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Here's my Riolu entry!:
It was a snowy day out in the open plains of the freezelands. The little Riolu was traveling with her mother and trainer. She enjoyed spending days with the man and her mother although she misses her father fiercely. Granted she seemed to see him quite a bit ever since she hatched. He just kept ‘bumping into them’ he claimed. Well she didn’t care as long as she got to see him. Her mother had said it was her decision to stay with her and the man or go with her father. However it felt too soon to leave mother, too soon to go on an adventure.

The man had recently declared this spot their camp saying something about a storm on its way. She was to keep close to her mother while a tent was set up. The wind wailed making it sound like ghosts or something were out there. She cuddled up to her mother shivering. Her mother didn’t seem to notice as most of her focus was on the human. In order to distract herself she thought about a couple days ago when her father appeared for a short visit. Maybe he was still nearby and would just ‘bump into them’ again.

As she daydreamed of this a shadowy figure appeared on the horizon. The snow and wind made it hard to see any details but the shape of it looked just like her father! She stood up with a small ‘Rio!’ yip drawing attention to the shadow. Her mother looked at it suspiciously at first but seeing that it was a Mightyena shape lightly wagged her tail. It must be her father! She ran forward to go greet him.

As she drew closer she saw it was in fact bigger than her father. Her steps faltered and then she was shoved off to the side. Her mother sensed the danger as the shadow drew closer and soon realized it was not Stormcaller. She knocked her daughter out of harm’s way just as the strange shadow attacked with a Fire Fang attack. The little Riolu watched in horror as her mother began to fight a strange Mightyena. She stood frozen solid and a couple of times had to scamper out of the way least she be trampled by the battling pokemon.

Her mother managed to get the stranger to move away from her and the human when the little Riolu heard a noise. She turned to see her father standing near her and gesturing for her to follow him. She wasn’t sure what to do since she thought he should go help her mother. It then dawned on her that he must want to get her to safety before going to help Cloudrunner. After all the direction he was gesturing to, was towards the human. She began to follow him not once noticing how he didn’t speak to her. She also didn’t notice that they weren’t quite heading towards Cael was. In fact she couldn’t even see Cael, only a shadow of a human. If she had bothered to look around she would have seen Cael behind them by now finally noticing that she was wandering off. She paused when she heard him cry out and looked to see him trying to run after her. She tilted her head and was about to look back to see who was now behind her when the land before burst into flames! Suddenly a large Houndoom appeared and shot more flames to block the path.

She backed up with a small cry but hit something soft. She turned to see her father suddenly change into a strange pokemon. She yelped in surprise and jumped back from the pokemon who was not her father. Before she could do anything else she saw the human shadow draw closer. “Good job. With this its mission accomplished.” The human said. Something hit her hard on the head and the last thing she saw before she fainted was a black shirt with a bright red symbol on it.

Here's my Mightyena entry!:
Grandstander was an ex-contest pokemon. He'd been retired into companionship by the time he was traded into the Researcher's hands. Though he was proud of the ribbons he won, and carried himself high. He missed the limelight of the stage. In fact, he often choreographed mock-contests with the other pokemon around, wild and non, competing for prizes of berries or at times carved wood.

His first meeting with the Lucario, oh she was a sight. He was smitten with her and her feisty nature from the get-go. He didn't have a long time to get to know her, as it was just a breeding arrangement after all. He lead her to all his secret places in the facility, showing the Lucario his world. Grandstander did his best to make a good impression on the lovely canine. If there was one thing he enjoyed doing, it was making a show of things. He had his own unique brand of flair and enjoyed chances he received to flaunt it.

It would seem he and the lovely miss grew to wish they could become mates, rather than have just a pass. The Mightyena had a difficult time watching the Lucario leave along with her trainer and has been hoping since then to explore and find those little pups of his family. He also wishes to get back into working the contest scene, making a comeback to knock the competitors off the stage.

Uncommon Pokémon

Username: Riffler
Pokemon Wanted: Deerling
Growing?: [Y]
Pokemon Coloration: [Normal w/Color Variation Rec]
Description/Colors: Summer Deerling, scarlet as the variant color
References: Firework sort of design on the flower, dark green shades with bright yellow 'burst'
For the rest of the deerling's body, Perhaps you could take some inspiration from the Noise in The World Ends With You?
Perhaps using green as the shading tones for the cream of the deerling and having the yellow and scarlet fade into each other on the sharp designs that the noise have?
Have you tried to get this pokemon a previous Custom Opening, but didn't win? (link to it): N
Do you not have any pokemon yet?: Y

Here's my Mightyena entry!:

It was just business as usual with this pairing. No love between the two pokemon. Just a few nights spent together to ease the loneliness in the snowy wastes. Then they would be parted never to see each other again. Nightwalker knew this when it was decided upon. She knew and agreed. There was no way she would fall in love with this stranger. Sure she may miss the company of her temporary companion; after all he was better company than the others at the compound. But she could never love a Lucario who was so different than herself.

She was wild and well almost free. She loved the cold and the snow and the solitude. He was disciplined and clearly tamed. He hated the cold and snow and preferred to be around others as much as possible. They were an unlikely pair, even just for random breeding. Yet despite being polar opposites they worked well together and enjoyed spending time with each other.

So when it was finally time for the Lucario to leave it was a sad day for Nightwalker. She watched as the trader left with the Lucario and when they were out of sight let out a howl of misery. That misery didn’t last long as she had an egg to take care of. She cared for it glad to have a small piece of the Lucario. When the egg hatched her happiness showed but as her baby grew up the happiness began to fade. She was no longer so wild and free. She began to get snappy at the others and began to spend less and less time with the researcher or the other pokemon.

The man noticed the signs and tried to find another breeding partner for her. However she chased off any male that tried to spend time with her. She only wanted that Lucario that she couldn’t love and couldn’t have: the Lucario that she told herself that she couldn’t love because he was so different from her. Back then she had been foolish to think such a thing. Now she knew better. She did love him precisely because he was so different from her. The man figured out why she was so sad, snappy, and chased off every other male. He patted her on the head to let her know he understood and then released her. “Go on now. Go see if you can find him.” Was all he said while turning away to head back inside.

Nightwalker stared at the man surprised. He was letting her go? Surely the cranky old researcher wasn’t doing that. She stood torn between two desires: one to stay with the cranky old man and the other to go find her love. She turned from the facility and walked away after some time. She had spent her life up until now with the old man. Now it was time for her to spend her life on herself, which meant finding her Lucario and staying with him. Perhaps she could even convince him that coming back here was a good idea. With that thought in her head she set off.


Here's my Growlithe entry!:

Oh yes Zira was not happy with her children. Taka had left them with her for the moment and the two just didn’t please her. The lighter Growlithe wasn’t sure why. It tried so hard to please its mother but everything it did just seemed to make things worse. After a particular day of playing Zira was ranting about the children. She sent the lighter colored one off to find something to do to prove its worth to her. “Do not come back until you can prove that you are not weak Nuka.” She hissed.

Nuka slinked off with ears and tail down. What could it do to prove that it wasn’t weak and was worthy of praise from Zira? It wasn’t sure and it continued to wander further and further away. As it wandered away it spotted a strange pokemon. Was that a.... a Pidgey? As it came closer it saw it was indeed a Pidgey! If it could take it down in a fight or even bring it home surely that would prove it wasn’t weak! It snuck closer and wigged its butt in the air. When it deemed the moment right it leaped at the Pidgey.

The Pidgey wasn’t expecting a Growlithe to come leaping at it however it wasn’t some weak little bird. It began pecking the dog all the while squawking. Nuka yelped in pain and tried to fight the bird. When it tried to bite the Pidgey the bird flew up. The Growlithe couldn’t even work up a decent bark for a Roar. It wasn’t even capable of using Ember to attack. The Pidgey continued to peck at the dog and soon Nuka was whining and running away. The Pidgey stayed with Nuka and it wasn’t until Zira came stalking out of the grass that the bird flew away.

Nuka cowered on the ground fearing the wrath of its mother. Nothing came but a searing glare. Zira stalked off leaving the wounded pup alone. Nuka tried to follow but every time Zira shot a glare at Nuka making it clear that Nuka wasn’t to come home yet. Laying down Nuka wasn’t sure what to do. Clearly Zira wasn’t allowing Nuka home but there was nothing that Nuka could do to earn her favor. Plus the little Growlithe was getting hungry and there were no berries around.

Nuka began to whimper and cry unsure what to do next. Its head shot up when a noise reached its ears: footsteps. Soon a human appeared and looked at the puppy. It said some words that Nuka couldn’t understand. Nuka tilted its head wondering what this strange creature wanted. The human crouched down and offered some berries. Nuka was so hungry that it didn’t give it a second thought and gobbled up the berries. When the berries were gone Nuka looked up expecting more. Some more appeared and the tail began to wag. More strange words were said and Nuka tilted its head again. What did this strange creature want?

Before Nuka could figure it out the human picked the Growlithe up. Nuka struggled slightly and then stopped completely. It saw the glowing eyes of Zira watching and hope welled up. Perhaps she would help! Instead she turned away clearly abandoning her child as the human carried Nuka away.

edit: so sorry. ignore this post. i didn't know it ended yesterday.

Common/Uncommon Pokémon

Username: FrostyPeaches
Pokemon Wanted: Vulpix
Growing?: Yes please
Pokemon Coloration: Normal w/Color Variation Rec
Description/Colors: I really like the way you do the striped markings and broken striped markings so feel free to CC those onto the pokemon but not make the entire pokemon full of them. Maybe subtle markings?
Another small request may be to have the front fur a lighter shade?
And if possibe, have the vulpix hair firey red like the reference image.. but if the red hair is too far off from being normal, then just skip the hair colour description request >_<
References: See this image -- This is just for reference, the colours do not have to be exact at all
Have you tried to get this pokemon a previous Custom Opening, but didn't win? (link to it): Nope, not that I remember.
Do you not have any pokemon yet?: I got quite a few by now <3

Rolling!

Mightyena Entry List:
1. Rian-chan
2. Riffler
3. AndrAIa
4. AndrAIa (newbie)
5. Bluedemonwolf
6. AndrAIa (extra)
7. Bluedemonwolf ( extra )