#will talk about cress/luca and more on luca and tia here in general in another post

[unmeiverse-nextadventures]

Alright so, related to this post, I decided to change Cress’ spouse from some OC to a character from another Pokemon game, specifically Pokemon Duel.

More meta thoughts and really long but tldr: Cress is now married to Luca from Pokemon Duel and this made me sit down and think more on the twins as well and realized that yeah Regan’s old name really really needed to change. Still getting used to his new one though.

A bit of a backstory. The kids of Striaton Triplets and Battle Chatelaines were the second set of fankids for this au I had come up with, and at the time while I did like the interactions I had come up for them in my verse I wasn’t big on shipping any of them with each other, so all the kid’s parents were just meant to be unseen/barely mentioned OCs.

Then I decided to just pair up Chili and Dana and have their kids (Chili’s daughter and Dana’s son) be siblings, formally joining the two groups of siblings. Which I honestly should have done sooner especially since I liked both groups a lot.

Eventually ended up making Trevor Nita’s husband and Vesper’s father since he actually fit the vague idea of who that person would have been, so why not. Vesper did end up changing quite a bit however but I started finding the ship cute (plus rarepairs are my bittersweet poison).

So for a long time only Cilan and Cress still had the OC wives, since while I did see Cilan & Evelyn and Cress & Morgan as having the most interactions and fun dynamic with each other, I didn’t necessarily ship them, or at least not enough to endgame them in this verse. Evelyn was and still is fine as a single mother, very unlikely to change anytime soon (ignoring yknow the omegaverse side of things where things are a bit more complicated but she does end up married with OC) and Morgan just seems like the type to stay a single and rich cool aunt to the kids. Plus pairing Chili/Dana was already enough to me.

I was fine with how things were for a while, until I was making the family tree and it felt weird to leave the space for the Cilan and Cress’ wives without a name. Then I remembered Trinnia from Pokemon Masters, and how I did joke the first time I played that game that Trista, Tricia, and Trinnia looked like female counterparts to the Striaton Triplets “and what if we pair them all together like PowerPuff Girls and RowdyRuff Boys.” Obviously I wouldn’t follow through since I was already attached to Chili/Dana, but Cilan/Trinnia did appeal to me. So the only problem was Cress. I gave Cress/Tricia and even Cress/Trista some thought, but neither of them appealed to me at all for some reason. So at that point I gave up and just browsed through some nice sounding names. Build an idea of who this lady is. And I was starting to like where I was going with things.

Then out of the blue I remembered Pokemon Duel and remembered the characters. I honestly adored that game, even though I never got to finish the game since at some point I couldn’t get past most of the opponents at all. Seeing Luca and Tia again, one of my first thoughts was literally “perfect for Cress.” But to be really honest here my first impulse was to go with Cress/Luca bc I am predictable. I did want to give Tia a chance though and not have another ‘soft blue girl who just ends up as surrogate mom so two guys can have a kid’ so I had things set up that both get a chance to meet and interact with Cress to give me more of an idea of who to endgame him with. Eventually (and probably not surprisingly) Cress/Luca won in the end.

The thing is, as I was thinking about all this, I came to realize that wow, I really need to change Réveil’s name. It just didn’t fit at all anymore, originally he had that as a sort of reference to the Chatelaine Sisters’ time of day theme going on, similar to Zea’s name being a reference to the Striaton Triplets’ surname/them in their Japanese names. The more I developed things however, the more it started to make less to keep that name. Finally endgaming Cress with Luca just finally pushed me to make that long overdue change.