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DxP REWRITE - Ingo Joins the Party

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small correction!

So, a commenter on my Instagram candidly (yet kindly!) pointed out that I recently made a bit of a blunder - I mistakenly put little Rain down as an emotional support PKMN (ESP) in my PKMN Black post about Ansy’s first Unovan adventure, when she’s actually more of service PKMN.

It’d been a looong time since I‘d looked into getting a one myself (never did, couldn’t afford one 😅), & going from my memory, I thought service animals trained specifically for more emotional / mental health ailments & disabilities were still considered “emotional support”, when in truth, emotional support animals, while they can be medically prescribed, don’t receive special training - like, your every day pet can be one (see chart below)

I’m very sorry to anyone who has a service animal or ESA - absolutely did not mean to spread misinfo about it. Hope this makes it right. 🥲 I’ve seen service animals in red as well as blue vests (as well as ESA’s in blue as well as red) so I’m a bit confused which is the right one. I’m just going say, “in the Pokemon world, they wear blue.”

PS: Rain doesn’t wear a vest anymore as a Vaporeon, & is considered a retired service PKMN.

PPS: someone actually told me the vest color doesn’t matter & can even be custom. The more you know! 🌈🌟

DxP Ask - Mizumi & Time Travel

NOTE: this has minor spoilers about one of the main characters of DxP REWRITE if you haven’t read up to the most recent comic - if you’re caught up (or don’t care lol), go on ahead!

bca_private from Instagram asked:

Something I’ve been wondering about Mizumi: I understand that she’s Ansy’s ancestor, but she was also from the future and brought to Hisui by Arceus, right? From when is she? Was she born in the same era as Ansy (making it a paradox), or was she from an earlier time regardless?

Mizumi was a modern girl from Sinnoh - just a normal 15-year-old girl who went to a certain school in Jubilife City until a fateful trip up Mt. Coronet, where she got isekai’ed to Hisui about 150 years in the past. Legends Arceus happens, & eventually she restarts her family line to become Ansy’s great-great-grandmother.

She was born when Ansy was about 19 & living in Unova (while the rest of her family lived either in Kanto, Unova, & Alola). Meanwhile, Ansy’s paternal side of the family is living in Kalos around the time of Legends Arceus (already planning for Legends ZA lol) before they immigrated to Unova. All to say that no one in Ansy’s family apart from Mizumi & her family live/lived in Sinnoh.

So yeah - not a grandfather paradox (none of that), but still paradoxical as Ansy was technically born before her ancestor was.

However, two rules of time travel that exist in at least Ansy’s tiny corner of the Pokéverse are this: self-repairing timeline & multiverse theory. I imagine one of Dialga’s roles as the deity of time is sorting through time paradoxes: seeing which ones are “canon” with Arceus, correcting the flow of time to accommodate it, & for the ones that aren’t, create another spacetime together with Palkia for it (like we saw in Scarlet x Violet, & a few of the games themselves)

As I’d recently added to Ansy’s profile page, apart from me just wanting to play as Ansy’s maternal ancestor, it actually does seem to be the canon that isekai’ed Rei / Akari IS Lucas / Dawn’s ancestor. My biggest evidence for this is if you have a completed save in Legends Arceus (aka you befriended Arceus), & then start a save in BDSP, you’ll find the Azure Flute in your room at the very beginning of the game, like it’s a family heirloom that’s made it’s way down to you.

In the SxV Epilogue leading into DxP REWRITE, Mizumi passed the Azure Flute down to Ansy in a slightly different way lol, but same principle.

One last little note to wrap this all up: as of the events of Paldea (the first time either of them really encountered space-time travel), Ansy & Ikrit have shared notes about the rules that exist for them. Ikrit, being a student of Professor Cozmo & astrophysics, goes more in depth while Ansy can follow well enough when numbers aren’t involved lol.

So far their notes include: AU’s (multiverse theory), self-repairing timelines, converging timelines (& memory correction), & what I’m just gonna call “uninterrupted time” because I can’t find an official name of this theory / principle anywhere lol (time moves in either points of the timeline at the same pace since the time traveler left the present - Mizumi spent 2 years in Hisui, 2 years have gone by in the present, same for Ingo’s 7 years).

That’s it for me geeking out about time travel for now. Later! 🌧️

DxP REWRITE - Boundaries

Hmmm, that journal looks familiar…

Speaking of books, Sasmu reads a lot of them, & on multiple subjects (much like her great-great-grandson, Ikrit, does). In our world, such things of psychology weren’t discovered yet, but as the Pokémon world has proven to be ahead of our time in many ways, I don’t think it that far a stretch to say there are books on memories, dissociation, & boundaries in old Sinnoh. 📖 

Again, memory recovery is often a process, one that can be very taxing. It’s important to take breaks when one can, & take time to process (like Ingo with his journal). 

PS: I noticed I recently reached 400 follows here! Thanks so much! I really didn’t expect this many of you to be following me & this comic along, but I’m very grateful ^_^

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NPC Ansy

Drawing BW2 Ansy in that last comic with a raincoat like standard Parasol Ladies made me do it lol. Definitely nostalgic, looking up BW2 battle screenshots for this. ^_^

Parasol Lady is a trainer class who specializes in weather teams, but usually rain. There are certain moves, abilities, & types that have an advantage depending on the weather, like Weather Ball (a normally Normal move that gets a power boost & type change depending on if it’s raining, sunny, or snowing / hailing). Castform is generally their signature Pokemon, along with any with abilities like Swift Swim, Rain Dish, Hydration, or Drizzle. 🌧️💧

You probably would encounter her later on in the game (whenever Altaria evolves, around 35), but beat her fairly easily lol. Her default dialogue would be about the weather, her dear Pokémon, or maybe cloud cookies. ☁️ 

PS: I didn’t know you can catch Castform in BDSP (very rare Trophy Garden encounter), & I can’t not have Sora on the team if she’s available sooooo I did some rearranging on Ansy’s DxP team lol. I’m honestly planning on just redoing these profiles eventually (maybe after Chapter 1), but yeah, just so you guys know lol, Ansy has her raindrop baby. 🥲🩵