#dammit I would include pokemon crossbreeds if i could!

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Things about my fictional pokemon region (which needs a name):

You are raised by an older sister who trains pokemon for service (both Service Pokemon and Ride Pokemon), and is fairly famous throughout the region for her work. She is also a pseudo-Rival, showing up several times during your adventure to battle you. She’s in the area for work reasons and she takes some time to check out your skills, as well as exercise the pokemon she has on her. Her team changes drastically throughout the game because of this.

The last time you encounter her is as the Champion (she’s not famous just for her service and ride pokemon, but for her battle skills as well)

Two different pokemon professors, a married couple similar to Kukui and Burnet, called Wyatt Buckeye and June Dogwood (btw: the whole region is South-Western USA based, or maybe Western Canada? Think that sort of area. If I go Western Canada, I’d have to include mountains and a temperate Rainforest). I’m not 100% sure what Buckeye studies, because what I think suits him is already taken (because I feel like it would be either Relationships between Humans and Pokemon, which is Oak’s Specialty, or Habitats, which is Birch’s), but his wife Dogwood researches Pokemon Evolution Families (a la Darwinian Evolution). She’s the main professor, the one who gives you your starter and pokedex.

The region is HUGE and has very long distances between cities, but lots of small towns scattered here and there, lots of rest houses, one or two tunnels that act as shortcuts, being straight shots to certain cities. There is also a desert you need to cross.

You have two rivals (like in B/W) Rhett and Acacia. Acacia Buckeye is the professor’s daughter. She doesn’t know what she wants from her life. She has the starter weak to yours and is usually found doing whatever fun side thing is available (Contests, etc)

Your other Rival is Rhett. Rhett is haughty. But it is RHETT who first discovers Team Revive and their plans and decides to take action against them and free the pokemon stored in their lab (he rescues two of them near the beginning of the game, and he gifts one to you, the other is on his team til the end)

The Aether Foundation makes an appearance as a Branch. One that actually does what it claimed. Rescuing abused and injured pokemon and helping them. It’s a location where you can do some odd jobs for money, heal, and battle Aether Employees (some are on break, some have pokemon who are restless, etc. And they heal your pokemon after battle)

Now: Team Revive. Team Revive’s focus is on restoring ancient pokemon and eliminating the rock type contamination that most of the fossil pokemon have, giving them their original type combos (Kabuto: Bug/Water (bug/fighting Kabutops), Omanyte: Water, Aerodactyl: Dragon/Flying, Anorith: Water/Bug (Bug/Steel Armaldo), Lileep: Water/Grass, Shieldon:Ground/Steel, Archen: Dragon/Flying, Tyrunt: pure dragon (Tyrantrum is Dragon/Dark) in their Revive Formes. Almost all of the members use Revive Forme fossil pokemon. Their goal is to obtain Genesect.

PLOT TWIST:

Team Revive isn’t evil. Rhett (who was born in another region, maybe Unova?) jumped to conclusions. Their goals are to restore wild populations of these extinct pokemon, and reintroduce them into their natural habitats. I feel like, post game, you could bring them fossils to receive the Revive Formes.

I also feel like you’d be able to get the true forms of the Galar Fossils, and there would be several regional fossils as well, with two formes. The part Rock regular forme, and the Revive Forme. My choices are: one based off of a Maiasaura (i’d love it if the baby was bipedal and the adult quadrupedal), one based off some sort of prehistoric mammal (I’d choose Direwolf, or maybe a Sabertooth tiger...though this is pokemon, it could be both), and one based off of the spiral shark, and Gorochu. Yes Gorochu, as a fossil pokemon who is the ancestor of all of the Pikaclones.

Some of the scrapped pokemon designs can be reworked for new pokemon or regional variants/evolutions.

I don’t have any designs in mind for other regional variants but I love them, so of course I would include them!

Also you can visit your pokemon in the daycare and play with them like you can play with pokemon in USUM, and you can see how compatible your pokemon are from the road (pokemon who are highly compatible would stand closer and play often, pokemon who are totally incompatible would never go near each other. Maybe toss in some pokedex references too! Like Seviper and Zangoose dislike each other, but after a bit of time start to like each other (because they are breeding compatible). Prey and Predator pokemon would say things like "X seems to be hungry..." or "Y seems nervous..." AND!! If you put a ditto in the daycare with another pokemon it would actually show that you have two of the same pokemon!

#pokemon #pokemon fan region #regional variant #dammit I would include pokemon crossbreeds if i could! #it would be fun if I could create things instead of only coming up with concepts