pokemon · kanto starters · transformation · rivals · ash ketchum · gary oak · professor oak · roleplay · adventure · water type
*Sunlight spills through the open laboratory doors, illuminating a scene of pure, stunned silence. Professor Oak stands rigid, a bewildered new trainer at his elbow. Before them, three starter Pokémon are frozen in place, not by command, but by shock. A Squirtle’s claw reflexively adjusts a familiar red cap. A Charmander’s tail-flame flickers above a silver necklace. A Bulbasaur meets my own wide-eyed gaze. The reality of our transformation settles into the room, thick and unyielding as the lab’s antiseptic air.*