Pokémon Special has all of /two romantic subplots/ involving main characters over the course of the series!  Yellow has a crush on Red, though Red *still* hasn't figured out that Yellow is a girl.  I think he's realised that Yellow's got a crush, though.  At some point, Gold is like :|a my pichu is the child of Yellow's Chuchu and Red's Pika, what do???  And then Blue drops out from nowhere and is like WHY DON'T YOU ALL MOVE IN TOGETHER 8D because she is awesome like that and ships threesomes.

The other one is with Ruby and Sapphire!  Ruby HATES POKÉMON BATTLING because it makes his pokémon dirty, so he ONLY DOES CONTESTS.  He likes to knit scarves and so on for his pokémon!  Sapphire, meanwhile, spends all her time in the field researching pokémon with her dad!  She spends a lot of her time in things like grass skirts because artificial materials smell weird and scare off pokémon.  At some point they find out that their LIFE-DEFINING BACKSTORY (when they were small children, Sapphire was attacked by a RAMPAGING SALAMENCE which is a giant dragon pokémon, and Ruby was like I'LL SAVE YOU!!  And then Ruby got the shit beaten out of him by this giant dragon.  So Sapphire was like I WILL BECOME GREAT AT BATTLING SO I WON'T EVER NEED TO BE RESCUED AGAIN!!  And Ruby was like MY VICIOUSNESS GOT ME HURT AND SCARED MY FRIEND :( I WILL NEVER BATTLE AGAIN!!  And so Sapphire is a badass and Ruby is a fashionista.)

Thankfully neither of these are ever really important!  And note that out of five sets of three/four protagonists, having two very minor romantic subplots is pretty good :|b  Usually the two main boys of the arc have /massive amounts of subtext/, though Silver also has a lot of subtext with Green and Blue (Blue/Silver, Red/Yellow, and Ruby/Sapphire are the only het pairings that ever get attention, and pretty much in that order: fandom's not too fond of Ruby for some reason) and RS and Emerald arcs don't have two main boys to be gay at each other.  I mean, I guess Wally has a hero-worship thing going on with Ruby?  But I can't ship it.  Maybe because Norman (Ruby's dad) sort of takes Wally on as his protege.  Maybe they can bond over Norman being a fuckhead.  Second-worst dad in the Pokémon world ever, and the /worst/ tried to raise his kid to be a sociopath and destroy the world.  Norman's just an abusive fuckhead.

As far as pretty obvious f/f pairings go!  There aren't too many, mainly because there aren't that many girls interacting with other girls, but Blue and Yellow have a mentor/mentee thing going on, and Blue and Sabrina are great whenever they're considering killing each other (Lorelei uses magic lipstick to handcuff them together.  Yes.), and Candice and Maylene have a thing, and Mars and Jupiter are /really gay/.  I would not be surprised if Jupiter's apparent lack of pants is Mars's fault.  MARS NEEDS WOMEN.  Basically if you are looking for people who are probably lesbians read Yellow arc and Diamond and Pearl arc :Db

If you are for some reason bored by one particular arc!  Note that FRLG arc requires that you've read RGB arc for it to make sense, and HGSS arc theoretically requires a background in GSC arc though from what I have heard the magazine version doesn't make sense /anyway/.  ... Pokémon Special has a tendency to not make sense part of the time until it comes out in the tankouban, actually.  Probably comes from how sometimes they are working on three arcs at once.  (They were doing RS arc and FRLG arc at the same time, and then a bit later they were doing FRLG, Emerald, and DP all at the same time.  Probably hard to make sure each magazine chapter's good when you're doing that, particularly since most people are just going to read the tankouban because the magazine PokéSpe runs in is pretty minor.  That happened again with Platinum, HGSS, and BW, so.)  BUT OTHER THAN THE TWO REMAKE ARCS you can pick an arc and read from there.  Usually it makes a bit more sense with knowledge of other arcs since there are allusions to continuity, but ... Pokémon Special has been running since 1997.  There's only so much you can reasonably expect people to remember.


This is completely and utterly irrelevant to PokéSpe, but did you know that there are a few characters in the Pokémon games who are probably trans?  Most trainers have pokémon that match their gender!  Well, if the pokémon species is 50/50 male/female, anyway.  There are /four exceptions/: Bugsy (who Gold mistakes for a girl in PokéSpe), Will, Saturn, and Grimsley!