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• there are things I can't explain by bluentine

  Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023)  

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  • Work in Progress

  26 Jan 2026

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  • Satoshi | Ash Ketchum
  • Satoshi no Pikachu | Ash Ketchum's Pikachu
  • Kukui-hakase | Professor Kukui
  • Burnet-hakase | Professor Burnet
  • dad kukui is canon trust
  • just talking and thinking
  • ash can't read
  • he has dyslexia
  • no that isn't relevant
  • i just wanted to drop a headcanon
  • ash is mysterious about his previous journeys
  • (he's traumatized)
  • Delia is lowkey neglectful
  • Brief mentions of neglect
  • light character analysis
  • Professor Kukui's POV
  • First Person
  • Badly Written
  • more characters will be added trust me
  • basically i just wanted to write dad kukui
  • Found Family
  • satosere is mentioned
  • more like suggested
  • serena is mentioned but not really in the fic so i didn't add her to characters

  Summary

  "He’s lived with me for months now, and I still don’t quite understand him. I love Ash, I really do, his classmates adore him, as do his Pokémon, as does everyone. But nobody can quite understand him. He was the type that seemed like an open book, really, he said nothing and everything at the same time. I want to know him. I know some things–he’s impulsive, impatient, ambitious, friendly, selfless, eternally positive, he’s what we all look up to. But how much more is there than that?"

  Or,

  Kukui is curious about Ash's previous adventures and wants to learn more about him, but Ash is playing dumb

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