#✧ ... ☀ i want to change the world! &. PROMOTIONS.

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【 ☀ 𝙂𝙮𝙢 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙪𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨...】

•. Normal: Carl Perkins

•. Steel: Roy Orbison

•. Water/Rock: Johnny Cash

•. Bug/Fire: Jerry Lee Lewis

Inspired by einaussenseiter & peeyonce, Tumblr.

I posted their Pokémon teams before on here, but here's an updated version! With their Pokémon backstories, mixed with the public details of their lives.

Carl never planned on becoming a gym leader, let alone the mayor of his town. He'd had a troubled childhood. The effects of which endured, even when fulfilling his dream of becoming a musician. After an encounter with a legendary Pokémon, his new dream became to help others. He founded a center for abused Pokémon and children, a safe place for both to heal. It also has programs for adults, activities for older kids, and a school for younger kids. His center became a hub for the town's community.

Due to the many positions he holds, he's a busy man. He's usually away from the gym, still performing or traveling to better the center. His wife and children run the center and fight trainers who want a gym badge, in his place. He never specialized or favored types, instead, he preferred befriending Pokémon over catching. In becoming a gym leader, he had noticed (though he should've years ago), how Normal types are drawn to him. To round out his team, John gifted his shiny Ambipom to him. While Carl looks mean, he's a big softy and loves Pokémon and kids, and can be very protective of both.

Jerry Lee loved Bug and Fire-types as a kid. Since he saw them as being the best types of Pokémon in the world, as an adult, he stuck to them. Like Carl, he dreamed of becoming a musician. That changed to beat Elvis Presley and become the new Champion. He was so arrogant about how good of a trainer he was, those who didn't believe him wanted to test him. Every night, at the nightclub he played, "Suga's Hideaway," a new opponent challenged him. He became "the infamous Ferriday Fireball," in this case, infamous for fighting dirty. He'd get into physical fights with trainers, and his microphone stand didn't discriminate. A decade and the Pokémon Association offered him an official gym. He was reluctant to accept, TV Producer Jack Good, encouraged him to at least try it out.

The Gym, still a nightclub, became "The Fireball Lounge." It had a stage with a piano that doubled as a battlefield, which saw little use. Having a bad habit of not being at his gym, the challenger would seek him. He'd be at his house, with a piano-shaped battlefield in his backyard. Another bad habit was having other Pokémon besides Bug and Fire-types on his team. These bad habits got him in trouble with the PA, but as long as a trainer got their badge, all was well. When he retired, he gave his gym to his children. Though they'd fight each other, more than the trainers, over who the leader was. Even in old age, there are many a soul who wants to battle him and he obliges, with a team of random types.

Roy, an expert of all elemental types. His interest in learning began when he lived in his hometown, Wink. He didn't have any friends. The kids at school picked on him for how he looked, so he kept to himself. He spent his time playing guitar, reading and befriending wild Pokemon. It's no wonder that his fondness for Ground, Dark, Psychic, and Steel types came from loneliness. With unwavering determination, he dedicated everything to his research, music, and Pokemon. He became the first gym leader of Wink, with a Ground-type team, the fourth out of eight gyms. Not long after, the PA promoted him to the eighth and final gym, a trainer would face.

Out of all the elemental teams he'd have, Steel was his favorite. He'd say, "Steel-types are sharp, yes. They can hurt you if you aren't careful but they aren't cold or unfeeling as some would think." Years later, he'd become the first outta four, in the Elite Four, with a Dark-type team. Then the new champion, with a Psychic/Fairy team. All while keeping a tight touring schedule. Though he accomplished everything he set out to do, he missed time with his family, which he wasn't proud of. He’d retire from his position as Champion, though not from battling.

John, like his dear friends, hadn't planned to become a gym leader. He led a tumultuous life, at one of the more peaceful lulls, he took to spelunking. In a cave, he found an Aerodactyl fossil, thus the beginning of his search for ancient Pokemon. From one of his travels, he brought a revived Kabuto home, it didn't adjust well to his Lakeside home. The cave, where his fossil craze started, flooded. It was a perfect home for Kabuto and later his other revived fossil Pokemon, that prefer the dark.

The rowdier ones needed regular battles, word spread, he was willing to battle anyone with them. Back then, no one had seen such prehistoric Pokemon. The PA offered to make him a gym leader. He had a fondness for Water-types, the first he caught was while fishing, a Magikarp. Back then it was bigger than him, then he outgrew it, then it evolved into Gyarados. To keep with the fossil theme, he made a Water/Rock team. His gym would be at the mouth of the cave, adding moss and trees. He'd explain, "plants produce oxygen, and you need that down here." His gym was also a Fossil Pokemon Sanctuary and remained so after his retirement. Those wishing to battle him have to travel to a faraway region, he welcomes all challengers.

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