The variation in crests is cool. Nice work.
One question; is it two seperate crests or 1 single one going through the body? I always imagine the latter, with it being fused to their spine and some organs passing through internal holes.
I agree with your ideas on medical issues, though with the piercings harm mentioned, I wonder whats the viability of a Garde personally choosing to get it tattooed? I guess any crest modification they may hate and see as extreme.
Another headcanon I have for their crests is that its involved in their reproduction, explaining their place in the Amorphous egg group. Two Gardevoir (or Gallade) will reproduce not just sexually, but by touching crests and forming a psychic/emotional link. This also allows mating with amorphous species lacking genitalia.
Then for nursing their infants, a Garde will touch a Ralts head crest to their own crest to transfer mental energy. (They have no mammaries).
Honestly, I'd not quite sure and I don't have the qualifications to check. I would assume it's one piece and works as you described. Perhaps even without internal holes and with organs just going around it. We can see both front and back crests always remain lined up with each other (at least from what I have seen), therefore it's safe to assume that they are at the very least rigidly connected with each other. Their matching shape also supports this idea.
As for tattoos, that would be very painful. More painful than even the worst cases with humans. It could be possible if the Gardevoir themselves consents and heavily insists on it, but that's very unlikely. Body paint would be a good painless alternative.
Personally, in terms of mating I gravitate towards a more traditional setup with the typical organs you'd expect from ach gender, except the organs can fully retract inside the body (for protection) and only come out with the right stimuli. It's just a perfectly smooth surface the vast majority of the time, with some changes in shape only starting to be visible when aroused. For example in females that stage would look similar to if a human woman wore tight yoga pants with no underwear. And only actually "coming out" and becoming fuctional after more stimulation, which casues the surface of the body to painlessly open. Although pain during that process, especially late stages, is also perfectly natural. Especially when experiencing it for the first time, simiarly to humans. (This is a serious analysis of this mature topic. Mods, don't execute me for touching upon this topic.)
A good compromise for remaining kid-friendly and not needing clothes to avoid indecent exposure, but also compatible with humans in more ways than just emotional.
I do think that the crests are important for emotional attachment though. Like what you aid about touching the crests to form a psychic/emotionla link. Also that gesture would be deeply intimate, showing the the Gardevori trusts the other person. Perhaps it could also be involved in creating a telepathic link with another person, even if they are not a Gardevoir (perhaps that would also involve toughing foreheads for maximum brain proximity). The energy transfer aspect is also a very neat idea.
I have a specific one that i have argued with multiple people on before finally coming to a conclusion that satisfied most parties, ralts line evolving every time, and especially gardevoir's mega form, we agreed, is like a "magical girl transformation", this lets gardevoir wear normal clothes at times, and allows their "opera gloves" to be removable, as well as their skirt, and dress.
That is a pretty nice idea. I have something similar, although I haven't thought about the Mega evolution.
Imo, the Gardevoir dress is both organic and removable. It doesn't hurt when damaged and can regrow when damaged but it can also be painlessly taken off and put back on with no issues. Makes maintenance easy and allows for more outfit options. However, the green part of the torso and arms is just different skin coloration, it's not removable.
With mega evolution, more removable bits od make more sense and I can agree with that headcanon. But with the normal Gardevoir, I think only the dress is removable.
Makes sense and i'd prefer gardevoir having everything be part of their bodies as well, because thats what makes them special and i love them more for that. but a lot in the community have been trying to convince me that the top being removable is just better in most scenarios.
Its more so looking at the similarities between the bare skin of the arms on ralts, kirlia, and then mega gardevoir. And concluding the green could just be a covering of sorts. But you know what, i prefer if it isnt really.
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u/ArcWraith2000 Apr 12 '26
The variation in crests is cool. Nice work. One question; is it two seperate crests or 1 single one going through the body? I always imagine the latter, with it being fused to their spine and some organs passing through internal holes.
I agree with your ideas on medical issues, though with the piercings harm mentioned, I wonder whats the viability of a Garde personally choosing to get it tattooed? I guess any crest modification they may hate and see as extreme.
Another headcanon I have for their crests is that its involved in their reproduction, explaining their place in the Amorphous egg group. Two Gardevoir (or Gallade) will reproduce not just sexually, but by touching crests and forming a psychic/emotional link. This also allows mating with amorphous species lacking genitalia. Then for nursing their infants, a Garde will touch a Ralts head crest to their own crest to transfer mental energy. (They have no mammaries).