Pokémon In Gotham

Chapter 1: Mr. Freeze

Starting with Mr. Freeze, for exactly one reason:

This image from ChatGPT came out too perfectly and I had to share it. I literally couldn't find ANY fanart of Mr. Freeze cuddling with Ice Types, who wouldn't freeze to death from hugging him, so I decided to cure his touch starvation myself.

1) Glaceon — In my mind, he sees an Eevee about to get crushed by something, and blasts said something out of the way with his freeze ray without thinking. The Eevee follows him home, refuses to leave, and then evolves into Glaceon for the sole purpose of comforting him. As the first living creature he's been able to hold in years, it is his most treasured not-Nora companion.

2/3) Beartic/Shiny Beartic — these are to represent his polar bears from canon, Notchka and Shaka. They would have a similar backstory, with Mr. Freeze having found them as Cubchoo while looking for ways to save Nora.

4) Dewgong — Another callback to canon, this one represents his Artic homing seal, Isolde. All of his Pokémon will be Ice Types, for obvious reasons.

5) Frosmoth — Have you heard him wax poetic about Nora and warmth and snow and etc? This is a guy that appreciates beauty. Frosmoth is beautiful and cold, it matches him really well. And I feel like moths are symbolically perfect for a tragic character like him.

6) Cryogonal — It looks like him. Like, exactly like him. Vaguely robotic, ever monotone, icy... It works so well.

+Ride) Cetitan — It follows him home as a Cetoddle and he immediately goes 'must protect the cute baby'. Eventually it evolves and he rides it into battle, glorious battle!!! Jokes aside, I can totally see him shooting things with his freeze ray from atop Cetitan's back, and it's a motherly Pokémon which really matches his dad vibes (I like to headcanon that he and Nora are grandparents <3).

+Rotom — Technically a blue Rotom phone but it likes to leave its device and hang around as Rotom Frost instead.