it's funny to me that while toy story 5 is going on and bonnie is having trouble making friends, andy is probably like two states away and going through hell on earth on indeed.com
I fell utterly and entirely in love with @phantomechospics's fic Last Day Again (on AO3) the moment I read it, so I knew I had to make something for it. Read the entire series in one go, then proceeded to spend two months working on this on and off. I meant to include calendar sheets, Groundhog Day-style, but it's already quite busy as it is... Anyway. Go read Phantom's fic! It has time loops 'n stuff! It's great!
no bonus art :( but i do want to add a bit more context to this au and my thoughts/why i chose certain pokemons
Let's start with shinichi!
given his profession, it probably isn't unlikely for Shinichi to encounter ghost pokemons. In this case, most of his pokemons he likely encounters at crime scenes (i don't really see him as the type to catch/take pokemons in unless they decide to follow him on their own accord, though)
Ceruledge resembles his knight persona a lot, flashy and badass, all that stuff. I think it'd be interesting if shinichi took in a pokemon that possibly killed it's own trainer, similar to how shinichi treats criminals with compassion, he'd probably do the same for Ceruledge in this situation. It becomes his ace later on
Since lampent is seen as an emissary of death of sorts, and it's tendencies to follow those close to death/be near when death is nigh, it's possible for shinichi to encounter it before a crime scene, i can probably see him using it to aid him in investigations too
Murkrow for his unluckiness, and since it's a pokemon that's disliked for being a symbol of misfortune, i like the idea of Shinichi being the one person who doesn't shun murkrow, something like how since he's already unlucky, seeing a murkrow might cancel that out, bonus points if the particular murkrow has super luck
Arcanine is pretty obvious, big police dog, and it's cute!
He also has a cinderace, but i couldn't draw it here...
I also debated other options like absol and such, but decided absol's thing leaned towards natural disasters, while shinichi deals with manmade ones,,
Now for Kaito's
i don't have much to say here since i think his team is pretty obvious, especially the pidoves
Meowscarada for magician pokemon, it's more of Kaito's partner than Kid's, though. still his ace!
Zorua as a trickster fox pokemon, it's illusions would help with his heists a lot!
Thievul is kinda underrated but i thought its shiny kinda looks similar to Kid, so that's cool lol, also a thief kinda pokemon, i see it stealing from him, chaos ensues and they become partners in crime later on, also Kid's partner!
Togekiss for the symbol of peace/survival thing he has going on
Now for extras, I also thought their aces work perfectly as rivals, too, with ceruledge being fire/ghost and meowscarada being grass/dark (dark being super effective against/resists ghost, fire being super effective against/resists grass) and both being fast physical attackers ect ect
i also have some fun facts for the Au but i'll leave that for next time, thanks for reading!
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