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It’s a new year, new me so I did some housekeeping with the fankids and made a few changes. Most only affect minor fankids, though there are a couple more major ones.

Crocus, Nadeshiko, Bobby, Cyan, Aurora, Camille, Sam, Taylor, Kirsten, & Vesper have been cut. These were all kids I felt just didn’t fit into the universe anymore, but they may appear in the future under a different name or with different parents.

Amethyst has been overhauled and is now a boy named Brennan, and Opal is now named Amethyst instead. This change was made since I wasn’t feeling Amethyst as a character as much and to reduce the number of fankids who have the same name as canon characters.

Solomon is finally in Sinnoh where he should have been this whole time. He’s replaced Camille as Cynthia and Diantha’s youngest child. This change was made since I’d been having trouble finding a family I thought suited Solomon for a long time, but I think Cynthia especially will be a good mother for him. Angelica is now an only child.

While Vesper was cut, I still wanted Aria to be a mother, so she’s now the single mother of a daughter named Colette. I would say Colette is an overhaul of Vesper, but Vesper had no characterization in the first place so she might as well be an entirely new character.

Finally, rather than Adriana being Misty’s stepdaughter, she’s now Rudy and Misty’s daughter, which I hope will make me a bit more invested in her and maybe open the way for some parallels/interactions with her and Harvest.

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Small Galar fankids change but I gave Victor/Bede another kid and flip-flopped their names so the kid formerly called Ambrose (who I drew) is now called Robin and the one called Ambrose now is his older brother who’s a new character.

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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!

New Profile Layout!

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In order to better display everything there is to know about my fankids, I’ve been working on a new profile layout. This new layout should streamline the profiles, include room for more detailed information, and make reading and navigating them much easier!

So far, only Emery and Gavin have the new layout, but I will be updating other profiles to the new layout in the future.

Basics Page

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I realized that, as my World Page is undergoing renovations, there’s nowhere that explains what this AU is all about. So, I’ve made a short page describing how the fantasy aspect of this AU works that is currently liked in the world tab and that you can also find here. Hopefully, I will finish redoing the world page soon, but for now, this page should answer any immediate confusion. 

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More changes because as usual I’m indecisive. 
After thinking it over, I decided I wanted Ethan, Whitney, and Lance to be a more proper OT3 and this ended up changing some things in regard to Carmen. 

Basically, the big catalyst of this was that I wasn’t really feeling motivated about Carmen’s current role in the family and how her, Ethan and Whitney’s side of the family fit into things. Long story short, Carmen is now Ethan and Whitney’s biological child rather than being adopted. I do like her original backstory and will probably use it for another fankid (maybe a Galar one? who knows), but for her it just wasn’t 100% working for me.

All the old posts about her are still up, but I’m probably going to amend them with a ‘no longer canon’ tag. Her profile has been de-linked from the page until I can update things like her looks, backstory, etc, though her personality is still pretty much the same. Sorry for anyone who really liked the original Carmen, I just was having trouble with her ;;;;

More Random Mostly Minor Changes

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Because apparently I have never met consistency in my life.

Lisia/May have another kid now, a daughter named Ione. Mostly this is because the more I thought about it, the more I realized those two would want more kids, especially a daughter. If Evan had been a girl they probably would have stopped with just two, but while they love both their sons they really wanted a daughter so decided on having another kid, rounding out the family with baby Ione. 

Secondly, I had a moment where I all of a sudden wondered why I ever changed my original pairing of Georgia/Burgundy way back in the earlier days of this AU and decided to endgame them again. So Sieg and Bryn are now SourGrapes kids and Milo and Akia are now the kids of a single dad Ulu. I also changed a couple other Alola ships just since I wasn’t feeling Sophocles/Lana at all. So I now have Mallow/Lana and Kiawe/Soffy. I do like Mallow/Kiawe quite a bit but Mallow/Lana is just as good and I wanted to have ships I actually want to develop, especially in Alola, so sacrifices had to be made. The three kids all four had between them are still the same (Kiele, Victoria, Chrys), just shifted around a bit. I don’t think this will change their role in the story very much. Kiele and Victoria are still bffs with Primrose and all.

I think that’s about it for now!