#anyways i guess i'm still accepting requests even though i'm already behind on my backlog again

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it's a crime i can't find any pokemon au where jun's only pokemon are those that look like cats and you're trying to be friends with him but your teams just can't get along >:((

sorry for the bullet points but i’ve had this idea in my brain for two weeks and i don’t have the brain cells to type it out 😭😭😭 ok so. i might have gone crazy with pokemon au catboy junhui and only minimally included team shenanigans :(

junhui runs a cat rescue. except it’s a pokémon rescue, where he takes in pokémon that are injured or disabled and unable to fend for themselves in the wild or battle

he didn’t mean for this to be his career— when he was young, he wanted to be a pokémon master, as many youths do. but then when his own meowstic was critically injured by a houndoom’s Bite during a battle and never seemed to be able to fully recover, junhui threw himself into rescuing pokémon

(there are a lot of abandoned pokemon wandering the streets. after all, what good is a pokémon if it can’t fight?) (if their former trainer isn’t willing to be the one to give them a home to rest in, junhui will be the one)

due to the nature of his work, he finds himself frequenting the pokémon center a lot, and he grows close to nurse seungkwan. sometimes the injured pokémon can be healed and returned to the wild or adopted out to another trainer, but sometimes the pokémon don’t recover. and then one day, nurse seungkwan refers junhui and his blind and sickly litten to you— a researcher who just entered the local professor’s lab

you’re fresh from the academy, and you specialize in studying the healing abilities of pokémon— their ability to heal themselves, how to most effectively develop potions using natural berries, and how some pokémon even have the ability to heal others. you get a call from your school friend seungkwan with a difficult case for you, a litten who was hit by a poison type move. the poison shouldn’t have hit as hard as it did, but something happened to the litten— no matter how many different types potions or antidotes it was given, it never really recovered from the poison

so you go to see the injured litten, but when you get to the pokémon center, there’s also a trainer— he’s tall and willowy and handsome, and he’s chewing on his lip, anxiously soothing the whimpering little pokémon

(luckily you have an experimental antidote you’re working on, and it helps the pokémon regain partial sight)

eventually junhui comes around again, and again, and again, each time with an injured pokemon. you try your best to help them regain function. you can't help but to become slightly enamored with him and his kindness and patience, even when the rescue pokemon lashes out or tries to attack.

just to make it cute, let's say that you tend to gravitate to dog and fox-like pokemon. your loyal companion is your old childhood stoutland, who is long past his prime and wheezes and snuffles when he runs. stoutland is absolutely loyal to you and follows you around the halls of the lab, despite his dislike of junhui's frequent cat-like visitors.

of course junhui's meowstic is standoffish and unfriendly. she's not aggressive by any means, but she definitely turns her nose up at stoutland. stoutland, in turn, tosses his head and harrumphs. the two of you are dismayed.

(but one day when junhui is over, the two of you get distracted. he's telling you about one of his adventures while making dinner, and by the time you notice how strangely quiet it is, you also realize that stoutland and meowstic are missing. slightly worried, the two of you search the lab, room by room, until you find them in your office -- stoutland is curled up in a sunny spot on the carpet, snoring, and curled up into his side, paws kneading at his shaggy belly, is a very happy meowstic)