Olivine Romance.
This is Jasmine and her Steelix. Jasmine is the Gym Leader of Olivine City. Okay, despite the FF.net summary (Jasmine is a young adult now, but even as her fellow Gym Leaders mature she remains notoriously shrewish and abrasive towards romance and sex. Her friends have had enough and hatch a plot to get her laid.), this story is definitely a slow burner in that area and it's more of an emotional maturation journey. I'm much more interested in the author's world building, both on the Pokemon League and the life as a gym leader, and the pretty awesome pokemon battles. Probably the best and most intelligent fights I've read in terms of strategy and sneakiness. If nothing else, read Chapter 41 for my favorite one in this fic thus far.
This is Jasmine and her Steelix. Jasmine is the Gym Leader of Olivine City. Okay, despite the FF.net summary (Jasmine is a young adult now, but even as her fellow Gym Leaders mature she remains notoriously shrewish and abrasive towards romance and sex. Her friends have had enough and hatch a plot to get her laid.), this story is definitely a slow burner in that area and it's more of an emotional maturation journey. I'm much more interested in the author's world building, both on the Pokemon League and the life as a gym leader, and the pretty awesome pokemon battles. Probably the best and most intelligent fights I've read in terms of strategy and sneakiness. If nothing else, read Chapter 41 for my favorite one in this fic thus far.