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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11113835/1/Essence Essence]]'' is a ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic where Ash has a Growlithe starter.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11113835/1/Essence Essence]]'' is a ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic where Ash has a Growlithe starter.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: ''Essence'' has 393k+ words spread over 12 chapters, as of April 2016.
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* ModernAUFic: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.
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* SettingUpdate: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.
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** Ash teaches Charmander not to become a Fantastic Racist after he notices Charmander glaring at some Machamp. Charmander was nearly killed by a Machamp. Ash tells him not to take out of his grudge on one individual Machamp by hating the entire species.
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** Ash teaches Charmander not to become a Fantastic Racist after he notices Charmander glaring at some Machamp. Charmander was previously nearly killed by a Machamp. Ash tells him not to take out of his grudge on one individual Machamp by hating the entire species.
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** Ash lacks much of his season 1 brattiness and stubbornness.
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* AgeLift: Erika is described as being in her early teens, not her late teens or early twentiea.
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* AgeLift: Erika is described as being in her early teens, not her late teens or early twentiea.twenties.
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Ash arrives at Professor Oak's lab half a hour earlier than the other to-be-trainers. Professor Oak is unable to give out the starters so early, but that's fine to Ash because he didn't want one of the traditional three starters. Ash had wanted an unusual Pokémon to make his journey exciting. After given a few choices, he decides on one of the Growlithe pups that Professor Oak's Arcanine recently had.
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Ash arrives at Professor Oak's lab half a hour earlier than the other to-be-trainers.to-be trainers. Professor Oak is unable to give out the starters so early, but that's fine to Ash because he didn't want one of the traditional three starters. Ash had wanted an unusual Pokémon to make his journey exciting. After given a few choices, he decides on one of the Growlithe pups that Professor Oak's Arcanine recently had.
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* CutenessOverload: Misty and her three sisters have a fangirlish reaction to seeing Ash's Clefairy. It's both a very rare Pokémon and a very cute one, so they don't see Clefairy's much.
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* CutenessOverload: Misty and her three sisters have a fangirlish reaction to seeing Ash's Clefairy. It's both a very rare Pokémon and a very cute one, so they overreact because they don't see Clefairy's much.
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** Ash's Pikachu is nowhere to be seen. He replaces it with a Growlithe and a Clefairy.
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** Ash's Pikachu is nowhere to be seen. He replaces it with Instead Ash has a Growlithe and a Clefairy.
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* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Due to the traumatic murder of his parents when he was still in the egg, Bulbasaur was born suffering embryonic trauma. It's a condition that causes intense RepressedMemories and leaves a newly hatched Pokémon born "stateless". He couldn't even eat on his own before being taught by Melanie.
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* DisabledInTheAdaptation: DisabledInTheAdaptation:
** The Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny families have a genetic disorder which makes individuals look identical.
** Due to the traumatic murder of his parents when he was still in the egg, Bulbasaur was born suffering embryonic trauma. It's a condition that causes intense RepressedMemories and leaves a newly hatched Pokémon born "stateless". He couldn't even eat on his own before being taught by Melanie.
** The Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny families have a genetic disorder which makes individuals look identical.
** Due to the traumatic murder of his parents when he was still in the egg, Bulbasaur was born suffering embryonic trauma. It's a condition that causes intense RepressedMemories and leaves a newly hatched Pokémon born "stateless". He couldn't even eat on his own before being taught by Melanie.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Much of the cast has changed personalities. The writer views Ash's Pokémon as separate characters from their original versions, though Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle have the same backstories.
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* DeadFic: The story hasn't updated since chapter 12, which involved Ash defeating Erika.
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* FantasticRacism:
** Squirtle's original trainer was badly injured by Spearow. This left him with a hatred of all Pokémon.
** Squirtle hates humans because his trainer abandoned him.
** Ash teaches Charmander not to become a Fantastic Racist after he notices Charmander glaring at some Machamp. Charmander was nearly killed by a Machamp. Ash tells him not to take out of his grudge on one individual Machamp by hating the entire species.
** Squirtle's original trainer was badly injured by Spearow. This left him with a hatred of all Pokémon.
** Squirtle hates humans because his trainer abandoned him.
** Ash teaches Charmander not to become a Fantastic Racist after he notices Charmander glaring at some Machamp. Charmander was nearly killed by a Machamp. Ash tells him not to take out of his grudge on one individual Machamp by hating the entire species.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Erika is given her game design, with black hair and a yellow kimono, instead of her blue-haired anime design.
* AgeLift: Erika is described as being in her early teens, not her late teens or early twentiea.
* AgeLift: Erika is described as being in her early teens, not her late teens or early twentiea.
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* SettingUpdate: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.
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* SettingUpdate: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.1990s.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Erika and her younger sister Millie look a lot alike, except that Millie is younger and has longer hair.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Erika and her younger sister Millie look a lot alike, except that Millie is younger and has longer hair.
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** Sabrina tags along with Ash for several chapters.
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** Sabrina tags along with Ash for several chapters. She becomes one of his friends.
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* OhMyGods: This is used rarely. Most of the time, people just use "god". For example, Sabrina has the line "I swear to Mew...".
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* PatchworkFic: It mixes in game elements into anime canon.
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* AdaptedOut:
** Ash's Pikachu is nowhere to be seen. He replaces it with a Growlithe and a Clefairy.
** The TerribleTrio are absent. In their place is the game version of Team Rocket, including the Executives.
** Ash's Pikachu is nowhere to be seen. He replaces it with a Growlithe and a Clefairy.
** The TerribleTrio are absent. In their place is the game version of Team Rocket, including the Executives.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Misty and her three sisters are nicer both to Ash and to each other.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** Misty and her three sisters are nicer both to Ash and to eachother.other.
** Lt. Surge is in his anime design but his personality is more similar to his game version.
** Sabrina is introduced in her more open ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' incarnation, not her more aloof original incarnation. She's also made more in-line with her game counterpart overall. Sabrina's just a quiet CreepyGood, with none of the CreepyChild SplitPersonality of her anime counterpart.
** Misty and her three sisters are nicer both to Ash and to each
** Lt. Surge is in his anime design but his personality is more similar to his game version.
** Sabrina is introduced in her more open ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' incarnation, not her more aloof original incarnation. She's also made more in-line with her game counterpart overall. Sabrina's just a quiet CreepyGood, with none of the CreepyChild SplitPersonality of her anime counterpart.
* AscendedExtra:
** Bill is not a one-shot character. He becomes a friend of Ash's.
** Sabrina tags along with Ash for several chapters.
* BloodierAndGorier: Team Rocket is more violent and doesn't mind getting their hands dirty by hurting, or killing, people and Pokémon.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Ash is closer to Red than his anime counterpart. He's less of a StockShonenHero and also goes on his journey alone.
** Bill keeps the British accent and overall character of his anime counterpart, but his hair is brown with a green tint (which combines the brown hair of his game version with the green hair of his anime version).
** Several characters are made more similar to their game incarnations.
** Bill is not a one-shot character. He becomes a friend of Ash's.
** Sabrina tags along with Ash for several chapters.
* BloodierAndGorier: Team Rocket is more violent and doesn't mind getting their hands dirty by hurting, or killing, people and Pokémon.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Ash is closer to Red than his anime counterpart. He's less of a StockShonenHero and also goes on his journey alone.
** Bill keeps the British accent and overall character of his anime counterpart, but his hair is brown with a green tint (which combines the brown hair of his game version with the green hair of his anime version).
** Several characters are made more similar to their game incarnations.
* DarkFic: The story has a more grounded approach to the Pokémon world that doesn't shy away from violence and dark topics.
* DisappearedDad: Ash never knew his father.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Bulbasaur's parents, two Ivysaur, were murdered by poachers who wanted their flower bulbs for themselves.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Bulbasaur's parents, two Ivysaur, were murdered by poachers who wanted their flower bulbs for themselves.themselves.
* SettingUpdate: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.
* SettingUpdate: The fanfic takes place circa 2015, while the original anime arc came out in the 1990s.
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* InterspeciesAdoption: Pidgeotto sees the rest of his team as his surrogate siblings.
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* InterspeciesAdoption: InterspeciesAdoption:
** Pidgeotto sees the rest of his team as his surrogatesiblings.siblings.
** Bulbasaur was raised by a human, Melanie, because his parents died prior to his hatching.
** Pidgeotto sees the rest of his team as his surrogate
** Bulbasaur was raised by a human, Melanie, because his parents died prior to his hatching.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Misty and her three sisters are nicer both to Ash and to each other.
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* CutenessProximity: Misty and her three sisters have a fangirlish reaction to seeing Ash's Clefairy. It's both a very rare Pokémon and a very cute one, so they don't see Clefairy's much.
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* NoInfantileAmnesia: Pokémon are born instinctually knowing certain things. They're also born with memories from when they're inside their egg.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Misty never went on her journey to become a water-type expert. Instead, she's the fourth Cerulean City gym leader. Misty's the one that does most of the actual battling, while her three older sisters prefer theatrics.
* CutenessProximity: Misty and her three sisters have a fangirlish reaction to seeing Ash's Clefairy. It's both a very rare Pokémon and a very cute one, so they don't see Clefairy's much.
* DemotedToExtra: Brock and Misty are just gym leaders. They're not Ash's travelling partners.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Due to the traumatic murder of his parents when he was still in the egg, Bulbasaur was born suffering embryonic trauma. It's a condition that causes intense RepressedMemories and leaves a newly hatched Pokémon born "stateless". He couldn't even eat on his own before being taught by Melanie.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Due to the traumatic murder of his parents when he was still in the egg, Bulbasaur was born suffering embryonic trauma. It's a condition that causes intense RepressedMemories and leaves a newly hatched Pokémon born "stateless". He couldn't even eat on his own before being taught by Melanie.
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* MessyHair: Ash's spiky ShonenHair is mentioned as being because he doesn't comb his hair.
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* InterspeciesAdoption: Pidgeotto sees the rest of his team as his surrogate siblings.
* MessyHair: Ash's spiky ShonenHair is mentioned as being because he doesn't comb hishair.hair.
* ParentalFavoritism: Pidgeotto's parents put him on a pedestal because he was born twice as large as a normal Pidgey. This led to Pidgeotto becoming greedy and power-hungry. He felt constrained by his parent's expectations and his sibling's jealousy, so he became rebellious after leaving the nest.
* ParentalAbandonment: Bulbasaur's parents, two Ivysaur, were murdered by poachers who wanted their flower bulbs for themselves.
* MessyHair: Ash's spiky ShonenHair is mentioned as being because he doesn't comb his
* ParentalFavoritism: Pidgeotto's parents put him on a pedestal because he was born twice as large as a normal Pidgey. This led to Pidgeotto becoming greedy and power-hungry. He felt constrained by his parent's expectations and his sibling's jealousy, so he became rebellious after leaving the nest.
* ParentalAbandonment: Bulbasaur's parents, two Ivysaur, were murdered by poachers who wanted their flower bulbs for themselves.
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->''They say a trainer's first day sets the tone for the rest of their journey. If that was the case, they had signed up for a thriller.''
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''Essence'' changes quite a bit from the anime. It also adds in more elements from later games and has some {{worldbuilding}} that canon doesn't.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11113835/1/Essence Essence]]'' is a ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic where Ash has a Growlithe starter.
Ash arrives at Professor Oak's lab half a hour earlier than the other to-be-trainers. Professor Oak is unable to give out the starters so early, but that's fine to Ash because he didn't want one of the traditional three starters. Ash had wanted an unusual Pokémon to make his journey exciting. After given a few choices, he decides on one of the Growlithe pups that Professor Oak's Arcanine recently had.
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!!''Essence'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Ash is less stubborn and reckless than in canon. He's also decently well-versed in Kanto Pokémon so he isn't a complete rookie.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Ash goes on his journey early and gets a Growlithe starter, not a Pikachu one.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ten is considered [[FreeRangeChildren old enough to see the world on your own]].
* IntellectualAnimal: Pokémon are born understanding human speech.
* MessyHair: Ash's spiky ShonenHair is mentioned as being because he doesn't comb his hair.
Ash arrives at Professor Oak's lab half a hour earlier than the other to-be-trainers. Professor Oak is unable to give out the starters so early, but that's fine to Ash because he didn't want one of the traditional three starters. Ash had wanted an unusual Pokémon to make his journey exciting. After given a few choices, he decides on one of the Growlithe pups that Professor Oak's Arcanine recently had.
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!!''Essence'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Ash is less stubborn and reckless than in canon. He's also decently well-versed in Kanto Pokémon so he isn't a complete rookie.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Ash goes on his journey early and gets a Growlithe starter, not a Pikachu one.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ten is considered [[FreeRangeChildren old enough to see the world on your own]].
* IntellectualAnimal: Pokémon are born understanding human speech.
* MessyHair: Ash's spiky ShonenHair is mentioned as being because he doesn't comb his hair.
