#I think it’s specifically because I’ve been able to make a self-insert for pokémon through it that I.. really haven’t had before

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In a turn of events that probably surprises no-one, I am once again having a Reborn moment

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how about work it, remix, and swap for whoever you'd like !

Another round of several, hehe - thank you for all of these, Bing!~

I think I’ll use my selfship with Luna for these, if that’s alright - I know I’ve already answered Remix for us, but this was the only ask that asked Work It, which I really want to explore if that’s okay!

(question source: “Okay Hear Me Out, Ask Game” by dragonsmooch)

..These got long, I apologise, so I think I might put them under a readmore.

Work It: Your S/I and/or your F/O(s) are unable or unwilling to continue doing their main career anymore. (Optional: Why?) What do they replace this job with? Alternatively, what is an equivalent of their current job in another time period/setting? - Hmm.. If it’s specifically that Luna has to step down from being the Dark-type Gym Leader, and Adriana is no longer a travelling Pokémon Trainer, then I think it could make sense for Adri to become a Contest Coordinator instead - specifically entering Cuteness Contests alongside her Shiny Pumpkaboo, because hello have you seen those things they’re adorable! And then, Luna is the one who becomes a travelling Pokémon Trainer, and she goes on a journey around either Kalos (since that’s where Adriana is from) or Hoenn (since that’s where Adriana would go to participate in Pokémon Contests). She could well still specialise in Dark-type Pokémon still, so that sort of aspect wouldn’t really change much, especially since a fair few of her current team of Pokémon are found in a number of different regions - Umbreon, Weavile, Tyranitar, and so on.

On the other hand, if it’s that neither of them are able to be Pokémon Trainers in any kind of sense, then.. that would be a lot more interesting, especially when kept in the world of Pokémon since  so much of it revolves around Pokémon, haha. A number of Reborn’s Gym Leaders have other roles in addition to being Gym Leaders (Kiki is the sensei of Apophyll Academy, Ciel and Samson and Terra all perform in the Agate Circus, Florinia runs the Onyx Trainers’ School, and so on), but Luna isn’t one of those, so.. I guess the only other role she has to fall back on is her technical status as a princess, haha! (She says it herself in an interview - her father owns the castle that she lives in, which she supposes makes her a princess, and honestly I’m not going to argue with that logic!) She also acts as the castle’s maid, but.. Luna will always be a princess first and foremost, especially with the also-noble Adri as her partner.

As for what Adriana herself would do, though.. I mean, she technically doesn’t need a career because of her family being so prestigious. The only thing I can think of is that she would get railroaded back into Laverre City itself, and.. maybe end up as some kind of model for or assistant to Valerie, because of Valerie being a fashion designer? Adri really isn’t as hands-on or fieldwork-y as Noire, my other Pokémon self-insert, so I can’t really put her in much of like a scientist sort of setting.

Remix: What are your thoughts on your S/I and your F/O(s) with the same canon but in a different setting? i.e. steampunk instead of modern, fantasy instead of sci-fi, etc. (Optional: Asks can specify a setting.) Alternatively, what’s an aesthetic/style you’d like to see your S/I and/or F/O(s) dress-up in? - I’ve already answered this one somewhere else, I’m afraid! To summarise my response from then.. we’ve both already got some pretty solidly-set aesthetics already, so seeing plays on that (like a cyber sort of thing) could be pretty different!

Swap: Your S/I and your F/O(s) exchange roles for a day, willingly or begrudgingly, casually or through supernatural circumstances. How well (or terribly) does it go? Alternatively, how would things be different if the roles had always been swapped? - well, at the current moment in time (i.e. the end of the most recently-released episode of Reborn), Adriana doesn’t actually have a lot to do, because the only Gym Leader she has yet to face is Saphira, and she can’t battle her yet because her Gym in Labradorra City is still sealed off by a PULSE barrier. (Although.. Adri did fight Noel in completely the wrong place and the battle still counted for all official purposes, so.. technically there’s nothing stopping her obtaining the last Gym Badge. But then I think this game’s Victory Road is only accessible through Labradorra, so that would also stop her.)

And then, Luna gives the ninth Gym Badge of eighteen, so any potential challengers would have had to defeat the previous eight in line first, and.. Shelly and Noel both ran away and went up to Calcenon, Aya’s not taking battles for spoilery reasons, Shade is Shade, and so on and so forth. Therefore it’s very unlikely any challengers would actually be coming through to face her. So, from an if-this-actually-happened-right-this-moment perspective, neither of us would actually have to do much in these roles, haha - but, I think we would actually both do pretty well!

Adriana would probably fare better with using Luna’s Pokémon, compared to Luna working with Adri’s, just because Adriana’s team has a wider variety of types and personalities in it. So, it might be quite hard for Luna to take Adri’s place as the travelling Trainer who saves Reborn, given that she pretty much has the most important part of it ahead of her - the final battles with Team Meteor and finally facing Lin. On the other hand, Adriana used to specialise only in Ghost-type Pokémon when she went on her initial journey around Kalos, and there are a fair number of similarities between Ghost-types and Dark-types (such as the types their moves are super-effective against), so I don’t think she’d find it too difficult to adapt to Luna’s Dark-types. (One of Luna’s Pokémon she uses in the Glass Workstation, her Gothitelle, is actually one that Adriana gifted her in the first place, so there’s always that.)

I hope that is alright! Thank you again for sending all of these in, and I’m very sorry for how long it took me to get to them!