Hello! This is perhaps one of my most AU heavy blogs yet. There's a lot to this, and a masterpost of asks and such explaining various pieces of lore as well as just explanations from me will go up at some point and be linked here, as trust me, it's a lot, and I'm still figuring some of it out.

First and foremost, Willa comes from a pokemon world that follows the original early generation one worldbuilding where pokemon had appeared within our world from some vague unknown place only a few decades before the original games, and the Kanto region referred to the real life part of Japan by the same name. This means that most canon regions outside of Kanto do not exist, and her setting is more in line with the real life earth we've come to know and love. Animals also exist alongside pokemon. The events of most pokemon games after the first few generations have not happened in this universe simply due to them being made after the original worldbuilding had been changed. There is no darkest day, there is no ultimate weapon, and there is no queen of england.

The second biggest thing is pokemon are sapient. All of them. They're all considered full beings with their own thoughts feelings and autonomy. Many older pokemon speak of a place they often call the Old World or variations of the name, the place they came from without humans before appearing within this world, however it's been quite a long time and many pokemon now either never saw the place or only remember it vaguely. Because of pokemon all being sapient individuals with their own languages and cultures, pokemon battling and being a pokemon trainer, while it exists, is done far differently in this setting, and will likely be something explained far more at length in the future. the short of it is that it's far similar to swsh's gym circuit, but even that's not an exact match.

Many canon characters do still exist even if their regions do not, they're just from the real world equivalent.

There's more, but it's far more than i can explain just in this OOC section without being far too long. More information will be divulged through asks.

Willa is aware of the multiverse and came into Rotumblr aware of her universes differences, but may still act a little weird about the concept of people owning pokemon and people like her being basically animals in other universes. Give her time. It would be weird for you if you talked to people from another dimension and found out that humans weren't seen as sapient there.

Pelipper Mail, Unmail, Malice, and any variations of them are off. I may turn them on for events, but for now it's off. Magic anons are also off.

If I catch you being transmisogynistic on this blog I'll hit you with hammers.

Mun and Muse are both adults.