{Haha, long story! And to put it in short, it actually started with Bill.
The story goes that I first stumbled across his character ages ago. Like, literally around 2000 because the mun is old, folks. See, there used to be this huge site that served as a sort of library for anime fanpages back in the day. It wasn’t a search engine; it just listed links, sorted by series and categories. I used to go to this library practically every day to check out new fanpages, and one day, this tiny fanpage for Bill popped up.
To be honest, I can’t even tell you what about it or him fascinated me, but I guess I always was a bit of a sucker for side characters and mad scientists and British characters and transformation stuff, and Bill was just kinda that center piece of the Venn diagram for all of these things. (This, incidentally, is why the Bill of this blog is “animeverse with bits of the other canon universes pasted on.” It’s because I was first introduced to Bill through the anime, and that one stuck because holy god is that one the weirdest and therefore amazing. The rest of the world can probably be best described as gameverse/its own thing, though. Gary Oak exists, but so does Blue, and I got nothin’ in terms of an explanation. Yet. Dude goes by many nicknames, I guess.)
Needless to say, I kinda got obsessed with him specifically and started collecting every little bit of information I could about him. And then, of course, I started writing him into fanfics or roleplaying him across mailing lists, boards, LiveJournal, and then here, at which point, he started to become my own character.
Interest in the rest just kinda fell into place after that. As in, I got super into the other storage system admins because they were associated with Bill, I’d worked out headcanon about the storage system because it was Bill’s invention (and also because it’s one heck of a challenge to tackle explaining it omg), and so on and so forth. But in the process, I realized that each storage system developer is their own unique, often fascinating character. Like, Bebe has this loud personality to her, Cassius is a straight-up bunny-ears lawyer/punk rocker, Molayne literally battles you for championhood, Amanita is an eight-year-old technological genius and what is this…
…and then you have Lanette.
By the time I’d learned about Lanette, I was actually writing my first massive Bill fic. One of the reviewers dropped the news about her in a comment, and ngl, my first thought was, “I need to find out everything I can about this woman because I must add her to this fic.” Spoiler alert: I discontinued the fic in question before picking up Sapphire for the first time, oops. But Lanette’s factored into every major Bill fic since, at first as a love interest/the female side character who always worries about what her superhero friend/boyfriend is up to, but over time, she just sort of … took a life of her own.
Until ORAS happened, anyway. Then I realized she was really damn cute on her own, not to mention she’s got this whole personality to her that stands on its own. Just the way she introduces herself in those games, by straight-up Sherlock Holmsing you … that was just a work of beauty. So I just kinda retooled her character from there, and she quickly evolved into the LH you see on this blog. Still a foil to Bill in a way, but also very much her own, independent character: passionate, intelligent, down-to-earth despite her housekeeping habits, caring in her own way, and so on.
So, uh, very long story short, this blog features Bill and Lanette because I really like writing about them, and I like writing about them because apparently, it didn’t take much to convince me that Bill is an awesome character, and therefore, so is everything else associated with him. Also, yes, they are indeed adorable.}
The Pokédex According to Bill 