[oh hey this gives a good chance to explain some stuff!! do bear with me, this got long haha.
tldr; for a majority of games from ruby/sapphire/emerald onwards, missing numbers will feature new pokepastas made original to this blog/universe!
long/rambly answer: so. missing numbers in concept started out as a pretty small-scale joining of some pokepastas i (mod starry) was nostalgic for. stuff ended up expanding but still mostly to the stories we’d grown up with.
as missing numbers has developed more and gotten a more concrete story and lore of its own outside of “what if these pokepastas all took place in the same world,” the developments for later generations have taken a turn from being based on pre-existing pokepastas into being based more on the original worldbuilding for missing numbers. it’s an approach out of both want and necessity- creepypastas for later gens start to get pretty sparse and obscure, and they certainly weren’t ones we grew up with and were as attached to…
its kind of a shame tbh.. off the top of my head the only games that have p known ones after gen 2 was dpp, frlg, and hgss… and those last two are still kanto and johto jjskldhnksalcds!!!! ofc i could be forgetting things but. still…
but! that doesn’t mean these later generations won’t be important in missing numbers- it just means we’ll be taking a different approach in how we go about the ideas and horrors for these games! we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes workshopping out ideas for gen 3 and onwards that’ll slot right in for the Feel and Horror we get from the more widely known stories (while also providing smth new and unique for these games that get less attention in the pokepasta scene)! there are still some which we’ve take inspiration from that we’ll make sure to note somewhere. i personally keep hoping to write up a list of sources to establish what pokepastas will be directly adapted, what will be original to missing numbers, and where some rewriting or inspiration might come in (as there’s a few odd instances of that which we’ll be doing)…
for these original aspects, we’ve been talking a lot on fully sealing the deal by going the full mile and writing them out AS pokepasta stories. this would include things like Ace’s backstory, Green’s backstory, the entire deal with rse, stuff with PLA, and definitely more. we’re all huge horror nuts so it’s a lot of fun, and it’s been encouraging seeing people take kindly to original or unique characters like Green, Ace, Yellow and the like.
i hope the shift from the initial concept of “pokepasta cinematic universe” to a more original identity doesn’t turn people away, but in the end this blog was always made to tell a personal story we mods all feel passionately about, and i hope that yall will stick around with it cus we’ve got a lot of fun (and horrifying) ideas in store!!
especially for hoenn.]