Pocket Monsters: Xiao Qian

Native characters, no transmigration.

This story is planned as a chronicle of Xiao Qian's journey and hard work... She'll take on Gym battles and Pokémon Contests, starting in Kanto. Where she'll go after that is undecided. Canon characters will appear, but the male lead is an original character, not a canon character. In short, although canon characters will show up, the story will mostly focus on original characters. Both the male and female leads are natives of this world, not transmigrators (though transmigrators may appear). The story should begin after all the canon events have ended. There won't be a restriction requiring a Pokémon to forget a move whenever it learns a fourth one.

Xiao Qian is tentatively ten, Ash is fifteen, Red is twenty, and Aunt Hanako is thirty-four. I'm not sure whether Ash and Red are actually the same person, so for this story, they aren't. The setting is that Red became the Indigo League Champion at eleven. A year later, he set out on a journey and gave up the title to Lance. After Lance had been Champion for three years, Ash was ten, received Pikachu, and began his journey.

However, Ash won't have much to do with the story. He'll barely appear... He's currently traveling through Kalos (because the Kalos anime is airing right now, you know~)... But in this story, Ash is already fifteen and about to turn sixteen. He spends less than a year in each region. The protagonist won't be around when the canon events take place.