What was your inspiration for this series?

@BigBoy23
*Sorry for the late response.
Good question. Well if I have to describe a big inspiration or motivation to have a big idea like this, maybe it was my desire and wish to do an engaging and intriguing story from my part. As you know, I wish to be a scenario witer for the most part and every day I always challenge into giving original ideas or expanding ideas in different ways I can imagine.
And I guess my big reason of why one of my first game stories is a crossover to this two Nintendo RPG series? Well, is because I admire both series so much through all my heart, especially the MOTHER series.
You see, MOTHER was introduced to me during times that I didn't feel any different that can evolve within me on life, I suffered a lot of stress, transitions through high school and the lack of social communication was pushing me on almost a depressive edge, that is until I was reintroduced back to one of my doubts for my passions to all Nintendo series, what exactly are the MOTHER games, and once I saw that EarthBound was surpisingly released on Virtual Console, I decided to give it a try, and it made all my depression and personal insecurities fly away, it setting, battles, characters, humor, questionable elements and effects brought me back to feel a new love and favorite classic to my favorite games of all time, and I tried the rest of the games (VC or Fan translation) and they were even better, especially MOTHER 3, it changed me emotionally to view things differently, as well as admiring videogames as way of viewing an alternative art to itself. That series not only found meaning to my own personality and thoughts again like becoming a kid of heart once again, it helped become more social as gratefully I met people who also loved the series as much as I did, either in school or the Internet (yeah, it seems Miiverse truly help me grow despite its pressured outside shell of controversial mismanagement). It's storyline, its creator, its development, the people that were involved that I recognse before knowing this game, how were they involved, the passion of its community, for me MOTHER is a very special series of my liking for how unique it transpires and most importantly, how it changed me for the better.
Pokémon is a kind of different story, even though I really like the series and its ideas, plot, media variations, etc, it was not like an easy cup of tea for me. Almost all my entire life I was convincing myself that I wouldn't be a good player for those games, and it was because of my own shyness and awkwardness, especially when I'm seeing people that can do better than what I could do, especially regarding of how better relatives of mine do in this games, I didn't want to dissapoint myself. I still want to share my passions and my love for the games, but I guess my liking is not taken seriously even for my relatives, that's why I'm kinda silent to things Pokémon related, I guess I'm truly timid in that aspect.
But that kinda changed years recently, 6th generation became my favorite generation, a region that is something that truly feels something I experienced before (yeah I visited Paris once), Pokémon that had my favorite designs til now, even some that can relate to my own self and personality, and inspirational ideas, even its anime adaptation.
Thanks to MOTHER, I decided to slowly accept my like to the Pokémon series to myseld and talk things that I like and people here accepted my feelings greatly, and even recently buying games for the series for my own personal reasons, my hidden passion didn't needed to be secret anymore for most people I know, my relatives are starting to take me seriously my passion slowly, ad its thanks to that personal bravery.
It's interesting right, both series changed in a different way, and maybe that's why it gave motivation to write this story.
Originally, it was going to be 2 different stories, a dream MOTHER game narrative that had original ideas and inspirations of my own with clever

references, and a Pokémon story that involved the interactions with Pokémon and a human from a world based on normal modern day. I decided to combine bothe to compliment and fill some ideas that can help fulfill each other themes and original ideas, but I guess it was also of how similar they are to each other, in techncalities but also on personal reasons, on the experience of how it changed me and helped me grow my emotions and imagination,
You could say that this is the pure representation of that personal growth and I express it via the emotional development of the main characters. Especially the protagonist, Chris Austin, he is obviously based on my personality and its emotional growth towards difficult times is abstract to my personal development and growth, especially regarding both series, and its seems is the case here, they help him grow and be happy again when he's confronting through difficult times.
My desire to tell intriguing stories is also parallel to show my view points to different things and my feelings, as well express different emotions and fulfill wishes that other people may actually like in the end. My goal is to intrigue other people, and give good times as better as I can.
I hope you enjoyed this response. It was kinda long I gotta admit. Lol