Your Very Own (Pokemon OC)

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Luvia Juneworth has lived in Clearcloud Island, Hoenn, all her life. Girl's never been on a journey, but now that she's got her very own pokémon, that's about to change. Water. Hoenn is full of it... and its seas have never had a queen. * Way of water * Contests and Gyms * Steady teambuilding and an MC eager to learn * Long-fic * Exploration through the Hoenn region * 2-3 new chapters every week for the foreseeable.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: Gumigan

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 1,272
Views: 109,215

Chapters(34 total)

What readers say about Your Very Own (Pokemon OC)

“Shameless 5 star purely driven by mudkip being my favorite pokemon. On a real note though the writing is very good with fleshed out side characters and consistent characterization. It’s early on but I’m already invested in the mc beyond just the desire to s…”
Spitting FireRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“It's still early days into Luvia's journey but the story so far has been a Super Rod 'cuz I'm on the hook. I don't normally go out of my way to read Pokemon stories and I'm certainly in a very picky minority of Pokemon readers as I've tried to get into seve…”
AshokRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

Spitting FireRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Shameless 5 star purely driven by mudkip being my favorite pokemon.
On a real note though the writing is very good with fleshed out side characters and consistent characterization. It’s early on but I’m already invested in the mc beyond just the desire to see progression. Word building is solid too, author has taken advantage of the setting gifted from the pokemon universe and hasn’t been afraid to make it a little dark and gritty (but not too much).
AshokRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's still early days into Luvia's journey but the story so far has been a Super Rod 'cuz I'm on the hook.
I don't normally go out of my way to read Pokemon stories and I'm certainly in a very picky minority of Pokemon readers as I've tried to get into several well-known popular Pokemon stories but there's always something a little awkward or cartoony or just offputting to me. The only story I've really loved was The Game of Champions, very different in feeling & style, region & generation (literally, in release time). Fundamentally I think the magic of Pokemon is super hard to translate into writing for many reasons, but Your Very Own has been positively enchanting in its opening, starting a journey from humble roots while staying true to the spirit of Pokemon and capturing the sense of Pokemon adventure in the most wholesome and pure way.
Any story is more than the sum of its parts, but there's a few things that really stand out to me:
- Ironically for a Pokemon story, the first and most important thing (to me) is the genuineness of human-to-human interactions. Your Very Own smacks it into the stratosphere with natural dialogue (rhythm and flow and word choice) and an emotional range, breadth, and depth that bring characters to life. No forced lines! Stylistic choices in narration and prose also make it very easy to read.
- Human-to-pokemon and pokemon-to-pokemon interactions also hit a sweet spot. Human-to-pokemon is neither overly saccharine or patronizing. Lots of cute moments, interspersed with higher adrenaline scenes. The pokemon-to-pokemon POV interactions were a surprise, liking the faintly alien perspectives. Battles don't get bogged down by technicals.
- Verisimilitude in worldbuilding. We all know Pokemon is fictional, but making things feel real within the story makes it hit much harder. There's a lot of flavor elements (or future plot hooks) like Pokemon class notes, official job postings, and family trees that get extra investing.
- Luvia is a charm
DyingTotemRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A good Pokémon story with an adorable mudkip. I really enjoy the family dynamic and build up to the real journey. I can’t wait for the future battles and contests. I’m immensely curious about what style Luvia will go for when she starts doing contests. I also can’t wait to see which she prefers. Battling, or contests? Either way a really cute story that is well written so far. Can’t wait for future chapters!
Floh2802Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I finally got around to finishing catching up with this story, and I'm thoroughly surprised by how good it is!
Well-established characters with clear personalities, a unique setting nobody else seems to be focusing on, and a lovely MC who you want to root for all culminate in a lovely story you don't want to stop reading.
Luvia is the kind of person you aspire to be, and even now, at the time of this review, when she barely knows anything, it seems like the whole world is rooting for her, me included. She gets help, she reaches out for assistance when she needs it, and she takes the initiative. She is just lovely.
The supporting cast isn't much worse, and I feel like Gumigan really knows how to write compelling characters without writing them out too much. As someone who also writes a Pokefic, I tend to lose the plot and get lost in the details. Being able to precisely make a reader see a character's personality and intentions in just a few lines is something that should be commended.
Even in the 18 chapters we've gotten yet, there's been so much concise forward progress in the story that every chapter makes you want to click onto the next one to see where it really leads to. With the Slice of Life Tag, I might not have expected as much action as the current chapter is leading up to, but I don't think it feels out of place in the story.
All in all, a very, very good story in its budding stages of development. Get in early, give it a read, and follow if you, just like me, want to see where Luvia's story takes her.
Fogdragon101Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story of progressing at a reasonable place and has a good early motivation I can see this going far and ending up like some of the other long running poke fics on rr. Has a similar feel to early type specialist and I will touch the sky, two of the better long running fics. So far so good keep it up!!
Lanzo493Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a pretty fun and easygoing read. I like that the main character has a very real personality and is also showing natural growth and have over time without it feeling forced. The mystery about her water type bonds is intriguing. I look forward to future updates to see where it goes.
SeliMeliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is still in the early game, but so far it's really grabbed my attention and I'm very excited to follow along! The pacing is good and the style, grammar & vocabulary are all very solid.
Luvia is an energetic and already endearing protagonist. She's a very fleshed out character, balanced in her determination and inexperience, with a lot of room to grow. Her relationships with her family are also interesting and seem to be an important part of the narrative, which is rare in pokefics!
For the Pokémon characters, I'm generally used to reading about them as beings with human adjacent intelligence and personalities, but this story seems to be taking the "more advanced, superpowered animals" route. No comment on that, we'll see how things play out and how the power of bonds that's already been mentioned plays into it, but I'm excited to find out!
The plot is currently in the pre-journey phase but still engaging. Some things are happening, others are being set up and it feels like in many ways the story is committed to earning progress in all regards.
Overall, I'm really excited for this story, especially since we've been promised contests and I'm HYPED for it!!! (I've docked half a star on the story rating purely because there's not really enough to judge yet, but I'm positive I'll be coming back to fix that some chapters down the line!)
NellaraRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Very early on in the story but so far so good. Luvia is already a very well established character and her family (including the pokemon) are all nice additions so far. There is already some nice setup for Luvia to have unique skills that i am interested to see where the author will take and i will be keeping up with the story to find out.
AREK G. A.Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
There's a moment at the port where Luvia holds out her hand to Bincy — the Linoone she's known her whole life — and gets one distracted lick before the pokémon goes straight back to fussing over Neela. She buries her face in her dad's chest and just falls apart. Her father thinks she's laughing.
That's the scene that made me keep reading. It's small, it's quiet, and it does more work than three chapters of exposition ever could.
The story is built around a very simple premise — a fourteen-year-old on a small island watching everyone and everything drift away from her — and it earns that premise honestly. The abandonment doesn't come in one big dramatic moment. It accumulates. Father gone most of the year. Sister leaving soon. Ziggy, who used to follow her everywhere, now trailing Neela around instead. By the time the Mudkip shows up, you feel exactly why it matters so much.
Neela is the quiet MVP here. The banter between the sisters feels genuinely lived-in — the kind of dialogue that only works if you actually know how sisters talk to each other. "She agrees with me, Luvy." The Water Gun scene on the battle court is probably the most fun moment in these chapters, and it lands because the relationship holding it up is solid.
Grammar is some of the cleanest I've seen on RR. A few descriptive stretches on the cruise ship slow things down — there's an inventory-feel to some of those passages — but nothing that broke the reading flow.
My only real gripe is that Luvia is still quite passive. Things happen to her and around her, and she reacts well, but she hasn't made a meaningful choice on her own yet. The trainer exam decision is there, then immediately tucked away. I'm hoping that changes — she has enough personality to carry something bigger.
If you grew up watching Pokémon and wanted a story that felt like the quiet parts between the battles, this is that. Slice-of-life done with actual care for its characters.
Manadeil109Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Slice of life with Pokemon will always have entertaining fights, so even though we haven't started the journey yet, there's lots to love.
The family dynamic is chill, loving and silly, love that.
I can't wait to see how the set up develops! The contest and the battles sounds really fun.