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PKMN Skies: Christmas in July

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Having dealt a blow to all three opposing teams, Asuka sets out on possibly one last mission.  There's no objective this time, only revenge!

A few weeks back, Falkzii drew an elaborate picture where KiraKats's Tootsie shot Asuka down like a Blaziken's glory (Good joke?  Bad joke?).  I told Falkzii that bloody vengeance was coming.  I hope he didn't forget.

This comic could easily be called "Big Pile of Accidents Topped with Mistake Sauce and Sprinkled in Coincidences."  The original idea was to have Dimitri get distracted by Toot squishing his tail long enough for Asuka to run up and paint-slash him; Asuka would then have an anti-climactic one-on-one with Toot.  While I was drawing the tail-squishing, though, I figured that Dimitri might just drop his gun.  From there, the guns going off and shooting their own masters pretty much fell into my lap and saved me the trouble of drawing a more complex scene.

Unfortunately, accidents are a double-edged sword.  This comic was originally going to be 9 panels long, but I wound up saving over my original file while coloring everything destroying 3 panels; lost 2 days' work in 1 second.  Fortunately, I was able to keep the panels you see here, which tell a cohesive enough story on their own.  Also takes some sting off knowing that I wasn't too ecstatic with the original ending.

Anywho, the dynamic duo of Dimitri and Toot are, in my opinion, one of the funniest things in Springleaf; so much so that I probably spent just as much time worrying about how to portray them as I did actually drawing them.  I noticed that a few of Toot's insane rants delirious monologues lines from previous stories were quotes or paraphrases from conversations and videos, so I thought that paraphrasing George Costanza's infamous Jerk Store Insult wasn't out of character for her; also saw how she uses Volt Switch, so I hope that maneuver fit her too.  Sorry I couldn't write any dialogue for Dimitri; after I dropped the idea of him yelling at Toot for squishing his tail, I just couldn't think of anything for him to say.  From what I've seen of these two, though, it seems like Toot does most of the talking for the team when they're in public...I really hope I didn't screw these two up.

Well, that's about everything.  Had a blast (and challenge) working with Toot and Dimitri and I hope Kira and Falkzii don't mind some lighthearted vengeance.  By the by, awesome designs you came up with for the guns.

Credits
Dimitri created by Falkzii
Tootsie created by KiraKats
Fun Fact: If you search "PKMNSkies Dimitri," Toot shows up first.  A Dimitri picture by Falkzii doesn't show up until #5.

Asuka's Injuries
- Head Boo-Boo: Given by...Asuka.
- Tummy Ache: Given by Tootsie.
- Leg Owies: Given by Lynnia...Sort of.
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DekoLamp's avatar
"And destiny spoke it shall be a good day for the Raichu!" Goodness :'D. Aah liking the humor in this quite a bit~

The idea to split the panel border color according to the teams is nice, liking the pacing a lot too! Out of curiosity, how would it have ended originally?