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After drawing Alihariah the Lopunny, the forefather of the House of Lago, Sassy the Lopunny's family clan, in my recent page of The Mega Frontier, I really liked how the design came out, so I decided to draw him out in full. By the way, YES, his name is a Watership Down reference, as it sounds a bit like Elihirah, the Prince of Rabbits (I think I spelt it right).

I based his design partially off Usagi Yojimbo, a character who I learned recently is in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - but I had seen a copy of the manga featuring him for sale, and I loved the idea of a samurai rabbit. The tuft of fur on his head being a brighter shade is partially inspired by Bigwig from Watership Down (and Sassy's father is named Bigwig ), I imagine that when in combat, he'd want to keep his ears from getting in the way, so he's tied them up, and the scar on his face was inspired by Ruroni Kenshin - I haven't watched Ruroni Kenshin, but I thought the scar looked cool.

I'll be delving more into his character as The Mega Frontier progresses, and tying it into the conflict between Sassy and Tyson on their differing thoughts on Mega Evolutions. Basically, he founded Sassy's family's ideaology that despite looking meek and weak, their kind is just as strong and capable as anyone else, and they won't hold back to prove themselves - which runs contrary to the Steel Soldiers, Tyson's family clan, which believes in fair play and allowing their opponents a level playing field by not exploiting type advantages. The destinies and past of the two houses are intertwined.
I can imagine Alihariah speaking in a lot of wise sayings and proverbs (kind of like a rabbit version of General Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender ).

As a final note, I know I have a LOT of conflicts and characters lined up for this comic, but as someone who gets a strange kind of enjoyment with creating characters, I get these weird urges to make more and expand on the stories and origins of my main cast - I must have at least 100+ Pokémon characters now, with nearly 50 of them in the main cast.

Let's see - as for plot points and conflicts in The Mega Frontier lined up so far, we have... my trainersona learning about Mega Evolution, Jack Prescott and his Mega Steelix Tecton being tough new competition, Sassy wishing to use Mega Evolution to unlock her full potential, Bulb wanting to be on the front lines with the team like she used to, Dynamique going fangirl for Tecton, Tyson having a fear of Mega Evolution, Sassy and Tyson having a possible conflict due to this, Asumo wishing to show Jack Prescott what's what... and many others that will come up, making references to other characters and past stories. There's also the manner of Phantomile the Darkrai, who I'm planning to integrate into the story somehow..... But I'll try to make this work, as I feel that these story threads will all help me develop my characters.

Description
After drawing Alihariah the Lopunny, the forefather of the House of Lago, Sassy the Lopunny's family clan, in my recent page of The Mega Frontier, I really liked how the design came out, so I decided to draw him out in full. By the way, YES, his name is a Watership Down reference, as it sounds a bit like Elihirah, the Prince of Rabbits (I think I spelt it right).

I based his design partially off Usagi Yojimbo, a character who I learned recently is in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - but I had seen a copy of the manga featuring him for sale, and I loved the idea of a samurai rabbit. The tuft of fur on his head being a brighter shade is partially inspired by Bigwig from Watership Down (and Sassy's father is named Bigwig ), I imagine that when in combat, he'd want to keep his ears from getting in the way, so he's tied them up, and the scar on his face was inspired by Ruroni Kenshin - I haven't watched Ruroni Kenshin, but I thought the scar looked cool.

I'll be delving more into his character as The Mega Frontier progresses, and tying it into the conflict between Sassy and Tyson on their differing thoughts on Mega Evolutions. Basically, he founded Sassy's family's ideaology that despite looking meek and weak, their kind is just as strong and capable as anyone else, and they won't hold back to prove themselves - which runs contrary to the Steel Soldiers, Tyson's family clan, which believes in fair play and allowing their opponents a level playing field by not exploiting type advantages. The destinies and past of the two houses are intertwined.
I can imagine Alihariah speaking in a lot of wise sayings and proverbs (kind of like a rabbit version of General Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender ).

As a final note, I know I have a LOT of conflicts and characters lined up for this comic, but as someone who gets a strange kind of enjoyment with creating characters, I get these weird urges to make more and expand on the stories and origins of my main cast - I must have at least 100+ Pokémon characters now, with nearly 50 of them in the main cast.

Let's see - as for plot points and conflicts in The Mega Frontier lined up so far, we have... my trainersona learning about Mega Evolution, Jack Prescott and his Mega Steelix Tecton being tough new competition, Sassy wishing to use Mega Evolution to unlock her full potential, Bulb wanting to be on the front lines with the team like she used to, Dynamique going fangirl for Tecton, Tyson having a fear of Mega Evolution, Sassy and Tyson having a possible conflict due to this, Asumo wishing to show Jack Prescott what's what... and many others that will come up, making references to other characters and past stories. There's also the manner of Phantomile the Darkrai, who I'm planning to integrate into the story somehow..... But I'll try to make this work, as I feel that these story threads will all help me develop my characters.