#the headcanon here is that Green has a very hard time feeling adequate without Oak’s approval and that it’s VERY lasting

[silkhy-john]

Green Oak existing as loudly as possible in every breath he takes and every step he makes because nothings he’s ever done or will ever do will get him the attention and validation of the first person he needed attention and validation from but it hasn’t really clicked yet that Samuel Oak doesn’t like him or even the idea of him. It won’t click at ten when he wins and then loses the Indigo League Championship.

It won’t click at twenty when he’s a high-profile gym leader going from a Tournament in Unova to an academic and battle scholarship in Kalos. It won’t click at thirty when the trips to Alola with Red are becoming a yearly tradition and the pair of them are becoming a seasonal tag-team special at Mali City’s Kanto-style gym. It won’t click when he meets and meets again and meets once more Samson Oak who is just so much warmer and kinder. It won’t click at forty when he’s standing in a black suit, Daisy beside him, before a headshot of his grandfather and feeling all these complex emotions that no one could really understand.

It likely won’t click at until long after Oak has passed, and Green finds himself trying to be everything to his and Red’s kids and grandkids that Samuel Oak wasn’t to him.

Would Green ever be able to find peace within himself when it finally clicks for him? Who knows.