#people sometimes mistake paprika as needlessly violent when she's acting based on fear and past experiences

[gemsbian]

Heya, what sort of friends and rivals would your oc trainers have?

Interesting question!

With Frankie, she doesn't really battle so that changes things -

Two of her partners are service pokemon who don't battle. The only one that isn't a service pokemon is the Klefki, which just started following her around.

So her rival would be anyone who tries to force her to battle. As for friends, most have similar interests in electrical engineering. She also has a lot of amputee friends she made during physical therapy.

Paprika is much different -

She has a lot of issues around people and finds pokemon are easier to get along, so most of her friends are wild pokemon. With people, she warms up to others very slowly

Paprika also doesn't understand how rivalry exists in a friendly-fire kind of way, so if she deems someone her "rival", then it means she's terrified of them and considers their battles to be extremely high stakes, as in life or death. Which is not fun for anyone involved.