#selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)

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I FIGURED OUT HOW NOT TO BREAK REBORN'S TIMELINES (MUCH)

TLDR: in my version of events, my self-insert (Adriana) now appears in all three timelines, not just the last two. The first is used for my selfship with Elena, and is reset as normal with nothing bad happening to Adriana; the second is used for my selfship with Luna, and is reset with an extra sacrifice needed due to Adriana’s fate there; the third is also used for my selfship with Luna, and ends in success thanks to the player being an additional presence. Adriana has a different outfit or appearance in each timeline, to help with differentiating them all.

Further explanation can be found under the readmore, if you'd like to know more! ..There will be some spoilers mentioned for the game, but I hope that the things I talk about are helpful for assisting your understanding if you aren’t as familiar with Reborn itself. I'm also more than happy to answer questions if anyone has any!! ^-^

The first timeline (pre-gameplay)

We don't know as much about the first timeline compared to the other two, and it also doesn't get to the same point that the other two do, but it's the one where everything technically kicks off from, so it's still important. In this timeline, Adriana is a Pokémon Trainer of some sort who travels to visit the Reborn region from her home in Kalos, and eventually ends up getting into a relationship with Elena of the Elite Four after bonding over a shared fondness for Ghost-types, gaining a greater appreciation for them in the process. (I have yet to figure out how Corey factors into this; for now, I am saying Elena has two hands.) More details will hopefully come with time.

The first timeline is eventually reset after the continued distortions and earthquakes afflicting Reborn, caused by Solaris wielding the power of Giratina, force Zina to have to fix things, sealing Giratina away in Byxbysion in the process and sacrificing her existence to facilitate the change and reset. Adriana was not a particularly prevalent character for many of the actual ongoing events here.. but this ends up changing after the timeline starts over again.

Anything I make within this timeline - so, anything to do with my selfship with Elena - can be identified by Adriana having a different outfit, and possibly also hairstyle. My first pass for this outfit, made within Pokémon Y, is this:

The second timeline (Episode 18)

This is the timeline seen by Miss Fortune, as well as being the one that has more direct relevance to in-game events, particularly in the postgame. Here, Adriana once again comes to Reborn, but at a slightly different time in her life - specifically, she decides to pick the region’s league as her first league challenge after finding some slightly misleading (in that it’s ten years out of date) marketing for it. From the moment she arrives rather explosively at Grandview Station, her journey goes completely differently to how she was expecting it to, as she ends up entangled in trying to stop Team Meteor while also collecting Gym Badges, eventually succeeding in obtaining all 18 (even if she did have to get two Poison- and Fighting-type ones due to.. extraneous circumstances). She ends up in a romantic relationship with Luna along the way as well, and even successfully rescues her from the Void.

This timeline follows the game’s events as they existed in Episode 18, with two key exceptions - Euphie still exists as Euphie, and Fern either does not join or eventually breaks away from Team Meteor. This is to fit what Miss Fortune sees. It also extends past the gym battle against Hardy, despite the game only being finished up to that point when this episode was the most recently-released one.

In this timeline, Adriana fully takes on the player character’s position as the protagonist, and experiences everything in the story as it existed in E18. The story then continues until she reaches the final battle with Lin, who drags her into the New World and removes its oxygen; Anna summons everyone’s hopes to make a wish to help her, but it turns out to not be strong enough, and she ends up unable to be saved, leaving Anna and others distraught. Fern then steps up to be the hero, working alongside Cal, Euphie, Arclight, and others to try and counter Lin and the havoc she is playing in the region - but he also doesn’t succeed. As a result, Anna ends up following in her mother’s footsteps by resetting the timeline again to fix the problems caused by Lin, with Nostra (her Jirachi) as the sacrifice; however, a second sacrifice is also deemed to be required to bring Adriana back, and this ends up being Euphie’s body, allowing Shade to exist as he is seen in-game in the next timeline.

Anything to do with my selfship with Luna that is set in the second timeline can be identified in two ways. The first is that Adriana uses a wide variety of Pokémon here, with no clear type specialty; examples include Delphox, Roserade, Ampharos, Silvally, Honchkrow, and Aegislash. The second is that Adri’s freckles are an ordinary dark brown colour; while she does become void-kissed in this timeline, I don’t know if I will say that this has any physical consequences on her here.

The third/current timeline (Episode 19)

This is the timeline that you actually are in when you play the game itself, so it arguably has the most prevalence. Here, Adriana’s first journey as a Pokémon Trainer is around her home region of Kalos, before she then decides to go and challenge the Reborn League. On the train there, she is sat next to another person (the player character), and is therefore able to be saved alongside them by Amethyst at the beginning. From there, Adriana travels across the Reborn region in a way that largely mirrors the path of the player; she appears many times throughout the story and experiences many of the same events that they do, so would arguably be counted as their rival if not for how she doesn’t actually push the dynamic in that direction. She once again ends up in a relationship with Luna, whom she is able to spend more time with here due to not having to experience every single story event, and her presence is indeed able to help make Anna’s wish succeed and save the player from suffering the same fate that she did. (I am only familiar with the Anna Route of postgame, so I tend to treat that as the default when Adri is present.)

Before the postgame begins, Adriana becomes the second person to make it through Charous Hall after the player, so she becomes their reserve (or, Shadow) Champion, having not been able to actually battle them for their title because she achieved this while they were temporarily missing. In the postgame itself, she does a small number of the in-game legendary quests, and eventually fully realises her status as the previous timeline’s hero when reunited with the original Giratina. This property turns out to be key to letting the player reach the grand finale.

My portrayals of Adriana, and/or my selfship with Luna, that are set within this timeline can be identified in two ways. The first is that Adri uses almost entirely Ghost-type Pokémon here; the only exceptions are her Shiny Silvally, her Gothitelle (whom she later gifts to Luna), and possibly some of the legendaries and mythicals she catches in the postgame (like Cresselia and Darkrai). The second way to identify third timeline events is that her freckles are white from the beginning, which was a physical consequence of having to bring her back to life and mess with the timeline to make sure she made it back (since.. Nostra ended up choosing another person, the player, to be the protagonist for this timeline - but it was vital that Adriana also came to Reborn as well as them, despite not having their role this time, because otherwise there might not be enough people to power Anna’s wish again if she needed to make it one more time. However, because Adriana is not from Reborn, it wasn’t guaranteed that she would return there after the timeline got reset. So, more meddling than usual had to happen to bring her back, mostly carried out by Shade, but this ended up having effects on Adri herself - this is how I bring in the whole anamnesis aspect). These consequences also get worse after she becomes void-kissed again, as a white star-like pattern forms all across her face and hair, and culminate in the full visibility of a pair of spectral wings on Adriana’s back, resembling the wings of a Reborn-Shiny Giratina.

Bonus: Another Time

This is the name given to the alternate/hypothetical future that you visit during the postgame while doing the Celebi quest, as the player ends up travelling ten years into the future with Celebi during this quest before returning to the present day. Due to the player disappearing from the present in this version of events, Adriana once again fills the role of Champion in their absence, just as she did before the postgame started. However, she is eventually defeated for the first time by Shelly, some time after the cast are able to figure out that the player travelled through time. She continues to hold her role as Shadow Champion when Shelly first becomes the Champion, but eventually steps down to allow her to select a new reserve. By the time of the player's return, ten years later, Adriana has taken over Shade's role as the Ghost-type Gym Leader of the Reborn League; she takes her battles in Iolia Valley, just as Luna did.

Since Another Time is explored after a ten-year timeskip, Adriana's appearance will definitely have changed in it like how everyone else's does, but I haven't quite decided how yet. However, since it is an alternate version of events within the third timeline, her physical appearance will stay the same as it does there (white freckles, etc.)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!! Please don’t hesitate to ask me if you have any questions, no matter how big or small!

#heart of the void #selfshipping #..sort of #info posts #this post is okay to reblog if anyone wants to #creations from the void #why not #self‑inserts #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #and I did kind of mention both of the girls so #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #love: dark dreamer (luna) #selfship: void‑kissed (luna/adriana) #first timeline adriana #second timeline adriana #I may not actually use those differentiation tags but if I at least put them here then it means they exist #crumbs I love this game

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Also! I have been trying to finally update the info posts that aren’t properly formatted yet, and of all the ones I got stuck on/distracted by, it was of course the one for my selfship with Elena. This is partially due to the nature of this selfship as being set in an AU that changes some story details, but also just generally because Elena is amazing and I love her a lot, even if her relative lack of presence in the story (she’s talked about a fair bit but she only shows up as herself in the postgame for one part of one quest..) means it can be tricky to talk about her unprompted.

There will never be an end to the Reborn focus. I really really need to play that game more again

#heart of the void #selfshipping #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #or you can also call it nightskyshipping to fit the format that canon x canon pokémon ships sometimes use for naming #like how my selfship with Luna can be called voidkissedshipping #and my selfship with N can also be called trueidealshipping (yes I did some research no that one isn’t taken to my knowledge) #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #early arrival AU

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Echo's romantic selfships: Birds in the Night Sky (Elena/Adriana)

"the view from up here is even nicer when we're sharing it"

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romantic F/O: Elena Molinar (Pokémon Reborn)

character tag: love: soaring skyspectre (elena)

selfship tag: selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)

associated self-insert: Adriana Laverre (when not selfshipped with Luna)

self-insert tag: self-insert: soul-touched (adriana)

selfship start date: 31st May 2022

comfort sharing romantically: okay with sharing!

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Skyspectre Elena is one of the Elite Four of the Reborn Pokémon League, specialising in Flying- and Ghost-types. Adriana Laverre is a Pokémon Trainer from Kalos who also specialises in Ghost-types, having previously successfully completed a journey around her home region using them.

This selfship takes place in an AU called the early arrival AU, where Adriana travels to Reborn City from Kalos at the same age but approximately fifteen years before the start of Pokémon Reborn as a game. She ends up quickly forming a bond with Elena due to their shared type specialty, and the two of them end up talking a lot and eventually falling in love. Adri eventually becomes the region's Ghost-type Gym Leader, retaining this position when later fought by the playable protagonist.

I am still ironing out some of the details of this selfship to make it fit into the pre-existing story of the game more.

#a call from the void #echo's info posts #something to keep track of #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #early arrival AU #delayed echoes #the main details I need to iron out are ''how does heather end up existing'' and ''what do we do about corey'' #since I would really like it if elena was *not* killed off in this AU. perhaps for obvious reasons (those being that I love her) #but it's currently two in the morning as i'm writing this so this is not the plan for the current moment #selfshipping

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Hello Aria!😄👋🏼

Just saw your first post involving Elena and I'm happy to see that. She's one of my favorite minor character, but she grew on me for long time and she and her family deserved better. So here's my first Elena ask:

✉How would you include her in your story? Like being revived or going back to the past to prevent her death at Sirius hands? How will it play out?

Evi, hello!! Precisely who I was hoping to see when I made that post, hehe. Thank you very much for your ask - I'm really glad you like her as a character! ^-^

At the moment, the way I'm handling my story with Elena is using an AU, which I'm currently calling the "early arrival AU". The main thing that's different in this AU is that my self-insert Adriana arrives in the Reborn region about fifteen years earlier than the normal version of events (where she arrives at the very start of the game on the train). However, she's still the same age as in normal circumstances - it's just that she arrives way earlier in Reborn's own timeline of events.

After Adriana arrives in Reborn, she meets Elena, who is of course still alive at this point, and quickly grows to admire her a lot because of her status as a Ghost-type specialist (especially since Adri's home region of Kalos doesn't have one, but it's the type that she herself specialises in), as well as generally for being such a powerful Pokémon Trainer. The details still need work of course, but the two end up becoming very close as time passes, eventually becoming a romantic couple. Elena does not get killed off in this AU, but I'm considering having Borealis target her somehow (I'll elaborate on that later in this post), so she can't continue in her Elite Four position, and that's why Heather takes it over instead.

In terms of how this would affect the game itself.. this post is getting long, so let me put it the rest under a readmore.

Regarding how the game itself plays out, Adriana would be the Ghost-type Gym Leader in this AU instead of Shade, so she is the one the player (who still gets to Reborn at the same time as normal) battles, although they might still have to go talk to Shade to get the door open. She would have the Gym in the Beryl Ward (since.. it's right by the graveyard and also the one that's highest-up, both of which are references to Elena), and be battled on the Dark Crystal Cavern Field. I don't really know how to tie Adriana into a story role here, but this is what I have for the moment. She does also become the Ghost-type Gym Leader in normal events (i.e. in the version of events where I use her to selfship with Luna), but that happens after the postgame instead there.

Regarding Corey in this AU, I think I might make his character revolve more around being Borealis and possibly leave his love for Elena as unrequited and he gets jealous because of that? And this is why he becomes recruited into Team Meteor as an underling of Sirius, to get the Ruby Ring back off of Elena, which I thought would keep his actions and personality similar to how they are in the game normally (though maybe he does actually just get arrested instead of his normal in-game fate). He still has the interest in poison, but maybe this time it's because of Sirius teaching him about it, and he turns it on Elena instead in this AU (ironic, I know) which is why she's then out of commission as an Elite Four member by the time the player gets there. However, she doesn't die.

Heather still exists in this AU, although I guess she's also my daughter now, and she can still retain the same kind of "wanting to defeat evil and make her own way in the world" I think, though this time it's not out of a "my dad is too overprotective I want to get away from him" thought process, but maybe more of a "I want to get back at the people who keep targeting my mum and get strong like she is" thought process.

I hope that all of that makes sense! Thank you very much again for your question - I suppose to give it more of a concise answer, it's that she doesn't get revived or brought forwards in time but instead just is never killed off in the first place in my AU ^-^

#a call from the void #selfship #selfshipping #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #early arrival AU #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #out of the inbox #selfship asks #evi tag! #long post #death mention #ask to tag #I really wanted to still use adriana to selfship with elena since her already-existing character seemed like a natural fit #but what she does in the game in normal circumstances (i.e. when I use her to selfship with luna) doesn't really make things as easy for me #so I just made a separate AU to change her role in things a lot and therefore make it easier to be with elena ^-^ #thank you so much again for this ask!!! #and sorry it took me so long to actually write out my answer for ;w;

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hi

OH!!! IT'S HERE AS WELL

HELLO FRIEND THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!!!

The little drawing of Elena at the side.. Adri's little hat.. it feels so weird seeing her without a necklace wow. Maybe I will give her the rose quartz pendant I have IRL.

I truly am so grateful that you took the time to draw this, so seriously, thank you so much!!!!! I really do truly appreciate it!!!!!

#I saw the post #melted about it and reblogged it and then shut my laptop to melt about it more #and then now checking back on my phone have realised it is Also In Here! #heart of the void #selfshipping #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #first timeline adriana #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #out of the inbox #selfshipping asks #clara tag! #a gift for the void #absolute favourites

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hi again ari have u ever thought up a -shipping name for lunadri .. or would they be voidkissedshipping

Hello again Clara~

You are correct in both ways - I have indeed thought up a -shipping name, and it is indeed voidkissedshipping ^-^ it's a bit long but I think it is still appropriate, given the significance of the void-kissed bit to not only my selfship as a whole, but also my connection to Reborn in the first place.

For completeness' sake, I will also give the -shipping names of my other Pokémon selfships: Elena x Adriana (elenadri) is nightskyshipping, because of Elena's pre-Elite Four battle monologue about the beauty of birds in the night sky. I think this is probably my favourite of the three, honestly. N x Nova (there's no nice way of mashing these two together..) is trueidealshipping, because Nova is chosen by Reshiram while N is chosen by Zekrom. You would absolutely think that this was already a coined name for a pre-existing pairing, and it honestly probably is, but I remember looking it up once and not actually finding anything for it, so.. I figured why not take it~

Thank you for this question, friend ^-^

#do you have ones for your own pokémon selfships? I remember virtueshipping being one but I wasn't so sure about the others.. #i'd love to hear though =3 #heart of the void #selfshipping #selfship: void‑kissed (luna/adriana) #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #selfship: our own kind of heroes (N/nova) #of leagues and trainers (pokémon) #out of the inbox #selfshipping asks #clara tag! #info posts #or something

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birds in the night sky (Elena/Adriana)

setting: Pokémon Reborn romantic F/O: Elena Molinar self-insert: Adriana Laverre names for the selfship: birds in the night sky, elenadri, nightskyshipping, early arrival AU selfship start date: 31st May 2022

Content for this selfship: on this blog | on previous blogs

Some more things you might like to know about this selfship are under the readmore!

As this post demonstrates, Elena's character tag is "love: soaring skyspectre (elena)", while Adriana's tag is "self-insert: soul-touched (adriana)". The tag for the selfship as a whole is "selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)", but you can also find content for it under the tag "early arrival AU"!

This selfship takes place in a separate version of events to my selfship with Luna, called the early arrival AU. In this AU, Adriana travels to the Reborn region about 15 or so years before the game normally starts, and she and Elena meet and quickly bond over a shared fondness for Ghost-type Pokémon. After spending a lot of time together, they end up developing feelings for each other.

The details of the AU are still somewhat under construction, but Adriana is the Ghost-type Gym Leader of the Reborn League as faced by the player, and she awards the Spectre Badge upon successful defeat. Content of her in this AU can be identified by her having dark brown freckles that are only on her face, as opposed to my selfship with Luna where she has white star-like freckles all over her body and hair.

#heart of the void #selfshipping #info posts #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #early arrival AU #of a city reborn (pokémon reborn) #posts to keep track of #unfinished posts

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..Okay, I still need to work some things out, but, I'm doing this.

From now on, there is another character I romantically selfship with! This is Elena Molinar, another character from Pokémon Reborn. She may only appear directly in one postgame quest, but she is very cool and pretty and I love her.

Here she is, along with some dialogue from the game to show you what she's like:

The developers described her as "chaos incarnate", and she's brilliant. Elias is fully deserving of the roasts.

My tag for her as a character is "love: soaring skyspectre (elena)", based on her extremely neat Trainer title, while the tag for my selfship with her is "selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana)". As you can see from that, I'm using my pre-existing self-insert Adriana to selfship with her, but this selfship is in a very different version of events to the "default" circumstances where Adriana is with Luna. At the moment, I have it where Adri arrives in Reborn about 15-20 years earlier than she does normally, though at the same age, so she has a different role in the story by the time the player arrives; this is called the early arrival AU. However, I might change this, I don't know yet.

I still have a lot of details I need to work out to make this selfship fit into the story, especially considering the fact that Elena's in-game marriage and murder are both kind of important plot points, but.. I still want to do this, so I thought I'd make a post about it. The carrds are already updated to the necessary extent!

#a call from the void #selfship #selfshipping #heart of the void #love: soaring skyspectre (elena) #selfship: birds in the night sky (elena/adriana) #early arrival AU #logistics #I think I use that tag for any kind of update stuff so #the elite four theme came on while I was writing this so i am taking that as a good sign hehe #as far as i'm aware it's not stated whether she took corey's surname or vice versa when they got married #but since both ''elena'' and ''molinar'' are listed on wikipedia as italian or of italian origin i'm just going to say it was already hers #it makes things easier on me #i've put the start date for this selfship as the 31st of may because that's when I was like ''okay yes I want to do this'' #I just didn't get around to making a post about it until now