>>54626312I'm too caffeinated to sleep, so I'll sperg out on something a Lance anon posted about before. His Japanese name, Wataru, comes from 'wata' (cotton) but could also refer to Watatsumi, a water dragon god. There's also a collection of three lesser dragon deities who each rule a different depth of the ocean called the Watatsumi Sanjin. Lance infamously uses Flying as much as Dragon types in gen 1 since there's only the (aquatic!) Dratini line, but he does use three representatives of it. This leads to him using three Dragonites. They could have given him two Gyarados, or two Aerodactyl, or a Charizard, or whatever, but he did at least have three real dragons even at the very beginning. His Watatsumi Sanjin.
And Leon is named Dande and he gets lost easily like a dandelion seed being blown around. And he's hard to beat, like a weed.