#ANYWAYS HI NEELA. THANK U FOR THE ASK!!

[lyricalchrysanthemum]

ASKS! GOTCHA i would like to hear your thoughts on the sinnoh stat trainers if u want......

STAT TRAINERS MY BELOVED. PEOPLE WHO GET BRUNCH TOGETHER EVERY SUNDAY AND GOSSIP AT MATCH PLACE. They’re besties.

They’re all the most normalest guys in Sinnoh. Like there isn’t anything too special about them, especially compared to people like Cynthia and the Sinnoh trio. But they still have involvement with the legendaries+mythical Pokémon in the region. And because of their friendships (by chance) with the legendaries they’re granted various gifts/miracles by them as a show of trust.

Cheryl - Cresselia | forever wonderful dreams. Probably has a stack of lunar feathers she gives out to protect fellow trainers

Riley - Manaphy | phione egg

Buck - Heatran | keeps the one warm area of Sinnoh, the battle frontier and match place by extension, well, warm.

Mira - Darkrai | anyone who crosses her gets eternal nightmares

Marley - Shaymin | plenty of gracidea flowers

They all met in which one of the stat trainers assisted or saved the pokemon in some form. And, again, they’re all by chance, but the legendaries and mythical Pokémon are pretty attached to them. And they both make a point to visit each other each day with both sides bringing gifts.

When Cyrus brought about Giratina and connected it and the distortion world, and went to try and become a god, the legendary Pokémon went awry. Natural disasters went about everywhere, people falling asleep suddenly, they became uncontrollable. But during the distortion world happenings, the stat trainers were the ones able to calm down the legendaries to prevent them from rampaging anymore.

Literally the only reason why Sinnoh’s topography isn’t as fucked up as it could be is because of the stat trainers.

The stat trainers were all assisted by dawn barry and lucas in some form, at least one of them also bearing witness to them saving the mythical Pokémon they helped out. And in these moment, both parties have their worldview expanded as they learn about the gifts of the world the individual pokemon represent and govern over.

But only the Sinnoh trio and the individual stat trainers know they’re friends with a legendary. The five may gossip together but they’ll take their relationship with the pokemon to the grave. They gossip together and they vaguely allude to something involving their friendship with a pokemon and go “oh no I almost let out my super duper secret” (everyone else is sharing the same secret)

Also one detail that’s not related to them as a whole but Barry wanted to give Dawn and Lucas gracidea flowers for everything that they’ve done for him so Marley helped out.

Their legendaries are assigned based on their stat pool although shaymin in particular I gave Marley because hashtag sinnohspe moment

Also Mira views Darkrai as a big ol puppy. Girls and their semi eldritch horrors.

[antihibikase-archive]

hope u feel better soon reese :( as for asks though! any thoughts on the kalos rivals (esp the blur/blight kalos rivals if u can!).....ive always loved them but thought that they couldve been fleshed out a lot more in the story....also

a little guy i found on pinterest for u

AWAWAWA thank you Neela!! :'] I hold the little guy in my hands..

Also same! I think it'd be nice if they were fleshed out more..

Calem / Serena - putting them both here, but I guess I would have liked spending more time with them, even more than the amount you already have with them in canon. I would like a clearer view of their goals and why they desire to be stronger, and like .. at least give a reason for why they sympathized with Lysandre near the end, because that caught me so off-guard with how out of pocket it was. Idk, a lot of their arc and goals seem hidden from the audience. :(

Shauna - she also deserved to have a bigger spotlight, more than a few battles. She's tagged along moreso than anyone else, and she even brings up the fact that everyone seems to have a clear goal in mind, except her. I was hoping she would have more to do alongside you- make her battle the player more often, showing them around Kalos' sights, etc. I feel like she, Trevor, and Tierno would have benefitted more if they had more time to spend with the player, especially with how massive Kalos is.

Trevor - he has a house in Lumiose mentioning his drive to he a trainer, which would have been nice to he expanded upon; he could be something like Wally who aspires to show his own strength, but also something like Cheren that desires something but not knowing what to do afterwards. I do like it that he compares Pokedexes with you though! It would have been interesting if he not only had more battles, but actively rotated his roster depending on where in Kalos you were. Also, I think he deserved to be a tag partner in the Pokeball Factory.

Tierno - Tierno I feel like is the most pushed aside :( He already feels like he has a completed character arc that happened even before the player moved in; unlike Shauna and Trevor. In the romhack I played, I like that they played up his dancing motif and gave him a whole team centered around Pokemon with dancing moves, so I really think they could have utilized his passion for dancing more in canon. Like Trevor, I think he would benefit from being a tag partner in one area in the game, as even little things like those give like.. more time to spend with the player.

In general, I think Shauna, Trevor, and Tierno might have more to do if they were tag partners in certain areas of the game (particularly split into Kalos' three locations), and even had mini arcs of their own depending on the area- something like Bianca's , that occurs from the very start, is somewhat resolved in Nimbasa, but carries on with the story with her newfound confidence anyway.