- has a small hobby in drawing/painting w watercolours as a passtime
- likes rock music + all subgenres of rock. also a bit of metal (piers fan maybe,,,)
- got his porygon Z from pure coincidence while sneaking around the Aether foundation. it kind of just,,, latched onto him and didn’t leave.
- cracks his knuckles often (moreso out of habit than anything else)
- absolutely loves murder mysteries and won’t admit he likes dramas too
- genuinely talkative when he wants to be + if he’s comfortable. He prefers listening to people speak. super blunt most of the time but tries not to seem mean in front of younger kids
^ sucks with words/hardly talkative otherwise so he shows appreciation via acts of service, etc
- i’m a personal “Gladion leaves Alola to become a trainer” believer than a “Aether foundation leader Gladion” believer. get my boy OUTTA THERE
- has a noticeable/large birthmark surrounding his left eye. probably the reason he grew his hair out like that (maybe Lusamine has a similar birthmark …… and he hates the similarity…… )
- less of a hc and actually more canon if anything; surprisingly good w kids. have u seen him with kiawe’s younger sister AGH
- slightly uneasy around ghost pkmn for no other reason than the fact they find him easy to scare
- basically nocturnal
- team skull grunts find him kind of scary/intimidating lmfao
- easiest way to make friends w him is via pokemon battles
GLADION FROM POKEMON SUN AND MOON?!?!? I haven’t gotten over those games. People can hate on them all they want, but I will love them forever. Also in casr it wasn’t obvious, my main comfort character has come full circle back to Gladion(I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HOLY MOLY). A few of these drawings aren’t very good but I don’t have the heart to erase them so they stay.
They're FINALLY complete, and each of them has amazing glow ups and outfits compared to the ones in the anime!!! 🥳🥂🥺💖
Despite Lillie being the one paired with Magearna in the anime, I absolutely adore the idea of Gladion being paired with it too! His sygna suit for their sync pair is so fitting 🥺🫶💗
the pokemas story with the family battle event is so fascinating to me because it never clicked to me that each person has their own "style" in battling and it can be hard to synchronize with each other as a team.... despite being family
"I'm not okay" + trustedpartnershipping, requested by @summ3rm3rma1d1994-blog
"I'm not okay," Gladion groans into his pillow, going through the biggest crisis of his life.
Lillie hums next to him, flipping through the book she's reading, with zero concern for him. He lifts his head slightly to glare at her, and she gives him a look, like he's the one who chose to feel like this.
"You're the worst sister ever," Gladion grumbles. "You don't care about my problems."
"I don't think Ash smiling at you constitutes as a problem."
"It does!"
She sighs, snapping her book shut. "You're so stubborn it baffles me."
I’m playing through the new pokemas alola event and this is genuinely the first time I’ve felt like the aether family are the characters I love and remember from the alola games. it actually feels like them for once, even lusamine (even if she’s a bit toned down) feels more like the questionable person and bad mother, and the attempts to make up for it feel more genuine than “oops the nihilego did it”
EDIT: I finished the event plot and. Yeah. They definitely did not forget that lusamine is very questionable. I wish they hadn’t framed what she did quite so positively but they didn’t make it out to be a GOOD thing, just a questionable choice that led to good things. seriously though why is gladion smirking as he says “that’s low, mom”