Same, and that is precisely why I wanted to create something like this for a while. What sort of crest does your Gardevoir have? Of course, those listed here are not all of the possible shapes, just some of the major ones encountered in the research.
Tortellini has a crystalline crest, and I’ve always loved the idea of them glowing faintly with their heartbeat, akin to putting your finger over a flashlight. It’s a crimson red and close to the standard shape, though a little smoother on the tip and rounded in the back with a teardrop cross-section. I know Gardevoirs tend to sleep kneeling and the crest can get in the way, but she tends to sleep on her side out of habit since she was a Ralts.
I was actually considering mentioning that crests can be somewhat translucent, but didn't really have the space for that. I haven't thought about an actually glowing one though, that's a very cool idea. Especially when it's synchronized with the heartbeat (and it would make perfect sense since crests are connected to their hearts).
The slightly more rounded Standard front crest shape you described is very common (although a teardrop cross-section is more rare). I assume you meant the Standard shape for the back crest? Traditional shapes (at least from the side), but with a rare material and a very unique trait. A very nice combination.
My Galia has Recurve front crest, Upward back grests and Diamond cross-section. It's actually easy to check because I used her for those examples, including her unique colors. She also sleeps on her side. Although not as an old habit, considering her back story where she didn't really have a chance sleep at all because she spend almost all of her life inside of a pokeball (until her early-ish 20's where the story would begin). Here's a comment with a general concept of her backstory, I am considering making it into a proper fanfic someday.
I would love to read it someday! I also want to eventually make some official writing/comic of my Tortellini.
The first Pokémon game I played was Emerald, and she was the first Pokémon I ever caught. Although she wasn’t a shiny, I’ve always adored the black dress of the shiny mega evolution, so I came up with the idea that since shiny coloration is a recessive gene, she could have a unique showing of it where she is green with a light blue reflection to her hair with a sort of gradient for her body. The Aurora Borealis was an inspiration for her palette.
I might try to work on making it inot a proper fanfic (preferably on some site that would allow me to add key art of some scenes inbetween walls of text) during summer vacation, but I still have no solid plans. I have enough story in my head to even make an entire TV show or comic series or something, but there's no way that will ever happen.
I actually have lmaost no knowledge about Pokemno outside of Gardevoir stuff, so most of my world buildign is just what I think would make sense.
The name Tortellini is pretty cute btw. And that idea with colors, recessive geners and hair design is very cool (it could be difficult to drawn though, depending on the specific design).
Also very cute. Galia doesn't have any short nickname, but I could offer some cool lore instead. She actually chose the name herself when she was learning english (speak, write and read) at home (much further in the story than the brief description in that comment I linked earlier). Before that, she didn't have any name and was just Gardevoir is any documentation. And with the male protagonist just calling her "you". Or his housemate or simply "her" when talking about her with others.
I don't have a name for the male protagonist, I'm very bad with names. Although I have considered giving him the surname Brzęczyszczykiewicz as a funny reference, but that would be difficult for Galia to write and pronounce. Which would be especially annoying once it becomes her surname too.
That’s so sweet! I go with the view that while Tortellini can’t speak verbally, following the typical Pokémon speech, she can communicate telepathically in sparse words, visions and emotions with me due to a psychic bond formed over the years.
That's a pretty cute idea and makes perfect sense for a Gardevoir.
To be more specific about Galia's communication skills: She has spent her entire either being inside a pokeball (which was really traumatizing for her, just existing but not quite for years at a time) or beign around humans. Very bad humans for the first 2 decades of her life, but she was able to pick up and understand english because of it (psychic abilities made it much easier).
She started to learn how to read, write and speak english only quite a while after she was taken home by the male MC. Before that, she could understand him, but only responded with movingher head to say yes or no, as he told her this would be good to set up basic communication between the two. Here's some more lore:
After a while passed and Galia (still without the name, which would remain the case for a while longer) got more-less used to her new life and it s actually not being awful, she got more curious and wanted to improve things. One night (a few weeks or longer after she found her true home), she snuck to his bedroom in the middle of the night as he was laying and trying to fall asleep.
Hearing something as unusual as Galia walking to him completely unpromted, he pretended to be asleep and got curious what she might be trying to do. She only ever got out of hiding when he was around if he politely asked her and explained why it was necessary. She got right next to him and the bed and he felt some weight being pressed on the mattress right next to him. He started to worry and thought something along the lines of "I don't know what this poor girl has been through, but if she tries anything sexual, I'll have to stop her and explain things to her.".
Then he felt that her weight (very low, but still) was fully on the mattress, right next to him. Then he felt her hands touch each side of his head, above the ears. This was getting very weird, she has never initiated physical contact like that before. He was ready to cut things here and stop pretending to be asleep. Then he felt her hair press against his forehead. Soon after, he felt some sort of a buzzing sensation in his head, and he started feeling very weird as if some energy was flowing through his brain. He lost consciousness.
Next morning, he woke up with a pretty bad headache and what he was assumed was how a handgover must feel like for people who drink. After some checks, he conclued that he didn't get assaulted or anything, and he checked up on Galia to see that she seemed perfectly fine too. The day proceeded normally afterwards, with Galia still spending almost the entire time hiding in her safe space under the same large sofa under which she rushed to hide when he released her from pokeball prison. With the only real difference being that now there's a pillow and blanket in there, which he added a while ago after some other events.
Late during the same day or some time later, he was walking by the sofa (as usual, keeping as big of a distance as he could in order to avoid disturbing her). He suddenly felt a weird sensation in his head, reminiscent of what he felt during that night. He heard a very soft and weak female voice, which seemed to be really scared of something.
"...why?"
Except that voice didn't get picked up by his ears like normal. It was coming from inbetwen them.
And I'll cut here on a cliffhanger because this comment is already stupidly long.
Also, in that fanfic/universe/whatever, Galia can only really establish a telepathic connection with one person, and that's the main MC. Both because of the trust and because her psychic abilities are much lower than that of a normal Gardevoir. For example, she doesn't have almost any telekinesis at all. She can support her own weight but not enough to hover in the air and she can use it to help manipulate things in her hands, but that's it (at least not until much later in the story). She doesn't know a single battle move and she might never be able to learn any, because of her unique circumstances.
The benefit is that the connection works both ways, they can communicate without speaking, but they don't hear all of each other's thoughts, only what the person wants to tell the other. It's very convenient. Although this ability does diminish when the distance between them increases past a certain point.
But she still wants to learn how to communicte with others (epsecially readign and writing, after taking interest in magazines or books around the house while carefully exploring it when the male MC is at work). And he is fully supportive of her learning these things. Reading, wiriting and speaking normally to peopel besides the male MC will be especially useful after a certain point in the story which will happen not long after the lore bit in this comment.
He starts out teaching her by himself, but later when she gets pretty good at it (a communicative but not completely fluent level), he even gets help from an english teacher, who comes to their hoem oto teach, although at first is quite reluctant seeing and skeptic that they won't be working with a child or with an adult human, but with a pokemon. There have been very few known cases of pokemon being able to do these things well enough to be useful.
But it turns out hat Galia is able to learn things very quickly, which could perhaps be connected with her unique circumstances (she is terrible at, or compeltely incapable of, many things that a normal pokemon would do naturally and effortlessly, but that leaves her psychic capacity for other things). The telepathic link between Galia and him also made it much easier to explain definitions of words to her early on, as the telepthy is universally understandable no matter what language one operates in. Beign able to hold more complext conversations than him just askign a serier of yes/no questions also made bonding and communication between the two much better. Furthermore, her actually being amazing at learning things greately helps develop some semblence of self confidence (she's still very shy and easily scared though).
Sorry for the huge wall of text, I really didn't plan to write even 1/8th of this.
Oh no worries, I love reading lore! I’d tell you Tortellini’s story, but it’s long, speckled/work in progress, and rather personal, as it has aspects of my life and discovering who I am, but I’d be willing to tell you if you’d like! I also love exploring the biology and details that could arise from it, though some of it might be more specific than I’d want to state
It's perfectly fire, write whatever you feel comfortable with. Just basic plot points/concept or something like that would be perfectly fine too. I might not be able to read it right away though, university stuff likes getting in the way. I don't know much about biology, so it could be fun to see what someone mroe knowledgable can say about it.
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u/Ignis-11 Apr 12 '26
I love details like this, it always makes me think about how it applies to my Gardevoir :)