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Hrm i am tired of the world so u kno what that means! rambling time

i was thinkin about this while waiting for the bus but it was in regards to Lore about the pkmn league+pokeballs+timeline of events

oh okay so canon is gonna tell me this then

actually.... that fits w the timeline

pokemon battles were always a thing done as something like a sport/way to show power and 'leagues' did exist though very informally

pokemon still bonded with trainer in the way they do in modern times but it would kind of be a pain in the ass if your pokemon was like, an onix, aka huge rock snake meaning you couldnt take it everywhere

fast forward to the 19th century silph and devon are having a fun time talking about energy or whatever they talk about being industrial superpowers in a new era

but then war breaks out between johto and kanto and hoenn is buddies with johto , so devon leaves silph on read and their previous development for the pokeball is put on hold

the prototype itself was based off of methods that were developed in rural johto+apricorns (see im being lore friendly here)

after johto and kanto wanted to stop killing eachother devon and silph started collabing again and might or might not have developed ties to kanto's new postwar mafia but DW ABOUT IT

like... 1945-50 ish is when the prototype was patented by silph and both silph and devon started producing them and people were like woah. these things slap

god unrelated but

ANYWAYS

so like now you can take ur rock snake ANYWHERE. and people are like. hrm this makes pokemon battling more efficient

so then people were like what if we turned our makeshift battle leagues into a cooler Sexier league

so they did! and got some Powerful people to head it because thats how the old league works (cynthia's father and steven's grandfather being among them)

and they also hashtag promote local leagues/training centers into gyms and make that whole fancy system and people are like. hell yea super gung ho about it

they set the minimum age req to 10 years old which does make some people concerned but whatever

so now theres a lot of kids who wanna go off on their own to take on this new league which essentially compares to people wanting to leave home to persue fuckin. college football or whatever

except theyre not in college theyre 10

things are actually pretty okay for a while but remember that whole postwar mafia thing. yea well the year is around 1987 and the old leader is dead and the new leader is a power hungry cat loving italian wannabe dude and he's PISSY

and also wants to make a living weapon pokemon using the original ancestor's dna

so people are like hrm. is this dude ok? but since the mafia has a giant corporation as it's puppet and is on good terms with another one they like... dont say anything

SO FAST FORWARD TO THE 90'S WHERE SHIT HITS THE FAN

mewtwo is created and kind of destroys a whole island, and some 10 year old is faced with going head to head with a mafia leader (and wins)

gio might be a bastard but he at least follows the rules because like. if he tried to shoot the kid he would get IMMEDIEATELY pummeled by red's buff pokemon

meanwhile in hoenn a pirate with no knowledge of climate wants to summon a god instead of creating one thinking it'll go better (which it doesnt)

a familiar 15 year old and her vaporeon have to ifhgt him and said god to get him to realize he failed class on the weather cycle for a reason

also rocket flees to johto and yuuto is like hm whats that noise but thats unrelayed

so basically people are freaking out because these two kids (ONE IS TEN) getting slapped in the face with trauma because they had to deal with problems they thought would go away

so then theyre like. actually. maybe we should stop letting 10 year olds run off to persue the league

esp because the many of the kids who went off to pursue the league either quit and realized they missed out on school or failed to get anywhere and were now lost

so they were like this sucks and put a big fat disclaimer saying that yes the minimum is 10 but like being at leat 15-16 would be better at least learn basic algebra first

anyways then cynthia's dad died because he partied to hard and 17 yr old cynthia inherits this mess but luckily her gf/wife is there to help and hmm she doesnt get along with joe stone i wonder what will ha

ANYWAYS YA

THATS VERY LONG OOPSIES

thanks for coming to my tedtalk of a vague history of the pokemon league in pokeau

addendum:

of course there are like.. modern cases of kids still going out that young but theres a lot less of them

though a pokemon scouting program was created for kids that age who wanted to go into the league so they had a support system stronger than just the existing trainer system

except see: ridley

the entire modern history of pokeau can be summed up as: cynthia inherits her dad's mess of a league and is so, so tired

cynthia is the only competent pokeau character

actually this relates to the past too before the modern league establishing battling as like a 'sport' it was used to determine kingdom leaders sometimes

so uh. when some weird kalosian king sacrifices some criminal he picked off the street to the god of death but she comes back AS the god of death and kicks his ass into the sun and suddenly she's in control. watch out!