#vintage pokemon red

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Pokemon Red Gameboy Color SS Anne at Vermillion City Docks

1998

Stills taken from Youtube, user Nintendo Utopia

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Vintage Style Pikachu Stickers made by Nagisa Tsubaragi

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[goobersplat]

Some panels from volume one of the Pokémon Adventures Manga! I just picked ones I thought were cute.

They’re transparent so you can color them.

Under the cut is a panel I colored :)

[pokemonlezbian]

Mini version of Pokémon red rescue team for gameboy advance!

[cadencewishes]

[ferelfeltpkmn]

Red and Blue: Badge 1

TimeLine: Nov 2023

This is where our journey truly begins, and the start of our Kanto adventure. Ferel chose to play through Blue on physical cart since they own every game, while Felt chose to play on the 3DS out of personal preference. Ferel had set a goal to complete the Pokédex in the first generation for the very first time. Felt meanwhile, has a much bigger goal in mind across their lengthy journey.

Ferel: We began our Kanto journey like everyone else does, with the game opening up in Pallet Town and with us going to try and meet Prof. Oak, though of course he wasn’t there so we decided to try and see what was outside of the small town. Suddenly we were jumped by the missing professor himself and he brought us back to his lab, only for us to then meet back up with the jackass himself, Gary Oak. Prof. Oak then showed us the three starters we could choose for our adventure, I chose a young Squirtle named Shella, and Felt choosing a fiery Charmander named Mala. We both took down Gary easily in our respective games and took off into the tall grass on Route 1, where we would battle various low level Pokemon to make our new partners stronger. 

Ferel: Upon entering Vermillion City; Felt was wandering around the city while I decided to check out the Pokemart there, as I entered however the store clerk got my attention and asked if I were able to deliver a package for Prof. Oak, I complied and took back off with the box in hand, seemingly forgetting about my girlfriend who was oddly nowhere to be seen. After returning to Vermillion with two new pokedexes for us, I realized that Felt was not in the city, I looked about before heading to Vermillion Forest. Felt: I decided to take a small strut over to the nearby forest while Ferel seemed to be preoccupied with something at the Pokemart. Imagine my surprise when the moment after I stepped foot inside, a Pikachu suddenly ran out in front of me! The little fellow was surprisingly friendly and just trotted over to me. I jokingly asked if it wanted to come along, and yet, it didn't seem to object. With that, I decided to toss a Poke Ball and caught the little guy first try! Right as I was about to head back to Vermillion, when Ferel popped up behind me with a PokeDex in hand. I showed them the PIkachu I caught, which I was pretty happy about... then I realized I didn't know what to name him. Ferel suggested the name "Jack", and after looking at him... yeah. He kinda does look like a Jack. Jack the Pikachu it is then!

Ferel: With that taken care of we then headed into Vermillion Forest properly this time, where I tried to catch any new Pokemon that crossed my path, Felt did the same but at a more leisurely pace, as well as catching a Metapod and naming it Metagod. (cont.)

(cont.) We soon exit the dense forest and enter Pewter City, home to the very first gym of our adventure. Felt explored the new city while I went right for the gym, where I easily defeated everyone with Shella who by now had evolved, by the time Felt got to the gym, things weren’t as easy for her… Due to the bad type matchups and both Mala and Jack being unable to learn a decent move to counter Brock’s Geodude and Onyx, Felt failed her first attempt against the first gym leader… though hope wasn’t entirely lost. Through vigorous training back near the forest, Metagod the Metapod evolved into a Butterfree, and with its Confusion move that left the non believers in awe and fear, Felt was able to triumphantly win her second attempt. 

And with that, ends the beginning of our journey! Next up will be our trip to Cerulean City and the happenings along the way, we hope to see you then!

[radioactivetoad]

POKEMON Fire Red & Leaf Green Guide Game Boy Advance Book Japanese Version

[alanaartdream]

Still have my old game boy colour from when I was a kid (don’t have the Mario tennis 🎾 that I use to love to play on it sadly but thanks to a friend of mine I managed to get some of the original old Pokemon games to play on it (and it still works)

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Pokemon Red Gameboy Color

1998

Stills taken from Youtube, user Nintendo Utopia

Genger is one of my FAVORITES!

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Pikachu Camera released in 1998

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Credit: @isthisanaesthetic

[abiiors]

under the mistletoe 🎄// ross macdonald x reader (pt 2 of 2)

twelve days of christmas - day 3

a/n: best friends to lovers? no. it's idiots to lovers. this is also part 2 of secret santa cw: kissing, alcohol, very tame and cheesy. there might be typos... wc: 3k

a cheer cuts through the chatter in the room and ross finds himself standing under a mistletoe, liv first in his arms, then standing on her toes and then they’re kissing—sweet, long kisses that make him smile despite the butterflies in his stomach. 

butterflies that should have been a result of the kiss. instead, it feels more like a swarm of bees buzzing in his chest from anticipation. 

ross doesn’t expect to be this nervous. more than that, he doesn’t expect to pull away from the kiss before she does. even when liv looks at him with slight concern. 

he certainly doesn’t expect himself to be so hung up on secret santa. he has bought plenty of gifts for people he cares about before! good ones too; sure, he’s no pro at gift giving but he’s not entirely hopeless. but this time he simply cannot afford to mess up. not when it took him two turns to get the name he really wanted. 

everyone looks festive in some shade of red or green on white—and one silver but charli really pulls it off. liv has a beautiful green velvet dress on, her curly hair piled on top of her head and gold hoops dangling from her ears. liv looks stunning!

it’s her that really takes his breath away—the girl who’s been his best friend for over a decade now. the girl who now stares at him with a tight smile on her face, cheering almost on autopilot with the rest of his friends. she’s in a classic red slip dress and matching red lipstick that contrasts her skin so perfectly that ross almost feels guilty for staring at her longer than necessary. he’s right next to his girlfriend for fucks sake. he needs to focus!

the excitement in the room is off the charts! everyone’s buzzing to get to the main event—the secret santa gifts—and he feels a tiny pit of nervousness at the centre of all his enthusiasm. what if she doesn’t like his gift? what if it’s something she already has or something that’s too personal… too intimate. 

liv breaks his little spiral. 

“you alright?” she slides onto his lap with an easy smile and pecks him softly. 

“yeah, just excited about the gifts! i wonder who got my name.” even with her on his thigh ross can’t stop his knee from bouncing up and down. the weird mixture of anticipation and butterflies is something he’s rarely felt before—not since… well not since her last birthday when he’d gotten her two tickets to the play she’d been dying to go to. 

(if he’s being honest it was not since she’d asked him if he’d like to go with her.)

“me too!” liv beams and it’s as if that’s matty’s cue to announce that they can all finally, finally move to the living room.

the living room is adorned with twinkling lights and tinsel, creating a warm and cozy atmosphere. a decently sized pile of gifts sits under the pretty tree—the current object of everyone’s interest. his nervousness aside, ross feels as giddy as the others do, still like a child on christmas morning about to get the long anticipated pokemon card collection. 

matty gets to the pile and starts calling out names one after the other. 

ross is barely even listening—his mind races with a million different possibilities. what if it’s a shit gift? what if she doesn’t like it or has something similar or doesn’t get the significance of it?

what if she thinks he put no thought into it?

he’s barely even listening when polly coos over the “cutest jumper ever!” or when george cackles over his gag gift or when matty almost goes misty eyed over the vintage book. 

he only snaps out of it when matty calls out her name and envelopes her in a hug. 

“it’s perfect,” he sniffles and ross burns with envy.

not envious of matty. never envious of matty but… a tiny, irrational part of him wishes she were his secret santa instead. that she spent days thinking about him, obsessing over finding the perfect gift just like he had. 

that maybe she spent her nights in bed, wondering a thousand times over if her gift would make him smile (it would, ross thinks. she could get him a £10 bottle of wine and he would still cherish it dearly.)

“ross!” matty calls out and he startles a little. 

matty looks at him with a slightly puzzled expression and wiggles a neatly wrapped gift in front of him. it’s square and thin with a small note attached to it.

he recognises it instantly—a handwriting he’s only recently come to know as liv’s. 

liv. his girlfriend. his secret santa. 

and he’s an awful, awful boyfriend for the feeling of disappointment that rises in him.

his fingers move deftly, tearing apart the wrapping paper until the gift inside becomes visible. the first thing he registers is the word “untitled” printed front and centre in big bold letters. and below it: “divine connection: the last unreleased album”. it dawns on him slowly—the band, their band. the last album from their band. just his and hers. and on autopilot, his gaze snaps up to her.

“ross?”

for the second time that evening liv’s voice cuts through his spiral and he turns around to see her standing at the door to the balcony with a half-drunk champagne flute in her hands. she’s beautiful, he thinks. she’s always been stunning but his heart doesn’t skip a beat when he looks at her. 

“can we talk?” she walks in and stands next to him, shoulders brushing with his. it’s a cold night. it’s silly being outside but he’s in a weird mood. he even kinda prefers it here. 

“yeah of course,” he clears his throat and tries to appear casual. 

“did you like your gift?”

“i did. it was… it was perfect.” at least that much is true. at least that much he can say with 100% certainty. “thank you. really, i mean it.”

“i know you do.”

for a minute she doesn’t say anything but her eyes roam over his face—a scruitinising sort of a look that makes him want to shy away. she’s never been particularly intense but in the few weeks he’s known liv, she’s had a way of guessing his little tells. it takes everything in him to not look away. 

still, he closes his eyes for a minute. 

the scene is still so fresh in his mind—ross opening the gift and looking up. ross staring at her and not liv. ross murmuring “thank you. it’s perfect.” and smiling at her before he even remembered that the gift was supposed to be from liv. 

ross only looks at her, his best friend. and she can’t seem to meet his gaze. 

liv clears her throat and brings him back to the present. she takes another swig of her champagne and offers him the glass. ross studies her lipstick smudge on the rim and accepts the drink gratefully. 

“you’re in love with her, aren’t you?” 

a second sooner and he would have choked on the drink or done a spit-take like a fucking idiot but the question leaves him so speechless that he almost drops the glass. 

“who?”

“don’t play dumb now.” her tone’s a bit sharp but her words aren’t unkind and the thought of being scolded like that makes him blush slightly and straighten up. 

he’s about to speak when she continues. 

“i see how you look at her—how you looked at her when you opened the gift i gave you. you knew it wasn’t from me didn’t you?”

wordlessly, he nods his head. 

“you knew i didn’t think of it. you were right though. i didn’t. i went to her because she’s you best friend.”

“and she told you about the band?”

liv clicks her tongue. “she handed me the record. turns out she had you for secret santa before we picked the names again.”

“oh…”

there’s another beat of loaded silence in which he struggles to maintain eye contact with her and not feel like an utterly shit boyfriend. 

“liv i—”

“i know,” she smiles briefly. “but you can’t string me along, babe. look i like you a lot. i really do and i know… i know you told me you were trying to move on from someone but i assumed that was a past relationship. i didn’t realise you were talking about…your best friend.”

“i’m sorry,” he shakes his head. “i really am. i know that was shitty of me.”

“it was a little.”

none of them speak for a few minutes. ross looks at her champagne again, wishing he’d had a drink with him for this conversation. or maybe not—maybe a clearer head is what he needs. he is getting dumped, after all. 

and yet… there’s no sadness. just a faint sense of disappointment. 

“so this is it i guess?”

in one gulp liv finishes the rest of her champagne and nods. “yeah. this is it. for what it’s worth ross… i have no hard feelings.”

this time when she smiles at him, it’s open and sincere. much to his relief, it’s friendly. liv stands on her toes and presses a kiss to his cheek. it’s chaste and quick—a goodbye, one that he returns by hugging her tightly. 

liv pauses at the threshold just as she’s leaving. 

“why don’t you tell her?”

ross shakes his head in disappointment and feels the familiar ache settle bone deep. the night suddenly seems so much colder than before—no longer the cosy kind that makes you want to snuggle up with a loved one. this feels sharp and biting. 

“can’t,” he shrugs, “i don’t want to ruin years’ worth of friendship.”

he expects liv to understand that. it’s a perfectly normal sentiment—to love someone enough that you’d rather have some of them than none of them. but she just shakes her head at him. 

“wow…” liv sighs, “for a man so smart… you really are fucking dumb.”

and then she leaves him on the balcony, shivering and confused. 

by the time he gets inside, there’s a lull in the party. everyone’s either drunk or loved up or both. well, maybe not everyone. 

ross finds her huddled in front of the fireplace, absently staring at her wrist. at the pearl bracelet he got for her.

a near-perfect match to her beloved pearl necklace from her grandmother.

the fire casts a warm, golden glow on her—on her hair and the curve of her shoulder, the hollow of her throat, and down her chest. he stands transfixed at the threshold, waiting for something to happen. 

maybe matty (passed out on the sofa) will wake up if he moves or polly might need something from him or george and charli might see them and he loves his friends but they have barely any concept of personal space after all these years. maybe he could just do it tomorrow when he’s not half-drunk, half-sober, and fully freaking out. 

“ross?”

too late to hide now. 

“why are you stood there? come on! it’s so cold!” she opens up her blanket cocoon—an invitation for him to join. 

ross, startled by her voice, stumbles into the room. his cheeks flush with embarrassment and he clears his throat, trying to mask the awkwardness that has suddenly enveloped him. 

fuck! she’s pretty. and yes he thinks that every single time he looks at her but it’s moments like these that really hit him like a gut punch. 

liv’s words echo in his mind over and over again. for a man so smart… you really are fucking dumb. was she trying to say what he thinks she was? or is he just delusional and projecting his own feelings onto her. 

her body is soft and warm when ross settles next to her, pulling her into his side and tucking her head under his chin. 

“you were deep in thought.” ross teases a bit, not ready to broach anything serious just yet. what he really wants to ask is about the record—how she’d somehow known his perfect gift before he figured it out himself. 

“just thinking about how good i am at gift giving,” she teases back. “matty was ecstatic.”

she's right but he can’t help but find a different meaning in her words. 

“that you are,” ross murmurs in her hair, resisting the urge to press a little kiss there. it’s too much for him—this intimacy. something like that might just tip him over the edge. 

for a while she doesn’t say anything and ross wonders if she’s fallen asleep. it’s quite late and they’re quite cosy, it won’t be the first time she's fallen asleep on him. maybe, if she is asleep, he might even press that kiss onto her head after all. 

“liv’s not here?” her voice breaks his train of thought. it’s not teasing anymore—she sounds neutral and controlled and… and like she’s trying not to pry. 

“we broke up.”

“what?!”

she almost shrieks and matty stirs slightly but goes back to sleeping again. ross feels guilty for just dumping it on her without any context. 

“i’m so sorry,” she says before he has a chance to speak. “fuck, at a christmas party too! that sucks, love. are you alright?”

“it wasn’t like that. it was…” this is it, he thinks. his one chance to get it right. “i’m perfectly fine. i’m… i’m better than fine. it’s… well she–you… fuck okay!”

he cheeks grow warm. it’s worse now that she’s properly looking at his now, her face a mixture of concern and curiosity; that she’s now an attentive audience to his pathetic flustered words. 

“let me…” he takes a big deep breath and squares his shoulders. “okay. let me get this right. for the next, i don’t know, two minutes, you aren’t allowed to speak, okay? okay. so! liv and i talked.” the skepticism on her face grows and ross tries not to let it deter him. “the gift, the record—”

“was it not good?”

“oi! no speaking, remember? two minutes.” ross scolds lightly and almost laughs at her sheepish face. “as i was saying, the record. it wasn’t her idea, was it? i asked her how she knew and she told me you gave it to her. for me! why didn’t you… why didn’t you give it to me yourself?”

for all her talking a moment ago, now she seems speechless. so much so that she can barely meet his eyes. 

“it was a lovely gift, darling. maybe even one of the best and… i just want to know why, that’s all.”

her cheeks flush a subtle shade of pink, and she fidgets with the edge of the blanket. “i guess i wanted you to have something meaningful without making things awkward. i’d already bought the gift and i didn't want to complicate our friendship with something that felt so… personal, especially with liv being in the picture. and…fuck! if that’s what made you break up, i’m so sorry, i—"

“it didn’t,” he cuts her off firmly. ross can’t help but notice the small details of her face then—the tiny smudges of mascara from no doubt when she sleepily rubbed her eyes, the glitter on her eyelids reflecting the firelight. her big, beautiful eyes and dilated pupils. 

her slightly smudged lipstick…

fuck, it’s the tiny lipstick smudge on the corner of her lips that makes him lose his ability to think straight.

“we broke up because… well there’s someone else,” he speaks in a low volume. subconsciously, she leans forward. 

“someone else?”

the room falls into a heavy silence, broken only by the crackling fire. she waits, her eyes searching his face for any sign that he's joking or playing some elaborate prank. but the sincerity in his expression leaves no room for doubt.

“you’re my best friend,” he says, “and fuck, do i resent that! how am i… darling, how am i meant to pretend you’re just my friend when you’re the fucking focal point of my world?”

her breath catches so audibly that it’s almost a gasp. he waits for her to say something. anything. instead she leans in an presses her lips to his. 

it’s so unsure at first, almost like she freezes and her brain can’t figure out where to go next. the kiss lingers, soft and tentative—both testing the waters of something uncharted. ross's mind races, trying to process the warmth of her lips against his, the subtle taste of her lipstick. 

she pulls away before he’s even had the chance to kiss her back and hides her face in his chest. 

“oh god, that was too soon, wasn’t it! that was–you just broke up and i—”

“love, don't hide your face, don't…” his hands gently cup her flushed face, making her look up at him once again even when she can barely meet his eyes and in that moment he realises he’s never seen someone so beautiful. 

so this time when ross crashes his lips against hers, he makes sure to pull her closer. to hold onto her tightly. his arms are around her, her hands in his hair and oh she fits so perfectly in the crevices of his body. like a perfect puzzle piece. 

by the time they finally pull apart, slightly breathless and grinning uncontrollably, ross hears her giggle. 

“wow, that was my first kiss under a mistletoe…”

“we aren’t—”

“i know, but we’re next to one so it’s almost the same.”

he looks to where she’s pointing, to the little bunch tied above the fireplace. 

“we could do better, darling.”

“yeah?”

“mm-hmm,” he murmurs, stealing another quick kiss from her. “let me take you home.”

and she agrees in a heartbeat.

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Robotic (Red x Reader) AU

--------Argrument and Bar--------

"I Hope you learned your lesson."

Red is holding the steering wheel while driving, and you take an awkward stance in the passenger seat, peering out the window at the torrential rain. Before Red spoke, the only sound emanating from this vehicle was a bump and a hum. It had been a lengthy and uncomfortable silence.

It was merely a mistake, a bloody mistake, you two made at Carlos' house; you and him criticised each other's attitude and skills, unaware that the deviant had escaped through the attic window and fallen on all fours on the muddy grass in the backyard.

You made an effort to reassure him that it was acceptable for him and you to make a mistake because it was natural. Yet, Red disliked the thought.

It was the first mistake you had made—a more unusual situation than spending a whole day at a desk. Is completely unfamiliar to you, yet it adds to your experiences as a cop and a detective.

"Is a we not an I?" You corrected him, ignoring his side-eye cold gaze. "Don't implied to me that I learnt the lesson. We both are; it is natural to make mistakes."

"Androinds don't make mistakes," Red sneers, gripping the steering wheel with more force as if he wants to break it. "We are programmed to be more superior than humans; we are perfect beings to surpass humanity. We are the advanced technologies."

"That's bullshit." You look up to him and say, "You built like a human. Breathe like a human. Have senses like a human. A human built you, and it gave you life."

You swore, and as soon as he snapped his head at you, the car abruptly halted, and your body struck the air vent. Red's body pivoted to face you, his knuckles at his sides aching to wrap around your throat and suffocate you, as his cold brown eyes gazed directly into your soul. Red's nostrils flared.

Red finds it incomprehensible that you looked at him more like a human being than the annoying android he is. People detested Androids; they caused the unemployment of half of the human population, and they wished the creator of androins hadn't created them in the first place. Though you were more unique—a strange person at least—Red was despised by the individuals he deals with.

He wants to get rid of you.

As your pokemon rattles in its pokeball in your pocket, warning its priceless trainer of impending danger, you, on the other hand, give him the glare. You know you hit a chord with his behaviour, even though you don't know why. You know that modern technologies pose a risk, but you also know how to fight back.

You may not know what his next move is but you're not holding back down whatever Red has in his mind.

You don't perceive him as a threat at all; instead, you see life in him. Perhaps this is due to your prior experiences, which have made you more sympathetic towards people in general, even those who are constructed androids like him.

Your past bothers you, even though you don't recall it at all. You were traumatised, but you don't bring it up very often.

Nevertheless, it made you the person who you are today.

"They don't give me life," Red growls. "They gave me only a position. A human built me to give a position."

You counter his icy gaze with your own, not missing the twitch of his fingers, knowing that no matter what he does, you'll fight back. "They gave you life and position. We live for a purpose, Red."

"Purpose," he breathes, scroutching his nose like it was bad air. "It is for the weak."

"Not all." You pat down your pokeball; it calms down, signalling you can handle this. "We humans may be weak, but we battle through hard life situations."

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"Just like that? He kicked you out of the car?" Blue shakes his head in dismay, pipping down his second glass of alcohol. "What an ass."

"I know," you said as you sat back on the plush couch and watched Leon's battleship ship on repeat on the vintage television that was hanging below the bar table. "Then I called you and dragged my feet here."

Ludicolo placed your drink down at the table, and after telling Blue all that had transpired, you swirled the liqueur in the glass, losing all desire to drink.

Blue huffs and sets down his empty glass. Taking yours, he chunked it one time, sensing you were too loose to want to drink. Then, his eyes slowly moved to a robotic Gardevoir, who was sitting next to its trainer, peacefully waiting to finish his meal.

Blue's eye twitched in irrationation; the man had failed to notice the sign stating that robots were not permitted in the pub. Every single person inside detested man and modern technology; to them, pokemon—being living, breathing creatures—were priceless, but they were replaced by robotic ones.

Certain Pokemon that were extinct years ago were brought back to life by scientists, although most people didn't like the idea. They prefer the past over the present.

"So what are you going to do now?" Blue looks up to you.

He repeated it, and you finally looked up. You are clouded in your mind at this moment and have failed to notice his voice: "I don't know. He's hard to handle, and he has some issues."

"Why not report to Looker?" Blue suggested, "After all, you looked up to him like a father. Maybe he'll understands and disband your partnership with Red."

"I can't." You shake your head, waving your hand at the Ludicolo to shoo the Pokemon away, who have been still standing to await if you have another order. "You know who Looker is; he's the captain, and he knows what's best for me."

"Bullshit!" Blue clears his cough, his chest raised in embarrassment when others look in the direction of his raised voice. "Try to convince him; he'll change his mind. I do it all the time, and the next thing I know, I'm out of his office."

You gave a small snort, knowing full well that Blue Looker would never heed his advice and would ultimately be kicked out of Looker's office. You have known Blue for years, despite the fact that, aside from being a constant jerk, he is the most trustworthy person you have ever met. Blue asked you out on dates several times, but you consistently declined until he gave up and showed you respect.

Even though you knew that part of Blue's advice would not work, you still decided to give it a shot.

"I'll try," you smiled, Blue smirks showing his dimples. "Is what's for the best?"

Blue hums in approval.

"Why are you still here?" Blue shifts his gaze to look at Ludicolo. "Go back to your trainer. We have nothing to order."

Ludicolo gave him a nasty growl.

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Chapter 1

[pokemonlezbian]

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