#Thank you for the aaask thank you thank you thank youuuu

[hylianane]

please i have to know which pokemon you think zoro would have?!!! and if you have hc! bc i literally think about this way too much and have a big google slides worth of info bc i gave all of zoro/luffy/sanjis pokemon lore

I AM THRILLED THAT YOU ASKED THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, and in return I’m challenging YOU into telling me all of YOUR Pokemon AU HC, too.

I have Pokemon teams for practically all the Strawhats (+Vivi) written down on my notes app, but not all of them have lore skjfks most of them are just what I considered to be ‘on brand’. INCLUDING for Zoro’s, who I once drew here with his Ceruledge and his Honedge that will someday grow into Aegislash. For these two, I had the idea that Ceruledge was originally Kuina’s Charcadet that Zoro adopted, along with the Wado Ichimonji, after she passed. Ceruledge’s Scarlet dex entry reads “The fiery blades on its arms burn fiercely with the lingering resentment of a sword wielder who fell before accomplishing their goal” which made me feel like it and Zoro could truly bond about this their shared loss. Honedge, on the other hand, is the first Pokemon I imagine Zoro actually catching because….. it’s a living sword. How could he not do anything in his power to catch it? It, too, would eventually fall in love with Zoro’s ambitious, and together with Ceruledge would develop the cute habit of trying to imitate their trainer’s santoryuu by having Honedge place itself in front of Ceruledge’s mouth every battle- incidentally making it so Zoro only fights in doubles. I also have him written down as having a Scyther (probably his second catch after Honedge), Weavile, Garchomp, and Kinggambit (which he impresses and catches last, in Wano).

I’m already rambling about this jshdjs you got me all excited aaah. I’m just gonna quickly list off some Pokemon partners and my reasoning then: starting with Sanji’s Slowking (which has its relation to royalty, obviously, but is actually my pick because Slowpoke’s tails are shown to be edible in many games, the dex says that they just pop off painlessly and regrow over time. So for Sanji, he’s be like a food dispenser in the form of a friend), and Brook’s Obstagoon, Toxtricity and Skeledirge (which he calls his ‘band’. I imagine he catches them all on Thriller Bark shortly after being rescued and informally invited to join the crew) and Usopp’s Volcarona (he caught her while alone on Water 7, and in Enies Lobby she proved to be nearly unstoppable. He later had to claim that he inherited her from Sogeking) and Nami’s Absol, (captured in Jaya, and who’s ability to predict and call over natural disasters and weather phenomena has only ever been tamed by Nami. Most of the pokemon I gave her are cat-like, so I let her have one (1) dog in Absol and one (1) mouse in Raichu)