Hopping out of years of lurk just to say this story is going great.

You depict anxiety and panic attacks very accurately, and the gender exploration and turmoil is fantastic and I can't wait to see Avery figure themselves out, specially without Abby's influence and after refusing Raya's offer to pick and choose.

and speaking of Abby, you wrote her so well it made me uncomfortable at times, you did a truly great job at depicting how tense that whole story arc was (although I'm glad it's over cause wow it was hard for me to keep up without the tension getting to me).

I was so certain Kev was going to be Avery's partner but when it didn't happen that I realized, wow I am fully invested in these characters, from teachers to school setting to foreshadowing (like avery's father) to character development, truly a great story overall.

Can't wait to see what else will be explored specially since the world is flipped now, so I suspect Avery doing human things and wearing human clothes will slowly lead to turmoil amongst other people in the pokemon world just like being animalistic caused turmoil in the human world, or maybe they'll slip back into Absol-isms due to spending so much time with other pokemon, not to mention the topic of pokeballs still lingering about, that's all the result of good writing, it just keeps me wondering and exploring more and more questions about this setting.

You're doing a truly fantastic story, thank you and keep it up.

I hope you continue with this, It's so good to read>