i played like 18 hours of pokemon between friday night and yesterday, I Am Consumed By Les Mis As A Pokemon Game.
the initial thought was Not Kalos, but like historic Kalos might be cool? this whole think taking place like a 100 years in the past, even if it doesnāt make the most sense wrt the plot of X/Y.Ā
jvj as the professor- retired, technically but his specialization/research interest was on eggs/raising pokemon, and now runs the daycare with Cosette.Ā
javert is like Always Present, if going by Standard Pokemon Structure, youād think he was the evil team lead or admin. Heās not. Heās Lookerās old boss/something along those lines.Ā
les amis are the team- not evil, more along the lines of Team Skull where theyāre just moreā¦..goofy/not the literal pokemon mafia. their big thing is protecting the legendaries of their region, no one should know their location or catch them. theyāre also the gym leaders (joly/bossuet as a double battle gym a la tate and liza from hoenn).Ā
Enjolras is the leader, Courfeyrac and Combeferre are admins, but there arenāt grunts, theyāre just the other amis as named characters. fewer battles obviously, and theyāre more for fun.
the only type i know for sure is that Combeferre is a bug type gym.Ā
the only time itās Serious Business is when you do encounter the legendary, and thereās a gauntlet you have to get through to reach the beast, fighting all of les amis and ending with a surprise battle with your rival marius. In the end though, the legendary chooses to go with you, so no one can be really mad at the outcome, however annoying it might be. (Maybe you end up having it stay at the daycare, so itās safe- technically itās your pokemon, but itās free to do what it wants in a loving environment.)Ā
generally, the npcs would be more involved with the story. marius is the rival and he falls in with the amis bc he like, does agree that itās kinda lame to capture a mythic being against its will. multiple run ins with everyone, cosette is your Actual Strong Rival. (Lillie, except sheās an actual trainer and the one who picks the starter your starter is weak to) She and Marius donāt actually meet until closer to the middle of the game and then you always encounter them at the same time.Ā
Fantine is the regionās champion, Cosette is with jvj so she could go to school and start her own pokemon adventure without the pressure of being The Championās Daughter. They meet up and spend a whole day together once a week.Ā Ā
no idea who the elite four would be in this situation.Ā
post game is javert sending you on a mission to find escaped convict 24601, Guess Who That Could Be, but then itās revealed to be a misunderstanding and javert retires from the force and helps jvj out with raising the baby pokemon. a lot of the post game is essentially a farming simulator where you also care for the baby pokemon.Ā
Itās nice to know that the last thing I posted on this blog three years ago was an absolute fucking banger, no notes at all me from 3 years ago.Ā
