Aoi and Kakuna

This one’s not high on the humor, but there’s a reason for it. I just got a new art program, Clip Studio Paint (I know, weird name). So I used a scrapped idea as my first foray into the program. (And the reason why it was scrapped was because I couldn’t think of the charming or funny thing for this bit, although, maybe if I had animated the slowpoke doing the monkey…)

In any case, context: Youngster Joey gave our trainer a call, saying he defeated a Kakuna in the wild, and, well, we had never bumped into one. Considering the amount of time we spent in Route 30, it seems like he may have been lying for some reason! (Maybe trying to impress Aoi?)

The thing that’s in Trapinch’s mouth is Aoi’s PokeGear (a reference to something I drew the other day). She just seems to enjoy chewing on it, with no intention of eating it. And I guess my headcanon of Aoi gets really annoyed by liars? (If we take this and my drawing of Aoi dealing with the “SudoWoodo” into consideration)

Another thing, Aoi was originally going to say “Mama” instead of “Elder”, but then that awesome gem of a drawing by /u/njike on Reddit came around and shifted around my head canon a bit. (I’ve still yet to think of anything to do with that, but maybe one day..!)

I don’t seem to be treating Youngster Joey very kindly, huh? Ah well.. Speaking of which, I’ve got one more Joey related comic to make, and this time, he’ll actually be in it for once! And the comic’s intended to be funny, this time!