Alright, that makes sense. Having a pilot episode made is...interesting too I suppose.
I suppose that's a good theme to use for a few of the interactions then. Try to expand it beyond the trainer himself and have his Pokemon involved in it - what is their take on it? Maybe they also have some bullying? (Idk, I think it may be neat to have a story about a trainer being bullied and wanting his Pokemon to stop it, only to realise that one of his own Pokemon is being picked on by another of his party). Play around with it, but also introduce some side plots too (don't make everything revolve just around the main trainer and his problems, in other words.)
The sideplot of the first two eps (The pilot) is to have the main bully, whom shows up here and there try to get kids to make fun of the two new friends. However, he begins to lose followers when they start to realize the two aren't doing anything to them and are simply enjoying themselves. His mocking of the main character in the second part of the pilot causes him to not back down, in an attempt to defeat their adversaries and the plan goes well as he uses his brain for the first time instead of his fist, as was instructed in a flashback by his father, whom ironically is the cause of the problem.
The Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle of the show come in episodes 10, 11 and 12, just like with the original season of Pokemon. I wanted the Bulbasaur to have felt at home with the main character, only to become jealous of his caring for them and his compassion for others besides him to cause him to leave the group after yelling at him and attack the main foes by himself. He is easily defeated and the main character rescues him, along with most of the team and tells him that he cannot do everything by himself and cannot hog his attention by himself, jokingly saying he can do it with the rest of the team and causes them to become friends again.
The Charmander has a thing about going in solo, always wanting to do things by himself. He works for a man, whom he believes to be his mentor until he recognizes that he's doing no good. Not only does he join the team, but his employer becomes one of the main villains. Throughout the early episodes, the only one he really connects with are the Bulbasaur and the Butterfree, whom he feels sad over leaving and begins to not listen to the main character at all until getting critically injured (Sound familiar?) in a later episode.
The Squirtle has a band of misbehavers and after joining the group by himself, slowly convinces them to as well. However, he stays the only one for a while and finds new friends in the team.
The Pikachu is the one friend made in the pilot, whom he views more as a partner than as a sidekick. The main character and the Pikachu get along famously at first, but when he begins to blow off his work for the team, he finds himself being scolded by everyone but the main character, whom he thought he would hurt by not doing anything.
The Pidgeotto of the group is the one friend made in the first-non pilot episode of the series, along with the Butterfree. After the Butterfree leaves, he takes a less active role and leaves altogether in the last episode of the series, being that of 81.
The Butterfree is the easiest connecting one of the whole team of seven, easily being able to identify with the whole team and support them. However, where he begins to have goals of his own, he is forced to leave for another country, with a tearful goodbye and is only seen again in the finale.