#akari is kieran

[applesjuice]

Where Falling Stars Live

Just a little something for the Legends Arceus AU! The first one to meet Akari was Laventon, before they even were Akari.

When a child fell from the sky Hopkin wasn’t certain he was entirely awake. The last few days, months really, had been much too long, and it wasn’t right of him to constantly be relying on Rei to do more than he already was. So when three of his specimens ran off when he unlocked the lab, he hadn’t the heart to bother the poor lad to go fetch them. He was meant for science, not running, yet he managed to corner them all on the beach. And then a child fell onto the sand. Straight out of nowhere.

They laid stilly, not moving, and Hopkin worried some drifblim got into the village the evening before. He cried out in shock as the three menaces crawled over the corpse, but the sight of it seemed almost unreal, like a dream he'd cooked up under a Yawn. And then all of a sudden it stared to breathe and he came to his senses.

“It’s not dead? You’re not dead!” he cried in relief. “Oh wake up, wake up! Do wake up, wouldn’t you?” Slowly, eyes the color of his favorite butterscotch schnapps blinked up at him. He frowned at the two different sizes of pupils and how he, she? He wasn’t terribly sure really, children weren’t exactly what he’d gotten accredited for. They all looked somewhat similar before they reached puberty anyway. But this child struggled to sit up, and was much too unsteady once on their feet. 

It was a perfectly normal child, small, too thin and missing a shoe, with hair that was dark and a mess. Half of it was up like a thwackey, and purple. The rest was falling out of a hair tie. Poor thing. Definitely looked like one would expect if they dropped out of the sky. 

They blinked up at him, eyes heavy, then looked around. Then stared at his specimens as though in a daze. 

Hopkin tried to seem reassuring, and like his head was not spinning with fright. “You gave me quite the shock, falling from the sky like that… Thank goodness you’re alright!” he cried. 

The child’s eyes rose from the pokemon to meet his. “W-Who are you?” they whispered. An accent, less drawn out than the clans’ pronunciation, but still off from how the settlers here spoke. 

Hopkin considered them. Definitely not from Jubilife then. “I’d like to ask you the same! I mean, you fell out of the sky, you understand. Come now– who does that?”

Slowly they curled into themself unsurely, trying to hide behind the hair in their face. “Me I guess?” they said almost wondering. 

Yes, well, they weren’t wrong… Hopkin studied them closer; a few bruises here and there, some cuts along their cheeks, like gravel was flung at their face. The fragments caught in there shimmered. An odd sleeveless blouse over breeches, practical yet lose the way the young girls in the villages fancied. So maybe a lass? But then again Rei’s hair was that length until only recently, when he singed off a good chunk leaning too close to a ponyta. He’d been upset, but more at the loss of his drawing. It had taken about fourteen hours of sitting in one spot in the Fieldlands to get the anatomy down pat. 

Hopkin just didn’t know anymore. He’d been spending so much time holed up in his study he could hardly remember how to be a functioning person. This one didn’t look foreign, not in the way he did at least, but a lot of things about them was off. If only children had more distinguishing features, like inverted sclerae or differentiating ear lengths. “Your clothing is unusual. You wouldn’t happen to have an acquaintance in these parts? Or some family?” he asked.

“I don’t know…” They shook their head wearing a big, confused frown.

Oh dear. Hopkin grew more concerned. “I see. You seem to be in a bit of a pickle. Might I be able to help in some way? Offer some directions? Do you have somewhere around here to stay? You’re much too young to be out and about on your own like this, it’s dangerous.”

“I don’t know…”

Oh dear, oh dear. “So you don’t know anyone here, and you don’t even know where to spend the night? Goodness me.” Their little face was growing afraid. “Well, this is a proper pickle indeed.” 

They looked to the side, frustrated tears coming into their eyes. “I dunno what to do.” They sniffled. 

“I see,” Hopkin said, pretending to think hard on it. “Well, no gentleman would abandon such a person in need!” The three menaces chimed in their agreement. The child looked at them with that dewey look kids got when they wanted a hug. Especially from something so deceptively cute. Terrors, absolute terrors they were, but nobody seemed to believe him. 

The three menaces! The whole reason why even left his lab in the first place. “Oh my, I’d completely forgotten! I had just caught up with these three runaways when you tumbled out of the sky. Almost as if they knew you’d appear here!”

Hopkin wouldn’t give them that much credit, but it was odd that they came here specifically. Though odder things did happen in these parts. As odd as the howls that came from the Weald when a mist settled in on cold nights. But he knew it best that some questions remained unanswered. A thought came to him. “Ah, I have to ask. Do you even know what a Pokemon is?” 

“Of course!” they said all indignant. 

Hopkin laughed, and felt his unease grow somewhat lighter. “My, that’s a relief then! Though you fell from the sky, it seems we have some common ground, eh? These three belong to me, mysterious creatures that they are.”

The three in question scoffed, but immediately went back to pretending they were cute and deserving of treats. But Hopkin would not fall for it, not again. He gave them a look, a stern one, that they promptly ignored. 

And then he realized his manners had slipped him. “My name! Oh, I apologize! I haven’t even introduced myself! I’m Laventon, something of a Pokemon Professor. That is to say, I’m a scholar seeking to deepen our understanding of Pokemon. Pokemon such as these three here–”

The three in questen proceeded to run off again.

“Blast and bother, not again! Why must you keep running from me!?” He had to stop himself saying something inappropriate for young ears. “I’m terribly sorry, but do you think you could help me round them up… and I haven’t even asked your name yet. Here I am making requests.”

“No, let me help you!” the child said quickly, and went stumbling forward. It was more of a jog than a run, and Hopkin himself wasn’t much faster. From the way that they ran, they were definitely off balance, and unsurprisingly, they took quite the tumble. 

“Careful now!” Hopkin said and helped them to stand. A hand mirror of some sort was now in their hands, their knee bleeding from where it knocked against its hard surface. Oddly enough the mirror was beeping. They stared into it, wondering at their reflection. Maybe it fell out of their pocket? It was a decorative thing, with what looked to be antlers carved onto the housing. 

A rustling came from the susuki thicket, and the rowlet poked out its head.

“Kroo!” it cried out, flapping its wings, and he felt for a pokeball within his pocket. He should have captured them as soon as he got his hands on these contraptions, but they were generally so mild and enjoyed his climate controlled lab.

“Come here! Be a good lad,” he called out to it. It ignored him, trotting further into the thicket. Clumsily he tossed one of the balls. Keeping wasn’t ever his strong suit, nor was cricket in general. Or any sport, really. Predictably it went to the left. As did the next one he tried.

Cyndaquil scurried under his legs, the flames on her back lit. He shooed her off before she could crawl up his pant leg, patting the embers that caught on the edge of his coat. Hopkin tried to catch her as well, and this attempt was even worse than his last.

The child came over then, paler and suspiciously red-eyed. 

“Aha!” Hopkin cried. “You’ve come to my rescue, my new friend from the sky. I tried catching my little runaways, but I’m not the best at this sort of thing you see…”

And see they must have, as they broke into giggles. That was a good thing. Laughter always did children well, and this one seemed anything but. He didn’t mind being silly or making himself into a fool, it made the pokemon less likely to bite him, and seemed to soothe something hurt within this young boy. Girl. Prepubescent creature. Hopkin needed a nap. Sorely he hoped this wasn’t a ditto.

He spoke of the pokemon fondly, explained their physiology as simply as he would when lecturing a Galaxy Team member. His audience here was substantially more pleasant, reduced now to just the occasionally sniffle. But their interest was earnest, and not once did the attention on him wander. Hopkin began rambling in glee. He couldn’t help but to go on a tangent. Wax on about their power to shrink, how they could find the inside of a hollowed out apricorn comforting. A perfect, portable closed system where the energy the pokemon exerted conducted itself through a solid rich in native minerals. The tumblestone, a rock, a plain simple rock, combined with the Pokemon’s own ability to perform of a reversible process! The blackbody nature of the skin of a fruit.

He was over explaining, over complicating things as he tended to do, but here was someone who drank in every one of his words with fascination, staring at him as though this was already well known.

Hopkin fell a little in love then, the same way he did when Rei shyly sketched him a zubat in the dirt with a stick, not yet wholly aware that forever was forever when the pyre burned his parents remains.

“Would you mind trying to catch them? I know we just met, but I’m afraid I’ve no one else to turn to. I’d be awfully grateful.”

The child before him shifted from one foot baring only a sock to the other, and did not immediately agree. They asked him softly, “What if they don’t want to be caught and I’m just being selfish? I don’t want to hurt them. I don’t mean to hurt anyone…” They stopped, their eyes glazed by confusion, seeming to try and guess where those words came from.

It was alarming, and Hopkin found himself stunned. This was a child. A child, and something within them that they seemingly could not put a voice to was terrified and that in turn terrified him too. It was so heartbreakingly unsure and human, to watch someone so young slowly fall apart before him. 

“This doesn’t hurt them,” Hopkin said fairly.

“It might.” Their voice was shrinking, their vibrancy whittling away as they said “I don’t know why, but it might. It will. I’ll hurt them.”

Hopkin leaned down at that to be on their level, and guided the child to look at him, and they did so in a complete haze of confusion. “You never told me your name, you know. I’m terribly sorry that I’m only just now asking for it.”

“I don’t know it,” the child said very softly, as if admitting it aloud spoke the admission into existence. 

Hopkin stared at them, troubled. This wasn’t normal. Not an ounce of this made sense, and he didn’t like it one bit. The child’s thoughts seemed to grow inward, trying to find one single memory, or any at all. “Well, how about something you’d like to be called. Let’s start with that, shall we?”

“K-Kiki?”

“Wonderful! That must be short for something, but sometimes the hows and whys of things slip by us. Especially when you get to my age. I can’t say I understand your situation Kiki, but what I can understand is that you are very afraid. And sometimes to get past that fear we need to take a first step and do something uncomfortable, something that may make us frightened. That’s why I think you should be the one to try catching these three. If they don’t want to be caught, they won’t let themselves be, but whether or not you try doing so doesn’t mean you are forcing your will onto theirs. The relationship between humans and pokemon is tumultuous as best, and the act of ‘catching’ them is still rather new, but I firmly believe this here device, this pokeball, is an olive branch. And sometimes we, as people, are desperate for friends.”

Kiki looked completely dumfounded and slowly tears ran down their face. Hopkin stood up, cracking his back and the weight of his gut jiggled. He stepped back, and handed Kiki three balls to try with. The weight of their touch as they traced a small finger over the fruit was fragile. “Do you think they’d want to be friends with me?”

“Who knows,” Hopkin said very softly. Honestly, he himself wasn’t sure if either of them even liked him, and he’d been raising them since before he even got on the boat to Hisui from Johto. “But there are numerous pokemon in this world, so logically at least some of them must want to.”

“Alright then,” Kiki mumbled, a spark of some fire now lit deep within them. “I’ll give it a try.”

“There’s the spirit! Now, the proper technique is to take aim at the Pokemon and let the ball fly– really, it’s quite simple! Though far be it from me to say so, I supposed, given my own dire lack of skill in this area.”

Kiki nodded. 

They caught all three of the pokemon one after the other, quick to aim and quicker to throw accurately enough to get each of them by surprise. They had already caught Oshawott before Hopkin realized this was something this child had experience in doing. Which was impossible considering the invention was only patented within the last year. As he thought further on it, Hopkin took a deep breath, and decided he didn’t quite care. Even before Kiki looked back at him, smiling and holding up three pokeballs that were putting out fireworks, he felt this child was here for a reason. He just wasn’t sure what that was yet.

[kindykotik]

I haven't posted bc I've been drawing pokemon sorry

[grismavessel]

Volo has officially reached boomer status

[xxinkyshadowxx]

[grey822aaa]

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[ar1h1]

Template made by chaogotchi on twitter!!

I decided to do this, but instead of slapping images, i will DRAW them, cause im crazy and i hate myself /hj

Anyway, this was actually a lot of fun! Playing around with simple body movement to show off their personalities and drawing different people i've never drawn before! (and yes, a bit of experimentation on eye shape to match the official ones!)

[kharmii]

Lance: Hey! They are so cute and they look good together! I have treats we can all eat together.

Volo wondering why that kid is looking at him. Kieran tells him his hairstyle is cool. He looks like a demon.

Art credit: Yao@yao4513 Twitter.

[sexysilverstrider]

thinking right now and the switch pokemon games really gave me great pokemon ship dynamics

hop/gloria - childhood friends but best friend snatches the other's dreams and bff cant bring to blame her coz hes his bestie and he has his own issues and weakness to blame

bede/gloria - bratty rival gets beaten and has his life hit him in the face by protag is always a win for me

raihan/gloria - ill always love the 'i see you as a lil sister i never had :) *proceeds to accidentally falls for the said rhetorical sister figure* type lol its cute. kousuke toriumis characters are just like that

leon/sonia - childhood friends too!!! but this time theyre the reverse of hpyu

trace/elaine - childhood friends but the less angstier version compared to gurileaf/gurired

arven/juliana - arven being CANONICALLY jealous n clingy at everyone who is close to juliana is just top tier for me. that is a big big puppy dog craving for love and attention

kieran/juliana - i would like to thank pokemon for giving me a whiplash of a character LMAOOOO a rival who becomes bastardized by protags actions??????? kieran heavily implying that he likes juliana too before juliana accidenatlly ruins his life????? oh im EATING

volo/akari - enemies to lovers but this time it breached containment and actually reached fame because the amount of fanarts/fanfics ive seen of this otp is fascinating. in a span of a year pixiv managed to have 100+ arts of them. maybe even more. i mean what do you expect? yandere? angst? drama? pining??? hosoyan and hondo kaede??? in MY pokemon game?

[eev583]

Grrrr…we still don’t have Akari or Rei keychain plushies…yet we have some for Juliana and Florian. They were here before them so why don’t we have any plushies :<

[radiantmocha]

Training on Champions

"We are Champions."

"Top-ranked trainers..."

"We challenge you, Kieran."

"YOU CANNOT BEAT US."

Unbeatable but Juliana (employee), Gloria (dog), Akari (Bowser), and Kieran (Boyfriend) sing it (ft. Carmine as girlfriend behind Kieran)

here comes mocha with more silly ideas. i've had this one for a while but i ended up replacing my two in-game trainers with the canon protagonists because i prefer writing stuff with canon characters hehe. enjoy my musical interpretation of kieran training on my three favorite top girls!

obligatory @tuttiwrites cuz i like harassing you with my ideas 🤭

[a-spy-in-hisui]

Here is a colorized version of the crossover drawing I did for @applesjuice with Marc and Akari.

It's the first time I drew and put colors on Cyndaquil, and I'm quite a rookie with shades, so please forgive me.

[applesjuice]

sorry if this has been asked before (or would be too much of a spoiler), but does hisui kieran/akari ever fully get their memories back?? I would assume they eventually do,, just wanted to ask :0 I'd feel so bad for people like Carmine if they don't..

I havent actually made my mind up about that yet lol! I like to think they do eventually it's just a slow process. They're not gonna be the same person, the same Kieran that Carmine and everyone knew before, since a lot went down in Hisui. So their relationships will probably be a lot different post Hisui than pre hisui.

Like for example, Akari gets along pretty well with Drayton post Hisui, but also Drayotn's matured and gotten his shit together in the few years Kieran was missing. But on the flip side stuff is kind of awkward with Carmine for a while because Carmine expects Akari to be her little brother and Akari just... isn't that anymore. They've had too many new experiences since Indigo Disk to be the person Carmine was used to.

Same with Juliana. It's just different, but they're both not the same people they were before everything happened. But Juliana's accepted that by post Hisui, she's had a lot going on and was chasing her own goals so they're both kind of starting from zero with their friendship again. The two of them have been chasing after one another for a while now since. Well... You'll see!

[azelmaandeponine]

I swear to god. Anytime I see people demonizing Drayton then turning around and woobifying Kieran (or demonizing Drayton to woobify Kieran), I get more and more rage filled.

Maybe I'll channel my rage and actually finish (and maybe even post) my Akari fic series. It's intended to go through and post-Indigo Disk. While when I plotted it, it wasn't meant to be, if this keeps up, I might end up getting catharsis from Akari refusing to forgive him for a long-ass time.

[miki-13]

Pokémon MCs= Miyazaki-styled Protagonists?

Spoilers for Legends Arceus and Scarvio's DLC below!

So I just finished this wonderful long-ass video from Schnee

about how Miyazaki writes women: Unafraid, driven by duty rather than ego, isolated from their societies, and have inner harmony in a disharmonious world, spirituality in a society either devoid of or with corruption.

In essence, Miyazaki Heroines are Spiritual Heroes.

And I thought

That's sounds like Pokemon MCs!

Driven to go on a journey, either starting in a new place or with only a few friends or even that eventually grow and never feeling conflicted on what they have to do whether it be defeating evil or becoming closer to Pokémon.

Together, you and your Pokémon overcame all the challenges you faced, however difficult. It means that you've triumphed over any personal weaknesses, too. The power you learned... I can feel it emanating from you. - Cynthia, Pokemon DPP

Pretty much all the characters, no matter the game, note how kind and brave the protagonists are even compared to others. (Sometimes to their detriment, like in SV's DLC)

To me, Hisui's Akari+Rei and Paldea's Florian+ Juliana both feel very much like Ghibli-styled protagonists.

They show fear and sorrow, but still keep moving either because they do not fear what everyone else does or because their duty is so much more important than fear. They are initially isolated but their openness and lack of fear soon brings them companions.

Rei and Akari mend the rifts between human and Pokémon through loving all Pokémon, which is noted by many characters as strange due to lack of fear.

Juliana and Florian come to Paldea isolated but their willingness to embrace their new environment and help their friends helps them grow in unique ways.

And both sets of character's lack of ego is especially contrasted against Volo and Kieran's all-consuming egos, which drive the plot of their game and DLC respectively... and while Volo refuses to change and wallows, Kieran is able to grow past this flaw.

Of course, people insert themselves and what they know into the characters as they serve as blank slates, whether in fanfiction, manga, nuzlocke runs or other mediums for Pokemon stories.

But just thinking about this made me really happy, and it's opened up new ways for me to play Pokemon.

After all, you can't go wrong emulating Miyazaki's protagonists ^__^

[xxinkyshadowxx]

THIS IS MEME SET ONE OF TODAY THERE IS ATLEAST ONE MORE TO COME MUAHAHAHAHAHA I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MY TIME TODAY MUAHAHAHA

[atlaswingsofruin]

I do it a lot, i have:

Cyborgfur shipping (Trey & sorrel, because Trey’s a cyborg & Sorrel has fur)

Lovebreathe shipping (Alice & sorrel, because “love is in the air” they breath it)

BBchampions shipping (Kieran & Kopa, for both being bluberry academy’s champions)

EdgySoftie shipping (Gladion, Lillie & Eliot, because Gladion’s a edgy & Lillie’s a softie)

Arceus shipping (Marcus & Akari, for both fighting for Arceus)

Meteor shipping (Brendon & Zinnia, for the delta episode being all around a meteor)

Terror shipping (Silver & Chrissy, for both of them being completely insane when they were children)

Divorce shipping (Lyra & Chrissy, for Lyra being his girlfriend after his divorce from Silver)

Denied love shipping (Zephyr & Sonia, for Zephyr denying his love for Sonia due to losing his previous girlfriend)

Fate Shipping (Neli & Green, for their encounter being fateful)

SinnohChampions shipping (Loki & Cynthia, for the fact they’re sinnoh’s champions)

NuclearFighters Shipping (Leviathan & Theo, for the fact they fought a nuclear pokemon)

Fairytale shipping (Vyffor & Kyle, for the belief that a furry and a human dating, specially a rider & hunter, is a completely fairytale, which was proven false)

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