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[battle-earthbound]

Hey are like.. Lucas and Ninten here too? And their pals?

Ninten is here! Normal type gym leader, and your service! 

And not only is Lucas here, but so is Claus! We run a gym in Tazmily with double battles! I have a Plusle and a Clefable, and Claus has a Minun and a Gengar!

[zosonils]

Okay so I have to know what your Mother 3 pokemon au is?

alright so basically it’s exactly what it says on the tin, it’s an au where the nowhere islands are a pokemon region! i haven’t figured out the entirety of the plot/whatever but i have some key points mapped out:

-boney is a growlithe, and later an arcanine. he remains a very good boy

-the nowhere islands are much more densely populated, with towns and gyms built around the majority of story locations [such as the needle locations, thunder tower, club titiboo and the factory, etc.]

-the pigmasks are of course the evil team of the game

-the magypsies are all mythical pokemon, although i haven’t sorted out which corresponds to who yet

-lucas goes on his adventure with kumatora and duster as friendly but competent rivals. think cheren and bianca from black and white

-lucas can freely talk to and understand pokemon in the same way that n does due to his psychic powers. kumatora is also capable of this, although it comes less naturally as her psychic skillset is more offense-based

-claus is a phantump and god, i spent literally two hours making this last night. i calculated all of this. everything here is 100% in line with the games. i looked up the exp formula and calculated it to be accurate. his ivs line up perfectly with the personality trait on the info screen. this is [almost] a completely normal, legal pokemon, albeit in a generation it shouldn’t be in. this is my life now

-claus absolutely insists on being part of the team for lucas’ gym challenge. they’ve probably been talking about doing their challenge together since they were kids and while this isn’t what they had in mind, a childhood promise is a childhood promise

-because i am proudly a horrible angst dragon, lucas is the first to discover claus in this state. complete emotional breakdowns and general panic ensue

-duster’s ‘thief tools’ are all pokemon. it’s a funky nickname he’s given to his team because he loves them. i’m not completely certain what the entire lineup would be but rope snake is definitely an ekans/arbok

-kumatora has a chandelure named violet

-now what on earth is that blatantly illegal electric type move doing there, huh

i think i’ve run out of things to infodump on, but i’ll probably post about this au quite a bit in the future because it’s really fun! i’m thinking that maybe i’ll try to make trainer sprites for the main characters or something along those lines

[and a bonus claus for your troubles!]