#now time for the actual romance plot (static sounds) shit idk how to write that AAAUHHH

[jils-things]

NEW COLOR PALLET TRIO INFODUMP AAUGH‼️‼️(art by nero mwamwa)

OKAY im genuinely gonna take huge insp off the movie because it just matches so well and it bridges missing concepts i needed for their lore AUGH OKAY so

• i'm reclaiming the idea that red gave jaide a torchic and named it chuy (it was named kaia but its CHUY NOW!!!) while i unfortunately cannot answer how did red acquire a torchic it's totally meant for her (maybe through trading with a hoenn local that happened to be in kanto at the time)

• before jaide left for johto, red and blue invited her to the safari zone in fuchsia city because they miss her and they want her to experience what it's like to catch pkmn (despite the pikachu incident that occured before) this allowed jaide to discover her talent - she's really good at catching pkmn, even better than both boys combined.

• so when she was prepared to leave kanto, she would at least have this newfound passion to try to capture, and her target is the johtonian pkmn. she's thankful they helped her find something special about herself. her parting words was hoping that she'd meet them and they'd become fully fledged trainers they aim to be

• skipping past the gen 3 to gen 6 events, we land on the gen 7 timeline, they're all adults now. blue is viridian city's gym leader,

jaide is professor oak and elm's designated professional catcher,

and red is the mysterious living legend and champion who later opened up to the public again thanks to blue.

• meanwhile - thanks to kukui, alola has been creating their own championship league which meant that it's still new. i like to think that the battle tree was also created at the same time and he needed "bosses" to facilitate the battle tree.

• kukui invites red and blue to become the battle tree bosses, to which red and blue agrees with. it's gonna have some sort of grand opening and this brings attention to people from the other regions to want to visit alola. i like to think bringing blue and red was a celebrity bait in some way, especially for red who's popular despite not showing his face around.

• at that same time, professor oak has a new job for jaide which was to capture all alolan regional forms of certain pkmn - she was given the funds to help her go travel to alola. blue would know about this and he tells her to come visit the battle tree because he and red will be there as well. (AHEM AHEM LIKE HOW MANOLO IS GONNA HAVE HIS FIRST BULLFIGHT AND IT COINCIDES WITH THE DAY MARIA RETURNS FROM SPAIN AND AND AND--

• ahem anyways, blue is very excited about this! because red and jaide havent exactly met up with each other properly (they were only able to say hi to each other through blue's contacts since blue and jaide consistently talking to each other throughout the years) (just imagine a funny zoom call where red and blue are in the same room and jaide is on the other side)

• red's ... quite nervous and excited about this! he's still getting used to the public attention and usually loses his mojo when he's being watched, and it's double the pressure when she's around. he can only pray he'll do fine at the battle tree if she's gonna watch him.

• a fun cameo happens with elio/selene where they solo red in the battle tree and blue watches them - jaide eventually appears as well to watch and they're both cheering for red 🫶

• red almost lost that round because jaide showed up and he kept taking chances to look at her

• after the grand opening, they were officially reunited and it felt so good to meet each other again. well, blue with jaide and red felt like nothing since he was simultaneously in contact with them. he's like the messenger between the apples 😔😔

• i like to think red really has never fallen off of liking jaide since he was a kid but it only got stronger when they meet again and it's like an old book had been dusted clean and ready to be opened

• and appleshipping pre romance begins shortly after wehehehhe

[words-writ-in-starlight]

WHAT IS THIS GAY AMERICAN REVOLUTION TIME TRAVEL I NEED TO KNOW EVERTHING RIGHT NOW THIS SOUNDS AMAZING OMGGGG TELL MEEEEEEE (you are more than welcome to pm me if you want)

SO idk how long you’ve been around but you either already know or are about to learn that I WRITE SPITE NOVELS.  This matters because approximately one billion years ago I read this book (it was like 2.99 on Kindle so like I got what I paid for I guess) and the basic premise was that time travel just...happened to a certain percentage of the population.  Like sneezing when exposed to sunlight.  And I was like YES GIVE ME THAT GOOD TIME TRAVEL SWASHBUCKLING and then it turned out to be kind of a tepid YA Heterosexual RomanceTM (you know the type) and I was horribly disappointed.

So here we are approximately one billion years later and I am doing it my damn self.  

Thus: James Kilroy (his best friend calls him Jimbo to annoy him) starts kind of accidentally blipping into the early 1750s when he’s a kid and by now he has a pretty solid identity there and he serves in the Continental Army because they have A Lot of people go AWOL and/or die so he figures at least this way he has something to do without getting too many questions about coming and going.  Like, he’s not getting three square meals or any payment to speak of but he wouldn’t be getting that anywhere unless he served with the Regulars so he might as well.  He lives on his best friend’s couch in the modern day because she’s the only person who’s in on the situation and he’s gone for weeks at a time, which limits his ability to hold down a job and afford his own place.  James is also a literal human catastrophe because he learned most of his morals and ethics in the modern day but most of his life skills in the 1700′s, which makes him Weirdly Progressive back then and basically helpless now.  Can he shoe a horse?  Yes.  Can he fix a flat tire?  No.  He can barely drive.  If you take him off guard he bows to people and he doesn’t know how to run anti-virus scans on his phone because he only uses it every other month.

Because everything is better with queer-ness, James’ nominal commanding officer (and the only person in the know in 1776) is Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Selah.  I have very little figured out about Ben except that he’s from a very rich Loyalist family and joins the army against their wishes as a solution to the issue of getting married.  He earns his rank his own damn self, which he’s very defensive about since most rich officers bought their rank at the time, and he’s a respectably good shot even with a musket which is quite an achievement.  He takes what he believes is James’ truancy very seriously up to the point where he happens to see him appear out of thin air, at which point he straight up accuses James of black magic.  James thinks this is very funny and convinces Ben to hear him about about time travel and the future and everything, and Ben is particularly arrested by the idea that James courts men (his words).

Obviously Ben’s modern ideas are a work in progress (ha ha the conversation about James’ best friend was a mess), but he’s very enthusiastic about the idea of not being hanged for holding James’ hand because he likes holding James’ hand possibly more than he should.

James’ best friend is named [INDECISIVE STATIC] and she puts up with a goddamn lot from her idiot gay BFF.  The reason the conversation with Ben was a mess (among others) is because Ben is an abolitionist who grasps the concept of a black person being in charge of their own life but he’s also a dude from the 1700′s who is a touch more confused about lesbianism and the gender spectrum.  [INDECISIVE STATIC] hears that James is thinking about bringing Ben to the modern day and straight up tells him that if Ben talks shit to her, she’s kicking them both out of her apartment, which I think is fair?  She basically worries constantly about James getting murdered in the past, which just gets worse when Plot starts happening and he goes missing.  She’s actually not a central character at all but I love her very much?

Anyway the plot is basically that a time traveler has a ‘home’ time and a ‘past’ time (in this case, the modern day and the 18th century) and only the ‘home’ time is mutable--meaning, if you’re a time traveler and you get hijacked by another time traveler into their loop, the time they take you to is your new ‘home’ time.

This becomes very problematic when James gets hijacked into [as yet indetermined time period] and spends the rest of the novel hopping from one time loop to another as he tries to find his way back to the modern day so that he can carry out his original plan of bringing his boyfriend to the modern day so that they can get married and shit.

You know those stories about the knight having to do elaborate quests before he’s able to marry the princess?

Yeah, basically that.  

But gayer.  

And with time travel.