History WebAnimation / PokemonPetunia

* MeetCute: Peter and Nina go through this, and this is expanded upon in WebAnimation/JaydreamersOCSnippets.

* MeetCute - Peter and Nina go through this, and this is expanded upon in WebAnimation/JaydreamersOCSnippets.
* OffScreenBreakup - Wyatt and Anne divorced at some point before the story, since Anne was TurnedOffByTheJerkass.

* PerfectionIsImpossible - Wyatt strives to make the world "perfect", but Peter, throughout the story, learns to take the opposite stance, claiming "Imperfections are what make us human".

* YoureNotMyFather - Basil says this verbatim to Wyatt before they battle.

* WrittenByTheWinners - Fritho's history was oppressed by the Delwissan colonisers who occupied the region 30 years prior to the main plot.

* AssimilationPlot: Wyatt wants to control the Fritho region through the [[HypnoTrinket "Cyber Visor]], because of TheEvilsOfFreeWill.

--> ''I...don’t recognise this place, in any of my research…This...This isn’t what I’m meant to be showing you at all! How did you get here?! This is all because of your morbid curiosity, isn’t it? You are going out of bounds. You should turn back. Bad things are going to happen. VERY bad things. At this rate, it might overload, then…at this rate, you’re putting yourself in danger.''
-->''...People like you never change. You are…Nonononononononono….Everything...EVERYTHING IS WRONG!''

** Although, Imogen says ''"[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend You see, my girl...my FRIEND, April]], lives over in the next town, and I need to deliver this letter to her...''

* AGlitchInTheMatrix - "Basil"[[note]] who is actually Elara [[/note]] starts to experience [[SpottingTheThread several strange occurrences]] that make them question reality.

* DeadpanSnarker - Basil is this - [[spoiler: even without Elara playing as the video game him]].
* FaceYourFears - Peter reveals he has a fear of Bug type Pokemon, and "Basil" helps him face his fears.

* LotusEaterMachine - Elara is playing through a near one-to-one recreation of [[note]] the REAL [[/note]] Basil's experience in the Fritho region 20 years ago.
* LongLostRelative - It's revealed that Basil's biological father is the same as Peter's, the two being twin brothers.

* LonelyRichKid - Peter is this, since his dad is a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* OminousVisualGlitch - These start appearing near the end of the story, with visuals (and audio) [[GameBreakingBug becoming more buggy]] as "Basil" progresses towards the (non-existent) postgame.
* SeparatedAtBirth - Basil and Peter are revealed to be this - Wyatt taking Peter, and Anne taking Basil.
* ShatteringTheIllusion - Elara does this by trying to enter an area that the game's creator, [[spoiler: her brother, Atiel,]] never programmed in - that being the Amurg region.
** ''I...don’t recognise this place, in any of my research…This...This isn’t what I’m meant to be showing you at all! How did you get here?! This is all because of your morbid curiosity, isn’t it? You are going out of bounds. You should turn back. Bad things are going to happen. VERY bad things. At this rate, it might overload, then…at this rate, you’re putting yourself in danger.''
** ''...People like you never change. You are…Nonononononononono….Everything...EVERYTHING IS WRONG!''
* StraightGay - April and Imogen are implied to be dating, and aren't very explicit about it.

* OminousVisualGlitch - These start appearing near the end of the story, with visuals (and audio) becoming more buggy as "Basil" progresses towards the (non-existent) postgame.

** ''I...don’t recognise this place, in any of my research…This...This isn’t what I’m meant to be showing you at all! How did you get here?! This is all because of your morbid curiosity, isn’t it? You are going out of bounds. You should turn back. Bad things are going to happen. Very bad things. At this rate, it might overload, then…at this rate, you’re putting yourself in danger.''

** Although, Imogen says ''"[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend You see, my girl...my '''friend''', April]], lives over in the next town, and I need to deliver this letter to her...''

** Although, Imogen says ''"[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend You see, my girl...my '''friend''', ''April]], lives over in the next town, and I need to deliver this letter to her...''

** Although, Imogen says ''"[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend You see, my girl...my'' '''friend''', ''April]], lives over in the next town, and I need to deliver this letter to her...''

!! '''Pokemon Petunia'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* LotusEaterMachine - Elara is playing through a near one-to-one recreation of Basil's experience in the Fritho region 20 years ago.
* OminousVisualGlitch - These start appearing near the end of the story, with visuals (and audio) becoming more buggy as "Basil" progresses towards the (non-existent) postgame.

Pokemon Petunia is part of a bigger SharedUniverse.

''Pokemon Petunia''[[note:previously referred to as "Project Fritho"]] (2020) is the second installment into {{The Verse}} that is [[{{WebAnimation/TheAskosverse}} the Askosverse]], created by Jaydreamer. It follows the {{What If}} scenario of "What if New Zealand was a {{Franchise/Pokemon}} region?", where the culture and history of New Zealand is translated into a potential plot for a [[{{FanFic}} Pokemon game]].

* AGlitchInTheMatrix - "Basil"[[note:who is actually Elara]] starts to experience [[SpottingTheThread several strange occurrences]] that make them question reality.