New Family

I had this one on my drafts ever since August 15th. Now, finally, September 24th, I have completed it. I hope Shadow forgives me for not being online now as much as I want. Thing happened and, yeah.

Anyways, this one has a strange story. Originally, the one incarnating Acreus was Akashi, and Kuroko was a plain human that simply got along with Pokémon (and was raised by a Venosaur, along with a few Bulbasaurs), sees himself more Pokémon than human, and travels to show the Legendaries that you don’t have to be special to enjoy life.

The sudden impulse to make Oreshi and Bokushi two separate characters brought some changes in script. The idea of Victini!Bokushi was too much for me to ignore. I took in mind both Pokémon mythos, connections between characters, and character traits to place them.

So, here are the ‘pairs’:

Kuroko Tetsuya: Acreus

Kagami Taiga: Moltres. The name of his kanji translates as ‘fire god’, possesses a strong personality and antagonizes Aomine all the time.

Aomine Daiki: Arcticuno. His name has blue in it. Antagonizes Kagami with a passion.

Kise Ryota: Zapdos. The way I see it, Kise antagonizes Aomine, and in Pokémon mythos, the Legendary birds fight against each other a lot. And guess what: his name has yellow in it.

Akashi Seijuro (Oreshi): Lugia. He has to deal with Aomine and Kise (and manages to!). Fun fact: Lugia is a Psychic/Flying dual-type (the reason Akashi can telepathically communicate with Kuroko –and others, of course), but in his mythos, Lugia goes into self-exile at the bottom of the ocean, resulting to Akashi calling Lugia ‘Self-exiled one’. He’s also one of the very few who calls Acreus ‘Creator’, instead of Acreus.

Akashi Seijuro (Bokushi): Victini. Bokushi’s obsession to victory makes him fitting for the role, no?

Midorima Shintarou: Shaymin. I remember Shaymin be quite the tsundere for the gratitude Pokémon (I think that was in Girantina and the Sky Warrior?). And thought maybe to stick the tsunderes together. (I want to think that Shaymin!Midorima’s Sky forme is kind of like his Zone that, so far, we haven’t seen yet.)

Takao Kazunari: Currently undecided. But he’s there.

Nijimura Shuuzou: Ho-oh. Hey, I couldn’t just ignore the whole rainbow theme! Besides, since Akashi is Lugia, why not have Rainbow-senpai as Ho-oh? (Actually, the opposite happened. I assigned Akashi to Lugia because I paired Nijimura to Ho-oh.)

Hayama Koutaro: Raikou. The only one of the Legendary beasts that has no connection whatsoever to Nijimura. But hey, his nickname is Raijou, how could I ignore that?

Haizaki Shougo: Entei. Ash=Fire. Enough said.

Himuro Tatsuya: Sucuine. Well, his name has ice in it. And he has connections to Nijimura (see Replace novels).

Mibuchi Reo: Dialga.

Kiyoshi Teppei: Palkia.

Hanamiya Makoto: Girantina. And since I got him for the role, I thought, why not have two other Uncrowned Kings for Dialga and Palkia? (Nebuya is Groudon, by the way.) Oh how cruel is fate for Hanamiya, to have a person he doesn’t like as his Trio Master…

Furihata Kouki, Koganei Shinji, and Mitobe Ryuonosuke as Uxie, Azelf and… what was the third one? I always forget the third one.