The Crying Cubone

I have been editing some Pokemon cards and posting them on insta lately thought you guys might like this one, especially @e2d2 or maybe not poor Cubone too sad :sob:

“Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.” - ORAS pokedex entry :sob:

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Wait, why Kangaskhan though? Should be Marowak, no?

a cubone is a baby kangaskhan wearing her mother’s skull

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mmmmm… it’s early yet. Neat stuff as well as over on the instagram.

Yeah Kangashkan is the mother, someone asked Arita when he was in Europe and he confirmed, was in that thread about the Italy meetup. I think the lore is Cubone evolves into Marowak once it finally accepts the loss of its mother lol poor Cubone :sob:

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Oh The Cubone-Kangaskhan mystery. Definitely one of my favorites. Isn’t it no tragic mother loss it becomes a healthy Kangaskhan and if it loses it’s mother it’s Cubone (wearing the skull) —> Marowak lineage?

This is awesome! This is my favorite card (spoiler alert for @charchu 's giveaway). That little tear just gets me every time. Actually everything about that card is heart wrenching, which makes cubone even more adorable to me. Apparently I have a penchant for sad Pokémon, like that poor little lonely EX Omanyte :broken_heart:

Also, shizzle (aka James…:scream: Not sure why that blew my mind, but it did. ), I didn’t realize you had an Instagram! I love how you use the multiple images feature as a “reveal”. It’s really creative and I hope you do more like that. This might sound a little crazy, but you could totally use that style to simulate a “pack opening” feeling of anticipation for the second/third images. Its like…ok I know I’m going to see (or probably see) card x, but I wonder what the edit will be.

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Wow TIL, never realised how cubone resembled kangashkan, this aint even on bulbapedia yet :open_mouth:

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@e2d2 I thought you might like it :blush: I am also drawn to darker themes for some reason as well. Yeah started insta about a month ago pretty fun! Not sure what you mean by the build up, meaning have the original card as 1st image?

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Marowak confirmed Alakazam/Kadabra skull?

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That’s how I experienced the Kangasgkhan/cubone post. I thought I was looking at the original card (didn’t notice the moon at first) and the last scene totally got me! I looked forward to “opening” each image to see what the transformation was, if that makes sense. If you saved the edited version for last, you’d definitely maximize the suspense. I can understand wanting to have a feed full of the edited cards, though! And it’s still a great experience even with the final version as the first image :blush: However you do it, we’ll all still be looking forward to see what you created!

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Makes sense! Maybe more of a teaser style first image without giving away the punchline so to speak, you might be onto something!

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