#but like... he literally gives me lusamine vibes lol

[vaugarde]

always feel kinda weird when i make a canon character “worse” than they are in canon in my own hcs but also like hyness was a literal cult leader who exploited the sisters and hit zan onscreen and literally used her and her sisters bodies as tools in his boss fight so like. canonically he is a horrible person who’s actions just get sweeped w a vague “oh he might have been corrupted actually theyre cool now” ending. so i guess its not that strange to just lean into him being abusive in my hcs

[frostbite-the-bat]

Been a while since I played admittedly but Guzma no longer gives off villain vibes to me he's kinda just hanging around tbh

I WAS ACTUALLY *VERY* TEMPTED TO SAY SMTHN ABOUT THAT LIKE... He's not even a villain he's just antagonistic to the player as a bully and nothing much (I mean he's not literally destroying the world or planning to do it I'm not saying what he does is exactly Good) - and Lusamine is the actual villain but I really didn't wanna get myself into a tangent pfpfpfp I totally get why he was left out because honestly out of all the Pokémon evil team leaders he has like... The biggest reason to be the way he is? Not gonna go deep into it it's been long for me as well but like.

Like you've said bro is just hanging out. Wasn't accepted by his peers and family (and is obviously depressed in the Manga. Fun fact I have Not Read The Whole Thing) so he made a gang for the 'losers' like him to group together and have a family and the way they cope is by bullying kids LOL. just a group of bullies not really villains - and I'm pretty sure the writers knew this so BOOM. Lusamine! Actual villain

[facetsofthecloset]

@mariegoos here are the Pokemon blorbos

(with the caveat that I have only ever played Heartgold, half of Alpha Sapphire, Moon, and Pokemon Go, with a handful of anime episodes sprinkled in, so my knowledge of characters is limited lol)

Send me a fandom and I’ll tell you my: blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most):

you're right it's Guzma 😂 i had a moment when i considered "well, what about-" but then i realized i've spent the last-*counts on fingers*-9 months writing about him just about daily so. >_>

but the Team Rocket Trio also fits as a Collective Blorbo i think. they're the characters i'd most likely say "look! it's the collective blorbo from my shows!" out loud about lol

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped):

probably Acerola, she's an adorable baby ghost girl and if anyone tried to hurt her i'd chomp their bones like a feral dog

this also applies to Lillie and Hau

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave):

Professor Burnet maybe? i don't have a good sense of who's actually underappreciated because i don't spend that much time in fandom spaces lol

but she's very cool and i love her

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week):

if we're going REALLY obscure then i'd say Agrata from the Sun & Moon Battle Tree. she's a punk girl opponent and literally has like 4 lines of dialogue total including win/loss riders but she seems cool and i'm always happy to run into her 😂

also all of the Team Skull grunts and the Team GO Rocket grunts if we're being honest. i want to take them out for coffee and be friends

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave):

i was going to put Nanu in the scrimblo bimblo category but realized that he's a sad cat man who's also a cop, obvs he's a poor little meow meow how could i ever have doubted it

i'd also like to mention Grimsely at this point because i only know him from, like, one battle in Moon but he's a sexy tired goth. his original design is a casino den twink so like, either way you win

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason):

Faba. that man just. i dunno man his vibes make me want to plague his life with incidental music and like. steal his big ol' green goggle glasses and leave them in increasingly bizarre places. they severely amplified his creep vibes in the anime and i hate him. but he fascinates me

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell):

Lusamine, i guess? i don't remember anyone else annoying me to the

actually wait, anyone in the Battle Tree with either a Dusknoir or an Araquanid, with those specific move sets that mean i WILL eventually win, but i literally can't do damage to them due to my own team composition (fighting type-heavy)/they keep using Double Team so i can't hit them

so i have to wait for them to start using Struggle and hurt themselves

HALF AN HOUR LATER

when i was obsessively playing BT to try and scout Guzma i ran into them A LOT

(Guzma i have suffered for you you punk-ass bitch)

[littencloud9]

part two bc i didn't realise tumblr has word limits 🗿

| who wakes the other up with kisses? ash bc he’s the early bird and will do anything to get gladion up so he can showcase his affection for the edgelord uwu | who usually has nightmares? i think both of them do. gladion bc he’s got that Angsty Backstory™ and ash,,,, the boy has been through some shit | who would have really deep emotional thoughts in the middle of the night? i like to imagine both of them on the beach having deep 3am thoughts and pondering over them together LMAO | who sweats the small stuff? definitely not gladion ‘i-am-not-worried-about-ash-scraping-his-knee-shut-up’ aether | who likes sour stuff and who likes sweet stuff? i’d say they both have a sweet tooth! | who likes horror movies and who likes romance movies? gladion’s the type to pretend he likes horror movies but stares at the corner of the screen half the time. the only time he likes them are when ash presses himself against him for comfort. but anyway ash just screams. other than that, both of them are totally romance types HAHA | who is smol/who is tol? omg ash is a SMOL BEAN gladion’s like super lanky and would 100% tease ash about his height | who is considered the scaredy cat? both of them. it’s hilarious watching one jump onto the other while both of them scream B) | who kills the spiders? neither bc killing animals is essentially killing pokémon in their world rip | who’s scared of the dark? i think ash would’ve been (as a kid) | who’s scared of thunderstorms? well. ash owns a pikachu which is a literal mini thunderstorm so definitely not him maybe child gladion? but i think lillie would’ve been more afraid haha | who works/who stays at home? i can’t see either of them working LOL but in those AUs where gladion takes over lusamine as aether president? ig i could see him working while ash plays with all the pokémon in the conservation area and occasionally going to distract visit gladion at his office | who’s the cat person and who’s the dog person? i mean. ash has lycanroc and torracat (i still can’t see it as an incineroar oof). gladion has lycanroc too and umbreon gives me feline vibes. so they both refuse to choose when asked LOL | who loves to call the other one cute names? ash bc he loves watching gladion get flustered over the simplest things like ‘babe’ and ‘love’ hehe | who’s the dom and who’s the sub? mmmm this is hard but i’d lean towards gladion as sub and ash as dom,,, maybe they’d switch tho! | who goes all out for Valentines Day? GLADION FOR SURE! his family is rich so he’d definitely spend hundreds of dollars on ash (totally not encouraged by lusamine LOL). ash would probably be less materialistic with his gifts! but the best gift from either ends up with kissing each other anyway so 😎 | who asks the other out on their first date? i’m leaning towards ash cause i can totally see him blurting ‘WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME’ out of nowhere. and gladion would be STUNNED and they’re just,,, stupid gay boys | who’s the talker and who’s the listener? i’d say mainly ash talks and gladion listens but gladion would share his problems too bc ash is one of the only people he fully trusts and it’s super sweet | who wears the other’s clothes? ash would totally steal gladion’s hoodie all the time. ALL the time. gladion steals his cap in retaliation LOL | who eats more junk food? probably ash? that boy eats anything | who takes longer showers? gladion!! only because ash is super speedy at pretty much anything — gladion doesn’t get how he does it | who’s the bookworm? definitely gladion | who’s the better cook? also gladion! rmb that episode where ash tries to cook? yep. | who likes long walks on the beach? both! being on the beach under a starry night sky is TOTALLY their thing you can’t change my mind XD | who’s the most affectionate? ash mainly but in private gladion can be super affectionate too | which one wears the ‘if lost, return to __’ and who wears the ‘i’m __’ shirt? ‘if lost return to gladion’ ‘i’m gladion’ ash gets side tracked and runs off WAY too easily so duh

[red-sterling]

thanks for answering!! i hope you don't mind if i send more charas...how about green and/or lillie?

fhgjkfdg aw yea thank u!! hopefully this doesn’t publish before i’m done typing lol

also this definitely needs a readmore bc i got emotional abt Green oops

Green

favorite thing about them

first of all: the fact that Green canonically has a rivals to best friends arc with Red fills me with so much joy and YES they are on their alolan honeymoon you cannot convince me otherwise

okay like. gen 1 Green just perfectly encompasses what it’s like to be a ten year old in a way? like ofc he’s written like a kid bc he is a kid, but i feel like the writing on him just feels so genuine as compared to some of the other 10 yr old rivals you get in other regions. even though he’s kinda a brat at the start, he kinda eases up a bit as you go along your journey and starts giving you progressively nicer/more praise-y end lines when you beat him (going from “i picked the wrong pokémon!” to “so, you are ready for boss rocket!”) but still retains this childlike rivalry and competitiveness and i love that about him

and like. fucking beating him at the Indigo League still completely breaks my heart because even after he did become the champion at age 10 the first thing that happens is you beat him and Prof Oak just yells at him for being bad at things and like. ow. 

this is why i headcanon that Red actually took awhile longer to get to Green like please. please give my boy a chance to be happy and proud

also Red was caught up with Team Rocket anyway so i imagine he must’ve fallen a little behind at some point? anyway

the development on him across regions is so choice!!! he’s so much more mellow and even kinda melancholic when you find him in gsc/hgss, like he’s calmed down over a few years and he obviously misses Red so much but like, it’s clear that Red is kinda the reason Green does settle down and he seems to have worked on his character and become a nicer person - and he still has that sassy flair to him! he’s just got that gradual slope from asshole rival to kinda aloof gym leader to friendly/sassy battle legend and aaaaa i love my boy so MUCH

also huge point: he’s so fucking driven??? he’s got the most drive and the most passion for battles/pokémon in general out of all the rivals i feel. he’s only closely matched by Silver, but Silver seems to be more aggressive than passionate, and somewhat out of necessity too (like, Giovanni abandoned him what was he to do), whereas Green just really like. he genuinely just cares so much about battles and about pokémon in general! he literally calls you in hgss and just rants about how many different kinds of pokémon there are in the world!!!

also in Alola he’s like???? just so sweet?????? he congratulates you and is like hey you’re really strong lets battle like!!!!!!!!! supportive boy!!!!! he has come so far over so many generations and i cry

also on Four Island when you play frlg he legitimately says “Be smelling ya!” when he leaves and how do you not love this idiot

least favorite thing about them

i mean. while i get that you beat Green right after he becomes the champion in the kanto games i feel like there should’ve been more pomp and circumstance for him and i’ll never forgive gamefreak for giving this boy his dream, then making you rip it away from him, and then watching his own gramps yell at him for fucking up like. again it’s that drive, i get why Red keeps such good pace w Green but i just feel like he worked so hard and he deserved so much better than that

also while i’m very biased towards him bc Big Emotions, i feel like if i knew this boy irl who was constantly i’m so great and you’re a loser i would probably punch him eventually lmao. in theory it’s kinda endearing but as a real person that’d be grating 

favorite line

on one hand, “smell ya later” is so fucking iconic, but on the other - 

“I’m Blue. Man, this guy called Red brought me down in a heartbeat. I haven’t seen him in a long time…I wonder where he is and what he’s up to… Come to think of it, you look a little bit like Red. Yeah, you do. Just…Just a little bit. Whatever…”

my namelessshipping heart

ALSO NOT CANON BUT GREEN RANTING TO YOU ABOUT RED AND GETTING SO DISTRACTED THAT HE FORGETS TO GIVE YOU THE POKÉDEX????? BIG GAY

brOTP

for long elaborate headcanon reasons, i see him as being a good brotp with Kris - i headcanon her as also being really driven the way Green is, but more quiet about it, she’s kinda a good balance to him and they probably do pokemon research together. i also feel like she kept him sane while Red was still missing/before they found him on a fuckin mountain

OTP

do i really need to tell you that i’m 100% namelessshipping

like they perfectly balance each other. Green has all this energy and all this spunk and Red is just like… so opposite of him y'know? he’s quiet and he’s more measured in his behavior i feel, he doesn’t really rush into things as much, and yet they both really just took Kanto by storm when they were kids, and i like how they have this foil dynamic and are both still so successful? they’re so different and they complement each other in that way, and they both find success in their own ways

like one of the reasons i hate that Green’s championship gets undersold so much is that he did beat you to the punch, and he has been one step ahead of you, and there’s so much passion there and it’s so loud - and yet you as Red are just as driven, you take down Team Rocket, you’re always right on his tail, so close but not quite there, you’re the only one who can keep up with him and you’re the only one he cares enough about to slow down for

so like. idk with even all my headcanons about namelessshipping aside (and i can infodump those another day lol), i feel like the in-game representation of them just works. they just work so well together, they balance each other without ever holding each other back, and there’s something really beautiful about that in a relationship y'know

…..i feel bad abt not putting as much infodump about isshushipping now but oh well

nOTP

i don’t really have a notp with him? i kinda like. i basically just do namelessshipping, but i don’t get a visceral eugh when i see other ships with him, just kinda a well it’s not nameless so i’ll be on my way. idek what other ships w him are popular?? i’ve been in nameless hell since 2012 so 

random headcanon

while Red is still living on Mount Silver, Green is not coping well with having him so far away, and so Green massively overworks himself to the point that he keeps just not being in his gym sometimes bc he’s bouncing between the gym, training multiple teams, pokémon research, and ofc going to visit Red whenever he can. this leads him to be kinda temperamental after he’s been working on 2 hours of sleep a day for like a week until he just has an emotional meltdown and crashes, and then he gets right back into it because he has no self preservation

…….. nicer headcanon; Red can only cook two (2) foods, so Green cooks all the food for them when they move in together. he has attempted to teach Red how to cook, but Red pretends not to understand so Green will keep making him food. Green knows Red is faking it and doesn’t call him out bc he thinks it’s cute

unpopular opinion

look i’ve played through classic red version a few times and when i say he wasn’t that much of a jerk, i do genuinely mean he was not that much of a jerk. he’s like ten. ten year olds are just Like That. i guess this isn’t too unpopular anymore but it was Back In The Day and in some parts of the fandom he’s still seen as a jerk and like Bro He Is Ten In RGB/FRLG cut him some slack

also genuinely unpopular - Green is taller than Red. i know namelessshipping has fallen into the bara Red and twink Green trope but i refuse to let go of tall Green/short Red fuckin fight me why dont you

song i associate with them

a lot of the Pray For The Wicked album by Panic! at the Disco gives me Green vibes, more for the sound than for lyrics necessarily, but for some reason Roaring 20s just like. has the sound of Green to me. it’s somewhere between flamboyant pride and underlying insecurity that i think really encapsulates Green (or at least his subtext)

favorite picture of them

i genuinely love his let’s go concept art he’s such a sweet good boy?? 

and for the life of me i cannot find the op source on this but this is my fave pic of Green/namelessshipping in general that i’ve had saved since like 2012 maybe???

yeah if anyone can help me source that i’d appreciate it bc reverse image search only brings me to pinterest and random wattpad links :/

update: source seems to be the artist くる (pixiv id=982894) on pixiv, even though the original post got taken down (ty anon!)

Lillie

favorite thing about them

by now i guess you know im a sucker for character development, but i think they did a really good job with her!! i feel like her turn is a bit more in moments than it is with Green, who gradually evolves (lol) over the course of Kanto/all the gens overall. you see more discrete moments where Lillie starts to shift and gain confidence in herself and i am so proud of her ???? like the way she gets excited when she sees Olivia doin’ her z-move stuff, she starts buying her own clothes and getting ahead of you, etc etc

and like, she still has moments where she’s scared, there’s still some fundamental Lillie in there yknow? you don’t lose any of that softness that characterizes Lillie, she just like… she gets better, she develops without losing her Lillie vibe and i love that abt her. she overcomes a lot of the shit she had to deal with when she was stuck with Lusamine, she stands up to Lusamine eventually, and ghfdkjsg gah she’s a sweet gorl i love and appreciate her

also like. the writing on her backstory is so subtle in-universe. like yeah she literally looks like Lusamine’s daughter and you see her in the opening cutscene leaving Aether, but as the protagonist - like as Selene lets say, there’s little hints about where Lillie came from, and if you suspend your disbelief and put yourself in the pc’s shoes, there’s subtly to her character arc that i like 

also like. when she changes her outfit and starts being more protagonist-y, like more confident and kinda bubbly instead of shy??? love that shit it’s so cute can i have custody of this child pls

least favorite thing about them

i like. sometimes feel like she’s too soft of a character for me to really get into? like i love her and Hau, they’re sweet good friends, but i tend to personally gravitate towards characters that create a little more tension (ie Green and N)

(though on that note, Hau can be kinda savage. he just calls Faba out and sarcastically calls Gladion “a ray of sunshine” at some point i think?? Lillie is just very tender and i will support her forever, but i think that also makes her almost too soft to keep me fixated on her yknow. it’s not even a flaw in her character but just not something i fawn over as much)

favorite line

“I’m so glad I got to meet everyone. I’m so glad I got to meet you.”

like that ending kills me but that line almost feels like. I Feel That So Much like i feel so happy to have met all these new characters and to have played these games, and i feel like some of the player’s energy and enjoyment of the game is channeled into this last line of hers 

also GET IN THE BAG

brOTP

probably her and Hau?? idk, i don’t have a specific brotp for her but i like her just hangin around w the other Alola kids, so like her, Hau, Gladion, and the protag kids. they’d raise hell together and Lillie continues to be the only one with some impulse control

(Gladion also has some impulse control but keeps getting annoyed by Hau and so he gets dragged into their nonsense anyway)

OTP

Selene and Lillie is. Good. idk what the ship name is but it’s canon

nOTP

i dont even know if people ship her with Gladion but incest is a big no-no in my house

random headcanon

when she goes to Kanto, i bet she’d pick Bulbasaur as a starter if she was given the opportunity - and if not, she’d probably catch a wild Vulpix 

unpopular opinion

idk if have any unpopular opinions for her?? 

song i associate with them

i have no reason to associate this with her but the Rainy Day theme from acgc just. has a vibe about it. i think a lot of ac music feels like it suits her

favorite picture of them

i found this art of her through a lofi remix of her theme awhile back and it’s so pleasing to look at? her hair is nice and the colors are so warm n happy gjhkfdgf

if you read this far, congratulations!!! and i’m sorry