>>46010989>What is your OC's job? Do they like their job? Is it a life-long career for them, or just something temporary? Do their pokemon fit the "theme" of their job, and do they train pokemon that could help them with their job? Does your OC only have a single team, or do they have boxes full of pokemon?My guy is a rancher, in the "My Pokemon Ranch" meaning of the term. You know how Ash's Pokemon live at Professor Oak's lab when they're not in his party? Well, not everyone is gonna' know Professor Oak, now are they? Way I see it, Ranches are the answer to that. Places where people can send their Pokemon to be looked after and taken care of, whether that be because they have a full team, because they want someone to learn
a new move, because you're going on vacation, because some of their Pokemon aren't suited for a trainer's home-- say, you raised a Steelix before you retired and live in an apartment now. Whatever the reason, ranches are the answer to long-term Pokemon caretaking, in a setting incongruous with PC boxes. Whether you're cool with the idea of storing Pokemon as data for indeterminate lengths of time is up to you, I suppose, but I've always liked the anime's approach.
Humbert loves his job. His entire Pokemon Journey was essentially figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and he settled on a a job that plays to his major strengths, requiring a combination of caretaking, nurturing, cooking, conflict resolution, and move tutoring. It's a career, and starting up his own business was a major investment that took up all the savings he'd accrued while travelling. The Pokemon he owns don't fit the theme of his job, quite, as they're from his Trainer days-- the team's theme from that perspective is more abstract. But, all of his Pokemon do help out at the Ranch, and were huge in preparing the land; especially the lake, and the caves. This is Humbert at the end of his journey, but I'll play earlier, and I'm not afraid to deviate in the middle
