Summary
A creativePokemonfan has shared their concept for a Mecha Umbreon that crosses over the iconic Pokemon with the ValvePortalgame. The uniquePokemonfanart twist cleverly plays with the coloring that Umbreon has in both its standard and Shiny versions.
Although it’s been a long time since Eevee got a new evolution, the line of Pokemon remains extremely popular with fans. Eevee is considered to be pretty cute, and sincePokemonfans can evolve it in so many different ways, it’s likely that most Pokemon trainers have afavorite Eeveelution. While their base evolutions are great on their own, some fans have taken the initiative to make them even more interesting.
Over on Reddit, artist shunixe has shared their design for a Mecha Umbreon, which shows the Pokemon split in half, courtesy of portals that it’s using. The back half of Umbreon, which hasShiny Umbreon’s blue stripes, is disappearing into a blue portal, while a yellow portal in front of it shows the front half of the Umbreon poking through, which has yellow stripes akin to its standard form. The mecha design itself is impressive, with Umbreon looking like it’s made out of robotic parts, but the clever nod to Umbreon’s colors looking similar to the colors used for portals in Portal is particularly neat.
Portal and Pokemon Fans Collide
Numerous fans have commented on the work,quoting classic lines fromPortal, like telling the artist that they’re thinking with portals or saying “this was a triumph” while complimenting the artwork. One fan pointed out that Umbreon has poisonous sweat, which could even tie into the deadly neurotoxin that Portal players are threatened with when GLaDOS tries to kill the player in the first game. WhilePokemonand Valve games have never had a crossover of any kind, it’s interesting to think about what could be created if it were to happen.
For fans of the mecha styling of this particular Pokemon, this is just the latest mecha take on an Eeveelution that this artist has shared. This artist has already createdmecha forms for Eevee, Vaporeon, and Leafeon. It’s likely that they’ll continue working on new Eeveelutions in this style, though they’ve also created other types ofPokemonfanart that don’t have that mecha twist. In any case, it seems that the fandom is receptive to their work, so it will be interesting to see what they design next, and which Eeveelution will get a mecha version next.
