{"product_id":"pre-order-secret-life-of-lavender-town-single-print","title":"[PRE-ORDER] Single Print of the Secret Life of Lavender Town (1\/8)","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePRE-ORDER ONLY\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReceive the full set shipped on the release date! (Aiming for before Halloween, but we'll announce soon)!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything Included:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour selected print of Secret Life of Lavender Town limited run set.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtist Signed Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited Release Number (ex: \"1 of 10\")\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA lil' sum sum extra for you real ones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoice of Size!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5x7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7x11\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Lore\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat the games show you\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn the games, Lavender Town is the Noble Purple Town: a handful of quiet buildings and one very tall tower. People travel there every day for one reason, to pay respects to Pokémon they’ve lost. The tower is full of ghosts you can’t see without a Silph Scope, a gadget whose own slogan promises to “Make the Invisible Plain to See!” Without it, your Pokémon are “too scared to move.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen a ghost Marowak blocks the way. “Be gone... Intruders...” she says. In the original games you have to defeat her to free her spirit. But she was a mother who died protecting her Cubone from Team Rocket, and that warning was never a threat. Maybe everything in Lavender Town sounds scarier than it means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat the games never show you\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou only see the town. You never see what surrounds it. This is our imagination, so we get to decide, and we like to think the land around Lavender Town is stunning: highlands, waterfalls, lakes, forests, all of it too beautiful to describe. Maybe no tourist was ever brave enough to stay and see it. Maybe the residents had one of those creepy looks on their face when they said \"You should stay the night!\", and that sent people running, when in reality, they were just happy to see people enjoy their little town. And maybe once the player calmed her spirit and drove Team Rocket out, the wildlife were able to come home again, populating the beautiful ecological diversity of the town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWho gathers there\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe town has always been a refuge for the ones without a home. A kindly elder named Fuji, whose name means wisteria, a purple-flowered vine, runs a Volunteer House for orphaned and abandoned Pokémon. Some say he used to live in Cinnabar Island's Pokemon Mansion, which has also been abandoned. Cubone wears its dead mother’s skull, and “when it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.” In the later games, the tower becomes a radio station and the graves move to a place called the House of Memories. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSo maybe none of the Pokémon here are really “there” at all. Maybe they’re memories, or wandering spirits, visible only to those who know how to look. And maybe they gather where they are honored most, in the town where people still come every day to \u003cem\u003esay their names.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOne night in Lavender Town\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDusk.\u003c\/strong\u003e It starts small. On the porch in \u003cstrong\u003eLittle Ghouls and Gourds\u003c\/strong\u003e, the youngest residents carve pumpkins in the last warm hour, one wrapped in a blanket and playing ghost. Maybe it’s only a costume. Maybe the line between who’s here and who isn’t is blurrier than anyone admits. But the night isn’t welcoming to everyone. In \u003cstrong\u003eLavender Squad\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Squirtle Squad slips through the lavender in bedsheets, maybe to blend in, maybe because dressing as the scary thing is the easiest way to be let in. Overhead, Team Rocket’s balloon hangs black against the moon, the same kind of intruder that once took a mother from her child. Maybe that’s what the town has been guarding against all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwilight.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eGlow and the Ghostly\u003c\/strong\u003e is the secret the games never showed you: a still lake, a dock, a forest dyed purple, snowy peaks, and every unseen thing drifting to the water’s edge. Maybe the dock is where they wait. Maybe they’re waiting for each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMidnight.\u003c\/strong\u003e Then come the places the world forgets. \u003cstrong\u003eGutter Magic\u003c\/strong\u003e hides a festival in an alley, where Trubbish throw the best party in town and a Mismagius is the hero of the hour. Maybe the ones everyone walks past make the loudest joy. \u003cstrong\u003eMelting Mansion\u003c\/strong\u003e is a grand house that lost its owners long ago, now all dust and cobwebs, with a Gengar who seems to have taken the lease. Maybe a home is just wherever someone is glad you came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeep night.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHaunted Highlands\u003c\/strong\u003e is the long walk: waterfalls, bare trees, a river carrying you toward the town, and small shadows keeping you company on a road you thought you were taking alone. Maybe every ghost story starts with someone traveling a long way to find somewhere to belong. And in \u003cstrong\u003eWitching Hour\u003c\/strong\u003e, a house on bird legs strolls through the dark forest. In the old tales it belongs to Baba Yaga, and people fear it. Maybe it’s the opposite: a home that walks, so no one has to wait for one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDawn.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePink Skies Lullabies\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first moment all night that nothing is hiding. A lake glows pink, a Dragonair rises, and a Jigglypuff sings. Maybe the lullaby is for everyone who finally found each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe secret\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMaybe Lavender Town was never \u003cem\u003ehaunted, \u003c\/em\u003eper say. Maybe it’s a place made of remembering, where the ones with nowhere else to be gather because they’re honored there, and all they ever wanted was each other. Maybe that’s all a home is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThese eight paintings are a town for the homeless, and each one is looking for a wall of its own. Maybe one of them is looking for yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecret Life of Lavender Town\u003c\/em\u003e is unofficial fan art, created independently by Palette Sisters. Pokémon and all related characters are trademarks of Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company. 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