Anywho. The other ask about a Pokémon AU reminded me that I've never shared my own. Mine is kind of different from the "traditional" Pokémon AU in the sense that most characters are Pokémon themselves and not trainers. I had this idea bc like a year ago in Pokémon Scarlet I had formed a whole team of Pokémon named after the S5 (+ Emperor) and then Lightbulb
Here is my current lineup right now. I'm missing a lot but I do have quite a few more pokémon named after coroika characters (that i cannot access rn. #hopital. im ok)
also let it be noted that:
A) If a character's ink color in the manga doesn't line up with their Pokémon, the general color scheme of the Pokémon is changed to fit them.
C) army is the orange tatsugiri that i forgot the name of
D) s5 leaders are all alphas. and emperor
As for the Splatsville characters, I've only got, like. 3 solid ones rn. Those being Shady as a Noivern (he and Skull Goodra are like. Found brothers. or like related in some way idk theure different pokémon species but they share the dragon type), 8-Bit as a Garchomp, and Wireglasses as a Lycanroc (the midnight version. The red one.)
All that aside, Goggles really is kind of just Ash Ketchum the 2nd. Except 2 years older and a stupid fat little baby. Like the fat chinese baby image. Yk. The Pokémon on Team Blue (the teams aren't called teams or anythint here) were gifted to him by his parents and they're his bestest friends ever and they love him dearly. Goggles is a very frequent traveler and loves exploring the different regions of the world, frequently flying between them. Should he be doing this at 12? ash did it at 10 and he was fine so yeah sure
Goggles has kind of like this innate understanding of Pokémon. He can't legitimately COMMUNICATE with them, but he usually can understand and resonate with their feelings, and help them when something's wrong. He gets his reputation from his ability to just... calm down and assist nearly any troubled Pokémon. Which is crazy for a 12 year old.
I have his encounters with the s5 + their teams as goggles being "famous" almost for his ability to like . "Communicate" with pokémon. The s5 were kind of just like... all terrorizing different towns (i think in different regions too) and whenever goggles went and visited that region theyd be like "OMFG HELP US WE ARE BEING TORTURED" and he'd be like "Ok!" and then he'd go help them and figure out what's wrong (in most cases it's just them being alphas and alphas like constantly tweaking but they can be calmed down by Little Ugly Baby. rider -> alpha aggression, army -> alpha aggression + things in the town being disorganized, aloha -> alpha aggression idk what else, mask -> alpha aggression and snotty as fuck) and, if they let him (which all of them have), catches them + their team and lets them join him in adventuring. Up until skull. Who sweeps Goggles' whole team. HES AN ALPHA PSEUDOLEGENDARY COME ON. But goggles tries again (horseder keeps dragging him out by the scruff to get him to level everyone up first. The equivalent of him training team blue) and manages to defeat & soothe skull. he was just hungry and nobody would feed him (& the whole alphas being aggressive thing). he lets goggles catch him too (& his teammates come as well)
Mask was also really annoying about letting himself be caught. He'd like side eye goggles and then make a point of sneezing and coughing and dying until goggles just threw a pokéball at him (which he acted pissy about but didn't try to escape)
Emperor is also the world's most spoiled wild shalpha luxray ever
anywho thats what i have. here are ancient doodles
These are like half a year old. Amd no aloha with a lurantis because i forgot what lurantis looked like
