#rocketverse

[jade-hearted-gymleader]

<Starter for @badmusejail>

Green cracked his back loudly after the dust settled, grin on his face.

“That was really good!” he praised, Eevee turning from her crumpled opponent and returning to sit proudly at Green’s heel. The grunt didn’t seem like they believed him, but Green continued.

“No, I mean it. Hey, you battled me last week right, and you didn’t get as far as you did today, that’s improvement. You’re making progress and that’s more than a lot of people can say for themselves. Don’t be too hard on yourself, okay?”

And Green meant it. Even these lower-level trainers showed so much potential, so much more than the headstrong and obnoxiously cocky gym challengers he’d been dealing with.for the better half of a decade. They were fundamentally better enrichment, left him more energized than the temper tantrum throwing aces that bitched when they lost and got themselves kicked out.

And that’s to say nothing of the actually incredibly powerful trainers he’d faced here. Not just powerful, but skilled, and there was a difference. The divide between someone who could brute force a problem and actually work their way around it was eons wide. And the more time he spent in the Rocket training grounds, the more he realized that the bulk of them strove to be the latter. Even if they hadn’t all risen to the challenge yet.

This level of challenge and engagement alone would have made his predicament worth it. Without question. But coupled with the idea that he was actually doing some good, even if it meant getting his hands dirty? It just sweetened it all. Not to mention the slow discovery of his Grandfather’s actual history. Though admittedly, he was trying to put that on the back burner, as if he could compartmentalize it. He couldn’t, but that wouldn’t stop him from trying.

His challenger had left, leaving Green and Eevee to their own devices to train together. He didn’t notice at first, so wrapped up in their own teamwork, but the area had almost completely cleared of other people, the way the forest clears in the presence of a top predator.  Green almost wondered if he had missed something, when he noticed that another individual had entered the training space.

“Yo.” Green greeted, cocky as ever. He didn’t quite recognize this person- he was horrible with faces and relied on peoples signature styles to remember their names until he repeated interactions with them a good handful of times. It was trouble when he first became a gym leader and started attending more casual events. He registered that the man had a powerful presence about him, and that pinged his radar. Unfortunately, that only had the effect of making him just a little bit more insufferable.

Maybe if he’d had the benefit of recognizing the man that walked in, he would have understood why the rest of the rockets quietly exited the training space.

#rocketverse #SORRYYYY that it is long I got excited

[orreanintrepidness]

Never forget, of the two verses I have on here, Rocket Ali is the one that's downright evil, actual big bad. That man turned Orre into a big ol' factory for whatever Rocket needs. There's no "Oh this is for the greater good" No. It's all about the bottom line. That bottom line being "This place is a resource, resources need to be expended and this one will be used until it is in fact expended." That's your "Oh god everyone in Orre is going to probably die" timeline.

#ooc: rye speaking #desert space program: rocketverse

[monterraverde]

eavesdrop! 👁️👁️

“I wouldn’t call what we’re doing ‘dating’, its very much carnal. Yeah I know I’ve been doing that a lot- Don’t backsass me, Grunt- but what I do in my free time is none of your business. Will say this about John, though, he’s more skilled then I give him credit for. Really knows how to put a bow on a situation… Funny and dependable- to a point…”

Her eyes trail to the peripheral, and she gasps and sucks air in through her teeth when she spots him. “ANYWAY THATS YOUR ASSIGNMENT THANKS YOU’RE DISMISSED” and she speeds off back to her office.

#rikas inbox: lets chat! #turnecoat #:: white rabbit (rocketverse)

[redlegend-a]

thinking emoji.

#mine #hmmmm #no this isn't a rocketverse thing sorry

[monozuu]

@zeconductor​  &&.  liked  for  a STARTER!  

❝  wooow,  you  seem  so  FUN!  and  not  even  in  the  exclusively  at  parties  kinda  way,  either!  ❞      he  laughed  (  unapologetically  )  at  his  own  joke.      ❝  usually  i  neeever  get  to  team  up  with  ANYONE  on  missions!  it’s  always . . .  boom!  go  here!  don’t  let  anyone  see  you!  steal  this  thing,  blackmail  this  guy,  aaand  run  away!  must  be  a  real  important  job  this  time.  ❞

#zeconductor #( running at your rocketverse FULL SPEED )

[tumblestones-archive]

🗡 - whoever you think would :> | @ofpalletown​

“i suggest you stay still, boy.” the short blade had been stabbed into the teen carefully. not enough for long term damage, not with giovanni’s interest in him, but enough to let him know what she was capable of doing to him. “and stay quiet.”

#ofpalletown #interaction | matori #cw violence #obvs not rocketverse

[sanrioscene]

OKAY I'VE BEEN HYPERFIXATING ON THE LYRA IN MY HEAD IN THE ROCKETVERSE AU WHERE SILVER DECIDES TO FOLLOW IN HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS. YEAH.... yeah

shoutout to egg and cyan for lowkey (highkey) inspiring me to Think About This Lyra Design by talking abt rocketboss silver that one time.

anyways there's a lot more specifics abt her that i can't rly fit on this ref sheet and if anyone has any questions abt her lmk. i love talking abt my current interests (obsessions) anyhow.

also i feel like. she would be buff in this au. feel it in my soul buff lyra ftw.

#pokemon #trainer lyra #pokemon lyra #pokémon heartgold/soulsilver #soulsilvershipping #lyra pokemon #art #digital art #rocketboss au #pkmn #timeskip design #character redesign #redesign #honestly i love a good girlboss. even if she's evil. #or almost evil #reference sheet #soulsilvershipping mention tbh its kinda vague unless you read my words #rocket rebellion lyra

[rebornbythunder]

((Ok weird mun ramble under the cut, tw for mentions of abuse in vague senses, nothing graphic but it’s related to irl events. I figure, it’s munday, I’m manic and prone to oversharing, and I have so much love in my heart right now for this muse and for my Green muse as well and in what ways they intersect. I started writing this as a maybe one or two paragraph posts about Red’s service pokemon and it... got very out of hand and very personal, so take this. I’ve been writing for like a half hour, and it just feels right to share.

Every single day I realize that Red is just accumulating service pokemon. And honestly it’s been really freeing to write Red as a noticeably disabled character, as a disabled person. Not everything that Red experiences do I experience (I’m not an amputee, for example), but everything that I write him with I do it from the perspective of someone who is disabled, if that makes sense? Where my own experiences lack, I obviously do research, but its so... GOOD, to be writing this character that’s considered such a big name, almost a folk hero, and have him be very plainly disabled.

My Red is nonverbal, he’s autistic, he has PTSD. He probably has other things going on that I’m not aware of yet and I’m thinking about blasting his hearing half to death to give another thing that I also experience.

In a similar vein I do the same with my Green- he’s bipolar, he’s a child of neglect, he’s ALSO autistic and has PTSD but differently. I want to do more with him, I’m considering writing him with BPD as well but I need more research to do that justice since that’s not my experience, but all of it comes from that same place of “I go through this, these characters are unequivocally top tier people in their world, strong and respected, and they do it not in spite of their conditions but at least in part because of them”.

I write the pokemon world as generally extremely friendly to autistic people. This is because I don’t really like systematic ableism in my escapism, but also because iirc, pokemon was CREATED by an autistic person who wanted to make a game that appealed to him. The world would be influenced that way, and I chose to continue that thread. Some things a world could never exactly accommodate- PTSD, abuse, the lot of it exists because the world isn’t perfect and those struggles are inherent to my life experience. And because of that, because I can’t separate that from my own experiences, it goes into the world I create in my writing.

Basically what I’m saying is that I put a lot of my heart and soul into these characters. The choices I make aren’t because they’re popular headcanons or trendy concepts- its because I know what its like, or have a loved one who knows what its like, to live that way. That is my little special spark I have to offer to these two characters, I think, that makes them unique.

Red gets service pokemon and a good therapist because he’s a recovery fantasy. He’s a character that started as an expression of my grief and externalizing the abuse that I experienced into horror, as the genre often is. But over the decade that I’ve written him, he’s blossomed into something that is different. I’m growing, I’m healing, he is the part I want to treat kindly because he’s been through that hell. And yeah, sometimes I deal him hard blows like in the Rocketverse where he is set back HARD, and changes into a worse person. That’s a story about continuing under hard circumstances and persistence despite that. I came up in a high control group, and exploring that feeling of being trapped like that in this way, where Red can come out the other side maybe not a good man, but an okay one? Is good. And in the mainverse, I plan on giving Red good things. Happiness eventually, stability. He’s going to become someone his child self wouldn’t recognize but would be able to look at and say “that’s a good man”.

Hisui is similar to Rocketverse, but deals instead with grief more abstractly, and cuts out the high-control. It’s a story about a man who didn’t know who he was even before he lost his memory, learning to become someone new again. I have severe memory issues- I mention this in my about. But being able to write a character that I know will eventually bloom into a loved member of his adopted clan that struggles in this way, in a more hostile environment, is liberating. It’s also why I write Ingo, a muse I’m actually going to be bringing back in the VERY near future because like I said I’m manic as hell right now and this is a good outlet for it.

Green, conversely, is a character in active struggle. He’s stagnating, he’s trapped. He’s crushed under the weight of his responsibilities and the baggage that comes with being a gym leader, and the former champion’s rival, and a former champion himself. He’s disabled but won’t recognize it, he won’t admit a lot of things to himself and will not look at his actual problems head-on. This is a character that is in a transitional period of his life, caught on the cusp right now of deciding if he wants to address his problems and GROW, or if he wants to just sit with them, and passively allow his issues to ruin and steal away his life. Green is born of longing and frustration, fundamentally. He’s in many ways the opposite of Red; where Red grows, Green stagnates. Where Red seeks resolution to his issues and asks for forgiveness, Green denies there’s even a problem and continues to fester that self-hatred.

The core of his problems aren’t his fault- they arise from other’s choices, genetics, bad luck and misfortune. But where his extended troubles come in is from his lack of action- the familiarity of his suffering is what’s kept him locked in this cycle. Green is, at the core, an indecisive man afraid to take risks, someone who’s built up this facade of someone who knows what he’s doing that he’s terrified that one step out of his routine will make the illusion come crashing down around him. So he sits in his gym, wanting to travel the world, and wanting to define his relationship with Red. He’s not even afraid of being rejected by him- he knows that Red will say yes. But that would mean being even more open, and emotionally intimate and vulnerable, and he simultaneously craves and fears it more than anything. Green, for me, is less a fantasy and more commiseration.  A lot of what Green struggles with, I also struggle or struggled with in the past. He’s an opportunity to tell a story of someone who made different choices. And, because I am a hopeless romantic, the story of someone who is loved and admired despite the fact that he’s a deeply flawed man.

Red and Green are both deeply flawed characters too, and it’s unrelating to their disabilities. Red’s biggest flaw right now is his backtracking, going back on his decisions. He can make them, but he struggles to follow through. He also is incredibly petty, as can be seen in the drama alert arc with @/zeconductor. His fear of following through with things has also kept him from making friends. I know that he and N would make GREAT friends, they’d get along so well, but because he can’t follow through they just end up glancing off of each other’s trajectories. Green can’t even start that process. He doesn’t know who he is, and he actively has started resenting Red a little for that. Green has a lot of cognitive dissonance and is very quick to anger, and a lot of that has to do with his unresolved and unaddressed issues.

Fundamentally, the stories I write with these two are stories about two men who, at the end of the day, love each other deeply, but have drastically different needs. They’re in different phases of the process of self-actualization and of healing from their pasts, with different levels of baggage and different types. Their needs conflict, and so so often. But at the end of the day, they’re Rivals. They’re Rivals and they love each other, weather they end up together or not, and it’s through that bond that they encourage each other to be their best and better selves.

Eventually, Red will follow through. Eventually, Green will address his problems. Eventually, they both know who they are, and they come at each other with the knowledge that the other helped foster and shape that person. They didn’t make each other, they made themselves, but their Rivalry fundamentally changed each other’s orbits with their gravity.

I write stories for me, about people like me, and I put a little part of myself in them. It’s how I connect with a world that I can’t often find myself in. Red is a man that everyone would look at and see a disabled person, seen with admiration and respect. Green is a man that might not be read as disabled, who masks at all times for fear of rejection- but in the world I’ve written, he would be accepted. He is accepted, by everyone but himself, and when he learns to accept himself, he’ll figure out who he is. They’re both a story of twenty-somethings who don’t know what they want, or are just figuring it out, and starting over. Stories about people who thought they wanted one thing all their lives and are confronted with the reality that they don’t know what they want but it sure isn’t this. Stories about people feeling out the world and making the best with the hand they’ve been dealt, and coming out the other side as people who are looked upon with respect.

They are both, at the end of the day, stories about people like me, being loved and respected for who they are, and who they are learning to be. About being supported through the realization that they need to do something completely new. About getting the help they need.

Their lives aren’t perfect. I love to hurt my boys so much. But their growth and their struggle, their disabilities and their flaws, the special little features that bloom from the cracks that come when I put them under pressure? That’s what this is all for.

The boys are like a scrying mirror. I’m letting you all take a look. What do you guys think?

#munday #meta #this is ok to reblog interact with whatever idc #I feel like I needed to be seen through this. #so here it is.

[ladymiraclewings]

Thinking about now Isidore and Theodore have one Super Pet’, their SW-Team Rocketverse is completed now with a pet mascot who compose the trio...

#super wings #season 7 #season 6 #world guardians #super pets evolution #pokemon #golden duo #theodore #isidore #golden boy #golden wheels #mini theodore

[xxxtherrcollectivexxx]

"What did you do?!" (Rocketverse obv lol)

@monterraverde

『 𝕴 𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖕𝖚𝖙 𝖒𝖞 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖎𝖓 𝕲𝖎𝖔𝖛𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖎 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖉𝖔 𝖆𝖘 𝕴 𝖆𝖒 𝖙𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝙰𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚊 』

❝ Apparently the police don't like seeing women showing their knees. ❞

That was not the case in general, but when was Ariana ever going to tell the truth in why she ended up in jail?

#[[ i just put my faith in giovanni and do as i am told :: executive ariana ]] #monterraverde #ariana keeps all her secrets #but please bail her out she might end up doing something to the guards

[jade-hearted-gymleader]

<Starter for @badmusejail >

It had been a week or so since the offer was extended. Green wasn't sure what was taking him so long to actually follow through.

Maybe it was the humiliation of not recognizing Giovanni to start with, the way he left. Maybe it was the very serious tone that he had walked away using when extending the offer, that shook him to his core. Maybe he thought it was a trap, a way to trick him into doing something he shouldn't so he could be punished. It wouldn't be the first time that had happened to him.

Maybe it was the fact that he was scared.

Whatever the reason though, it took Green a week to finally work up the courage to walk into the office. Giovanni was there, as promised. Green had timed it catefully- around 2pm, so there was plenty of time to talk, but also after lunch. Manipulating moods the best he could, he wanted to give himself the best chance.

"Hey uh," he started, clearly a little antsy. "Are you uh, busy right now?"

#rocketverse

[orreanintrepidness]

"WE ARE SO BACK"

#ic #desert space program: rocketverse

[monterraverde]

“I see John went full tilt crazy last night…”

#JOHN WHAT… WHAT HAPPENED… #:: dash comm #:: white rabbit (rocketverse)

[brcoinwork]

Token recently launched on CoinMarketCap, P2E FPS, do your analysis!

#p2e

[professor-cinnamon-roll]

And they’ve been together since.

#pokemon #magma leader maxie #aqua leader archie #team magma leader maxie #team aqua leader archie #pokemon oras #carvanha #numel #my art #rocketverse

[zinnia-the-wanderer]

(Genuinely considering a Team Rocket Zinnia AU)

(She wouldn’t be a multiverse traveling type, she’d just be a TR member for........ some reason.)

(Anyone wanna help me flesh out this idea?)

#out of this world #rocketverse #team rocket zinnia