The Good Spirit

Pokemon Fanverse Blog, written by @PrismPortrait ... Here I'll be writing a story through piece-meal, documenting my own fanverse, compiling the Pokemon franchise into timelines with cause and effect on one another for deeper narratives and characterization, and exploring conflicts with our heroes, villains, NPCs and Pokemon alike! Part story blog, part multimuse rp blog, part ask blog, part documentary, part fankid /shipping indulgence... Ultimately, Pokemon art and writing, from silly to serious, can be found here.

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Blue received the extra keystones as a gift for his grandfather, extended by Professor Sycamore. The pallet trio were gifted a trip to Kalos for winning Blaine's Family Fued style quiz show against a family of Pokemaniacs.

Chase won the bet, though their journey as new trainers exploring Kanto certainly shifted all three of their goals quite a bit. Elaine mostly stopped pursuing battles after capturing Mewtwo, and Trace became focused on trying to defeat Chase to no avail.

Despite defeating the legendary trainer with his unevolved team, Chase hasn't brought up the bet he won nor does he brag about defeating Red. He thinks its funny to listen to people talk about Red as this undefeated mysterious guy because to Chase he was just, 'that older, funny, mute neighbor kid who once broke his window while practicing to throw Pokeballs and tried to tape it back together before their mom came home.'

To accommodate for the large influx of new residents, the city finally removed conservation protections over Viridian Forest. The former widlife reserve was threatened to make room for the city's expansion of housing. Many Pokemon populations fled early at the sign of chainsaws coming in, some eastward towards Cerulean City, some southward into Pallet Town's grassy hills, and some westward to Mt. Silver's elevations.

Blaine refused to take refuge in Viridian City as to not endorse the removal of a large Pokemon habitat. He continued to operate his gym without a building in the Seafoam Islands until the league cracked down on his improper procedure.

Meanwhile, the mountain range which contains the Rock Tunnel does not have extreme high elevation, but rather, it is a hazardous area to traverse through climbing with steep faces, slimy and often wet rocks from the nearby ocean’s moisture, and (typically) heavy rain flowing through rivers within it out to the east. Lavender Town and the northeastern corner of Saffron City are slightly arid due to this nearby range.

Gyms typically begin as unofficial clubs. Excellent trainers from all over the world come to try and garner enough support from other trainers, both native and visiting, to join their club. With enough members, they can apply for the official Gym assessment program where the Pokemon League evaluates the clubs and grades them on a 10-point scale during the off season.

Each club is then compared within the municipal area to pick the top rated gym to represent that area. The top 8 highest rated clubs in all of Kanto are then designated as gyms through the assessment and given established official gym order for the next League season. Typically, the Indigo League changes every year, whether it's new gyms or varying the gym order.

The most obvious example of complication is the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City. The Dojo, ran by Koichi, rated higher than Pewter, Cerulean, and Vermillion City gyms on their first two evaluations, but it ranked much lower than the Unovan-born Sabrina and her Psychic club which formed around the same time. As a result, their club was not qualified to become an official league gym because Saffron City already had a representative gym.

It didn't stop Koichi from causing a stir by placing mock-style Gym signs up on his building. While the league was not legally permitted for force them to remove the mock-style Gym signs, the officials did make it a point to dock the Fighting Dojo points on subsequent assessments under poor sportsman-like conduct.

One of the longest running festivals in their history, a child is chosen to be the divine messenger and they are carried around for 4 days straight. The child is never to touch the ground, as they themselves will carry a grass Pokemon such as Bulbasaur, Paras, Tangela, etc. It’s supposed to be an offering to the process of raising trainers, those trainers raising Pokemon, and to ask for the blessings of eternal growth (such as financial growth, bond growth, strength growth). The child is usually carried by a Pokemon but can be handled by people as long as their feet do not touch the ground.

During the festival, they have floats for all Pokemon found in the Kanto region, and shrines specifically dedicated to Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. There’s lots of street vendors selling food, souvenir stands, masks fashioned after young grass types, and music played on wood instruments.