#pokemon ritchie

[poorunfortunatesolanin]

Thinking about Ritchie Pokémon again, I want him to have his own anime series gosh darngit

….I also want him and Ash to kiss & hold hands but that’s unrelated.

[queenofshippingcringe]

Been watching the Pokémon anime with my bestie for awhile now and we just finished S1

Guys

Leagueshipping (Ash x Ritchie) is so fucking good I need you all to see the vision

They meet in Ritchie’s first episode, realize they like each other like immediately and are like freshly dating by the next episode in which they are paired against each other in indigo league

They go into the battle with the promise to make it the best battle ever, and an agreement that the winner take the loser out on a date after.

But Ash is so crushed by his loss the next day that he ghosts him afterwards.

But inevitably through the plot of the episode they realize they still really really like each other and get back together.

But only briefly because by the end of the days events they determine that they care more about their respective journeys.

They hold hands during the final ceremony, and a tender kiss under the celebratory fireworks.

They part with the promise of meeting again and having a epic battle,

And they do a few years later during a league tournament, and despite the time apart the feelings are still there.

They finally go on a real date, and rekindle their romance, and determine they don’t want to separate again and decide to travel together.

Best part? If you watch the actual episodes they are actually improved by the dating HC and it lines up with some of the dialogue and plot beats really well :)

I need more fanart NOW.

[ask-pokemonfatefuljourneys]

☆。・゜・Found a cutie at the Cafe !! ☕️・ ゜・☆

[seecarrun]

Misty beats up Ritchie because she thought he convinced Ash to forfeit and also because he insulted her lol

Pokemon OS -

セキエイスタジアム！ＶＳヒロシ！Sekiei Stadium! VS Hiroshi!

[roy-dcm2]

Pokemon Fan Art - Family Reunion

A year ago I posted a headcanon that I think Ritchie from the Pokemon Indigo League is related to Luana from the Orange Island League.

You can read it here:

Pokemon Headcanon - Ritchie's Mom

If you remember, we met Ash's doppelganger Ritchie during the Indigo League... and we don't know anything else about him. For an extra bit o

Now I just got this awesome fan art by @genisflyingkites

A little family reunion at dawn. Luanna and her two kids, Ritchie, and Travis.

[you-must-choose]

Ritchie and Laura

So I vaguely implied it in the very first post, but I'm heavily leaning into the whole "Ritchie is a Discount Ash" Thing in the Papa Meowth AU by making him a Zorua whose parents are a Zoroark and Sandslash from the future, as a parallel to Ash and Delia's whole Mystery Dungeon thing. Why they time traveled is spoilers for Sinnoh. He also has a human sister named Laura who has a mysterious connection to Celebi (mysterious because I haven't figured out what it is or what it means and this buys me some time), as Maria's counterpart.

They've got their own, mostly off-screen journey that strongly parallels Ash and Maria's, including stumbling into their own World Saving Adventures at roughly the same time, though the two journeys overlap occasionally, usually at either the few Canon times Ash and Ritchie have run into each other or during Adventures that are too big to have a reasonable counterpart. This means the two of them and their problems are going to end up plot relevant, especially in Sinnoh.

Anyway, here's their teams up through Orange Islands (they don't show up in the Orange Islands for the record, that's just where Ash and Maria's team list stopped so far). And yes, they both nickname their Pokemon.

Ritchie

Sparky (Pikachu)

Happy (Butterfree) (he probably caught it as a Caterpie but I'm basing the initial stage shown in the list on whatever they first get introduced as)

Naginata (Spearow)

Rooter (Venusaur)

Zippo (Charmander>Charmeleon) (evolves during his battle with Ash's Charizard, which is an actual battle this time)

Torpedo (Tentacool>Tentacruel) (evolves off-screen, not sure when that'll be revealed)

Alec (Morgrem>Grimmsnarl) (A perfect gentleman, in contrast to most of his species. Makes liberal use of Charm and Flatter.)

Sir Daniel (Cubone>Marowak) (the one I mentioned as evolving in the same match as Ash's Cubone. When he's a Cubone his skull helmet is a bit oversized and misshapen for some reason, so it covers one of his eyes and muffles his voice to the point he's almost completely unintelligible, though it doesn't seem to hinder his battling too much and it's fixed when he evolves. based on Sir Daniel Fortesque from Medievil, Because I Can)

Cowl (Arbok)

Grit, Gravel, Grunt, Grace, and Gray (five Dugtrio who Ritchie stumbled into catching in Digglet cave as Digglets. Counterparts to the Tauros Herd)

Quackers (Farfetch'd)

Flare (Beedrill)

Yogi (Ursaring) (Yes, he lives up to the name. How else would he be able to be Sorlax's counterpart?)

Laura

Cadmus (Meowth) (No, he can't talk)

Odie (Growlithe>Arcanine) (Actually evolves in the same scene he's introduced, since Laura bought a Fire Stone from the same vendor as Maria for the same reason that Maria bought Clefable's Moon Stone, at roughly the same time, and that's how they end up meeting each other.)

Rock (Squirtle) (basically Mega Man as a turtle since I made the Squirtle Squad Leader basically Sonic. Has Mega Launcher, Protean and Trace, and somehow knows Sketch, Mimic and Copycat) (yes I rotated which starter ends on what stage. because why not)

Zingo (Electrode)

Hobbs (Hitmonchan)

Grill, Grape, Grand, Gravy and Gru (The other five Dugtrio)

Mochi (Dratini)

Majesty (Nodorina>Nidoqueen) (also evolved at the Stone Vendor at the Indigo Conference because Counterparts)

Arc (Electabuzz)

Lilac (Alolan Vulpix with cybernetic augmentations. I'll explain when I'm done with the lists)

Whirl (Lapras)

...alright, so what's going on with Lilac?

Well, I needed to give them an equivalent to Mewtwo Strikes Back since Maria got a Pokemon out of it, but by that point in the timeline there's only one Mewtwo, and something Celebi-related made the most sense since Laura's connected to it somehow and Ritchie has his whole "my parents are from the future and my egg was laid there" thing, but there's no Pokemon that has a similar relationship to Celebi as the one Mewtwo has to Mew...

...so I made one up.

Celeborg is what happens when you try to take shortcuts when making a Time Machine. Some idiot Mad Scientist in the distant future decided that instead of actually working out how to travel through time, or bothering to program a proper AI, they'd instead install a Celebi DNA sample into a robot and call it a day. The resulting Reverse Cyborg went through a massive existential meltdown blowing up the lab and stumbling backwards in time in the process, and in its unstable mindset decided to make more cyborgs so it wouldn't be alone as the only Thing like itself (and also the scientist may have been working for an Evil Team so the programming that the Celebi DNA wasn't able to sub in for possibly included world domination-type stuff). Somehow Ritchie and Laura got involved and managed to calm it down and it decided to find a place in the present to live peacefully with any of the Cyborg Pokemon who were interested in staying with it.

Celeborg is Grass/Steel Type (because I continue to insist that Celebi's time powers come from its Grass typing and not its Psychic typing. though Celeborg does still learn plenty of Psychic moves) with Levitate as its usual ability and Download as a Hidden Ability. The version in the AU has both thanks to how Abilities work there. Might draw it at some point.

[thena0315]

Ash’s Rivals from the past to the present that has appeared in Pokemon Journeys so far

[anistarrae]

drew my favoritw character before the year ended