Came here to say I absolutely love your Clay art, really wish there was more of it, an underrated character for sure
That's my yeehaw dad!!
It's hard finding art of him due to his name, cuz when you search for "Pokemon Clay" or the like, all you really mostly find is Pokemon art made of modeling clay.
Hey guys! We've been sitting on this one for what feels like forever now lol. This is part of a bigger project and story you can read on Twitter @ SubmasR
(Due to the large amount of gym leaders, I had to split up BW2's gym leaders in another list, sorry!)
This is the 5tg of a small daily poll series during my break.I'll ask the fave gym leaders of each region, and at the end put them all in a poll against eachother!
Emmet sat silently in his office at the train station. He was very, very, very little. Usually when he was little at work, he would get Ingo's attention so he could take care of him or call someone to take him home but he couldn't do that this time. Ingo was missing. Emmet looked at his phone sitting next to him. He could call someone, maybe Elesa or Clay, but he felt so little he could barely talk. He whined. One of the other subway employees walked in.
"Emmet, there's a challenger for you." Emmet nodded and hoped he could get through this. He couldn't. He forfeited before running off. He hid somewhere and fumbled with his phone until he was calling Clay.
"Emmet? What's going on?" Clay asked. Emmet wanted to explain that he was little but couldn't so he just whined.
"Not talking? That's ok. Can you turn your camera on?" Emmet did as he asked. Once the camera was on, Emmet tried to put his thumb in his mouth.
"Oh, don't do that baby. At least take your glove off." Clay chatized. Emmet pouted.
"Can you show me where you are?" Emmet turned his phone to things that he thought could identify where he was.
"Ok baby. Can you wait there for me?" Emmet turned the phone back towards him and nodded.
"Do you want to stay on call with me or are you ok with me hanging up?" Emmet whined, he didn't want to be alone!
"Ok, ok. I'll only hang up if I have to. I'll be there as soon as I can." Clay reassured him. Emmet nodded and waited. He watched as Clay made his way through the subways to him. Suddenly, the call ended. Emmet whined. He felt so, so, so alone. Emmet hated being alone! Emmet began to cry and was still crying when Clay found him.
"Hey, hey. No more tears, ok?" Clay got him to stand up. Emmet made the unovian sign for 'alone'.
"I'm sorry baby, I know. My phone died." Emmet sighed 'home' in response.
"You wanna go home? Let's get you home." Clay held his hand and led him to the train. Clay continued to lead the way until they got to Emmet's home. Clay looked around before giving Emmet a black pacifier with "baby litwick" on the handle. Emmet whined and made a sign that was a combination of 'black' and 'brother', Emmet's sign for Ingo.
"I know, I know. This is Ingo's paci but your paci went missin' with him." Clay popped the pacifier into Emmet's mouth. Emmet held his hand up, ready to be taken to bed.
"It's not bedtime yet tyke. Gotta get you changed." Clay picked up Emmet and took him into the bedroom. Clay looked at Emmet's onesies. He had a white one but he only wanted to wear it if Ingo had his black onesie on so that was a no, he had a joltik one that he loved to wear while playing but it was clear he wanted to sleep, then there was his tynamo onesie that was perfect for naps. Bingo. Clay pulled it out and showed it to Emmet. Emmet nodded. Clay helped him out of his uniform.
"Do you want a diaper?" Clay asked. Emmet didn't need one and was 50/50 whether he wanted one so it was always good to ask. Emmet nodded. Clay taped one on him before putting the onesie on him. Clay tucked him in.
Small and cute, her brown eyes big and deerling-like.
Now, for the record. Drayden is used to children staring at him. He’s tall, broad, and a gym leader to boot along with being the mayor of his respective town as well. Not to mention, one of the few Dragon Tamers worldwide— though now that he thought about it, almost all of the others were also part of their regions’ leagues.
So yes, Drayden was used to children staring at him.
However, he was NOT used to children staring at him from behind the leg of his friend and coworker while the other Gym Leaders and League Members went about business as usual during the annual Unovan League Meet.
That was not normal.
Not to say that bringing kids to the meets wasn’t, Drayden and Alder both had been perpetrators of such acts during their long runs with the league. When Ingo and Emmet were young, he had been babysitting and had to drag them along, and Alder had brought his son back then too— and now the Champion brought Benga every so often, and Drayden often had Iris tagging along since he was hoping for her to eventually take over as Gym Leader.
(Not to mention that the Striatan trio were just barely adults and not yet out of their teenage years at nineteen and a half years old.)
So yes, occasionally Gym Leaders and other League members (be it staff, Elite Four, or the Champion) have brought children to meetings.
And yet, Drayden knew for a fact that Clay was not one of those.