Hi I just noticed this thread and I thought I might have some ideas.
You need a name for the girl and boy characters, right? I was thinking something like Connor and Bella or something like that.
@ComputerHero
I like the Team Nature idea, but maybe we could tweak a few things. Maybe, change the name to Team Terra. And the leaders should have more abstract names than Tree and Cloud. Maybe something like:
1. Chloro (Chlorophyll)
2. Eva (Evaporation)
3. Hydrus/Aquas/Marines (Water)
4. Peak/Everest
and the big boss could be Solar
I dunno. Just some ideas.
Here are some ideas for the starters, to.
The Fire type Fakemon earlier was good, and maybe you could make that as your fire starter. I have noticed that most of the Grass type starters in the other games are slow and have a high HP and DEF, so I though t about real life things that are slow, and maybe you could make the grass type starter some sort of sloth. (Wait, that's slaking. *bangs head on wall*)
Screw that. Maybe you could do something like a really slow or really big animal; something that looks like it could take a few hits and dish out some damage. I suggest a rhino or elephant
Water type starters usually can walk on land. (e.g. Blastoise is a turtle, Feraligatr is an Alligator/Crocodile, Smapert is a mudskipper, Empoleon is a poenguin) so I started thinking about some animals that can live in he water and on land. I came up with a frog. (Wait, that's Politoed *bangs head on wall again* *gets a headache*)
Okay, maybe you could do a polar bear. Or a tripod fish. I dunno. Choices are so limited these days. Maybe a sea snkae or an eel would do.
I'm not the most creative person there is out there.