[quote=@Rune_Alchemist]
Huzzah! We have our first gym leader!

...and now I'm off to bed people~ xP

I'll finish up the first post of the IC tomorrow morning, then we can all get our shenanigans started.
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The Azalea Gym Leader reminds me of Clay, from both the Pokemon Black/White series and Shaolin Showdown. 

Plus, I'm not quite sure playing a Gym Leader counts as taking a Trainer slot or not, or whether you can play a Gym Leader but not a trainer. 

Another idea I have is that we don't have to follow the Gym Leader sequence in the main game. Twenty years have passed, and surely they've added new routes and shortcuts all over the place with extra towns and cities. Maybe add some RP canon of what happened to the Gym Leaders, especially the younger ones (Faulkner, Bugsy, Whitney, and Jasmine are kids, if not teenagers in HGSS, so they should still be alive and doing their own stuff.)