I can’t tell you how close this one came to just Link looking into the camera and saying, “…He’s dead.” The timeframe of the game itself really doesn’t leave much room for Link and Revali to have any sort of physical relationship, as I see it, since before the Calamity Revali dismisses Link and sees him as worthless. After the Calamity… he’s a ghost, and kinda stuck inside this big robot bird, so I still don’t see much room for pairing them up. In the end I hit upon the idea of a Revali toy Link might could enjoy in the time after the game’s story ends.
So the last Near Pokédex poll was really close! Machop won out in the end, though. I’ve been wanting to try and get a few more of these Pokédex entries out, so I didn’t waste any time starting this one. Looking at the basic Machop design, I thought it’d be cute to show the little guy’s phat booty. I think the final result turned out pretty cute!
I felt a bit bad about this Character Ask. There wasn’t really any room for a creative answer here (not that I know if this person was hoping for a specific one of the options given). Link already has a canon set of undergarments, though, which I used here. I tried to make up for it by drawing him wearing them as sexily as I could think of.
So some of you who don’t follow my work very closely may not be familiar with Trainer Anya. She’s a Pokémon trainer based on my friend Anya Lykke (https://twitter.com/AnyaLykke) that I’ve drawn a couple times. Now, Anya wasn’t fishing for a drawing of this character with this Ask (if that’s what she wanted, she could’ve just asked Trainer Anya a question, since I view her as one of my OCs), but when I was thinking about how to answer it I decided it’d be cute to draw the Near Pokédex Sylveon with Anya.
Just a note, this Ask is actually being posted way earlier than it should be so it’ll land on Valentine’s Day. The publicly-released Asks are currently still in the January batch, but this one came out of the February batch. I think it’s worth it, though, to get it out in time for the holiday.
The funny thing about this Ask is that I actually know nothing about Vaati. I’ve never played any of the games he’s in and, in fact, hadn’t even heard of him before he was commissioned (by the same person both times, who was also the asker of this question). This means my interpretation of him is based pretty much entirely on the way he’s been commissioned. I like this reading, though, and I hope it’s not too out of character for him.
Here’s another commission purchased through the Epic Tier. The Dark Link in the background for this one was a last minute addition, as the client thought it’d be fun to have one recording what was going on. I think his presence is for the best, since Link is now not only being “tortured” by Vaati’s body being just out of reach, but his humiliation is being documented.