Just gonna make a pinned post for my Gary in Kalos stuff (gotta come up with a better name) AKA GIKA so I don't gotta scroll to look for it lol.
Arc #1: Donguri
Log #0: Shigeru "Gary" Oak Trainer Card
Log #0.1: Shipping?
Log #0.2: Parents
Log #0.3: AU Fusion
Log #0.4: Childhood
Log #0.5: Shigeru and Gramps
Log #0.6: Brief glimpse of Gary's Kanto Arc with PC guy
Log #0.7: Gary in Johto AKA my excuse for Gary to know hand-to-hand combat
Log #0.8: Ash and Gary's reunion in Sinnoh was a hit!
Log #0.9: Babysitting Ash in Unova
Log #0.10: Gary like
Log #1: The reason why Gary went to Kalos
Log #2: Reunion in Kalos! (Ash and Gary)
Log #3: Where did "Gary" come from?
Log #4: Protective Professor Oak :)
Log #5: Kalos Ash is cool...! Until Gary opens his mouth
Log #6: You two remind me of something.
Log #6.1 (Non-canon): What if Gary met May and Max?
Log #7: Lumiose Gym
Log #7.1: Gary's thought process
Log #8: Ash would like to retire as the Chosen One
Log #9: Happy Birthday Ash!
Log #10: Man-made mons unite!
Log #11: Serena's New First Impression (It was STILL not good)
Log #12: Three Childhood Friends Unite!
Log #13: Tinker Duo (or Lemon Trees Duo idk)
Log #14: Tinker Duo Part 2 Electric Boogaloo; The Bag Incident
Log #15: How do you know what you want to do (We don't.) feat. Serena's insecurities
Log #15.1: Serena's what did I expect reaction
✨New✨ Log #16: "At Least Its Not Kanto!"
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(The Logs are a pun for research and trees I hope the logs look like a research paper outline lmao.)
Honestly I made this AU for the sake of feeding my Gary Oak hyperfixation and I was sad that there weren't much Gary-centric content.
So I made one.
Admittedly I initially made this AU because I was petty about the fact that Gary stopped being a rival to Ash after Johto because the potential was THERE. And yeah, Gary's appearances on the anime in Kanto and Johto were a little too short for my tastes.
It would've been so fun to see him more but alas...
The rivalry stuff WILL come soon...I gotta get used to drawing comics :,D I'm having fun tho.
This is also set mostly in Pokemon XY because I love that series and I like drawing Kalos!Ash lol.
I changed some stuff with the backstory like how Ash and Gary met that I will get into eventually, Gary's first pokemon being Growlithe despite his starter being Squirtle, Gary getting a Mega Arcanine, Gary also getting Eevee a LOT earlier but as an Eevee egg at the start of his journey that I have yet to draw, Gary having an older sister named Nanami "Daisy" Oak, Gary Oak being a LMK Macaque levels of drama because why not and so much more.
There might also be a few things that are being hinted at with each post :)
I also made it fit the Pokemon Adventures/Pokemon Specials Manga's darker tones with the whimsy and wonder of the anime.
And I changed Gary's main team. Like Porygon is there to reference Green Oak with his Porygon 2 tho Gary's Porygon probably won't evolve and Gare the Ditto is there to reference Blue (F) to stay true to my Gary is Blue's counterpart propaganda. Skarmory was always there since Johto and I think metal bird is cool so I made it his resident flying type in Kalos.
Romance and shipping won't be a big thing, maybe occasional ones cuz I'm a sucker for Amourshipping but mostly no. Y'all can tag it as any ship you want tho I don't mind.
But not Gare the Ditto. There's a reason why its named Gare. Despite the fact it was only made so I can cope with my Pokopia FOMO. Yeah I don't know how that happened either but here we are.
While this AU IS Gary-centric, Ash and the XY cast and the Oak family and others will be seen here. And their pokemon if I don't feel like dying when I draw their pokemon.
So yeahhhhhhhhh. Imma add the new stuff here too hopefully I don't forget to put it here.
