Oh are we telling you about our PLA oc protags now? I saw someone else who also named their character Ariel, but mine goes by Ari! She started life as the renamed version of my mystery dungeon self insert (in fact, she gets to Hisui from the Pokémon only pocket dimension), and has changed a lot, but she’s settled into ice blue hair and gold eyes as the shiny version of my original variant of Skitty (ice/fairy->ice/dark delcatty)
I’m still trying to decide if she gets to keep any friends from her time in the pocket dimension during her Hisui adventure, since her time as a Pokémon was all about finding and retrieving a childhood friend to protect the balance, but she IS keeping her ability to talk to Pokémon. It’s humans she’s going to have an issue with, since she doesn’t speak the same dialect as the settlers or the clan language, being from modern Hoenn! Ari’s partner as a mystery dungeon protag was a Shinx named Flinx, but I kind of think it’s funnier if her Oshawott rival Oliver ends up following her to Hisui instead of Flinx, because they’ll argue nonstop due to personality clash, and Oliver won’t listen to her in battle, and since he’s not her Pokémon she cannot put him in a pokeball.
Also, in Hisui, Ari stutters while introducing herself, so, now there’s just two survey corps girls named Akari, according to Laventon, and he’s too sweet who’d want to tell him he got their name wrong?
OH that’s awesome, I’ve wished that skitty would get something like that officially for a long time 🥺🥺🥺
OH SHE’S A HOENN RESIDENT!!!! I LOVE THAT LET”S GOOOOO 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺
she could keep both her friends tbh, there’s nothing stopping that!! her partner for company and her rival for the conflict -- like having both bede and hop, or silver and ethan!
also noooooo ari it’s okay you can tell him it’s not your name!! 😂😭😂😭