I feel like this Ask was likely looking to see Allister pair up with another character. I spent a lot of time thinking about who would be a good fit, maybe someone else connected to ghosts or the like, but I just wasn’t connecting with any of the ideas I was having. The whole time, though, I was picturing this image, which I really liked. I wanted to do this Ask, partly because I needed a yaoi one to break up the straight and yuri content I’ve been working on, but also because people seemed to really like his debut pic and I thought they might like seeing him again. So I went with my gut instinct, showing Allister connecting with someone but not necessarily making friends with another named character in the Studio.
I wanted to try a fusion with a bit more dissonance between the characters, so the poll for this one featured a variety of different characters (in terms of age, species, gender, etc.). Funnily enough, the two most similar characters on the list won, which is how we got this Nagisa and Ash fusion. This does, however, mark the first NHS Fusion to not feature a My Hero Academia character. I decided to forgo Nagisa’s pigtails and Ash’s hat/cheek lines, with the hope that it’ll help Nash stand out a bit on his own.
When Allister was first introduced for Pokémon Sword and Shield, I knew I would probably be drawing him eventually. The only question, really, was when and under what circumstances. Turns out, the answer is: Now, and for a Mini Commission. The instructions for this Mini Commission were just for him to be showing off his butthole and the soles of his feet and, well… Here ya go! I hope y’all like it.
I thought a new Clemont pic might be well-received, but the tricky part was figuring out who to pair him with. I wanted go with a less-used option, and Luck really hasn’t topped anyone since his debut with Kyle, I don’t think. Once I started thinking about it, it seemed like a fine aesthetic pair (even if I can’t speak to how well they’d click in personalities), and in the end I decided to just go for it and see how people liked the pairing.