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kingofanemptyworld · 1 month ago

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I’m still thinking about Umemiya’s team as well as everyone else involved in the AU but! For now! Take our beloved blushy boy!

Current Team:

Absol (Partner Pokemon)

Riolu

Eevee

Togepi

Pichu

To address the obvious theme here: friendship. Yes, they’re also all adorable and Sakura deserves cute things, but primarily they’re a good representation of his canon-typical character growth — as in, you’re going to see these babies evolve at crucial moments during Sakura’s journey, and almost exclusively to show he’s opened his heart to another traveling companion.

And then there’s Absol, my personal favorite misunderstood Pokemon. A so-called harbinger of disaster who’s actually vital to preventing loss of life and resources. It’s my favorite pick for Sakura because it’s just so damn fitting for who he is and how his friends come to see him.

I’m leaving the last spot open for now but I’m leaning towards having him run into Type: Null at some point (don’t ask me how, this is all vibes and no plot at this point). It’s another friendship evolution so it’s especially good for this line-up, plus I appreciate that its in-game relevance lines up with Sakura’s canon themes again.

#king’s court #wind breaker #sakura haruka #pokemon: verdant winds #<- that’s my tag for this au so feel free to blacklist if it’s not your cup of tea #I’m having Thoughts about sakura meeting absol as a kid #toying with the idol of him coming into possession of this random egg and just carrying it around everywhere for ages #in his backpack. wrapped up his jacket to keep it from getting rained on. sleeping on a folded up blanket next to him #and it turns out to be this pokemon that everyone tells him to get rid of immediately and Sakura just puffs up like a cat and tells them #all to go fuck themselves #in like. kid speak #or maybe he actually says that who knows #other option is bullied sakura takes refuge in the nearby woods and meets absol by chance #and it seems… lonely #and sakura sure isn’t sad or lonely or anything but it doesn’t hurt to keep the absol company from time to time #make sure it doesn’t get into any trouble #and time passes and sakura’s reputation in town gets worse and worse and he’s desperate to leave #and then one day he’s sitting out in the woods. roughed up from a fight and NOT SULKING ABOUT IT #and absol appears out of nowhere as it’s wont to do #but it’s carrying a damn pokeball in its mouth for some reason #it takes a while but Sakura puts it together that it wants to be HIS pokemon. his partner #and the gym challenge is the perfect reason to get the hell out of town so he takes it #et voila!#rookie trainer sakura gets his start!

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