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Sage, Scout, and Amaryllis for the meme.

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Part 1
10 Facts About Sage Oak

Sage has a full profile already, so these facts will be more trivia that can’t be found there.

  1. Sage is the second son of Green Oak and Red Aoyama. He was born on March 8, 3620, three years after his older brother, Roy.
  2. Sage’s goal to become a Gym Leader is actually in direct response to Roy having the same goal. Sage thinks that Roy doesn’t have what it takes to be a successful Gym Leader, so he wants to become one as well and prove that he can do it better than his brother can.
  3. As such, he’s been bothering his Aunt Leaf about inheriting the Viridian Gym from her, though her response is usually “I’ll think about it when you’re older” or “If you think I’m retiring any time soon, think again, kid!”
  4. He’s childhood friends with both Scout and Alton, his traveling companions. He’s known Scout longer, since they’re both from Pallet and the same age, but he’s closer with Alton since the two have more in common.
  5. He and Alton both vent to each other about whatever problems they have with their parents. Neither are particularly estranged from them or anything, but they both feel pressure in their families to succeed in one area or another and are in similar positions being the youngest child (well, Alton has a younger half-sister, but he doesn’t see her as much since he’s raised mostly by Misty rather than Brock.)
  6. Sage has an appreciation for traditional Kantonian culture that’s reflected in his style of dress. While neither of his parents are particularly spiritual or traditional, both of their parents (Sage’s grandparents) were friends with one of Kanto’s major deities. Sage grew up hearing stories about historical eras, spirits, youkai, and the like from his Aunt Yellow and her father, as well as his own great-grandfather Blaine, and developed an interest in Kanto’s history and traditional culture. He loves festivals since to him, they’re somewhat a timeless tradition and depending on the festival, sometimes the Other World is more present than ever. 
  7. Sage’s dislike of urban legends is related to this. He hates how modern myths replace the old ones and will never spread an urban legend he hears, even chiding the one he heard it from for believing rumors like that. Similarly, Sage has a fascination with youkai ever since he found out his own great-great grandmother was a fox youkai. He’s cautious about poking his nose too far into such things, however, since he knows it can be dangerous even for mages like himself.
  8. When traveling in Johto, Sage’s group encounter Branwen, Corvin, and Celeste, all of whom spend a lot of time investigating the supernatural, urban legends, hauntings, and the like (much to Celeste’s chagrin.) Sage disapproves of their actions since he believes they’re just putting themselves and others in danger by messing with things they don’t understand. He’s rivals especially with Branwen, who’s flippant attitude reminds him unpleasantly of Roy. They battle pretty much every time they meet.
  9. Sage has a habit of being very defensive of his interests, especially if they’re more obscure. He tends to criticize more popular trends and media if he happens to enjoy something less popular and will get annoyed if anyone makes the inevitable hipster jokes about this. For example, Sage dislikes the Hoenn Rangers Coexistence Force show only because he likes the older and less popular Kanto Rangers Justice Heroes program, which only had two seasons and barely any merch or dvds exist any more. It’s less that he loves the latter show, and more that he’s bothered that the one he likes more is less popular. He has similar feelings about many other things, like foods, movies, and music.
  10. Sage is actually horrible at learning languages. He’s fluent in Japanese (his mother tongue),

    and Japanese Sign Language (what Red uses to primarily communicate) and semi-fluent in League Standard (a language intended for use by travelers that’s standardized across all regions that are part of the Pokémon League, it’s taught in schools and most people are only conversational in it unless they travel frequently.) He chose English as his language elective in school but is miserable at it. He generally relies on his more linguistically-inclined friends to translate if the need arises.

I’ve been really interested in the Pokémon Let’s Go games these few days and so I was wandering what did you do with the main characters (Chase, Elaine and Trace) in your verse.

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In the L&L AU, Chase and Elaine are twins and Trace is one of their childhood friends. The trio are all two years younger than the Red/Green/Yellow group and are the same age as Leaf, their other childhood friend. Growing up, Leaf, Elaine and Chase especially used to get into a lot of trouble, even breaking the law sometimes with stunts like trespassing and petty thievery. As time passed however, Elaine began to distance herself from such shenanigans and spend more time with the more dutiful Trace. When the time came for them all to leave Pallet for their pokémon journeys, Elaine and Trace chose to head out on their own as rivals rather than deal with whatever scheme Chase and Leaf were likely to come up with this time. And boy did those two have a scheme. 

Leaf had heard rumors that Team Rocket wasn’t as defeated as everyone thought they were and she and Chase decided to investigate this for themselves. While Elaine and Trace’s journey was very similar to the plot of the Let’s Go games, just with much less Team Rocket influence (so a basic journey around Kanto challenging gyms), Leaf and Chase were busy poking their heads into the criminal underworld. The two eventually do find Team Rocket by tracking down one of their secret bases. When they get caught by a grunt, however, Chase claims that they were interested in joining the team, hoping that would get them out of trouble. Instead, the grunt takes them seriously and brings the two young teens straight to Archer who figures they show enough promise to be able to start on some low-level grunt work.

Now rather in over their heads, Chase and Leaf have no choice but to go along with their orders, which is mostly just busywork as they’re still kids. While both are initially working together in what is essentially a gofer position, eventually Leaf discovers something unexpected – her grandfather, Blaine’s, name on one of the documents belonging to a scientist. Intruiged, she’s able to arrange a transfer to be a scientist assistant instead, and starts on a journey to discover the truth behind Mewtwo and her grandfather’s involvement in the project.

Chase, meanwhile, keeps at his grunt work, eventually getting promoted to field work, which is where he first meets Mondo, a character who appears in one of the radio dramas as the supplier to the Jessie, James and Meowth trio while they’re in Kanto. Over time, Chase and Mondo got assigned to more missions together as they were both too young to do any real criminal work, eventually being promoted to the communications department. Unlike Leaf, who leaves the team after achieving her goals surrounding Mewtwo, Chase remains a member of Team Rocket, eventually becoming a field agent with Mondo as his contact back on base. The two end up dating, eventually getting married and adopting a son, Hunter, together.

Elaine meanwhile, returned home to Pallet with Trace once the two managed to defeat the Elite Four and Champion, entering the Hall of Fame. Not long after, she learned about how her brother had gotten involved with something sketchy. She contacted him to try and urge him to leave this path behind, but Chase’s mind was set. He liked this job and found it way more fun than just being a regular trainer. The relationship between the twins never fully deteriorates, but they do have a slightly strained relationship just due to their different outlook on things, especially since Elaine eventually joins the Indigo Elite Four. Luckily, by that point, Silver has taken over Team Rocket and reformed it somewhat, so Elaine and Chase don’t have to worry as much about meeting as enemies down the line.

And what of Trace? He becomes an elementary schoolteacher in Pallet! He and Elaine are married with two daughters, Raine and Scout, and he finds the whole sibling rivalry pretty overwhelming, though he finds out on the rare family reunions that he and Mondo actually get along quite well, all things considered.