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he would NOT be that open to talking about his trauma

Another option: "I'm not like other girls (I'm a working class gal and things like dresses and jewelry and makeup can be expensive, and inconvenient/dangerous when doing physical labor like working with pokemon)"

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

What if the Tree of Life from the Lucario movie is structured/created similarly to the dungeon from Dungeon Meshi. One giant super organism that eats people.

Do you think Gary knows how to cook, or does this young man live on ramen and boiled eggs or find a friend who knows how to cook when out in the field after Johto

Do some pokemon get like body dysmorphia when they evolve. Waking up one day as yourself you've known your whole life then suddenly being completely different often in a way outside of your control sounds horrifying

There was actually an episode in Johto in which trace amounts of leaf and sun stones were causing a bunch of Gloom to evolve into Vileplume and Bellosum depending on the direction of the wind. And there were some that weren't happy with the evolution they got! Unfortunately it ended with a "well everything happens for a reason! love urselves! :D" type of message. I like to imagine an AU where Ash + friends find the source of where the fragments were coming from and stop them from just being loose in the air (but also tell the pokemon where the stones are, if they want to evolve).