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Can you explain more about the OC Grandparents?

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Sure! The OC grandparents listed are all parents of canon characters who don’t have names or extended appearances in the games or anime (this would include characters such as Johanna, Grace, Meyer, etc) In some cases my depiction of the grandparents might differ a bit from canon, such as Red and Leaf’s mother having red hair instead of brown, but in general, the game protags’ mothers fit in here! 

I will continue to update the directory as I develop more characters but currently, the identities of the grandparents listed in that section are as follows:

  • Aiden Aoyama & Scarlett Yuukoku – Red & Leaf’s parents. Aiden was a Gym Trainer at the Viridian Gym, but goes missing and is presumed deceased 5 years before Red goes on his journey, while Scarlett, is the mother seen in the RBGY and FRLG games. (She also happens to be Blaine’s daughter and only child.)
  • Charlie & Flora Oak – Daisy, Gary & Green’s parents. Both were researchers and passed away 7 years before Gary’s journey and 9 years before Green’s journey.
  • Isabel Suzuki & Angelo Papavero – Lyra’s parents. Isabel is the mother seen in the HGSS games, while Angelo is a total OC who is a childhood friend and right hand to Giovanni. Isabel broke up with him when she found out that he was involved with a criminal organization and Lyra doesn’t know about him until after the events of HGSS.
  • Zack Teruya – Ethan’s father and a single dad. A mysterious foreigner who was taken in by the Daycare Couple when they found him and baby Ethan lost and in need of somewhere to stay. He and his son later take the couple’s surname and move to Newbark, though remain close with them, thus Ethan views the Daycare Couple as his grandparents even if they aren’t blood-related.
  • Violet Touma – Reggie & Paul’s mother. She was an archeologist like her husband but passed away in a freak accident while on-site when Paul was a baby. She also happened to be the older sister of Lila, Johanna’s old rival, who is Ursula’s mother, making Ursula the cousin of Reggie and Paul (something she and Paul both like to ignore.)
  • Diana Montfort – Hilda & Hilbert’s mother. Nothing much to say here, she’s pretty much just the canon BW mom. Of note is that she’s descended from nobility and inherited a manor house/château (most of which is now a museum) that she and her children live in a section of and which she helps maintain, rather than the regular house the BW protag lives in in canon.
  • Harper Montfort & Tia Nocita – Nate & Rosa’s parents. Harper is the twin brother of Diana and while he and Tia aren’t married, they are in a steady relationship. Harper travels a lot and isn’t home very often. He’s had a lot of jobs over the years, including as a Sinnoh Frontier Brain where he became good buddies with Palmer. (He also has some bad habits, especially in his youth, like gambling away the family inheritance, but settled down once his children were born.) Tia is the canon BW2 mom and like in canon, used to be a Pokémon Center nurse.
  • Robert Aubert – Serena’s father. He’s a very normal businessman of Kalosian birth who worked for Clay’s mining company in an office/managerial position. He’s not super familiar with the life of a pokémon trainer but supports his daughter wholeheartedly when she sets out on her journey. During XY, he was finishing up business in Unova before moving in with his wife and daughter in Kalos and was very confused and surprised to find out his daughter had helped save the region when he finally made it.
  • Zéphyrine Sycamore – Alain & Calem’s mother. The older sister of Professor Sycamore, she passed away when Alain was a child and Calem a toddler and her boyfriend couldn’t handle the loss and abandoned his children not long after, leading the boys to be raised by their grandparents and uncle.
  • Orion & Clarissa Kagami – Selene & Elio’s father and stepmother. Orion was a single father who married Clarissa, the canon SuMo mom, when his twins were about 5 or so. He passed away not long before the start of SuMo, and the family’s move to Alola was a way for them to get a fresh start after his mysterious death. (This backstory is still in development, but my idea was for Selene & Elio’s family situation to be similar to Gladion & Lillie’s, with a disappeared dad.)
  • Nichola & Auberon Ellington – Victor & Gloria’s parents. In what is now a running theme, Auberon went missing 5 or so years before the SwSh plot, though he actually is alive and is found/comes back after the plot so this one has a happy ending!! Nichola is the canon SwSh mum. Oh, and also Auberon is a fairy prince and one of the two heroes of legend, though his kids don’t find this out until the postgame when Victor meets his old friend “Uncle Bunny” Calyrex.

Wait… Blaine is Red’s grandfather?! That’s interesting…

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Blaine is Red and Leaf’s grandfather, you’re right! He has one child, a daughter named Scarlett, who left her home on Cinnabar Island to go on her pokémon journey to challenge the Kanto Gyms in the year 3584. During her journey she runs into Professor Samuel Oak’s son, Charlie, and his best friend, Aiden, who are travelling together. While Charlie was undertaking a junior research program during his journey, Aiden was a competitive trainer like Scarlett, so the two naturally became rivals. Aiden and Scarlett both had ambitions to become the Champion one day and while they competed, they also end up becoming friends, especially after Aiden unexpectedly helps save Scarlett’s life (which is also when her crush on him fully blooms – though it takes a while for Aiden to notice both that and his own feelings for her.)

The two end up dating and later get married. Scarlett moves to Pallet to be with her husband and the two have two children together – Red and Leaf. While both still had aspirations to become Champion, they both found that that goal was harder then they had thought when they were young. Scarlett ends up with health problems following Red’s difficult birth, which result in her needing to stay closer to home. She gets a job as a teacher for aspiring trainers at the local school. Aiden, meanwhile, gets a job as a trainer at the Viridian Gym, however when Red is 8 and Leaf is 6, he goes missing following his discovery of Team Rocket activity there. During these struggles, Blaine does his best to support his daughter and her family, though he can’t often leave Cinnabar due to his job as Gym Leader. He also, of course, ends up facing his grandchildren years later when they both go on their own journeys and is very proud of what strong trainers they’ve become. While Blaine was somewhat distant for them growing up, he is able to establish a better relationship with his grandchildren once they’re teens. 

I read ‘Byakuren Tokiwa (Single Father)’ than I read ‘Delia Ketchum (Single Mother)’ and now I couldn’t help but think Ash and Yellow will be cute as siblings!

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That’s an intriguing idea! However, while I can see Delia perhaps wanting to start a relationship, Byakuren not as much. He’s a thousands of years old dragon god and in general not really the romantic type. There are even jokes that he just had Yellow through osmosis or something since he never speaks about her other parent. But, while I don’t think they’d end up together romantically, I can see them being good friends! I haven’t thought as much about the dynamic between all the ‘Pallet Parents’ aside from the Charlie/Aiden/Scarlett/Byakuren childhood friend quartet, but since Delia lives there too I’m sure she’s part of that friend group.

I can see her being especially close with Scarlett (Red & Leaf’s mother) and Sylvie (Chase & Elaine’s mother) in a sort of ‘Pallet Town Mom Friends’ group, but I’m sure she’d get to know Byakuren as well. I’m not sure how much he sticks around after Yellow grows up – if he stays in Pallet or heads back to his home/domain of Viridian Forest – but either way he and Delia definitely know each other and are probably friends! Byakuren can be kind of prickly around people who aren’t his immediate friend group, but Delia is also very open and persistent so if she decided she wanted to be friends with him she’d probably manage it. Since she would have known Aiden and Charlie growing up (all three of them being raised in Pallet, and doing a bit of math – she’d be maybe a year or two younger than them), she probably would want to get to know their mysterious new dragon friend as well. As such, they’ve probably known each other since Delia was a teenager, so plenty of time to become friends. Both raising their kids on their own as well, they likely helped each other out with parenting (of course Aiden, Scarlett, and Charlie helped out as well), especially since Delia was quite young when she had Ash.

Ash and Yellow would have grown up as childhood friends. Ash would be around three years older, and they’re both very sweet and friendly people so I can see them spending time together when they were kids aside from just hanging out since their parents are friends. As they’re both only children, perhaps they already had a sibling-like relationship where Yellow looked up to him as an older brother figure (though it was generally Red who was more overt with seeing Ash as a brother figure.) I’m sure they keep in touch as adults since both seem the type to want to stay up to date with their childhood friends, but since they live in different regions now they likely don’t see each other as much unless Ash and his family are visiting his hometown (for the holidays or something.)

So, while I can’t see a ship between their parents working out, Ash and Yellow are still close friends!