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Well, I'm still awake for some reason, so I'm deciding to repost the regional headcanons and the map I made for PF. Resizing the map was proving to be a challenge so it'll stay breaking out of the page.
I can’t sleep so I’m generating ideas for my Pokémon universe in terms of the regions. Probably will be expanded, maybe I’ll make a map later on, who knows? If canon contradicts anything please ignore that, I came up with these while gaining a sleep deprivation debuff.
Kanto
mix between Japan and America ala early localization and ace attorney style
Team rocket is still mafia styled, technology is in the 90s. Red has a geocities page.
Sevii islands is a blend of cultures between various islands since there’s a lot of them in Pokémon canon.
Religion is mostly centered on either the bird Pokémon or Mew, considered the mother of all Pokémon. No comment on if that makes them catholic or not.
Johto
more traditional Japan than Kanto (I feel like that’s always been the case for Johto.)
Technology has budged a bit more.
Worship is focused mostly on Ho oh and Celebi, Lugia tends to gain more cults. Lugia’s title is the Stormbearer.
There’s not really any sort of control for where the kanto- johto line is aside from a huge marked rock that people sometimes move to say that they traveled between kanto and johto in a day.
Hoenn
Australia. I kind of had no headcanons on Hoenn until I came up with the idea that it’s just way more untamed and weird.
Technology is way more advanced but the company in charge (I forgot the name, Stone company) refuses to import it to other reigons.
Grab bag of beliefs and clash between progress and worries of over expansion destroying nature. Team aqua is less pirates and more disgruntled fishermen, team magma is less geeks and more disgruntled farmers.
Idk where I read this but hoenns main conflict was based on a real life event in Japan where farmers and fishermen fought in concerns for rapid expansion, but the agricultural thing didn’t translate well so people just think their motivations are stupid because too much water would flood everything and too much land would make it impossible for things to be sustained.
Sinnoh
Russia based on the snow/ artics.
Worship is heavily placed on lake trio, “Hisui” (which is lord Sinnoh based on Legends), and Arceus, the creator.
Giratina the renegade has some worshippers alongside the Nightmare and Dreammaker but they’re more obscure. Shaymin is basically a regular mon but just rare species wise if the anime is counted so idk where I’d put it.
Heatran has gained a memetic cult following because no one recalls it otherwise.
Sinjoh ruins dictates that it needs to be close to Johto as well so I’ll say that Kanto-Johto and Sinnoh are all near each other in proximity
Unova
tri state area but mostly New Jersey
C gear usage is prevalent but phones have started being a thing too (not rotom phones though, team plasma vetoed against it.)
Legends aren’t really worshipped because it’s the reigon of the free, man
Reshiram and Zekrom don’t really have worshippers since they were forgotten during the war, like one is sitting in a museum and the other was still buried in the castle.
The weather trio are seen as pests in areas of Unova but Landorous has a shrine simply to dissuade said pests
Also most legends in Unova are openly hostile (swords of justice), hidden entirely (Victini and Meoletta) or a bio weapon (Genesect)
It’s technological progress Vs upholding tradition but rebellion is American flavored, so let’s disregard all that.
The culture is so blended that following trends is the norm.
Kalos
France and Paris but also a hint of other European areas (I basically headcanon galar as being right next to Kalos even though I haven’t played galar so idk if it’s one to one.)
Alola
No headcanons for location. Alola is pretty diverse already in the games. I’d like to say if there was a map that alola would be somewhere below kanto and johto. Kalos and Unova are close as well, so the only one I don’t have a designated spot for is Sinnoh.
Pasio
technically a set of artificial islands but I’d like to say their location is next to Alola.
They say that there’s multiple PML badge leaders so I think they just stick to the types that are in the story. That means that it’s grass flying normal ice and ground. Some unlucky tourney goer is going to get flattened by Rival Green as their final challenge unless he decided to not book that.
Takes place after mainline games but there’s also a chance hoopa is just pulling everyone from different times and spaces.
Orange Archipegalo
Said to be south of kanto and johto in lore. So maybe it’s like. Right next to sevii islands?
Follows whatever the anime does, I haven’t watched this season in years.
First noted regional variants spotted here (even if they were anime exclusive and have only ever shown up in fan games.)
Orre
Orre was inspired by Arizona.
Most of their imports are said to be from Johto and Hoenn but I'll also throw in Alola based on proximity location.
Most people from Orre are trying to leave Orre and consider it a dead land. It's obviously getting better by XD time but if I had to use a word for this region it would be "grimy."
I have made a new headcanon based on the map thing and consider Orre, Alola, and Unova to be a part of this hypothetical large country that I will sarcastically refer to as Big Unova. Just in case there's ever a reigon that they decide to base on America again.
Ranger Games/ Other Spin-offs
Fiore: Close to Hoenn but not to Orre. Far from Sinnoh because of the manaphy event.
Almia: Above Sinnoh since their manaphy event isn’t as far.
Oblivia: said to be located south of both fiore and almia, but also features Arceus worship. I’ll plop it by alola.
TCG: Renamed as southern islands based on Tcg card set. At this point there’s an entire spinoff island peninsula.
Ransei: below Sinnoh. An entire island shaped like Arceus and no one questioned it???
Rumble exists in universe as a collectors toy unless I headcanon that they can sometimes come to life ala Toy Story.
White City (stadium): since stadium games only played up to gen 2 before colosseum I’ll say it’s between kanto and johto again
Map Shenanigans
I can’t sleep so I’m generating ideas for my Pokémon universe in terms of the regions. Probably will be expanded, maybe I’ll make a map later on, who knows? If canon contradicts anything please ignore that, I came up with these while gaining a sleep deprivation debuff.
Kanto
mix between Japan and America ala early localization and ace attorney style
Team rocket is still mafia styled, technology is in the 90s. Red has a geocities page.
Sevii islands is a blend of cultures between various islands since there’s a lot of them in Pokémon canon.
Religion is mostly centered on either the bird Pokémon or Mew, considered the mother of all Pokémon. No comment on if that makes them catholic or not.
Johto
more traditional Japan than Kanto (I feel like that’s always been the case for Johto.)
Technology has budged a bit more.
Worship is focused mostly on Ho oh and Celebi, Lugia tends to gain more cults. Lugia’s title is the Stormbearer.
There’s not really any sort of control for where the kanto- johto line is aside from a huge marked rock that people sometimes move to say that they traveled between kanto and johto in a day.
Hoenn
Australia. I kind of had no headcanons on Hoenn until I came up with the idea that it’s just way more untamed and weird.
Technology is way more advanced but the company in charge (I forgot the name, Stone company) refuses to import it to other reigons.
Grab bag of beliefs and clash between progress and worries of over expansion destroying nature. Team aqua is less pirates and more disgruntled fishermen, team magma is less geeks and more disgruntled farmers.
Idk where I read this but hoenns main conflict was based on a real life event in Japan where farmers and fishermen fought in concerns for rapid expansion, but the agricultural thing didn’t translate well so people just think their motivations are stupid because too much water would flood everything and too much land would make it impossible for things to be sustained.
Sinnoh
Russia based on the snow/ artics.
Worship is heavily placed on lake trio, “Hisui” (which is lord Sinnoh based on Legends), and Arceus, the creator.
Giratina the renegade has some worshippers alongside the Nightmare and Dreammaker but they’re more obscure. Shaymin is basically a regular mon but just rare species wise if the anime is counted so idk where I’d put it.
Heatran has gained a memetic cult following because no one recalls it otherwise.
Sinjoh ruins dictates that it needs to be close to Johto as well so I’ll say that Kanto-Johto and Sinnoh are all near each other in proximity
Unova
tri state area but mostly New Jersey
C gear usage is prevalent but phones have started being a thing too (not rotom phones though, team plasma vetoed against it.)
Legends aren’t really worshipped because it’s the reigon of the free, man
Reshiram and Zekrom don’t really have worshippers since they were forgotten during the war, like one is sitting in a museum and the other was still buried in the castle.
The weather trio are seen as pests in areas of Unova but Landorous has a shrine simply to dissuade said pests
Also most legends in Unova are openly hostile (swords of justice), hidden entirely (Victini and Meoletta) or a bio weapon (Genesect)
It’s technological progress Vs upholding tradition but rebellion is American flavored, so let’s disregard all that.
The culture is so blended that following trends is the norm.
Kalos
France and Paris but also a hint of other European areas (I basically headcanon galar as being right next to Kalos even though I haven’t played galar so idk if it’s one to one.)
Alola
No headcanons for location. Alola is pretty diverse already in the games. I’d like to say if there was a map that alola would be somewhere below kanto and johto. Kalos and Unova are close as well, so the only one I don’t have a designated spot for is Sinnoh.
Pasio
technically a set of artificial islands but I’d like to say their location is next to Alola.
They say that there’s multiple PML badge leaders so I think they just stick to the types that are in the story. That means that it’s grass flying normal ice and ground. Some unlucky tourney goer is going to get flattened by Rival Green as their final challenge unless he decided to not book that.
Takes place after mainline games but there’s also a chance hoopa is just pulling everyone from different times and spaces.
Orange Archipegalo
Said to be south of kanto and johto in lore. So maybe it’s like. Right next to sevii islands?
Follows whatever the anime does, I haven’t watched this season in years.
First noted regional variants spotted here (even if they were anime exclusive and have only ever shown up in fan games.)
Orre
Orre was inspired by Arizona.
Most of their imports are said to be from Johto and Hoenn but I'll also throw in Alola based on proximity location.
Most people from Orre are trying to leave Orre and consider it a dead land. It's obviously getting better by XD time but if I had to use a word for this region it would be "grimy."
I have made a new headcanon based on the map thing and consider Orre, Alola, and Unova to be a part of this hypothetical large country that I will sarcastically refer to as Big Unova. Just in case there's ever a reigon that they decide to base on America again.
Ranger Games/ Other Spin-offs
Fiore: Close to Hoenn but not to Orre. Far from Sinnoh because of the manaphy event.
Almia: Above Sinnoh since their manaphy event isn’t as far.
Oblivia: said to be located south of both fiore and almia, but also features Arceus worship. I’ll plop it by alola.
TCG: Renamed as southern islands based on Tcg card set. At this point there’s an entire spinoff island peninsula.
Ransei: below Sinnoh. An entire island shaped like Arceus and no one questioned it???
Rumble exists in universe as a collectors toy unless I headcanon that they can sometimes come to life ala Toy Story.
White City (stadium): since stadium games only played up to gen 2 before colosseum I’ll say it’s between kanto and johto again
Map Shenanigans
A few posts ago I mentioned having a bunch of regional headcanons in regards to the Pokemon universe and also mentioned that I wanted to make a map. (https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4397743)
I thought "making a map won't be so hard, right? I just need to get photos of regions and place them in correspondence to some references." And then I hit spinoff and early generational weirdness. Then it got really weird. By the time I finished I felt like I delved into the rambling mind of one of those game theorists. And I had to split the map because of said theories. The original map ended up being 41 MB meaning it went above and beyond PF's limit. So I had to take a screenshot of a doc instead to make it fit. Spoilers for Paldea's endgame story in terms of certain pokemon. I completely neglected the DLC areas.
There's a lot of rambling words I might transcribe later on. I ended up filling the Unova side with a bunch of theories and multiverse stuff. The Kanto side is far more coherent.
I thought "making a map won't be so hard, right? I just need to get photos of regions and place them in correspondence to some references." And then I hit spinoff and early generational weirdness. Then it got really weird. By the time I finished I felt like I delved into the rambling mind of one of those game theorists. And I had to split the map because of said theories. The original map ended up being 41 MB meaning it went above and beyond PF's limit. So I had to take a screenshot of a doc instead to make it fit. Spoilers for Paldea's endgame story in terms of certain pokemon. I completely neglected the DLC areas.
There's a lot of rambling words I might transcribe later on. I ended up filling the Unova side with a bunch of theories and multiverse stuff. The Kanto side is far more coherent.