Just thinking about how May definitely had to have genuinely awful experiences in school.
She decides to go on a journey despite her initial dislike for Pokemon (which honestly seems more like resentment that comes from parental neglect but that's for another time) because she wants to travel. However, her going into a class to learn about contests after they get her interest only to exit after a pop quiz is. Something.
if Cori Falls can have Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons exist in the Pokemon world then surely I can have World of Warcraft exist in my Pokemon fanfic
Shoutout to the random person who probably changed their legal name to that of a common fandom name of a Pokeani character that I randomly came across while doing research.
So it seems that while May exists in the Cori Falls universe, she has a counterpart that is Cori's cultural appropriation towards indigenous cultures personified. I didn't want to touch her as I am not indigenous in any way, but she's roughly the same age as Ash and from Hoenn.
I probably will still not write her, but damn. She could have had been an interesting character. However, I don't think I can salvage the character.
grr au of a retired author's fanfic woes (May edition)
This may not make sense to anyone yet and I apologize. I'll probably have a more coherent statement of the timeline of my AU at a later date.
It's easier to deal with companions Cori never mentioned due to the timeframe in which she generally left the Pokemon fandom in this AU where I have to speculate what she'd decide to do with them and thus have a great degree of artistic license.
It's also easy to deal with characters she significantly touched (both among her favorite characters and her... not favorite characters) because I know how to handle them, partially because I have plenty of references to Cori's dislike of them.
Unfortunately, this leaves me in a sticky situation with May. Because of this (note that Cori had a strong preference for Japanese names for Hoenn-era proper nouns):
This implies that May is friendly with Jessie, James, Meowth, Gary and other friends, and is explicitly unfriendly with Ash, even beating him up.
This strikes me as... very unlike the May we know. She's capable of getting mad of course, but I don't think we've ever seen her beat anyone up.
So I'm not sure how to reconcile it. Maybe she was having a bad day?
Not that it really matters as I'm going to go the same route that guardians_song went and have Ash never go to Hoenn, so May won't meet Ash for many years in my timeline. They also decided to make Ash closer to canon.
Probably will end up doing that with May honestly. I do want to portray her as a charismatic person in general, so she's generally friendly with everyone and doesn't realize what damage these people she's considered friends have done.
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