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I know I literally just a few days ago posted a nice long detailed outline of my Alola protag families and said “Now finally I have them figured out” well THAT WAS A LIE. Thanks to the evil, evil influence of some friends I couldn’t get the idea of protag/ultra recon squad out of my brain and just doing more with the URS anyways, so UH now I guess Dulse and Zossie are also there. Sometimes.

I kind of liked the idea that for Ultra Megalopolan culture, when someone’s life/work involves a lot of travel like theirs does, it’s very common to, rather than settle down with a steady partner, be the “part-time” third (or fourth!) to a relationship involving people who live less transitory lives. It settles the desire for romantic and/or physical partnership, without leading into some of the difficulties that can arise from long distance relationships or one person constantly coming to and fro while the other feels like they’re always waiting for them. Obviously everyone has their own preferences and situation that works for them, but this scenario happens enough in UM that it’s considered typical! Very normal for kids to grow up with two/three full-time parents and another parent who comes and goes but is still an important part of the relationship.

With that in mind, Dulse for a long time had that kind of relationship with Anabel & Thorton, spending half his time in UM and always being sure to visit them in Sinnoh when his work took him to Earth. (Less typically, his daughter with the two of them, Carola, travels with him most of the time rather than staying in Sinnoh with her other parents, so she has Dulse’s surname and considers herself more in-touch with her UM side rather than her Earthling side.) Back in Alola, Zossie had grown close with Acerola & Selene and while she too wasn’t “full-time” in a relationship with them, they had a well established dynamic together as well as a daughter (raised by Acerola & Selene). Dulse began spending more time in Alola once Gladion established a program focused on rehoming and safely capturing UBs, working closely with the URS, and during this time found himself growing closer with the Aether president and his husband. It had been over a decade since he’d spent any meaningful interaction with Elio or Gladion, and he found he got along very well with the both of them. Zossie teased him endlessly about how he’d found some Alolans he liked since he wasn’t satisfied with just his partners up in Sinnoh, and he brushed her off until some Moment of Realization that he actually had grown fond of them as well (as had Carola). One thing leads to another, and now Dulse has two families he spends his time with, and Zossie is very smug. It’s definitely the type of relationship that’s unconventional on Earth but quite typical in Ultra Megalopolis, but everyone involved is happy and satisfied!

TLDR: now Dulse is a part-time third to Elio/Gladion and Zossie is the same to Selene/Acerola and I shuffled/added to their kids to accommodate this. Primrose & Enzian now have a baby brother named Osmund (after the scientific name of pepper dulse algae), and Eugenia’s now the name of the baby of the family, while the middle daughter has been renamed to Vallisia “Valli” (after the name for freshwater eelgrass, as opposed to Zossie’s name coming from the marine kind). FINALLY I decided that with this it made more sense for Weiss’s URS parent to be someone else, so he’s now Kahili’s son via a one-night-stand with Soliera, not Dulse! His “real name” has been changed to Thörun (from the Icelandic word for algae) from Söl (meaning dulse), to reflect this.

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Just a quick heads up for you all! I’m a lot busier this fall than I have been in the past, so I won’t be doing the traditional Fankidtober this year that I’ve done prior Octobers. However, I will still try and be a lot more active on the blog this month than I have been! I’m going to try and work on more profiles, reblog ask memes, and also answer any other asks that come my way, so feel free to reach out!

Unless you talked about this before, how did Raihan, Leon and Piers all end up together?

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I don’t think I have talked about this before, so I can outline the details now!

By the time the game plot kicks off, there’s definitely been a tension of sorts between the three for a while. Leon is extremely busy as Champion, so starting a relationship is something he simply doesn’t have time for, not to mention Rose wouldn’t approve since it’d kick off a whole new series of publicity issues to manage. So Leon does sometimes consider relationships, but only really in the abstract. It’s something has no experience with. Raihan is aware of this and is angry about it, but also keeps his own feelings for Leon private since he doesn’t want to make things even more difficult for his friend and rival. Piers, however, is aware of all of Raihan’s woes because the two are friends-with-benefits and Raihan likes to complain to him, haha. Piers is starting to get a bit fed up with the situation as well, though. He understands the situation, but he’d rather Raihan stop being indecisive about their own relationship (keep it casual, try for something more, or just break things off) so Piers can get on with his life knowing exactly where they stand.

After Leon loses the Championship to Victor and Rose is detained, however, suddenly the factors keeping things in that sort of stasis are suddenly removed, and Leon is now free to pursue any romantic pursuits he desires without Rose breathing down his neck about it or having to rush off to some event (or at least less events now). Piers assumes this means that Raihan will break things off with him to woo Leon, but the pregnancy with the twins complicates matters and when he brings up the idea of breaking up to Raihan he’s actually very upset with the idea. The two agree to stay close at least for the sake of the babies, and in the meantime Raihan starts being more overt with his flirting towards Leon, who does actually pick up on it (since the feelings were mutual and he was looking for it). Leon is hesitant since he was aware of Raihan’s relationship with Piers, but when both of them express that they didn’t mind him being their third, Leon decides to try the whole relationship thing out, finally.

Things progress pretty slowly from there, just due to Leon’s own inexperience with dating, but the three grow very close over time, especially once Chelsea and Merrill are born (Leon adores them and is a natural as a dad). As Leon and Raihan grow closer, Piers assumes they’ll want it to be just the two of them growing forward and begins to distance himself, but both of them make it clear that he’s wanted as well – Raihan not wanting to lose what they’d had for so long and Leon having bonded a lot with him and still wanting to grow closer. At some point, they all move in together in Hammerlocke (maybe around when Nasrin is born?) and I think they marry sometime before Charlie is born. They have a second smaller home in Wyndon for when Leon needs to spend more time at work as well (and it’s closer to the recording studio Piers prefers). And that’s the story! By the fankid era they’re all very happy with each other and are doing well.

Can you tell us more about Elio, Selene, and their children and relationship with their partners?

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This ask has been sitting here a while and their families have gone through some pretty big changes since then, but I think I’m now in a comfortable place with the Alola protags to answer this!

Selene & Elio spent most of their childhoods living a very unstable and transitory lifestyle with their single father, Orion. He lost most of his memories when the twins were toddlers, but due to a distrust of authority he never sought help for this, simply doing his best to raise his children on his own and provide for them. When Elio & Selene were around 7 or 8, they moved to Vermillion, Kanto where Orion befriended a woman named Clarissa, who often babysat the twins while Orion worked his various odd-jobs, and even eventually offered them a place to live with her. Only a few years after getting settled, however, Orion up and left with very minimal warning to his roommate and children, leaving Clarissa to take custody of Selene & Elio as they had no other relatives. With this backdrop, when one of Clarissa’s cousins announced they were selling their house in Alola, she took the opportunity to move there for the sake of a fresh start for the children. When they set out on their island trials, Selene & Elio are still coming to terms with the disappearance of their father as well as moving regions, a plotline I thought would work well in tandem with Gladion & Lillie’s stories! (Also they find out that Actually they and their father are Fallers and that’s the true cause of his amnesia, they were just too little to have noticed any lost memories. How things resolve on that end is still WiP!)

Selene and Elio trade off the Champion seat every year or so for a while, but by the next-gen era the title has gone to Acerola! She and Selene are married, and Selene now works full time as a photographer, both artistically and for documenting the variety of pokemon and other creatures that inhabit Alola (her specialty is spirit photography!) Elio is married to current Aether President Gladion, and is an Pokémon Ranger who works closely with the organization, helping to protect habitats and bringing in injured wild pokémon for care. More details on their families under the cut!

Selene has always had a fascination with the macabre and ghost stories, lending her otherwise cheerful and somewhat airheaded demeanor a sinister tinge (aka she will happily discuss the ghost standing right next to you with her usual smile). When she first got her Rotom Dex and discovered it had a camera, she became obsessed with documenting her Trial through photographs, and Acerola’s trial ignited a love of photographing ghosts and ghost-types. She loves the idea of being able to capture the intangible on film, both for artistic merit and scientific research. After the events of the game, Selene remains in Alola and is the one who works with Interpol to catch UBs, which is how she and Acerola grew closer and eventually form a romantic relationship! After their first child, Lirio, is born is when Selene decides to retire as a trainer to pursue her photography full time and when Acerola became the Champion (where she remains). The two go on to have a second child, Eugenia, a few years later. Lirio is a very serious boy who can sometimes be a bit of a stick in the mud, though he’s also a fiercely competitive trainer. Eugenia on the other hand is a very cheerful and somewhat ditzy girl who is known for losing track of time and wandering off (Lirio worries about her as much as he complains about her).

Elio did his best to keep his spirits up throughout his childhood, but in many ways felt that he had to do so in order for Selene to not grow despondent when times were tough as well. This carried over when they moved to Alola, Elio keeping a happy expression even when venting his frustrations or being a bit mean (or manipulative). This exacerbated his rivalry with Gladion, who resented him for being “fake”. Over the course of the game, however, the two realize they have more in common than it initially appeared, forming a close bond of friendship and rivalry. After the end of the game, the two of them decide to travel together to other regions and challenge more leagues, eventually forming a romantic relationship along the way. This is also when Elio learns about Pokémon Rangers! When they return to Alola, Elio and Selene compete for the Champion seat together for a while, trading it off every so often, but once they both decide Acerola is the better fit, he revisits the idea of being a Ranger, something he prefers to working directly for Aether as he doesn’t like dealing with people, so it’s something he can do on his own terms! He and Gladion have two children – Primrose, who is a timid coordinator, and Enzian, an energetic and adventurous boy fond of playing pranks.

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I couldn’t hold back the PLA brainrot any longer so introducing my Ingo/Melli twins Mirabelle “Belle” and Cassiopeia “Cassie”! (Made in this Picrew!) They’re not actually born until after the “cutoff” point of my AU (3036) since I wanted each of my Submas kids to … Continue reading

I’m the one who asked about the whole if n was the one who was pregnant thing and that did clear a lot up also to clarify why I said mom it’s sort of a habit of mine from my own fankids stuff sorry about that, but I was also going to ask if you had any pregnancy headcannons of n sorry if I’m being annoying or anything by asking I’m just curious.

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No worries, you’re not annoying! Unfortunately though I don’t really have any concrete headcanon’s regarding N’s pregnancy with Oliver since I don’t think there was anything particularly remarkable about it. Oliver was a planned baby, and things progressed smoothly! All the “more interesting” things happened with the twins, since they were an accident and Hilbert and N weren’t technically dating at the time, so over the course of the pregnancy is when they establish their relationship, not to mention all the fears they (especially N) had regarding becoming parents for the first time. By the time Oliver is born, they’re married and in a much more stable relationship, plus they’ve got more experience with what to expect after the twins and after their friends had their own babies!

I just tend to have more hcs about pregnancies if there’s something more happening around them or something out of the norm, like relationship drama, unusual circumstances, etc. All of that sort of thing only happens before and after Oliver is born (as he’s a reincarnation and that has its own brand of baggage).

Sorry if this is a dumb question and I’m probably missing a detail but in your au is n the mother of any kids? I’m just curious and also wondering if I’m missing a detail or something. Sorry if I’m being stupid

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It’s not a dumb question! In my AU, pretty much anyone can both become pregnant and impregnate others, which was mainly something I implemented for the sake of fankids. Unlike in some versions of omegaverse, I chose to base parental titles on gender rather than who bore the child since I realized it would get a bit confusing otherwise (one child calling a parent ‘dad’ while their sibling calls the same parent ‘mom’ for example). So with that in mind, N is the father to all his children! Just like Hilbert is also the father of their kids. Both are the dads.

However, if you’re referring to actual pregnancy here, then yes, N was the one pregnant with Oliver, while Hilbert had the twins. Hope this clears things up!

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I saw a cool train at the science museum while on vacation and apparently that was inspiration enough for me to give Janus a little brother😅

So! Meet Zephyr! He’s about 10 years younger than his brother, and is also 10 when Janus goes missing on his search for Ingo. While he’s the opposite of Janus in many ways, people still claim that despite the large age gap the two brothers have “twin energy”. As a child, Zephyr often followed Janus around everywhere, copying him and finishing his sentences for him (albeit with his trademark stoicism). After his uncle and brother are gone and he grows into his teen years in their shadow, however, Zephyr begins to focus more on surpassing them, aiming to set new records both in the Battle Subway and for Unova railways in general, spearheading a project to bring long-distance inter-regional rail up to his exacting standards.

Also as a bonus under the cut…. two of them 🙂

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