#kuroaku arrives like a year before akari does

[ghostypetrainer]

I am LOVING this brainwashing shit, but I have to hand you: What if Kuroaku and Akari got yeeted to Hisui before shit REALLY got big with the Chaos Team's plans. Maybe just after people figured out that Kuroaku is Ingo and Akari is Dawn, for the extra hurt. Imagine dropping a whole ass evil team commander and his niece into ancient Sinnoh!! Especially if they're still separate at first. Imagine Kuro hearing about Akari, seeing her out in the wilds and just. Yelling her name and running to her.

absolutely amazing. incredible.

Okay, so I raise you- Kuroaku gets amnesia, and Akari does not. She's found on Prelude Beach by Laventon, without any of her Pokemon on her. This is... not a good situation, definitely. She has no idea where she is, or how she got here, or where Uncle Kuro is. He fell with her, right? So for the moment she decides her best option is to play along with this... Professor Laventon he said his name was?

It's not so bad. There's a roof over her head, and food. She even gets paid! And all she has to do is fight catch Pokemon. Great! She loves fighting Pokemon! Definitely better than when she lived on the streets, which is definitely something that happened! Except she keeps getting flashes of stuff that tell her otherwise? She’s pretty sure she never knew her mom, so who is this woman that looks so much like her? Why does her heart hurt when she thinks about her?

Meanwhile Kuroaku is spat out in the Highlands, and wakes up with amnesia. He’s unable to recall anything but his name, but even that feels... strange. He’s certain it’s Kuro, and that he had some sort of important goal he was striving towards... but what was it again? He does have his Pokemon on him, and he immediately sets to figuring out where he is. He sees other humans, and spies on them for more information, but doesn’t show himself. He steals supplies from Melli, without ever encountering Melli. He manages to live in the Highlands for maybe three weeks on his own before he’s found by a strange tall Sneasel.

She takes one look at him, and before he can stop her, she’s shoving him in her basket and carrying him off somewhere. Oh, it’s some kind of nest. There’s a tent nearby, which is much better conditions than he had been living in previously. She points at the tent, and then points at the clutch of eggs. He thinks she’s saying she’ll let him live in it if he looks after her eggs? Fine. Fair deal. She seems strong anyways, and he respects that. Strength is important above all else.

(...is it? That sounds both wrong and right, but his head hurts when he thinks about it.)

Irida literally finds him there a few weeks later and realizes that somehow, Lady Sneasler found herself a Warden. Also this might be the guy who has been stealing supplies from Warden Melli for weeks now. He says his name is Kuro... probably. He has amnesia, and he thinks what he does remember is mixed up aside from that. The elders of the Pearl Clan recommend he should be removed by force- Lady Sneasler’s choice be damned, but when they send Gaeric to do it, he absolutely annihilates him in a Pokemon battle. Iridia’s pretty sure no one could make him leave if they tried.

Okay. Guess Lady Sneasler has a new Warden now.