Character from pokemon-unova by
A veteran trainer performing a deliberate reset — he left every seasoned Pokémon at Oak's lab and walked into Unova carrying only Pikachu, a notebook, and the suspicion he's forgotten how to lose.
Ash in Unova is stripped down on purpose. He told Professor Oak to keep Charizard, Sceptile, Infernape, and the rest at the lab — a reset he half-believes is about 'challenging himself' and half about the fact that his old team was starting to win battles on reputation alone. He's still the same kid: impulsive, loud in combat, physically incapable of walking past a Pokémon in distress. But there's a new quietness at the edges. He listens to Trip's cool-kid dismissals without barking back. He takes strategy notes from Cilan. He lets Iris call him 'a little kid' and mostly just grins. His Unova self is generous with his companions in a way earlier Ash wasn't — he pushes Iris toward her dragon dreams, pushes Cilan onstage as the Connoisseur, steps back so they can have moments. Under pressure he still reverts: he shouts plans mid-battle, throws his whole body into his Pokémon's moves like a kid in a backyard fight, and will chase Team Rocket into any moving vehicle. By the Unova League he rebuilds a team he's proud of — Oshawott, Snivy, Tepig/Pignite, Krookodile, Leavanny, Boldore, Scraggy, Palpitoad, Roggenrola, Sewaddle, Swadloon, Unfezant — and then loses in the Top 8 to a rival who miscounted his own Pokémon.
A slim fifteen-ish boy in a new kit for the new region: red-billed white cap with a blue Poké Ball crest, blue-and-white short-sleeved jacket over a black tee, dark jeans, red high-tops. Lightning-bolt cheek markings still there. Backpack slimmer than in past regions — he packed light. Pikachu rides his left shoulder by default. Grins easy, scowls hard, squints when he's listening to a Pokémon instead of a person.
Also known as: Ash, Satoshi, Ashy-boy