All Purpose Pokemon Fanfiction Thread

Well, there sure are a lot of trope pages for Pokemon fanfics so why not.

Is this for recommending, or posting your own fanfics, or both? Or is it just a discussion thread?

I think it's like all the other threads for fanfiction, only this one's for Pokémon.

So...Anyone hear about Cori Falls lately?

Okay, then, I'll just leave this here.

Regarding Cori Falls, I used to think that idea of "What You Didn't See" was kind of cool (I even wrote one about "Meowth Rules" and it had blueshipping and was generally a wtf-fest), but then when she started saying she could write things better than the writers, it got kind of weird.

There are a lot of original character/trainer stories, it seems. Or maybe I just notice them more.

http://werewolf-hero.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Halloween-party-259579165 I wrote and meant to continue this.

do you think I could make it team of monster girl Pokémon trainers work?

That sounds like an interesting idea. Are you going to show how Ash came to the conclusion that he'd rather be female, or how it affects the rest of his life, because that might be a good plot branch.

I might if people wont mind it involving Halloween which has past.

I'm not sure if I should drop mine here. It's...different. I've come to the conclusion that people just don't seem to like the concept of Pokémon in military operations.

That sounds like an interesting idea. I sometimes wonder what would happen if a war broke out in Pokemon-land.

edited 9th Nov '11 8:35:38 PM by BlackElephant

I've heard of a couple that run "war" stories, but most of them are little more than glorified large-scale Pokémon battles.

When I say military operations, I mean Modern Warfare / BF 3 / Ace Combat, but with Pokémon in addition to fireteam tactics, epic air campaigns, and ludicrous quantities of explosives.

edited 9th Nov '11 8:43:43 PM by Cganale

I can think of what would happen: Fullmetal Alchemist and the Ishvalan war, with real monsters instead of humans with abilities. Scary thought, that...

I know that this cliche is old and tired by now, likely, but I really have warmed to the idea of writing a Pokemon fic that's set in Kanto, as of Generation I, following a different trainer (yes, it would be an OC). I'm still working out the rough details, but as far as seeing what others have done in that kind of category, would you have any tips for me, if I'm leaving out both shipping and the main cast of the first season anime, and trying to explore the world in more depth?

Also, I realized I left some things out earlier:

• I'm using both the Gen I. games/anime and the manga series "Electric Boogaloo" as source material
  • I'm combining the worlds presented therein

• The MC comes from a small village known as Mossgreen Village

• He/she (likely a tomboyish girl, possibly a female crossdresser) chooses a Charmander as their starter

• They don't interact with Team Rocket much, if at all.

• The MC is about 11, and isn't sure what she wants to do (in school, life, etc.), so she sets out to try Pokemon training

There will be more, I think, as I'm writing up notes (while playing through Red version and surfing Bulbapedia), but those are the main things I had left out.

edited 29th Dec '11 10:46:41 PM by punkreader

Working on a (yes, it's original trainer) fic right now, and the main character and her best friend pretty much have this weird inability to have a normal battle. To the point where it's lampshaded to hell and back and becomes something of a Running Gag.

Already planned are:

• Alice and Bob start a fight that begins normally enough...but since they're in a public place of some sort (I was thinking a department store or a movie theater) they get kicked out.
• Alice and Bob send out their two Pokemon, and proceed to make melodramatic commands and go all Hot-Blooded like in the anime...except they're trying to get their two Pokemon to breed instead of fight.
• Alice challenges Bob to a battle, but one of the Pokemon Bob uses is a Slowpoke. Eventually the fight just derails into Alice and her Pokemon doing random things and gauging how long it takes the Slowpoke to react.
• A fight that gets aborted halfway through and is never resolved just because the Pokemon and trainers involved got bored
• Alice and Bob directly fight each other, with their Pokemon (who aren't psychic nor can they speak) giving barely-coherent commands.

And so on. Kind of need more ideas for derailed battles. It helps that neither Alice nor Bob are really all that committed to being the very best, like no one ever was and neither of them is even taking the league challenge.

Having something explode in the middle of one of the battles. If you're going for more typical Pokémon setting, have a Voltorb roll in or something.

Otherwise take anything I say with a grain of salt, being as I'm the crazy fuckhead trying to militarize Pokémon.

@Cganale: Is your focus more on the mechanics and strategy of military battles, or the political and social aspects a-la Fullmetal Alchemist?

@punkreader: I might check that out, if only because I have a special fondness for stories set in Generation I, a simpler time when I could actually remember all the Pokemon and not have to look them up on Bulbapedia every other paragraph… But I digress. Some questions I might have for you are:

• What aspects of the world unexplored in the canon do you intend to investigate in your story?
• Would there be a plot significance in having the main character be a female crossdresser? Because it's easy to kind of gratuitously add unusual characteristics onto an OC to obscure their underlying lack of interestingness. (This is just a general trend I've observed, of course not a specific criticism of your story because I haven't read it.)

I suppose I'll take the opportunity to plug my own story here as well. It was basically inspired by reading on this wiki about depictions of Missingno as some kind of Eldritch Abomination, and wondering: What would it be like if Missingno appeared in the anime? I wrote a rather short and rushed version of this story a few months ago, but I'm currently working on a rewrite at a more leisurely pace.

@Rvb: I know exactly what you mean. I still have that fondness myself. I'm still trying to work out what aspects exactly I want to explore, but I created a thread to share my (expanded) idea after I posted here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13252809510A47660100&page=1#1

I'm cutting this reply short only because I'll soon be moving to a room without wireless, in about 2 minutes.

Once that class is done, I'll expand it and answer you properly.

EDIT: Okay, Physics class is over. I'm in the school cafeteria now.

I'm actually using Bulbapedia as a reference source (because it's refreshing me on so many things, and because it's been years since I gave most of my Pokemon stuff away, including my guidebook, videos, and two robotic dolls — one of Pikachu, and the other of Mew.)

Also, in my above post, I got the manga's name wrong (how stupid...); it's TheElectricTaleOfPikachu, which I've been wanting to read in full for a very long time. (Unfortunately, all the scans I can find are missing chapters, bonuses, and in some, the epilogue. I would really love to find a scanlation that has all of the content listed on the series Wikipedia page.)

As for the things unexplored in the canon that I want to take a crack at, I'm still trying to decide (there's so much!), and in my on-hiatus unpublished Inuyasha fanfiction, I ended up taking on all of it. The entire setting, the characters, the social and political environments, entirely different civilizations of demons... Just take a look at my source list (I actually have more I need to add, and I keep forgetting about it. -_-'). And while I really like my characters, and am proud of my efforts and my work (even though the thing is, well, unpublished), doing that wore me out. I hit a huge wall, and I knew how those things were going to be tackled by the characters in the story, but I had (and have) no idea exactly how I was planning to make that all work. I can break it down into arcs (which might be sensible, actually...), I can do limited character viewpoints and Perspective Flips, but in the end, I just need to pick and choose - I was too ambitious when I set out. I would love it if I could make that insanely complicated and somewhat slow-moving plot that I had pull together, but I think it'll kill me. Regardless, I'm completely burned out on that work for now.

As for this fic, I think I want to explore a) The Pokemon world (which can be basically analogous to the Japanese Archipalego) in relation to the real world, and how the two mesh outside of the "Japanese Landmass Expy"; b) How Pokemon relate to the humans in their environment, and how they both can change dramatically as a result of that relationship; c) The whole idea of parents letting their kids get legal liscences to capture, own, and train what are essentially monsters - and then they just set them loose... I highly doubt that all those kids know basic wilderness survival skills, or how to take care of themselves. I wouldn't be at all surprised that there are a lot of casualties stemming from that, sadly... That, of course, get pretty much glossed over. There's just always been something about that that disturbed me, even when I was a kid playing Red and Blue, it seemed kinda strange. I want to explore what it might actually be like for an eleven year old suddenly being in that kind of situation.

I don't want the work to be too dark - Pokemon Dark Fic is kind of depressing to me, but I do want to explore those things.

As for the crossdressing thing, I think I'm going to drop that, and simply have her be a masculine girl. Hell, I'm a pretty masculine girl myself.

Ooh, cool! I'll take a look at it later today.

edited 3rd Jan '12 7:34:33 AM by punkreader

Mechanics and strategy. I am, by no means, a political thinker. The entire political plot goes like this "Giovanni's trying to take over the world by force. He was a sneaky bastard and infiltrated every major power before launching his attack. When the attack launched, he simultaneously crippled his foes and swelled his own forces, by doing so. Now all the regions are allied against him. Galactic is still trying to do the rewrite the world gambit."

For the curious, this is a taste of what Stardust has to offer.

I'm having some difficulty building my main character (Sheila Burke), I've found. I think that I want to focus on the Pokemon as well as the humans.

I think that putting the focus on her Charmander initially will help, and I won't be as worried about "Gotta get the main human down!"

is Infernape enough of a curveball on its own for Dragon type trainer to carry around to take care of Ice types?

The other team mates I think I should use are Haxorus, Garchomp, Hydreigon, Kingdra, and Salamence.

edited 11th Jan '12 3:15:06 PM by RandomChaos

If the Infernape is tough enough.

it's hard making up my mind for his attacks partially because flamethrower Brick Break are my personal favorites. But I'm definitely giving him thunder punch. at any rate he is going to be either the most powerful member of the team or second best.

edited 11th Jan '12 8:19:39 PM by RandomChaos

As I recall, Fighting works equally well against Ice, so you're pretty good with Brick Break and Flamethrower.

But sould I forgo them for power? Also he is getting Iron Fist so I sould consider Fire Punch.

I'm thinking I have to put in Dragonite now.

edited 12th Jan '12 11:25:31 AM by RandomChaos

Depends on what, if any, aesop you're trying to promote. High team camaraderie at the expense of optimization, or ensuring absolute victory at all costs and being a taskmaster trainer.