Lineages and family-related headcanons are in order!
-Although it seems that there is no ancestor to Roark and Byron in PLA... there is: it's Charm. She is related to both Bertha and Agatha - and Bertha is Byron's mother, the wife of the Underground Man, and Roark's grandmother.
-Arezu is a direct descendant of the Diamond Clan founder who looks like R/S/E!Maxie. In turn, she will count not only Mars of Team Galactic among her descendants, but also OR/AS!Maxie, Ariana, and Silver. Maxie, Ariana and Mars are all siblings, born in that order, and Ariana is Silver's mother, but we all know that already even though it was never officially confirmed.
-Iscan and Palina both unofficially adopted the PLA protagonist and had biological kids of their own. Some of their descendants moved to Hoenn and started what would eventually become Team Aqua. (Not sure who would be related by blood to them though - Archie, Shelly, Matt, two of them, or all three.) Marlon also descends from them, which would perfectly explain his "the sea accepts all rivers" approach to life.
-Cyrus's sh!tty upbringing was a direct, and quite likely unintended, result of the reputation Cyllene built as Commander of the Galaxy Expedition Team. She was known for keeping her cool no matter how much was thrown at her, so her descendants aspired to be like her and then passed on the same philosophy to their own descendants, corrupting it in the process.
And one that will almost certainly be proven wrong when Scarlet/Violet come out, not that it isn't a crack theory already:
-Geeta is an Inteleon wearing a human disguise, and Chairman Rose's original starter that he, for some reason, abandoned. She took on a similar appearance to that of Rose and Peony's late mother, and her "team" is really a clowder of similarly abandoned or discarded Pokémon who wanted to make it big, like the Town Musicians of Bremen. In short, she is using her mad spy skills to be loved and appreciated despite her off-putting appearance... although she does, deep down, want to humilliate Rose, not knowing that he has already done that to himself.
-Although it seems that there is no ancestor to Roark and Byron in PLA... there is: it's Charm. She is related to both Bertha and Agatha - and Bertha is Byron's mother, the wife of the Underground Man, and Roark's grandmother.
-Arezu is a direct descendant of the Diamond Clan founder who looks like R/S/E!Maxie. In turn, she will count not only Mars of Team Galactic among her descendants, but also OR/AS!Maxie, Ariana, and Silver. Maxie, Ariana and Mars are all siblings, born in that order, and Ariana is Silver's mother, but we all know that already even though it was never officially confirmed.
-Iscan and Palina both unofficially adopted the PLA protagonist and had biological kids of their own. Some of their descendants moved to Hoenn and started what would eventually become Team Aqua. (Not sure who would be related by blood to them though - Archie, Shelly, Matt, two of them, or all three.) Marlon also descends from them, which would perfectly explain his "the sea accepts all rivers" approach to life.
-Cyrus's sh!tty upbringing was a direct, and quite likely unintended, result of the reputation Cyllene built as Commander of the Galaxy Expedition Team. She was known for keeping her cool no matter how much was thrown at her, so her descendants aspired to be like her and then passed on the same philosophy to their own descendants, corrupting it in the process.
And one that will almost certainly be proven wrong when Scarlet/Violet come out, not that it isn't a crack theory already:
-Geeta is an Inteleon wearing a human disguise, and Chairman Rose's original starter that he, for some reason, abandoned. She took on a similar appearance to that of Rose and Peony's late mother, and her "team" is really a clowder of similarly abandoned or discarded Pokémon who wanted to make it big, like the Town Musicians of Bremen. In short, she is using her mad spy skills to be loved and appreciated despite her off-putting appearance... although she does, deep down, want to humilliate Rose, not knowing that he has already done that to himself.
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