hair and red eyes as a visual indicator they are not a biological child of the Tranmetsewlive parents - not that they don't love them any less for it. I also wanted to find a way to incorporate the shape of the Seine River in Paris - which Seine Tranmetsewlive is named for - into their design, and so I shaped their haircut after the Seine's course. And their shirt has a Master Ball motif applied to it.

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Loire Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
The co-head of Controllers Gals, Loire Tranmetsewlive, graces your screen for the first time!

Like with her sibling I incorporated the shape of the Loire River, which Loire is named after, into her haircut. Since Loire is a gamer I decided to make her design a giant Game Boy homage. Her shirt is based on the original Game Boy, the colours of her striped pants recall the original five colours of the Game Boy Color, and her shoes are based on the Game Boy Advance.


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Naissa Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
The Tranmetsewlives' resident racer, Naissa Tranmetsewlive is here!

I wanted to give the triplets each a feature from all four of their parents - in Naissa's case: Lida's skin tone, Naveen's eyes and nose, Paxton's hair and Taunie's hair accents.

I threw in a few references to speed-based things in her design - her haircut is based on Sonic the Hedgehog's quills and her shoes are based on Sonic's Power Sneakers. Also, her Rhyhorn racing outfit is based on Ash Ketchum's Rhyhorn racing outfit from the seventh episode of the X and Y anime, modified to include the Zygarde green colour motif and the MZ logo.

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Vie Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
Say hello to the Tranmetsewlives' gardener and putting star, Vie Tranmetsewlive!

Vie inherited Paxton's skin tone, Lida and Taunie's eyes (she has heterochromia) and Naveen's hair colour. I gave her two pigtails shaped like leaves, and I decorated her head with a Gracidea flower. Her love of the outdoors is symbolised using the pattern on her shirt, showing fresh green grass and a rainbow.

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Mort Tranmetsewlive - Official artwork
Finishing up the Tranmetsewlive family, we have the detective of the house, Mort Tranmetsewlive!

Mort inherited Naveen's skin, Paxton's eyes and his mothers' hair. Since Mort loves detective stuff and adores Emma I decided to give him a replica of Emma's detetctive outfit, modified withn the Zygarde green motif and MZ logo. He got it initially as a birthday present for his fifth birthday, and has been given new ones by his Papa as he grows.

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Cardinal Ornithur - Official artwork
Moving on, we have the first non-Tranmetsewlive character of the Poly Paxton universe - Canari's daughter and co-head of Controller Gals, Cardinal Ornithur!

I decided to go for something a little simpler with Cardinal's design. Because she is named after the cardinal bird, I gave her a bright red hoodie to reference the male cardinal bird's bright red plumage. And to contrast with Loire's use of Nintendo imagery I added the four PlayStation symbols onto the hoodie. In-universe these are from the GamePort, the Pokémon world's equivalent of the PlayStation. Why are the symbols the same, I hear you ask? Plot convenience, that's why.

Her brown hair and freckles are inherited from her biological father.

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Z-A Trainer Mega Stones
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So I recently read this fanfiction over on Archive of Our Own where Paxton, Taunie, Naveen and Lida discovered four new Mega Stones that allowed them to Mega Evolve themselves, and that inspired me to create Mega Stones for most of the Legends: Z-A cast.

Basically everyone except AZ and L, because Mega Evolving them after the incident with the Ultimate Weapon sounds like a recipe for disaster.
 
Nelly Sewham - Official artwork New
It's been a while since I did a new Poly Paxton character design, so here's the next one. Here we see Nelly Sewham, Naveen's younger sister!

Since Nelly is a schoolteacher I gave her a simple dress that a teacher would normally wear. Now when I think of a school in the Pokémon world, Naranja and Uva Academies from Paldea are the first institutions that come to mind, so I referenced them by giving her dress a gradient of the orange of Naranja and the purple of Uva.

I also wanted to try some new things with my character designs, so I gave her some features I haven't used before in character design - the glasses, curly hair and lipstick, to name three example.

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