#i do like the idea though of him just having his polywrath.. idk..

[doggirlbuck]

anyway details of this au under the cut because i wrote a lot 🫶🫶🫶

i think itd be common for firefighters to have a personal water-type that they take with them to fires to help out. bobby has a poliwrath that he got as a polywag when he first moved to la, chimney has a psyduck, hen has a marill, buck has a squirtle, eddie has a gyrados and a vaporeon. specifically eddies vaporeon was an eevee that shannon got around the time eddie was discharged from the military, with the intention of it being a family pet, and she left it with eddie and chris when she moved to la. christopher and eddie talked about if they wanted to evolve her (i just decided the vaporeon is a girl) and what they should evolve her into, they agreed on vaporeon.

also i dont think many of the characters would be trainers and do much actual battling, mostly keeping pokemon as pets or to help with their jobs, but i think buck was a pretty successful trainer and collected gym badges from different states when he was traveling in his 20s. his squirtle is pretty new and young, he didnt get it until he was a firefighter for a few years and decided he wanted a water type like everyone else. other than his squirtle, he has an eevee (that hes scared to let evolve because the amount of choices is overwhelming and he likes the idea that it has the potential to be anything), an arcanine, a luxray, a raichu, and a mareep, (arcanine luxray and raichu are pretty high levels, hes had them the longest)

i also think christopher from a really young age would be really really interested in being a trainer, so when eddie comes home from the military and its just him and chris, he takes chris with him to do battles and gyms together as a way to earn money while also spending quality time with chris. other than his vaporeon and gyrados,(which he and chris got as a magikarp probably won as a prize in some carnival or fair, goldfish style) he has an ursaring, a lucario, an absol, a gengar, a munchlax, and a skitty. (skitty and munchlax dont really battle much he just thinks theyre cute and likes having them around) around the time chris is 11 or 12 and ready to start his own pokemon journey, buck takes up a sort of mentor position for him since hes the most experienced trainer of the group. (eventually chris would start collecting his own pokemon instead of just battling alongside his dad but i havent gotten that far yet and i really should be asleep instead of typing all this out)

as for chim and hen, they have a plusle and minun (chim has minun hen has plusle) chim i think is in 3rd place when in comes to amount of experience pokemon training among the 118, he did it as a hobby and to earn a little money before becoming a firefighter, he gets back into it later because buck complains that his pokemon are getting bored since he started firefighting, and he wants to teach chris, so he wants to get back into it but more casually, he eddie and chim start battling for fun in their free time (sometimes bobby begrudgingly agrees to battle, mostly because poliwrath seems interested and hes incapable of saying no to his beloved partner pokemon). anyway chim other than his psyduck and minun, has an abra, a chikorita (he got shortly after buck got him back into battling), a murkrow, and a bewear. (he and murkrow have a sort of adversarial frenemy relationship but they still love each other 🫶)

hen has aforementioned marill and plusle, she has a vulpix, and oddish, and a chansey (which helps her with peoples injuries on calls) and her karen and denny for a while have a herdier that she saved from an earthquake 🫶

maddie i think likes collecting cute pokemon after she comes to la, she has a cubone, a dratini, a teddiursa, and a floatzel (the floatzel was an egg buck was given by another trainer, he leveled it up and gave it to maddie to protect her, mainly to put his own mind at ease but she appreciates it and her and floatzel become really close)

anyway thats all i have i will probably also come up with what pokemon christopher and athena would have but athena is a toughy because she is a cop (cops in pokemon usually have arcanines) but she is allergic to dogs and i am not about to retcon that so i have to come up with something else anyway there is no point to any of this im just having fun. ok. send post

my brain is constantly in random au hell forever. im coming up with a 911 pokemon au currently. no reason why. just for fun i guess