hi, there! I was looking at some My Hero stuff on Amazon and wanted to let you know that there's a sticker of your chibi Hawks on there! the seller is called "MrMint", and if this is someone with your permission to sell this, then feel free to ignore my message. I just wanted to make sure!
Ugh, they definitely don’t have my permission. Thank you so much for letting me know. I hate dealing with takedowns on Amazon. Someone was selling one of my old Prompto doodles on a mug and when I tried to contact Amazon saying I was the original artist, they said the links I sent to MY ORIGINAL POSTS weren’t enough to prove that I own the art.
I really liked your SWSH fic, and I've been on the search for them since I got the game! I would love it if you wouldn't mind writing a Hop/Gloria one! A fic that's mostly fluff, but has angst to it?? That sweet boy sure made my heart hurt at points in the game. 😭 And I hope that's an okay prompt! 💖
omg you’re so sweet, i’m beyond happy to hear that.
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She took his dream. His goal. She hadn’t meant to, but she had. It was an accident. At first, anyway. The first win was a fluke. It was steeped in his favour; two against one but it was she, Gloria, who had been glorious. Had won. She couldn’t have been prouder of herself in that moment because it really was luck which had ended that match in her victory. A critical here there and a dodge here.
Gloria hadn’t exactly considered her future beyond what kind of haircut and hair dye she wanted to experiment with when she was a little bit older but when she touched that PokeBall for the first time, she felt something. Something important. A hunger for the win, even though she hadn’t been the type to get competitive over board games and cards, those sorts of things but seeing the flurry of embers and leaves and bubbles on the field had ignited something in her.
So, when she stepped out, into the big wide world of Route 3, a couple days later, Gloria knew that she wanted to win. Win against the Gym Leaders, win against Hop and that insufferable Bede and even sweet Marnie, too. Defeating Bede and Marnie was easy but every time she triumphed against Hop, she felt the desire to win supersede her desire to be friends with the boy who had been her best friend all her life.
All her life, she heard and heard about how much Hop wanted to beat Leon. She encouraged it. She stoked the flames and now, she was the extinguisher. She wanted to be Champion. She wanted to be the one to beat the unbeatable Champion. A goal which was directly contrary to Hop’s as there could only be one between us two.
And when it all came down to said and done, Gloria was the one who kept winning and winning some more. Against Milo, and then later Nessa and Kabu and all the other Gym Leaders and rivals in between until she finally triumphed over Raihan and wound up in the semi-finals. There, that bittersweet feeling was building.
She wanted to win. To win, she had to beat Hop and whilst Gloria was assuredly humble about it, she wanted to beat him but she didn’t want to hurt his feelings. Even whilst battling Bede, she didn’t want him to lose and retire. She was beyond relieved and glad that his issue was resolved with the consoling of over a thousand voices, all telling him the very same thing that she wanted to tell him. But there was no such luck for Hop.
When he called back his final Pokemon in that match, he looked devastated but he smiled through it. It broke Gloria’s heart.
But the thing about Hop was, he couldn’t let good enough be good enough. He wasn’t that kind of lad. Even as kids, Gloria always knew that if she broke something, if the stitching of her Eevee plush came undone, she knew that Hop would go above and beyond to fix it. He even did that sort of thing with things which weren’t broken.
So, as they battled, by the gravesite archway of the two Heroes of Galar, by that brilliant and algae ridden pond, she listened very carefully to his voice. He was talking to himself more than her, she felt. There was a distance in his voice. at first, it was melancholy but even as more and more of his precious Pokemon fainted, his voice changed. It became happy and bouncy and completely and utterly Hop.
Gloria waited a moment to grin when their match concluded. “That sounds wonderful, Hop.” she told him, walking closer. “I’ll do whatever I can to support your goal.”
Something like guilt, it was too happy to be guilt, muddled around in Gloria’s heart as their hands slid together in a firm and warm handshake. She took his goal and she was unrepentant about it. But. At the very least. She could support Hop’s new dreams and goals. Seeing him find his way again, after so many obstacles and roadblocks and detours and, most important of all, losses, overjoyed Gloria.
Do you have any head cannons/bullet points for Gloria and Hop you wouldn't mind sharing with us?? 👀 💖
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- glorias battle style is full-frontal attack. she doesnt think, she just does. none of her pokemon have any moves that are for stat boosts, healing, anything. just pure attack moves. she figures if she REALLY needs healing or stat boost she can just do it artificially through items, so her bag is always heavy with stuff she might need
- hop tries to do more strategy-based things. i think he doesn’t realize it, but he IS the smarter of the two and intellectualizes too much. tries to set up an advantage on the battlefield through other moves but by the time hes ready to attack gloria is,.. wiping the floor with his team.
- in this sense i actually think zacian fits gloria better than zamazenta but because i have sheild she gets zamazenta LMFAOO maybe ying yang kinda thing then??????
- gloria is very affectionate!!!! shes really good at comforting, talking to little kids, making people feel encouraged, etc!!! even though hop is her rival, every time hes like “I’ll win next time!!” she’d respond with something like “I’m rooting for you!!“ or “Do your best!!!!!”
- A little more on glorias battle style, shes not very patient, so she tries to get as many 1HKO’s as possible. She HATES those long, dreary, boring battles with like, both pokemon have low accuracy, high defense, slow poison killing, she HATES THAT SHIT!!!!
- So her battles are always really electrifying and exciting. If you get up to use to the bathroom in the middle of the match it WILL be over by the time you come back
- She exclusively trains in the wild area. Everyone else recognizes that dynamax pokemon are aggressive and dangerous except gloria, who goes flying around on her flygon seeking out dynamax pokemon for fun
- Because of this she has been known to be a dynamax master, and has even taken Dynamax pokemon multiple times without dynamaxing herself (and piers gets really excited about this)
- but no one really knows that its her going around the wild area??? (i kinda hc a little post-game subplot where there’s reports of a mysterious figure roaming the wild area capturing dynamax pokemon, so hop/sonia/leon go to investigate this strange person all “Maybe they know more about dynamaxing than we do!” so they go through the wild area researching and trying to find this person the media dubbed “the desert siren” fhdjks and at the end of it its just gloria in like sandstorm clothing and goggles and as soon as she sees hop shes all “Hop!!!!!!!” like a puppy and just runs over to him and gives him a tight hug around his neck)
- She likes hugging hop!!! The soft fluff of his jacket is comforting!!!! And they have a good height difference so that her head falls just right on his jacket fluff
- They start to get crushes on each other throughout the journey. Specifically it started about around the time bede waged psychological warfare on hop LMFAOOO!!!!!
- Because she would spend extra time making sure he was okay, encouraging him, they go get food to cheer him up, he watches all her of matches and watches how strong and amazing shes becoming
- But the feelings don’t go into FULL OVERDRIVE until post-game/post-postgame. After hop bonds with zacian and gains his confidence back and becomes sonias assistant, like the whole time gloria had this warmth and happiness in her chest whenever she saw him but NOW ITS LIKE A FIRE
- Specifically like when zacian went uwu for hop and she was like..,,“.,..i love him. I just. Love him. i cant explain it away or blame it on any one thing im just. i love him. husband” on the inside and it makes her happy and SO NERVOUS
- And hop fell BAD during the post-game too, watching her be the amazing confident champion she is like she was born for it, while she also CONSTANTLY MADE SURE HE WAS OKAY AND CARED FOR HIM,. AND THEN WATCHING HER BATTLE ALL THESE DYNAMAX POKEMON LIKE A BADASS HES JUST STANDING THERE LIKE “I…might……love her..”
- and after the last battle in the slumbering weald,it felt like the world disappeared around them and its just. Her and him in this moment with the legendary wolves in battle and it was like fate. like all hes ever wanted and hes standing there like “I think I love her”
- And as more time passes, she keeps coming to visit him at the lab, and they go adventuring in the wild area and go to the slumbering weald to hang out and de-stress and it turns into “OH FUCK I LOVE HER A LOT”
- and at some time to the point where he mentioned a few times like “I’m not a hero” or “I never felt like a hero” in some tight hug, soft moment of reassurance, gloria just drops a bomb on his heart and like really softly tells him something like “You’re my hero, Hop. You always will be.” and HE EXPLODES.
- And while hop is sonias assistant, he also starts using leons old workout stuff for a hobby when he goes home, and (I headcanon them at 16 at the start of the journey) hes still a growing boy so REALLY SOON he gets. Hot. Really hot. Like leon is already VERY HANDSOME and hop is his brother. Its only natural. Theyre an attractive family.
- And gloria is so fuckinf nervous sometimes she just stands there stammering until she runs out the door and mopes around mumbling “why did I do that im an idiot”
- (wink wonk gloria walking in on him working out, trying to talk to him about paperwork she needs him to sign and is just spewing nonsense trying not to stare)
I love Flygon so much! How did Gloria meet her starter?? 💖
leon brought it!!!! (since i dont like any of the new starters) i headcanon that leon brought them a dreepy and a trapinch!! dragon types so theyre evenly matched!! (and hop always wanted a dreepy so gloria let him have it and chose the trapinch!!)
You should totally give Sonia a Bulbasaur... it would be so good. The OG starters. *chef kiss* Also, for her big baddie, have you considered Haxorus?? 👀 I really like the thought of her having Hydregion or Haxorus.
i thought haxorus at first!!!!! i love me a big dragon with a knife mouth..,, but then i fought leon and he already has a haxorus and i always tried to make rivals have different pokemon so!!!! A VENUSAR WOULD BE GOOD THOUGH....I KNOW IM A BULBASAUR HOE BUT IF LEON GETS CHARMANDER AS HIS STARTER AND SONIA WAS HIS BEST FRIEND CHILDHOOD RIVAL COME ON. SHE GOTTA HAVE ANOTHER KANTO STARTER..
Do you have any head cannons on what Sonia's team was when her and Leon were on their journey?? 👀
I DONT KNOW EXACTLY BUT I WANT HER TO HAVE SOME BIG ASS COOL POKEMON THAT CAN LEVEL WITH LEONS CHARIZARD......... maybe she has like a kommo-o or hygreigon?????? but she never evolved her yamper bc he was too cute........
(also a side note but i hc that sonia is actually the only one who ever beat leon in a battle before gloria....SINCE IN ONE OF HIS DESCRIPTIONS ITS LIKE “He’s never been defeated in an official battle” and IM???? HES BEEN DEFEATED IN AN UNOFFICIAL BATTLE????? anyway i hc sonia somehow beat him in 1 battle during their journey and it bothers him to this day..........)
