#Littleroot Town

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

Littleroot Town // Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire (2002)

[blueberry-jamin]

Littleroot Town - Pokemon r/s/e

[zincixo]

The very start of the journey

[9823678]

Sim Synthy - Little (lo-fi hip hop remix)

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[9ragonmew]

[immamapletreekid]

playing pokemon black... started tearing up at skyarrow bridge

[2bloved]

Hey, so, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, I'm... Actually still a beginning Pokémon player. Pokémon GO was the first game of Pokémon I was introduced to and I was probably like 6 when I started playing Pokémon and Pokémon Sword was the first main series game I started playing. I actually enjoyed it and my favourite track is Circhester's theme because it really calms my nerves and keeps my anxiety at bay. ~Strike anon~

hell yeah!!! i've probably mentioned this before but i've played pokemon since i've practically came out of the womb (hal f joke.) i started with emerald :] (like imagine me at age 4 or 5. i am 17 as of the time of writing this)

[cheemken]

what ur top5 fav pkmn ost

1) Littleroot Town (RSE/ORAS)

2) Palkia's Onslaught (PMD)

3) In The Hands Of Fate (PMD)

4) Don't Ever Forget (PMD)

5) Battle! Legendary Pokemon (BW)

[tamamita]

where in sweden do you live

Littleroot town

[hoshi-neko-hikari]

(This is a bit different from my usual stuff but it seems cute so let’s go!)

Haru is playing Pokemon Alpha Sapphire on Cali’s 3DS with Hikari and Raiden when suddenly the console starts glowing with weird energy. Suddenly in a big flash, the three of them open their eyes to see Littleroot Town!!

“Hm…what happened?” Haru asks as she looks around.

“Are we in the game?! Whoa!” Raiden was dressed like the male player. “This is awesome!”

Hikari gasped. “Does this mean we get ouw own pokemons?!”

[yamujiburo]

Is Jessie from Hoenn? I saw a fact somewhere saying she was born on Littleroot Town, and she had memories there growing up. I think there was an episode in the Advanced series I was talking.

It’s not confirmed and I personally believe she’s from Kanto since her mother was in Team Rocket while it was still a relatively new organization and was probably still only based in Kanto (but that’s not really confirmed either)

However early in AG, I think the first episode (?) when Team Rocket arrives in Hoenn/Littleroot, Jessie speaks of it very wistfully so she’d definitely been there before when she was younger! They never bring this up outside of this episode though LOL

My hc is that, because she was a foster kid and was implied to move around a lot, she ended up there at some point. Also, this has no basis on anything but, I believe Jessie was training to be an idol in Hoenn and Astin left her to go to Sinnoh (Crossing Paths)

[torchickentacos]

Drew’s Travel Route (Part 1. Sigh.)

Ok, SO! I said I’d try to figure out the travel routes of the anime rivals, and I’m starting with Drew. First things first, starting with Hoenn, here’s the map- I’ve marked down the probable locations of places that the anime made up where relevant. LONG POST, and I’ve edited the map for clarity’s sake. Also, I am vaguely/loosely taking encounter locations from RSE, you’ll get it later, don’t worry about it for now. 

The beginning of his journey is a logical place to start but also we really don't know. He’s from LaRousse City, which is allegedly off the coast of Lilycove, according to Bulbapedia with no citation. He has three ribbons before meeting May and co., but we have no way of knowing where he got them or when or anything. We’re going to ignore those ribbons for my own sanity and just say ‘somehow he got from LaRousse to Slateport’, because otherwise I’d be factoring Solidad in here and it’s just a whole thing that we’re not worrying about. Fanon tends to agree that this isn’t his first contest circuit, so for all we know he didn’t even start from LaRousse. We just don’t know and we’re not worrying about it, and we're calling Slateport our start point because that's where he debuts. (Personal opinion? He's probably at LEAST been around Eastern Hoenn before, maybe down around the islands (Sootopolis, Mossdeep) at some point and around 121-122-123. We'll just assume he made his way from LaRousse>Lilycove>122>123>128>Mauville>110>Slateport, bringing us to our start point and gathering 3 ribbons along the way, but I'm not mapping that out because I have no real evidence).

So, that out of the way, let’s look at his starting point.

Drew first shows up in AG033 at a beach in Slateport City, where he stays until AG035 Win, Lose, or Drew!. After that, we don’t see him until AG050 Pros and Con Artists, set in Fallarbor Town. Now, Slateport and Fallarbor are far away and have a few different routes. We’re saving the desert route for later (I have my reasons to believe he only went to 111 later on), so north is out. You could also go a bit south to Oldale>Petalburg>Rustboro, OR north and then west through Mauville>Verdanturf>Rustboro. We’re assuming the former, as the latter would mean he visited Verdanturf before and didn’t enter any contests and that just makes less sense to me. Also it doesn’t matter. MAYBE he caught Masquerain as a Surskit in this stretch of traveling but it's inconclusive and largely irrelevant.

So, AG050, Fallarbor. He stays here throughout 051-Come What May!. The next time we see him is in AG061, Disaster of Disguise, set in Verdanturf. He stays here throughout 062 as well. Minor backtracking through 114, 115, and Rustboro, but nothing major.

After this, we see him in AG077, A Fan With A Plan, which takes place in, uh, Rubello Town. 

This is where it gets funky. Rubello Town is somewhere between ‘Littleroot and Fortree’ according to Bulbapedia, which is like saying that New Jersey is somewhere between Maine and Florida. So I took it into my own hands and decided that it’s PROBABLY somewhere around the intersection of Routes 118 and 119, or early 119, headed into Fortree. It’s the only place that makes sense given where May and Co. are in the surrounding episodes. We're really triangulating some shit here. Eventually I should try to figure out where all the fake towns are but that's a project for later. Anyways, Rubello Town, AG077, A Fan With A Plan. That episode deserves its own 'wtf' post tbh. Anyways. We're here.

So, from 118-119ish, Rubello Town, AG077, we then see him again in AG113, Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut (WWWWW). So, there’s a lot going on in this little stretch. It’s a big timegap from AG077-113. First things first, I’m assuming he took a detour through route 120 to catch Absol at this point. Absol debuts all the way in the Kanto Grand Festival, but it makes sense for him to have caught it this early on. So, we’re calling route 120 his next stop, maybe offscreen around AG80ish?

And now, we’re detouring back to Route 111. I agonized over this decision but it feels right to put it here.

You see, at some point Drew needs to have caught a Trapinch. Some of you guys who also trawled the bulbapedia ship pages before they got deleted probably remember that Flygon was specifically caught and trained for the theoretical situation in which he faced against May in the Hoenn Grand Festival. Because, you know, raising a pokemon up to at least level 45 is a thing you do for people you feel normally about. That’s a completely normal investment of time and energy and forethought and care. Anyways, I actually hesitated on assuming that Drew would have seen May as important enough to go out of his way to catch it this early-on, but we are three roses in with blatant flirting in 077, and WWWWW is up next (which people seem to agree is when he's like oh shit, those are emotions that I'm feeling), so it feels like a safe enough bet, and also Drew’s just Kind Of Like That™. Also, there’s no other time later in which it makes sense for him to have time to make the detour while also evolving it before the Grand Festival (and honestly even then we’re pushing it a bit). Any earlier and I doubt he’d have considered her in high enough regard to train an entire pokemon to battle her with (again, very large investment of time and energy to get a Flygon). So, with all that, we’re assuming that he goes back to 111 and catches Trapinch here. 

He also gets a ribbon somewhere in this time gap (his fifth). In the anime, pretty much every town seems like it holds contests. I really don’t know. I’m ASSUMING that on his way to Route 131 (we’ll get there in a second), he picks up a ribbon from some made-up location that we aren't privy to.

Now. Gonna be real. I don’t know where in the actual hell they are in the beginning of WWWWW and his next appearance. Vaguely around Pacifidlog? Two episodes ago they were in Sootopolis, one episode ago they were on some random island, and they’re just in the ocean in the next one so I don’t know. Best I can figure is somewhere around Route 131. Why is Drew out in the middle of route 131? Don’t know. He has all 5 ribbons and isn’t going to Pacifidlog to watch May (something he goes out of his way for later but I digress). I really have no earthly clue why the fresh hell he’s out in 131, but HE IS I GUESS and who am I to question it? Did he just want some ocean time??? I don't know why he's here. Usually him being in out-of-the-way places is because May's there, but no, he's not here for her this time, he doesn't watch the Pacifidlog contest to the best of our knowledge, he's just. HERE. I GUESS.

So. Fine. Whatever. We’re on 131 FOR SOME REASON, he ‘travels’ to Mirage Island if you’d call that travelling, they head back to wherever they were on 131.

It’s more straightforward from here- he heads back to Slateport for the Hoenn Grand Festival, AG121-123. We’re assuming he takes a boat, I’m not sending this dude all the way back through mainland Hoenn. Tbh he has seasick vibes, which several unrelated fics from over the last 15 years seem to agree on for whatever reason, but that’s his problem and not mine. 

SO. FINALLY. END OF HOENN (but not end of AG, there’s that part 2 at some point). We’re all the way back at Slateport- his first and last Hoenn appearance is maybe/probably on the same stretch of beach, intentional or not. And with that, we have his PROBABLE travel route throughout his appearances in the Hoenn section of AG!

Kanto gets its own post because this is over 1k words long and took 2 hours to figure out last night :)))))))

(and @silverncats , here it is!!! I hope this is interesting, and I'm planning on doing more! This was super fun, albeit tedious and full of guesswork)

[sapphireseafarer]

Ughhh, can’t BELIEVE I let Brendan talk me into this…

Hi, I’m uh… you don’t need to know my real name, so just call me Sapphire. Or Saph works too, I guess?

I’m a new trainer from Hoenn startin’ my journey. Gonna try gettin’ all the gym badges, filling the Pokédex, all that fun stuff! Or whatever…

This is me ‘n my Mudkip (now Marshstomp), Pebble. He was a gift from Professor Birch. He’s also the lil rascal in my profile picture.

Does this photo look okay? I tried to strike a cool pose…

Uh- anyways, right now Pebble is all I got but I’ll update my team as my journey goes along. I mean, if I manage to catch anything that is. Never mind, I have more little bastards too now.

Team:

-Pebble (M Marshstomp)

-Morel (M Breloom)

-Sandwich (F Kadabra)

-Penelope (F Pikachu)

(( OOC ))

(( hi! new pokeblog alert! this is a blog for my Hoenn MC, Arcelia- but right now she’s going by Sapphire to stay on the down low. for plot reasons that will be explained later! basically I’m replaying Alpha Sapphire and wanted to document her journey, but in roleplay format.

-no NSFW, character is a minor.

-Pelipper Mail and any variants are on

-Magic Anons are on, but if it’s something I don’t feel like doing I might delay answering or just ignore.

this blog takes place in the Heroverse, aka same universe as my other blog @pinkhairandpokemon, but isn’t set in the same time as that blog- for now, at least. you can still check out that blog’s pinned for more info on the Heroverse timeline though, or you can check out this post

if you follow me on @xgoldenlatiasx then you might already know Arcelia’s lore, but if you don’t I’ll give a quick rundown (you can skip reading this though if you’d rather not know what to expect):

Arcelia is the daughter of Archie, and grew up a member of Team Aqua. Her whole life, she had complete confidence in Archie’s goals… at least, until the night she’s visited by a strange prophetic vision of her father meeting his demise at the hands of Kyogre.

Scared and unsure of how to confront her dad, she runs away, where she soon ends up in Littleroot Town. After saving Professor Birch from a wild Poochyena, she’s offered a roof over her head and warm place to sleep at his lab. Over the last few weeks, she’s been trying to repay him by acting as an assistant alongside his son Brendan… but it hasn’t exactly been easy work. Noticing her stress, Birch offered her a Pokémon of her own and suggested she go with Brendan on a trip around the region, in order to fill the Pokédex and collect all eight gym badges.

Now embarking on her journey, she’s excited but hesitant- both with the knowledge of her father’s possible fate looming over her, and the unfamiliar world she’d been warned was cold and unforgiving waiting for her to explore.

Arcelia has more stuff that’ll happen after her journey, so at some point you might see a big timeskip into her adulthood. for now though: Hoenn shenanigans GO!! ))

[lorekeeper-backset]

I do question the logic of living in Littleroot Town instead of Petalburg, the town in which Norman actually works. Was the house in Littleroot just cheaper?

[aura-acolyte]

Actually, you know what, lets start discourse. Hoenn cities ranked:

Lilycove. Basically my home base, and my two favorite places (Sharkie's Magikarp Sanctuary and the Aqua-Magma Conservatory) are nearby.

Mossdeep: I have a lot of memories there, some good and some bad, but its all cancelled out because Tate and Liza are there and they are objectively the best gym leaders.

Sootopolis: City built in a crater. Real cool. Loses points for having Groudon and Kyogre trapped under it.

Pacifidlog: You built a whole town on the water! How cool is that!

Meteor Village: Gotta give a shoutout to Z's hometown. Great place to learn about Ancient Hoenn stuff.

LaRousse City: Home of the Battle Frontier. Kickass in general. Had to help out in a hurricane there once.

Lavaridge Town: Still think its insane to build a town next to a volcano but it does have Flannery.

Dewford Town: I know, I know, there's not a lot there but its where I met Steven for the first time. Technically also where I met Zinnia depending on what you count as "Meeting."

Fortree City: I'm gonna be honest, I'm pretty sure this city is every 8 year old's dream. Or it was when I was a kid, at least. Not sure how into treehouses modern kids are.

Slateport City: I love the sea and I love port cities. It reminds me of all the best parts of Goldenrod but without any of the shit parts (you know, like Team Rocket and my bio father). Plus, if you hang around the market enough you can hear all sorts of stories from trainers from all over the globe.

Verdanturf Town: There's not a lot interesting here but I gotta give a shoutout to my boy Wally's home.

Mauville: Mauville is problematic for obvious reasons but also its really fucking cool. Plus Wattson's there.

Littleroot Town: Finally getting around to my Hometow. Well, my Hoenn Hometown. Its nice and quaint and my Uncle and Mom live there so, you know, cool.

Petalburg: It's only this low on the list because I refuse to give Norman a break.

Oldale Town: Booooorrrrriiiinggg! I'm sure the people are nice but its such a boring town. I legit have more interesting memories from Route 103 than Oldale.

Ever Grande: Its a League City so there's not much going on there during the off season but its absolutely bustling during League Season. Sometimes I like to watch the League Matches on the big screens they have. Nobody's beaten Steven yet but a few have gotten close.

Falarbor Town: Hmm... a town created for the purpose of mining meteors to study which directly led to the death of Zinnia's sister. I wonder why I have a negative opinion of this place.

Rustboro: Capitalism ho!

Some of these are arbitrary, most of them aren't. Bye!