#please I’d love to see everyone’s interpretations of these two because they’ve unintentionally become staple characters in the series

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Oh my god guys look at what my friend drew!

These are their interpretations of Mike the receptionist and Jess the stable girl from the pokerehab fic! I’d purposefully left their appearances open so people could draw them as they imagined them and the squeal I let out when my buddy sent me these after reading the fic was kinda embarrassing, but I was just so excited to see them!

As a bonus I’m gonna give some fun facts about these two that aren’t really talked about in the fics much!

Mike the receptionist

I’ve mentioned before that his partner is a Minchino but more specifically he has a shiny! His minchino was a rescue at the center that he had personally helped nurse back to health after he’d found it fallen out of a tree. Her name is Delilah.

Mike was once a member of team plasma before it disbanded, he was down on his luck at the time and wanted to few like he belonged somewhere. When the center opened up he was nervous but reader was very warm and welcoming to him and even praised his organizational abilities, even if he is directionally challenged.

He acts serious at work but has taken to going on group outings with other staff members having made many friends thanks to his job. The center helped him find purpose and turn his life around for the better.

He views Jess as a younger sister due to her being the youngest staff member at 19 years old and him being an only child, Mike is in his late 20s and sometimes scolds her when she overworks herself.

Jess the stable girl

It’s not shown but Jess’s partner pokemon is actually a houndoom, it was recovered from a smugglers ring and was missing a leg making it unfit to be released back into the wild, he’s happy as a cloister though as Jess goes out of her way to keep him comfortable and despite the missing limb he’s an excellent herding dog and helps back on the farm herding the mareep.

Jess is a country girl having grown up in a small town in the countryside of unova, she was looking for a place to do some part time work while she attended school when the center opened, with her experience in handling large groups of Pokemon she was happily assigned to tend to the stables where the sick or injured Pokemon recover before being let out into the yard, it’s where she found her houndoom (at the time houndor) after a smugglers ring was busted and several Pokemon were sent to the center for examination and recovery. The poor pup’s leg was damaged irreparably from the poor conditions it was kept in previously resulting in it needing an amputation. Jess felt sorry and decided she’d adopt him and bring him home to live with her on the farm. He’s been happy as can be with all the running space and warm comfy spots to sleep.

Jess is a sweetheart till you mess with those she cares about, reader is almost like a second parent/sibling to Jess and she knows reader has been through a lot even if she doesn’t know the specifics. She’s seen the hisuian Pokémon reader keeps and thinks that they must be working on a separate program to bring back ancient variants.

Jess has several siblings back home who are all younger and love to hear her stories from the center, she’s brought a few with her before that we’re old enough to behave themselves so they could see the good the center was doing in hopes that it’d inspire them to also do good in the world.

More characters will be revealed as they become relevant but please if you have an oc you’d like to see in the center or adopting a Pokemon that can’t be released reblog the post with their information like their appearance, what Pokemon they have as a partner, and/or what job they do!