Artist's commentary
Hello guys R-Senal back at it again with the art and I decided to make yet another marshadow picture. however you might think that this isnt marshadow, well actually this is a form i created for marshadow when he wears the mask of the night marcher. its for a headcannon for my trainer’s story who’s main pokemon is marshadow.
anyways the origin of this form is that it is the night marcher form and is supposed to body the nature of chaos itself in the alola region. in this form marshadow name isn’t marshadow, actually his name is mars and the reason why he is called marshadow now in modern day is because he is literally a shadow of his former self. any who when mars was roaming around he exerted chaotic energy which would corrupt the minds of anything that went near him. the people of alola saw him as a threat and called upon the power of the guardian deities to defeat him, but he proved to be too strong. then the 2 ultra beast solgaleo and lunala were called upon to defeat this pokemon sadly they are both psychic type and after a short period of time were destroyed as well. for years the people of alola fought mars and when things started to look bleak for the alolan people a man from the unova region confronts the fiend with the pokemon of victory Victini (however in this headcanon victini also has a form as well that is supposed to parallel marshadow’s. the name of the form is Victor… yeah real original lol) no one knows where he came from or who contacted him but he came to challenge the pokemon of chaos and with the power of Victor they were able to to defeat Mars.. well it was a draw actually and they sealed his power to the mask they broke off his face causing him to transform him into marshadow. However before he was sealed he placed a curse on victini turning him into is tiny form. the only way to turn victini back into its victory form is to unlock its heart through many victories and determination. and for marshadow to turn back into mars he must wear the mask of the night marcher. and that’s how mars became marshadow.
i based mars off of night bringer yasuo and the story is based on the lore behind night bringer yasuo and dawn bringer riven as well. anyways thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy it.