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Roy has a huge one-sided rivalry with the Cinnabar Gym Leader, Shouju, that nobody really seems to fully understand but him. The backstory to it all starts before Roy was even born. His great-grandfather, Blaine, was the Cinnabar Gym Leader for a long time, and eventually became the mentor of Roy’s father, Green, in the years between the events of the Kanto games and the Johto games. When Cinnabar Volcano erupted, Blaine was offered the vacant position of Viridian Gym Leader, at least until his gym on Cinnabar was repaired or moved. However, Blaine recommended his apprentice, Green, for the position instead and, while he took some time off, Green remains as the Viridian Leader to this day.

After the Cinnabar Gym was rebuilt, Blaine returned to being it’s Leader, but after a few years he felt ready to retire. He offered his position to his grandchildren, Red and Leaf, and his by-now son-in-law, Green, but all of them either didn’t want to leave their current jobs or had no interest in being a Gym Leader. So, Blaine ended up looking through a wide variety of candidates for his position, but none of them felt quite right to him. In fact, he ended up finding the perfect successor by accident. While traveling in Johto, Blaine met Soumei and Shouju, the newly-returned-to-human Lugia and Ho-oh, by chance. The couple was still struggling to adjust, used to living in ancient times, but Blaine could tell there was a special spark about them – especially Shouju, who trained fire-types and seemed to have strong leader skills. He swooped in with an offer to come with him to Cinnabar, by now fully rebuilt, and see if taking over the gym would be a fulfilling new life for them.

As it turned out, Blaine’s instincts were spot on. Shouju took to being a Gym Leader like a fish to water (or perhaps more fittingly a phoenix to flame)… perhaps a bit too enthusiastically, but nobody could deny he was a strong trainer and provided a challenge for trainers on their League Challenge while also being able to manage the leadership that came with being a Gym Leader, looking after Cinnabar and its people. Shouju remains the Cinnabar Gym Leader through the fankid era, living on the island with Soumei and their son, Kanade. Now this is all fine and good, but Roy thinks it’s all wrong! Growing up, he learned about this whole story, and decided that what really happened was Shouju “stole the Gym from Red and/or Green”. No matter how many time his dads tell him they had no interest in becoming the Cinnabar Gym Leader and they both have no issue with Shouju being there, Roy is stubborn in his belief. (It doesn’t help that Green and Shouju have quite a rivalry going, both being arrogant and competitive, but it’s still a friendly rivalry between Gym Leaders and nothing deeper!)

Roy has made it his life’s goal to become the new Cinnabar Gym Leader and “oust the usurper”, but when he first went on his Kanto journey he was utterly wiped out by Shouju the first time he challenged him. To rub salt in the wound, Shouju isn’t exactly known for being comforting, so he simply told Roy all the ways he needed to improve before trying again. This only further strengthened Roy’s resolve and convinced him Shouju was basically the equivalent of the Demon Lord in his video games. Since that day, if someone brings up the Cinnabar Gym within Roy’s earshot he’s sure to go on a rant about his nemesis and goals of “freeing the gym from tyrannical rule”, so his traveling companions learn quick not to bring it up around him.

(As an aside, while I’m still developing what Kanade does/if he travels, you can bet Roy sees him as a rival as well – the son of the enemy!)

🖋 Roy!

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Roy was a little over a year old when his parents went to Alola (where they appear in the Gen 7 games.) It was his first big vacation ever, as any previous trips had been just around Kanto or to Johto at the farthest. While Roy was a pretty easy going baby, travelling on a long trip with him was a new experience for Red and Green. He got pretty bad jet-lag that resulted in a few sleepless nights, but luckily was able to adjust to the different time zone before too long.

Alola was Roy’s first experience being somewhere completely different from his home and he was entranced by all the colorful sights and sounds, seeing new pokémon and getting to spend lots of time at the beach. Red and Green definitely noticed how much Roy loved Alola, and considering they also had a great time there, they decided to try and visit there semi-regularly on family trips (as well as places like Kalos, which is where Red and Green got engaged!) This ended up sparking a love of travel in Roy, prompting him to want to start his journey somewhere other than Kanto. So, after brainstorming with his step-cousin Jay, the two decide to start their journey in Galar, since the League there seems so exciting and different from Kanto’s. 

Eventually after two years traveling with Jay in Galar and then Kalos, Roy and his cousin part ways, with Jay heading back to Kanto to focus on his research and Roy heading to Sinnoh to keep practicing his skills as a trainer. It’s in Sinnoh that Roy meets Draco and then Ulyssa and starts traveling with them, and also meets some new rivals in Emery, Gavin, and Renato’s group! 

Send me a  🖊 and a character and I’ll write out some headcanons for them!

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I’ve been rewatching some of the anime recently (mainly DP) and have come to the realization that it’s a Crime for me to have Ash and other anime characters in this verse and not Gary, even if I already have Green. So my tentative workaround right now is adding Gary as Green’s older brother (so he’s the middle child of the Oak family.) He’s of course Ash’s childhood rival and the two probably dated at some point since PalletShipping Is Good, but my endgame idea for him is maybe to pair him with Goh? So he’s maybe Jay’s stepfather and works at the Vermillion lab, while Green is in Pallet and they’re rival researchers or something. Ash’s exes get together it’s fun. Green and Red are of course still rivals and if their rivalry was similar to Gary and Ash’s … well that’s how it is sometimes. I think Gary and Green are different enough it could work. This might change, but it’s something I’m trying out so if you see Gary listed on the blog that’s why.

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Fankid Week Day 1: Family February 10th is Roy’s birthday so I wanted to draw him celebrating together with his parents, Red and Green, his little brother Sage, and the family’s pokémon. Happy Birthday Roy!

Do you have any headcanons for Green/Red, Barry/Lucas, and Hugh/Nate?

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Absolutely I do!

Green/Red

  • Green is the one who managed to get Red to come down from Mt. Silver by somehow beating him in a pokémon battle. Red was so stunned by his loss he just kind of followed Green back to civilization. This is the only time Green has ever beaten Red in a battle to this day.
  • Roy was already born when the couple visit Alola in the SuMo games and was about 10 or so months old (give or take.) And yes, they brought Roy with them! Leaf and Yellow (along with baby Amaryllis) also went to Alola and ended up having to babysit Roy a lot because of Green and Red’s frequent trips to the Battle Tree, whoops.
  • Red is technically unemployed, as he doesn’t really want to officially apply to be a professional pokémon trainer due to annoying bureaucracy. He still regularly seeks out strong people to battle with though, so his skills never go rusty and also because he thinks “stay at home dad” sounds way more boring than “Multiple Hall-of-Famer Professional Pokémon Trainer.”
  • They are a very sappy couple who like to show off how in love they are, though most of that’s Green being smug (”Look at me and my husband!”) while Red just goes along with it.
  • Green likes to think he’s a super cool dad who their sons will see as a role model but more often than not they go to Red for advice instead. Whenever this happens Green ends up pouting and needs to be comforted by his husband.

Barry/Lucas

  • A couple where people sometimes wonder how they got together due to how different they are. Definitely a very wholesome case of opposites attract.
  • Since Lucas was Rowan’s assistant, the two didn’t really meet until they were around 13 and didn’t interact much until after the events of DPPt. They met by chance at the Battle Frontier and when Lucas mentioned he wanted to improve his skills as a trainer Barry took him under his wing as a “Professional Battle Frontier Tour Guide.” Their romance blossomed fairly quickly, though Barry was pretty oblivious to his feelings while Lucas was realizing that subtle flirting wasn’t going to cut it in this case.
  • Dawn officiated their wedding and got trained to do so especially for her childhood best friend.
  • By the fankid era, Barry is a Frontier Brain like his father before him and Lucas has taken over from his mentor Rowan as Sinnoh’s regional professor, though he still has trouble getting used to being called Professor Hawthorn!
  • While they only planned on having one child, mainly due to how much of a handful Gavin was, they end up adopting Balthazar by chance due to some unexpected circumstances. Namely, Barry helps Dawn (who is Sinnoh Champion) take down a Cult of Giratina after they kidnap Dawn’s daughter, Tanith. While there, they find a boy who was raised in the cult to be a sacrifice and now has nowhere to go. The kid got attached to Barry  so one thing leads to another and he and Lucas end up with another son (Barry claims that Balthazar being blond and having a long name like him was a Sign that he was meant to be part of their family from the start.)

Nate/Hugh

  • Though Nate wasn’t the BW2 protag, he and Hugh were still childhood friends as he and Rosa are twins. They had quite a bit of romantic tension between them throughout middleschool, leading Rosa to urge them to try dating after getting fed up by hearing both her brother and best friend worry about the other’s feelings to her.
  • By the time the trio leave on their journey at 15, Nate and Hugh had been dating for about a year and a half.
  • Once it became clear that Team Plasma had returned, the two teamed up to fight them whenever they could, Nate mostly being worried about Hugh getting too angry.
  • Things reach a new level when, towards the end of their journey and when it’s looking like the final showdown with Plasma is approaching, Nate finds out he’s unexpectedly pregnant. While Nate himself is nervous due to his young age, he’s also excited and all the more motivated to defeat Plasma for the sake of his and Hugh’s child. Hugh, on the other hand, is incredibly nervous that Nate and the baby might get hurt now and ends up being rather overprotective of his boyfriend. This causes a bit of friction, but ultimately they’re able to work things out (with Rosa smoothing things over as usual whenever the two squabble.)
  • Glenn is born the summer after Ghetsis is finally defeated and Hugh and Nate stay in Aspertia for his first year or so, getting help from their parents and doing their best to raise him. At that, the two start looking for jobs so they can support their family, agreeing that whoever finds one first will take it, while the other will stay home to take care of Glenn. Hugh ends up getting unexpectedly scouted by Interpol, leading the family to move to Castelia, where they get married soon after.
  • Eventually, after Hugh gets promoted when Glenn is about 4, the family move to Opelucid to be closer to the League, which becomes their permanent home. When Glenn is about 6, they end up adopted their second child, Mindy, after her mother, Yancy, was looking for someone to adopt after she became unexpectedly pregnant. Glenn and Mindy are both handfuls but their parents love them (even if they hate each other lol)

Who’s your favorite family from each region?

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This is a pretty difficult question since for generally my “favorite” family is the one I’m working the most on at any given time, so the answer would change. I can answer for who I’m enjoying working on the most at this point in time though.

Kanto: I haven’t really worked in depth on any Kanto families recently, but I’d say right now I’m feeling very fond of the NamelessShipping fam. I’ve been having a lot of fun with Roy and Sage’s dynamic in particular, as antagonistic siblings is always fun. I also like how they both have some of Green’s arrogance, since cocky characters are fun to work with.

Johto: Hands down the HonorShipping family just since they have so much drama. A very close second is Whitney, Ethan, and Lance’s family, since there’s a lot of fun dynamics going on there as well. I think the sheer outrageous soap-opera levels of drama in the former family are what make me like it more though, as well as how quirky all the kids are.

Hoenn: Probably a tie between TensionShipping and ContestQueenShipping at the moment. ContestQueen will always be my forever Hoenn OTP, so they’re going to be a favorite no matter what, but I’ve been having so much fun with Drew and Harley’s family (and their dynamics with Lisia and May’s family) that I feel like they deserve a shoutout as well.

Sinnoh: The BrokenShipping family is a forever favorite just since it’s one of my weirdest ships. It was basically an in-universe crackship to start out and then the more I thought about it the more I thought it would be great. They’re an unconventional family but one I love working on. Shout-out/runner up goes to the ComaShipping family though since how could I not love Paul and Ash and their goth babies.

Unova: I know this is kind of cheating since it’s like five families but… the Montfort family. All of them. I don’t know how it got so big but all of them are so much fun to work with and I’ve just put some of my most effort into worldbuilding Unova that they’re kind of my babies. Even if some are trash babies like Grimsley and Hymnia and Mindy. And while this isn’t set in stone yet… there’s a good chance the family’s going to be expanding once I incorporate Galar 😉

Kalos: PerfectWorldShipping. Hands down. I have… trouble with Kalos, mainly due to lack of inspiration, so I think it’s probably no wonder that the couple/family with a convoluted story and angst and drama is the one I like best. Florian’s one of my older fankids as well and while he’s changed a bit over the years he’s still one I’m very fond of. I really like thinking of him and his dads being soft together.

Alola: Another region I find myself having a bit more trouble with, but I’d say maybe SnowLilyShipping? Mainly just since they start out very typical but end up being very unconventional with their half-alien meme son, sort-of a zombie son, and then adorable baby daughter. Another fun one is the NineIronShipping fam (Guzma/Molayne/Kahili) just since it’s full of shenanigans and all three kids are gremlins.

And then I have some other regions, but those only have one-two families each so I’ll exclude them. Honestly I think it’s just become obvious that the families I tend to enjoy working with are the ones with more drama/unconventional elements. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy the more typical families – I do immensely! It’s just that when it comes down to picking favorites, I tend to go with the ones like that. Really, this AU is more of a personal/self-indulgent project than anything, which is why things get over the top or dark sometimes. I simply want to explore lots of different ideas I find interesting and use this world as a way to do so.

Family Updates

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Changed up two of the Kanto families a bit.

Red and Green are now a couple (NamelessShipping). Sage is still Green’s son, but now he also has an older brother named Roy who is Amaryllis’s age.

Yellow and Leaf are now a couple (CrushedWorldShipping). Amaryllis is still Yellow’s daughter.

Sage and Rylla are still the same as before in personality, goals, etc. I will get around to updating their and their parents’ profiles… eventually.