History Roleplay / WeHaveAllBecomePokemon

* KickTheSonOfABitch: An ill-tempered (and heavily implied to be drunk) Tangrowth (whose name is eventually revealed to be Vince) at the Salty Spittoon in Silversand nearly force-feeds Goobert to his Victreebel friend over a petty slight on Goobert's part. He angrily storms out of the bar when Goobert escapes and the Victreebel prevents him from going after Goobert again, whereupon he promptly gets decked alongside a Conkeldurr bouncer by Lars.

* TakingTheBullet: Guy cracks a few ribs taking a [[DropTheHammer Wood Hammer]] from Dras-Il, protecting the rest of the party from the hammer's shockwaves and helping Dras-Il recover from the HatePlague that was affecting her.

** Castaway amuses himself with the thought of an enemy Pokémon sent flying away landing in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield Albany or Utica (or if you prefer, upstate New York)]], then later that night dreams about watching the Aurora Borealis with June while feeding her hamburgers and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNBpeUHKXQ playing piano]]. Then dreams about [[Film/TheRoom playing football with June, Jack, and Nori while wearing his tuxedo.]] A later dream had by Castaway essentially ends up being an extended ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' reference.

''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14914248370A02012900&page=1 ITT: We Have All Become Pokémon]]'' is a {{Play By Post Game|s}} on the TV Tropes forums started by Tropers/CaliburnAbsoluteEX on April 5th, 2017 and was ended in June 2023. The premise is simple: all the players [[AuthorAvatar play themselves]] (in theory), having become Franchise/{{Pokemon}} through mysterious circumstances as they find themselves thrust into a strange new world without any humans.

''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14914248370A02012900&page=1 ITT: We Have All Become Pokémon]]'' is a {{Play By Post Game|s}} on the TV Tropes forums started by Tropers/CaliburnAbsoluteEX on April 5th, 2017. The premise is simple: all the players [[AuthorAvatar play themselves]] (in theory), having become Franchise/{{Pokemon}} through mysterious circumstances as they find themselves thrust into a strange new world without any humans.

The recap for the roleplay can be found [[Recap/WeHaveAllBecomePokemon here]], summarising the important events of each "chapter".

* BalefulPolymorph:
** The entire story revolves around the characters being suddenly transformed into Pokémon against their will.
** It applies to them ''again'' in the Wonder Orbs arc, where some of the party is shifted into ''different'' Pokémon.
** Two different antagonists' respective [=MOs=] have been forcibly transforming Pokémon into their minions to do their bidding (brainwashed Combees for L'Arachel and amnesiac Clamperls for Phoebe).

* TheArtifact: The fact that it's "''We'' Have All Become Pokémon" in the first place, as many recent humanmons have not only not been affiliated with Wiki/TVTropes before becoming Pokémon, but there have now been humanmons who are implied if not outright stated to be from worlds and universes other than the "real world", such as Noriaki, Grigori, and Dieter. Additionally, some primary characters have even been native Pokémon rather than humans-turned Pokémon, such as Milo. Generally speaking, its roots as a simple ITT thread are gradually disappearing.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are over 40 player characters as of Page 714. On top of that, many players can boast several named [=NPCs=] under their control, not to mention the many dozens of unnamed characters overall. As of Page 714 there are well over 200 (probably over 300) characters with at least two lines spoken.

** Marsha reads a book from a mystery novel series called ''"[[Literature/TheCatWhoSeries The Meowth Who...]]"'' at the Argatha library during the Orbs arc. The title of said book itself is ''The Meowth Who [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Aimed for the Horn]]''.

** While [[{{Jerkass}} Cortez's]] transformation into a young Tyrunt during the Hoard arc is initially played for laughs, with him running away crying for his mother, the next time we see him, RealityEnsues big time; he loses his inn, his position on the council in Hoard, and the few friends he had, and is ultimately mistaken for an orphan and taken to the local orphanage, [[AlasPoorVillain where he laments the loss of everything he once had]].

* RealityEnsues: Several of the romantic couples in the main party end up having relations at several points, though this usually fails to lead to anything as the couples either don't share an egg group (such as Marlon (a Gallade) and Marsha (a Swampert)) or are a gay couple (such as Autumn and Mila). The one time a straight couple that ''does'' share an egg group, Goobert (a Goodra) and Delilah (a Dragonite), end up having a night (during the Foxfell arc), a brief scare the next morning results in concerns being raised over babies entering a group that experiences danger at almost every turn, and Goobert and Delilah agree to wait until they're done adventuring for good and have returned home to Silversand before doing anything like this again.

** Some odd things that otherwise wouldn't exist in the pre-industrial-level setting of the RP appeared in it before the exact nature of said setting could be firmly established, such as graphic t-shirts, backpacks, and (infamously) a rock band with functional electric/synth music instruments, things that nowadays would ''never'' fly within the setting as it is now.

The roleplay is set in the same universe as the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' series, albeit many years in the future. BroadStrokes are taken with the mechanics and history of the Pokémon world, with the ground rule being "whatever works best for the roleplay format". While created by Caliburn, every player is encouraged to create their own [=NPCs=], plots, and/or settings if they feel up to the task.

** As far as specific places and locations in the RP go, many of the towns and places the characters visit tend to be this way on certain levels, with the only settings to have had little to no trouble going on (either obviously or behind the scenes) so far being the carnival outside Hoard, the Castle of Coral, and Gleamscape[[labelnote:*]]Granted, Gleamscape marked the beginning of the Priscilla arc (and was originally meant to take place in it wholesale before its conclusion was moved elsewhere), but the setting as a whole was largely LighterAndSofter [[BreatherEpisode than immediately preceding and succeeding arcs]]. Additionally, there is also Manaphy's emotional issues that often wreak havoc on the community around the Castle of Coral, possibly lessening this depending on how one looks at it.[[/labelnote]]. Likewise, the only genuinely [[CrapsackWorld crapsack settings]] so far have been those of Hoard (which was rife with political upheaval that ultimately upended the town; however, things may be getting better under its new management) and Slak Rock (which was the bleakest and most hostile setting in the RP yet, and has been implied several times to have gotten even worse since then).

** During the L'Arachel arc, Nyquil decides to ally himself with the eponymous Vespiquen and is turned evil (and then later simply BrainwashedAndCrazy) in the process.

** Noriaki and Hikari bid farewell to the party following the Danjor Island arc in order to finish cleaning up the mess L'Arachel made and ultimately establish a new settlement in Harnicara around her manor. Noriaki's position in the humanmons' party was subsequently filled by Raboot humanmon Royal.

** Andy believes that this needs to be the go-to solution to the party's problems, almost to a fault. Even when the party is at the mercy of ''two'' VA vectors in Hoard, he calls out the party for believing that provoking said vectors into attacking each other was the best solution to subduing them (Even after being told blank that [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption this was the only option by that point]] that wouldn't result in a drastic loss of innocent lives). He later throws this away when he becomes a Honedge.

** Hoard has some minor examples and one major example:
*** The island of Wild Ridge played a minor but somewhat important role during Hoard and many characters from it made {{Early Bird Cameo}}s during the Hoard tournament. However, since the Hoard arc's conclusion, there has been no significant mention of Wild Ridge nor of its inhabitants or the things going on there whatsoever.

*** The ending of the arc implied that Serris and Khmalidze were going to be the biggest threat to the party that wasn't the Viral Aggression going forward, but neither they or anyone working with them have made a single appearance in the RP since the Hoard arc ended (which was back in Fall 2017).

* InfantImmortality: There are a few aversions:
** The Fletchling Sushi killed on day one couldn’t have been too far into their teenage years at most.
** Autumn's younger brother has been stated to have passed away from an illness an unknown period of time before the start of the RP.
** Subverted when Autumn smashes an egg thought to have been produced by Goobert and Delilah, as it turns out that said egg was an unfertilized egg that Delilah simply passed during the previous night (something Autumn doesn't state to the party until after the fact).

* AmusingInjuries: HilarityEnsues after Nyquil sneezes out a SmokeScreen during the Ruffian arc.

* SneezeOfDoom: Nyquil/Niles unleashes one of these when he gets the brunt of PJ's failed Pollen Puff, unleashing a SmokeScreen that causes Goobert to stumble into a rolling Oz (who had lost control of his rolling earlier) then land on Finley.

** While still having the [[WhiteAndGrayMorality gray morality]] of the Ruffians at Woodfall Mansion, Dras-Il the Trevenant is a genuine threat to the party, injuring Nyquil and J, cracking Guy's ribs, and very nearly killing Oz. She does start to calm down once she sees the severity of Oz's injury and eventually stops fighting, but afterwards, she warns the party of a Pokémon terrorizing the woods and spreading a HatePlague among its inhabitants.

* PutOnABus: Goobert exits the group to work for Benji the Ditto at a marina during the Silversand arc, [[TheBusCameBack though he eventually returns due to unprecedented circumstances.]] After another brief stint away from the party, he rejoins the party again for good, though he also sits out the Slak Rock arc.

*** The ending of the arc implied that Serris and Khmalidze were going to be the biggest threat to the party that wasn't the Viral Aggression going forward, but neither they or anyone working with them have made a single appearance in the RP since the Hoard arc ended (which was back in Fall 2017), and the humanmons seem to have forgotten about them entirely by this point.

* BigBadEnsemble: Most of the RP's antagonists have little-to-no relation to each other, yet pose significant threats in their own rights and take turns being considered the threat of most prominence. As of the Hoard Arc, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Belladonna]], [[TheCaligula Chairgon Merqury]], [[GeneralRipper Kapitani Khmalidze]], [[KillerRabbit Perigo]], [[WickedWitch L'Arachel]] and her associates, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Winifred]], [[MadScientist Phoebe]], [[IAmAHumanitarian Umberto]], and [[FaceHeelTurn Nyquil]][[labelnote:*]]During the L'Arachel arc[[/labelnote]] are all established antagonists.

* MilkBar: Just about every bar in the game would be Milk/Soda bars if it weren't for sarysa, [=TacoBadger=], Afterwards, and [=CyberController=]. Instead, they're more unnatural hybrids of real world and milk bars.

** Slak Rock itself wound up becoming this due to its GM abandoning their own arc and going through a breakdown that ended with their removal from the RP, putting the answer of whom among the potential heirs eventually succeeded the deceased King Raleigh on indefinite hold. The main characters [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never really found the answers to other major questions raised during the arc]], either, such as who poisoned and murdered the king, how the town reacted to the king's death, and who the vector of this town was. A side effect of this was the circumstances behind the reason the party went from Slak Rock to Foxfell, the location of the next arc, being changed completely; originally, at the end of the arc, Finley/Autumn (the kingdom's RunawayPrincess) was going to be abducted by three hired thugs from Foxfell and taken back to her kingdom, with the rest of the party setting out to find her and eventually ending up in Foxfell. This plot and the kidnappers were set up over the course of Slak Rock, but when the Slak Rock arc was cancelled, the circumstances for what took the party to Foxfell were changed completely, with Autumn voluntarily returning to Foxfell out of concern for her parents. As a result, the kidnappers and their plot was rendered moot and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse they disappeared from the arc entirely]] before reappearing at the beginning of the L'Arachel arc.

*** Another thing that happened during the Slak Rock arc was Andy being kidnapped by a trio of dog Pokémon from Foxfell who were implied to be searching for [[RunawayPrincess Finley/Autumn]]. However, after the Slak Rock arc was [[AbortedArc cancelled]], Andy's kidnapping failed to be followed up on save for a brief mention of how Andy still hadn't been found yet, and Andy has not been seen or heard from since. His kidnappers disappeared from the arc entirely, and when they reappeared later, they made no mention of Andy.[[labelnote:*]][[RealLifeWritesThePlot This is mostly due to two out-of-universe factors]]: Slak Rock's cancellation changed the circumstances behind the party actually going to Foxfell, rendering the kidnappers moot since they were originally meant to kidnap Autumn and force her to return to Foxfell, resulting in everyone going after them. The other factor is due to Andy's player being removed from the RP, leaving Andy's story to end on the unfortunate note of him [[UncertainDoom never being seen or heard from again following his kidnapping]].[[/labelnote]]

!!This roleplay provides examples of:

** The Groudon/Moltres storyline, which was foreshadowed in Jani's dreams for almost two in-game weeks, has officially been canceled. It sputtered beforehand with increasingly absurd excuses to shove the dreams aside in a given night only to be aborted in the face of having no real long-term plan for it and not wanting to waste a spot in the arc queue for something without much lasting impact.

** [[invoked]] Slak Rock itself wound up becoming this due to its GM abandoning their own arc and going through a CreatorBreakdown that ended with their removal from the RP, putting the answer of whom among the potential heirs eventually succeeded the deceased King Raleigh on indefinite hold. The main characters [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never really found the answers to other major questions raised during the arc]], either, such as who poisoned and murdered the king, how the town reacted to the king's death, and who the vector of this town was.
*** A side effect of this was the circumstances behind the reason the party went from Slak Rock to Foxfell, the location of the next arc, being changed completely; originally, at the end of the arc, Finley/Autumn (the kingdom's RunawayPrincess) was going to be abducted by three hired thugs from Foxfell and taken back to her kingdom, with the rest of the party setting out to find her and eventually ending up in Foxfell. This plot and the kidnappers were set up over the course of Slak Rock, but when the Slak Rock arc was cancelled, the circumstances for what took the party to Foxfell were changed completely, with Autumn voluntarily returning to Foxfell out of concern for her parents. As a result, the kidnappers and their plot was rendered moot and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse they disappeared from the arc entirely]] before reappearing at the beginning of the L'Arachel arc.
** Jani and the sisters' becoming a Dugtrio has been pushed back indefinitely. Reasons include the author finding writing Digletts in general to be somewhat awkward in general due to having to constantly handwave (and reinforce the handwaving of) various mobility concerns, liking Sarah as a Purrloin, and concerns that the Diglett line is [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman too alien or unrelatable]] for the reader to be usable for any serious interaction.

* AllThereInTheManual: Despite his various appearances, Perigo is never directly called "Perigo." He's always referred to as "the cat" or "the Delcatty."

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Viral Aggression has become a fountain from which any number of events foreign to the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} extended universe have flowed.
* TheArtifact: The fact that it's "''We'' Have All Become Pokémon" in the first place as many recent humanmons have not only not been affiliated with Wiki/TVTropes before becoming Pokémon, but there have now been humanmons who are implied if not outright stated to be from worlds and universes other than the "real world", such as Noriaki, Grigori, and Dieter. Additionally, some primary characters have even been native Pokémon rather than humans-turned Pokémon, such as Milo. Generally speaking, its roots as a simple ITT thread are gradually disappearing.

** It applies to them ''again'' in the Wonder Orbs arc where some of the party is shifted into ''different'' Pokémon.

* BettyAndVeronica: Delilah and Cyk respectively towards Goobert.

*** Ocie would later disappear entirely again before showing up again as the L'Arachel arc was getting started well over ''1000'' pages later. Philly the Voltorb (now an Electrode) would do so as well after having disappeared following the Hoard arc.

*** Teller ({{NPC}}) goes from being a relatively ordinary (albeit overqualified) barkeep who tends a dive bar in the beginning, to a complex information broker who aids the humans, Lars' crew, and the largest guild in the world. May intersect with {{flanderization}} as the whole reason he let the humanmons eat for free was to probe their minds.
*** There seemed to be slight hints towards Delilah being a BitchInSheepsClothing in her earliest appearances, but this was based on a early villainous concept for her that her player quickly scrapped. Her [[NiceGirl overly nice]] personality did still end up as a facade of sorts, but it was instead hiding a [[HotBlooded firey and battle-loving]] (but still nice and friendly) side of herself that she had been repressing since injuring her mother in a Mega Evolution-related accident.

*** [[invoked]]Audrey the Victreebel suserrated her words as she spoke in her debut appearance at the Salty Spittoon in Silversand. In all future appearances, she spoke clearly without any sort of VerbalTic. WordOfGod says that she was drunk at the time.

* DramaQueen: '''Serris'''. He shows signs of this as early as [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first appearance]], with his formal speech pattern compared to the rest of the cast, his exaggerated gestures and his tendency to break out into lengthy, slightly overblown speeches, but his penchant for drama is fully displayed when he goes to Frau Morbitesse's later. When Uryu the Espeon tells him he'll need to wait to see her, how does he respond? By ''[[RefugeInAudacity spontaneously reciting Phil Collins lyrics.]]''

* DramaticIrony: Used to incredible effect during the L'Arachel arc where Dana and Nephenee the Whirlipede discuss Nyquil and wonder where he's headed off to...right as Nyquil is currently undergoing a FaceHeelTurn courtesy of L'Arachel.

** Much to his chagrin, PJ ultimately discovers that this wound up happening to him when he originally became a Pokémon as well, making the discovery in Hoard during his fling with Belladonna, but being too embarrassed about it to tell anyone until he finally tells Finley after the party reaches Gleamscape. He chooses to still consider himself as his original gender (effectively making him a transman), and he is quite unamused with having a female body.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: Common in this roleplay...expletives like Arcsdamn, as well as other less blasphemous references to Arceus, Groudon, and other legendaries. "Mon" replacing "man" or "person", "paws" instead of "hands", the list goes on...and any expression not uttered by the humanmons are liable to get this treatment.

** Goobert seems to have some trouble whenever he first attempts to use certain moves. His first attempt at using Dragon Pulse results in him accidentally blasting himself backwards into a stream. More seriously, when he uses Sludge Wave for the first time he winds up accidentally poisoning himself and sending himself to the hospital.

* ItsAllMyFault: What Oz's freakout—after the group head for Orichalcum in the wake of Eliot's disappearance—amounts to.

** [=L'Arachel=] and her associates provide their own very real, [=non-Viral Agression-related=] threat to the setting. L'Arachel herself has very megalomaniac motives and plans to make everyone subservient to her while all of her associates fight very viciously, making stopping them an extremely urgent matter.

** An OOC example, @/{{sarysa}} spent maybe 5 seconds coming up for the farming village of Milklett, which is a {{portmanteau}} of the first two farming Pokémon she could think of: Miltank and Diglett. Unexpectedly, it became the most plot important locale that the humanmons never visit, and it [[MemeticMutation evolved]] into kind of a RunningGag and/or inside joke.

* LoveTriangle: With Goobert, Cyk, and Silversand resident Delilah the Garchomp/Dragonite early on.

** Dras-Il the Trevenant is a tree Pokémon that serves as a protecter for her forest. Her name is a corruption of 'drasil', which in turn comes from {{Yggdrasil}}, the Norse version of the world tree.

* MerchantCity: Hoard is this, except it's under a mountain.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Some of the characters find that their personalities and quirks change after they're transformed into their new Pokémon forms. Sushi and J become more carnivorous, Beldum, Sedmi, and Vassago lose their emotions, Weird Guy is more sleepy and tired, Goobert is more jolly, etc.

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** '''@/{{sarysa}}''': humanmons - the humans-turned-Pokémon
** '''@/{{shrubBird}}''': Fila - Finley and Mila
** '''@/CaliburnAbsoluteEX''': Goo Crew (Goobert, the Silversand Trio, and sometimes Marlon depending on who's talking)
** In-universe, Marsha the Swampert tends to give nicknames to everyone she meets. (Calling Finley/Autumn "Foxy", Andy "Buggy", Goobert "the big guy", Marlon "Marly", etc.)

** Mila has one ([[AnxietyDreams brought on by her]] HeroicBSOD [[AnxietyDreams after shocking everyone on accident]]) the night after the fight with [=Dras-II=].

*** Goobert later has another nightmare in Hoard where he winds up involuntarily using Sludge Wave on Cyk and Delilah, [[ImMelting melting them]], followed by everyone else around Goobert, then the landscape, and finally Goobert himself. Goobert eventually wakes up to find himself violently ill from a poor use of Sludge Wave.
** Jani has recurring dreams about a battle on a mountain, which themselves aren't at all nightmarish. After she gets hospitalized by Perigo, however, this recurring dream is twisted with surrealist warping, looping images of her (completely made up) Diglett father getting killed by a flood, Moltres fighting a Groudon with a Delcatty's head, and a looping image of Perigo murdering Dana over and over. (which never happened, but Jani thinks it could have)
*** The above dream is heavily deconstructed when Jani has her first shared dream with Tilly and Lilly. Tilly makes the astute observation that the events shown aren't set in real time, and Lilly just completely makes a mockery of it by using her lucid dream powers to do whatever she wants.

* ObviouslyEvil: Guest party member Snaptooth the Feraligatr in the Foxfell arc.

** Anastasia was granted borderline RealityWarper powers upon becoming a vector and becomes extremely difficult for the party to get a hit in on, (while she freely attacks them).
** Although not a vector herself, L'Arachel qualifies when a party of around 20 Pokémon can fight her to a standstill due to her magic and fighting prowess.

** Also averted with names -- a PC and NPC share the name Dieter, and there are a whopping THREE Lucies as of page 1009: Lucy the Hardware Store owner, Lucy the Riolu orphan, and Lucille from Gleamscape. There are several Richards, as well; Richard the recurring Pom-Pom Oricorio on the Guild, a minor Exploud character during the Agartha arc, and cursed Tyranitar Rich.

* PlotDetour: Ran rampant through the Slak Rock arc due to the [[TroubledProduction messy history behind it]] that caused its main plot to become dormant and the player characters having to find other things to do in the meantime. In the end, the arc ended up being aborted and the party moved on.

** Deli and Quinn, the Mankey brothers from Hoard, are combined to Sound out "Delinquent."
* PutOnABus: Goobert exits the group to work for Benji the Ditto at a marina during the Silversand arc, [[TheBusCameBack though he eventually returns due to unprecedented circumstances.]] After another brief stint away from the party, he rejoins the party again for good, though he also sits out the Slak Rock arc as well.

** When the party rests after meeting the ruffians and [=Dras-II=], Oz has MindScrew-y dreams related to the battle against [=Dras-II=], Mila has AnxietyDreams about accidentally injuring or killing other members of the party with her powers, and Goobert...dreams that he is in front of a mirror, discovers he has retractable limbs, and turns into a Goomy after retracting all of them including his head and tail.

** The name of Serris' company is [=SuperiorFarms=], and he rents out a brewery in Hoard called [=BrainStorm=] Brewery, in a nod to [[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} [=RuptureFarms=] and [=SoulStorm=] Brewery]], respectively.

** When Eliot finds PJ after the first day of the tournament, the latter is singing "On the Right Track" from Theatre/{{Pippin}}.
*** Eliot has to resist the urge to sing the song himself when reflecting on Transforming into a copy of Marsha and his overall progress in utilizing the move.
*** When PJ orders a berry cake from [[ThoseTwoGuys Judy and Amelie]] at the carnival, he obviously gets the "Razzle Dazzle".

** Then to show them both up, Andy spoke both fluent German AND Romanian.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Among the humanmons, Goobert and Marlon occasionally fill this role. Some [=NPCs=] fall under this as well, such as Marsha and Delilah in Silversand (and while traveling with Goobert), Penny and Jenny in Hoard, and Max and Bash and Maran and Cortez in various locales.

** Snaptooth the Feraligatr, who joined the party during the Foxfell arc, [[ObviouslyEvil couldn't be more of an example of this if he tried]].

** Andy believes that this needs to be the go-to solution to the party's problems, almost to a fault. Even when the party is at the mercy of ''two'' VA vectors in Hoard, he calls out the party for believing that provoking said vectors into attacking each other was the best solution to subduing them (Even after being told blank that [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption this was the only option by that point]] that wouldn't result in a drastic loss of innocent lives). He later throws this away when he becomes a Honedge

*** Even in an arc already dishing out shocking surprises like candy, the end of the second chapter pulls no punches: Mila and several other members of the party are tricked into walking into an ambush on them by L'Arachel, and in the ensuing mayhem a friend of the party's is killed...by ''Nyquil'' (albeit by mistake). Even the characters can do nothing but return to their inn base in StunnedSilence. Furthermore, at this point Nyquil [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is mortified by his actions]] and wants out of L'Arachel's plans, but it's too late for him to escape.

*** Another thing that happened during the Slak Rock arc was Andy being kidnapped by a trio of dog Pokémon from Foxfell who were implied to be searching for [[RunawayPrincess Finley/Autumn]]. However, after the Slak Rock arc was [[AbortedArc cancelled]], Andy's kidnapping failed to be followed up on save for a brief mention of how Andy still hadn't been found yet, and Andy has not been seen or heard from since. His kidnappers disappeared from the arc entirely, and when they reappeared later, they made no mention of Andy.[[labelnote:*]][[RealLifeWritesThePlot This is mostly due to two out-of-universe factors]]: Slak Rock's cancellation changed the circumstances behind the party actually going to Foxfell, rendering the kidnappers moot since [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they were originally meant to kidnap Autumn and force her to return to Foxfell]], resulting in everyone going after them. The other factor is due to Andy's player being removed from the RP, leaving Andy's story to end on the [[FridgeHorror unfortunate note]] of him [[UncertainDoom never being seen or heard from again following his kidnapping]].[[/labelnote]]

** Subverted with most of the treasure hunters involved with the [[AbortedArc aborted]] Eluant Canyon side-quest. Although most of them didn't immediately appear other places following the sidequest's cancellation, [[WordOfGod their players have confirmed where they went after the treasure hunt]] and will show up again in the future. The only one left unaccounted for is Jani/Sarah, whose current whereabouts are unknown.

[[caption-width-right:350:Gotta transform 'em all?]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Most of the RP's antagonists have little-to-no relation to each other, yet pose significant threats in their own rights and take turns being considered the threat of most prominence. As of the Hoard Arc, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Belladonna]], [[TheCaligula Chairgon Merqury]], [[GeneralRipper Kapitani Khmalidze]], [[KillerRabbit Perigo]], [[WickedWitch L'Arachel]] and her associates, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Winifred]], [[MadScientist Phoebe]], and [[FaceHeelTurn Nyquil]][[labelnote:*]]During the L'Arachel arc[[/labelnote]] are all established antagonists.

** Goobert dips in and out of the party on a semi-regular basis, not being present for the first half of the Hoard arc and the entirety of the Slak Rock arc.

* CutShort: While some {{Aborted Arc}}s were able to at least conclude in some manner, a fair few weren't as lucky"

** The Eluant Canyon side-arc ultimately ended in the middle of an action scene with no ending or conclusion whatsoever to its plot beyond a {{Hand Wave}}d explanation from Stellan to Benji when Stellan later resurfaced in Gleamscape.[[labelnote:*]]While there was a clear "out" from the [[AbortedArc notoriously aborted]] Slak Rock for example (due to their higher-ups severing ties with the humanmons and leaving the humanmons with nothing else to do but shrug their shoulders and leave once the first opportunity arose), Eluant Canyon came to an abrupt halt with no clear way to leave the plot in a way that wasn't unceremonious (which wasn't helped by the fact that the point of the arc had been mostly forgotten by that point, none of the other players involved had a clue how to satisfyingly conclude the plot, and interest in the plot had considerably deteriorated after months of no progress).[[/labelnote]]

** Finley goes through this when he evolves into a Braixen, turning into a girl in the process.

** Much to his chagrin, PJ ultimately discovers that this wound up happening to him when he originally became a Pokémon as well, making the discovery in Hoard during his fling with Belladonna, but being too embarrassed about it to tell anyone until he finally tells Finley after the party reaches Gleamscape. He chooses to still consider himself as his original gender, and he is quite unamused with having a female body.

** Two of L'Arachel's associates, Montresor and Notte, turn against her midway through her eponymous arc (Montresor through him finally acknowledging that his relationship with L'Arachel is a toxic one and making amends with Noriaki, Notte after Montresor and Noriaki's reconciliation with each other gives him a HeelRealization).

* LoveTriangle: With Goobert, Cyk, and Silversand resident Delilah the Garchomp.

** Also averted with names -- a PC and NPC share the name Dieter, and there are a whopping THREE Lucies as of page 1009: Lucy the Hardware Store owner, Lucy the Riolu orphan, and Lucille from Gleamscape.

* RealityEnsues: Several of the romantic couples in the main party end up having relations at several points, though this usually fails to lead to anything as the couples either don't share an egg group (such as Marlon (a Gallade) and Marsha (a Swampert)) or are a gay couple (such as Finley and Mila). The one time a straight couple that ''does'' share an egg group, Goobert (a Goodra) and Delilah (a Dragonite), end up having a night (during the Foxfell arc), a brief scare the next morning results in concerns being raised over babies entering a group that experiences danger at almost every turn, and Goobert and Delilah agree to wait until they're done adventuring for good and have returned home to Silversand before doing anything like this again.

* RiddleForTheAges: Some questions about the setting have been intentionally left unanswered for various reasons, but it's usually because a satisfactory answer will likely never be found for them. These include who or what brought the humanmons into the Pokémon world in the first place, what caused the humans to disappear, and whether or not there's a way for the humanmons to return to their respective homes/worlds (in the case of the last one, the reason that particular question won't be answered is because if it were ever answered, it would surely spell the end of the RP).

* SplitPersonality: Something like this seems to be happening to J; especially pronounced after the fight with Dras-Il.

** Several members of Belle the Primarina's family are named after pop singers.

** Hoard has some minor examples: