>>44624431Each character’s team is based around a theme. Pic related indcudes most of my OC’s (rematch) teams plus a few I haven’t made art for.
>Hornbeam’s team is based around stuff you can find in a gift shop: key chains, plushies, souvenir fossils, etc.>2nd is luminescence.>Adeline’s is cooperative and eucosial Pokémon.>Ronnie’s is weird/bizarre Pokémon.>5th originally was conservation, but will probably get changed to fantasy.>David and Cleo use regional counterparts of each other.>Iola (and her siblings) each use types with a specific color. Her’s is “purple”, so she uses poison, dragon, and ghost types.>8th is competitive Pokémon that fight a lot.Lydia
>>44589149 isn’t a gym leader, but the still has a theme that was picked long before her character was fleshed out.
Drystan is separate form the main “cannon” so he’s a bit different. There’s way more depth to it though and I talked about it here:
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