#silkwingshipping

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Diantha: so this is the guy I like, thoughts?

Her friends: and prayers, girl what the fuck—

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saw your hc of Lance being confused over pride month and lgbtqia in general and its absolutely sending me haha! please share more about Lance being a confused and supportive ally, if thats okay!

Pfft sure anon, this is a fun hc hahaha

Anyways

Yeah, like, idk, I wanna say Johto and Kanto weren't that open yet or maybe Lance just lives under a fucking rock and that he's so busy he won't notice, but like yeah maybe one day he's flying over Johto patrolling, sees this parade in Goldenrod, got curious, and went down too

Everything's rainbow coloured he's so confused, then he sees Kris and Gold in the crowd, calls for them, asks them what's going on, and Kris went "it's pride month, champion"

"ah.. well, I am proud of you two..!"

Gold looks at Kris w a smirk, whispering "don't tell him, I think it'll be funny the more he doesn't know"

Later the same month, Clair goes to Lance in his office at the league. She's there looking at him, he's there looking at her all "what..?"

Clair huffed out a breath, turning away, red faced as she said, "I heard from those brats from New Bark Town that you know pride month now."

He honestly still doesn't, but he nods

"so.. uhh.." it's odd seeing Clair like that, but he just nodded for her to continue, "I think I should tell you.. Lance, I'm a lesbian."

He doesn't know what the fuck that means. "What?"

"..I like women, Lance."

"oh.. why is that a problem? I like women too."

Clair just gives him this look, then sighs, almost chuckling to herself, "yknow what. Yeah. Sure. Thanks for not disowning me for coming out to you, I guess."

"why would I disown you??? I raised you and you want me to disown you over that??"

"well, that's what usually happens to some people"

"WHAT???"

He calls in Diantha, "Dia, do you know pride month?? And.. and lgbt or something??? Dia, what do those words mean????"

Diantha was quiet on the other line then "w.. what do you mean you don't know that??"

"Diantha, please, now's not the time for that" he almost sounds like he's abt to cry hahah

Diantha then explains it to him, and like yeah, least he's a bit aware na yknow, and then he asks "Dia, are you also gay???"

"you could say that, but to be more specific, I'm bi."

"what does that mean?"

"it means I like both men and women"

"oh.. so other than me, do you.. have a girlfriend too..?"

"what? Darling, no, you're my only partner. Oh Arc, yeah, we have so much to teach you, I'm adding Wallace and Cynthia to the call"

"wait, not them!"

She ended up adding Iris too, bc ofc she also knows a lot abt it and she's the same age as the kids in Johto so maybe she could help Lance more on what to say and such. The call surprisingly went well, for once Cynthia wasn't making fun of him and Wallace was really patient, so Lance took notes and such, after hearing the horrible things that happens to some kids when they come out, he doesn't want that to happen to the people of his region(s), and certainly not to his kids and his cousin

But hey, least now he knows some more stuff abt it, not all ofc there's still so much he has to learn, but he's patient yknow, and he wants the others who come out to him to feel safe, and he may not understand it much but he'll be supportive no matter what. Least now, when Silver finally comes out to him, he finally knows what to say too

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Knight you got anything you’d like to share with the class 🎤

Just anything you want to talk about ig

Have some SilkWing stuff bc I just found a completed multi chap fic abt them and I'm going fucking insane omf I'm so NOT getting any work done bc of this fic I swear😭🤣

Anyways hahahah

•they really hid their relationship from everyone for a year and a half, even from the Champions and their family

-idk I just think that maybe Diantha doesn't want their relationship to be public knowledge just yet bc she knows just how the media can get w relationships like this, so she's kinda paranoid

-it only took Iris accidentally calling them mom and dad one time for Dia and Lance to finally open up abt their relationship to the Champions and their family., and ofc Iris was the first one they told it to

-it was fun tho seeing the other Champions try to set them up on dates when they're already dating hahah but still it really surprised them that they were already together

•these two are so trigger happy I want you to know, like if you think Lance commanding Dragonite to Hyper Beam someone is bad wait till you hear abt Diantha's Mega Gardevoir w a Pixilate boosted Hyper Beam

-Lance seeing Dia command Gardevoir to use that move and he's just "Arc, she's so fucking perfect"

-they were fighting like a few evil org grunts in a region to help out its Champion so yeah

-but like then again yeah Diantha hides that side well, but Lance saw it and man he is down horrendous

•they have this kinda vibe ngl

-yeah they have that vibe hahaha

•omf dyk I actually planned a five plus one fic for them and it's basically just five times Dia said I love you first and the one time Lance said it first and HCMDBXMDBNS

-when will I have the motivation to write that😭

•your honour pls I know Lance would watch Dia's movies when they're not together, and imagines himself as the one there w her instead of that random actor he doesn't care abt hahah

-when they are together tho, and if Lance wanted to watch some of her movies still, she would tell him abt behind the scenes stuff and all the actors and actresses she doesn't like

-"ugh, this scene was such a pain, Carmine just wouldn't shut up how she wanted to have more scenes about her."

"..which one is Carmine again?"

"the pathetic looking one."

"Dia."

"*sighs* the antagonist."

-Lance just gets all the gossip from the set and all the people Diantha hated and how she almost really quit on this one show bc again, shit cast members that think they're all high and mighty w their status when they're all so shit

•look let's be real Lance's insecurities often get the best of him, he didn't have that stable of a support system back then, and he'd just end up brooding somewhere w his thoughts

-one meeting, it became too much for him to handle that he excused himself and he went out to touch grass—

-but fr he was like, crying,, and he was there punching the trees and screaming and the pkmn there actually got a bit scared

-then hey Dia found him yknow. Found him slumped against a tree, he looked so tired, eyes bloodshot, his knuckles were red and bruised. She slowly approached him, kneeling right in front of him, smiling so softly yet her voice carried such concern that he never thought he could hear from anyone.

"there you are.. I've been looking everywhere for you.."

and Lance finally looks up to her, sees her worried look, and god he felt like shit that he's worrying Diantha

"I'm sorry.."

"whatever for?"

Lance then tells her what's bothering him, that he thinks he's really weak, that he really couldn't be the perfect Champion of the Indigo League, that some people still don't see him as a Champion, and he really trauma dumped on her. And by the end of it, Diantha was at his side, wrapping her arms around his torso, pulling him close to her. Lance let's out a dry laugh, leaning in to Diantha, "why.. do you still put up with me..?"

Diantha gave him a smile, soft and gentle as her touch on his cheek, "because I love you." And Lance let out a choked sob, pulling her impossibly closer to him.

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An AU? About Diantha and Lance raising Iris and Silver?

And it’s wholesome and soft??

I need more info. When did they get together? Was it after they adopted/took in Iris and Silver?? Before??

THANKS FOR ASKING OMF FINALLY I GET TO SHARE THIS HAHAHAH

Anyways holy shit owo

Yeah so in my lil au, Lance and Diantha actually met at Kalos during one conference when they were younger, and they actually battled, Diantha was champion during that time already, but Lance was still climbing up the ranks of the Indigo League, but he's strong yknow, he even beat the E4, so yeah they met during that, I wanna say Dia's like nineteen and Lance was twenty-one during that

And they kept in touch yknow, they'd check in on each other from time to time, and a few years later, when Lance told her he was part of the Indigo League Elite Four, she was so excited and happy for him, so she decided to celebrate w him by visiting Johto. And yeah, the two became closer than ever, and like, yeah around their second year being friends they decided to try a relationship w each other, and hey it worked out yknow, really well that they're still together after years

And like cbdmdn ough idk, I want it to be like bcmdnd like yknow how Iris was originally from Blackthorn, imagine if before the elders gave her away to Drayden, Lance decided to take her in, telling the elders since he's the head of their clan now, he can do whatever he wants, and he wants to take care of the child, she was a Blackthorn now and there's nothing they can do abt it

He called in Diantha, said "so I fought with the elders and.. and we have a kid now."

"....excuse me, WHAT"

"*sends a pic of Iris playing with Dragonair* her name is Iris"

"oh my Arceus"

So yeah, Diantha rushed to Johto after her lil panic, and like idk, imagine once she got there she sees Lance holding Iris close to him, and he's reading her a book abt dragons, and lil Iris was so amazed by everything, then they finally saw her, and Diantha's heart almost couldn't take it, Iris was looking at her, those bright red eyes shining w such a light, and Dia just caved in when Iris smiled at her, she honestly cried

And like yeah yknow just cjmxxn they're all soft and such, that night all three of them were together in Lance's room, w Iris between them, and she's there pointing at Lance calling him dad and pointing at Diantha calling her mom and Dia cried again— hugging Iris all "that's right, little one, oh you are so amazing!" And Iris was there giggling and hugging her back, repeating the word mom over and over again. And god Lance just looks at them and man he just loves them so much he joined in on the hug it's all so sweet I'm jcjxnxmx

But like yknow cjdmnd once Iris was asleep, Lance and Diantha finally have a lil talk and such, and it was oh so sudden yknow, that suddenly they have a kid now, and they didn't even get to talk abt having a family of their own just yet, and they're honestly terrified that they'd become like their parents. But like, yknow, Iris was w them now, and even if she just entered their life so suddenly, they couldn't imagine their lives without her. And yeah, they promised each other that they'll be good parents to Iris, that they won't fail her like how their own parents failed them

And just chmdndn yknow, a year later maybe, Diantha visits Johto again, it was a bit rough for them considering that Diantha's still Champion yknow and she's an actress too, she has a ton of shit to work on back at Kalos, but at least she gets a few months breaks every once in a while. So yeah, she's at Johto now, and it's all cool yknow, they're out on a lil outing and such, visiting Ecruteak, and even Goldenrod, and getting some rage candy bars at Mahogany, and imagine that's where they met Silver tho

Like they see this five year old kid trying to steal candy behind the vendor's back, and Lance was there telling him off but like, the kid looked so scared but also equally pissed, and like, Lance and Diantha asking him where his parents were and he just sneered at them saying that his parents are weak and bad and he doesn't like them and doesn't wanna be w them anymore

Lance was abt to say more stuff, but like Diantha's there crouching down to the kid's level, asking him abt his name, where he's from, and like, ough jdmd Silver calming down and telling her everything, and then Dia smiled at him and buys him more food, and ofc Silver was shocked to say the least bc she was really nice to him. And like, Dia telling him that he shouldn't even be roaming around without a Pokémon of his own, as he could get hurt, but he didn't care he told her, he's strong. Diantha knew that's a bluff ofc, even a little Flabebe could hurt a child, but Silver clearly trusts her a bit, so she just nods along. But yknow, imagine after that, Silver just quietly follows them around, like at a distance, bc he doesn't wanna be seen as weak

But they all noticed him yknow, Iris especially, kept waving at him and he's there making shushing motions so she wouldn't blow his cover, but she just wants to be his friend yknow. And Lance just went "yknow if you want to stay with us for dinner, you can, I'm sure Iris would love to have someone to play with" and Silver just accepted cause honestly it's better than living on the cold streets of Johto

And yeah just cjmdnd ough pls them just taking care of Silver too tho, giving him new clothes before they actually got home, buying him the snacks that he wanted, even got him some games and toys cause they know Iris doesn't like sharing much and they'd rather not have two kids fighting while they're trying to think of what to do w Silver since from what they know his parents are still around yknow.

But also imagine Silver and Iris bonding while Lance and Diantha prepare their dinner, Iris is there showing off her dragon plushies to him, telling him that one day she's gonna be a Dragon Master too, and Silver scoffs at that saying he wants to be strong enough to be Champion

Iris just up and goes "ohh! mom is a Champion!"

"really?"

"yeah! Champion of.. uh.. Kalos!"

So later that night, before dinner, Silver went to Diantha and said that he wants to be a Champion like her too

And yknow yeah years later after they got everything settled, they're just a happy lil family, while yeah Diantha was still a bit busy w her Champion duties, and Lance w his E4 and soon to be Champion duties, they somehow made it work. Sometimes the kids even stay at Kalos w Diantha and her family. So hey it's all cool hahah

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Have SilkWing bc why not

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"mi angel"🥺

pls...... gib more hcs of Diantha Geeta and Lance, I need to know what Lance's nickname for Diantha is too

Anon you godsent thanks I love these three so much chmdnd

Anyways yeah have more hcs abt this trio hahaha

•Lance's nickname for Dia is "my queen"

-he doesn't have a nickname for Geeta, but they do have nicknames for each other in their contacts

-that being "insufferable prick" for Geeta in Lance's contacts and "rival" for Lance in Geeta's contacts

•their dynamic is honestly just

Diantha: you two wait here okay, I'll be getting the snacks

Geeta: of course, mi ángel, call us if you need help

Lance: we're here if you need us

Diantha: you two are so sweet :3

[Diantha leaves]

Lance: if you so much as hurt my queen, Dragonite's Hyper Beam will be the last thing you'll see

Geeta: the moment Diantha gets over you I'll be making you Kingambit's new training dummy

•these two are as petty as Cynthia and Wallace but tenfold

-they see each other and they'll make it their sole mission to ruin the other's day

-the other Champions make bets on who'd cave in first or if Diantha finds out

-Dia usually doesn't find out miraculously, but there are some close calls

And yeah that's all for now ig hope you like hahaha

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between lance and cynthia, who do you want to end up with diantha the most? and how would it play out in our au's

Why would you ask me this I love both ships so much man it's insane man the struggles of a multi shipper bcmxnd hahaha

I'm giving you two routes for this bc you can't just make me choose between my two fave ships

If Phaesporia was endgame

I wanna say bc Cynthia gets along well w Augustine and Geeta, and for Diantha that's one item on her lil checklist thing on finding a partner, someone that gets along w the ones she loves. Tho idt Cynthia really gets along w Geeta that well too, but Geeta just tolerates her to spite Lance

Not to say Lance is lacking or anything, Dia still loves him, but at the end of the day, Cynthia has that edge over him, and ofc, in her own charming way, she managed to actually win Diantha's heart, and made Dia fall in love w her too

Lance just accepts it, as much as it hurts, cause for him Diantha's happiness is important, so seeing her happy makes him happy too. After that whole ordeal maybe, Geeta and Cynthia doesn't mess w him that much anymore and even listens to him

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If SilkWing was endgame

Maybe Lance did try getting along w Geeta and Augustine. And hey, Augustine already liked him from the start, w all the things Dia tells him, how great he is and he was such a gentleman, so Augustine was happy that someone was treating his sister right, and wasn't just dating her for the fame and fortune that came w their name

Getting along w Geeta was smth else tho, cause these two are so willing to kill each other, but also,, imagine if Geeta really challenged him to an all out battle, no matter if both of them gets hurt, and if he really beats her then he can be w Diantha. Lance thought it was nonesense, but he's willing to do it for Diantha. That battle was brutal as fuck man, but when Lance came out victorious, Geeta just sighed and actually smiled genuinely at him, saying how he really loves Diantha to go through all this for her, even to the point of getting his cape ripped

And yeah, Cynthia too just accepted it, Dia was happy w Lance, and hey, she's happy he's treating her right too, and it hurts but,, she's not really bitter abt it, as long as Dia's happy yknow, then that's all that matters for em hahah

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I just had an idea for lancexdiantha. I don’t know if it’s still on your radar, but what if Diantha dated Lysandre, and he treated her horribly. She blames herself for falling for such a terrible person.

So, when she starts falling for another person, who looks and reminds her so much like Lysandre she stops and has to re-evaluate her decisions. She tries so hard to not fall for him, but in the end she does.

But, it gets better. When Cynthia forces Diantha to tell Lance her feelings and they start dating for a while, Diantha gets the relationship she wants and deserves.

Like, Lysandre manipulates and tries to crack Diantha down, but Lance is gentle and gives Diantha her space. He encourages her and gives her the world. You can’t tell me Lance just takes a whole ass week off just because Diantha’s on her period and gives her all her favorite food, her favorite pads/her product of choice, and a coffee. Heck, he even gives her a little heating pad wrapped in his cape because he came to her aid so quickly he couldn’t even get a blanket (he also didn’t want said pad to burn her like Lysandre would often do to her with his pyroar).

I am making myself cry with all this fluff. I guess this is what I get for reading two metric tons of just fluff fics for two weeks.

Oughghgh silkwing my beloved hcmdhd

I don't ship Dia and Lys tho bc I thought it'd be funny that w the hc of Diantha and Sycamore being siblings they just have this type when it comes to men and they'd both trash on each other's taste in men when it's basically almost the fucking same appearance wise lmfaoooo

In my hcs it's Malva who's Dia's ex and I just know that they haven't moved on from each other your honour and almost everyone knows it the toxic yuri got to me the tension w these two is fucking immaculate

Anyways

Oughghgh silkwing,,, pls Lance would tho, he's just so doting and he's low-key a simp but pls your honour he just wants his wife to be happy and if that means buying chocolate at three in the godforsaken morning bc she was craving some during her week then so be it, he'll damn well find that specific brand of chocolate she wants

But aaaa that thing w his cape no cause I have this lil hc too your honour that Lance really left one of his capes w her and I also wanna say Dia left one of her scarves w him bc they're sweet and cringy like that but it's also low-key angsty bc these two are very lonely people and having smth that reminds them of their partner kinda reassures them that they aren't lonely anymore and they have someone now pls do you see my vision cbndhd

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Sorry to be talking abt Hamilton in the good year of our lord 2023, but like

Stay Alive (Reprise) for the SilkWing au or at least the SilkWing fam in whatever au

LOOK HEAR ME OUT

Like,,,, do you see my vision for this, do you see it

Iris getting fatally hurt in a battle, and just jcmdnd ough Iris looking at Lance, her vision is already blurred but she's trying so hard to stay alive, she doesn't want to worry her father. Just xhmd her coughing up blood, looking up at Lance, trying to smile at him all "I.. I did exactly as you said, da. I held my head up high.."

"I know, I know.."

"even before the battle started, we were aiming for the sky.." she reached out, seeing the sky, the battlefield of the tournament, her Hydreigon out in the field, readying Draco Meteor, then Lance took her hand, bringing it to his face, crying, "we were aiming for the sky.."

"I know, I know, please, save your strength and stay alive," he pleaded, voice wracked with tears.

Fucking imagine Diantha running in the room, breathless, scared out of her goddamn mind. She only got the news from her manager, an accident happened during a tournament, a trainer got pissed and the Hyper Beam that was supposed to hit Hydreigon went straight at Unova's Champion, at Iris, at her daughter

She never heard the rest of it, she just has to get to Unova as fast as she possibly can, and when she arrived, Iris is there on the hospital bed, blood staining her clothes. Diantha's heart almost stopped.

Dia went to Iris' other side, seeing if Iris was still alive, "is she going to survive this? Who did this?! Lance, did you know?!"

Not wanting to see Diantha in distress too, she took Dia's hand, trying to calm her, "mom.. I'm so sorry for forgetting what you taught me.."

"my child.."

With a smile, she said, "we played chess.."

Dia's smile almost broke, holding her daughter's hand tight, nodding, "I taught you chess.."

"you would teach me your strategies.."

"you changed the rules everytime," Iris laughed at that.

"I would always change the rules.." she tried again, her voice wavering, breaking out to a sob, "I would always.. change the rules.."

Diantha tried to shush her, cooing sweet nothings, desperately clinging to her daughter, hand on Iris' bloody cheek, wiping away her tears. Lance couldn't bear it, he looked away, hiding his own tears, yet his hands still held Iris'. Diantha started counting, so did Iris, smth that calmed them down. In Kalosian, they counted to ten. Diantha was running a hand through Iris' hair as they counted again, but Iris sighed at the fifth, her final breath. Diantha's scream, full of despair and grief, echoed within the room.

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Okay real quick but like

Diantha liking Lance in the villain au tho bc in her eyes he was like a hero, he has that cape like how LucarioMan has his own cape too, and the fact that Lance was like a knight to her, how he'd protect her and such, and how chivalrous he is towards her, and to her he's amazing bc those are the qualities of a hero

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No but Iris and Lance parallels too tho

How both of them wanted to be appreciated more, how their efforts were always disregarded by everyone else, often praising someone else even tho they also did a lot of good things

And still it's the same w Diantha, how Lance didn't have someone to be there for him, and he became more violent and destructive, especially since not a lot of people appreciated him

Iris almost became just like him too, but Hilbert and the others were just in time to intervene and help her

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whts ur fve diantha ship

It's Diantha/Lance that I know someone here suggested to call it SilkWingshipping and I started calling their ship name that too hahah

A shame there's almost little content that's really about this ship, I did find a few on ao3 but mostly it's centered around Cynthia/Steven so yeah

Tho Phaesporia and AngelFire are also pretty dope, ofc w me having that Phaesporia brainrot that one time—

Also Diantha/Geeta works romantically and platonically for me so like yeah might as well just add this too hahaha

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pls more diantha/lance hc's

Im so glad you asked anon cxmxn

Anyways hahah

•Lance seeing Diantha actually spar with her pokemon for the first time and he's all heart eyes going "Arceus, I wish that were me"

•Iris calls them her parents at this point and they don't even mind they even call her their daughter

-yknow what let's add Silver too, so at least Silver has two decent parents hahah

•both of them hid their relationship from their fellow champions for months, their reason was because it was so amusing seeing the other champions set them up on dates

•When Clair found out about Diantha and Lance, she stormed up the League, went past through the Elite Four in the middle of a fuckin battle, and kicked the door down to the champion's room

-she's all "Why didn't you tell me you were dating Diantha?!"

"what—"

"Diantha! I love her she's such an amazing movie star! Why the fuck did you kept this from me?! I could've asked for a fucking autograph all this time oh my Arceus, Lance—"

-Lance was ready to ask his Dragonite to Hyper Beam her on the spot

•on Diantha's side, Siebold was at least okay with Lance, seeing as Lance could somewhat cook and, by his words, his best friend won't starve to death

-plus, he's a strong trainer, so that's a plus for Siebold since he can protect Diantha when he's not around

-of course, Diantha can handle herself, but that's just Siebold being protective really

•The two of them don't actually talk about their family that much, a sore topic for both of them really, instead they'd talk about the little family they have now w Iris and Silver

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honestly thought u wrote phaesporia since u shared a lot of stuff abt em, also yes pls the diantha/lance hcs gimme-

I did write some stuff abt Phaesporia like Pan can vouch for that I didn't shut up about that ship for days— hahaha

But cjmxnxm dope have some hcs

Lance and Dia are Iris' parents now, like man have you seen the shit in PokeMas cjdknd

Idk they're soft, like yeah Dia can kick Lance's ass but hey he doesn't mind

They're so sickeningly sweet w each other that the peeps outside the champions honestly thought they were already together

And they are, they just pretend not to be to mess w the other champions

They just love to see Wallace get so annoyed when they pretend not being an actual couple when the others are around

No, really, Lance lives for that shit he had to deal w Wallace and Steven for so long it's payback time

Diantha, ofc, only fed that drive of his because she too had to deal w Wallace and Steven during the tournaments and even Cynthia made a bet w Leon abt it

But yeah that's all I got for now and such hahah

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may i see a snippet of the lance/diantha fic👀

Pfft sure hahah

Here

It's still unfinished but hey hahah