#contestshipping

We don't talk nearly enough about the fact that Harley showed up in full May drag and called himself Mayley

In the game verse, I like Hoennshipping best and Hoennchampionshipping decently. I have some old Hoennshipping fics so I have to be loyal haha.

I only realised yesterday that a contestshipping day existed. (And contestshipping week?? Since when??) Yesterday also happened to be contestshipping day, so this left me very little time to lock in and draw something for the occasion. I intended to draw Drew, but only managed to draw May... Which kinda defeats the whole purpose of the "shipping" part. Oh well.

Could have fit this with family, but future works better for fanchild talk.

So I think that they would have a child. May felt that having a child was important, and while Drew was less interested in being a father, he has the confidence in his ability to be a parent.

So I headcanon May as being something of a geek. Normally this is out of it being fun to give blorbo my hobbies, but I actually have a mix of teraleak stuff and, more importantly, an episode that explicitly shows May enjoying a sci-fi romance.

Luckily, Drew is also something of a geek. During the Contestshipping day watch party earlier, there was a lot of conversation about Drew acting like an anime character and how he probably is into anime himself.

Important context: I had a look at Canal Vorfeed's design and thought "she kinda looks like a Contestshipping child" and so I got a really funny idea.

They learn they will be having a daughter. May's first thought was "wow our daughter could look like Canal Vorfeed from Lost Universe" and she naturally suggests that's what they name the daughter.

Drew isn't against the idea of naming a character after a fictional character. However, Canal is a silly name, and he makes it clear.

They do come to a compromise. They agree to name the daughter Lina.

While I more often see the other way around, I tend to view Drew's family relationships as being much closer than May's.

So in Shining Justice, Drew's father is Scott. I have mentioned this before, and during the watch party earlier today I even made a joke about how my headcanon actually made sense.

The reality is that I made it up to actually have Scott be a dismissive father to Drew, but since Scott is familiar enough with contests to analyze them, this didn't really hold up.

Drew's mom's hair is green. That's all I have.

I also like to think that Wally is Drew's cousin or something if he exists in Shining Justice*. As you may know, Drew is sort of based on Wally. See, the earliest forms of what I'd call Shining Justice from around 2018 or so was effectively more a fusion between the anime and the games, and when I got the ancient ass fanfics involved to make the first of modern Shining Justice, that part didn't exactly go away. So therefore Wally exists, and I felt it made sense to make the two related. I was initially thinking brother, but I realized that didn't add up earlier this week while writing about LaRousse.

As for May's family? It's actually more dysfunctional.

I do think there was a focus on Pokémon versus other aspects of life in May's family. While it's a common belief to attribute May's dislike of Pokémon early on to the Tentacool when she had the incident with them, I personally think it's more that May learned a grim lesson either following the incident over a longer period of time: that her parents care more about Pokémon than about her. Thus she associated Pokémon with the lack of parental love she felt.

I also headcanon there is parental favoritism at play. Max is more interested in Pokémon than May is. Therefore her Pokémaniac parents probably gave Max more affection which further reinforced May not caring for Pokémon.

As for Max? Well we all know Max. However I actually have a similar age gap between me and my younger brother and thought Max was a year younger than he was in canon because when I was 10 my brother was 6. Or rather he was 7 for like two weeks and then I turned 11.

Hmm, maybe should write something about this.

Both meeting each other's parents would go rather smoothly.

With May's family, in canon Caroline definitely approves of Drew, and even teases them about romance. I see no good reason why Senri** wouldn't approve of Drew either. Senri is definitely less observant about romance than his wife, however.

In Shining Justice, she likely would meet Scott under very different circumstances. I don't want to get into it without major spoilers for ideas I might not follow through on. However, I do think Scott would think May is a pretty cool girl.

*He probably does tbh but I'm not 100% certain on it and his narrative role really overlaps heavily with May in Shining Justice.