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If you've been lokking through this website, it probably means you have an interest in Pokemon, my characters, or both! You may want to know how I wrote them in the decisions I made while making up their story. Some of you may be enough of nerds to know these are not original characters. Gold and Silver have more than one page on Bulbapedia, for crying out loud! The even more nerdy of you may have also noticed that the way I've written them, as you may have read about in their respective character pages, don't follow the same story of the games or the manga.
In this section I explain the creative choices I made while writing these characters, and why they're like this! It also acts as an Q&A of course.
Let's start with Gold, otherwise known as "Sens". It's what he introduces himself by, but its not like the name "Gold" is a secret or anything.
"Why's he called Sens?" <- A question you may have been asking when you read this on his character page. The answer is actually rather simple.
"Gold", or Ethan, is the boy player character from Gold/Silver/Crystal/Heart Gold/Soul Silver. You can choose your player character's name, and I chose Sens, because it sounds... rather similar to the name of another character I like.
"If he's based off of the boy player character from the games, why is he called Gold instead of Ethan?"
I didn't know the default name of the player character, but what I did know is how to look up shipping art. I assumed that since the rival character name is Silver, like the name of one of the games, then the player character would be named Gold, like how Red and Blue/Green are named after their games. The fanart I found was fanart for the manga, primarily, but I didn't notice because the designs are very similar.
Also, "Gold" is a cooler name. Sorry to any Ethans out there, but I'm sure you'd agree.
His Pokemon, predictably, are all my Pokemon.
"Hey wait!" You object, "There aren't aren't Chinchou at the Ruins of Alph, or Houndour in Johto, Trapinch can only be found in the Safari Zone, Skitty and Tropius can only be caught using the Pokewalker, and Wralts can only be found on Route 34 during a swarm!"
Wow you know sooo muuuch. Very cool. Anyways yes that's true, and also my game was randomized using the Pokemon Universal Randomizer. If you figured that already, you get a sticker ⭐.
Also my shiny Flygon is TOTALLY LEGIT (or as much as one can be in a randomizer). I didn't hunt for it AT ALL. Victory Road just had Trapinch replacing Zubats and ONE OF THEM WAS SHINY!!!! I love him! he's the only Shiny Pokemon I've found, lol.
Gold, as explained on his page, tells a lot of silly made up stories about meeting legendary Pokemon or whatever other bizziare thing. Most of these stories are real! They're not something that happened in his world, but they're things that happened in the randomizer that I turned into lies he made up. I wanted to keep telling all the silly stories that happened in my game without having to reconsile the lore breaks, and this worked out!
"You mentioned shipping art, does that mean your characters are...?"
Gold x Silver is a thing! Full disclosure, the entire reason I started writing them as characters in the first place is because I thought the art of them was cute! In the ukaghost, they aren't dating and haven't discussed it at all, but there are a lot of hints that they harbor romantic feelings towards each other.
As many of you know, especially you nerds, there are two versions of the shipname.
The first is "PreciousMetalShipping", which is what the manga characters ship is called, Gold and Silver from that specific iteration. Shipname? Hilarious, makes perfect sense because of their names. Applause from me, I told all my friends.
The second is "Huntershipping", the game versions of the characters (so Ethan and Silver). This is definitely a more accurate name for these two, but it also makes no sense??? I've searched EVERYWHERE and I cannot find a single reason it's called that. It's definitely nothing compared to the manga version of the name (Originalshipping and Namelessshipping is another agregious example of the manga having way better shipnames).
While "Huntershipping" would be more accurate, as I have never read the manga (only the fanart), thus my characters cannot be based on it, I don't think that it's a perfect name either.
They're rather vague characters in the game as well, and I've changed and added quite a lot. The player character canonally only has one line of dialogue that barely counts, as they're supposed to be a self insert. While Silver definitely has some hidden gems of potentially interesting nuance scattered here and there, for the most part he's a rather generic bully character.
I believe my version of the characters is distinct as I've written a lot of original lore and changed a lot from the game's story for them. I'll probably come up with my own ship name at some point. Something with a joke that's at least on par with PreciousMetalShipping.
"Whats up with Silver, anyway?"
Silver was always called that in my version of the game because I knew his name/who he was already from watching a lets-player play a Pokemon fangame I remember nothing about aside from that I liked Silver in it and it might've been about an apocalypse or something.
The only Pokemon from his team I made up that's actually from the Randomized game I played is his Ampharos. That's why I got so attached to him. He's a rather edgy one sided basic character that's ALL ABOUT being MEAN and PUSHING YOU AROUND and says he ONLY TRAINS THE TOUGHEST POKEMON and then he throws a pink sheep at you. That's why I loved him.
I was incredibly disappointed when I finished his story! It meant that he stopped showing up, right after he decided he wanted to change for better, and it made me sad! I wanted my character to hold his hand and run around Kanto with him! Or at least get his PHONE NUMBER... Neither were possible though. SO I TURNED TO FANFICTION.
"Aren't you, like, a full grown adult? Why didn't you age up the characters at least a little bit? Aren't ten year olds, like, dumb?"
Kids are fun to write! They're their own people that I don't think should be dismissed so casually. Ages 8-12 especially I think are facinating because that's the stage where you first start reflection and introspection. All the years before that were spent adjusting to the world, and now they're really thinking about it! They're also difficult times because thats when you first start outgrowing a lot of things you once thought were fun, and now have enough memory to know you Used To Like Them as well.
I think part of it is I just remember being those ages more than most people. They were also a rather difficult time for me. A lot of people talk about how they miss when they were nine or ten, because the world was simpler back then. ...Not for me! Writing in depth about characters that age helps me cope, haha.