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:Pokemon-ify your favourite arc from another series. What does it look like?>Previous thread:>>59515369
>>59524718>What does it look likePic related
>>59523821Could be one reason. People coming to the conclusion that manmade weapons were too cruel to use after what went down in that one particular war, deciding to only use pokemon to handle conflicts. Although they didn't dispose of all the tech and military structures, as they could still be used as a last resort for a future threat (thinking of how nukes in DUNE are still a thing - despite all factions considering their use a horrible crime - in case something alien might threaten mankind (even though alien basically don't exist in their lore)).>>59523830Then you might also ignore the ugly part about weaponized Infinity Energy posing a potential and serious proliferation threat (picrel).>>59523831>>59523895What's a bigger existential threat than having one's universe wiped out? Maybe the Reds, considering no region so far is set in the Eastern Bloc?>>59523919It's possible a global or several continental governments exist which employ the IP to keep criminal activities in check, parallel to regional police forces. Considering the "National Pokédex" and how regions based on national states like Kalos, Galar and Paldea are named regions, not nations, it implies there's a bigger unifying structure in place ("United States of Europe"?)>FlareThis case however shows that the IP is either weak, incompetent or hindered by corruption. Flare is repeatedly shown to officially perform hostile acts, like raiding the Pokéball factory with their agents in action. The PokéSpe version even outright states a significant amount of the Kalosian population is aware of Flare's cause and even supports them. There's no other way to explain how a megacorpo can plan and perform actions leading to genocide other than the government being corrupt or large parts of the population being implicit, which in turn prevents armed forces from ever intervening.
>>59524644It might be an excuse when we're talking about a secret cult trying to awake an ancient powerful creature no one, even the government, has ever heard about. But most Teams (if not all) are for the most part officially established organizations that operate over an extended period of time and perform illegal acts in the open. This should make vigilant observers aware of their intentions. There should be at least crackdowns on facilities when a potential risk to regional or national security is possible.>But the protagonists happen to be at the right place at the right time.It's a scary thought when your local 10-year-old prodigy is the only one that keeps an apocalyptic scenario from happening (and that every few years). The multiverses in USUM confirm it's not guaranteed to succeed.>Most of the villain's keep their crimes low scale enough that they fly under the radar for major government intervention and then jump to major crisis.Organizations like Flare, Aether or Macrocosmos would likely already fall under observation given they're massive corporate entities. There's no way Google or Amazon could develop bioweapons without intelligence picking up on that, and if they're already aware of that, then there's no way they wouldn't intervene on that suspicion alone (unless we're assuming that corruption is at play).
>>59524752But what if the WMD rocket says sorry?
>>59524718What if someone remade the original Star Wars trilogy, but shoehorned Pokémon in it?
How would you feel about a Truman Show-like trainer? As in all his battles are staged and fake but he isn't aware of it and just think he's a strong trainer
>>59524824Are their pokemon also in on it?
>>59524840sure, why not
I'm at a point in my fic where it's a little bit of a slow burn as they're conducting experiments to breach a pocket dimension.But it's finally Porygon-Z's time to shine.
>>59524718>>59523807it's called pokemon is a series for kids and having your kid protagonist sit on the sidelines while the adults fix everything is boring as fuck
>>59524896Hey buddy this is the fanfic thread. You can have an adult protagonist who is physically an adult and acting like an adult and fixing everything like an adult should.
>>59524896what if it's a manchild who fixes everything?
>>59524905Zinnia is that you
>>59524824Or either a Disney's Bolt-like Pokemon who's made to believe it's strong but it's all fake and staged battles
>>59524770Then it gets a redemption arc.
Every time I think of writing a fic I always give up at team planning. There are just too many choices with cool potential gimmicks but I can't decide among them.>then pick some and save the rest for other storiesno
>>59525006Just write characters of the day and give them those gimmicks
>>59525006As someone who’s run into this problem, I will say that writing an opponent using Pokemon I really like or have fun strategies to use in fights is very satisfying. If you end up using canon characters, you’ll be forced to get your creativity going for their canon or canon-adjacent Pokemon and you’ll find a whole new set of Pokemon that are fun to write battles for too. For Pokemom that may not be fun to write battles for (or I’ve already written a battle for them where I blew my initial creative load), I’ll have them battle in a different style, use different moves, or make that Pokemon more formidable by making them an Alpha.I’ll also mention, it wasn’t until I created a couple plot points that mandated I needed specific Pokemon in my protag’s team that I was able to make a hard decision on commiting to team members.
