Sun and the Moon
Foreword:
Sun and the Moon begins with a farm girl named Sun Golden, who is about to visit her mother and brother in Goldenrod City. Sun has spent the brunt of her life at the family farm near Lavender Town. The farmers there are few and far between, yet possess stubbornness as hard and deep as the rocky soil they plow. They are hesitant to migrate away from their homes for extended periods of time, and have developed a close-knit sense of community with their few and far between neighbors. The residents of Goldenrod City are quite the opposite of the persistent Lavender Town farmers. Always moving from place to place as business and industry expand and relocate, these people are fickle and fastidious. The farmers are proud of their stubbornness and enjoy their unpolluted view of the night sky. The city-dwellers, on the other hand, rarely see the moon—and they could probably care less.
In this story, Sun's parents have been divorced for years. The divorce mainly came about because Sun's mother took a job in the city, and, through a series of promotions, received an offer for a prestigious job in Goldenrod City. In the process of deliberating some sort of a move, the Goldens began arguing to a ridiculous degree. Mr. Golden refused to leave the farm, for it had been in the family for years, and his own children were much too young to inherit at their ages. Mrs. Golden insisted that it was time to let go and try something new. She tried in vain to convince her husband that there were probably farming opportunities near the city. The divorce ensued, even when the Goldens went through counseling and tried to compromise. But neither side would budge. Mrs. Golden took their son, Ray, with her, and Mr. Golden kept Sun, their daughter, with him.
The story begins eight years after the divorce, so Sun is fifteen years old and Ray is eighteen years old. The children do switch parents occasionally, but are chiefly happy where they are, though they miss each other and the other parent tremendously.
Another character enters the story later on, named Robin Nock. He is a trainer who lives in New Bark Town and will have started a Pokemon journey about two months before the story begins, just in time for summer. He is fifteen years old, and lives in a rather large family. He has an older sister (Jessica) who is currently travelling in the Hoenn Region, a twin sister (Celeste) who started in the Kanto Region just as he started in the Johto region, two younger brothers (Dillon and William) who reside at home, and a much younger sister (Lisa) who recently learned to speak in complete sentences.
This story begins on an evening in late June at the Golden Family Farm…