The Nature of Blank Slates and Additional Canon

2024-05-22T02:11:20Z

Blank slate protagonists that get personalities added to them in later iterations isn’t something that I’m not used to since I’ve played other games that have blank protags gain personalities elsewhere, but it is kind of funny when you’ve developed a personality that’s so completely noncanon because of the nature of blank slating.

Like in my headcanons, Leaf is a girl who was raised in the 2000s and therefore has all of that cultural background applied to her— which is doubly noncanon because I’m applying a western experience to her. To me, this is a girl who was into dress up flash games and warrior cats who would have an Eevee sparkling rainbow blasting OC and say “rawr.” She was very happy when Sylveon existed. Her bike would be a skateboard and she would secretly be punk despite clearly being dressed like a prep girl. Her and the FRLG redesign of Red (Fire) are twins since I saw the manual as a kid and went “oh, they’re siblings since they both have brown hair.” She starts hanging around Misty and Erika more often because she tried dating the rival once and it didn’t work out.

They (Fire, Leaf… Terry) simultaneously exist with their gen 1 counterparts and their group is known as the successor trio. One day I’ll properly write about all my headcanons for other Pokémon protagonists which are a grabbag of either my own fics, Pokespe, or just me randomly making stuff up. I like to have my pokemon trainer characters be reflective of the time period their games came out sometimes so while Red has a Geocities page that died, Leaf would have the vibes of an NPC in THUG 2 and play guitar hero.

“But if FRLG Red gets called Fire by you sometimes, then FRLG Green should be called Water?” Funnily enough, no. His internal name is Terry. There isn’t a WaterBlue anyways… would the Yellow Equivalent be like, ThunderYellow or LightningYellow?

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The Nature of Blank Slates and Additional Canon