#I LOVE LAPRAS SM

[snarlyanimal]

Lapras!!

[hayakawapartner]

(rbing since this was my ask and i have Thoughts To Add hehe)

AKI DEFINITELY STARTED W EEVEE!! i always associated him to the sinnoh region since sinnoh is based on hokkaido and while i love the gen4 starters hes definitely an eevee -> umbreon guy :-) i could see him mayyybe using glaceon (assignment of ice types) but umbreon absolutely has Aki Vibes. and if he Had to have a gen4 starter maybe hed pick piplup? maybe thts my empoleon bias tho .. but eevee just works for him and tht was my initial thought too

i also feel like hed have a gyarados, no reason for this i just think gyarados fits him idk idk. he def visits the lake trio and brings them offerings and berries and other things and theyre super friendly w him now….

also i dont think hed end up catching any legendaries (just a personal choice, he wld def have the skill to), but if he ever caught one, i think itd be either lugia, one of the lake trio (like u mentioned), or maybe xerneas? leaning heavy towards lugia/lake trio but xerneas just gives me an aki vibe i cannot describe

been playing a Lot of pokemon and in turn thinking of aki as a gym leader or somethin .. maybe one of the elite four .. i feel like hed specialise in ice types and his main would be alolan ninetales (ice type + ninetales in general reminds me of fox devil)

idk if ur a pokemon fan just wanted to share a Fun Thought hehe

- 🐙

YESSSSSSSSSSABSBAJSJANA I love pokemon so I would be delighted to talk about this!!!!

ugh yes... I think aki would definitely have some ice type pokemon, but I always pictured him as the kind of trainer who would have a big goal like defeating the champion, but later on he decides to settle down with his pokemon / become a gym leader. he's apprehensive towards pokemon at first but eventually learns to love them and becomes best friends with his team...

aki's pokemon: eevee (starter, eventually evolves into umbreon), absol, alolan ninetales, aegislash, lapras, luxray, flygon, corviknight, also I can't decide between them so just all of the lake trio are cool with him

[olive-arts]

I'm bored so here's what pokemon I think the origin characters of baldur's gate 3 would have (3 each bc I need to restrain my neurodivergence at least a lil bit /hj)

going from typically first met to last met !

Lae'zel:

-Lucario. same as below

-Toxicroak. easy strike fast and hit hard

-Kommo-o. also fits with above but it's definitely more tank-y then the others. it also fits with her personality

Shadowheart:

-Absol. it just makes sense with her character and Absol being the disaster pkmn makes this better (def her partner too)

-Gothitelle. again it honestly makes sense for her (they help do eachother's hair)

-Zoruark bc of her capibility of deception and her past of disguises as well as her snark and trikery (she would've been given a Zorua when she got indoctrinated into Shar's following)

Astarion:

(I did smth silly and made his team here all pokemon that can learn Leech Life)

-Salazzle(???). purely vibes tbh and he probs got it after the nautiloid

-Shedinja. I feel like he can relate to it being a former shell of itself and thinking they're both weak

-Golbat. ...I don't think I need to explain my reasoning. (he also evolves it into Crobat with friendship during the travel)

Gale:

-Cosmog. I can't explain why but former chosen of mystra has to have access to a legendary right??? but also it's hard to train and level up

-Alakazam. powerful psychic type pokemon for a powerful wizard. easy reading buddy too

-Lapras. ehehe waterdeep

Wyll:

-OH I JUST KNOW HE'D HAVE AN AEGISLASH (OR ATLEAST PART OF THE HONEGE LINE) it's royal, loyal to its trainer, can be played as defensive AND offensive! god I love Aegislash..

-Galade too. he def grew up with it when he got given a Ralts egg by Ulder

-Delphox. It's ties to magic and being a mage but with pizazz makes sense to me (probs got it when he made the pact with Mizora)

Karlach:

-Turtonator me thinks. it's a good defensive mon (and they're both capable of blowing up) (I'm so sorry I had to make that connection teehee)

-INCINEROAR. SHE LOVES HER INCINEROAR SM THEY BASH PEOPLE'S HEADS IN TOGETHER <33

-Houndoom. mainly bc she's seen as intimidating and villainous at first but they're both major softies and care for others deeply

[pokemon-ash-aus]

Of all the pokemons Ash caught, Does Red, Coal, Cinder, Ember and SM King have any favorites ones between them? Any specific 'mon they like to talk/spend time with?

Ive actually never thought on this before but yeah.

Red - Pikachu. He just loves the rat, and having a Pikachu of his own a lil later delights him greatly. His uncle in all but blood and lets him do stupid things with supervision.

Coal- Infernape. Her fighting type uncle that can go Crazy strong with Blaze! She just stands there, pretends to activate blaze and fights.

Cinder - Lapras. A cool teacher and one who just lets him vibe. He learned how to swim with her too so its even better!

Ember: Dragonite. Regal, cool, and very much there to love everyone no matter what while still protecting!

Sm King, I feel like Noibat is his favorite. Adoptive brother and all that. Happy and fun and ready to be there. All the adopted ones are his favorite but Noibats is his fav fav!

[nanamimizz]

lamb!!!! what does yours and togame’s pokemon teams look like in your au!!!!

RUNS AROUND RUNS AROUND THANK YOU SM FOR ASKING FAWN I LOVE YOU !!!!

OKAY. so i think togame mostly has a team of fighting types or dual fighting types with the exception of one

his team is this

arcanine (dark type tera type)

toxicroak / gallade (there is a narrative for this)

throh

primeape

hariyama

heracross

i am a researcher who is working with pokemon that evolve w high friendship/affection so i use normal, fairy and ice type pokemon !

my team is as follows

garadevoir

lopunny

audino

glaceon

lapras

alolan ninetails

[soupbabe]

Do you like Pokemon? If so What's your favorite type or types and your dream team of six?

Love you, Theo!

Awe!! Thank you sm Pin!! You're so lovely <33

But yes I used to really be into Pokemon!! Not too updated on it, but my fave Pokemon/types are pretty consistent. I'm forever a Grass Type guy. With the Exception of Totodile, I've always picked a grass type starter.

Also for my dream team, I'm here to be cute not functional so I'd have: Leafeon (my fav pokemon ever), Gourgeist, Feraligator, Dragonite, Lapras, and Parasect.

[endervention]

hi i like your design for timebreak zetta, can you share some stuff about him? or if youre not sure where to start, whats his pkmn team like?

hi, thank you so much!!! i'd love to! (^-^*)/

Timebreak Zetta follows a canon-divergent path that begins after Valor Mountain's events. Instead of leaving him as a Solosis, Crescent allows him to reform as a human under one condition -- he now has to work as her protege, learning how to hone the psychic powers that still exist within him. Thus he (reluctantly) travels alongside her and basically has to do whatever she asks him to. Does he still despise her? Absolutely -- but he thinks it's better to be able to stay in a form he's more comfortable with; and it can also, in his eyes, "be of more use".

Essentially, not a whole lot changes about his personality other than he gets even more jaded and just. Kind of desolate?? Because he'd frankly rather be anywhere else than with Crescent. He tries counting the days until Team Xen inevitably tries to snatch him back.

While his original team was left behind, he did get an Aevian Lapras eventually during his time traveling with Crescent. He named her Liana, and she was really the only one he actively spent time with due to having not much else to turn to at that point. He'd train with her, practice psychic stuff back and forth, et cetera. (They're still good friends even now, and he likes using her in battle!)

As of now, that's all I can really think of! I just think he's neat. It makes me really happy to know you like his design,, thank you sm for the ask!!

I'll put one last image here because this is my favorite part of the design, but it never really shows since I don't draw him in these angles often? There's a flower on the back of his hair that ties together his braided bun. It's meant to mirror Crescent's.

[froaqie]

was replaying Pokémon alpha sapphire today. Please tell me someone made this into a plush

[gaycey-sketchit]

(Gary anon) Since Lapras was mainly used for water travel, that's probably why it got released later. Can't exactly move well on land. (It's likely why we rarely saw half of Misty's team) It was nice that they had it reappear briefly in Johto. (I can totally see why some; while agreeing that Paul was good foil for Ash's character at the time, preferred other rivals when it comes to personality more) I know some want him to be in the PWC, if to reference that one quote by Cynthia, but

(Part Deux) seeing a few pull up the idea of Paul being Brandon's apprentice sounds like a better 'end' for him. (And since Gary's here, I doubt they're gonna reignite that rivalry. Not impossible, but stuff is crowded enough as it is. I feel characters like Ritchie and even Trip deserve to have something that can be left on a high note) Except being aware of stuff like Speed Racer, I'm not well-versed in old anime either. This is from watching a lot of "behind-the-scenes" for animated media.

(Part 3) (Stuff like that is why the meme thrived, it truly was a time xD) Aww, sometimes moving the reblog to a new tab works or repeat refreshing of the reblog page. (If it still doesn't work, here's the *post to the original gif instead) Heh, if anything, the fact that those two showed up in SM added to why some thought Gary WOULD show up in Alola. (Aside from Red and Blue making a surprise appearance in said games) If not Blue's Alola outfit, people drew Gary in his pink holiday shirt again.

Yeah. It was nice while it lasted, Lapras was precious. A baby.

My opinions regarding Paul can pretty much be summarized as he is an excellent rival and a terrible person, and I hate him but I respect his role in the narrative as Ash’s total antithesis. Still, I prefer antagonistic rivals that are antagonistic in more entertaining ways and/or have an apparent soft side. (Read: Gary, Drew, Harley.)

If Paul were to make a return... I’m both concerned and curious about how that would play out. I agree that with Gary making a return they probably wouldn’t reignite another old rivalry. I think Ash’s rivalry with Paul ended about as well as it could be expected to--in their conflict of principles, Ash won out, and with Infernape so Infernape got to triumph against its past abuser. I’m pretty satisfied with that, and I honestly think there are other past rivals that’d be better to see again. (Remember Casey? I wonder how she’s doing.)

Cool, I should start looking into stuff like that. I’m fascinated by how dubbing works and it could be fun to do some research on the history of it.

Yeah, definitely. The Gary Motherfucking Oak era was SO fun, what a time to be alive.

It’s whatever, I’m not too bothered about it. Making note of that for future reference though.

The circumstances were so right for Gary to make a return in Alola (he could’ve even brought back the vacation outfit, which is so tacky but I love it) but I guess he just couldn’t take the heat. (For Whumptober last year I actually wrote a Drew/Gary fic where the two of them took a little trip to Drew’s hometown in Hoenn, another tropical region, and Gary nearly passed out from heat exhaustion. I feel like him getting acclimated to Sinnoh means he’s resistant to the cold at the expense of having much less tolerance for heat.) Glad he’s finally coming back now, Kanto’s probably a bit less likely to kill him, haha.

[sasukephilosopher]

OKOK poke ball, master ball, friend ball, love ball and ummmmm umm dream ball ojnce again sorry for so many💔

OKAY HERE WE GO!

Poke Ball: My first Pokemon game was Pokemon X! I loved it sm...

Master Ball: Favorite Legendary is a hard one! Hm.. I think my first instinct is to say Solgaleo, tho! I love the design so much

Friend Ball: Fav rival was HAU NO COMPETITION! Actually to be fair i did love Wally. My favorite Champion is Steven tho!

Love Ball: I CAN NEVER DECIDE!! I love so many but some of my favorites as of right now are Delphox, Mega Lucario, Boltund, Corviknight, Noivern, Incineroar, and Vikavolt!

Dream Ball: My dream team is honestly my champion team in Pokemon X! Finn the Delphox, Bit the Venusaur, Legend the Lucario, Willy the Lapras, Stella the Noivern, and Xerneas (i nicknamed it Giver)

[pokemagines]

Cute pokemon you say 👀👀 Meet Aurora, my Lapras whom I love and appreciate very much

she’s so smol!!!!! i love her sm !!!!!

[kazewhara]

i’ve watched atla all the way through like. at least,, four or five times ,,, i love it sm <3

YELLING YOURE A PERSON OF TASTE ALL OF THOSE POKÉMON ARE SO GOOD !!?? i love them sm <3 my favorites (besides meganium) are lapras, milotic, gyardos, ampharos, gardevoir, leafeon, sandshrew, and dragonair <3 there are others probably but . those are the ones all over my notion—

you use ur primos for resin ? blinks jfc you have a spine made of industrial steel??? that would ?? end me ?? damn that’s commitment . pls u have freedom sworn , zuzu ur kazuha is a beast <3 but also i understand wanting jade cutter ajsj and yEAH widsith is v good for yae, tbh widsith is just. mhy made a mistake letting us have that weapon . and what fixes are u doing w xiao’s build :0

AJSJS i have a friend who has unforged and she uses it on her razor bc she loves him that much <3 also pls the fact that u have them on a team together :( <3 THATS SO CUTE ?? kazuha is unfortunately doing “buff xiangling” duty on my childe international team so. he’s occupied,, it’s fine beidou and zhongli are babysitting xingqiu and fischl

yeah.. me and primos have a very complicated relationship </3

oh, but for xiao, i'm trying to hoard gladiator and shimenawa artifacts bc thats the 2pc/2pc set i have on him, but i want his atk stat to at least be kissing 3k.. he hits like 3.1k with food buffs and jade spear's active skill and i am Insatiable, so i'm passively grinding for artifacts for him <3

also beidou and zhongli babysitting LMFNSNDND THAT'S CUTE

[gleeokenspiel]

Pokédex & all pokeball asks 😁

ilysm uwu

Pokédex: Your perfect/favourite team

Oof I don’t really have one in all honesty,for either lol

All Pokéball Questions

Premier Ball: Favourite Gen 1 Pokémon

Hmmmmm [Oh damn here’s the thing though;I love every single Pokemon,so its gonna hard to decide > > so Imma state multiple]

Also I have crap knowledge on the different generation Pokemon so 

I guess Eevee?? Im uncreative ik,if not I guess either Jolteon or Flareon

Or Lapras. because Lapras is cool

Pokéball: Favourite Gen 2 Pokémon

Gold exists so I’ve taken a huge liking to Cyndaquil and the starters in general…Buutt I guess maybe Mareep? Its a fluffy sheep and I love it

Or Espeon. Because,Espeon.

Great Ball: Favourite Gen 3 Pokémon

hhmmm

Plusle and Minun are adorable > >

Altaria is a huge floof cloud birb dragon

Skitty is a smol cat that I love so much

and yeaa,Im indesiscive.

Cherish Ball: Favourite Gen 4 Pokémon

Shinx?? idk??

also Leafeon and Glaceon are from here,both are probably my top Eeveelutions idk

Piplup was my childhood favourite tho

Friend Ball: Favourite Gen 5 Pokémon

Uunnoovvvaaaaaaaaaaa

Uhhhhhhh

Munna is just cute I can’t not like it > > ((same for Lillipup ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)) and a love for the Oshawott line

Luxury Ball: Favourite Gen 6 Pokémon

Hmmm..

Fennekin,uh

Sylveon

Meowstic

Skiddo because its a goat and I love it sm

and uh idk

Furfrou

Moon Ball: Favourite Gen 7 Pokémon

whY ARE THE STARTERS SO ADORABLE

Rockruff

Ribombee(?)

Togademaru

idk Mimikyu

and Comfey uwu

Ultra Ball: Favourite Psuedo-Legendary(ies)

Dont really have any tbh

Master Ball: Favourite Legendary(ies)

Shaymin,Jirachi and probably Lugia

> >

[chain-chomp]

pokedex, cherish ball, volt switch!

Pokédex: Your perfect/favorite team

aaa this is hard but probably Alola ninetales, tyrantrum, lapras, mimikyu, zapdos and rayquaza! I know thats two legendaries but I love them sm..

Cherish Ball: Favorite Gen IV Pokémon

I LOVE gen IV, my favorite from it would probably be Luxray!

Volt Switch: Favorite Electric types(s)

There’s so many good electric types! Zapdos, rotom, luxray, and alola raichu are my favs

Ty!!! 💜

[sage-nebula]

Ash and Alan for the headcanons meme please!

Ash’s got really long, so could you send me Alan’s in a second one? I want to make sure I give both boys the attention they deserve. Thanks!

A.) What I think realistically:

Though it may not seem like it due to all the time he spends traveling and how little time he spends at home, Ash is actually very attached to and protective of his mother, and (though he tends to keep this buried down and doesn’t let it show) resentful of his father for walking out on them. Ash and his mother have never had very much money; they have a nice, small house in Pallet Town, but luxuries were definitely scarce and despite Delia doing her best with her restaurant*, she’s still a single parent with a single income who became a single parent when she was eighteen years old. It’s been hard on her, despite how upbeat she stays in order to make sure her son doesn’t worry, and as dense as he might seem at times, Ash did pick up on this over the years. He could tell when his mom was stressed, could tell when she was tired because she had to work a full shift plus take care of him, and while Delia always assured him that his dad was a wonderful trainer who would be so proud of him and who loved him so much, Ash couldn’t help but feel like if his dad really loved him---or either of them, really---then he would have been there, rather than off . . . wherever he is, in the world. (Of course, then Ash feels rather defiantly that they don’t need his dad anyway, that they’re doing just fine without him and he can shove off and stay wherever he is, but all the same.)

This has, in a way, informed the way he reacts to other deadbeat parents in the series. When he meets Brock’s father---or rather, when he realizes that Flint is Brock’s father---he says rather bluntly, “You mean you’re the good-for-nothing father who left home and never came back?!” (He was also clearly affected by Flint’s story of Brock’s parental abandonment, saying, “I better not listen to anymore sad stuff, or the next time I face Brock I might not have the heart to beat him” and openly questioned why Flint helped him instead of his own son.) Likewise, it takes him three whole episodes (and being directly told) that Sabrina’s father is, well, her father, as if the idea of an absent father coming back isn’t one that easily occurs to him (though he does accept Sabrina’s father coming back with happiness, perhaps because he knows that Sabrina’s father didn’t exit her life willingly). Ash isn’t against the idea of absent parents coming back, and seems to step back and let the kid in question handle the situation, but I think that if he was confronted by his own father, his feelings would be a lot more conflicting, oscillating between a desire to get to know his father, as well as a lot of anger at the man for walking out on him and his mother and leaving them to fend for themselves.

Nonetheless, back to the original point---because Delia is the one who always raised him, always took care of him, always loved him and did her best by him no matter what, Ash is quite attached to her, and rather protective of her as well. He’s a total and complete momma’s boy, and I feel that few things illustrate this as clearly as how much he went goddamn berserk when Entei kidnapped her in Spell of the Unown. As far as Ash is concerned, the Ketchum family is just the two of them (and their pokémon) and that’s fine. They’re great the way they are. And no one better mess with his mom under threat of serious harm. Of that, he swears.

(*It was mentioned in Shuudo’s novelizations, I believe, that Delia owns and operates a restaurant in Pallet Town. We never once see this in the anime itself, but I like to imagine that it’s there nonetheless, since otherwise I’m not sure where she gets any money from, given that I highly doubt Ash’s father sends child support checks.)

B.) What I think is fucking hilarious:

He sleep talks! This is actually canon, to a degree; we see him sleep talking in the very first episode, as he’s dreaming over which starter pokémon he’s going to pick. However, it delves into headcanon territory when you consider that Ash can have entire nonsensical conversations while completely asleep. That is, if you overhear him sleep talking, you can ask him a question to prod him along that sleepy train of thought and he will answer. Sometimes this means that he gives a spiel on how all the pokémon that are thought to come from space, such as clefairy, actually came up from the ocean, because the ocean has a portal to space at the very bottom that no one has ever seen because people can’t swim down that far. Or maybe he questions on the nature of pokémon like cherrim, who are clearly pokémon, but who are also fruit. Where does the fruit end and the pokémon begin? asks actually asleep Ash Ketchum. These are Very Serious™ conversations that he, while asleep, takes Very Very Seriously™, but when he wakes up in the morning he’ll have absolutely no recollection that they ever happened.

(One time Iris and Cilan recorded one such conversation just to have proof it happened. That time it was about how ditto could be anywhere at any time and you’d never know because they use Transform, and how they were all probably surrounded by ditto at all times, and probably they were even ditto and didn’t know because somehow the ditto had impersonated them so well that even they, themselves, were fooled. Listening to this at breakfast the next morning, Ash didn’t even know how to begin explaining what he was rambling on about in his sleep.)

C.) What is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends

It’s not really a conscious thought, but in the back of his mind Ash rather assumes that, at some point or another, pretty much everyone will end up leaving him.

His dad was never present in his life, so that’s one thing---but although they were friends in childhood, Gary inexplicably turned on him one day and became his bully instead. Butterfree left to go start a family. He thought Pikachu wanted to leave, but thankfully that wasn’t the case (and never will be). Brock left to go stay with Professor Ivy for a while, and only came back when something happened that he refused to tell Ash about, but as soon as he came back, Tracey decided to leave, staying with Professor Oak instead. Lapras returned to her family, Pidgeot stayed in the woods outside Pallet Town, Charizard decided to stay in the Charicific Valley, only visiting occasionally . . . and the real kicker came when it was time for Misty to leave, going back home to Cerulean and leaving him to continue on by himself.

Ash knows that, in many of these cases, the circumstances are beyond his friends’ control. And it’s not like he never sees them again; they call, they write letters, they visit sometimes, they keep in touch. But that doesn’t make the goodbyes any harder, nor does it stop it from wedging a little note in the back of his mind whenever he meets a new traveling companion that this is only temporary, sooner or later they’re going to leave, better start preparing now for when that happens later. When Misty and Brock left him at the end of the OS, he broke down crying before bolting back to Pallet. After that, the successive goodbyes became easier, because although he bonds and is close with all of his new friends, there’s always a sort of subconscious bit of distance there where he knows that this is not forever, so he better not get attached like it is. (It’s also why, especially with his pokémon, he often makes the choice to leave them before they can say they’re leaving him. We see this with Pikachu, and Charizard, too. At least this way he can tell himself that it’s not really that they’re leaving him; he’s leaving them, for their own good. They’ll be happier this way. And it’s in his control, it’s in his power, he’s not being abandoned, he’s not, he’s making this choice, all on his own.) It gets to the point where, at the end of his Kalos journey, he announces he’s going back to Pallet Town before anyone else has shared their plans with him (at least, I’m pretty sure this was before Serena had decided what it was she was going to do and announced her intentions on going to Hoenn). Aside from just being rather Done™ with Kalos after everything that entire journey consisted of (not just the Flare arc danger, but all the pressure that came with being idolized all the time, et cetera), he decided to say goodbye on his own and go home since he could tell that was coming anyway. He made the decision before the others could, because again: he’s choosing to leave this way, not the other way around.

And again: Ash still loves all of his friends and pokémon, still cares for them all deeply, there’s no doubt about that. And he doesn’t consciously think about the fact that they’ll leave, but . . . that’s still there, in the back of his mind, and as such it’s something he starts preparing himself for as his journey goes on and he magnetically attracts new companions after stepping foot in a new region. Yeah, he attracts friends like static cling, but static wears off after awhile, and so does their time together. By this point, Ash has just rather resigned himself to it, even if only subconsciously.

D.) What would never work in canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway

So I have two of these. One is one that I’m sure most people would agree with, and the other is one that I’m sure most people would feel really “?!?!” about.

The one that I feel most people would agree with is that I like to imagine a timeline of Ash aging, simply because although I know the reason why he stays ten, and though I know that the anime exists in a sort of time bubble where time passes but no one ages, it’s still hard for me to reconcile the fact that, from Ash’s perspective, he actually hasn’t been on this journey for years, despite everything that he has done over the course of all the sagas. The reboot of his personality in SM aside, I really feel as if he was characterized like he was 13/14 in XY(&Z), with 13 erring on the young side. He certainly acted more mature than Manon, who we know is ten because she had just started on her journey. (And note: I do not mean this as a dig at Manon, I merely mean that she acted her age whereas Ash did not act his supposed age.) And while Serena had also just started out, we know that she had no interest in journeying until she saw Ash on TV, so it would be believable that perhaps she just started late and was also about 13/14 (hence also why she’s a lot more open about her crush than previous girls---she has a few added years of extra maturity). So the fact that Serena is also more mature than Manon doesn’t discount the idea that Ash didn’t act like he was ten, but instead acted like he was older.

So the way that I look at it is like this: According to the information given in Shuudo’s novelizations, Ash would have turned eleven about a month after setting off from Pallet Town. (His birthday is May 22nd, and Shuudo’s novelizations said that kids leave on their journeys the first April after they turn ten, no doubt based on the Japanese school system.) The line about it being a year since they were last in Viridian City in “Battle of the Badge” is dub-only, but if we take it for the sake of having some sort of measurable timeline, then we can say that by the time the Kanto League takes place, Ash is newly twelve. After that, given how short the Orange Islands season is, maybe it only takes about two or three months (there was a lot of Surfing, okay), so Ash is still twelve by the time he goes to Johto.

Now, this is where things get a bit more difficult, because each of the following sagas was really, really long (far longer than either Kanto or Orange), and even if we do “one year per journey,” Ash would end up being seventeen by the time Kalos rolls around, and no matter how mature he is in XY(&Z), there’s no way that I can buy that he is seventeen. None. (And not even because of maturity, but because . . . look at him. He should be far closer to Alan’s height if he was an older teenager. Hell, he’d be older than Alan if he was seventeen, so like . . . thirteen/fourteen is believable. Seventeen is not.) So I’m really not sure how to make that work, for him to still only be, say, fourteen by the time he reaches Kalos despite how long the Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova sagas are, but at least making him fourteen by Kalos is more believable than ten, so I think that finagling can be forgiven.

As for the other, “?!?!” one . . . okay, hear me out. What if---and stay with me, guys, bear with me on this---what if . . . Ritchie was his half-brother somehow.

I mean, think about it! They look startlingly alike! They act similar, though Ritchie is more polite and far more of a gentleman. (Would be Serena’s actual dream guy tbh. Plot twist, Ash didn’t remember the summer camp because it was Ritchie she met there and not him.) Ash’s dad is not in the picture, so it’s not out of the question that he could have had another son with a different woman. The only issue is that they’re close in age, but you never know: maybe he walked out on Delia because he had an affair with someone else. It’s possible!!

Anyway, that’s just a crack theory and not a real headcanon, but it’s one I sometimes like to imagine nonetheless. :P

[autisticmight]

at the end of xyz, ash is shown to have four pokemon with him. these are noivern, hawlucha, talonflame, and pikachu, so only three of them are kept in poke balls. however, at the start of sm, ash leaves five poke balls with professor oak

this is probably because the end of xyz wasn’t planned, with greninja and goodra staying in kalos, but narrative-wise there are two possibilities

the first is that greninja and goodra still officially belong to ash, and they can come back whenever they want. this would also imply that ash still might own pidgeot, butterfree, and lapras

the second is that ash wanted his kalos pokemon to feel more at home with his other pokemon, and that he transferred over a couple of his older pokemon. i’m guessing that it would be bulbasaur and leavanny, who are basically ash’s pokemon’s adopted parents

either way, i love this dumb children’s show and overanalysing every frame