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Hard Enough - Chapter 304 - Family drama

Brock:- the MC 

Sabrina:- the best girl

Lola:- Brock’s absentee Mother and Flint’s wife. 

Flint:- Brock’s father who returned earlier in the story. Has been trying to make amends. His wife is his weak spot sadly.

Yolanda:- Oldest girl in Brock’s family.

Salvadore:- fourth oldest child after Brock, Forrest, and Yolanda. 

Cindy and Tommy:- first set of twins and fifth and sixth children of Flint and Lola. 7 years old going on 8 soon. View Post

Hard Enough - Chapter 303 - What lurks in the depths

Cynthia:- Champion of Sinnoh and Lola’s BFF, apparently. 

Diantha:- Champion of Kalos

Alder:- Champion of Unova

Koga - Elite Four of Indigo and shinobi of Fuchsia. Has other titles he doesn’t use much these days. 

The Commodore:- Likes to be called his title. Is part of the Team Aqua long range recon team. 

Lawrence III:- Professional pokemon thief. Sadly has good instincts not great, but good enough.

Yolanda:- Brock’s little sister, bu...

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Artwork - Larvitar smash!

The scale is very, very off, but if you imagine that Sabrina got involved with her shrinking ability you can easily imagine Terra running rampant through a toy city. I think this was a really cute request so I got it done up! Thanks go to Ryot_ryot!

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Hard Enough - Chapter 302 - Ripples

Kruger:- Indigo’s President

Lance Blackthorn:- Indigo’s Champion and master Dragontamer

Lorelei:- Elite Four of Indigo and Ice-type specialist.

Bruno:- Elite Four of INdigo. Considered something of a meathead. 

Meowth: - Team Rocket’s brains and technician. 

James:- the beauty of the Team Rocket/Guardian Trio

Jessie:- the actual brains and leader of Team Rocket/Guardians 

Lola:- Brock’s absentee Mother… only she...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 301 - Homeward bound

Brock:- the MC 

Sabrina:- the best girl

Tabitha:- Team Magma Administrator. 

Celia: A sponsored trainer for the Pewter Gym who went to Hoenn for this circuit. She’s slated to win the entire tournament. 

Juan:- Former gym Leader of Sootopolis City. Mentor to Celia

Wallace:- Gym Leader of Sootopolis City 

Lola:- Brock’s absentee Mother

Cynthia:- Champion of Sinnoh and Lola’s BFF, apparently. 

Winona:- Flying Type Gym...

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Red Riot - Chapter 32 - Red Revelations

Matsu:- The MC, a Kiri Jonin,

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Hard Enough - Chapter 300 - The world grows smaller

I stared at the Swampertite for a long moment before looking up into Wallace's glinting eyes. 

My mind raced as it began to connect the dots. 

From the way he’d made a flashy entrance to sweep us along in his flow to this very reveal. The man wasn’t an idiot. 

He knew Sabrina and I were Indigo’s pre-eminent Mega Stone and Evolution experts. I had a company literally engaged in looking into them. 

Wallace was someone who, according to the games...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 299 - On foreign soil

“You know, she kind of makes it really obvious that she’s still a young Pokemon for all her power,” I said as I watched Kirlia twirl and skip around Alakazam, who stoically allowed it. It was sort of like watching a tolerant grandfather, one who was particularly interested in his book on cultural and historic Hoenn landmarks. 

With his wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and floral shirt he looked like the typical tourist. Especially with the zinc cream wiped across his nose. We we...

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Artwork - Just another girls pic~

Once more Ryot has done a wonderful job bringing a picture to life.

I'm currently working through another round of releases for HE artwork so feel free to post any scenes you might like to see!

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Hard Enough - Chapter 298 - Interlude - The B Team!

Erika gazed upon her garden and felt relief.  

Gone were the interlopers. Those weeds would storm in with fire, flying and bugs demanding her badge and crashing through her perfectly arranged gardens. 

The worst were always the ones that took the most direct route. They simply walked, blazing and cutting their way through her hedges towards her. 

Her girls would always intercept them and fight all the harder but his year had been rough. Her garden had bee...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 297 - Circuit's end

I inspected the pile of shirts I’d assembled. I’d needed to purchase some new gear with the plan in Hoenn to be in attendance for Celia’s tournament, along with spending a not insignificant amount of time in the desert. 

Then to round things out, Sabrina and I would be enjoying a four-night stay at the Battle Resort where we’d be able to relax. I planned to spend an hour or two each day training with some of my fresher pokemon. 

I was seriously hoping that by the...

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Artwork - Rock v Bug!

One of Ryot's works. You can see the original sketch where Brock looked like he was bullying Bugsy a bit instead of being a slapstick whack.

I still need to work out Jules 'look' for a Ritchie, Jules and Bugsy team up picture but shouldn't be too hard.

As always toss me any ideas or scenes you might be looking forward to seeing!

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Hard Enough - Chapter 296 - Diamond still in the rough

“Let’s go Primeape!” Ash roared, whipping out his pokeball to send it to the forward quadrant as I released my greatball.

It disgorged exactly like I wanted it to with Titan set to land halfway into our area. 

My starter formed from the red energy before the gravity and momentum of my throw asserted itself. 

Titan soared through the air. Graceful, like a brick being tossed at a glasshouse. 

With Titan’s appearance the crowd sucked in their breath...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 295 - Missed chances and final showdown!

I tapped at my notebook with my pen. Scrawled across a handful of pages were my current ideas to ‘break’ Destiny Bond.

I hadn’t scratched any out yet as they were still technically in ‘testing’ phases. I’d started writing up documents on my computer and adding links to the various videos I had taken while training against Agatha. 

She’d been all too amused to let me record my failures. 

Joke was on her though. 

One of these days it wouldn...

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Artwork - DYNAMIC ENTRY!

I had Yustiel do this one up to show a little of what Matsu smashing into Manda might look like. If you look through some of the earlier work I had to request that Manda become a lot bigger.

Personally I think Manda could have been even bigger but this does well to show Matsu smashing a nope rope.

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Red Riot community prompting

Just a prepoll community chat area to throw out some ideas for what I should be getting artists to do for the next Red Riot artwork.

I'm getting someone to do Matst's Dynamic entry moment. Is there another moment people want to see brought to life or just a moment or character in general?

I'll start a poll sometime next week, if you want also throw some thoughts at me via Discord!

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Red Riot - Chapter 31 - Hell of a homecoming

Matsu:- The MC, a Kiri Chunin, with Uzumaki traits.

Jonin Akiko - Matsu’s Sensei and exasperated mentor of other children, Matsu returned her beauty to her.

Orochimaru:- One of the Three Sannin. Legendary for surviving a fight against Hanzo the Salamander. Snake Summoner and a dangerous enemy.

Ei:- Jonin of Kumogakure and future Raikage :- A.N. Yes I am sticking with ‘Ei’ rather than ‘A’ purely so I don’t go mad when proofreading. I did...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 294 - Preparing for politics!

—and finally, congratulations on completing the inaugural Pewter Training camp!” I said from my podium. 

In front of me people were walking up to their Team Leaders and receiving certificates for their attendance which would only matter for those trainers looking to enter the workforce or apply for certain academies next year. For everyone else, it was just a piece of paper that would serve as a reminder of what they got up to for this week.

I gave my usual round of prais...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 293 - Training Camp V

“When considering meta’s, you won’t always know what’s happening, as it is an ever-evolving situation for trainers engaged in Pokémon battles,” I said, finishing my lecture. 

I tapped the whiteboard showing off the various Meta’s. I had a few more minutes to kill before the bell went so I decided to run it down by summarising. “Power, Skill, Control, Delay, Set up, Trick Play, and Environmental are all Meta’s that we’ve covered today.”

“Brock? How would...

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Artwork - The danger noodle!

Another from Ryot showing off Mia's Dragonair. I have some good suggesitons from the past currently being worked on but please keep sending suggestions in!

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Hard Enough - Chapter 292 - Training Camp Days IV

Sweat trickled down Blaire’s forehead and into his eyes as he stared at the Solrock that he was facing. 

It was lighting up the field with a Fire Spin so strong that it had people in the stands leaning back. Mason and Ron were among them Blaire knew, he could see them sitting up there with their mother who’d taken the time off work to come and watch.

On the field, the second pokemon he’d ever caught for his team charged fearlessly through the flame, stinger extended lik...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 291 - Training Camp Days III

Sweat dripped down my brow as I pushed myself and my pokemon, in this case, Tide, to encase himself in a Dark shell of energy. 

Agatha pointed dramatically. “Destiny Bond,” she intoned pointedly and Haunter cackled as a band of ghostly energy shot out from it. It stabbed into Tide’s shell of energy and for half a heartbeat, I thought we’d done it only for a cold touch racing down my spine to announce that we’d failed in our defence. 

“Shit!” I swore without...

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Artwork - Sibling disputes

Another from Ryot featuring the Larvitar triplets remonstrating with Ursaring to do better next time!

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Artwork - Red Riot - Non Canon hair colours for Jonin Akiko

These are the non canonical artworks for Jonin Akiko that the artist included for some strange reason.

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Artwork - Red Riot - Jonin Akiko

I got some artwork done up to show off what I had in mind for Akiko with her face being scared up. The reason she has one side shaved is due to the scars.

I went with a more serious style artist to showcase how hectic her sacrs were before Matsu healed her. I really like the flat dead eyed look they got with the flat expression which works to show off some serious development.  

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Hard Enough - Chapter 290 - Training Camp Days II

“Remind me what today’s task was,” I said as I fought the urge to rub at my temples. 

I also fought the urge to lower my eyes to where the instigators for today’s… fiasco were all kneeling. 

“It was to be a game of capture the flag with colour bags…” replied Misty. 

“Capture the flag with colour bags,” I agreed with a slow nod. The smile on my face was not friendly. It was a rictus of muscles clenching in the wrong order as various ticks fo...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 289 - Training Camp days I

Humphrey shifted in his seat. Around him other trainers chattered or called out to each other as everyone returned to the stadium after the intermission they’d been granted after watching Forrest fight Brock. 

Humphrey had to give it to Forrest, he’d come a long way with his team. There were still several areas that he was obviously weak in and if Humphrey ended up fighting him at the end of year tournament he was going to nail Forrest on those. 

He had to give Forre...

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Artwork - Meowth and friends

Another of Ryot's artworks showing off the moment Meowth met two new friends!

As always throw me some ideas for any HE artworks you want to see! If you want RR artwork please toss that onto the story posts or the poll and I will try and get to it!

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Hard Enough - Chapter 288 - Forrest Finale

I’d agreed to have a match against my brother. I’d been surprised when he actually called up and suggested the Elite Challenge. 

I knew he’d grown while going on his journey, but to request that level of match? I wasn’t sure what to think. Was this a sign of him wanting to test himself against the best I had to offer, to see how far he still had to go? Was this a show of him thinking he’d grown enough to challenge me?

It was sure to make a statement and show Pewter ...

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Hard Enough - Chapter 287 - Silly Mouse summer camp beginnings!!!

Mia bounced in the back seat of the car as she returned to Pewter City. 

She’d been back a bunch of times, but it was fun knowing that she was done with her trip around Kanto. She’d done everything she’d wanted to, and now it was time to meet up with old friends and compare notes. She’d run into Humhrey on the road, but damn if it was hard to find the others.

How had Jules gone? What about Hilary, did she catch her team of all-female pokemon like she’d wanted to? Or...

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