#retired ratatata

[shegxox]

*me not posting any valorant content since december 2022*:

me: . . . basically–

[rivaltierno]

I had an urge to revamp my gameverse!Rivaltrioshipping fankids last night, so I did the best I could to recreate them in the anime face maker app I sometimes use since I didn’t have the time for anything else.

In order: Eldest twins Winter (in blue) and Lenore (in pink), middle child Delphine, and the baby of the family Antionette. 

Under the cut is a bit about them and their parents (somewhat organized but not in any special way).

Info about the kids first:

. Winter is the older of the twins and is the gym leader of the Snowbelle City gym, taking over after Wulfric retired. Her gym is essentially a DDR-themed maze, where if a challenger messes up the rhythmic pattern they’re supposed to follow, they go sliding on the ice and have to start over. For challengers who cannot do the challenge (or simply don’t want to), they can take the ramp up to her, battling the gym trainers along the way. 

      . Winter’s starter was Spheal, hatched from an egg her Aunt Serena gave her. I haven’t decided on her full team yet, but she does have a Walrein and a Glalie. She can mega-evolve her Glalie using the mega stone in her headphones.

      . Winter’s hair is essentially Diantha’s but wavier and with a wavy ponytail in the back, the ponytail curling like a Ratatata tail (think Alexa’s hair). Her coat was purposefully styled after Wulfric’s. 

       . Winter prefers to use prosthetic legs over using a wheelchair.

. Lenore is the younger of the twins and is a scientist/researcher in her father’s lab. Her focus is on Pokemon genetics and in particular what causes a Pokemon to have unusual coloring/look. This interest started when she was a child, as her starter just happened to be a shiny Pokemon.

         . Lenore’s starter was Spinda, hatched from an egg her Aunt Serena gave her. I think I’ve settled on her full team already, that being Spinda, Diggersby, Kingler, Honchkrow, and Machoke (the last of which she refuses to evolve). She is the only one of her sisters to not have a preferred typing for her team and the only one not to have a full team of 6 Pokemon.

        . Lenore’s hairstyle is two pigtails on each side of her head, the pigtails styled together to resemble a DNA strand/double helix. As a scientist she of course has the classic white lab coat.

        . Lenore prefers to use a wheelchair over having prosthetics. 

. Delphine isn’t exactly sure what she wants to do as a Pokemon trainer, and because of that she delayed her Pokemon journey until her younger sister Antionette was old enough to go on hers. In a technical sense she’s fantastic at Pokemon battling, but has no strong feelings on it in either direction. She’s hoping a Pokemon journey will help her decide her future. 

      . Delphine’s starter was Fennekin, and she refused to get an egg from her Aunt Serena, thinking it would be an unfair advantage over other new trainers. She has a Psychic-type team, but I haven’t decided on what Pokemon she has besides Delphox, Gothitelle, and Malamar. Due to raising Psychic types and having an affinity for the color purple multiple people have suggested the she become a Hex Maniac, but she doesn’t agree.

      . Delphine is incredibly self-conscious about the sound of her voice (she hates how deep it is), so she rarely talks to strangers and really only opens up to her family. (Luckily, her Pokemon have easily picked up on her non-verbal commands.)

. Antionette eagerly awaited the start of her Pokemon journey, as she knew exactly what she wanted her future to be; inspired by her older sister becoming a gym leader, Antionette decided that she was going to raise Water-type Pokemon and become Kalos’s Water-type Elite Four member. 

      . Antionette’s starter was Froakie, but gladly accepted an egg from her Aunt Serena, which is where her Kabuto came from. I have her team decided too - Greninja, Kabutops, Mantine, Octillery, Gyarados and Barbaracle.

     . Antionette’s hair is pulled into three buns, one on top of her head and two hanging low. She wears a tiara because she thinks it looks pretty, but it also serves to hold her Gyarados’s mega stone.

. The twins are about 20 years old, Delphine 16 years old, and Antionette 13 years old (in my headcanon Kalos’s minimum offical trainer age is 13).

. People often assume that the twins are Trevor and Shauna’s biological children due to their physical traits, but they are not. People also often assume that Delphine is Tierno’s biological child due to her physical traits, but she is not either. 

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And some quick info about their parents:

. Trevor is Kalos’s professor, Shauna is a teacher at the Trainer School in Santalune City (her focus being in battling basics), and Tierno is a daycare worker at the Pokemon Nursery on Route 7.

    . Tierno was originally studying to be a fully certified Pokemon Breeder, but decided to pause his studies to be a Stay-at-Home Dad while the kids were too young to go on their journeys/to Trainer School.

    . Due to Shauna being a teacher at the Trainer School, the three of them settled down in Santalune City, with Tierno and Trevor flying out to their respective work locations everyday. 

. Since the three of them couldn’t legally get married, in the eyes of the law they simply cohabitate together. However, they did still have a wedding ceremony/bought wedding rings, and likewise Trevor and Shauna legally changed their last names to Tierno’s (Zelkova). 

    . Since the three of them are not legally married, in the eyes of the law the kids are Trevor’s children. They decided to have Trevor be their legal parent/guardian for a variety of reasons, the main one being that being the professor of the region has multiple financial/societal benefits for their kids that being the children of a teacher or daycare worker would not get them.

. The three of them were only planning to adopt three children at first - the twins and then a few years later Antionette. However, around the time they were in the process of adopting Antionette, they met Delphine in the streets of Lumiose City (since it’s basically canon that Kalos, or at least Lumiose, has a terrible child care system), and soon decided to adopt her as well.