She nods. "They're pretty great, from what I've seen. I was aiming to get a Roselia," she pulls Roselia up on her phone, "for our battle against Wattson, and then add a Marill before leaving the Mauville area for water coverage."

"Why a plant to fight electricity?"

"Neutral against it, strong against the other type of one of the native electric pokémon I think he's likely to use, and fits the vibe we're going for with our team more than any of the ground-types found around here except baltoy, which is also on our list."

"I see! What does baltoy look like? A... soccer ball?"

She pulls it up, and its evolution. It looks like a floating doll made of clay.

"Okay, maybe I shouldn't assume based on names then. I would not have predicted that at all." 

"Yeah! The names definitely aren't always connected. Its evolution, claydol, has a much more descriptive name."

"I see! Cool. I like how Roselia looks too; I wonder if I could get one as well." 

"I bet you could! They're pretty common on route one-seventeen, not too hard to find at all."

They're passing by houses and office buildings now, and soon they approach a building with a distinctive red roof and a pokéball emblem over the door. "And here we are, the pokémon center!"

"The first stage of our journey complete!" Audrey giggles and nods. "So who do we talk to?"

"Any Nurse Joy inside, they'll be able to get things started for you."

The doors slide open as the three walk up. Inside, there's a waiting area, a counter, and two hallways leading into the back, one behind the counter and one accessible to trainers.

A pink-haired nurse stands behind the counter. "Welcome to the pokémon center. "Sable, Maya, you two are back a little sooner than you'd planned. Does that have something to do with this young lady?"

Maya nods. "Ra-ralts!"

"Hi, I'm Audrey. I, uh, am from way the heck far away and am here because of 'legendary pokemon bullshit', I don't have any family in the area and don't own any pokemon. In fact, until today I'd never seen a pokemon. They don't exist where I'm from." 

For a moment, the nurse's smile doesn't change. At all. Nurse Joy is buffering.

And then her smile widens a bit in excitement and she leans forward.

Wow okay legendary pokémon happened here. That's very cool.

"Well, Audrey, I'm Nurse Joy! Welcome to Hoenn, and Earth, and a life full of pokémon! The simplest thing to help you get self-sufficient as quickly as possible is a wilderness child form, but I should ask, first, do you want to become a pokémon trainer? If I know Sable — and I do, she's been staying in the trainer dorms here for a week — she's probably introduced you to the world of pokémon and explained your options. But if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask."

"I do! I think they're amazing - actual smart non-humans! And I can't wait to learn more about them and make friends with them and and and and..." Audrey trails off, too many possibilities going through her head for her to actually get words out. 

"I bet you'll be a great trainer, Audrey. Let's get some paperwork done, then."

She grabs a few forms from a cabinet and starts filling out a few fields, before turning them around and sliding them across the counter with a pen. "Okay, I'll need you to fill out all of this as best you can. I can take you into an exam room to get some of the physical stuff if you'd like."

The form declares itself a Form 213-ITW, Application for New Identification and Trainer License, Wilderness Child Edition, and asks for her name, age, gender identity (male, female, agender, non-binary, fill in the blank other), pronouns, names of any family members (these are marked optional in bold), and a bunch of physical details like height and weight and eye color and hair color and type (if known).

"What legendary got you, if you don't mind my asking?"

She fills it in as best she can:

Audrey Ingram 

14 years old

Female (Stylatic) 

She/Her

Evangeline Evenstar & Tourmaline Hearts

5'1, pretty light and she guesses they can weigh her, green, pink (permanent dye) and wavy. 

"This one with golden rings on it! Something really weird happened to me, I sort of popped into space but I can breathe and then along came this shaggy white furred beast..." 

She smiles. "Sable tells me it's called Arceus and is big important, but I'd never even heard of it before."

"Oh wow, Arceus! That's the pokémon who created the world! Congratulations!"

She looks over the form for a moment.

"Stylatic?" she asks with a soft smile. "I've never heard that term before."

"Oh, um. It's one of the two major possible genital configurations? The outwards one?" 

"Oh! You're transgender, that makes sense. We don't have distinct terms for that. Hmm, maybe we should? Something to consider later, in any case."

She looks further down, at the type section, where Audrey checked "unknown", and nods. "Did your homeworld have types?" she asks while leading her around to a scale to stand on.

"Not that we knew of, no." She steps on the scale.

Nurse Joy notes down the weight in kilograms, then measures Audrey's height as well.

"Okay, that's all for you, Audrey. Let me just get this filed, and then I'll have some documents and a voucher to give you."

She leads the way back out to the lobby and turns to Sable while she starts tapping things into her computer. "Do you mind helping her with her starter, dear?"