#alolan class

Particularly the many beaches.

It starts with the class coming down to the Professors shack to collect Ash and his team for a day of adventure. Only to see Lugia beached upon the sands. Wings stretched out wide and his lower half being gently lapped by the slow incoming tides.

Naturally, the kids think there’s a dead legendary outside the professor’s shack and they don’t know.

Lana jokingly said it was Pikachu’s spoils of a good ‘hunt’. The other kids don’t take her joke seriously or kindly.

both Ash and Kukui come out to the kids screeching because Tapu Koko appeared out of nowhere and he looks mad. Moving to hover more between the class and Lugia until Ash and Kukui come running out.

Ash immediately relaxes once he sees the scene in front of him. Waving off the Orange Isles legendary saying stuff like “Lugia’s probably tired from swimming/flying all the way here.” And “he’s not hurt, just tanning.”

All the while the other kids and Kukui are looking at Ash like he’s insane, so a normal Saturday morning, and conveniently forgot or don’t know that he’s the orange isles champion. Who obviously goes back to the islands whenever he returns home to see Luigi and the birds. Which means Ash has seen Lugia bury himself in the sand while one or two of the other birds are nearby squawking in fury.

They hate sand in their feathers.

Everyone calms down and look back to Lugia. Who’s know watching the group with mild disinterest with Tapu Koko hovering a few feet above their head. Looking like puffed up angry golden Decidueye.

Collectively, they all agree to leave the two alone. No one getting to see the short gruff and coo of thanks Lugia gives the guardian before turning their head more into a shaded spot and going back to bed.

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The next person to see Lugia is an early morning tourist. The sun isn’t quite breaking the horizon line and it’s a jogger out for a stroll.

The first thing she see’s coming up on the sidewalk that over looks the Hau’oli City beachfront is a large beached form in the sand. It takes moment for the woman tk recognize the being as Lugia.

Instead of being all stretched out and nuzzling into the sand, Lugia is curled up in a ball. Head tucked under a wing and soundly snoring away. The tourist is honestly surprised she didn’t notice the sound earlier. As her window to her hotel was open and Lugia’s snores are a little loud.

She’s honestly surprised no one else is out just yet either. Alola natives are known to be up from dawn to dusk. Though it doesn’t take long for everyone else to be out and about.

Within the hour there’s a crowd filling the sidewalk and the police have made their presence known. Ushering people aside so they can get down onto the beach that no one else has stepped onto yet.

Tapu Koko comes screeching from the trees. Down right pissed and territorial, but instead of lunging at Lugia the Guardian places himself between the legendary and the police. Facing the police with little shocks of electricity coming off of the Tapu.

Lugia quickly wakes with the noise, still sleepy and slow-ish from a good night rest. Reaching his snout out to gently prod the little guardian. Grumbling and cooing while stretching out his body.

Tau Koko’s attitude shifted drastically. body relaxing as he turns to the other and coo's back in answer. only briefly glancing back at the crowd before awkwardly motions Lugia to move.

to the people, it was clear that the sound Lugia made after Taou Koko's gesture was a laugh. though the legendary did indeed properly get and up slipped into the now midmorning tide.

though Tapu koko clearly took the laugh in good gesture from Lugia. hearing it from his own people sparked a nerve with the guardian. the single strike of lightning that smashed into the ground nearby scared both the group of civilians and the police force. giving the Tapu the cover to leave.

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a couple weeks later and there's a video flying around the internet. it's a short clip and a lot of people are calling it fake.

someone had their camera on and pointed it towards the sea. catching Lugia laying down on some rocks as the crashing high tide mist over the Pokémon. Tapu Koko is drifting nearby but looks towards the ocean with distrust.

Lugia coo's a sweet melody and opens a wing, beckoning the Tapu to come lay down. Koko obliges without much thought and is protected by the mist and any potential stronger waves. clearly snuggling up in the video before the person accidently snaps on a twig and both the legendaries attention snaps over to them.

Mallow: I had such a bad table yesterday. They kept making crude jokes in Hoennese and if Ash hadn’t been teaching us on the side I’d have never known-

Ta!Ash: hey, give me the name of the guy who paid.

Mallow: why?

Ash: I have a bat that needs a new polish.

The Class: *openly confused*

Ta! Au Ash: Yeah sure, I didn't have plans that day anyways *sigh*

He then proceeded to show up in an eyesore of a bright pink Hawaiian shirt with flowers all over it, and him and Pikachu both had the sunglasses to match

It’s a bit of both of those things and the trauma over everything that’s happened to Ash in the au.

Ash’s aura is naturally connected to the earth core of aura, where all the other legendary’s connect but the majority of them are very feint and can only reach out so far -the exclusion is Arceus, mew, the creation trio, Lugia, ho-Oh, Necrozma and Celebi-which doesn’t bring a lot of drama. His own aura is very strong though not fully stopped into until Hoenn. It leaks out a lot when around other mythical, legendary’s and very strong Pokemon though quickly developed in Sinnoh when he meets Riley and his Lucario. The connection to the earth’s overwhelming spring of pure concentrated aura fucks Ash up, this is around Unova hence why he’s starting to mentally decline and become a lot more bitter quickly despite struggling to still love his friends around him, and continues to do so the moment he meets a very strong Pokemon. As those Pokémon have curated their own aura to be stronger as well during training.

It’s also why Ash starts to hate crowded places like shopping centers and gets annoyed easily on school grounds because Human aura is so finicky and unpredictable to the majority of the human race that it feels like he’s constantly being poked at. Like some damn science experiment like the Mewtwo’s and Genesect, so he gets their pain to a point to have a standing leg for timid friendship. It’s also why he prefers the wilderness, solo missions, and Pokemon over his own kind. It’s an important note to say that when a human’s emotions turns complicated and hurtful (bed confusion, anger, sadness, depression-you get the gist) it causes their aura to naturally reach out and hurt the one that’s causing them to feel this emotion. It’s why Ash is so hesitant to be around the kids almost 24/7 because their so young and inexperienced unlike Ash was at their age. They don’t know that their Ta can turn into a cold blooded mass murderer if pushed to far.

Ash is also effected by the claims the gods have settled into his soul. Like Lugia is the strongest as even though he’s the second to lay claim-he is after all Arceus creation-Ash naturally seeks him out more then any other legendary. Specifically taking trips to the Orange Isles in the guise of champion duties when in reality he’s specifically in Lugia’s tiny above cave Lugia, ho-Oh and Rayquaza were raised in. Ho-Oh was the fourth and even though he was the first to truly activate his claim when Ash wished on him on his first day as a trainer, it’s the only reason why it’s that strong. Lugia’s claim wasn’t activated until Ash and him fell into the sea. He had wanted to keep Ash away from the prophecy as long as he could as Lugia knew it would fuck his very human kid up in ways that Ash would never recover from but it was evident that the prophecy must come true. Thus saving Ash-and by extension Pikachu as Pokemon cannot be laid claim to by other Gods besides Arceus himself-and the day.

While Ho-Oh activation felt like prosperity and wanderlust and Lugia was a breath of life and very eerie tranquility, Arceus was of pain and anger. That was before he truly realized where he was was and referring to Ash as “his Ash” or something along the lines it’s been a while since I saw the movie when he calms down. Arceus regrets his first meeting with his logically certified grandchild being so traumatic and rough and this leads to him not smiting Ash when he murders actually humans due to everything I’ve stated so far and more. Tapu Koko is terrified of activating his claim, he’s the third since he’s Ash’s other godly parent, and puts Ash through the Tapu’s versions of trials and grand trials.

Ash doesn’t get the zing as in the anime but he does get the ability to reflect it regardless onto his Pokémon to creat stronger moves. His aura would briefly connect with the ones he’s really close to-so like his older Pokémon, up to about everyone before Unova and half the Unova team since Ash focused on their care and training during his first break to escape from registering what he did-and it’s like his version of a Zmove. He can also briefly reflect the same typing in his aura, which is flowing more into his more animalistic spider of his dna and soul. Ash’s aura is already so dense and most importantly malleable. If he concentrates hard enough Ash can mold his aura to creat objects. So like the majority of his knives, nails and barb wire on his metal bat and to be able to sense when certain types of Pokémon are nearby. The typing can also fall into this as well to creat small shard of ice sticking to torn skin or putting poison on his blades.

He has to use it constantly or Ash will go insane. It’s like a pressure building up behind his eyes like a killer migraine and he’s actually had blood leak out of his ears and eyes when trying to appease Delia since she doesn’t want to see, hear, or talk about aura in her household. It’s also the main show of trust between him and Rowan when Ash is first dropped off at his house straight after the bloody team rocket massacre in Unova. The professor wasn’t going to let Ash waste such a talented gift-in the best of way possible-and constantly asks for help at the lab. Bringing Ash slowly out of his shell while also keeping a professional attitude not to fuck up the kid any further. Because Ash is a kid still, barely near 18 and so fucking traumatized. It’s the best Rowan could offer in that moment which is somehow the most Ash had ever positively received from an adult besides his mom and Ash doesn’t want to talk about her during his whole stay at the veterans house.

We can’t forget the general trauma he’s left with. He mostly focuses on the bad guys more then the gods when he can help it. It’s easier to process and to let himself feel all the emotions they caused him and that left with the horrible impression. This leads to Ash to be very bright hot angry towards people he finds ‘emotionless’ such like Gladion as a true example. He can clearly see-after being forced to spend time together due to situations-that Gladion still has the ability to care. Care about his mom, his Pokemon, his dad to some extent and most importantly Lillie even though he left her in some kind of stupid hero-sequel move. Gladion doesn’t have the right to care about Lillie, Lusamine can go fuck off and Ash hasn’t met Mohn yet, in Ash’s very open opinion. It doesn’t help that Lillie agree’s-silent, scared with her voice shaking like she’s still on the verge of tears and her craftily hidden anger hand in hand-and show’s through her actions more then word that she’ll follow after Ash over Gladion.

Cold anger is different. It’s calm and calculated and it shows first with Cyrus who truly doesn’t show emotion. Ash reacts like that because he can see himself in Cyrus and it scars the little boy that still clings to the ever prosperous kindness hidden behind bars in the deepest bit of his heart. He isn’t good at it, the Admins of his team were good at tugging at the burning hotness that started to take root or has most likely been there from the start all the way back before he could speak clearly, but he meets lesser opponents on the field of league politics. Rowan and Gary help him as it’s a language they’ve been fluent in for years at this point. Lysandre is greeted with refined calmness and control and even though the battle is long Ash know’s for certain he is alive band trapped in a bubble in the earth core. Saved by Zygards anger as the ‘Mon wants to watch him die over and over again for hurting it’s territory and its people.

Lusamine is his newest target if Ash could even get a hold of her first. Every call of his or the schools calls in general go straight to voicemail and it pisses him off to no end. He’s had to be talked down by Kukui not to fly to wherever the fuck the Aether stood in Alola and kick all the doors down until he had the woman’s full attention. Later it was burnet how’s worked with this woman and have a work friendship with, which is already a bit tense due to Lusamine obvious unhealthy obsessions with UB’s like Gladion, and instead she mostly focuses Ash’s attention of Faba and Colress. Which… wow that was not a person Ash ever thought he’d end up seeing again. Let alone the fact that Colress has some strong amnesia.

Ash is freshly 22 while Kukui is a couple of month’s into being 30, which makes them 8-ish years apart. The class is wildly different in age as I hc that Kukui’s class is like a hodgepodge of all ages because their all ridiculously smart in someway that a normal class can’t fully support them like they need, hence why Kukui stepped up. Burnet is 27 and helps Ash make old man jokes at Kukui, all in good loving jest of course.

There are a few OC teacher’s and fellow Student-Teacher aids that i haven’t gotten to yet but their coming up shortly.

Kiawe is the oldest at 15 when Ash arrives in Alolan but quickly turns 16 within the first few months of Ash being a TA at the school. Lillie’s right after him turning 16. Like almost a week after Kiawe. Mallow is freshly 15 as well, having her birthday a little before Ash arrives, and Lana is close by at 14 but turns 15 later on. Think like when the class goes to Poni island for the first time (excluding saving Lusamine) to do those class reports. Then lastly comes Sophocles at 13 and being the youngest of the class and his birthday is the last of the class. It fall’s around the time the kids would have their version of a summer’s break.

Gladion doesn’t really have a pinned age yet, i haven’t decided if he’s 19 turning 20 or 20 at the start of the story then ages up to 21 much later down the line. Either way he’s in the range from 19 to 21. Hau is mid to late 19 year’s old when Ash meet’s him.

Soph: *tries to stop crying over his bloody knees after being pushed down* 

Ash: No one hurts you and gets away with it. Now, who did this? 

Soph: *points to Horatio and his friends* 

Ash: *to himself* looks like I’m spending tonight in jail. *to Soph with the class now around to comfort him* keep an eye on him and someone find Kukui. 

Mallow: w-where are you going? 

The more annoyed Ash is, the higher he climbs. Sometimes completely disappearing far past the jumping point Ilima did in that one episode. His usual spots are the branches below, just in sight of the kids looked from the classroom so Kukui can’t count him slacking off.

1) Kukui yells Ash that he’s more then welcome to bring Delia, is she wants to fly to Alola for like a week or smthin, to the Open House at the school. Saying that the majority of the STA’s (Student-Teacher Assistants) will be doing so since all their parents live in Alola. Ash doesn’t and just thinks he can chill in the back while Kukui and the kids do their Thing™. Probably can get a nap out of the whole thing. What he wasn’t expecting was the kids to basically force him up to the front and begged to talk about himself since they’ve all been gushing about Kukui’s TA to their parents.

2) Delia does come to Alola and is either flown out by principal/Professor Oak or Kukui to surprise Ash and it… doesn’t go as well as they thought. Ash is taken off guard and all his masks the kids and Kukui had slowly been able to tear away are back in place. He’s bitterly cold and rude, absolutely neutral towards the kids and their parents, while throwing daggers with his eyes at Kukui whenever Delia or the kids have their back turned. He gives everyone the silent treatment afterwards and calls out “sick” during the entire time Delia is in Alola.

3) Ash gets the idea to ask Rowan and Ingo if they wanted to come. It’s a hesitated offer and he looks like he’s already prepping himself for rejection form the two men, sadly Rowan can’t go but Ingo can! He joins Ash and the young adult is much more truly relaxed and not the forced relax he makes himself and expressive. It’s the first time the kids see him smile more for ten minutes and both them and the adults seem to adore Ingo.