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Day 22: Maeve “Eve” Birch-Fáng

Eve is Brendan & Wally’s daughter, and the third of their four children (including Layla). She initially started her journey as a trainer alongside her Treecko, and did quite well at it, even placing high in her first League tournament. However, as she entered her second year of traveling in Johto, she began to feel burnt out and tired of battling, but a chance encounter at the Goldenrod Flower shop opened her eyes to the wonders of gardening and berries! After returning home to Hoenn, she began working at the Pretty Petal flower shop and has become an accomplished florist in the time since – not only is she skilled at gardening, she also knows all about flower meanings and arrangement!

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Over the past few months I’ve been sort of overhauling this AU a bit. The story, characters, and parent ships have been changing to reflect how my own preferences have changed over time since I started this blog. In the earliest drafts of L&L, Brendan actually was married to a former Team Aqua grunt, a ship I decided on since I had recently read the Dating a Team Magma Grunt comic series and found it cute. Since Alpha Sapphire is canon in L&L, I had Brendan date a Team Aqua grunt instead. Eve was the fankid for this pairing. Wally and Anabel was honestly a “pair the spares” ship. I wanted Wally to have children and Anabel just seemed like an interesting character to pair him with. This was before SuMo came out and the whole Faller!Anabel plotline and everything.

However, over time, I decided I didn’t want as many canon character/oc ships, and didn’t feel as interested in Brendan’s family anymore, so I merged him and Eve with Wally and Anabel’s family. But really, this choice was mainly since I’d come to ship Wally/Brendan much more in that time. I’d always liked it, but now I wanted them to be endgame. Anabel was still in the ship since I liked Layla, but that was really the only reason. I grew fond of the OT3, but I couldn’t deny that I was mainly shipping it due to Brendan/Wally.

Which brings me to now. With SuMo introducing Faller!Anabel as a concept, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of the Anabel from L&L Falling to another world. The roadblock was that she had a family already, but really, Layla is the only one of her children that has any serious attachment to her in terms of personality, role, etc. Eve and Henry just aren’t quite developed enough yet. So I began to think about a scenario where Wally and Anabel are dating, Layla is born, but then Anabel falls, leaving behind her boyfriend and daughter. Brendan helps Wally after this and over time feelings bloom, leading them to get married and have Rhys, Eve, and Henry. Layla grows up wanting to find out what happened to her mother, which is what leads to her joining Interpol and meeting Faller!Anabel. The two end up with a close bond, Anabel coming to see Layla as her own daughter.

I know I have a follower who really loves this OT3, and I’m so happy that you do, but I just don’t have the same passion for the ship, sadly. This has been a long time coming, since I’ve found writing OT3s is quite hard for me. I have to ship all the characters equally and I just don’t in this case. All the same, maybe once Anabel falls, she meets a Brendan and Wally in another world and has a happy end with them – it’s what she deserves!

Any more headcanons you have for the Birch-Fang family?

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[This content is out of date and no longer canon]

Sure thing!

First off, I’ve talked about Layla and Rhys quite a bit… but not the younger two, so I’ll post a bit on what I have so far.

Eve: (Brendan/Anabel) She initially started a pokémon journey as a coordinator, but realized partway through that it wasn’t for her, returning home to pursue her true passion of botany. She’s currently working at a botanical garden, learning about plants and how to care for them. Like Layla, she inherited psychic powers from Anabel, though she has a rarer and more powerful ability, being able to control plants. She’s happy to just use this power for her work, however, being very gentle and not wanting to fight or something with it.
Henry: (Wally/Anabel) The baby of the family. He’s still at home towards the beginning of the story, but eventually starts his journey as a coordinator during the plot. Unlike the rest of his family, a rather grumpy and prone to melodrama. I don’t know too much about him yet besides this though.

As for the parents, I shared a bit about how they got together on Brendan’s profile. The family live in Petalburg, where Wally’s the Gym Leader (neither May nor Max wanted the position, so Norman offered it to a very surprised Wally when he decided to retire.) Brendan moved a lot of the lab equipment from Littleroot to Petalburg once he settled down there, though he travels to his hometown frequently. Anabel is still a Frontier Brain and has become the leader of the Hoenn Battle Frontier (and still has short hair.)

They’re naturally all very busy so sometimes making time for each other and the kids is difficult, but they all do their best, setting aside time each Saturday they can all spend together as part of a family tradition. The parents like to rotate who chooses the family activity for the weekend, so they end up doing a wide variety of things together. Brendan likes outdoor activities like hiking or bike trips, Anabel likes museums and theater shows, while Wally likes visiting new places and hands on activities like crafts workshops.

Brendan’s the most cuddly out of the entire family and loved it when the kids dog-piled him when they were younger. He’s more restrained about asking directly for physical affection from his spouses, but they both know when he wants some cuddles. After the kids are asleep they often like to all curl up on the couch with wine and a movie (they all love cheesy romcoms.) Wally still has health scares occasionally, though he’s doing better than when he was younger, so whenever he’s feeling poorly Anabel and Brendan love to spoil him rotten (even if he complains about being coddled, he does love how much they care.) Anabel can sometimes get stressed from work, and when that happens Brendan will always give her one of his “patented” shoulder massages. Anabel is also the one who cannot function in the mornings without coffee – Layla inherited this trait, but she’s a tea rather than coffee drinker.

This ended up getting long, but I will likely have Wally and Anabel’s profiles out soon with more hcs! Hopefully this can tide you over, anon!