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We Are All Pokémon Trainers - Other Characters

This page describes characters who just, or mostly, happen to live in the world of We Are All Pokémon Trainers and mostly carry out their daily lives in complete normality until, one day, their town is visited by the player characters and thus the plot, if they're directly interacted with by the J-Team or its allies at all.

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Humans and their Pokémon

Professors and Other Researchers

    Professor Samuel Oak 
  • Cool Old Guy: Old and a pretty cool guy, especially to the PEFE Founders as he helped organize them into what they are today.

    Professor Birch 

  • The Mentor: Tagg notes that Birch in particular was the one who got him into field research.

    Professor Rowan 
  • Cool Old Guy: Elderly and always helpful to the J-Team.
  • Death Glare: The Rowan Stare is the stuff of legends in how it can cow both people and Pokémon into compliance.

    Professor Mesquite 

An Orren professor and also Dune's great-aunt.

  • Never Mess with Granny: Is visbly aged and has a surprising amount of clout in Phenac City and prowess in misdirection.
  • Original Generation: A character originally made to fill the lack of a tree-themed researcher in Orre.
  • Parental Substitute: Is essentially Dune's real mother figure due to his extremely stressful and distant home life.

Gym Leaders

Sinnoh

    Candice 
  • Deadpan Snarker: When really exasperated she shows a more sarcastic side, which happens a few times with our ensemble.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: She joins up with the proto J-Team during Snowpoint Temple miniarc.
  • Genki Girl: Is very energetic most of the time.
  • An Ice Person: Trains Ice types.
  • Noodle Incident: One involving a Barboach, which Anom practically blackmails her with.

Unova

    Elesa 

    Clay 

    Skyla 

Elites and Champions

Hoenn

    Steven Stone 

Sinnoh

    Cynthia 

Future Kids

This section covers both children born from or are related to PCs or older versions of children related to the PCs in the OTL that don't fit in any other category.

    Miley 

Emilia "Miley" Petersen-Sanchez

Tommy's second cousin once removed ("niece" for ease of use) and the daughter of his first cousin Sara. In at least one future timeline, she follows her uncle's footsteps and becomes Arachna-Lass. In the main timeline, she is an 8-year old girl as of 2023, relatively average for her age except for her psychic powers.

  • Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Just like her uncle, her future self wears a super suit themed for arachnid Pokémon.
  • Child Mage: Like her uncle Tommy, she is known to be part of the Auric Spectrum and is specifically identified as a psychic. Unlike with her uncle who realized it later in life, her family openly know of her gifts.
  • Composite Character: Of Miles Morales and various female characters who became Spider-themed superheroes in Marvel Comics
    • She shares her name and ethnic background (Black Latina) with Miles Morales.
    • Her being related to Tommy Petersen, having in-born powers, and being destined to become a great hero in the future parallels Mayday Parker.
    • Her role in the future parallels many Spider-Women.
    • She has a Porygon, Maximum Gulf who travels in a robot suit reminiscent of SP//dr, making her one for Hiro Hamada and Peni Parker.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: For a time, her future self was stuck in the main timeline due to falling into a rift likely caused by Team Mobiüs.
  • Future Badass: In one timeline, she took up her uncle's superhero mantle.
  • Hero-Worshipper: For her uncle (mostly) and anyone who has aura powers who uses them for good. Her ability to determine someone's intentions on a subconscious level means that she usually knows the right people to idolize.
    • Miley adores her uncle to bits (and, given that she's psychic, likely already knew of his secret double life). Her suddenly feeling uneasy around what people thought was him was a sign that things were amiss.
    • She tends to be protective of the people she comes to admire. After she and her grandmother were saved by the Freshman Schoolchild Aurelia, she reacted negatively to one of Aurelia's pursuers, knowing full well what his intentions were.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Her future self was last seen trying to get back to the future with an alternate Dave (who may or may not have come from her timeline), an alternate version of her uncle, and an alternate version of Hank Harvey. They were never referenced from again, though it is likely they successfully returned to their future worlds until something brings them back.

Bianca the Ditto

Miley's Ditto, who once belonged to her father.

     Lilliana 

Lillianna Cain

The time-traveling alternate-future daughter of Lucius Cain and Sarah Amarin, the former of whom she intended to kill in order to avert her own future.

    Junior 

Tommy Petersen Jr.

A popular investigative journalist from Lillifuture Unova and a thorn on the side of the Interpol Authority.

  • The Ace: He's charismatic, athletic, intelligent, and good looking, which makes him an ideal poster boy for a news organization. On top of that, he's inherited his mother's and father's sense of righteousness. He resembles the public's general idea of what a hero (or superhero) should look like.
  • Foil:
    • He is mainly contrasted with his little brother Stanford.
      • Stanford was described as a wayward child while Junior by all accounts is The Dutiful Son.
      • Stanford's public career as a librarian is quite dreary on paper, while Junior's position as a journalist is more action-packed.
      • Junior opposes the Interpol Authority openly and without fear, while Stanford must do so in the shadows. Incidentally, this makes him more like his mother and his brother like his father.
      • While Stanford had long since given up on reforming the system under Interpol, Junior never openly advocates rebellion and still plans on challenging and changing the system from within.
      • Stanford openly hates Dave even in his civilian persona and defies him as his alter ego. Junior, while opposed to Dave and his employers, continues to try to be his friend.
    • Incidentally, he's also this to Dave:
      • They see each other's fathers as surrogate father-figures, but while Dave and his father don't see eye-to-eye, he is quite devoted to his own father.
      • Dave opposes his father while Junior is following in the footsteps of his and rather gleefully at that.
  • Dating Catwoman: He and Charmelle Panelo of the Interpol Authority are "secretly" in a relationship, which everyone tolerates due to people assuming it's their attempt at mutually undermining or converting one another. In truth, their relationship is far more complex. Their feelings for one another are genuine, but their motives are to secretly get the other to flip over to their side (which neither seems to be succeeding at).
  • The Dutiful Son: His conflict with his brother stems largely from his assumptions that Stanford was a feckless layabout who doesn't care about everything amiss about their society and Stanford's seeming lack of contributions to their father's care.
  • Expy:
  • The Gadfly: Around the Authority, he goes out of his way to be very, very annoying.
  • Generation Xerox: While he is very much his father's son, he takes after many of his family members in terms of traits.
    • His choice of profession and the danger it brings calls to mind his maternal grandmother Stephania and his paternal grandfather Hank.
    • Being open, extraverted, and outspoken about his opposition to what he sees is wrong is, incidentally, his mother's trait.
  • Intrepid Reporter: A Geographic Society muckraker known to butt heads with the Interpol Authority.
  • Honey Trap: This is what most people assume his relationship with Charmelle Panelo of the Authority is, an attempt at mutually trying to woo one another to divulge secrets. The truth is a bit more complex, as while the ulterior motives are very much an open secret, there is actual affection underlying their actions.
  • Odd Friendship: He's genuinely a good friend to Dave, just as their fathers were to each other in most continuities.
  • Soapbox Sadie: He has the heart of an activist and enjoys pointing out the flaws of the Authority, though he stops short of inciting rebellion.
  • Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Rumor has it that his very existence unnerves Director Hontou.

Recurrent Background Characters

Pokéstar Studios

    Mike the Techie 

A Pokéstars tech crew member Carol (The PC) meets while the J-Team was in Virbank City.

    The Other Techies 

The other techies who work at Pokéstar Studios.

Others

    Carol 

Carol

A young woman living in Mossdeep City, who ended up heading to Celadon in the AU after Hoenn got flooded.

  • Broken Masquerade: Suffers this upon being with Tracer when Cipher raids an Internet cafe they're in.
  • Dressed to Heal: Shows up to the fight against Cipher in Gateon Port dressed as a medic.
  • Geek Physiques: Is described as being "some skinny [REDACTED]" by an image board member.
  • Nice Girl: Is quite compassionate.
  • Official Couple: With Randy in the AU.
  • One Degree of Separation: Tagg tried and epically failed to woo her when they were of middle school age, she met Tracer through Hatchet's machinations, and AU-wise all three know Randy.
  • Ordinary High-School Student: In Carol's case more college, but she doesn't really get into the J-Team's antics for the most part and is more or less a normal person, which becomes very obvious when she gets wrapped up in a Cipher raid.
  • Welcomed to the Masquerade: Due to a combination of his screwup as a teenager and guilt for getting her involved in stopping a Cipher raid, Tagg decides to partially reveal the masquerade to her.

    Rickard Gavin 

Zeal's self-proclaimed rival. He knows Zeal only by the name "Thiznemiz Kwaitfeyk".

    Dr. Kraus 

Dr. Wayland Kraus

A childhood friend of Zeal's mother and uncle.

  • Apologises a Lot: He's constantly apologizing for himself, albeit not nearly as much as Youta.
  • Guilt Complex: Blames himself for almost everything bad that happens to the people around him.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: He reveals to Zeal that Iulianus was his son.
  • Wham Line: In his first appearance, he says: "It's my fault for breaking Zachary's mind... it's my fault for standing by as Chase joined Cipher... and it's my fault for not being there when the two of them needed my help the most..." This has yet to be explained, though it's likely his Guilt Complex is to blame.

    Silvio Salvai 

Traitor's younger brother. Like his sister, Silvio is a Ditto specialist.

    The Mysterious Figure 

A mysterious Obscuric that appears to have taken an interest in Tagg.

    Trish 

A trainer from LaRousse City who raises various species for use in competitive battling. She happens to own the parents of Pica, Gilgamesh, and Andre.

  • Deconstruction: Of the in-game practice of breeding hundreds of mons in order to get a perfect one, as Pica, Gilgamesh, and Andre were left with psychological issues, though Trish isn't so much evil as inconsiderate.
  • Obliviously Evil: When directly confronted she has problems grokking that mass breeding so many mons is morally wrong at first, and even states that the reason she put her extra Larvitar out on the route leading to LaRousse City was in hopes of trainers catching them, though she didn't consider the concept of them getting picked off by predators.
  • Parental Neglect: Pica, Gilgamesh, and Andre's parents didn't seem to pay them or their multitude of siblings much mind.
  • Super Breeding Program: Breeds boxes worth of mons in order to get one with the proper genetics. Pica, Gilgamesh, and Andre were all rejects.

    Gallium (2001) 

The Gallium of the New Century Class, who sacrificed his life to let the future Truancy Gang escape the Poni Facility.

  • Enlightenment Superpowers: Gallium somehow managed to spec into using the Gates, which require enlightenment to use, and is made doubly impressive by both his short life (Around six months) and the fact that he was just as subject to the same pressures as his Batchmates. Chiyo tells Ynos that he had a sense of inner peace that most Schoolchildren lack due to the turbulent nature of their upbringing (Or lack thereof), and Abe admits to not quite understanding him when he was alive.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Activated the fourth Gate, ripping himself apart with its power, to give his fellow Batchmates the chance to escape.
  • Hidden Depths: Gallium was not a particularly impressive experiment powerwise, at least according to Abe, but being able to tap into the Spiritual Gates despite his circumstances speaks volumes to the strength of Gallium's character. Tagg lampshades it by calling Gallium someone truly extraordinary to be capable of what he did.
  • Posthumous Character: Died around 20 years prior to the Galar Arc, with what we know about him coming from Chiyo and her Batchmates.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Chiyo and Chloe were both present for his sacrifice, and it served a big role in shaping their worldviews regarding how best to handle the School, and their resulting friction over it.

    Curium (2001) 

The Curium of the New Century Class and a lover of Chiyo's, who escaped alongside the future Truancy Gang, but died of gastrointestinal cancer due to complications of the Schoolchild Curse in 2011.

  • Posthumous Character: Died back in 2011, around the time of the Sinnoh and Unova-1 arcs, with most of her characterization being informed by what Chiyo and the rest of the Truancy Gang say about her.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Pink-haired and very sweet-natured, with Abe and Chloe remarking that she could give Chiyo a run for her money in the niceness department.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: One of the nicest members of the New Century Class, who ended up suffering a very painful death due to how she was made.

    Haru and Rhoda 

Two runaways, one a former Hoennian rich kid (Real Name: Shaun de Vaughn), and the other the 45th Schoolchild of the 1992 Class. The two are targeted by Adelinde, Tellurium, and the Freshman Class Lutetium in an assassination mission.

  • A Death in the Limelight: We learn the most about them in their last moments of life.
  • Clone Degeneration: The Curse wasn't kind to Rhoda, as despite being chronologically 30 she's physically elderly by 2022 despite being technically middle-aged by Schoolkid standards.
  • Defiant to the End: When faced with certain death at the blade constructs of Adelinde, Rhoda tells them that they'll always be an inferior copy to Melinoe the Eidolon, and tells Tellurium telepathically that Adelinde's love for her is conditional and if she ill-performs, she'll end up sharing her and Haru's fate.
  • Doomed Moral Victor: While Rhoda does manage to get an ideological one-up on both Adelinde and Tellurium in her last moments, she, Haru, and most of their Pokémon still end up getting murdered by the former.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: We don't see how they die, but it's implied by the blood that Adelinde slices them to ribbons.
  • Happily Married: While it's unclear if they were ever officially married considering their status as runaways, it's clear that they're a happy couple prior to their deaths.
  • Hope Spot: Haru and Rhoda seemingly manage to escape from Tellurium and Adelinde, only for Lutetium to teleport them back inside their apartment, leading to their deaths in short order.
  • Impoverished Patrician: Haru ran away from his rich family, so he's not exactly rolling in money.
  • Non-Action Guy: Haru is shown to not be much of a fighter, as Rhoda does most of the actual combat.
  • Punny Name: Rhoda is derived from "rhodium".
  • Super-Speed: Rhoda was capable of using her powers to enhance her speed back when she was younger, but by the present she's wheelchair-bound and it's not that much of an option.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: At first Rhoda is willing to just stay and let Adelinde kill her so that Haru and their mons have a chance to escape, but when Tellurium tells her that Haru has to die too, combined with him refusing to leave her in the face of certain death, she's motivated to resist.
  • Younger Than They Look: Rhoda looks elderly and is wheelchair bound, but she's chronologically 30 and biologically around her 40s at the time of her death, which is implied to be the result of the Schoolchild Curse.

     Tim 

Timoteo Cabrera Patterson

Joven's assistant, a former famous Let's Player turned museum employee who works on miniature train sets. In his spare time, he is the infamous street hero Night Mankey.

  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: In-universe equivalents, anyway. He's themed after Mankey-lines specifically (though his outfit vaguely resembles an Annihilape) and for primates in general.
  • Composite Character: He resembles MCU Pete's "Night Monkey" identity but, due in part to Adaptational Nationality, acts a lot like Zorro, with his branding inconsistencies giving him an extra whiff of Darkwing Duck
  • Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: He and his team render Malacostra's mons and mooks out of commission mostly by suddenly attacking from behind, to the point that Mal doesn't even notice something was amiss until her defeated Pokémon are battered, physically and literally.
  • The Cowl: Played with in that he tries to actively be a dark brooding hero, but can't muster the aesthetic (or the branding choices) to pull it off well.
  • Dashing Hispanic: Invoked. While he flubs a few times and is ill-suited to the brand he's going for, he really can't resist going the route of a gallant outlaw hero when talking and happens to be Paldean (ie. PokéSpanish).
  • Decomposite Character: Alongside Tommy, of MCU: Peter Parker's two secret identities. He takes the general identity of a European superhero dressed in a stealth suit, while Tommy takes on literally everything else.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Night Mankey, the Avenger of the Night. He and his team are still working on that.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Des offhandedly mentions a "Night Mankey" existing in-universe to Tommy in conversation. His appearance confirms that he's the real deal.
  • Expy: He's Night Monkey but Pokéverse Spanish instead of (presumably) Czech.
  • The Gadfly: Like his Unovan counterpart, he relies in part in annoyance to defeat evildoers. Just ask Malacostra and her many parking tickets.
  • Justice by Other Legal Means: His rivalry with Malacostra is based on this principle. On top of thwarting her schemes, he scuttles her resources by having her illegally parked getaway vehicles impounded or otherwise ticketed. Whether he hopes she'll be brought down through overwhelming traffic violations remains to be seen. And regardless of how much it actually hinders her, it seems to be getting to her nerves anyway.
  • Mirror Character: To Tommy Petersen:
    • Both he and Tommy are based on MCU Peter Parker's alternate identities and appear to be brunet white guys in their mid-20s and are of similar heights and builds. On top of that, they have similar nicknames that seem a few letters off each other. The resemblance basically ends there.
    • Both began their careers in superheroing as non-powered costumed street heroes with a low budget and slapdash super suits themed after a Pokémon. But whereas Tommy has a high tech form-fitting super suit care of the generosity of a benefactor with resources, Tim's crime-fighting resources remained slapdash even when he had the cash for equipment.
    • Tommy was born Psychic and received various augmented physical abilities due to exposure to a genetically modified Spinarak's venom. Tim began and remains a Non-Powered Costumed Hero.
    • Tommy's chief partner is Tobi, the very Spinarak responsible for his powers (his other Pokémon seldom get into the fray), while Tim relies on an ensemble team of Pokémon whose physical abilities far surpass his own.
    • While his family situation has yet to be elaborated upon, Tim isn't an orphan, while Tommy's defining trauma stems from being orphaned.
    • Tommy was set on the path of heroism due to circumstances involving power and responsibility, while Tim seems to have become a hero entirely by choice.
    • Both are extremely theatrical in their approach to fighting evildoers, but while Tommy has basically nailed the presentation part, Tim is still workshopping many of the more incongruous parts of his superhero branding (including his sobriquets). While Tommy gets a kick from being incredibly visible and showboat-y, Tim's most awesome moments come from him and his team not being visible at all until they've gotten the clear advantage in a fight.
    • Both of them are vaguely teenyboppy young men working as assistants to a guy named Albright.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He works efficiently, stealthily, and very quickly, to the point that a lot of his activities go completely unobserved.
  • Poirot Speak: His speech is rendered as English peppered with the occasional bit of Spanish to hint that he's Paldean (specifically Pokéverse Spanish).
  • Visual Pun: Somehow manages to use this against Malacostra, beating the mucus out of her crustaceans and tossing them back, defeated and covered in pancake batter.

Worf the Greavard

A young greavard under Timoteo's care and the only one who isn't yet part of his super team. He used to be a fidough puppy who died.

  • Establishing Character Moment: He is introduced running away from an exasperated Joven like any hyper puppy would—and into a potentially dangerous battle scene.
  • Meaningful Name: Greavard are said to drain the life force of others unwittingly through play. He is named after the The Worf Effect as he must've unwittingly done this to one of his fellow team members, who are otherwise quite powerful.
  • My Greatest Failure: He was the one life the Night Mankey failed to save or defend; he perished in his previous life before Tim could bring him to a center.
  • Precious Puppy: His entire schtick as a civilian is getting into the typical adorable pratfalls that a puppy gets into.
  • Vocal Dissonance: While he sounds like a puppy to humans, to Pokémon, his register resembles that of a decorated warrior from a Proud Warrior Race (Read: He basically speaks like Lieutenant Commander Worf) yet still behaves exactly like a puppy would.

Independent Pokémon

The Cubone Tribes

    In General 

  • The Clan: Cubone society is built around numerous clans under one greater tribe.
  • Culture Clash: The Kanto and Sinnoh tribes each view the other as savages due to presence or lack of Trial by Bonemerang.
  • Fantastic Racism: They tend to distrust most other species, which is understandable considering their low place in the food chain.
  • Zerg Rush: Their main advantage against larger opponents tends to be sheer numbers.

Goldenrod Nidoran Colony

Spread across the Johto lands around Goldenrod City, a colony with high social organization takes care of the city and carry their peaceful (not in the AU) lives.

    In General 

    The Leaders 

A group of females (Nidorina) govern the Colony, assisted by elders, messengers of various allied species, and, in the AU, the heads of the Army.

  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: They like their mates to have their rough edges to them.
  • All Myths Are True: They regard all myths regarding legendaries, even those with more negative connotations, as true, which causes Luke some unintended trouble when trying to get their help against Scolemis.
  • Stalker with a Test Tube: The Nidorina leaders choose their breeding partners, by force if they want to.

The Owsla

A select group of Nidoran tasked with protecting the Colony from danger, they function as a police force. However, with the emergence of dangers that threaten the colony for generations already in the alternate timeline, and the presence of an official army, they have become more like a secret force of pincushion Men in Black in armor.

    In General 

    Vinollo (Nidorino, Leader) 

Leader of the Owsla in the AU.

  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Head of the AU Owsla and the strongest Nidorino there.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Vinollo is very good at stealth and appearing and disappearing when he needs to, with Tagg only able to pick up his presence because he lacks any method of masking his Aura.

Alternative Title(s): We Are All Pokemon Trainers Bystanders

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