Fakemon Friday: Anype, the elemental pokémon

Today I will present you probably the longest post on this blog, and it's just because of the images it will have. I've been working on fakemon, if you couldn't tell, and today I'm going to present you one, yes, one, but it has... 22 forms. Well, technically 21, but I made another one as a base.

My concept here was a fakemon that could be each and every type and, if you've read my Fakemon types, I can't keep things simple post, I have 21 of them now. How do I explain it? I made a sponge fakemon and each palette corresponds with a type. I felt like sponges could be colourful and simple enough evolutionary to make it this gimmick.

I would have loved to put all of these images in one gif, but that messed up with the colours so bad that I could not bear it. So, be ready for the image dump!

Anype (derived from Any type) would be known as the elemental pokémon as a double-entendre. It's elemental because it can be any element, or as they're known in universe, type. And also elemental because of basic, as I'm referencing it's a simple life form. Stats like he would be slow, mediocre in everything else, but with a decent amount of HP.

As for abilities, I'm also introducing a new one here, Type Overflow. Type Overflow would work like a Pixilate or Aerilate, but instead of being tied to a pokémon type, it would transform it into the first type of a Pokémon. I'm just wording it like that in the case I decide to add it to another mons that could be double type. Color Change felt appropiate as a hidden ability, although I doubt it would actually change it in a theoretical game? You could explain it as that it can still *absorb* the type of the attacks it receives and that overpowers the energy it possesses already.

It's a genderless pokémon, with no evolutionary line, and its description in universe could be the one in the images: Its cells barely show any tissue differenciation, instead portraying properties of types depending on what it absorbs on its environment. It is theorized that it's one of the first complex creatures that could be considered a full-fledged Pokémon.

I honestly have issues summarizing everything I want to say in that kind of space, but I was juggling not falling into evolutionary theories, as it's not confirmed if pokémon had common ancestors or if it falls into Arceus creationism. We have fossils, and paradoxes now, but it's still up in the air. Which I think it's where the franchise shines, in being vague enough to allow possibilities to coexist.

For the colours I chose, I picked up the primary colour of the type and used it as the main colour, and I went for a pastel complimentary colour that could sell more the type, if needed be being wary of the confusion between types with main colour that are similar. One of the reasons I went for the base one is to check the saturations and values, I wanted to be a nice contrast even without the hue shift. For the shiny, I went for a black body. I was thinking about making it white to emulate the bleaching of the sponges, but decided against it to go for a more edgy look, leaving the accent colours to be the ones of the normal sprite to not be confusing with the colours of the type. Making the fire shiny blue, or the grass shiny orange would make it confusing at first glance even if it can be explained, because there are so many different types to take care of.

Habitat-wise, I think this creature could be at home in some kind of colourful reef, being the main pokémon available in its area, like an Unown would be in the ruins! How would this place have energy of every type available? That's a problem for future me if I go further with this!

But wait, there's more! I didn't only work on the statics. I did animation for the front sprites, and the icon! I didn't work on the back one, due to time constraints, and I won't be showing them all, because honestly, the folder that has only stuff from this fakemon has 246 files. Imagine! So we'll look at the base ones, if you allow me:

If you're interested, we could go for animating the backsprites too, maybe on stream! But for now, I think I did enough here for just one fakemon. I don't know if I'll have the time to finish more for next week, but I'll try to go for these kind of posts on Fridays!

Thanks for reading, please let me know if you're interested in any kind of other fakemon posts or suggestions, and I'll see you around!