Rey.

Professor Burnet had always stated she wanted a big family, so it makes me a lil sad to see people just stopping at Lei and just making the Alola Family Kids as Ash and Lei, when really I think Lei should have some more siblings! :)

So, here’s my rendition of them!

Kalani !! 🌺

She’s the perfect example of the “golden child”. The eldest daughter, and the secondborn child of Kukui and Burnet. She looks like if Kukui cloned a female version of himself, but she has her mother’s eye shape, and smile (unless she had the mask on, that’s just her dad). She’s about a year younger than Lei, and she really liked being a performer! Her Pokémon are all performers themselves (Lapras, Hawlucha, Kommo-o, Oricorio (Baile), Ninetails (Alola), and Lycanroc (Midnight). She got into dancing as a kid when she attended Iki Town’s festivals, and she learned from a local instructor. She’s also training to be new champion of the Battle Royal with her Kommo-o and Hawlucha because she was the only one of her siblings to take interest (and I incorporated this because most male wrestlers have their daughters enter the field too) and wasn’t busy with being the Champion of the World (sorry Ash). She’s bubbly, sweet, and likes to be around people, but she needs her down time to take off her mask of personality and just recharge.

Amber !! 🌙

She was the third born and final child, she looks like her mother, she has white hair, her father’s eyes, and she came out as a pale baby who developed her tan later in life. She has a short temper, and takes things a bit tooooo carefree, and gets a little stingy and nervous when things aren’t going in her favor. She skipped two grades in school because she was super smart and developed, but now she has a LOT MORE PRESSURE to be a top class academic (yaaayyyyy), but right now she just likes to accidentally follow Ash to different regions, explore habitats, and she knows she wants to get her PhD, and just travel like a nomad and do research about different areas, culture and regions, and she hopes that she could travel to Ultra Space too! Her Pokémon are all inspired by different habitats and eras (Froslass, Tyrantrum, Empoleon, Turtonator, Sandslash, and Altaria). She has some self esteem issues with her battling skills even though she is better than the average bunch, she just thinks she’s not that good in comparison to her family, so she doesn’t battle unless she absolutely needs to. She’s three years younger than Kalani.

Lei !! 🐬

And now he’s an older sibling, yayyyyyy. He gets a more serious and responsible personality, yet he still takes every single chance he can to be a little shit to his family. The minute he popped out to exist, he’s been silently pressured by the entire world to be the next prodigy, the next champion, the next Ash or Kukui. Even though his family is a lot more chill, whispers get to him. He’s a little bit of an aggressive battler due to Hala’s influence, and he likes to watch a lot of matches in his free time, judging them and being the ref. He had an accident after his aggression turned against the principles of Alola and the Islands… his z-ring exploded, and his arm got blown off at fifteen at the league! How… memorable. He decided to divert his time to try to become a researcher of alternate universes, and he silently wishes he could find the universe where he had everything…. He’s an amazing brother, and just a nice guy! His team consists of Zeraora, Garchomp, Hounddoom, Decidueye, Vaporeon, and Mimikyu). His team is quite balanced. Oh and his brown hair does become more black as he ages.

(repost or comment if im missing someone u adore or you disagree w/ me, i wanna see your thoughts!)

I’ll give explanations for some, for others I feel like they’re obvious.

Ash - The Avatar (duh)

Kiawe - Fire (duh)

Lana - Water (duh)

Sophocles - Earth

Despite him being an electric type Pokémon trainer, I see him as an inventor so I feel like he’d be skilled at metal bending and making machines. It also correlates with Molayne and perhaps his cousin could even be his metal bending teacher.

Mallow - Water

HEAR ME OUT, again she is a grass type trainer, but earth is more correlated to rock, ground and steel, and there’s the benders in the forest that use water to manipulate vines and plants, so Mallow could learn how to do that.

Lillie - Water

Snowy is ice— but also Water is the element of change and Lillie showed absolute growth throughout the series, and I believe it would be amazing for her to learn how to water bend to show it.

Professor Kukui - Earth

Him being Earth makes sense. He seems very grounded and works hard for his goals. Him being an Earthbender shows he works with the roots of Alola. He’s quite skilled at it too! He even learned a sub-bending technique that he doesn’t show often…

Kahuna Hala - Earth/Non-bender

It goes both ways to be honest for me. Earth makes sense as Kukui’s mentor, but also considering the other Kahunas are Olivia and Hapu who are going to fall under Earth anyway— it gives an unfair ratio to the Kahuna mix-up. So I think Non-bender could also be an interesting choice because he’s a fighting type Kahuna, so he could’ve learned techniques like chi-blocking or something adjacent to the Kyoshi Warriors. He’s definitely a physical fighter though.

Alolan Oak - Non-bender/Fire

idk man— I just don’t see him with a bending style or maybe Fire because of his Kantonian Vulpix?

Gladion - Water

Same reason as Lillie. He started as aloof and alone, but in the end of the series he has friends, he spends time with his family to find Mohn, he befriends Silvally, and gains new rivals. Water definitely suits him.

Team Rocket - Fire

Both Jessie and James are firebenders. I think their personalities fit with firebenders, and with their backstories too. Though I think James leans into lightning bending since LoK witnesses lightning bending used for machinery and James is good with tinkering. Jessie just has that fire so— firebender!

Kahuna Olivia - Earth (DUH)

One of my HCs (which I will flesh out later) is that Kukui, Olivia, Molayne, and Guzma are childhood friends— with Guzma drifting apart from the three. Olivia is a traditional Earthbender who doesn’t use sub-bending like her two friends.

Delia - Air

She’s quite cheerful, and she let Ash go on his journeys too! I think she believes in the art of being a free bird and exploring the giving world of Pokémon

Tupp, Rapp, and Zipp - Non-benders

ehhhhh ehhhh eh.

(yes there are more characters, but these are the main people in Season 01)

Brock - Earth (duh)

Misty - Water (duh)

SEASON 2

Lusamine - Non-bender/Water

She’s giving me Asami vibes— she isn’t a bender, but she’s super smart in business and is stylish and savvy with her words! The only reason I believe water is because there’s a fight with her and she can battle

Wicke - Non-bender

Faba - Non-bender/maybeeee air?

I said maybe air because for some twisted reason he somehow figured out spirit-bending and used it to terrorize children.

Professor Burnet - Non-bending/Water

Logically: She has no battle prowess, so she would go in non-bending.

Characterwise: She loves diving, she does scuba diving for research, she loves the smell and the sound of the waves, she MEDITATES ON A SURFBOARD ON THE SEA. She’s from Pokémon New York they’re near the water too

She’s a water bender your honor.

Masked Royal (Kukui pt. 2) - Earth

(who’s the Masked Royal? Nobody knows and it’s certainly not Professor Kukui— hahaha)

He is a master in lava-bending. He uses it during Battle Royals (imagine the arena in LoK but like wrestling). He doesn’t use lavabending without the mask because the Royal donned a special move for his sport that if he uses outside of his mask consider his identity COOKED.

Also him being one of Ash’s lavabending teachers would he cool (I assume another one would he in Hoenn because they have a volcano over there).

Ilima - Non-bender.

Viren - Non-bender.

Mallow’s brother - Water

Kahuna Nanu - Air

He specializes in spirit-bending and understanding dark spirits, he’s a police officer too so perhaps he uses spirits to help with his job.

Acerola - Air

Well because of the spirits mainly

Molayne - Earth

Metal Bending— I explained in Sophocles, Kukui, and Olivia’s desc why.

Mina - Air

She’s obnoxiously carefree.

Matori Matrix (Team Rocket) - Non-bender/Earth

Matori - Non-bender

Gozu - Earth, he specializes in Metal bending— which is how Faba finds out about the Masked Royal’s identity in this AU because they were struggling against a metal bender (because Faba is weak and Kukui basically got every attack throne back and more), and because not many lava benders exist to defend against lava or redirect it, Kukui had to use it to get the victory in that battle.

So he’s a plot point

Pikala - Fire

lightning bending

Season 3

Hau - Non bender/water

Either because he’s Hala’s grandkid or because he’s a Decidueye trainer and grass = water somewhat

Dia - Earth

Backing this up with the theory that Dia is Kukui and Burnet’s child in an Alola where Ash never arrived. I think him being an Earthbender fits his stubborn determined personality.

Kahuna Hapu - Earth (duh)

Kahili - Air (duh)

flying tyoe trainer— also we are LACKING air benders in Alola

Guzma - Water

1. Angst

2. Golisopod

Plumeria - Water

Because she can bend poison and aim for the face holes and then give a “good luck” when she’s done

Ryuki - Fire

Cus dragon and fire

Like the chariot scene it was Glory to the dedicated god, and then when it came to meeting Allison Simms, she tells Annabeth “Glory to Athena” which follows the pattern established the episodes prior, but Annabeth tell Allison “Honor to Apollo”

That got me curious, in what case would be glory or honor or any other term to dedicate to a god

Since when is Thalia, Clarisse’s dad??

I mean she would be a better parent figure than Ares

But this IS INSANE