#she's level 99 and she's the loml

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

okay, here's what's been wiggling around in my head (perf for the wiggly wednesdays i was tagged in by @firefly-party and @just-my-latest-hyperfixation!!)

eddie who's set in his ways as a dark type gym leader much like piers in sword/shield, loves his dark type friends, takes pride in his little corner of the gym challenges.

Dark and steel types are his bread and butter, and the autoshop he and his uncle run is the perfect battleground.

one day, in waltzes dustin, his next challenger this season, with what must be an older brother (some parents are hesitant about letting their little ones go alone to eddie’s gym, he's seen it before).... a super hot older brother

dustin loses spectacularly to eddie, his team not nearly strong enough to face down eddie’s.

"good try, kiddo, you'll get me next time, I'm sure." eddie tells the kid, giving him a handful of revives.

he starts to heal up his own team, give them their berries and usual snacks and whatnot when dustin's hot older brother says "my turn?"

"huh?" eddie says, super eloquently

"Up for another battle?" hot brother says, tossing a love ball in the air between his hands and catching it without looking.

"you're a challenger?"

"grew up without this whole thing," he says, gesturing around at Eddie's garage. "wanted to try my hand at it too.

see, they moved to this reigon from one without a gym challenge, without pokemon for the most part, only a few being part of work forces, etc. they moved at the perfect time for dustin to take part in the challenge, he's right at that age that kids go off for the first time, but this guy's gotta be about eddie’s age.

eddie blinks at him stupidly once more, then grins. "sure, big boy, let me have it."

hot older brother (steve, if dustin’s encouragements from the sidelines are to be believed) has got a great all-around team.

most kids that come through have teams made up of the best of route 1, leveled of course, but they're only kids y'know? the pokemon hyper-fixated kid whos already a type-matching whiz isn't all that common.

But steve's team is balanced. a perfectly leveled team with a little bit of everything.

steve's growlithe wipes the floor with his steelix, but eddie gets him back in the next match up, so on and so forth.

its a close call with sabeleye, but steve manages to win out, even after a couple potions.

finally, they come to eddies final pokemon, his obstagoon.

eddie notices when Steve takes out the love ball from earlier that oh yeah, he hadn't seen the pokemon in that one yet.

steve casts his ball, and a tiny little pouf of a ruby swirl alcremie pops out. with the strawberry sweets nestled in her swirls, she's a strawberry lemonade vision.

eddie laughs, so steve knows his shit already, huh?

steve smiles, winks, tells his alcremie to use dazzling gleam, and with that, eddies out another gym badge.

"you've got a great team, stevie," he says, shaking a dark gym badge into steves hand, "a champion-worthy one if I've anything to say about it"

"thanks, man." alcremie chirps her agreement from Steve's other hand, "pinkie here is my pride and joy."

"well I can't wait to attend your final challenge, sweetheart, give our current champ the what-for from me, huh?" Hargrove deserves a good beating...

steve snorts a laugh, shakes his head, but is gone soon after, being dragged from the shop by dustin’s incessant nagging about needing to train up.

when dustin returns for a rematch, steve doesn't, much to eddie’s dismay.

after he gives dustin his badge, he wavers. does he ask about steve? would that be weird? 'uh, hey kid, about your super hot big bro..he ever talk about me?'

nah. not gonna happen--

"steve's got a couple more badges now, he's somehow already about to face down the ghost leader." dustin tells him as he's leaving "and since you two were too busy doing pokemon shit to ask... here."

the slip of paper dustin hands him has a social media handle scrawled on it, @/hairrington

"HAIRrington?"

dustin rolls his eyes, says "yeah, he's dumb." then heads out for the next route

eddie fishes his phone out of his pocket immediately.

steve's Instagram is focused mainly on his team, his brother, and a woman about their age. her freckled face (and her own bright pink alcremie with flowers in her swirls) is tagged in every one of her appearances, and eddies stomach sinks.

he does what he probably shouldn't and taps into her profile, but when he sees the 🧡🤍🩷 in her bio, the rock disappears.

it takes him a couple more days to gather the courage to message steve, but when he does, Steve answers almost immediately.

they get closer and closer, exchanging numbers, steve sends pictures from the road, Eddie sends pics of the cars and pokemon he meets in the shop, and not long after, steve’s booked for a battle with the current reigning champ (and eddie divulges his less than great history with the current champ, "some bad ex stories should never again see the light of day, stevie darling.")

steve invites eddie to come along, and that's when he officially meets robin, "steeb's platonic soulmate." as she calls herself, and gets the grilling of a lifetime.

even before steve goes out onto the pitch, while he's still doing interviews for the local channels, robin asks him all sorts of stuff; questions about his life, his uncle, his pokemon, his shop... then she gives him something not dissimilar to a shovel talk.. which is weird because he and Steve haven't made anything official...

steve comes back into the locker room before he can ask robin what all that was, but it falls clear out of his head when steve says, "hey, I gotta ask you something when I get back, 'kay?"

with robin's shovel talk still swirling in his head, that just confirms it.

"hey, steve?" eddie catches him as he's about to leave, "make him pay." he says, leaning forward to kiss steve on the cheek.

steve's fave goes just as pink as robins alcremie, but there's no time; he rushes out onto the pitch and faces down Hargrove.

its a tough battle, but steve wins! billy is thrown from his throne, and steve races back to the locker rooms

"steve! you did it!"

"i did it!" he laughs, scooping eddie up and spinning them around.

steve lowers eddie back to the floor, and lowers his lips the miniscule inch down to eddie’s.

robin and dustin gag in his periphery, but there something else he's gotta focus on right now. "wasn't there something you were gonna ask me?" he breathes, still a bit stunned.

"oh yeah!" steve grins, "would you like to be my boyfriend?"

there's only one correct answer to that question

(and then when eddie says yes, steve passes him a love ball, from which a shiny black alcremie pops out, with strawberries held high in her swirls)

remind me to tell you guys about my hc for steve and eddie in a pokemon au

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I was tagged by the cutiepie @stardustandteacups​, thank you! (I love Kathrille even tho i’m not really sure my Italian ass can pronunce it right)

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1. Nicknames: Ele 99% of the time but at the uni they also call me Celuc (don’t ask) 2. Gender: Female 3. Star sign: Leo 4. Height: 5’6 5. Time: 9:07 pm 6. Birthday: 20th August 1995 7. Favorite bands: Queen, Panic! at the Disco, Mumford & Sons, Muse, Pearl Jam, PTX and OneD ( @iamstuckinthelabyrinth​ this is your fault) 8. Favorite solo artists: Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Ermal Meta, Ed Sheeran 9. Song stuck in my head: My bff loves CNCO so I’m currently listening Para Enamorarte 10. Last movie i watched: The Incredibles (2004) 11. Last show i watched:  Friends 12. When did i create my blog: This one last year I think ??? I don't remember exactly ??? but I’ve been on Tumblr since 2011 13. Last thing i googled: "171cm in feet” because I have no idea how tall 171cm is in feet (so, kate, i feel you on a spiritual level) 14. Do i have any other blogs: Nope 15. Do i get asks: Rarely 16. Why i chose my url:  BECAUSE ABBY GRIFFIN IS THE LOML AND SHE’S TINY 17. Following: 161 18. Followers: 430 19. Average hours of sleep: I try 8 hours but well............. 20. Lucky number: 6 and 8 21. Instruments: Sadly none  22. What am i wearing: Gray sweatshirt, black sweatpants and christmas socks 23. Dream job: Something with art and art history and museums and cultural heritage  24. Dream trip: Japan since I’m probably going to Scotland this summer and alsjhlhaf that’s a dream come true 25. Favorite food: is The Italian Food™ a correct answer? lol no? okay so my mum’s Lasagne 26. Nationality: Italian (unbelievable) 27. Favorite song right now: Ehmmmm I think kiwi by harry styles 

.... wait where’s the 28th????