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Here’s the thing they don’t tell you about achieving your dream: once it’s done, there’s not much else to do.
Blue wins the Championship. Red storms through an hour later and wins, because of course he does. Of course. He’s not bitter, except that he fucking is, okay? He deserves that. He deserves to be allowed to be bitter about always coming second best when it comes to his own family.
Well. Daisy doesn’t think he’s second best, but Daisy is a saint who would probably think well about Giovanni given half a chance, even though Giovanni is literally Team Rocket’s boss. Was. Red took care of that, and now Giovanni is sitting in jail and all his Pokémon are confiscated. Which is great and all, and the Jenny corps are probably really glad. Blue is too. He’s not stupid, a mafia boss deserves to be put in jail and his own mixed feelings about the guy who put him there don’t really signify in that situation.
Still, though. Red is pretty much everyone’s favorite, and Blue...well. They’re fond of him, but not like they’re fond of Red.
Blue is going to stew about this for years, probably. Especially since Red is just gone — no one knows where he is, or if they do they’re not spilling. So he took Blue’s childhood dream and then just dipped, because that makes sense! No it doesn’t.
The guy hasn’t even bothered to keep in touch with his Mom. Akane didn’t get out much to begin with, but she may as well be gone too for how little the people around town see her. Daisy used to visit her, sometimes, but she always looked drained and depressed afterwards, and Gramps pretty much banned her from going there.
Gramps may suck, but he does care about Daisy when Red’s not around to capture his attention — but then, Red still has plenty of that even when he’s not around. The point being, Daisy does register for him sometimes, when he’s not thinking about Red or his research.
“Blue?” says Daisy now. Cautious. She’s always cautious nowadays. Probably because he’s been stewing, for like. Months. It’s not all he’s done — he trains, and spends time with his team, and keeps up with the news, and by now he's already graduated, since he just finished an accelerated program that let him graduate two years early.
That said, he has been really pissed about a lot of things for a long time, and gaining the Championship and then immediately losing it to a guy who abandoned his goddamn post anyway has. Exacerbated issues.
Blue glances up from where he’s been absently carding his fingers through Eevee’s fur. “Yeah.” Eevee makes a discontented little mewl. Blue’s fingers start up again and she melts back into a purring ball.
“Look,” says Daisy. This does not bode well. She always uses the same exact tone whenever she wants something from him. “I promised Grandpa I’d help him in the lab, but…”
Oh, this is easy. She didn't even have to wheedle him, honestly. “You wanna split? That’s cool. I’ll cover for you.” Blue says. Gramps will probably be pissy, but it’s whatever.
Daisy grins, relieved. “Thanks, baby bro!” she chirps, and she’s off like a shot.
“Don’t call me that!” Blue calls back.
Daisy Oak ✔️
@DaisyOak
No, I don't have any "insider knowledge" on how the League is going to deal with Red’s absence. No, I don’t have any comments about it.
9:20 am ∙ 1 June 16
The thing is, Lance did try to offer him the position, once it was clear that Red decided to run off to who-the-hell-knows-ville. Made a big appeal about it. It was clear Lance had expected him to say yes, because he already had the paperwork ready.
In the case that a minor wins the title of Pokémon League Champion, they’re not emancipated or anything, but they can sign their own paperwork. Blue used to practice his signature in his workbooks as a kid. He still uses the one he settled on, even though he’s signing way less autographs than he fantasized about.
Blue refused the Championship. Red beat him fair and square, so it’s still his responsibility. Now Blue just has the title, since that never goes away. Once a Champion, always a Champion, and all that jazz. Besides, if there’s someone who wants the Championship bad enough, they can track Red down themselves. The League is no longer his problem.
The Charmander he’s supervising sneezes because of all the sand in her bath. Alakazam puts out the fire before it can spread too far and nods when Blue says, “Thanks.”
To be quite honest, of all of his Pokémon, he’d expected Alakazam to leave after the journey was done. It’s not that Alakazam doesn’t care, but he’s a very prideful Pokémon and only accepts the best from his teammates and from Blue himself. Finishing his education seems like...not that. At least, not for Alakazam himself. But maybe Alakazam respects that enough to stick around anyway. Who knows.
Blastoise is unflinchingly loyal — he’ll stay with Blue until one of them dies, quite frankly. Pidgeot, who ferries him around on her back for hours at the slightest indication, is also exceedingly loyal. Exeggutor, nonchalant to the extreme when it comes to anything not counting battles or training, would stay just for the quality of life even if Blue retired from battling. Eevee is a pillow princess anyway, so it doesn’t affect her whether Blue battles or not. Arcanines are notoriously picky about their trainers, so if Blue stops being what Arcanine wants in a trainer, he’ll leave, but until then...well, Arcanines are loyal almost to the point of insanity. Rhydon is just concerned with having the strongest trainer possible, so he’ll probably stay until someone better comes along, which isn’t likely to happen, to be fair. Blue may lose to Red, but he only loses to Red, and Red wouldn’t want to take a Pokémon away from their trainer unless they were being abused somehow.
Say what you will about Blue, but he treats his Pokémon exceptionally well.
Blue maneuvers the Charmander out of the sand bath and sets her down. “Enjoyed that, did you?” he murmurs. Charmander nods with a happy smile. Blue smiles back. She’s a young one, and eager, but she can barely control her own flames, which is why Alakazam is here. Blastoise would have helped out too, if Blue asked, but that would be way overkill.
“Blue?” says Gramps. “Where’s Daisy?”
Blue stiffens, then turns, affectedly casual. “She asked me to take over for her — she’s probably out with her friends or something, I dunno. Why don’t you call and ask?”
Gramps is staring at him like he’s never seen him in the lab before in his life. “I...ah. No, that’s — that’s fine.”
Blue raises his eyebrows. He glances back down at Charmander when she tugs carefully at his shirt, eyes big and worried. She can probably sense the tension he feels. “Hey,” he says, forgetting it immediately. “Oh, hey, no, it’s okay.”
She stares at him, eyes still wide, but relaxes a little when she realizes he’s relaxed too. He’s careful to keep himself relaxed as he looks back at Gramps, uncertain what expression he’ll find on the old man’s face. Whatever expression it is, he can’t read it. Like, at all. He decides to ignore it for now, and turns back to his temporary charge.
“Okay, sand bath done. What do you say we take care of your scales next?” The Pokémon get a chance to weigh in on what order things are done, to an extent, when Blue’s the one supervising — he ignores all of the illogical requests, but in the long run it doesn’t really matter whether he checks her tail flame next or does her scales, so she gets to weigh in on that.
Charmander considers. She nods finally.
krookodile Follow
3d ago
hey so what the fuck is up with the kanto pokemon league?????? like. the viridian city gym leader was literally the rocket boss, two kids became champions on the same day. one of them is the one who exposed the viridian gym leader as a criminal. then the kid runs the hell off, and the other one (understandably) refuses to have anything else to do with it
#like are you guys okay? #i can’t even blame the oak kid for refusing to become pokemon league champion #he’s just like “hm. i will not be associated with this dumpster fire” #and the league is like “but blue we need you” #and he’s like lol too late #kanto pokemon league #blue oak #champion red #gym leader giovanni
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He gets a Tumblr. It’s not a thing, really. Just — he’s seen some screenshots, and Daisy has been pushing him to get a journal or something. A blog is pretty much the same thing. Daisy disagrees, but she’s probably too relieved that he has something to make a big deal of it. Plus, he already has almost every other social media. What’s one more?
It’s not a thing, but he tweets about it anyway:
Blue Oak ✔️
@blueoak
i caved and joined tumblr btw. follow me if u want ig but idk how active i’ll be. it’s @ blueoakokay bc someone stole my normal username
10:04 am ∙ 2 June 16
He should have expected the flood of responses — within an hour, his ask box has 36 asks in it and his follower count is way too high for a Tumblr with nothing on it.
blueoakokay
2h ago
lysas said:
welcome to the hellsite mr oak sir
blueoakokay answered:
thanks i think
#asked and answered #lysas
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blueoakokay
2h ago
anonymous asked:
Why are you here?
blueoakokay answered:
just to suffer
#asked and answered #anonymous
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starkcold Follow
Jul 27, 2014
not to be dramatic but if i do not receive attention for 1 minute i die
Source: starkcold
#my eevee ghostwrote this
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