The Art Zone

woe, art be upon ye... ...da art is upon ye
context: my friend ran through pokemon red to upload their team into stadium (all emulated, which was the reason for the test). during this, another friend claimed that the game corner was skill based and not luck based like you'd think, so the first friend challenged them to prove it. the second friend ran through pokemon leaf green, with a luck themed team, to gamble at the game corner and prove that it was skill based (it's timing and cycle based, so you can a little without save states and stuff). the first friend decided it would be cool to romhack the game to put his team as the champion fight with custom pre-fight text and stuff midway through this playthrough. at the end of it i suggested what if we round robin'd this romhacking procedure throughout the friend group, to iterate on the champions each time with each successive playthrough, learning some romhacking skills along the way. the two friends took me up on this idea and have been working together to replace the rival fights with what her team was approx like when she beat them on top of a bunch of other alterations to the gameplay. anyway cos the second friend played as a girl i suggested swapping the places of the protag and the rival (i.e. two different boy sprites to start with vs girl rival) and the second friend suggested to do the XY thing and remove the hat from the rival that was the player character's other gender design. so i made these
version 1:
the most exaggerated version of Face to wojak the funniest
version 2:
a kinder, more accurate tracing done like a month after the first drawing.
not as funny though