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Cohost repost from today with some extra info. I’ve kinda cobbled a bit of my headcanons for Red and Mt. Silver from some fics I’ve read and my own headcanons but the one that’s furthest out there has to be this one I just came up with while rereading the pokespe yellow chapter because I was procrastinating reading emerald.
For all the fics I’ve seen involving Red, I’m surprised there’s never been one centered on like, the concept of a “Fake Red.” Not in like the false perception sense of people thinking reds personality is different than what it is. Also not in the creepypasta sense (considering False Red) but almost along those lines of a guy who just dresses up like you and causes shit.
There probably have been people who would legitimately dress up as Red and not all of them would be nice about it because that’s what people do too, they just dress up as celebrities and try to smear their reputation and people would definitely try to profit off of Red in any way possible including his clothes and entire fit. There’s probably a bunch of people who caught Pikachu and wanted a kanto starter just to be like Red.
Like Petrel/Lambda in HGSS is a master of disguise, the super nerd in the Pokespe yellow chapter did it which is where the thought came from, apparently there was a Pokémon masters event centered on ditto too, so there’s a case for something like this to be feasible, but probably not to the level I’m imagining it, since gamefreak doesn’t really explicitly go into detail of that 3 year gap period of red after winning the league. Mine are a bit centered on the OG fics I read years ago where it was like, he was overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of the league, the sheer factor that an 11 year old had to take out a criminal group and they probably started making people around him targets was a worry of his, the media fame leading to people probably getting really uncomfortably close to him and ignoring his boundaries and borderline stalking, people who put him on a pedestal without actually considering he was a human being and being mad when they don’t meet their exact ideals, harassment in consideration of social media, and maybe something with his rival, depends. Just the other factors alone were enough and now I want to add people deciding to be impostors of him… Maybe this one’s a bit mean spirited. .
For all the fics I’ve seen involving Red, I’m surprised there’s never been one centered on like, the concept of a “Fake Red.” Not in like the false perception sense of people thinking reds personality is different than what it is. Also not in the creepypasta sense (considering False Red) but almost along those lines of a guy who just dresses up like you and causes shit.
There probably have been people who would legitimately dress up as Red and not all of them would be nice about it because that’s what people do too, they just dress up as celebrities and try to smear their reputation and people would definitely try to profit off of Red in any way possible including his clothes and entire fit. There’s probably a bunch of people who caught Pikachu and wanted a kanto starter just to be like Red.
Like Petrel/Lambda in HGSS is a master of disguise, the super nerd in the Pokespe yellow chapter did it which is where the thought came from, apparently there was a Pokémon masters event centered on ditto too, so there’s a case for something like this to be feasible, but probably not to the level I’m imagining it, since gamefreak doesn’t really explicitly go into detail of that 3 year gap period of red after winning the league. Mine are a bit centered on the OG fics I read years ago where it was like, he was overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of the league, the sheer factor that an 11 year old had to take out a criminal group and they probably started making people around him targets was a worry of his, the media fame leading to people probably getting really uncomfortably close to him and ignoring his boundaries and borderline stalking, people who put him on a pedestal without actually considering he was a human being and being mad when they don’t meet their exact ideals, harassment in consideration of social media, and maybe something with his rival, depends. Just the other factors alone were enough and now I want to add people deciding to be impostors of him… Maybe this one’s a bit mean spirited. .
