One thing about me is I’m going to devour a sad piece of fanart. If an artist taps into the unspoken despair or grief of a text and finds a way to capture it succinctly in a high-quality png of scribbles, I will be eating with tears streaming down my face. That being said, I’m still not even close to recovered from the devastating story of Game Freak and Omega Force’s Pokémon life sim Pokopia, and I need all the incredible fan artists to chill the fuck out.
Pokémon Pokopia takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of the Kanto region. Humans have disappeared and their Pokémon have been left behind, trying to make the remains of the old civilization into one that they can live in and sustain by themselves. Throughout this process, these Pokémon talk about how much they miss their human partners, and the information we can glean from the notes and letters we find lying around is that a climate crisis forced them to evacuate the planet and leave the Pokémon in a massive PC server for their safety. The Pokémon themselves didn’t really understand what was happening, so when they wake up and find the world destroyed and their humans missing, they don’t know what to do other than try to fix the world in hopes that humanity might return.
Yeah, that’s devastating. There’s a lot of tragedy in Pokopia, a life sim that was marketed as a cozy game. But man, as if stumbling upon a desolate landmark from the old games or reading the sad diary entries of trainers who had to leave their friends behind wasn’t enough, fan artists are focusing on some of these stories in illustrations that hurt so goddamn good it makes me sick. The Pokémon you play as in Pokopia is a Ditto, which has the ability to transform into anyone or anything, and it takes on the form of its trainer throughout the game. The best Pokopia art depicts Ditto struggling with the grief of losing its partner, wearing their form as a way to remember them, and even envisioning a potential reunion between them after what seems to be many, many years.
It’s not all Ditto, though. Fans have latched onto characters like the sickly Peakychu andProfessor Tangrowth, who has been wandering Kanto alone for many years since humans disappeared. Man, there’s some real bummer art out there. Please never stop drawing it, Pokémon fans.
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