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• Knowing they're happy, and they're safe. - Whumptober 2025 Day 1 by SavebatsFromScratch

  Fandoms: Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures, Pocket Monsters Diamond-Pearl Legend: Pokemon DP | Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!  

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  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Complete Work

  01 Oct 2025

  Tags

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  • Platinum Berlitz/Diamond/Pearl
  • Platinum Berlitz/Diamond
  • EntourageShipping
  • CommonerShipping
  • Pearl (Pokemon Adventures)
  • Platinum Berlitz
  • Diamond (Pokemon Adventures)
  • Hareta (Pokemon)
  • Jun (Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!)
  • Platinum and Diamond aren't really exactly characters here but they come up a lot so I kinda had to tag them.
  • Hareta and Jun are relevant also but also don't do much
  • Weddings
  • wedding angst
  • Whumptober
  • Whumptober 2025
  • Polyamory
  • Implied Hareta/Jun/Koya/Mitsumi
  • Hareta is a mirror to Pearl here tbh
  • Romantic Angst
  • references to bad parents
  • Title from Octopus's Garden by the Beatles

  Summary

  Pearl doesn't get married alongside his partners to protect them from laws that hate them and it hurts him more than he lets on.

  Prompt pieces used: “Please don’t cry” + Ceremony

  Series

  • Part 1 of Whumptober 2025 - Savebats

  Language:

  English

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