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Pokémon Unite fan comic / Zeraora comic. A doodle pile about the days Zephyr first joined the team. I should be working on my other pending projects, but I’m feeling a bit stuck, so I’ll make this to get the creative juices flowing. Hope you enjoy!
Comic
- Chinese version (translated by 旗鼓相当的MASTER)
127 pages / K / Slice of Life, Friendship
Read from left to right.
Synopsis
When a Zeraora joined his team, Rhyme didn’t think much of him. He never expected to end up growing so attached to him either. Here are their daily shenanigans as they develop from being awkward friends to the best of partners.
Related Works
- A Short Respite (The continuation of this comic)
- Twin Thunders (Backstory comic about Zephyr’s birth, 103 pages)
- With you till the End (Season 4 game log comic, 23 pages)
- Pokémon Unite game log (A log of all Team Rhyme’s adventures on Aeos Island.)
Artist's Notes
All my thoughts, imagination and adventures with my dear partner Zeraora. Happy to be able to spill them all out in this series!
I wrote most of my thoughts in the Afterword above. The work turned longer than expected because it changed direction, but I think it was a good chance to look back on my adventures and struggles with Zephyr and my other mons so far. I was reminded of how it was when I was really trying to get better, so writing this brought the spirit back. Will continue doing my best with my cat!
Thank you so much for joining me on my long journey and see you next time!
Trivia
- Everything’s based on my actual adventures and thoughts as I played with my four Pokémon in Unite.
- The Japanese title’s literal translation is actually ‘Zeraora Observation Diary’, but it sounds weird in English, so we have ‘Studying my Zeraora’ instead.
- Page 4: House cats in real life spray vertical surfaces to mark their territory. Tigers spray and leave claw marks on trees.
- Page 5: Unite Battles created to gather Aeos Energy for research is an official setting. Aeos research team providing lodging and food to support Trainers is NOT an official setting.
- Page 6: Cats in real life don’t recognize themselves in the mirror.
- Page 13: The only Pokémon game I played before Unite was Ruby. I saw Zeraora for the first time in Unite, so I had zero knowledge about him and really didn’t know that he was a Mythical Pokémon.
- Page 14: USUM Zeraora info from the official site.
- Page 18: Zephyr having a stronger electricity but lower endurance than other Zeraoras is based on my full attack build (Amp/Claw/Weakness) in Unite, as opposed to the 2 attack 1 endurance build (Focus/Claw/Weakness, etc.) that most Zeraora usually use.
- Page 24-25: Ruki is fictional, but Zephyr being endlessly beaten by good Lucarios in S2 is real! (S2 was Lucario meta. I created Ruki based on that experience.)
- Page 25: I made a whole comic about Zephyr’s backstory with his mentor Thundersnow
- Page 42: Google image search ‘sleeping leopard’ for cuteness!
- Page 46: Zephyr was a Fluffy Tail Zeraora till the back end of Season 5, when I switched over to X-Attack.
- Page 74: My actual first Master Rank battle went this way.
- Page 84: A whole comic (game log) about what I did in Season 4, if you want to read about it in detail. It’s my most traumatic season to date and I actually considered leaving Unite back then. Glad I didn’t, though!
- Entry 11: Everything I did and said with Leo actually happened.
- Season 4 happened 1 year ago when I was still a total beginner. I wrote about meta and stuff here to make it easier to understand for the readers. But back then, I didn’t even know what meta is and that Zephyr’s weak to S4’s All-Rounder meta. So it felt as though I was losing for no reason and I didn’t know what to fix. Walking in the dark, it was probably twice as scary for me than how I portrayed it in the comic.
- All Zeraora Trainers mentioned in the comic are real, existing players.
Hola se que no hablo japones ni ingles pero, gracias por esta historia tan especial y entretenedora, al igual que ellos yo seguire luchando asta ser no mucho pero si alguien fuerte. Gracias por esta historia espero que les vallan bien 👍.
Thank you so much! I’m happy you enjoyed the story ;u;
Good luck in your matches and hope it goes well for you too ^^
I dont rlly do Pkm Unite much…(I actually do have it, its just that im lazy XD, and pretty much found out that me trying to get a Zeraora is useless lol. Conveniently, I have a plush I also call Zephyr the Zeraora. TRUST ME, even if I dont have the merch, I am a BIGGER Zera fan. #ZephFOREVER!
Aww, how nice! My Zephyr says hi to yours 😀