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Angus I

Shiny Marowak: Green and whacks things with a bone like it's a hammer.

Shiny Miraidon: the magic dragon which everyone theorises is actually a spaceship. You can ride on this one and also fly (it does actually have wings.) The shiny also gives it that metallic colour palette.

Zacian: "Able to cut down anything with a single strike, it became known as the Fairy King's Sword, and it inspired awe in friend and foe alike." Kingly wolf of legend, good for helping an intrepid hero restore his kingdom. Supereffective against a good chunk of Zarg's team. Partial steel type, because destiny of steel etc etc.

Ser Proletius

Braviary: big ol' eagle.

Mega Staraptor: big fighty bird of prey which got a major buff recently and will kick your ass YAY HARD.

Armarouge/Ceruledge: knight-themed pokémon which evolves using a specific type of armour. Regular Prol has Armarouge, which evolves using Auspicious Armour, while Dreadlord Prol has Ceruledge, which evolves using Malicious Armour and is more "evil" coded (and also infinitely cooler)

The Hootsman

Kleavor: battleaxe buggo.

Midday Lycanroc: rock wolf, just in case Hootsie's armour or weapons made from wolf need mending.

Annihilape: angry punch monkey which died and evolved into an undead angry punch monkey. Fitting given what's happening in album 5.

HONORARY MENTION: Mega Golurk: "The energy within Golurk has been stimulated by Mega Evolution. The Pokémon could explode at any moment."

Ralathor

Alakazam: deeply intelligent pokémon with access to powerful magic and psychic powers (can also mega evolve). The baby version is notorious for teleporting everyfuckingwhere and disappearing when you as much as breathe incorrectly in its general direction.

Celebi: cute little mythical pokémon which has been known to just yoink people and send them to different points in time.

Dwebble: hermit crab for hermit Ral ::)

Zargothrax

Malamar: cunty evil squid bastard which likes to hypnotise and mind control people.

Giratina: Pokémon Satan exiled by pokémon God and pissed off about it.

Mega Banette: a discarded doll animated by vengeance and resentment, curses people as revenge or even just for funsies.

HONORARY MENTION: Cursola: the corpse of a coral whose home environment was destroyed by human industrialisation, reanimated by ghostly power and prone to cursing people about it.

Angus XIII

Shiny Miraidon (again!): Miraidon is a pokémon from the future, so it'd be cool if XIII, who's also from the future, got to ride around on it like Papa Ango I - especially bc album 3 does mention a dragon.

Mega Chesnaught: green beefy kingly 'mon which can whack things real good.

Shiny Buzzwole: beefy buggo pokémon from another dimension accessed via a wormhole, so it'd be cool if Ango befriended it in the Terrorvortex. The shiny has green bits befitting the McFifes.

Angus V

Galarian Rapidash: Unicorn. Enough said.

Tinkaton: cute little girl 'mon with a giant fucking hammer.

Green core Minior: small meteor pokémon which Ango probably found while fucking around with his telescope. Green, as is proper for all McFifes.

Angus II

Shiny Cubone: baby version of Marowak, orphan which wears the skull of its deceased parent and cries about it. Has a bone to whack things with like a hammer. Green.

Golett: little robot mon Ango probably got when he was being raised on the moon. Knows the move Hammer Arm. Baby version of Golurk.

Silvally (Electric Memory): artificial legendary pokémon made in the image of pokémon God to fight beasts from another dimension. Starts off wearing a restrictive headpiece which it shatters upon meeting a boy who teaches it the power of friendship. Silv'ry fur, head feathers coloured gold by the electric typing it adopts upon being fed a specific CD. Canonically big enough to ride on. Can shoot energy beams. Can learn the moves Explosion and Self-Destruct. Three guesses why I picked this one.

Bonus: Iona

Gardevoir: classic pretty flowy princess pokémon (more powerful than you think, can mega evolve, has fairy type moves which could fuck up a chunk of Zarg's team given the opportunity).

Vulpix: little firefox. I thought about giving her the Alolan variant, which is ice/fairy, but I thought that Iona should have a little fire buddy to keep her warm after the ice.

WHO is the king?

Because the McFife boys are *Prince* of Fife, and Fife is a Kingdom, not a Principality. Which means that the highest rank would be King.

Now, I can see an argument that Angus I & II are both technically king, but use Prince for kingdom reclaiming reasons (the crown having transferred immediately on their predecessor's death).

But Angus V and XIII are both in reasonably stable eras when their adventures start - which would suggest that in both cases at least one parent is still alive. Probably both.

Besides raising the horror of those parents never finding out what happened to their sons, it also raises the question of where ARE they? Not even a video call considering that there is an eldrich thing running around in the body of a long time friend of the crown, and a great (something) grandfather (uncle) visiting?

Okay I've somehow managed to fight off both Thursday's new release sugar rush and yesterday's unexpected headache, so lemme see what you've got for me.

The way I see it, the "King" of Fife is only the king if he has a Fife to rule over, so it's possible that all the princes are just princes until they go through your time honoured rite of passage of liberating Fife from under Zarg's control OR rebuilding it after he blew it up tae fuck. There are Prerequisites.

I'm just making shit up as I go along here, but "For the king of Dundee" might mean less "for the actual king who exists out there somewhere" but more "for the future in which I'll get to be the king" or something like that. The king is like a symbol. The presence of one implies peace and stability.

For V, it's possible that he either isn't king yet in his time (living parent, older siblings) or automatically downgraded to princehood upon bailing out of Dundee to accept his destiny. XIII probably also downgraded when Zarg got defrosted. Essentially, kingly privileges revoked until you fix this mess, spaceboy. Notice that I'm not suggesting that he has older siblings to rule in his head - this man gives me MAJOR only child energy even if he does sing "I am the one, the chosen son." It might imply brothers, but to me personally it's just fancy speak for being destiny's favourite chewtoy which, as he'll later find out, isn't a good thing to be.