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Fankidtober Day 21: Layla Birch-Fáng

Another purple kid today, but opposite vibes! Layla is Wally/Anabel’s daughter, but is raised by Wally/Brendan after Anabel goes missing under mysterious circumstances. This vanishing prompts an interest in cold cases and unsolved mysteries in her, leading Layla to join Interpol as an adult, where she meets an alternate (?) version of her mother. They have an unconventional family relationship, but they do consider each other family! Layla mainly does office work, being the woman-in-the-chair to her partner Noelle (from earlier this month) and pretends to be completely fed up and not at all flustered by all the flirting Noelle does through their earpieces.

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Fankidtober Day 11: Layla Full Name: Layla Birch-FángFamily: Wally Birch-Fáng & Anabel Endou (Parents), Brendan Birch-Fáng (Stepfather), Rhys, Eve & Henry Birch-Fáng (Younger Half-Siblings), Prof. Sean Birch (Step-Grandfather), Wanda Fáng (Cousin Once Removed), Landon & Lambert Fáng (Second Cousins), Drew Hayden (Cousin Once Removed), Francis … Continue reading

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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!

Rhys, what’s your relationship with your fathers, mother and siblings looks like?

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I’d like to say I get along pretty well with my family members. I consider myself an easygoing guy, so that probably helps. Out of my parents, I think I get along with Dad (Brendan) the best, but that’s mainly since we share the most hobbies. We both love spending time outdoors and learning about pokémon. The other reason is that Father, being a Gym Leader, and Mom, being a Frontier Brain, are both professional trainers, while I’m a coordinator, so sometimes it’s a bit harder to connect with them that way. Dad’s a professor, so we can just bond over loving pokémon. That’s not to say I don’t get along with Father and Mom though! Father had a brief stint as a coordinator back when he was around my age and was pretty good at it, so he often gives me advice on my upcoming contests. His perspective is pretty different from mine, so it’s always helpful to hear his opinion on things. Plus, I feel like it’s kind of impossible not to get along with Father. He’s just such a nice guy in general, haha. As for Mom, I guess sometimes she can feel a bit distant since we don’t have a lot in common, but I know she really cares about me and my siblings. Mom is definitely the one I go to when I need someone to help me through a difficult decision. She’s really good at laying out all the facts and helping me look at all possible approaches to a problem. Plus she’s really smart which is great for when I get stuck on homework!

As for my siblings, well, I wish I could say I got along with them all as well as I do my parents. Layla and I get along fine, but sometimes I feel like she tries too hard to be a perfect big sister, especially with our younger siblings. She was never too smothering with me, but she can be crazy overprotective of Eve and Edward. I keep trying to tell her that they can handle themselves, but as usual she doesn’t really listen to me. I think she thinks I’m a bit of an airhead or something. I wish she would come to my contests more, even though I get she’s busy with her Interpol work. Eve is a sweetheart and I would fight anyone who tries to hurt her, well, if I didn’t know she can handle anything herself just fine. I think people tend to see her as a delicate flower – pun intended – but she’s really pretty badass in her own right. Just ‘cause she doesn’t like conflict doesn’t mean she isn’t strong! I wish more people could figure that out. Also, compared to Mom’s empathy meaning she can always tell when something’s bothering me and be all fussy, Layla’s precognition meaning she’s always paranoid that something that may not even happen is going to kill us all, and Ed’s telekinesis meaning he breaks things with his mind every time he gets teenage hormonal (which is all the time), Eve’s plant-control powers are so much less of a bother, even though I know she could kill me with vines if she wanted to. But that’s the beautiful thing about Eve, she wouldn’t hurt a fly and makes pretty flowers to give me with her powers instead. I love you Eve. And as for Edward, well, I already gave my opinion on his powers (I don’t care that telekinesis is like, the most common esper power I will never forgive him for breaking my stereo when I didn’t let him watch an R-rated movie that one time). But really, I just want to be there for him. I know he’s going through his angsty teen phase or whatever, but he’s just so angry all the time it makes me kind of sad. I don’t know how to help him though, since he always gets mad at me when I try and talk to him. I hope he has someone else in the family, or a friend at least, who he can talk to…. I try my best to be a good big brother, but I’m not even living at home anymore so it’s kind of hard to be there for my little sister and brother. Well, as long as I’m trying my best, right!