YMMV / Pokémon XD Enigma Shadow Series

• Crack Pairing: Palmer and Cynthia are mentioned to be together in one chapter.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Olivia.
• Heartwarming Moments: When Rich and Olivia are reunited after Rich finally defeats Maria. D'awwww.
• Ho Yay: In Chapter 31, Nando gets cornered by a drunk casino patron who mistakes him for a woman, then looks him over for valuables (and maybe something else). Topped with this pair of Double Entendres:
  Nando: I have nothing of any interest to you gentlemen. Please, let's work something out here...
  Sheena: Leave him alone! He's not interested!
• Iron Woobie: Anabel and Satsukoro.
• Moment of Awesome: Rich defeating Satsukoro at the Battle Casino
  • the final Grand Festival battle is a simultaneous one for both Anabel and Nando
  • Tiffany's Shaming the Mob moment in Chapter 9 when she chews out the crowd for insulting Anabel.
  • Rich's defeat of Nando in the Grand Championship and Maria at the climax
  • The final battle in the true last chapter.
  • Nando's defeat of Tiffany.
• Moral Event Horizon: Paul gets his when he orders his Magmortar and Electivire to attack his Kangaskhan even though it's already wounded, because it didn't battle well enough. Not cool, man.
  • Dr. Yung's could be said to have come at any number of places, but when he viciously beats Maria in Chapter 32 for directing her still-loyal followers to disobey him, you know he definitely reached it.
• Narm Charm: Looker's speech patterns resemble those of Yoda
• Nightmare Fuel: J's fate, especially in chapter 29.
  • Everything that's happened to Matt in Gardener of Gratitude.
• Stoic Woobie: Satsukoro and (debatably) Nando.
• Tear Jerker: The whole fic.
  • Ein's death in chapter 7
  • Chapter 21
  • Satsukoro's backstory
  • Rich's final moments with Anabel after his Heroic Sacrifice, Anabel's reaction to his death and the fact that Olivia doesn't even know what happened to him.
  • In Gardener of Gratitude, most of what happens to Matt, Eleanor's backstory and death.
• Wheelchair Woobie: Anabel post-Chapter 21
• The Woobie: Rich in Chapter 21. So, so much.
  • Matt and Eleanor in Gardener of Gratitude.

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