#not sure of a name for the trainer yet but maybe destin or duster?

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DOPPEL THOUGHTS

I wanna develop her more as an oc! Vague thoughts so far!

* She's technically a ditto and not a gengar, but also not just a ditto transformed into a gengar? She's the ghost of a ditto and things kinda got muddled along the way.

* Going with the headcanon of dittos being failed mewtwos, cos i love that one! It opens up a lot of avenues for slightly different dittos? Like if theyre collapsed messes that cant maintain a mew shape, maybe some of them might still have some mild mew traits and that could be a poke-variations thing. Like one that still has cat ears or a tail or big anime eyes instead of the standard ditto face or one that gallops around on four paws but is otherwise still a blob. Or even ones that are most of the way to being a mew but just look subtly wrong? Like a very wobbly kitty. Maybe even ones that might look perfect but lack all of mew's powers, still just a jelly blob with a slightly shinier coat of paint!

* Doppel in particular was a clone that failed so badly in holding its shape that it wasnt even as stable as a regular ditto. She couldnt transform and had really raspy breathing and constant fatigue. the lab technicians stopped even bothering to feed her cos it was obvious she'd die soon. But weirdly enough, dying was exactly what she needed! It seems that the problem with her was that while trying to recreate mew's dna containing all dna of all pokemon, the scientists gave her an imbalance of slightly too much ghost type. So she ended up as a ditto-gengar fusion and only lived for a few weeks so she could..well.. Continue to live! She just nodded off one day and woke up without a heartbeat but otherwise much more healthy. I guess having a physical form was a vestigal trait?

* I've been thinking about an oc for her trainer and i settled on a neurotic former rocket grunt with big floofy hair and an even bigger heart! He never believed in any of the rocket stuff, he knew it was evil and he hated himself that he'd sunk so low that he'd do something he knew was wrong for the money. (He was homeless when they recruited him) Eventuallu one day his morals won out and he quit, and the catylyst was accidentally seeing the secret experiments the scientists were performing. Like just stealing stuff is one thing but now we're talking animal torture to make some sort of wprld domination superweapon?! I thought i was in a petty gang not a spy thriller! So he pulled off a grand escape setting all the dittos free, and they ran off into the wild to eventually breed and become a new species. Team rocket couldnt find the original escapees cos they all easily hid in disguise amoung the rattatas and stuff, and now even if they managed to catch the still-pretty-rare fourth generation crossbred dittos they wouldnt be any use to the plan as their mew dna has been polluted.

* former rocket oc dude ended up with doppel because he found her still in her preevolved ditto state, and she was the only one so weak she couldnt manage to run when he opened the cage. So he scooped her up and carried her while he vaulted the wall, and then just kinda ended up getting attatched while he tried to nurse her back to health. It was really depressing to wake up one morning and find the lil thing cold as the grave after all he'd done to try and save her. But then she just jumped up out of her body like "helo fremd, i am fine!" He almost died too from the shock XD

* And thats how he ended up with this ghost pokemon even though ghost types are his biggest phobia. He keeps telling himself that she's not really technically a real gengar. Though really she is, the only difference is the face as a leftover of the pokemon she used to be before she died. And really the reason he's not afraid of her is because he got to know her and he knows she's harmless, and maybe someday through therapy and gentle exposure to ghost types he could end up realizing the same thing about the rest of them? But in the meantime caring for doppel is kinda passively healing his fears a little bit. She's a great support pokemon for this poor traumatized dude!

* oh and just to add that thankfully his financial situation is a lot better now! Having a pokemon means he's able to take the traditional trainer journey and be able to make prize money through battling. Its just a little bit more important to him cos he's literally living on how good he is at fighting. Normal kid trainers might have to camp out a bit and sometimes be low on cash, yeah, but they still have a family back home to help them out. So anxiety-man's goal is to become a league champion not because he actually likes fighting but just because its A JOB and he might be able to RENT A SMALL APARTMENT PERHAPS! In fact he really really hates fighting and its super ironic that he's actually kind of a huge badass. "I dont like conflict!" he says while curbstomping all of team rocket in a revengey rage!

* also doppel likes icecream