In honor of it being the Asagi triplet’s birthdays (either today or yesterday depending on your timezone), I’ll share some headcanons about their family!

Cress works at the Olivine Café. He loves the chance to get to cook for a living since it’s a legit passion of his, and working at a tavern in a port town lets him meet all sorts of interesting people and hear some good gossip. Most people know him as the ‘Gym Leader’s Husband’ rather than any other distinction which is just fine by him. He does get homesick for his brothers in far off Kalos once and a while, and tries to take regular trips to meet up with them (or they come to him).

Jasmine continues her work as Gym Leader and has grown a lot more confident over the years. Frustrated at being unable to help Amphy when he got sick, she decides to start studying pokémon medicine, visiting Cianwood frequently to talk with the herbalist there and staying up late taking online courses. Over time, she builds a reputation of being able to deal with the more unusual illnesses and injuries that pokémon may get. As they are her specialty, she’s especially known for treating even the most stubborn steel types.

Parsley was always a wild child, as opposed to his more subdued identical brother and conniving but anxious sister. In the dynamic of the three, Parsley was the doer in their plans. He never settles on one type he likes, choosing to raise a diverse team, but when he inherits the gym, he plans on sticking to steel types like his mother. He has this goal to swim to Cianwood City after Rosemary dared him that he couldn’t do it. He has yet to make all the way there without stopping on a shoal to catch his breath, but he dreams to one day. He’s probably the most athletic of the triplets and can often be seen zooming around Olivine on his bike doing errands for people or running late for some appointment or another.

Rosemary is the conspiracy fiend, the one who loves spooky stories and hidden agendas. Part of this comes from her naturally anxious and suspicious nature and part of it was born of curiosity about her father’s mysterious past. She collects pretty much anything relating to conspiracy theories – books, magazines, she even has a tsuchinoko plush toy which is one of her comfort items. She’s also the one to focus on training water types like her father. As a child, Rosemary loved standing at the docks and watching the ships come into port, or collecting seashells on the beach. This love of the sea translated to a love of water types. Rosemary is a trained sailor as well and has her own sailboat, a Sunfish named ‘Tangerine.’

Thyme is probably the quietest of the triplets and has a habit of fading into the background. Unlike his siblings, he has a distinct interest in exploring his dark mage heritage, leading him to train mainly ghost types. He finds that spirits are often lonely and confused and, due to his highly empathetic nature, determined that he wanted to find a way to fulfill their wishes. After spending some time with the Hasumi clan in Ecruteak City, Thyme decides to open a private practice as a Medium, helping people with their spiritual problems and helping ghosts at the same time. He later travels the world to meet more kinds of spirits and comes back from this journey with a veritable menagerie of spirits trailing behind him. The Asagi household is now perhaps one of the most haunted locations in Johto outside of the Hasumi compound.

As a family in general, they are fairly quiet for the most part. Cress and Jasmine are both pretty soft-spoken and even Parsley isn’t all that wild compared to most people, he just stands out among his family as being rambunctious. With Cress being a chef, there are frequently big family meals. Often Rosemary helps out as well. She’s quite the skilled cook herself, though her brothers are rather hopeless at it. There’s often a decent amount of good natured bickering between the triplets while their parents exchange a knowing smile over the heads of their bantering children. As a couple, Cress and Jasmine are the type to stay quite cheesily romantic even years into their marriage. They often go on dates, and Cress will buy flowers on his way home from work to surprise his wife with. They’re not super publicly affectionate, but everyone in Olivine knows how in love they are by the little things they do for each other. Their family seems to have a shared trait of being hopeless romantics and cheesy romcoms and soaps are a household staple on weekend ‘TV Nights’.