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I got the idea of this thread when trying to figure out ways to describe a Gastly. In my fics, I imagine the Pokémon to look at least semi-realistic, though try to shoot for as realistic as I can, given the humans they live alongside in my fic have normal proportions and look like they do in real life (with the exception of some wacky anime hair colors).
How far from the official cartoonish designs they are can vary a lot from mon to mon - a Pidgey is easy to imagine as a little bird given its design isn't very outlandish, but with something like Diggersby I'd need to figure out how those weird muscular ear-claws work (hopefully without sounding too uncanny or creepy). Then there are the Pokémon who don't even really look like they could translate to the real world. A lot of these are ghost mon like the aforementioned Gastly or its evolutions, but there are also mon like Clefairy, Jigglypuff and Floette who you can't exactly find a real-world animal counterpart for.
But to get to my actual questions: what level of realism do you imagine your Pokémon as? What do they look like when you picture scenes in your head? Do they look just like the 3D models, do they have more texture to them (detailed fur/feathers/scales/metal), are their proportions changed to be more close to reality? And how much of this do you actually write in?
Feel free to also share any creative interpretations you've come up with for those more vaguely shaped mon I mentioned beforeand help me figure out what my Gastly should look like.
How far from the official cartoonish designs they are can vary a lot from mon to mon - a Pidgey is easy to imagine as a little bird given its design isn't very outlandish, but with something like Diggersby I'd need to figure out how those weird muscular ear-claws work (hopefully without sounding too uncanny or creepy). Then there are the Pokémon who don't even really look like they could translate to the real world. A lot of these are ghost mon like the aforementioned Gastly or its evolutions, but there are also mon like Clefairy, Jigglypuff and Floette who you can't exactly find a real-world animal counterpart for.
But to get to my actual questions: what level of realism do you imagine your Pokémon as? What do they look like when you picture scenes in your head? Do they look just like the 3D models, do they have more texture to them (detailed fur/feathers/scales/metal), are their proportions changed to be more close to reality? And how much of this do you actually write in?
Feel free to also share any creative interpretations you've come up with for those more vaguely shaped mon I mentioned before