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Dawn and her Pokémon

Dawn

• Adaptational Modesty: In her canon designs she was rather infamous for wearing a short skirt even when it came to the fact Sinnoh has some of the coldest weather in the franchise. In this fic, even when she was younger, she always wore some form of Modesty Shorts under her skirt, with her adult self favoring pants as part of her overall attire. In addition, sometimes she wore an undershirt with more noticeable sleeves, but this was mostly as she got older and started preferring sleeves.
• Age Lift: 12 years have passed since the endgame events of Pokémon Platinum, and she went from being an 11 year old girl to a 23 year old woman in the process of the timeskip and subsequent aging. More details on how this affects the other characters, as well as Dawn, can be viewed below under the General Protagonists tropes.
• Cute Mute: Unlike all of the other instances of a relatively quiet protagonist, Dawn actually is flat out incapable of speaking altogether.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: She's mute in this incarnation. Unlike other examples of the whole Cute Mute in this Series Fic, Dawn has absolutely no dialogue spoken with any voice of her own.
• Friends with Benefits: With both Lucas and Barry, as elaborated on in the prologue. So far it hasn't been stated whether boy men are aware of this regarding each other having shared the same woman in such a way.
• Going Commando: Not something that's intentional with her, but whenever she has sex with Barry, she lets Barry keep whatever panties she was wearing at the time prior, and unless she heads back to her villa, she doesn't keep any spares with her to change into elsewhere. Although, if rumors are true from Lucas, to which even Barry doesn't believe him, that whenever Dawn partakes in Pokémon Contests, she opts to not wear any panties at all underneath her significantly lengthier skirt for her contest attire.
• Hidden Depths:
  • The nicknames for her male Staraptor and female Weavile, noted as "Rylegh" and "Slayer" respectively, all seem to imply to have a deeper meaning than what's readily shown.
  • She is actually very terrified of Giratina, but refuses to show it or acknowledge it. Giratina is more than aware of this, basically Trolling her in such a way that she'll either be running from the past forever, which is a reminder of the fact she refused to fight Giratina 12 years ago, or she can learn from the past, and force Giratina to stick around for a real fight proper. Giratina doesn't even need to be trapped or anything; it just needs to be convinced that Dawn won't just bail at the soonest opportunity anymore.
  • She had only partook in very few contests in her life, having more of a liking towards battling when compared to her mother Johanna, who was very famous in the Pokémon Contest competitions. That said, if Dawn actually tried, she'd outclass her mother easily in terms of her performance abilities.
• Lethal Chef: Unless she's cooking with a group, she can't cook poffins reliably since she's worrying too much about stirring it properly and accidentally burning it to properly focus. That said, when Johanna, Lucas, and Barry assist her with cooking, she's able to make excellent poffins which she has fed her own Pokémon to effectively max out all of their major contest stats.
• Making a Splash: Her signature Empoleon.
• The Nicknamer: She nicknames her Pokémon, which is something Barry and Lucas don't do.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The narration implies that Dawn actually attempted to enter Turnback Cave at some point while she was younger. She was only ever able to run into two pillar rooms before being forced out by some dreadful feeling back to the lobby, but we're not told the specifics of it.
• Self-Made Woman: Not only did she more or less acquire the highest win ratio against Cynthia out of all of her challengers all on her own, and taking down Team Galactic in the process of training for the Pokémon League, but the deal with he Villa in Platinum the player can acquire? She lives there 24/7 now that she's all grown up.

Dawn's Pokémon

• All Your Powers Combined: Every single Gym Leader TM she received, as well as the TM for Return, has been used on her primary team as part of using her past opponents own strategies against them and then some. For specifics:
  • Dera (Empoleon): Stealth Rock, Brine, Flash Cannon, Avalanche
  • Rylegh (Staraptor): Return
  • Vizion (Luxray): Charge Beam
  • Gallantry (Gardevoir): Grass Knot
  • Proxima (Lucario): Drain Punch, Shadow Claw
• Gender Equals Breed:
  • Her Empoleon, a female, and Barry's Floatzel, a male, both are in the exact same Egg Groups as each other and both wind up producing a Egg after sneaking off while Dawn and Barry are having a rematch at the Survival Area. The Piplup hatched from said egg is currently in Johanna's care.
  • Rylegh bred with a female Staraptor and produced 30 Starly eggs in the span of a single day. The mere instant he found a female Staraptor more closer to his size needless to say he didn't waste the chance with making a move, and neither did the female apparently, since both of them apparently suffered the same problem of their gigantic sizes terrifying other potential mates.
• Informed Equipment: An exception to the usual case, since all of Dawn's Pokémon have their respective signature held items visible on them somewhere.
  • Dera: Wears the Mystic Water around her neck.
  • Rylegh: Wears the Silk Scarf around his right leg.
  • Vizion: Has the Magnet tucked into his mane.
  • Gallantry: Often wears the Wises Glasses much like a normal person would wear glasses.
  • Slayer: Holds onto the Black Glasses around her neck.
  • Proxima: The Expert Belt is wrapped around his midsection.

Dera (Empoleon)

• Acceptable Breaks from Canon: Knows more than 4 moves unlike the rest of the party, which her default main moves are Stealth Rock, Flash Cannon, Brine, and Avalanche, but also includes moves like Aqua Jet, Ice Beam, Drill Peck, and Hydro Cannon. She can also use the HM moves Waterfall, Surf, and Rock Climb, but otherwise doesn't use these three moves in battle. Justified as to why Dera knows so many moves, as Dera has been on Dawn's team longer than any of her other Pokémon by comparison, and is considered Dawn's personal ace.
• An Ice Person: She can use Ice Beam and Avalanche, and these two moves are the most consistent of her more than 4 moves she has access to, since Avalanche is better off as a counter move as opposed to directly damaging a target outright.
• Berserk Button: Gets rather ticked off at moves or abilities that lower her Stats, in the process gaining a large boost to Attack if this happens. This is because Dera has her Hidden Ability Defiant, which is the result of Dawn using an Ability Patch on her.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Part Steel Type, and knows the TM move Flash Cannon. Also, while she isn't Rock Type, she does know the move Stealth Rock, which allows her to gradually weaken the opponent's team if they happen to love switching out their Pokémon. She has employed Stealth Rock to great effect against the Elite Four member Aaron in the past, to the point Aaron had to begin revamping his strategy if he wanted to avoid damage from it.
• Making a Splash: Her default type, as well as being part Steel Type, and most heavily reflected by her knowing Brine, Aqua Jet, and Hydro Cannon, in addition to being referenced as using Surf and Waterfall. This makes for a total of 5 Water Type moves she employs even if she only often ever uses Brine the most out of them.
• Super-Strength: A lot of her moves are Physical based moves, and she is strong enough to carry Dawn on her back when scaling mountainous terrain using Rock Climb, especially noteworthy considering Dera's usually best suited to water terrain above all else.

Rylegh (Staraptor)

• Always Accurate Attack: Aerial Ace, which is depicted here as Rylegh moving so impossibly fast that the target can't react to dodge it ahead of time unless using a move specifically intended to block damage altogether.
• The Big Guy: Literally he's the largest male Staraptor for his time, at least from a specimen who started as a Starly from the wild. His large size led to him being much more hormonally charged than normal Staraptor, and had intimidated too many potential mates from him, but when he finally found a female Staraptor roughly his own size? The next thing Dawn realized after spending a few hours away at with Rylegh at the Daycare was being greeted to 30 Starly Eggs that now belonged to her in particular.
• Blow You Away: Flying Type, and can flap his powerful wings to use Defog from which to clear the area of intense fog. Like Dera, he doesn't use this move in battle as part of his actual moveset. He does, however, use the move Fly in-battle in addition to being used as transport.
• Explosive Breeder: Canonically has produced at least 30 Starly eggs with a female Staraptor closer to his own size. Incidentally, this amount of eggs being bred is required to unlock some of the furniture in the Villa; technically the eggs could come from any number of different Pokémon, but Starly was chosen to provide something simple.
• Giant Flyer: He's the size of the average Corviknight, which is big enough to use as part of a Flying Taxi service in it's own region. Dawn likewise uses Rylegh as a mount for flying across Sinnoh with.
• The Power of Friendship: Knows the move Return in reference to the TM that Professor Rowan first gave Dawn.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He'll only ever breed with another Staraptor, as he's too shy around other female Pokémon to bother try mating with them. Ironically enough the biggest reason why he couldn't find a mate among other Staraptor was because his size intimidated most of the average Staraptor who saw him.

Vizion (Luxray)

• Green Thumb: He has caught Crasher Wake constantly off guard by knowing Hidden Power, which in Vizion's case deals Grass Type damage, meaning Vizion is all set to deal with Crasher Wake's Quagsire.
• Irony: He has impressive physical strength, and yet a majority of his fighting style involves Special Moves. To be fair, he doesn't really need the physical strength unless he's fighting Cheryl's Blissey.
• Oblivious to Love: Vizion can't seem to properly decipher the whole meaning of human sexuality, if his implied narration is anything to go by in Chapter 4. Effectively if it is his narration in some areas, he seems to be viewing Humans Through Alien Eyes.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't so much as make a single sound in all of Chapter 4 where he's otherwise the main focal point of the whole chapter.
• Status Buff: Charge Beam boosts his overall power with Special Moves, which is what he uses Thunderbolt for after having charged his power enough to have a very dangerous Thunderbolt spam ensuing afterwards.
• Super-Strength: His Physical abilities all have this in common, but he literally knows the move Strength which is the embodiment of this trope in the Pokémon series. Unlike Dera, he actually uses this move in battle even with the fact it's an HM move.
• Shock and Awe: Electric Type, and is equipped with the Magnet to further amplify the power of his electrical abilities, so that his Charge Beam and Thunderbolt combo is even stronger than it already would be otherwise.
• X-Ray Vision: Vizion has used this ability to detect trespassers at Dawn's Villa while Dawn is asleep, and being able to see through solid walls can allow him to spot intruders without being spotted himself much of the time.

Gallantry (Gardevoir)

• Green Thumb: He knows Grass Knot, which is one of the TM moves that Dawn taught her Pokémon team from which the Gym Leaders of Sinnoh had given her during her original journey. It's because of this move in particular that he's formed an intense rivalry with Cynthia's Milotic, considering Milotic isn't fast enough to be able to defend itself from Gallantry's Grass Knot.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: Like every Gardevoir beginning with Gen VI onward, he is part Fairy Type and also knows Dazzling Gleam.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Unlike most of the held items of Dawn's team, Gallantry is often seen wearing the Wise Glasses item he's equipped with. Dawn's other Pokémon all have items associated with them, but Gallantry's Wise Glasses make him look more human in how he wears them.
• Telepathy: He can read Dawn's mind and translate Dawn's thoughts into a voiced speech, from which Gallantry's voice sounds a lot like what one would expect Dawn herself to sound like.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: In-Universe this is some people's reaction to Gallantry's female voice despite being a male. However, it's not even his voice in particular; they are Dawn's thoughts translated into audio via telepathic mind reading and speaking what Dawn is thinking in a type of voice befitting of Dawn proper. Gallantry otherwise doesn't make any sort of sound indicating what his actual voice even remotely sounds like.

Slayer (Weavile)

• An Ice Person: Ice Type, and knows the move Ice Punch. Dawn had also considered teaching Slayer the move Avalanche, but had ultimately used the TM on Dera instead, because of the fact Avalanche works better when the user takes damage before executing the move, and Weavile is too much of a Glass Cannon to rely on such an effect.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Dark Type, predominately more active at night as opposed to other times of day, and is from a species of Pokémon often being associated with nasty trainers. However, the last bit is a nasty stereotype associated with Dark Types overall, and Slayer, while she is a bit of a ruthless Pokémon, is actually a very calm and levelheaded Pokémon among Dawn's entire team.
• Glass Cannon: Very fast, hits very hard, but is not very durable. The latter aspect is the exact reason why Dawn didn't opt to teach her Avalanche.
• HP to One: She knows False Swipe, but whether she can handle her own using the move or not depends on if she's facing a Ghost Type Pokémon, from which she relies on Proxima using Foresight against for her to be able to land a successful hit with the move against a Ghost Type Pokémon.

Proxima (Lucario)

• Always Accurate Attack: His species' most iconic move Aura Sphere is part of his moveset, and every move he otherwise has in addition to this has at least 100% accuracy by default.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Fighting Type, and utilizes the moves Aura Sphere and Drain Punch among these types of moves.
• Casting a Shadow: Knows Shadow Claw, which is one of two of the Gym Leader TM moves he's been taught.
• Extra-ore-dinary: He's part Steel Type, but oddly enough he doesn't know any Steel Type moves whatsoever.
• Hidden Depths: Apparently has a reason for why he's wearing the Expert Belt even in spite of knowing moves of only two different types and thus only covering 7 types of the 18 types to have their Super-Effective damage boosted by it.
• No-Sell: He can revoke the Ghost Type's immunity to Normal and Fighting moves via Foresight, which can allow Dawn to then have Slayer use False Swipe against them to weaken them, whereas under normal situations they'd otherwise be immune to False Swipe.

The Champion's Successor Protagonists

General Protagonist Tropes

• Age Lift: Everyone is 12 years older than they were in the original Platinum game.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: They were 11 at the start of their journeys, and 12 years have passed since then and now, meaning they're 23 years old now.

Barry

• Irony: His Partner Pokémon is the more mellow minded of the three Sinnoh Starters, being Torterra, whereas Barry is the more energetic of the three main leads.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: He and Dawn had sex out of impulse just after finding their respective Water Types as having bred in isolation within the Survival Area, throwing all caution to the wind in the process about any potential witnesses.

Lucas

• Cuddle Bug: How his sexual encounters with Dawn tend to be much of the time. Lots and lots of cuddling are to be expected.
• Hidden Depths: His physical strength isn't as lacking as some might expect, and his knowledge on sexual behavior is great enough to impress Zoey and ask why he's not a professor in a school or university who teaches such subjects there.
• Irony: His Infernape is a literally hotblooded individual compared to Lucas being relatively calm and gentle.
• The Night Owl: His first H-scene isn't when he first shows up at Dawn's villa late in the evening, but after he sleeps with Dawn in bed, nude, cuddling for the most part, and it isn't until 1 in the morning after the two had rested with each other where he's given the chance to make his first move on-page.
• Sleep Cute: His intimacy with Dawn tends to revolve more around cuddling with each other as opposed to Dawn and Barry's more primal sexual interaction.

Cynthia

• Retired Badass: Not outright retired just yet, but she's working towards paving the way towards such a lifestyle. She's realized that with Dawn's unequaled win ratio against her, that Dawn is the best candidate for her to inherit the Champion Title from her for good until Dawn herself eventually would retire.

Johanna

• Empty Nest: She lives all on her own in Twinleaf Town, with the latest addition to her household being a Piplup that Dawn had given her after her Empoleon had bred with Barry's Floatzel.
• Irony: Her Purugly still tends to attract quite a bit of attention from nearby wild Pokémon, even though it's more Gonkish compared to her previous form. Considering Johanna's competitive nature in the Pokémon Contests, the reason as to why Purugly is still an eye catcher is very simple; Purugly has a maxed out Beauty Stat.
• Signature Mon: Originally, Glameow, much like in the anime. However, by the present day, it has evolved into a Purugly.

Zoey

• Adaptational Sexuality: Whereas in canon it was more of a case of Ambiguously Gay arguably, here she's flat out bisexual and in a relationship with Angie.
• All Lesbians Want Kids: Something she has been in a sticky situation with regarding Angie in this regard; Angie makes it clear that she wants to be the mother of the child, but Angie's small breasts cause Zoey some concern and Zoey thinks she should be the mother because her breasts would be better suited to the task. Not only that, but since Zoey is bi, both of their plans on a natural conception would work better in her case, as she knows how to appeal to a man in the bedroom, whereas Angie has no experience with men and is a lesbian.
• Canon Foreigner: She is a character from the anime, like her girlfriend Angie is.
• Foreshadowing: Applies to both her and Angie in this regard, referring to both of their status as a Canon Foreigner. It's one of the first clues that this fic is in the same timeline as Truth and Ideals, taking place approximately 8 years after the events of that fic.
• Going Commando: During her H-scene with Lucas, she's neither wearing a bra nor panties underneath her clothing.

Angie

• A-Cup Angst: Despite being an adult like the other characters now, she's still perhaps got the flattest chest of all of the female leads.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Showed no interest in girls in the anime, and is depicted here as a lesbian in a relationship with Zoey.
• All Lesbians Want Kids: Angie is apparently the one between her and Zoey who wants to actually go through the pregnancy, but Zoey insists on getting pregnant as well to ensure both of them can properly tend to the infants due to Zoey's breasts already being more developed. Even then, however, Angie is not bi like Zoey is, and thus has no idea how to appeal to men and is quite nervous about trying; it is her desire to overcome this nervousness to prove to herself and Zoey how dedicated she is with wanting to be her lover.
• Canon Foreigner: She is a character from the anime, like her girlfriend Zoey is.
• Incompatible Orientation: She insists on a natural conception for her and Zoey's child and yet despite Angie being adamant on being the mother, she's not bi like how Zoey is, and thus has zero experience with how to have sex with a man in the bedroom, yet alone actually get comfortable with doing so in-order to properly get knocked up. Her desire to prove herself as being worthy to be Zoey's lover however is what she uses to push herself to go through with this as she intends.

Dialga

• Big Damn Heroes: Zoey and Angie would've otherwise perished in a blizzard had it not been for Dialga fucking around with time to ensure that this didn't happen and that eventually it would lead to time getting tinkered with so much to the point Dawn and Lucas would notice the two outside and bring them indoors safe and sound. Not only that but even if they did get shelter from the blizzard, Dialga opted to intervene anyways considering the blizzard seems to be something of Giratina's doing as sown by the last moments of Chapter 4.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't so much as make a sound in all of Chapter 4 where it first appears.
• Stealthy Colossus: Which also helps in its role as The Quiet One above in that Dialga never has to physically touch the ground because it constantly floats. Dialga's qualification as a colossus in this regard, considering a lot of box art Legendary Pokémon are rather big sized Pokémon, is because in terms of vertical height Dialga was and still is one of the taller ones averaging on 17 feet tall, to the point Dialga can actually see right over top of Dawn's villa from simply floating at mostly ground level.

The Champion's Successor Antagonists (unmarked spoilers)

Giratina

• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Giratina's existence isn't exactly sugarcoated or treated as a big deal anymore, which 12 years ago during the events of Platinum proper, Giratina's existence was something of mystery and something best left unspoken. However, encounters with Giratina has been on the rise ever since then, leading to Cynthia and Dawn eventually deciding that Giratina needs to be caught and kept under control.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Has a grudge against Dawn for her having refused to battle or catch it 12 years ago in their original encounter, and decides to be a complete Troll to Dawn by proceeding to do the same thing to her for a while after their first confrontation 12 years after the prior one.
• Starter Villain: It's the main focus of the fic's antagonistic threat in the beginning, and it apparently has quite a grudge with Dawn to the point in the first attempt to actually try and battle and catch it, it remembers what Dawn did 12 years prior by fleeing before making it's own move.
• Troll: It very distinctly recalls how Dawn had refused to battle it to deal with it's frustration so many years ago, and is returning the favor by playing hard to catch and preying on Dawn's fears of Turnback Cave, knowing very well that Dawn is terrified of having to be in the place. Unlike other examples of roaming Pokémon, Giratina can appear anywhere it wants in the remainder of the region, but will immediately vanish in a puff of smog-like particles before a battle can happen. However, it can always be found at Turnback Cave regardless of where it is at the moment, and immediately warps there upon sensing Dawn is within the cave.

Cyrus

His mind was destroyed in his lengthy stay in the Distortion World, but his physical body survives off of a base instinct which Dawn decides to help stir back to reality by bringing him back to the normal world and taking care of him in secret for the next few days. When Cyrus wakes up, it is indeed as Giratina had informed Dawn; Cyrus is no more, and the 27 year old male before he is effectively a whole new person altogether. However, the new mind is ready to live things his own way, but Dawn's trauma over who this male's body was originally 12 years ago haunt her and make her feel unease about him; unease he wouldn't hope to understand, but Cynthia tells Dawn that if she intends to for whatever reason allow him to get closer to her, she'll need to break the truth to him about who he used to be before allowing him closer.