I should also probably elaborate on that little note and doodle on Hagloop's pic... that's just how hagfish are. They've got a big ol' nose that you might mistake for a mouth, while their real mouth's on the underside of their head.

Plasmeel's nose is a bit covered by the cowl, but it's the same.

Which is kind of what its signature ability does! Slime Decoys is a blanket cut to the accuracy of moves used on Plasmeel, including helpful moves used by its allies.

(My notes originally say this is cut by half, but that might be too drastic. Maybe only a quarter? Still: bring Lock-On!)

...Yep, "haunted slime decoys". They're imbued with ambient spirit energy from the surrounding water and made... semi-living. Plasmeel uses them to distract its enemies by making them chase the decoys... but sometimes its friends fall for it instead.

...I'll admit, Plasmeel's design is a bit more conceptual here, since I couldn't really figure out what else to do with the design. The skull-like slime cowl, glowing slime, glowing pupils and haunted slime decoys were the main visuals I thought of, alongside it all being an eerie green.

Next, Hagloop's evolution!

PLASMEEL - The Ectoplasm Pokemon
Water/Ghost type
Main Ability: Slime Decoys
Hidden Ability: Gooey
Evolves from Hagloop when leveled up while knowing Substitute
(The idea is Hagloop starts purposefully using its slime as a distraction instead of as "armor")

Unlike the other evolved forms of Clamperl, Hagloop is a scavenger, trawling the seafloor for food that drifted down from above. Its tail and whiskers are covered in a sticky slime, and it even has fake fins made of slime up by its head. If a predator tries to eat it, they get a mouthful of slime!

Both of these fakemon are based on hagfish which I thought fit well with Huntail and Gorebyss also being deep sea fish. I tried to make Hagloop have some design elements in common with them... but honestly, it was a bit tricky. The green coloration was meant to make it look "slimy".

First up, the first stage evo!

HAGLOOP - The Deep Trench Pokemon
Water type
Main Ability: Swift Swim
Hidden Ability: Gooey
Evolves from Clamperl when traded holding Deep Sea Slime (but you could change "trade" to "level-up" for a game where trading between games is impossible)

Bit of a late entry for PragMagik's #splitevoevo contest, but I really wanted to get these goofy little Clamperl evolution concepts out here! They might be a little clumsy, but I hope you enjoy them!

(More yapping about these fakemon and explaining some stuff in plaintext in the thread!)

Shout-out to whoever these guys were from one of my (MANY) mirrors tonight. Great party, sorry about my teammate splatting you guys while they were socializing! (It was a random player so I couldn’t tell them they were harshing the vibes.)

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all that being said,
blaseball coming back would fix me

All the worst people in the world want you to feel like you’re powerless right now and every normal person is pretty powerless in a system set up the way it is but we always have been, you’re definitely not powerless in the lives of people you love and care for

don’t expect too much from me, i was quiet on the other site too lmao

might as well say some stuff for the algorithm. uh. i like…
-Pokemon
-Digimon
-Kingdom Hearts
-The World Ends With You
-Flight Rising
-Splatoon
-Blaseball

well i guess i’m over here now lol