>>28571409From Takeshi Shudo's novelizations of the anime, basically.
Delia is the owner of Pallet Town's only restaurant known as 'Pallet House', which she inherited from her mother after she died.
She wanted to become a model when she was younger, but couldn't due to having to help take care of the restaurant. Her father was a loser trainer who disappeared, and she got together with a traveling trainer who got her pregnant and then left.
Delia couldn't live her dreams because she both had to deal with the restaurant AND raise her son Ash.
Meanwhile, Ash was bullied in school because he never knew his father, and was often a loner. However, he did manage to play on his school baseball team, which is why he always threw his Pokeballs like they were baseballs
Ash, at the start of his Pokemon journey, was 10 years, 10 months, and 10 days old, since Pokemon trainers start their journey in Pallet on the April following their 10th birthday.
This means that for the majority of the Kanto saga, after the 9th episode, Ash would have been 11 years old, and even possibly 12-years-old by the time the Indigo League happened since you can practically see a year's worth of events go by. Adventure starts in the spring, deals with the summer months, fall and winter (And even christmas), New Years, the Princess Festival based off a real Japanese holiday in February, etc.
The novelizations are neat.
