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Random sketches Pokemon uranium

(Parts from my au)

@thesillyexpresser, pay up :3

The time your character spends at the Ranger School is NOT an elongated tutorial period. The only tutorial period in this game is at the very beginning, when you are actually learning all the game mechanics at the game's instructions

The events at the Ranger School is part of the story of SoA. Your character meets some characters and develop certain relationships that will prove important during later plot progress. It is a period that's supposed to help you become immersed better, to help you get to know your protagonist and what they are going through, not only after becoming an official Pokemon Ranger, but even before.

Owen is almost six when he realizes his family is... different.

He’s always known that it was odd that his mommy and daddy always say stuff like “Owen, be more like Ezra” or “Owen, can’t you be like Briar? He never causes trouble” (his Granny Leslie tells him every time Mommy sees her), but he’s never really thought about it. It’s just normal! Everyone has parents that ask them to be different, be better, it’s how the world works.

Then his teacher asks everyone to draw their families and tell the class about them. That names would be drawn out of a hat, and that’s the order they’d go in. So Owen draws his family (and if he accidentally forgets about himself until he’s colouring in the sky, then nobody has to know except him and the crayon box). He makes sure he gets Mommy’s lipstick the right shade of pink because that’s important. He makes sure that everyone is smiling because his family has nice smiles, even though they don’t smile as often as they should. He makes sure everything is just right, like how Ezra would make it.

He’s the first name drawn, and so he goes up and shows his picture to the class and talks about his family. He talks about how it’s always “Owen you’re better than this” and “Ezra never causes scenes” and how he and his brothers are dropped off at one of their grandparents so often that Grandpa Felix says that it’s like raising kids all over again. He gets questions about what his Mommy and Daddy do and ignores the worried look his teacher gives him after he talks and talks and talks about his family.

(It’s the eighth person after him when he realizes that no one else has a family even slightly similar to his. Which is weird because everyone has the same kind of family where the grandparents do most of the work and the parents are always busy doing something else, right?)