#im gonna make a separate post for the regional gym leaders

[aeroblossom]

i know we're one archon off just enough to make the eight gym leaders in a pokemon au, but consider another approach: the archons as champions ft. some story ideas, i put a concerning amount of thought into this --

mondstadt champion venti (flying • fairy) is fought in secret, since no one can guess he's the champion. the mondstadt elite four are eula (ice • dark), klee (fire • fairy), jean (flying • grass) and finally diluc (fire • flying). venti is friends with celebi - as is nahida - and istaroth manifests as dialga. albedo is kind of like the professor for mondstadt, sucrose gives you your pokedex :] durin is yveltal. dvalin is rayquaza. no one knows about it, but kaeya is friends with articuno.

rhinedottir explores the abyss which is basically the genshin equivalent of the distortion world headed by giratina, aided by her signature hydreigon. dragonspine is our mt silver lol. alice has a delphox (klee has a fennekin) and mismagius. barbeloth, of the hexenzirkel, has a xatu. albedo has a garchomp. for some reason, i picture nicole with hatterene. mona has a cosmog!

zhongli is similar (rock • dragon). the order is hu tao (fire • ghost), yelan (water • dark), ganyu (ice • fairy) and finally xiao (flying • dark). childe boss, but he has like three typings - (water • dark)/(electric • dark)/(electric • water). he has a wailord and probably attempts to fight kyogre with his bare hands in fontaine. oh and his foul legacy is from palkia. the adepti are like pokemon rangers btw! and guizhong, after her death, appears also as a cosmog maybe? xiao has an absol, ganyu has suicune, hu tao has trevenant and spiritomb. azhdaha is groudon guys i'm sorry. ningguang is our professor archetype for liyue, and the pokedex is delivered by keqing on the orders of ningguang.

inazuma has two champions - one as the raiden shogun puppet (electric • steel), and one as ei herself (electric • fighting). ayaka (ice • steel), then kazuha (flying • steel) - but he gets exiled, and is replaced by ayato (water • steel). followed by kokomi (water • dragon), and finally yae miko (electric • fairy). yae miko has ninetales and zoroark, kokomi has milotic and nihilego! yes i know that's an ultra beast shhh. professor trope is yae miko, and you have to smuggle your confiscated pokedex with yoimiya and sayu's help.

sumeru champion nahida (grass • psychic), who is heeded by wanderer (flying • dark) as her deputy. wanderer is like n from pkmnbw, you fight him instead of the champion, the pseudo-champion. btw his signature would be a mega evolving banette. the first elite four member is dehya (fighting • fire), followed by cyno (electric • dark), then nilou (water • grass) who was recently appointed! and finally alhaitham (grass • flying). nilou's position used to be tighnari's (grass • poison) but since he left the akademiya, nilou took it. dehya has a female pyroar, nilou has lilligant. nahida and venti are familiars to celebi and the two formes of shaymin! rukkhadevata manifests as xerneas. apep is zygarde lol. token professor looks to be tighnari, but is really just nahida, and collei gives it to you.

for fontaine, i imagine furina (water • fairy) as the champion who sacrifices her position - and her life - so there's no seat of champion left. she later adopts the (water • dark) typing. the fontaine elite four is fought in this order: navia (rock • dark), wriothesley (ice • fighting), clorinde (electric • steel), and finally neuvillette himself (water • dragon OBVIOUSLY). alternatively, neuvillette assumes champion position and his seat as last member of elite four is supplanted by arlecchino (fire • dark)! neuvillette has a dragonair and is a familiar to kyogre, furina has lapras and manaphy/phione, arlecchino has a houndoom. additionally, lyney (fire • dark), lynette (flying • dark) and freminet (ice • steel) fight for arlecchino. ooh but imagine if they get ahold of latios and latias somehow, and use those to fight you! their signatures are gardevoir (lyney) and gallade (lynette) other than a pair of meowstic, and freminet has an empoleon as well as an espurr. sigewinne has a signature azumarill, and she's the professor! the pokedex you were meant to receive falls in the water, so freminet fishes it out for you.

[tripp-must-die]

☆My pokemon au pt2☆

☆because there are no Kalos, Alola, Galar or Paldea regions there is no pokemon from those regions, types introduced in those regions or evil teams

☆thunder island is a small quiet island with a small population compared to the surrounding regions

☆The island is known for its unusual storms however it also has a large area of forest, mountains and two un official gyms

☆while mewtwo was the only 100% successful mew clone there was many attempts only a few survived these being Ditto, mewtwo and a strange pokemon nicknamed murk (ill make a separate post about this im gonna make a few drawings)

☆Blue is the champion of kanto he was defeated by Red but Red wanted to travel the world and continue his adventure

☆the elete4 and the champion have to approve a gym and the gym leader for it to be official

[zaritarazi]

okay i made a whole pokemon verse with HEAVY input from @icedvulpix for legends and i REALLY feel like it needs to be posted here so long post ahead bc the points were all separate tweets

1. amaya runs the daycare and charlie is the dark gym leader. bc this is the pokemon universe, they always get confused for one another despite ALL THE CONTEXT CLUES POSSIBLE. amaya thinks it's cute. charlie gets grumpy.

2. sara literally to me is just "i teach /karate/ and my pokemon is a /machoke/" like she's very proud and we are too. ava doing a sweatdrop she does have other aspects of her personality. she just really likes karate. please

3. ava would work at some kind of research facility that may or may not end up being evil, which isn't her fault she thought this was a conservation effort. will move on to a better, actual facility that does conservation at some point

4. palmer tech would just be an american silph co (ari's suggestion) and zari would work there (ari's suggestion). felicity and cisco would also work there!!! ray keeps trying to get felicity to be ceo so he can go on adventures but /she's/ too busy going on adventures

4.1 cisco invented his own department for ultrabeast research. ray just gives him money whenever he asks. it's fine

5. nate is really the pinnacle ash's mom here in that he gets kidnapped like twice a week minimum but he also researches unowns and other parts of pokemon history

5.1 nate keeps trying to do these really big romantic gestures for amaya so she'll be his girlfriend (it's pokemon all romance is theoretical) but like 4/5 times will just end up giving charlie a huge bouquet of flowers and reading her a poem and shes like can you GO

5.2. charlie: nate wrote you another poem!! amaya: that's so sweet! charlie: that's 15 minutes i'm never getting back

6. zari has a porygon that she leaves at the daycare when she goes to work and she and amaya always have cute flirty conversations. she and charlie flirt by telling each other what a shit trainer they are and promising to battle at some point

6.1. charlie: ha! you can pamper that porygon all you want! he'll never stand a chance against /my/ sneasel! zari: your sneasel couldn't hit the blind side of a barn, let alone ////my//// atari!!! (that's the porygon's name) amaya, in beautiful anime tears: WHY MUST WE FIGHT

6.2 except that it's pokemon so zari would have to say something like "your sneasel is barely anything to sneeze at" and we would all have to live with that

7. i guess mick and len are technically team rocket. they're retired. if you talk to mick and he sees you're treating your pokemon well he gives you a mega burn heal. len will give you moonstone or something if you kick amaya in the shins

7.1 the ONLY way to get an icy stone and evolve into a glaceon is to convince len you've stolen amaya's wallet. he's gonna tell you not to give it back. you absolutely must or you're going to hell

8. mona works for ava taking care of special pokemon at the facility! she is going to fuck an ultrabeast and god will not stop her. except it's pokemon so we can't say fuck

9. nora lives in a big spooky house by herself and it IS haunted with ghost pokemon. these are her friends. ray and mona won't leave her alone and they are UPSETTING her misdreavus

10. jax was a pokemon trainer who sustained a terrible injury and is fine now but he did have to cut his journey short. now he is the #1 science and works in dr stein's lab doing tests for silph/palmer tech. ray would also be fine with jax being ceo. please someone be ceo

10.1 ray: this is my office! it's on the top floor of the highest building in The City Area of This Region. pretty cool, right? jax: sure ray: you could have this office jax: im not going to be ceo ray ray: but im SO TIRED all the TIME

10.2 as this is the pokemon universe people can tend to be a little... spacey. Jax does not understand why this happens but his grasp of common sense makes him the most powerful of us

10.3 person: what did your SCIENCE EXPERIMENT prove, dr jackson??? jax, gesturing: it caught fire person: applauds

[isaacathom]

ooh ooh!!! an idea. if Rhia and Elliot are tied together through their use of the sinnoh starters (and with either the Professor or the Champion or a different Elite Member having the 3rd one), other trios should ALSO be tied!

for instance, the tourists! the three of them should have a starter set. but which region? alola, kalos, or hoenn? idk. maybe it should be the Researchers set, which means the alola starters. that’d make sense, since They’d be the character most capable of wiggling strings and getting that to happen. admittedly T coooouuulld probably convince her native professor (that is, fucking.... oh god. Sycamore, thats it, jesus christ) to hand some over, considering Sycamore is clearly Loaded when it comes to starters. he gives you like, three????? three???? he gives a least two but im positive he gives you another. that or it was Shauna? idk. you get a lot of pokemon handed to you in xy. but, given that T is a strong trainer, it stands to reason she COULD do that. could. would she? idk. and then theres no real way that V could get a set for his friends. loves them dearly, but he has very little connection to breeders and the professors, etc, so he can’t really make that happen. if anything, he’d have this really random collection of pokemon eggs that he’d give to his friends (and especially to R) that he might get from people who are really grateful for his help. thatd be it. starters specifically? probably not. V has Popplio. Not sure which of R and T has Rowlet or Litten. lemme check. well.... hmm. T’s personality means it makes sense for her to have Litten? id be ok with that. means R has Rowlet, and i think thats the more..... interesting pokemon anyway. good for fun tidbits, yknow, like ‘did you know this is the only starter pokemon that starts with a dual typing???? and changes its secondary type in its final evo??? isnt that cool??????’ they’d think it was very cool and they would love their hoodie archer child.

though if the tourists are a three set..... who is YOUR third member. you and your rival are two of them, with your rival definitely being the type advantage sort (so not shauna or Hau or Bianca). but then who is that, for you? eeelliot??? seems weird to give him two starters, even if both starters make sense for him to have. plus the issue is that if you picked the grass starter, he’d have two water starters??? empoleon and the one that relies on you. so id rather separate that. who can serve as a third? the professor could, which removes her from the Rhia/Elliot set (meaning the Infernape goes to either the Champion or an elite 4 member). which is fine, i suppose, but im not sure when youd actually FIGHT the professor to make that set have any meaning. it COULD be the other player character, the one who didnt pick? but where would THEY slot in????

ACTUALLY. ooh this would be kinda neat too. Maaaaayybe. the other player character is a gym leader??????? or an elite??? having multiple change-y elites seems like overkill (even if the character doesnt actually change, just their gender and sprite. they’d have a neutral name, like Alex, to minimise effort). but i think that’d be kinda cool! issue with that is that having them have the third starter would mess with typing, and i dont want two elite 4s with mixed teams (as Rhia/Elliot have mixed teams). and a gym leader with a mixed team??? eh. unless they would sorta like, uh, Striaton City gym (spelt it right for once). where like, its the first gym, and they change types. but then why would they pick the type youre STRONG against??? unless it was more in depth than that. like ‘oh, you picked fire? well, here’s my grass type. neat, yea? oh, you knocked it. well, heres my grass/water pokemon! haha!’ or something? eh. not sure i dig that. mostly because striaton gym was kinda lame. i mean, they only used it once, for fucks sake. uh.... hmm... it doesnt really work that great if they have the weaker one..... or... maaybbee.... uh....... Small Fry??? the original idea for SF is that they were a weak trainer, a naive soul, who was manipulated by Dante into taking the fall for him, by putting him at the head of the Team. and while parts of that aren’t true anymore.... it could be interesting??? to play up that angle. even if that would substantially lessen the potential impact of your Rival being in the Team if you fuck w/ him. hmmm................ god, idk. maybe not??? maybe they should be for some other optional content? like how the other player in bw1/2 is for battle subway only? seems kinda boring and would wholly depend on which side activity is present. given this is Victoria (or Urica lol), pokeathlon would make more sense. yknow, the hardest fucking optional game to implement. lol, fuck. fUUUCK. i dont know where the other player character goes. unless they also accompany you, either in an Ethan/Lyra way or in a Brendan/May way??? i.... dooont see why not? would require their character having a distinct rival arc. like, the routes for the Actual Rival is to either fight by your side, live his own way, or actively antagonise you. to be a good guy, to be neutral, or to be a villain, essentially. but you cant just copy the same thing for the other player character. that’d just be poor form. gotta be unique. but similar. they dont join the evil team though...... THOUUUUUGGGH.... now i say that, having the other player join the evil team is some actually kick ass shit nd i love it. echoes that idea of players actually wanting to be in those teams. thatd be actually fucking radical. so should the rivals trajectory be changed??? AAAAAAAAA fuck. hhhhhhhhhhh. what would their routes BE, then. uhh.......... fuuuuck. maybe, instead of joining the Team, they join the Org??? which, while the same entity, have vastly different repurcussions. after all, the Org is ‘good’, and a lot of people are in it to do good, as opposed to the Team which are bad boys all day. with the alterations being that if you treat them WELL they join the org, rather than the other way around??? which could actually be kinda neat. like, you treat them nicely, so they decide to be like, helpful in general, and join the group making this possible. whereas if you treat them like shit... they just sorta..... exist. you stunt their growth. you hold them back from their potential. whereas if youre neutral, theyre generally proactive but not really doing much. they dont really NEED to, but, yknow.

thoughhhh. idk. maybe they should join regardless? and your actions influence which group they join? there are three, after all - security, safety, and healing. or whatever. police, fire fighters, ambulance. which doesnt aaaactually change much? mostly just like, ooutfits? or some lines. their general presence would still be similar, surely?

ok honestly this has gone on long enough im gonna take this issue to another post