+ Ishimaru is now 30, and kind of wigged out by this knowledge; he's not bothered by it, though. It's a good kind of wigged out. + He's fallen into canon-update comas twice; he's experienced his portion of canon in its entirety. + He has all sixteen badges at this point; his battle theme is some unholy amalgamation of the MTB themes. + He's no longer a member of Team Rocket; he still wants to bring down the organization, but he hated what they made him do during his attempt at doing so from the inside. He eventually turned himself in and did his jail time in order to leave. + As such, his Darmanitan is no longer microchipped, and he gets on far better with it now. + He went through a period of time where he made a lot of Bad Life Choices, and he tried to make a lot of Bad Life Choices for everyone else; part of it was Team Rocket's influence, part of it was him being an arrogant prick, and even though it's been years and he didn't go Full Villain or anything, he's still trying to atone for it because wow did he fuck up for a while there. + His social skills have drastically improved! He was able to catch up with most people in his peer group eventually, though he still has trouble with nuances and saying what he means sometimes. Basically, if socializing was a language, he'd be fluent but he'd have an accent. + Since the 'foreigners' have been here for so long by now, he's been trying to institute changes that will allow them to have positions of power within society in Johto - basically granting them the ability to become Gym Leaders and Professors and other such things. Obviously, they'd have to pass the same sort of exams as the locals, but he'd basically be advocating for equal opportunities for those who have found themselves here for the duration. + Single forever and pretty happy with that, actually; he's tried dating a few times, but he hasn't really found anyone he can say he's in love with. + He requires glasses by this point, and he's grown his hair out a little to the point where it's not...spiky and/or military-short; he's actually pretty distinguished-looking by now. + Eyebrows are still a mess, though. + He's still not okay with everything that happened in Hope's Peak, but - + He's at a point where he can at least accept that he's never going to be okay with it. He's still healing from it, but he's come to terms with that probably being a lifelong process.
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+ He's fallen into canon-update comas twice; he's experienced his portion of canon in its entirety.
+ He has all sixteen badges at this point; his battle theme is some unholy amalgamation of the MTB themes.
+ He's no longer a member of Team Rocket; he still wants to bring down the organization, but he hated what they made him do during his attempt at doing so from the inside. He eventually turned himself in and did his jail time in order to leave.
+ As such, his Darmanitan is no longer microchipped, and he gets on far better with it now.
+ He went through a period of time where he made a lot of Bad Life Choices, and he tried to make a lot of Bad Life Choices for everyone else; part of it was Team Rocket's influence, part of it was him being an arrogant prick, and even though it's been years and he didn't go Full Villain or anything, he's still trying to atone for it because wow did he fuck up for a while there.
+ His social skills have drastically improved! He was able to catch up with most people in his peer group eventually, though he still has trouble with nuances and saying what he means sometimes. Basically, if socializing was a language, he'd be fluent but he'd have an accent.
+ Since the 'foreigners' have been here for so long by now, he's been trying to institute changes that will allow them to have positions of power within society in Johto - basically granting them the ability to become Gym Leaders and Professors and other such things. Obviously, they'd have to pass the same sort of exams as the locals, but he'd basically be advocating for equal opportunities for those who have found themselves here for the duration.
+ Single forever and pretty happy with that, actually; he's tried dating a few times, but he hasn't really found anyone he can say he's in love with.
+ He requires glasses by this point, and he's grown his hair out a little to the point where it's not...spiky and/or military-short; he's actually pretty distinguished-looking by now.
+ Eyebrows are still a mess, though.
+ He's still not okay with everything that happened in Hope's Peak, but -
+ He's at a point where he can at least accept that he's never going to be okay with it. He's still healing from it, but he's come to terms with that probably being a lifelong process.