ngl, if i had more time, i absolutely would have done a pokemon panfandom site

probably would've done it where like..... the background premise of the site was that the video game industry was testing out character ais for kingdom hearts 6 inside of an upcoming pokemon vr mmo shell, so all of the characters are "waking up" inside of a room in a little core city. if they wanted to, they could entirely ignore the pokemon aspects + just use it as a sandbox to do individual threads (and like imo it's a video game, you wanna break the city, it'll just reset itself when you're out of "render distance", you wanna kill people, they'll just respawn in their bed nbd); alternatively, they could have their characters answer the call of the "rangers association" to get a single partner pokemon and a power limiter that would allow them to take quests out to "corrupted zones" where they could gain reputation for finishing quests along with getting rewards (evolving pokemon, getting rolls for new partners, etc) and everyone would be on an "equal" playing field since the individual character powers wouldn't work for questing purposes, only pokemon stuff would.

probably would've pulled a smol digimon where the partner pokemon was the only one you could interact with outside of the corruption zones / outside of battle (and had a special purchase to evolve it outside of battle since it's basically your flavor companion) but you could also collect other pokemon you could call upon for quests (both for active battling and for passive skills like using a flying pokemon to fetch something up on a cliff or a fire pokemon to get across lava). would've likely had a set site pokedex with slow additions (to somewhat standardize evolution thresholds + establish clear passive abilities + consolidate movesets + so on) and with all the "modding" actually done by members (since imo if you're "cheating" to give your friend 50 eevees, you'll eventually reach a point where there's nothing left for them to do progression-wise, and even so, they'd still have to be active on the site to see the rewards since they're not just handed out "for free").

sadly, working full time (and also being more tired than i was when i was in school) means i do not have the kind of free time to do this sort of thing anymore ;;;;;;;