I’ve been rewatching some of the anime recently (mainly DP) and have come to the realization that it’s a Crime for me to have Ash and other anime characters in this verse and not Gary, even if I already have Green. So my tentative workaround right now is adding Gary as Green’s older brother (so he’s the middle child of the Oak family.) He’s of course Ash’s childhood rival and the two probably dated at some point since PalletShipping Is Good, but my endgame idea for him is maybe to pair him with Goh? So he’s maybe Jay’s stepfather and works at the Vermillion lab, while Green is in Pallet and they’re rival researchers or something. Ash’s exes get together it’s fun. Green and Red are of course still rivals and if their rivalry was similar to Gary and Ash’s … well that’s how it is sometimes. I think Gary and Green are different enough it could work. This might change, but it’s something I’m trying out so if you see Gary listed on the blog that’s why.