Trial Captain Acerola + Kahuna Nanu headcanons
+Nanu He may not be her actual āUncleā, but she gets worried Nanu isnāt eating healthy, so she makes a point of coming by once a week to cook for him, and of ignoring some of his grumpier remarks.
She remembers back before the incident with the UBs and the dead Faller when he was doing better for himself. Like, heās always been kinda cynical, but she vaguely remembers a time when he was doing better for himself and was (kinda) more warm.
-While itās canon that she has a spiritual sense and can see and talk to ghosts, they used to really scare her when she was a child and didnāt really understand what she was seeing. (It spooks other people tho when they see her talking to apparently no one.)
-Iām not sure if the official book gives her a canon age, but I tend to see her as about 12 or 13, just looking younger.
+ Acerola He never would actually admit it, he really does appreciate Acerolaās weekly visits. He really only cooks microwave meals. (Or occasionally splurges on some sushi.)
His Persian has the habit of grooming his hair. Nanu has since given up trying to get it to stop, and just begrudgingly allows it at this point. (It especially likes to do this when Acerola swings by. Or the protagonists. While staring them dead in the eye.)
He used to be a pretty close friend of Acerolaās parents, and thatās why Acerola refers to him as her Uncle. Heās somewhat more distant now after the Faller incident, but theyāre still on good terms.
When the Team Skull grunts (with Gladion as a non-participating onlooker) tried attacking him upon hearing he was the Kahuna (in addition to being a police officer), instead of bothering going for his Pokemon, he responded by nailing one of them in the face with a Hot Pocket he had just got done microwaving, and without a word, stepped back inside his home/police station. Not quite knowing how to react, they kind of left him alone after that.
He has severe PTSD/depression and still gets nightmares from seeing that third member of his team getting killed by an Ultra Beast. Adding to it, she was someone Nanu had been letting stay with him, and then he had to see her get eaten. Thatās just not something anyone can get over.
He canāt win with his cats. They spill every open beverage on the counter, they swipe his food (and often tag team in order to do so.), and tend to make a mess of things. He still would never get rid of any of them tho.
He tends to not get up before noonāunless he hears some LOUD commotion outside, like the protagonist beating the snot of of the local TS grunts.
+Guzma is a little creeped out by Nanu, not that he would ever actually admit it. Nanu has the habit of just spontaneously appearing from nowhere behind him (and everyone else, for that matter.), whenever he needs to ask him if he could let someone into Po Town or whatever else. Heās never quite gotten used to it.
I tend to see him as younger than he looks, maybe 38-42? Itās just that heās had a rough time over the past decade and thatās taken its toll on him.
