#pv basil

My sis and I grew up loving stuff that had messy but fun time stuff (most influential one being Zero Escape), so to bring these people together in a way that sorta make sense, we tried to make use of Hoopa’s abilities introduced in ORAS. 

This is why I had to bring up exactly how we played the games, and the working timeline that is perceived by the trainers in their own flow of time! 

They themselves acknowledge this too, and they always make sure to keep track of the correct flow of time and space, hence two timelines are observed in our verse: 1) the “in-universe” timeline (how they perceive time as above), and 2) the “real-time” timeline, the one that actually follows the games. 

(Note: Pokemas seems to be using the same logic with bringing everyone together despite time discrepancies, but note that it came out last year, we thought of this concept first in 2016 so they copied us HAHAJK)

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Ages when they started in-game: 

Roy/Gwen: 11 

Alex/Ellen: 11 

Basil/Ceci/Tim (GS Gold): 17 

Julian/Maya: 12 

Oliver: 10 

Ophelia: 11 

James/White/Kyouji/Mei: 16 

Xavier: 17 

Yvonne: 16 (some time after XY passed when she joined) 

Louis/Lewis/Kiana/Dani: 11 

Arthur/Emi (Galarians): 14 

In "real-time" age, if we use SM/USUM as landmarks (and disregarding the special cases + Galarians since SWSH doesn’t give hints on the timeline yet), this is actually their correct age order: 

Kanto/Hoenn/Unova1: 21-22-20 (respectively) 

Unova2/Kalos: 18-19 

Johto/Sinnoh: 17-18 

Alola: 11

I had a need to clarify all the age stuff going on 'cause it's been pretty integral with some of their interactions, especially with ships with time gap drama (I don't wanna accidentally make their ages sound weird out of context!), so I hope this cleared up anything problematic!  

Their friend groups also tend to be pretty tied-in with their ages!!! The group uses these groupings to refer to each other: 

Kids: The Alolans + Oliver, Alex 

Teens: Ellen, Gwen, Ophelia, Roy, Hoenn + Galar 

"Grown-ups": the "oldies" (Basil, Ceci, Tim), Unovans, Kalosians

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^the log in particular

That was completely unrelated to the comic haha, I just thought I’d share it since it’s a very recent Basil-James-Ellen interaction (literally just hours ago)! 

It’s part of our Vday/White Day special where Julian, being Julian, made draw-lots of all the single trainers and paired them up with each other for fun little activities. Basil happened to be paired up with Ellen, and the prompt they got was the Pocky game, which is very interesting since James is close to both of them. 

He’s been very protective of Ellen because Basil always messes with him and spouts nonsense just to provoke him for fun, and well, it’s the Pocky game, duh, just think of the boi showing his protective big bro tendencies. XD

So to answer this, Basil’s actually close to half of them already, namely James, even before the cousins knew they were related! He appeared in the comic because he was the very first one to point out their similarities. Ever since Ellen started to hang with James more, she also gets to hang with James’ other friends too!