Pokeani Timeskip AU -The Movie-The Comic

(thank u!) as far as in the main plot of the comic itself, I don’t have plans for a human antagonist playing much of a role, it’s more of a ‘something’ going down among the legendaries and Ash/his team gets caught up in some of it because of course they do -driven plot? (I’m not too confident in writing an ensemble cast so while want to have as many cameos I can w/o derailing the pacing, nobody is gonna be along for the ride the whole time besides Ash/Pikachu)

but! as far as how things are before that stuff starts

Some of the people that are Ash’s ‘rivals’ in the sense that they’re still aiming for the same goal -of “Pokemon Master”/being recognized as the absolute best pro-trainer(an incomplete list):

Paul, Iris, Alain, Bonnie (she’s old enough to be a trainer! she is a ghost/dark specialist and doing pretty well for her age, she’s not as experienced/skilled as the other more established names here but she absolutely still counts :3) …Gladion is a maybe but I want to see what canon does with them before I decide for sure?

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and because I have ‘backstory’ for almost everything:

I HC that traveling alone is a bit easier/safer in the pokemon world compared to ours, but even in that world people aren’t quite as automatically trusting or kind to strangers that aren’t obvious beginner 10 year old kids?

He doesn’t keep up w/ shaving in an attempt to seem younger or anything, it’s just that he’s learned he tends to get friendlier treatment in unfamiliar towns, if he puts at least a minimal effort in not letting his appearance seem too “rough” (or dirty -he’s pretty ok w/ doing his own laundry too lol, and sewing!!)

more Older!Ash sketches. The Hat can be annoying to draw but I love non-verbal acting cues, and it’s too good a source/enhancer of that sort of thing, so gotta practice.

HC- he reflexively grabs his hat for a sec when surprised or excited enough, like what he’s feeling might knock his hat off his head :DD- also! adjusting the hat when it doesn’t need to be, is a small physical action he sometimes does on purpose when he’s trying to stay focus or composed (basically, it’s not something done consciously, but he likes to keep the style of wearing a hat, because over the years wearing one organically starts to serve the same purpose as a fidget maybe??)

(not too many! -only downside to not keeping asks simple as possible is you gotta wait a LONG WHILE as I compose u an unwieldy Text-Wall -but, here that is :D ….)

Champions are definitely WAY more thanjust a “Sport’s Celebrity”

going off the more ~chivalrous~connotations of the word ‘Champion’ -meaning someone that fights as aRepresentative for someone else- Region Champions are looked to ascommunity-leaders/role-models/ (literally the embodiment of theirregion in some ways?), and are expected to also Protect the Safety/Peace of the entire region. So it’s a title that gets a persona lot of Fame and Respect and even some politicalpower/influence(which I’ll get to) but, Ideally, it’s intended to bea role primarily based in Community Service (the whole 8 badgecollecting system is kind of a, admittedly imperfect, screeningprocess for the position? -gym leaders can refuse/award badges basedon their assessment of your character not just win loss record/ +itgives wannabe champions more familiarity with the region they’d be incharge of ‘serving’-since you can’t even try out for the job withoutproving you’ve traveled to at least 8 different towns/cities)

in the basic culture of pokemontraining,

Ideally -a ‘Good’ trainer is supposedto always try to help/protect anyone weaker than them,

Ideally -a ‘Good’ gym leader takes thisa step further and is supposed to take responsibility of the entirecity/town their gym is in, and their gym should provide more to thecommunity than just a boon for tourism, which is why we get a lot ofdual purpose gyms associated w/ museums or learning centers of somekind (doesn’t always work out that way -sometimes ppl just try to usetheir gym to make $$$ -but,… ideally :‘3)

So taking the concept even further, a'Good’ Champion should try to always help/protect everyone 'weaker’than them just like any good-trainer, but by nature of their title as~Region’s Strongest~ ….that means they should help/protect -Everyone!:D

Responsibilities-wise a Champion isexpected to attend a lot of charitable and/or cultural events,helping participate in things like river-clean-ups, or building new(refurbishing old?)pokecenters, not just exhibition matches…. technically, anyoneliving in the region can make a formal request of the Champion to do…whatever? but it’s completely up to their discretion which requeststhey feel merits a response, since they can only be so many places atonce and can’t surprise everybody who puts in “Joke” requests-like an invite to a b-day party, asking them out on a date, or stufflike “help me clean my garage”…  X3

It can actually be tough to balance allthe (legit) requests with still being able to train enough to staycapable of defending their title, it’s acceptable or even expected todelegate some requests to E4 members or gym leaders but if a Championdoesn’t have a good relationship with them, to where they aren’t willing to do anyfavors….it can be almost impossible to keep up. A good workingrelationship with the E4/gym leaders is even more important in aCrisis like a natural disaster or something, by design they’rescattered around the region so that Someone is probably close enoughto be a first responder to an event wherever it happens to start. The Champion is the oneexpected to quickly come up w/ a response plan and coordinate w/everyone to handle things like evacuations/relief-efforts/cleanup, ifthere’s bad blood tho you might get situations like gym leadersprioritizing “their” city over following the Champion’s plan topool resources more effectively, or even only bothering to relay infofrom on the ground of what’s happening to each other, instead ofreporting to the Champ directly -leaving them not informed enough toeven form an effective response plan :'3 So, Leadership Skills (w/HUMANS :V) are Important! -it’s assumed culturally, that anyone whocan 'lead’ a pokemon team well enough to earn the Champion title willbe a good leader (and person?) all around but, mmmm it’s not aperfect system

Not 'giving back’ properly and ignoring(or just not being able to respond well to) requests from the public(or their crisis-time duties), won’t get a Champ stripped of theirtitle outright, but it does make a difference in how muchpower/benefits/nice-treatment that title will get them? (champions are also expectedto uh, encourage~ gym leaders to actually perform their jobscorrectly -if too many gyms start getting shut down in a region thePL inspectors are gonna give them a stern talking to, nothing canreally get someone stripped of their title outside of being defeatedin a title match, but the PL Can penalize a champion by barring themfrom participating in the Champion-League tourney – but they’d haveto ignore multiple official warnings and be mismanaging or abusing theirposition in a pretty extreme way before that’d happen)

Champions aren’t Rulers, in the sensethat there is a separate governing body in each region and if a champdecides they don’t much care to be involved with that, things cancontinue to roll along just fine without their input. But, a Championthat’s doin everything right, -they respond to the things expected ofthem in a way that makes them ultra popular with the generalpopulation, they’ve got relationships w/ the E4/gym leaders that they’re all seen as a solid tight-knit LOYAL force-…that kinda Champion canwaltz into government offices and really Lean on policy-makers inways a Figure Head wouldn’t really be empowered to do (they mighteven get Formal Requests from citizens to do just that if the gov is doinsomething shady, since again the Champion Title is meant to be allabout speaking/fighting for ppl w/ less power than them) The unspokenreason for a why that sort of champion would be respectfully catered to is -in theunlikely event a disagreement between the gov and ~The Voice of theLand and People~ turned to actual fighting, that Champion has thefirepower and public support to have a decent chance at successfullystaging a take-over? (this is a utopia long-lasting-peacetime, no regions havestanding armies (apart from police I guess??),the (much stronger than some growlithes and arcanines) Trainers making up the region’s Pokemon League is almost the closest thing to an'army’ a region has?? so if they are unified in something…. it’s in your best interest to at least try to work w/ the'leader’ of that group?) a champion actually starting a revolution/civil-war isNot something that’s happened in living memory, but it’s still apossibility most gov officials would be aware of and want to avoidtaking chances with. On a less dramatic note, it’s also just very very badPR to be on record as being in opposition to a Champion that’s trulyloved by their region -on any issue :3

but the main point I’m getting at is,how much power/influence a champion has can change over the course oftheir career and is directly related to how well the champ is doingtheir 'job’ at the time. At the other end of the spectrum, a new, notyet well established champ that isn’t handling requests well, doesn’t havea good relationship with their 'subordinates’ (-basically is seen asalone in what they do)….that kind of Champion won’t have very muchbargaining power in the political sphere at all, they probably wouldbe stuck as a purely ceremonial 'figure-head’ position until they get their act together -and mightstruggle to even get a meeting w/ gov officials let alone have theiropinions respectfully considered.

So, it’s far from a perfect system but,if a Champion were to try to abuse their station, they’d lose most ofthe benefits that station can come with pretty quickly!

*** Is it possible to become Champ ofmultiple regions simultaneously? There isn’t a law against trying,but it would be unusual and maybe even frowned upon? If you somehow actually managedit, on top of doubling your duties and the balancing act of givingboth regions equal attention, it would mess up the bracketing forthe Champion League Tourney and you’d probably? be accused of tryingto use a loop hole to get yourself 2 slots in said tourney, it’s aton of work for something that’d be seen as kinda… bad-form or unsporting :'3

*** there is a “World Champion”title…sorta. I kept mentioning the “Champion League” - I see thatas a tournament that has a bit of an Olympics vibe as aninternational competition, only it’s focused entirely on one sportand occurs only once every 10 yrs (instead of every 4, so bigger rare-erevent but not so infrequent to make it impossible to participate morethan once in a lifetime). Basically everyone with a champion title gets invited toparticipate, this is where a lot of the ~Champion IS their region~concept comes into play -LOTS of media-attention and P R E S S U R Efrom people back home layered ontop of the already daunting challenge of facing off against opponentsw/ next-level skills

winning the Champion Leaguedemonstrates ~Mastery of the Craft~ (of pokemon battling) to come outon top out of the world’s best, so that’s how I currently HC you getto become a ~Pokemon Master~ -Unlike region champ this title doesn’tcome w/ a “job” and it’s not something you have to defend fromchallengers. Once you earn that sort of distinction, you keep it forlife and you can add it to your name on your stationary and all othersorts of obnoxious things like that

Mew -still mostly chilling in their Life-Leach-Rock/Tree home and making occasional trips into the castle town of Rota to teleport random innocent citizen’s keys into their neighbor’s pudding and Steal

Mewtwo -after deciding he wants to be a part of the larger world instead of just hiding away, he’s been doing a lot of traveling in order to learn more about the world he wishes to be part of ……while, staying mostly Hidden >_>’ he can sense most people/pokemon so he’s pretty good at not being seen unless he wants to be.He won’t mindwipe anybody anymore but he’s a little more open to try interacting with pokemon societies he comes across out in the woods n stuff while he rlly tries to avoid interacting w/ humans completely. He enjoys watching humans tho, perching somewhere he won’t be noticed and eavesdropping on any thoughts that happen to go by for long stretches of time, a little bit creepy, but at least he’s not a thief? (…i’m conflicted w/ what to do regarding the BW mewtwo… I want strive to be as canon compliant as possible and there’s parts of that movie I like, but I’m Very Tempted to say that movie was a different but extremely similar parallel universe -which technically are canon compliant?haha- and in This universe there’s only ONE Mewtwo :’3)

One of the things Serena gets into(and is very successful with!) after ‘aging-out’ of pokemon performing, is beauty/lifestyle blogging (she’s sort of the pokemon-world equivalent of an Instagram/YouTube celebrity?)

Her and Paul’s paths don’t cross often but on one occasion they did, he made a offhand remark along the lines that what she does “doesn’t require talent and anyone could do it”.

Instead of going off on him about it, Serena is like “wow, fascinating! could you honor me with any more of your wisdom and guidance?” -dripping with sarcasm, but Paul doesn’t tend to catch social cues so he Does continue to try to give her more ‘advice’ and she very sweetly, continues to ask for more explanation and examples until she miraculously manages to get about a vine-length amount of ‘example video’ of him dressed goofy and silently picking up random objects trying to mock the -finger waggle at the camera thing-

originally meant for this blog to be a place to post the pokeani fancomic I keep threatening to make, but trying to create in a vacuum is Tough

so for now, it’s an Ask-Blog!

(Mostly) Canon Compliant Timeskip AU (Ash is 19) -answers will be based on how things are at Very Start of the comic/story I’m putting together (to cut down on spoilers)

Asks addressed to specific characters are highly encouraged since it’ll help me get practice at writing their dialogue (but purely meta/non-rp asks r cool too)

Story I’m planning is pretty Ash+his Pokemon centric, but i’m open to Asks to/about practically any character that exists in the anime, cause I wanna develop a sense that ppl are living their own lives, instead of Everything in the world Revolving around Ash? -so getting prompted to consider what a random COD is up to (or specific pokemon/legendaries! -since they count as full characters to me) even if they aren’t gonna necessarily cameo in the comic, can still be helpful world-building

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this is technically a sideblog (my main is @scribblekin )

My answers here aren’t how I think things will or ‘should’ go in the event of a timeskip, There’s So Many interesting possibilities! -but I need to start making solid decisions on what backstory/settings work best for the comic I’m planning to be readable and make sense :’3