#yesss pokemon trainer aus are so fun

[kingofanemptyworld]

even if your Pokémon AU is in little snippets, instead of a full fic, I will still eat up all of it UwU

honestly, I’ve been thinking of writing a Pokémon AU myself, as I’ve not written anything for Wind Breaker yet and it’s been a while since I’ve written a fic. Love that you wrote yours with Hoenn as a setting, top tier choice, im definitely not at all in no way biased.

do you have a direction you wanna take your AU in? Or are you just going with the flow for now?

for my AU, I’ve been playing around with the idea of Sakura being a daycare worker that recently moved in on the edge of town? and there’s been some sus stuff going on, so Umemiya asks Suo (who recently came back to town after being away for some time) to investigate the sus stuff. What is the sus stuff? Heck if I know, that’s as far as my brainstorming went before writers block came in with a sledge hammer. In this AU I gave Sakura an espeon and an umbreon, since they’re Pokémon that require high friendship to evolve. I very much love the idea of Sakura getting along easily with Pokémon and having a close bond with them; the whole “animals won’t judge you by appearances, unlike people” thing, yknow? I gave Suo a riolu, as Suo was gonna take the riolu to Sakura’s daycare to get a read on who this new guy in town that Ume told him about was like.

idk if I’ll ever expand on my own Pokémon AU, but I’m excited to read more about yours, if you do decide to make more of it :3

sincerely, wind breaker anon, who is glad that you don’t mind me being kinda shy on anon

originally this was going to be a made up region so I could play around with what pokemon were available and everything. but yeah now it’s just Hoenn with a few extra towns lmao. I couldn’t resist, it’s my favorite region of all time and it is where absol comes from so I figured it worked out fine.

definitely writing by the seat of my pants with this, btw. there is no actual plot beyond character development for sakura via friendships with umemiya, suo and nirei, choji and togame, etc. we have vibes here, sir. no plot (yet). which is also why the snippet idea for writing appeals to me more for this. I have more freedom to just tell the parts of the story I feel inspired to, rather than locking myself into a specific plot I have to follow and pass a certain word count.

oh I adore your idea already!!! Daycare worker sakura is precious, and yes, I’m in total agreement about him having an umbreon and espeon. his entire team minus absol in my au is pokemon that evolve via friendship 😂 so like, clearly I’m trying to get a message across to sakura. but also also, yesss the pokemon have no reason to judge sakura and that’s why he bonds with them, that’s perfect. with mine it’s less that the pokemon aren’t ready to evolve (pretty much all of them are) but they’re like. holding back on evolution because sakura’s not in the right place to understand that they love him and that he’s been treating them so so well as their trainer. so vague plan is evolutions during key moments in his character journey.

suo with a role 😍😍😍 I couldn’t resist mienshao but Riolu is an excellent choice, very fitting for our mystery man who takes down opponents without breaking a sweat. Will absolutely read the shit out of this if you post anything.

I really wanna do more for this au! Definitely no time table for it though. Just whenever the mood strikes me I suppose? If people have ideas I’ll consider using them for inspo to write, but otherwise it’s gonna be slow-goings, methinks.

I appreciate all the support, too!!! very fun to have these chats in my inbox, def a highlight of my day