Welcome to the family (Pokemon)

I had a script to go with this drawing... but I somehow lost it at some point.

This was one of a series of stories I wrote set in a fictional planet Earth where pokemon actually exists, my idea was to get the pokemon world more relateble, presenting some day-to-day situations and characters while adding pokemon into the mix.

In this particular one, I wanted to talk about sudden life style changes and its effect on children. I noticed some pokemon games starts off with a kid (10 year old) moving somewhere else, but that theme is mostly used just as a plot device to represent a "New begining" (Much like Link is always waking up at the start of the Zelda games) and never really explored in a more human level, so i wanted to go ahead and write something about that situation.

The plot for this one was about an african-american family moving to Hawaii from LA, though, originally they moved to Paris, but Sun and Moon came out and those were set in a pseudo Hawaii setting and well, i'm a fan of Disney and just thought about shamelessly mixing that original idea with Lilo and Stich, so yeah, that's the reason they are in Hawaii.

They moved away from LA after the mother of the family, Zora, finds it impossible to keep lying to her husband about how she really feels about him anymore. After a while she finally opens up to him, and after a time both end up agreeing the best for them is to get divorced. Sometime later Zora moves with her daugthers, Nysa, a 9 year old, and Africa, a 21 year old, to Avyanna's house, Zora's girlfriend at the time.

First day of class proves to be a hard one for Nysa, she's nervous and feels overwhelmed by all the changes that are going on in her life, and she misses her father. She's a kind of an awkward kid, she loves old sci-fi films and her social skills are limited, her being a mostly introvert kid, which makes it so she doesn't get along with the other girls at first, and her at home situation gives a bunch of kids the chance to make fun of her. After feeling she has been rejected by her classmates, she walks back home, trying her best to deal with the situation, until she finally breaksdown near a palm tree and sits there for a while, wanting to make her mother responsible for her misery, but feeling terrible of having such thoughts for a person she really loves. She's confused and doesn't know what to think or feel anymore, it is just too much for her, and so, she slowly falls asleep. After a while she awakens to find a brionne investigating the insides of her backpack. Nysa tries to get the pokemon to stop messing with it, but the brionne runs away with one of her notebooks. Too tired to run, Nysa just sits there and lowers her head in self-pity. Just a few moments later, the brionne comes back, looking with curiosity into her watering eyes. Being a playful creature as she is, the brionne touches with her nose one of Nysa's tears, and starts making bubbles out of them trying to cheer the kid up, which she manages to do. Timidly, the pokemon sits in the kid's lap, rubbing her head against one of Nysa's hands, asking of her a caress. They both then share a look, somehow knowing they are now, and forever, bound together.

Overall it was a story about relying on friendship to overcome loneliness and insecure bonding types, much like dogs help people get over hard times in their lives, while also taking the chance to explore how this whole situation (parents divorce, moving to a new town, lack of social skills, etc...) could affect a little kid on an emotional level.