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oops-prow-did-it-again · 4 years

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Pokémon Sword & Shield Fanfic: Bede’s First Endorsement

Based on the idea of Bede having never endorsed a trainer as a gym leader because he’s kind of a prick, lmao. FFN mirror and AO3 mirror.

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Some Nights

Ballonlea's forests were dark and light filtered through in strange ways due to the luminous mushrooms dappling the groves. It made for the perfect hideaway for a tired or irritated gym leader. Bede fit both of those descriptions more often than some of Galar's other leaders and as such, it was quite common to find him stowing away deep into the eldritch forest. He was wearing his favorite coat that day, seeing as he was off duty for the time being, and found comfort in its hold as he sat beneath the glowing cap of a blue mushroom.

With so much solitude just outside the city, it seemed impossible anyone would be able to stumble across him. Yet, the crunching of leaves and sticks caught his attention, and he whipped his head to see a little girl tumble out from between two bushes. She wore a worn-out white and pink dress with a purple ribbon around its waist; her hair fell just past her shoulders, light brown and straight, but tangled due to the thick undergrowth. Faded pink slippers clung to her feet.

Bede blinked and sighed. His peace fractured by a wandering idiot child. That sounded about right. "Just what do you think you're doing out here?" Bede asked.

"Looking for you!" she exclaimed. She stood tall and brushed her dress off, plucking a stick out from where it jabbed her in the leg. Her brown eyes were bright and wide. "Miss Meredith was goin' to pass straight through Ballonlea, but I couldn't let her do that! I needed to see you!"

"Meredith…?" Bede echoed quietly. Something felt familiar about that name. "Is that your mother?" he asked.

"Oh, no," the little girl answered swiftly. "My name's Taylor! Miss Meredith takes care of us but she's not my mom." She laughed. "She said you wouldn't even think of giving us a starter or endorsement, but she wouldn't even try! So I came to try!"

Bede froze in place as the details started fitting together. He became acutely aware of why Meredith sounded familiar. She had been one of the caretakers at Suellen's Nursery, at Circhester's southern border. He regarded the little girl with a new, wide-eyed expression that so few had seen on him. "L-little girl… Taylor. Are you traveling with Suellen Nursery?"

"I think that's its name, yeah," she answered. She bounced a little. "I know it's a lot to ask and everyone says you usually don't, but I'd love a Fairy-type Pokemon to be my starter!"

He reeled for a moment. She seemed excitable and happy, much unlike how he remembered spending his days at Suellen's. Perhaps she was lucky enough to have not known her real parents at all, and still young enough to not mind that detail. Quite different from him, who had been left to Suellen's at seven with just his mother's jacket. He clutched a part of the sleeve that was touching the palm of his hand. He took a deep, shaky breath and nodded. "Okay… okay. You're right. I normally don't. And," he paused and made a beckoning motion with his finger, "you must keep in mind that if you do go out on your gym challenge, it's a rough world out there. You'll have to face me eventually and, admittedly… some that are quite better than me. But the gym challenge will get you out of that place, and let you find something new."

She gave an ear-to-ear grin and bounced excitedly. "Does this mean—"

"Shh," he shushed her, "keep this between you and me, understand?"

She put both hands over her mouth and nodded eagerly.

"Good," he said. He reached into his pockets to retrieve his Rotom Phone. He looked through his Pokemon Storage Boxes until he located a suitable starter. A young male Ralts. It would certainly be a lot friendlier and less disruptive than his starter had been. As much as he loved Hatterene and would not replace her for the world, he would be the first to advise against owning one. He tucked the phone back into his pocket and retrieved a Pokeball from his belt. He held it out to the little girl, but didn't let her take it just yet.

"This is a Ralts," he explained, "they're quite friendly and if you train it right, it'll become a Kirlia. After that, if you train it properly some more, it may become a Gardevoir. You can also give Kirlia a Dawn Stone to have it become a Gallade instead. Of course, if you're goin' for Fairy… you'll want Gardevoir." He winked at her and clasped the Pokeball in her hand.

He was trembling somewhat; he had never felt such a rush of desire to just… do something before. He wanted to do everything in his power to set this girl right, to ensure her challenge went properly and smoothly, to ensure she got out of that godforsaken orphanage, to—

"M-Mr. Bede?" she asked when he continued to hold on. He quickly let go and apologized.

"You need something else, of course," Bede said. He dug in his pockets for a moment until he found a piece of paper and a pen. The pen was purple, but that was still a pen. "I will admit, since I don't really write recommendations, I don't have any preplanned on me. You'll need to get an envelope and tuck this in it before you can give it to any League Staff. What's your last name?"

"Hill!" she answered. "Taylor Hill."

On the note, he wrote:

To whom it may concern, I, Gym Leader Bede of Ballonlea, endorse Taylor Hill for the Galar Major League Gym Challenge. I have verified she has a starting Pokemon, in this case, a Ralts, and has the means necessary to engage in this season.

Signed, Gym Leader Bede.

Bede

He neatly folded the crinkled paper and handed it to her. "Keep that somewhere very safe until you can get it to League Staff. Now, let's get you back to the group, alright?" he said. "But remember. Our secret. You'll say you just caught the Ralts, and that Nessa or someone endorsed you, okay? Ralts is a pretty weak Pokemon right now, wouldn't be hard to say you caught it by just lobbing a ball at it…"

"Our secret!" Taylor giggled. "No worries, Mr. Bede!"

He led her out of the brush, picking her up to keep her dress from dragging on thorns and sticks. Once back in the city, he set her down and she bolted over to a frazzled group standing about the center of the city's walkways. A harried old woman scolded Taylor once she returned, demanding to know what she thought she was doing. Bede took a deep breath to compose himself and placed his hands on his hips as he approached.

"I believe you lost one along the way," Bede commented as he drew close.

Meredith, her skin papery and hair white and frizzy, apologized profusely. "I am so sorry Gym Leader Bede," she said, "I don't know—"

"Calm down," Bede yawned. "I've no interest in how or why. Seems kid wanted a Pokemon. She had found a Pokeball on the ground and lobbed it at a poor Ralts until she caught it."

"Is that true?" Meredith asked, turning to Taylor. Taylor triumphantly held up the Pokeball.

"Yes! I love it!" she yelled.

"Ralts isn't so bad," Meredith muttered under her breath. She looked up at Bede. "Thank you for bringing her back to the group, Gym Leader Bede. We'll be on our way now."

The rest of the kids clamored around Taylor, demanding to see her new Pokemon. Meredith called for them to compose themselves so they could continue their trip. A Corviknight Cabbie offered his assistance, saying he'd call a friend to accommodate all of them. Meredith graciously accepted. Bede began to turn away when he saw Taylor wave at him excitedly from the crowd. He couldn't help but give a soft smile, then turn on a heel to head back to the gym. Instead of seeing the roadway behind him, however, he was met with Opal's terrifyingly long nose.

"Arceus—Opal!" he snapped. "Why must you sneak up on me like that?"

"You did something good," Opal teased. She turned away from him to walk back to the gym.

"I did nothing," he spat back after her. "I was just out in the woods for a break, and now I'm heading back to the gym."

"I didn't say you didn't," Opal answered simply. "Just that you did something good."

Bede relaxed a little and shook his head. 'Suppose I did, he thought.

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swanwinged-princess · 5 years

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Hhhh Pokemon au...

-Altair Apollyon Cygnus is/was a Pokemon champion/top scientist turned roving champion of justice going around righting wrongs and taking down evil and stuff

-Wandered into Schwanensee, a small kingdom/principality/province where people and Pokemon lived together in harmony, with a rich history etc. etc., decided to stay and study it bc everything seems to be really... healthy and nice for lack of a better word

-The lore/culture of Schwanensee heavily involves two previously unheard-of legendary Pokemon, Sygneraph and Monstravan (aka the Salvation Pokemon and the Despair Pokemon)

-Basically to sum it up they’re a pair of legendary birds; in ages past they used to work together to keep balance but eventually had some sort of falling-out and Monstravan stormed off to the other side of the forest to set up its own domain full of darkness and poison and is basically just a blighted hellscape

-Blighted hellscape land is still part of Schwanensee but only technically; is ruled by Baron Bertrand von Rothbart or something totally obvious like that, while nice and healthy and flourishing land is ruled by the royal family, currently only consisting of crown princess/young queen Leda

-Leda is special because she can commune with (talk to) Pokemon and she has a similar aura to a healing Pokemon like Chansey or Audino

-The Baron is big salty because he has to rule blighted hellscape-land populated exclusively by ruffians and thugs and other such unsavory individuals; in the history books it says that the baron’s family chose to rule over it out of the goodness of their hearts bc somebody had to take care of it, but actually they and all their followers got exiled because they tried to pull some Fuck Shit to usurp the throne

-When Altair shows up he’s all fixing to move in and marry Leda, but obviously she and Altair fall in love and get married, making Altair the new king (they were actually arranged to be married, but after Leda officially became queen she abolished arranged marriage in Schwanensee forever for the sake of True Love)

-Baron throws a tantrum, goes back to blighted hellscape-land for a few years; everyone thinks he’s just sulking but ACTUALLY he’s been setting up a big evil science operation, actually CAPTURED Monstravan and is now doing experiments on it

-Fast-forward a couple years; Altair and Leda are happily married and are throwing a gala to celebrate Leda being in the late stages of pregnancy

-Baron von Rothbart shows up to ‘offer the olive branch’/reveal that he has somehow acquired a few children of his own (even though he doesn’t have a wife), makes ‘jokes’ about how since he has boys AND girls any of his kids could marry their kid, which fall kinda flat

-Since nobody seems to be down with his ‘random idea’ of arranging a marriage between his kid(s) and the still-unborn heir, he decides to move on to plan B which is POISON LEDA AND HER BABY with a vial of Monstravan blood extract

-He slips it into a cup of special wine, years old from his family’s best stock etc. etc., and is ‘I know her majesty is expecting the blessed event any day now, but surely a mere MOUTHFUL wouldn’t hurt, it’s my best wine, a peace offering’ blah blah blah

-Leda takes one swallow and collapses dramatically; the cup rolls along the floor and the wine evaporates into purple smoke, and so on and so forth

-Leda gets rushed to Altair’s lab under the castle where a bunch of scientists and healer Pokemon try to save her/figure out what’s wrong with her but they can’t seem to figure anything out because they’ve never had to work with essence of Monstravan before

-Baron and associates are banished from Schwanensee proper under pain of death; Altair starts having a big high-tech ultra-fortified wall built between the forest and hellscape-land, guarded night and day and etc. etc.

-The scientists managed to save Leda/keep her stable but the baby (Tutu obviously) is another matter... they got her out of Leda and into a special incubator but she’s still dying and nobody knows what to do

-Altair ordered everybody who knew about the poisoning to keep their mouths shut so the kingdom at large is still celebrating the upcoming birth of the heir

-Altair goes to the garden to wallow in despair and lo and behold, who should come descending down from the sky in a ray of light and settle majestically onto the castle’s Swanna pond than Sygneraph

-Sygneraph talks to him with telepathy and is like ‘I know what has happened here; I can feel that this child is the hope of this land— there is a way to save her, but be warned because if you do this, she will not be the same’

-Altair is like ‘uhhhh FUCK YEAH I’m gonna do this’ and runs and grabs Tutu out of the incubator and brings her to Sygneraph

-Sygneraph takes out one of its heart gems (3 special gems on its chest) and places it on Tutu’s chest; it merges with her/becomes part of her like it was part of Sygneraph and she does a Swan Princess-style swirly sparkly transformation into a weirdly beautiful Pokemon-like creature

-Sygneraph is like ‘I have given up part of my power to this child and I can no longer protect this land as strongly as I once did; the poison is gone but the power necessary to do so has changed her forever. She is now neither human nor Pokemon, but perhaps she can bring us closer together. All eras must come to an end-- and I will hope that this child is the light needed to usher in a new one’

-Then it explains that at night she’ll be more like a Pokemon but in the daytime she’ll be more like a human, but she’ll still have Pokemon-like features

-Altair also tells everyone to keep it a secret that Tutu is like that because he doesn’t want sketchy people and scientists coming to try and get at her

-Sygneraph decides to chill in the castle gardens for the foreseeable future because it just lost a full third of its power, and also somebody’s gonna have to keep an eye on Tutu to make sure everything’s ok/teach her how to be part-legendary Pokemon

-Meanwhile in blighted hellscape-land (because everything has to have a balance), Monstravan looks up in its laser prison and goes ‘I sense that Sygneraph grows weaker... But a new light has awoken... What can this mean’

-Baron is like ‘EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO ME OR I’LL ZAP YOU WITH LASERS AGAIN’ and Monstravan is like *sigh* ‘ok way to ruin my enigmatic dramatic moment-- basically I think Sygneraph just gave one of its heart gems to the royal baby’

-Baron is like ‘oh YEAH?!?! Well if Altair gets that then I’m gonna do THIS’ and snatches one of Monstravan’s soul shards (3 special gems on its forehead) and gets his scientists to figure out how to distribute it to his horrible ‘kids’

-Fast forward a few years-- Tutu is growing up and generally being cute/sweet/a beloved young princess; the kingdom adores her and she has a happy life with her mom and dad and ‘fairy godfather’ Sygneraph

-In the daytime she looks human except for her arms (which are wings w. claw-hands) and a long, trailing set of fairy wings on the small of her back that almost form a ‘train’ or ‘tail’ when they’re folded down, and her eyes, which are particularly big and beautiful and a pretty sort of iridescent gradient like Allura’s eyes from VLD; basically she just wears long, kimono-style sleeves and floor-length puffy skirts to hide them when she has to be seen by people outside the castle

-At night, she turns into almost a Gardevoir or Kirlia-esque or fairylike creature, with those delicate, inhuman proportions and even bigger eyes/no nose to speak of/a feather ‘dress’ that’s sort of part of her body; climbs out of her window when she’s supposed to be sleeping and flutters around the garden and dances on the lake with Sygneraph and all kinds of different Pokemon

-When she’s about seven years old there’s a surprise attack on the castle at night; lots of grunts in raggedy black cloaks with pointy hoods to look like birds; swarms of Murkrow and Honchkrow and Corviknight and even hired mercenaries with real ass guns and everything

-They set fire to the castle grounds and during the altercation, a few guards/palace staff, some Pokemon and of course Leda are killed

-In the aftermath, Altair and Sygneraph decide to leave on a journey/self-imposed exile to prove it was the Baron/restore balance/take revenge/just wallow in his own man-guilt and leave Tutu to be taken care of by the scientists and servants

-She grows up more and becomes beautiful/kind/wise/beloved by all; isn’t the official ruler yet but still has a hand in how things work and is actually quite good at it

-Enter the baron’s fuckboy son, Cor von Rothbart, who swaggers in and is like ‘Hey princess, YOU’RE going to marry ME’ and she is like.... ‘ew no’

-This is basically the climate up until now, interspersed with a few kidnapping schemes and attempts to trick or entrap Tutu into agreeing to marry/engaging herself to Cor

-Tutu doesn’t battle or coordinate, but she does have a ‘team’, consisting of a Gardevoir (Giselle, her lady-in-waiting, who does the things she can’t do without showing she has wings for hands), an Altaria (Sylph), a red Florges (Aurora), a Swanna (Siegfried), a Togekiss (Cupid), and a shiny Bellossom (Flora).

-She can use Pokemon moves but mainly only defensive/healing/restoration-type moves; if I had to give her a typing it would be Fairy (Sygneraph is Fairy/Dragon (I KNOW BUT UNTIL/IF WE GET A LIGHT TYPE IT’S THE BEST I’VE GOT), Monstravan is Dark/Dragon/Poison)

-She can also talk to Pokemon (more traditionally ‘talking’, like a Disney princess in this case, rather than just ~communing~ bc I say so and I think it’d be cute if she’s just chatting away with a bunch of Pokemon and responding like they’re actually having a conversation while all anybody else can hear is ‘Pika pi!’ or whatever)

-Pokemon are also drawn to her, moreso in her night/‘true’ form, bc she has that same aura as a healing legendary like Xerneas or something, but even as a ‘human’ ppl will remark about how she can seem to get even the most stand-offish Pokemon to open up to her

-it’s possible to reveal her true form during the day, but it would take a lot of power/specific wavelengths and energy and stuff, and it would definitely really hurt

-I’ll talk about the ‘setting’ it’ll probably be easiest to interact w her in in a different post bc this has already gotten long enough as is

#{I'll Be Your Lucky Girl; mun tag}#{Pokémon Verse; the moonlight shows you for what you truly are}

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