#was invited to hoenn > meets kabu's very hot friend gunter > you can fill in the rest of the blanks

[lululeighsworld]

pokemon day........been thinking about the gunterleigh pokemon teams i put together last spring

(more specific ramblings below but i did not pick the 'mons based on team composition. a lot of the choices either reflect parts of their characters or relate to various hcs i have.)

some pokemon on their teams i intentionally matched based on themes/typing (dragalge/dhelmise, braviary/corviknight, florges/luvdisc) For Leigh: -torracat matches their colour scheme!! -dragalge relates to some hcs i have for fallen!leigh (eager to get rid of trespassers), and since it coexists with dhelmise despite being territorial that's why they're paired together -autumn sawsbuck cuz i think they're pretty, they have red leaves, and i love autumn -for braviary i liked the ultra sun pokedex info "the more scars it has on its front, the more heroic it's considered to be. those with many scars on their back are mocked by the flock." picturing that in pokemon verse leigh's braviary was ridiculed for having scars on its back and abandoned by its flock, but when leigh catches it they give it a loving home -similarly for gothitelle, i found the pokedex entries about it being able to predict the future/see trainers' lifespans really bittersweet ;uu; but leigh would be there for it despite knowing what it's probably seen -luvdisc cuz i love love!! For Gunter: -polteageist is a pokemon gunter's had since his youth. eventually it comes to trust leigh too, so gunter and leigh can enjoy its tea together -dhelmise to match with dragalge re: fallen alts, also powerfully strong. something something dhelmise's are sunken ship debris held together by seaweed, gunter in canon is possessed by a water god after sinking into valla. the similarities are too good! -every knight needs a horse pokemon. mudsdale felt like a good match because of its personality -corviknight to match gunter's aesthetic (ever since they announced this 'mon i've thought of pairing them together...) -relicanth……it looks old……admittedly its facial expression reminds me of gunter (in the best way!) -florges relates to the backstory hcs i have for gunter and his first wife meeting at a festival dedicated to flowers. in pokemon verse he and his wife raised their flabébé together to a florges in the valley of flowers where they once lived