I definitely do! I’ve loved the fantasy genre for a long time, so that’s what inspired me to make a fantasy AU for the Pokémon world, with magic, mythical creatures, and lots of myth/lore-oriented worldbuilding. My original inspiration for this was way back when I was in elementary school and I watched Lucario and the Mystery of Mew for the first time – this movie introduced me to the idea of combining pokémon and fantasy in a way I’d never thought of before, so it’s still a very special movie for me (and my fave pokémon movie in general). 

A lot of the ways magic works, how people interact with the supernatural, and the like are all inspired by the fantasy media I’ve consumed over the years, but there’s not one source that’s the main inspiration. However, the concept of dragonbloods, apart from deriving just from my love of dragons, was inspired by a few different pokémon fanfics I’ve read where humans have types like pokémon do – Triumverate and its spinoffs by Renaerys in particular. 

The story beats from L&L have some inspiration from other media as well. The main plot has some Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and Tales of Symphonia inspiration (among others), for example, and a number of more minor fankids are direct expies of fictional characters (just because I felt like it haha). Other minor plotlines might just be inspired by things I like since I wanted to explore how that story would work in the verse I’ve created – like how the Alola kids have a Stranger Things-esque story. This is one of the big reasons I have so many fankids – I just want to be able to play around with many different kinds of stories.

In terms of other people, I’m friends with a number of others in the Pokémon Fankid community and we’ll often discuss ideas. In particular, @pkmnomegaverse and I talk a lot about story and character ideas and come up with a lot of different things together, so that’s why there’s some overlap in our two AUs! We both draw inspiration from each other constantly since we’re often discussing ideas for fankids, the parents, plot points, etc. The whole community in general is a huge inspiration since discovering it is what gave me the idea to make fankids in the first place, and that led to everything else in the AU.