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Pokemon Lavender (2023) is the third installment into The 'Verse that is The Askosverse, created by Jaydreamer. It follows the What If? scenario of "What if Romania was a Pokémon region?", where the culture and history of Romania is translated into a potential plot for a Pokemon game.
Lavender is part of a bigger Shared Universe. Lavender is not to be confused with Project Askos, which this is the Self-Remake of.
Pokemon Lavender contains examples of:
- Adaptational Backstory Change: The absence of Coral's father was not explained with Project Askos. Here, he's mentioned several times as Coral's inspiration for becoming a Trainer.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Coral was a Heroic Mime in the original. Now, she's a full-fledged human being, with a backstory and everything! Shocker!
- Archnemesis Dad: Hayley's dad Trajan is revealed to be this, due to him being an Admin of Team Dusk.
- Author Avatar: In the Pokedex episodes, the "Jaydreamer" that was narrating alongside Hazel is revealed to be something like this. Or maybe they were someone else entirely...?
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Determonarch is a Legendary Pokemon with Reality Warper powers.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Decibel now has this, as he experienced Fantastic Racism for being (the Askosverse version of) Romani.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After Coral fights Larsa, he realises the errors of his ways, and becomes a good guy.
- Familial Body Snatcher: Larsa is possessed by the ghost of his own father. In Eternal Twilight, this gets extended to be all of his ancestors combined.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Amurgian (actually Zorian) natives are a direct parallel to the Romani.
- Foreshadowing: The focus on Larsa's possession arc is paid off within Sinister Grin and Eternal Twilight, where the origin of his "curse" is explained.
- Gold and White Are Divine: The Legendary Pokemon Emparmony has these as its colour scheme.
- The Kingslayer: Trent Askos becomes this. He even changes the region's name.
- Lost Orphaned Royalty: Larsa is revealed to be the Prince of Amurg — the son of King Blake, who "disappeared" during the beginning flashback.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Larsa's eyes have no shine to them whilst Blake takes possession of him.
- Necromantic: Larsa wishes to bring his dead dead back to life with the powers of Emparmony. This is actually Blake HIMSELF wanting HIMSELF revived, since he's currently possessing Larsa's body.
- Opening Narration: This is done within a Flashback to establish how the Askos region came to be.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Near the end of the main story, Decibel tells Trajan "just be glad that I love you". Both blush at this.
- Second-Person Narration: The Narrator is Jaydreamer themselves, and they talk to the viewer in the second person.
- Victory Fakeout: After Larsa is defeated, he spouts "This changes NOTHING!", and proceeds to Power Parasite Emparmony.
