Pokemon Prism: The tSR Pokemon Game

[Wes]

Giovanni's son then? just say the two leaders are Giovanni's lost children/ or Archie's and Maxie's spawn who'd wanted to distance themselves as far away from their parents, so they went from finding legendary pokemon to street thugs?

Not as cannon but idk


but tbh i like the past idea better

Silver, the rival in G/S/C/HG/SS, is Giovanni's son. That was part of the plot in the manga, but became canon in HG/SS. At the end of the game, he has sort of changed his ways (he returns the Pokemon he stole from Elm, but Elm lets him keep it because he has grown to care for his Pokemon instead of just using them for battle). So that wouldn't really work.