A thread for the creation and discussion of fan fiction and other fanworks - anything that involves a story and/or reading. What've you been reading? What've you been writing? What would you like to see more of?>Thread question:How do you write a good fight scene? What examples come to mind?>Previous thread:>>58936828
Best trainer harem fics? Preferably self-insert/isekai, but for the most part anything is fine.
>>58954734This question and image combo made me imagine some kind of post-apoc scenario where Gym Leaders/E4 are trying to collect women for their village harems, but they're all being outpaced at every turn by Erika who's become an unrestrained yuri goddess after the fall of society.
>>58954699>How do you write a good fight scene?For fantasy and historical and such it helps to at least have a grasp of how people actually fought, IMO. Looking at videos of people's interpretation of historical manuals and watching them hold the actual weapons and such. It kills me every time in a fantasy novel when both people have swords and the clinch, fight ending move is somehow kicking the other person in the chest.
Eh what huh oh you were using the proper acronym. Yeah that seems like good advice.
>>58954794What are you talking about In-My-Opinion-Anon?
What's the occasion, why did the board speed up recently?
>>58954976Gen 10 leaks? I think? Idk I'm just here for the artdump threads.
>>58954699>Mina OP image>TQ is about battlesIf I was sober I would have a 5 post thesis on battles in Pokémon fanfic. Doesnt help that I’m on page 16 of a pure battle chapter and likely getting to 20-22 pages.
>>58954699I don't think I write good fight scenes, but generally I try to use the environment to give the scene a sense of weight. I don't want it to seem like characters are fighting in an empty void.>>58955004I'd love to read it.
>>58955014>I’d love to read itChapters 43 and 44 of Prince of Po Town will feature the battle and I’m not done with it but I’m proud of it so far. If you want my thesis on good battles, I’ll prolly post it tomorrow (no longer sober).
>>58954699I like to think I write good fight scenes, but I've written a lot of 'brawls' more than one on one fights. Personally when it comes to pokemon battles I tend to prefer righting them sort of inspired by in game battle mechanics. Both opponents act at the same time and are trying to predict and 'outplay' each other during a fight. Pokemon can't take that many hits unless they are built to tank so it really matters what moves you can get off. This keeps fights from dragging on, and lets each move carry more weight. If using the same move often then don't write it the same way every time, try and come up with fun and interesting ways for the move to be used to keep battles engaging. For bigger fights with lots of mons I don't let myself be caught up on every single action going on. Just take small snippets of different parts of the fight and try to have them flow from one piece to the next.I shouldn't be writing paragraphs when I'm tired like this.
>>58955032Good, I just started to write a fight scene today for my wip so hopefully it'll help. I already did TrainerVTrainer, now I'm doing a fight against a 2v1 dangerous wild pokemon.
>>58954699>TQI don't, I write bad ones. It's a massive weakness of mine. In general, I lay it out like a pro wrestling match: plan some important spots and the ending, then just write through with what makes sense at the time. Also I try to remember that it's still a scene and I need to be considering my characters' wants and beliefs and that I'm conveying information even as they fight. That's how I came to all of the fights I'm most proud of.Though if anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.
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>>58955690this guy's lying btw, I just beat the shit of a ratatta that was annoying me
>>58955690If you care at all about your pokemon then you'd go to any length to get yourself pokemon genes so you could fight alongside them.Objective #1 after failing to unlock aura or psychic powers should be hunting down Fuji and cussing him out until he breaks down like a bitch and gives you superpowers.
>>58955690wrong
>>58954699What stops you from giving a taser to your fire-type Pokemon so it can fight water types?
>>58956007My Magmar keeps tasing himself like a fucking idiot.
>>58956007Just teach your fire type to make their body so hot they film boil through any water type.
>>58956253>Just teach your fire type Desolate Land
>>58956276Didn't the New Normal do some shit like this? I remember him "teaching" his Pigeot Reckless because for some asinine reason pigeot weren't competitive viable in the author's eyes so he had to semibreak the rules of his own fanfic setting to make it viable.It was an ability that technically wasn't one but still worked anyways because the author said so.Dumb as shit. Why not just give his Pigeot some staraptor genes?
>>58955690dude is so dejected and lostDid his wife sleep wit his emboar or something?
>>58956007Thunder punch being a thing
FF1anon, whenever you think of Wol, and I know he doesn't have a 'canon' appearance due to him being from essentially a player class from the FF games, but do you think of him with a stoic expression, or with a smile? As in the first expression that comes to mind?(I personally view him with the intial professionalism before it falters into that kindness of his.)
>>58956007your pokemon can only hold one item at a time so, the opportunity cost of not having leftovers, assault vest, life orb, etc. doesn't outweigh the utility of being able to hit a single type super effectivelyon top of that water is a fairly defensive type so chances are a water type would be able to withstand a taser hit, as well as the fact that fire is also weak to rock and ground both of which are more widespread than water types, even on non-rock/ground pokemonthat is to say, why would they bother
>reading fic>author makes MC a psycho feminist>makes a post about "what the fuck are mens issues, only womens issues are worth talking about">gets a ban>thread gets lockedlol, maybe spacebattles mods aren't so bad after all
>>58956571because it would be funny
Well, at least it wasn't multiverse conqueror Giovanni
>>58956600See this is why you need to be sneaky with your woke. Do things like indirectly show through skin and hair descriptions your MC is black. Or showcase a communal, anti-corporate lifestyle embraced by a major character without directly calling it socialism. Maybe even have a lesbian character that doesn't outright make a speech about her orientation but is clearly only attracted to other women.Just little things like that, Elmo.
>>58956276This gives me an idea.
>>58956519He tends to be stoic most of the time. He tends to come off pretty intense because he isn't usually very expressive, which is part of the reason other knights look up to him. He comes off as unflappable regardless of the situation, when in reality he's just bad at expressing himself. So people assume he is unshakable because he has an iron will, but in reality its more resting badass face.
>>58954699Never played SV, I just discovered you can make MTs using fur, scales and even sweat from Pokémon.I guess this gives a reason for poachers to exist
>>58956858Thank you! Now I know what expression to add to my Gigachad/Starman Wol drawing.
>>58955032Ah! Finally back from my vacation! So do tell Pofag, has Ian fucked Hyde yet? :)
>>58956872It's a pretty interesting list of items that are defacto 'safe' to remove from a pokemon without serious damage to them. I've used it for pokemon food byproducts, had the MC eat a pastry with surskit syrup without him knowing what a surskit is.
>>58956872how much does Croagunk poison sell in the black market?
>>58956872ok, who's the guy that's buying this?
>>58957034I don't need to buy it, I get it for free after our jog.
>>58957034>gamer Pokémon bath water is real
>>58957034The guy who wants to make Leaf Storm or Solar Beam.
>>58957009It's not long-lasting against humans nor particularly harmful considering what it does to Brock, so I doubt it's useful for much.
>>58957341That's just because Brock has Ground aligned chakras.
>>58956919Oh yeah, they’re fucking Fucking ready to kill each other.>>58954734I unironically have one that’s 90% harem and fucking and 10% Pokémon training. MC was written to be pretty generic to easily self-insert. The harem got out of hand though.https://archiveofourown.org/works/40598415/chapters/101716854
>>58954699Is this escalation?
>>58957629That’s a handicapped Pidgey.
>>58956600Which fic?
>fic is set on a Japan-based region>they eat with spoon and fork
>>58957785>fic is set in a Japanese region>everyone behaves like an Amer*can
>>58957034Would be marketed as a form of tea, I think. Moderately "exotic" like mangos and pineapples are.
