Welcome to my twisted WIP

I completely forgot about the origin of Ketsuban technically coming from a discord DM that was in between me watching Spanish Dragon Ball Iceberg Videos (long story.) I guess this is now the containment zone for the glitch users and the subsequent rumor universe, which is kinda based on Persona 2 and Melty Blood but this is just the pokemon centric part of it.
Most things pulled from Glitch City Laboratories and artwork from Bulbapedia. I really hate that google images have been completely obliterated because looking up glitch stuff nets me nothing whatsoever. Most new additions from youtube thumbnails or official artwork or other people’s screenshots, some glitch screenshots from PRAMA Initiative (it's in french though.)

The World of Glitches

Gen 1 glitches and onwards are absolutely fascinating in pokemon from what I've done in my playtime and all the videos I've ever watched for them. So how could they work in universe?

I've already had a few like concepts for glitch related things within the pokemon world but most of them so far have just ended up being powerscaling glitches as if pokemon trainers were glitch users with powers (down below) instead of any kind of coherently written or elaborate thing yet minus the sprite concept I just posted about a revamped glitch user Red with visual glitch effects (also down below). In universe glitch hunters and glitch users are considered as like rumor hunters on a level less than mythicals because there's at least some evidence those pokemon exist, glitches are a bunch of elaborate things to do just like they are in the games.

Sometimes my brain does a thing for ideas where it just takes a concept from another franchise entirely so I'll end up being like "yeah, cinnabar island's waters work like the dark ocean in digimon 02 from what little i remember about it, that's why there's so many weird things in just that, missingno is clearly some kind of entity within the ocean and the various trainers that are possible to activate and fight (professor oak and rival ultimus) are just ways it's attempting to communicate with the player/Red by using familiar things or they in themselves are entities. Glitch City is further within the waters somehow. Missingno itself is a collection of all the scrapped and corrupted pokemon that have ever existed and ever will exist in a single entity. " (which I also think might've been a digimon thing.)

And I'll nod along with my thoughts being like "Yeah that makes sense. How would that account for the exploding level 153 bulbasaurs that are possible with the ZZAZZ glitch?" The answer to that is "idk."

To make more sense of the broken, glitching world missingno resides over, I go with one of my map headcanons that the gameboy stories are on a seperate timeline compared to the GBA stories and the 3DS stories. okay so the best analogy i can go with right now is that arceus is like bahamut in granblue fantasy where he created one world and then abandoned it to make a new one or a more game like one is that arceus keeps making minecraft servers and steve became herobrine because the server corrupted and now arceus is afraid to shut down the server and also arrogant like "you really expect me to care about every single world and person i've created (while being blatantly hypocritical about his precious chosen one who he sent to save history)" so he just keeps making new ones.

They exist in a world known as the glitch dimension and can only interact with reality through electronic objects. So in that way... they're like Digimon...

This is a very funny statement because it sounds like "oh, so scary!" but then we actually got leaks of beta pokemon between spaceworld and DP and just... look at these guys.

Alternatively, they could look like these guys from the officially licensed pocket monsters manga back when the only thing the creator had to work with were the gameboy sprites. Now those were scary.

OG Users

The wall of text!

This is the original concept for the glitch users. I need to find a way to rewrite this so it isn't just a bunch of walls of text, but for now this is the full concept for them and their powers, which I made on the same day as the discord posts, plus reposted to other sites.. This is the first time I've ever been so blatant on their existence though. (Note: How exactly do glitch users come about in universe? Figure that out. The answer is "a mistake happened." Like the trope uhhh "blessed with suck." )

I basically just DM'd this one guy on discord with this concept of: Look at how WEIRD pokemon glitches are.

Glitch Lore

the glitch world kinda exists in parallel to the original world/timeline of pokemon

Here's the list of the most well known areas for the pokemon specific glitch/haunted zones. Lavender Tower (You Know Why.) Vermillion City (Mew Truck!) Cinnabar Island (Missingno) Ruins of Alph (Spell of the Unown.) Goldenrod City (For Coin Case) Battle Tower (Battle Tower glitches) Mt. Silver (You Know Why.) Mirage Island (if it ever shows up) Jubilife City (Access the Void) It’s 9 to 9 for haunted places and users

(Fire doesn’t count, he was just in the OG image batch as a joke.)
Glitch Pokémon tend to have a thing that marks them as incorrect in the world and they are promptly either brought back to the glitch dimension by one of the more harmless members or killed on the spot. For people who do execute things properly, there’s usually a problem of the fact that the glitch user number is relatively small because they are NOT supposed to exist and it’s a miracle that they’ve survived for a long time whenever they leave their world. The moment a glitch activates that could cause huge world ending ramifications the user is basically ejected from the regular world and their timeline gets cut off. So then the glitch world gets another piece of junk data added to it.
People who aren’t meant to have glitch powers but survive tend to be almost “infected” and start displaying pieces of random glitch Pokémon or traits of them . People and Pokémon instinctively avoid them and for the most part they end up being attacked by legendaries on the spot if they ever have the misfortune to run into one. Minus Giratina, because it knows what it’s like to be rejected.