/!\ SPOILERS FOR INDIGO DISK/TEAL MASK + MILD HEADPHONE WARNING: It's just drums, but it is kinda loud, so don't go blasting out your eardrums lol, and it fades in, don't turn your volume up bc you can't hear it yet, it gets louder! /!\ (originally posted Jan 30th 2026 on another site) This is basically a sort of re-animation of the champion battle against Kieran, and several of the frames are redraws of parts of the cutscenes at the beginning and end! I'm super proud of how I fit the storyboard for this one to the song! :D I'm also super proud of the turnaround for the battle part, usually I suck at angles but it actually turned out really cool!!! Yippeeee!!!! *explodes* (also: this is not the original by Coldplay, it's part of the version that Johnny (the gorilla character from the movie Sing 2) sings, because it fits better) I picked this version because the sound sorta reminded me of the kinda thing people do in a sports stadium, and hence also pokemon stadiums, just with more tension, so I thought this would fit the feel Kieran's Indigo Disk Champion battle! (I am prouder of Drayton's shoe than I feel like I should be lol, but hey, it actually looks like a shoe and not a cinder block for once!) Even better, the drums are like his heart rate/mental state. As they get more intense, he's more stressed/angry/etc, and it spikes really bad at the end when he has a panic attack of some kind (no thanks to Drayton. You are so incredibly insensitivveee in that sceneeee and I don't like you Mr tooth paste hairrr >:( ) Even extra better (lol) if you, like me, headcanon that Kieran ages some between the events of Teal Mask and Indigo Disk, and so he can feasibly sound like this (by that I mean he's hit his puberty voice change and doesn't sound like just a lil guy anymore lol) And btw all of the little marks coming off of people are supposed to represent sound/that they're making noise. Bc if you've ever been to a sports stadium full of people before, you know. It is LOUD. And Kieran's are squiggly bc the other's are cheering (positive emotions) and he just screams, and he is a bit messed up at the moment lol (negative emotions) All of the player's pokemon shown here were my team when I fought the battle in game, and some of the moves on his pokemon show here are (I believe) supereffective! (I did that on purpose cuz I thought it'd be cool and more angsty for Kieran bc he's being beaten and badly lol) Those being, if I remembered correctly: leaf storm (supereffective on Politoed), dragon pulse (super effective on Dragonite), hydro pump or smth (supereffective against Incineroar), dragon pulse again (supereffective on hydrapple IF it wasn't turned fighting type from terastallizing now that I think about, it but oh well) And I didn't even really do this on purpose but I also realized that Indigo Disk Kieran is almost always staring straight forward and/or making direct eye contact with someone in this, while whenever I draw Teal Mask Kieran, his eyes are almost always like, darting off to the side or literally anywhere that isn't making eye contact w another human being. The only time Indigo Disk Kieran is doing that here is when it says "I don't care", which is supposed to be the bit when he's giving his little speech before throwing out his pokeball, and I noticed from watching the cutscene too many times that he very briefly while looking down at his pokeball, looks sad/like he's about to cry before he straight up screams and looks ready to smash you to smithereens- aaAGHH GAMEFREAK STOPP- Basically I thought about the details too much again Woooo!! (I'm not going insane wdym? haha-) Done yapping now lol, hope you have a nice day! :D Credits: Art/Animation - (me) Audio - Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay, a cover from the movie "Sing 2", sung by Taron Egerton, Characters (order of appearance) - Kieran, SV Main Character/Juliana, Drayton, Crispin, (and as rough vaguely identifiable background sketches) Lacey, Carmine, Kieran and Carmine's Grandpa, and Amarys. All from Pokemon, belonging to Gamefreak
