#crispin doesn't really have an excuse. though this does make me hc him & flannery as relatives even harder

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I was looking through various trainers PWT-teams, and made an interesting discovery - Crispin shares half of his team with Flannery for some reason and Drayton is somehow even worse in this regard, sharing 2/3 of his team with Lance.

Sure, they have different movesets and items, the battles are in a completely different format, it likely means nothing at the end, but it still stuck into my mind. Like let's imagine for a moment that it does mean something - with Drayton, one could just chug it into him being lazy and copying most of his team from someone he not only idolizes, but has proven that said team works. It could also possibly imply that his Archaludon and Sceptile were some of his first Pokemon, but that's a topic for another time. Crispin honestly has no excuse for copying Flannery though

#personal thoughts #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarvi #pkmn scarvi #the indigo disk #elite four crispin #pokemon crispin #crispin #elite four drayton #pokemon drayton #drayton #do i think this has any meaning? no. am i going to overthink it anyway? yes #this is exclusively about pwt teams so that's why i'm only comparing them to flannery & lance #lance & drayton's teams being mostly same cracks me up bc it's like a kid trying their hardest to be like their idol #like he saw pwt live/recordings of it as a kid & was so impressed by lance that he wanted to copy him #crispin doesn't really have an excuse. though this does make me hc him & flannery as relatives even harder #(the fact that they're the only fire type specialists named after conifer trees doesn't really help in this regard) #you know what? i'm going to hc flannery as crispin's mum from this point onward. canon be damned i don't care #would make funny interactions between the two if nothing else