Oct 2, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Welcome to Apocalypse Johto: Rewritten by SABERinBLUE (currently known as Sam Gabriel) and read by the author! This story is loosely based on the unfinished Nuzlocke comic of the same name, which was…
his miserable life, Santino Giovanni is in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.
The Savvy Islands have a very great deal to offer a man like Santino Giovanni.
In the most immediate and ongoing sense, they are the soil from which currently grow the Remsburgs, in particular the rocky tundra of Four Island.
The Rumsbergs, as a family, are a kind of low-growing shrub, or perhaps an especially tenacious lichen, in that they are well-adapted to cold climates, ineradicable in their niche, and rarely of use to anyone.
Sentinel Giovanni has a way of getting use out of useless things, and in this capacity, disgraced Indigo Champion Price the Dynasty Remsburg is some of Giovanni's best work.
If one were to tell the whole story, one would need to clarify that Champion Price's primary disgrace had lied in his association with disgraced Indigo Elite Sentinel the Boss Giovanni, but Giovanni does not make a habit of telling the whole story.
About anything.
Not that this association is or was a secret, far from it.
The long friendship of Price Remsburg and Santino Giovanni is one of the most infamous scandals in the history of the League, its repercussions some of the most startling.
This is, of course, exactly the way Giovanni had wanted it, though not even he could have predicted the precise circumstances under which Price's dynasty would eventually fall.
He'd been sympathetic, had Giovanni had been a listening ear, a comforting squeeze of the shoulder, and an affirmingly masculine word of consoling validation.
Price was, of course, Santino Giovanni's dearest friend, is and remains his dearest friend, even after everything that came next.
Because what kind of man would abandon his friends over a few errors in judgment? Not Santino Giovanni, and certainly not Price Remsburg.
Which is why Santino Giovanni is currently living at Icefall Manor, Price's spacious and well-appointed residence, because he and Price are still such good friends.
It isn't as though Giovanni needs to stay here.
He is a man of his own, not inconsiderable wealth, of course, but Icefall's amenities would be difficult to surpass by any financial means.
Price's state in liquor was always one of his most useful qualities, for example, almost as useful as his current custodianship of the Glacier Badge of Mahogany Town.
His consequent absence from Icefall is another of its many amenities, as is the erstwhile presence of his granddaughter Lorelei.
On sabbatical until recently, from the current Indigo League, she is a good deal sharper than the average Remsburg, and Giovanni's ability to irritate her is a comfortably pleasant constant in both of their lives.
Above all, it is Icefall's location which acts as its most useful amenity, because again, the Sevii Islands have a very great deal to offer.
A man like Santino Giovanni.
The Sevii Islands are what is termed a sub-jurisdiction within the bi-region of the Indigo Chapter of the Pokemon League.
The legislative and political labyrinth presented by the arcane intricacies of this precise classification give way in practical application to one main quirk of the islands.
They have no gym, and therefore no gym leader, because, to reduce said labyrinth to a straight line, the Sevii Islands aren't too small and remote to matter to a league challenge.
The point is difficult to argue, at least in a procedural sense, and Seve's populace has in fairness never had cause to complain about its lack of a gym.
his miserable life, Santino Giovanni is in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.
The Savvy Islands have a very great deal to offer a man like Santino Giovanni.
In the most immediate and ongoing sense, they are the soil from which currently grow the Remsburgs, in particular the rocky tundra of Four Island.
The Rumsbergs, as a family, are a kind of low-growing shrub, or perhaps an especially tenacious lichen, in that they are well-adapted to cold climates, ineradicable in their niche, and rarely of use to anyone.
Sentinel Giovanni has a way of getting use out of useless things, and in this capacity, disgraced Indigo Champion Price the Dynasty Remsburg is some of Giovanni's best work.
If one were to tell the whole story, one would need to clarify that Champion Price's primary disgrace had lied in his association with disgraced Indigo Elite Sentinel the Boss Giovanni, but Giovanni does not make a habit of telling the whole story.
About anything.
Not that this association is or was a secret, far from it.
The long friendship of Price Remsburg and Santino Giovanni is one of the most infamous scandals in the history of the League, its repercussions some of the most startling.
This is, of course, exactly the way Giovanni had wanted it, though not even he could have predicted the precise circumstances under which Price's dynasty would eventually fall.
He'd been sympathetic, had Giovanni had been a listening ear, a comforting squeeze of the shoulder, and an affirmingly masculine word of consoling validation.
Price was, of course, Santino Giovanni's dearest friend, is and remains his dearest friend, even after everything that came next.
Because what kind of man would abandon his friends over a few errors in judgment? Not Santino Giovanni, and certainly not Price Remsburg.
Which is why Santino Giovanni is currently living at Icefall Manor, Price's spacious and well-appointed residence, because he and Price are still such good friends.
It isn't as though Giovanni needs to stay here.
He is a man of his own, not inconsiderable wealth, of course, but Icefall's amenities would be difficult to surpass by any financial means.
Price's state in liquor was always one of his most useful qualities, for example, almost as useful as his current custodianship of the Glacier Badge of Mahogany Town.
His consequent absence from Icefall is another of its many amenities, as is the erstwhile presence of his granddaughter Lorelei.
On sabbatical until recently, from the current Indigo League, she is a good deal sharper than the average Remsburg, and Giovanni's ability to irritate her is a comfortably pleasant constant in both of their lives.
Above all, it is Icefall's location which acts as its most useful amenity, because again, the Sevii Islands have a very great deal to offer.
A man like Santino Giovanni.
The Sevii Islands are what is termed a sub-jurisdiction within the bi-region of the Indigo Chapter of the Pokemon League.
The legislative and political labyrinth presented by the arcane intricacies of this precise classification give way in practical application to one main quirk of the islands.
They have no gym, and therefore no gym leader, because, to reduce said labyrinth to a straight line, the Sevii Islands aren't too small and remote to matter to a league challenge.
The point is difficult to argue, at least in a procedural sense, and Seve's populace has in fairness never had cause to complain about its lack of a gym.
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