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:If they had to pick, which Team would your MC pick?>Previous thread:>>59547959
>>59565989I actually am planning on doing the closest thing to a reaction chapter I can possibly do without vomiting.
>>59566458How do succesfully ragebait CCfag?
>>59566548The better question is how do you not?
>>59566458>If they had to pick, which Team would your MC pick?Magma and Skull, respectively.
>>59566548Tell him to watch Jurassic Park 3
>>59566458Team Galactic, it has a great dental plan
>>59566458Team Yell or Star because they are literal fucking whos that can't implicate or ruin their life or are actually evil. Although a woman in her mid twenties joining either group would be strange enough.Otherwise Team Rocket, because Giovanni doesn't want to overtly destroy the world or commit genocide, and also isn't sitting in a cave like Bin Laden for fun
Finally started reading BoC, just finished Chapter 9. I would say it seems pretty standard from what I've read before but BoC has set that standard so that's that.I don't really like SI ot SI tropes like meta knowledge but it's been an enjoyable read so far and the extension of pokemon abilities and moves isn't something I've thought too much of before.As a aside note, I purused the archive and it seems like BoC was talked about a lot more here a year-to-three ago back when it updated more regularly. Just interesting, oh yeah and I'm not really used to third person present prose but the prose aren't bad.I've enjoyed it decently so far.
>>59566616BoC came out at a time where fics weren't as popular and it was a solid, well written, and most importantly quickly updated story with long chapters. There was also a hint of chud so you knew you weren't reading 'tranny delusion politics #5432'.Then he started a patreon, slowed his pace, and spun the wheels at the 4th gym for like 20 chapters which were released at a snails pace.As far as 'talk about it'. There's nothing to talk about. The story releases 1 chapter maybe every two months and it goes no where and they aren't interesting.The guy started a patreon and milked 4k a month for years for doing basically nothing while he writes his feral sex fic or whatever he's working on.
>>59566623You forgot that he ends each chapter on a clifffhanger halfway through a battle/action sequence with regularity now.
>>59566623Oh yeah, I've heard that before, my reading is kind of tainted by other people's hindsight comments. Like Brendan being an idiot who joins Team Magma, or Lee and Ninetails getting too strong too quickly, and as you've said, chapters were nothing happens.I was recommended to drop it at lavaridge, chapter 45, but I'm tempted to but I wanna try reading the first two acts completly.Really this read through is a long time coming, although I'm glad I didn't read it before I started writing Mahogany. That way I'm more original, even if by circumstance.
>>59566616>>59566623Here's a pic comparing chapter releases.2 years worth of releases (7/4/2024->7/31/2026) vs 1 year worth of releases (10/22/2020->10/28/2021).Also, earlier chapters progressed the story more, later chapters stopped progressing the story, it was clear it was being loaded with filler right when patreon started.
>>59566458Macro Cosmos for the money.Rainbow Rocket to explore the multiverse.Team Great Rocket for the card games.
Thinking of writing a chapter about a Pokémon that was abandoned in the sewers for years like in that anime episode. But instead of a Bulbasaur it would be a Totodile that was flushed down the toilet as an egg (yes, really) and grew up to become an man-eating Feraligatr
>>59566714So that's what happened to the Totodile from Spice and Fox. More seriously it sounds interesting, although a bit generic, the anime did the trope a bunch from what I remember and it's something fics do a lot too.
>>59566714Killer Croc?
>>59566766Wow, that's a killer name, croc.
>>59566766Alligators in the sewer is an old urban legend from New York, but yes
>>59566805>Alligators in the sewer is an old urban legend from New York, but yesFeraligator is too cool of a pokemon for Andy or Drew from SELLOUTS. Is this a new Unova fic you're talking about, assuming your the guy who posted the totodile pic.
>>59566428Well they only lay fertilized eggs because egg making is extremely fast (hours) and thus very taxing on the body (makes the mon need to go to sleep shortly after sex) so if the egg cell stays unfertilized for a bit it gets reabsorbed before the process can start. This way it's the closest to the games.Btw i'm considering just starting quality control on the two chapters i already have and keeping the sexy one for the next upload together with the aftermath one which btw half explains the above spoiler to Leo's confusion
>>59566813it's not an Unova fic, in fact, my MC will travel to Unova for some chapters and will get banned from traveling there ever again, at least for Castelia City
>>59566850>>59566840>Itlian goes to Unova>Impregnates the first pokemon he sees in broad daylight>Adopts Feraligator daughter-waifu>Gets banned from the regionSasuga.
>>59566458I mean, team plasma sounds like the team with the most gray objective of them all as they promise to help pokemon instead of just being bullies or extremists.But they would find the argument against pokeballs dumb so idk.>>59566805Yeah, everybody now know it was actually the jaws all along
>>59566879>the jaws
>>59566643I have a another question, does Ash show up again in Boc. Already with what little screen time he's had, he seems kind of extraneous I don't know why he's there.
>>59567028He gets mentioned and interacts later on. He's there because omg ash is real.
>>59567038Weird choice by the author then, even the other weird choices have sort of made sense to me. Even if things like Lee being the first to talk to pokemon like their animals and the first to have Vulpix use it's pyromacy is silly it's SI-genre silly. Well I'm only ten chapters in so I'll chalk up some of it to Lee being a psychic, at least Birch seems to think there's something else wrong about him. Actual superpowers are more palatable to me than SI knowledge, lol.And I haven't even gotten to the nutrition part yet!
>>59567028From what I remember Ash shows up in alternate pov chapters. Mostly to show that his team and journey are going a little differently. It looked like it was leading up to something where Ash puts on the big boy pants to face off against gym leader personal teams instead of just going through the motions, but then the Patreon Nation attacked and now that plot thread is years off from mattering if it ever does.
>>59566714I posted this and just realized today marks 20 years since Steve Irwin's death
>>59566458Giovanni is probably the best boss among all the retards
IMO > CSP > Crystal Light > PoPT > Mahogany > PokeNormal > CC > GLF > everything else I haven't read yet >>>>> dogshit >>>>>> sello*ts
You gotta say it with your chest, it's SELLOUTS
>>59567865Good luck fun?
>>59567256>Of course Team Rocket provides child care services. I'm a father myself you know, I know how hard a criminal life can be on a kid. Yes, I'm very proud of my son, he's running his own organization in Kalos.
Origin Ore>Rarity?>Value?>Material traits and abilities?>Technical Applications (aside from making the Red Chain and Origin Ball)? >>59567093Time flies by too fast.
>>59566458My MC technically started his own team, but it isn't the large type of organization you're referring to.
>>59567913Gym Leader Fraud, an Erika fic
What's the wildest comment you've ever had?
>>59568148>While having a terrible fever dream, A man wakes up as the Gym Leader Erika. The problem being, he has no idea how to run a Gym.Sounds like trannyshit.
>>59559657The Shuckle in my fic fusses over my MC like a mom would.
A long while back I was thinking about writing a fic about a Sylveon that gets lost in the hood and finds a young black boy who she decides to stay with and protect, acting as his mother figure. The whole idea was that the Sylveon would guide him to not fall into stereotypical black hoodlum things like gangs, drugs and so on. Never ended up finishing the draft since I felt it was too silly...
>>59568302Gentrifairying a nigga
>>59568302Why do I immediately think of Scraggy with the mention of pokemon in the hood?
>>59568230Wild is really broad, so I’ll just say the ones that have really stood out to me (there’s some recency bias)>CCbro’s epic crashout about Ian revealing blessed Sawsbuck to Neroli>Asking for a clifffhanger disclaimer before certain chapters>Absolutely roasting the fuck out of me because the characters are retards for only using one Pokemon at a time in a battle they’re outnumbered>Calling the endgame twist villain within 15 minutes of posting their henchmen’s first debut chapter>Calling a future MC team addition possibly 100 chapters before it happens>Claims a patreon is no longer a want, but a need>Claims the fic is one of the greatest works of serialized fiction they’ve ever experienced not even my narcissistic ass believes that but glazing a random fanfic that way is wild>One commenter compares the fic to two others in how it treats the characters, and is responded to with a 12 paragraph comparative analysis of what the first commenter talked about across the three fics
>>59568233nta, it might be, but more of the repressed homosexual type rather than the "I want to be a lesbian type". I say that because the author said the now-female MC would probably be straight, i.e be interested in men a thread-or-three ago.Which is pretty gay from a meta perspective.
>>59568233I think it would be more entertaining if MC didn't try at all to act different, so people would be horrified seeing Erika turn into a butch
>>59568233No matter how I wrote it, it was going to end up sounding like that. Which I don't want it to. >>59568475>I say that because the author said the now-female MC would probably be straight, i.e be interested in men a thread-or-three ago.I'm not even sure at this stage if romance belongs in this fic. Earlier on I had a sort of plan for it. I know at one point I will run out of things to say with the Gym Leader setting and try to kick the ball down to somewhere else which is where I could do it. But even from the outset I decided that if there was going to be any there wouldn't be any lesbian stuff. >>59568479The attitude of the MC is just making the best of a bad situation and that changing too much would doom them.
>>59567865I hope you check out Spice and Fox soon, the author went on a hiatus once the third arc started so there's plenty of time to catch up.
I miss the view graphs on FFNet. It was basically the thing fueling me to write shit
Reading BoC's 11th chapter, the one with Lee fighting Roxanne's personal team. I din't find it unrealistic they beat her or anything, the fic starts off with the knowledge Lee already beat Roxanne in game. I just find the:>*Hah, so you beat x pokemon, that means I need to use my real team*Trope kind of weird, ignoring the argument on whether gym leaders should have personal teams or not, isn't the point of beating a gym earning the badge? Then having that badge is a way of gauging your strength as a trainer, but if gym leaders can pull out their personal team against anyone they want it kind of ruins that metric. While I imagine the Leagues would want a degree of standardization. Although it does do a good enough job of making your MC seem cool I guess, especially since Roxanne's true team wasn't too strong so it still seems realistic for Lee to beat.
>>59568713I’ll shill more once I get out of this mindfuck and resume. Appreciate the mention.
>>59566458How brutal does the fight have to be for the referee to stop it?
>>59568230Not Pokefic but a long, LONG time ago when I was writing DCfics somebody gushing over a flirty, streetwise waiter that got involved in a plot threw a full court shot accusing him of being the Martian Manhunter despite this being a Batman fic that had never so much as hinted other DC properties were involved. And she was correct.
>>59568830>isn't the point of beating a gym earning the badge? Then having that badge is a way of gauging your strength as a trainerThey presumably have to test a lot of things, such as signs of growth. It's probably not okay to borrow your parents' overleveled starter to sweep every gym and they have to have an answer to that. They probably adapt to the opponent somewhat. Everyone dunks on the goofy cartoon for the pity badges but they clearly wanted to drive home that the letter of the rule isn't what counts.If personalization didn't matter and all they wanted is standardization, they wouldn't have eccentric professionals do gym battles. They'd have some pencil pusher dump a box of occupied Pokeballs with the right type and level into a pitching machine and mark each KO off a checklist
>>59568950True enough, but I imagine pokemon aren't blindly loyal and someone taking their parents pokemon out for a joyride, assuming their parents were professional trainers, sounds like an easy way to get caught.I guess more on the subject of BoC, it's battle against Roxanne shares a lot of vague points with the Roxanne battle in Hyphen, but I liked Hyphen's battle better. People weren't jerking Astra off as already being a veteran trainer and in there Roxanne got to pull off some of the same customizing move stuff that Astra and Lee get up too without having to be a pokemon, psychic, or an Isekaijin, just due to virtue of having time and money to train.
>>59568955I don't generally defend BoC, I just think a Gym Leader arbitrarily escalating to see what a challenger is made of isn't an abuse of power so much as their whole job description.Even in the games Clair can arbitrarily withhold her badge as an autistic way of inviting you to her magical dragon cave and nobody blinks. Her gym, her rules. If the Gym Leader thinks the best test of your mettle is digging through a condemned mansion for the key to the Gym, that's where you're going, bucko
>>59568985Can the gym leader decide the uniform of their gym trainers?
Gym pokemon facing multiple challenges a day, day in, day out.- How long do they take on teams looking for their 1st badge before they become too strong for that level ? A season ? Multiple seasons ?- Will they grow to the strength of an 8-badger just by being a gym pokemon or is there some other ceiling ?- Does the gym eventually end up with an army of pokemon ?
>>59569020Considering Erika and Whitney employ only lesbians I don't see why not.
>>59569036There's no reason to assume a pokemon and the gym leader won't try sandbagging since badges are a test. That isn't to say that Blaine's Conference Arcanine is going to be used for a seven badge fight but maybe a four badge Magmar can be used for a two or three badge fight when ordered to dodge less hits and use ember instead of fire blast. There's also no infinite growth so eventually every pokemon will plateau at some point and then they'll just stick at whatever level they are at. It's not a guarantee that every pokemon can reach eight badge level just through training and battling.Gym leaders might just sell or trade off any of their pokemon that might be deemed unsuitable for battle to different industries where battling strength isn't necessary. Example: maybe Roark and Brock send their old pokemon to the nearby mining industry to live out the rest of their days.
>>59568985I don't think it's an abuse of power, as you say, most anything goes. It just seems sort of weird, like I imagine most would say something like:>Well, you're pretty strong. I guess you earned this badge.especially since both times I saw the trope it was broken out for Roxanne, the first gym leader who's the least impresive.
>>59569084There's no reason to assume a gym leader isn't a bum who's just have that job for the money
>>59568475That's even gayer than agp trannies.
>>59569148Gayer yes, but it's less gross in my book. AGP trannies are creepy. Although above all Id prefer a guy who was just honest about wanting to get fucked in the ass.
>"After a devastating terror attack on the artificial island of Pasio - known as THE hotspot for the strongest trainers in the world - all present visitors were killed following the detonation of large quantities of Infinity Energy."How is the pokeworld affected, when all important and named characters are removed?
>>59569183Isn't this DC Injustice?
>>59569188Seems more like Marvel Ruins, also >>59569183Theorically anyone can take their place since that's the whole point of the league challenge so it really shouldn't affect the world beyond loicense stuff unless you're implying the Champions, E4 and GL that died were the goverment
>>59569196Well Marvel Ruins is kinda shit so that makes sense. Eitherway I expect nukeman to show up.
>>59569209Why does he look like Elon
>>59569036I'm thinking all the pokemon that get too strong and are not too bound to a trainer get sent to be rentals at the battle frontier.The ones that don't become ultra strong because they maybe get bored or something will probably be put to work (fire type for smelting steel, electric types for electricity, etc...
>>59569105It's because she's the least impressive Gym Leader that they write this sort of thing. Hard to write an interesting fight where outcome is already decided from the start and nothing is learned
>>59569183Pokémon battles are considered a sin because the world thinks it was an act of God that destroyed the island
>>59569036I don't even treat levels as a progression statistic, more like a fitness measurement. You can hit your peak, get old, or slide back from lack of exercise. It takes serious career-long effort to reach the highest level and stay there.
>>59569036any Pokemon that gets too strong gets the devolution spray and starts all over again
>>59569408The lv 100 bratty pokemon that denies all the newbies their badges and the league can do NOTHING about it
>>59569271I guess I didn't think about that, admittedly the whole gym thing is kind of a second thought to me. Reading BoC, THE jounrey fic itself has given me some ideas for Mahogany.I still don't care for the SI stuff like "I STOLE Treeko," that type of angst just pisses me off. Especially when everyone else is noting how suspiciously strong Lee is. So I think it says something that I did like when Lee freaked out about earth getting destroyed and Treeko snapped him out of his funk.Really I think getting in so late has, to a degree, soured the experience for me, especially since I've seen some people say it's the best thing since tummy rubs. While others have spoiled me on stuff like the Ash plot never going anywhere, so his inclusion just seems bizarre to me. Zinnia is a more understandable choice, even if she only serves as a fake-out love interest for Ninetails.Seeing Takoyaki in BoC has made me want to include Octilalry takoyaki.Also, Chapter 13:>Begon THOTDated humor like this always makes me cringe.Also I started to realize how I'm writting Clair in Mahogany and Zinnia in BoC are coincidentally similar in some aspects. never played ORAS so I don't know much about Zinnia other than she's a feral person. I guess that's my chapter 11-to-15 reading for today.
>>59569408They'll do it 15 times over again if necessary
>>59569418>I don't know much about ZinniaVery similar to Clair actually. Heir to a Dragon Tamer clan with a big ego. She's a lot more wild and youthful than Clair who comes across as older and bitchy in the games.iirc her motivation is to stop the meteor with Primal Rayquaza instead of dumping it on another universe to deal with like Devon wants to do. She was pretty much vindicated as correct except the part where she was not the one worthy of Rayquaza.
>>59569408It would be interesting to see a fic where devolution was introduced as a 'new invention'. Haxorus would benefit from being able to revert to an axew since they can get sharper fangs.also, sorta what >>59569416 joked about. If there was a little league, cheating using devolved pokemon would be a hilarious concept. A trans analogy where the trainer sucks at the elite circuit, so they devolve their pokemon to dominate the little league
I just thought of a rad ending for my fic.
>>59569588Dark continent kind of rad?>The world is the size of Jupiter and we live in a really, really small patch of land
>>59569611Nah, I'm going to make my readers hate me and hopefully themselves. I mean, that was always the plan but this improves on that plan.
>>59569475>Very similar to Clair actually. Heir to a Dragon Tamer clan with a big ego. She's a lot more wild and youthful than Clair who comes across as older and bitchy in the games.I guess that's how me writing a younger Clair ended up similar to Zinnia coincidentally. Well I'll try to differentiate them more.So far aside from the main duo and their pokemon there hasn't much been seen of other characters, I'll rectify that in arc 2. Gives Clair a chance to be more bitchy and cocksure. Either way reading and writing is always a learning experience.>>59569611I did that as an offhand joke once.
>>59569669>my readers hateOh, so Clair is the one and only wife?
>>59569611Any fic that doesn't already do this doesn't respect their worldbuilding. Imagine actually making Unova the size of New York. Lmfao.
>>59569691nta, but yes.
Woke up today and rawdogged 4k words, including a scene I didn’t intend to write but turned out way better than I thought it would.
>>59570080Wish that was me, I only got 800 done, but I'm more or closing in on finishing my double-length update. At least text wise, editing will take longer.
Today, I read instead.
>>59570103I read and wrote.
>>59570080>>59570087Good job anons, I'm proud of you both.>>59570103Same.
>>59569704Specific numbers are a big no no. Humans not so good with big numbers.New York is almost twice the size of Ireland and about the same size as Best Korea. It would take you about a month to walk from NYC to the Canadian border.
>>59566458What if they created official humanizations/gijinka of gym buildings to increase their popularity among young men?
Currently writing stuff happening in the Unown dimension as part of the final planned arc of this fic.I've settled on a concept where petrified Unown can be strung together into math formulas to simulate physics in a given space.String enough of them together and you get a landmass, sort of like a coral reef. Someone wrapped the strings into shapes to make structures.That's where the final hurdle will be.I didn't get as much writing done this weekend as I would've liked since I'm sick.Next weekend I should reorganize my notes so my story beats are in the correct order to make this easier.
>>59569611The great underground from Sinnoh implies Agatha may exist in the Pokémon world
>>59570919Well yeah, she's in the Elite 4. Did you mean Agartha?
Writing the battle and I totally understand Pofag's comments on being too wordy. Looking between how I wrote the previous battle, looking at other fics for inspiration and writing it makes it very obvious that I needed to edit the fuck out of those battles (I had six entire paragraphs between two attacks. the fuck was I thinking?).
>>59571022It’s all about growth, GLFfag. Having the ability to self-reflect can be a superpower for developing writers. Because you have that, you can improve much faster.I’ll hopefully have “Pofag’s tips for writing battles” (which will in no way be a definitive guide, just me rambling about what I think makes good battles) out before the end of the month. I’m currently on a writing bender which I’m enjoying before I go on hiatus for a bit.
>>59570919>>59571019
>>59569183Pokemon is like One piece, people don't die when hit with a point blank explosion
>>59571521What if Pasio gets the Japan treatment?
>>59571525Pelliper saves all of them by taking the nuke
>>59571525Aslong as there is 1 Damp pokemon the island is safe
Borne of Caution 16-to-20You know, it's a bit of a shame that Zinnia isn't the main love interest, she's cute and pretty forward. I imagine Clair more bashful and tsundere in comparison. Also, I've actually been witnessing that type of relationship before, a guy obsessed with his hobby so much he won't even look at the girl who's trying to get into his pants. Usually the girl loses interest since the guy in question is just immature, not dedicated. That said some of their banter is weak, feeling a bit generic.I don't care much for the Log Chapters, aside from recapping the story they seem to just be a really intelligent way of delivering exposition as we see Bitch react to Lee. I do like how they put more focus on Lee and Vulpix being supernatural, uniquely psychically skilled rather than just Isekaijin knowledge. Slightly bittered by the fact I've been spoiled on where it'll end up. I.e:>Gestaling is dangerous>But oh don't worry since Lee and Vulpix have the same soul and Vulpix is Giratina!Borne the risks don't actually exist for them.*eye roll*I actually had a kind-of-similar idea for my fic: Mahogany, but well there the idea was partly inspired by the Metamorphosis-like SELLOUTS TF thingy so it's a bad thing. At the very least I feel vindicatedReading the stuff about custom moves had helped me with some of my own ideas regarding the next arc since Giovanni will show up there.I was also a bit surprised that Lee, even jokingly initiated romantic contact with Vulpix by suggesting to her that she'd be jealous of Zinnia. Wouldn't a zoo keeper be more aware of the vulpix actually falling for him, especially since she's a pokemon, which the fic notes as being smarter and more aware than animals. I guess I would be more forgiving if it happened like in the Treeko scene where he leans on her in a moment of emotional weakness.
>>59571595Also him putting down Braxien and not Delphox is lol. There's some other funny stuff like Zinnia going:>We should go easy on these girlsAnd Lee pulls out Vulpix, who the announcer compares to a Charizard, while she uses her useless Goomy. As if he has any right to complain about Brawly giving away his identity when he did the equivalent of barring out the brass knuckle boxing gloves against some highschoolers.I think that's another spot where Zinnia and Clair diverge, Clair's a bad sport in general when she's offended. And that includes when she wins too easily and when others surrender.Oh yeah and I finally, after a little hinting earlier in the fic, got to the Nutrition part. I don't mind the concept but the Isekai twist on it still ignores me, same thing about the metaknowledge. Still the fic as a whole, despite not really being my taste, is above average, writing wise. At least mechanically.Oh yeah I like Andre as well, he's a bitch but I admire his dedication to fighting an uphill battle. Especially since he, Lee, and Zinnia are essentially just bullying weaker trainers here for cash. Having him be more noble or be even scummier might've been a bit much. Even if he could go about it smarter. I have a feeling he'll end up as the other 'rival' ash, being left in the dust as the story starts to meander when it gets to Lavaridge town. Just my instinct.I think I want to write an Andre-type character into my story now...On that note: >>59567865>IMO > CSP > Crystal Light > PoPT > Mahogany > PokeNormal > CC > GLF > everything else I haven't read yet >>>>> dogshit >>>>>> sello*tsSince I'm getting to the end of the first arc in written (not posted chapters), do you have anything of note you'd like to say?
>>59567865>Crystal Light that highNeat. And I'm sorry that SELLOUTS fucked your waifu.
>>59571573What's the effective radius of Damp?
>>59566458Do you ever see a fanart and think "this has to happen in my fic"?
>Hate “reaction chapters” because they’re too self aggrandizing>Writing a chapter that’s basically the most “glaze the MC the whole fucking time” segment I’ve ever writtenYou either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
>>59572037Spend all chapter glazing them, then give them the most crushing loss of their career.
>>59571760She thinks it's an orthworm...
>>59572037Oh don't worry, nothing you do will ever top the glazing my guy's gonna get by the end. There's actually no way to top it in scaling.
>>59572037>reaction chapter>it's all about MC shilling himself in the forums pretending to be a fan
>>59572144If your MC doesn't do this then they aren't on the grustle and are letting their team down. Fame = sponsorship = money = nutrition
>>59568911Kicking a pokemon who is already down or a hit drawing a lot of blood (if that's a thing in your fic)
>>59571595>Lee and Vulpix have the same soulactually vulpix is, or at least was, hinted/implied to be the lion cub he was taking care of when the zoo went kablooeyI thinkI haven't actually kept up with the recent chapters, the spot I read up to was unbearably boring and I can't stand to try and refresh myself on what's going on especially with the bicentennial chapter release rate
>>59571760I had that thought when listening to music, like what scene would best fit this soundtrack.
>>59572131I already did this in reverse T_T>>59572144This is a legitimately good idea unfortunately he’s unconscious the whole time
>>59571760sometimes
>>59572886Warranted. That thing's a Body Slam hazard in the event of an accident or sudden stop.
>>59573001Did they use Roggenrola and Geodude as cannonballs in the past?
>>59573371They used Electrodes and Hisuian Electrodes
>>59573371they used giant slingshots like in Angry Birds to shoot Pokemon at fortresses
>>59573371Rhyperior's dex entries describe their usage as projectiles, so jes.
>>59566458Has there ever been a fic where a character couldn't mega evolve their Pokemon because they lacked a strong bond?
Was it ever elaborated in XY and ZA how Infinity-Energy-induced immortality / longevity works?
>>59574321Infinity Energy is life energy.Do the math my dude.
>>59574343Yeah. But there a so many questions unanswered.To give some impulses:>Is it by definition immortality or longevity? Az dies in ZA, so it's perhaps the latter, yet Eternal Floette is still alive, so maybe not?>Can the effects be quantified? E.g. each sacrificed life grants you the same amount of additional lifetime, or the equivalent of X Infinity Energy translates to Y amount of lifetime? Or is there a point where it doesn't matter, meaning you've reached true immortality? Is there a limit (Az set the record of ~ 3000 years)?>Are humans and pokemon differently affected?>How does this affect the biology of those affected? Do they gain superpowers or enhanced regeneration? >Do those affected mutate (Az is described to have grown taller, yet this cannot be observed in Lysandre or Eternal Floette. Lysandre however has this weird mark in one of his eyes, which Az on the other hand doesn have)? Are those mutations rather beneficial or harmful?>Do the effects become weaker over time? Do those affected accumulate similar ailments an ordinary old human will have, meaning their regenerative / immortal powers eventually cannot outheal the harmful effects?>Does the aging stop at the age the affected was in when being granted longevity / immortality?>Does the hair of the affected bleach out (Az had black, Lysandre orange hair; after becoming immortal, their hair became white / gray)?>Can they be killed or does immortality equates to invincibility? Is their immunity system stronger and more resilient to pathogens and ailments than that of someone / something unaffected? Do injuries like broken bones heal naturally and completely without treatment?>Is there a limit on how much damage their bodies can sustain until these become fatal? Are the souls of the affected "locked" to their bodies, meaning they are still alive even though their bodies are "dead", until their bodies regenerate?
>Do those effects only manifest when being exposed to the Ultimate Weapon, or does anything related to Infinity Energy cause these effects (e.g. Devon products)?
>>59574321It overclocks your body
What's a character archetype you love seeing in pokefics?Cocky rivals turning into respectable people is for me just great. Maybe romantical too with the MC.
>>59574455To my understanding, it's immortality. Straight up. You don't get to die until you repay your karmic debt.If you get mutilated, you sit there and wait for your arm to regrow and in the worst case, you pop out of the ground naked and covered in dirt.
>>59572886>>59573001Feels like an elaborate way to kill someone and frame it as a traffic accident.I like it
>>59574769In other words it's something ANDY & DREW SELLOUTS, would do.
Time for everyone's favorite reaction fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66210784/chapters/245652236Prince of Poop Town.
>first half of chapter 2>rookie trainer with his first pokemon in their first training session starts talking about type energy restriction training
>>59574948wot
Trying to upload anything to FFN has become so fucking ridiculous. Spent a good fifteen minutes adding italics that it took out during the upload, then when I save it, all of my edits are gone.
>>59574959I started a new story and that happened
>>59574976No retard I mean what is type energy restriction training.
>>59574976No like what does that even mean
>>59574978>>59574979I don't know I stopped reading there
>>59574982Oh, you mean you started reading and not started writing? Well what's the fucking name of the story then?
>>59574983my bad, I can see where the confusion is fromthe story is "A Touch of Whimsy (Pokémon OC-SI)" on QQI'll try it again later probably, I was admittedly skimming the hell otu of it
>>59575009You are forgiven.
Borne of Caution (BoC) 21-to-25Battles are still nice, but I don't really buy Zinnia's speech about Lee being too cowardly in battlessince every battle highlights how brutal they are. Pokemon can really dish it out, but they can't really take it. That said, I did like Lee talking about his PTSD. The scene of Lee getting Shinx is also really nice.I kind of like the battling style thing, especially since I've only had 1 battle in my fic, everything else has been a fight. Although it's not as detailed as it could have been and it mostly seems like another vector for characterization, which isn't a bad thing.Although Lee can be a bit annoyingly self-pitying at times, I know it's intentional but I don't like it. It's a gutless flaw, I can't respect it. Especially since the first time it comes up it's in a no stakes scenario and it didn't hold him back in his past fights, just stopped him from winning more or made fights fair instead of stomps.Zinnia is still really nice, it's a shame Ninetails becomes the main love interest.Although reading Borne of Caution has made me think about moves being invented more. And that is, while Borne of Caution has new moves being invented by this rare thing, I think just from the games it could be assumed new moves are being invented all the time. Aside from them discovering new Types, every generation includes new moves, gen 1 even notes Giovanni invented Earthquake.For instance, Throat Chop was introduced in Gen 7 and could reasonably have been assumed to be invented then. I guess the question is how do wild pokemon know it, and in SI, OC, Isekaijin stories custom moves are used to make the Isekaijin's other world knowledge be special so it's not something the natives do much, but I do really think it's neat.
>>59575253In contrast, I really liked it in Hyphen when Astra did the Bullet See Snipe thing. All in all, I guess what I have to say is that, I don't like this trope of natives not only not knowing something, but having some sort of mental barrier around that subject. Like what SELLOUTS and BoC does. There was another section where Lee refuses to look at the adult video section of a store, I wonder if SELLOUTS was referencing than when Andy looked at pokeporn vids.So custom moves, having non-custom moves being invented during the story, or having a pokemon learn an HM or TM they normally couldn't learn seems cool. And honestly as is some TM choices can be weird anyway.Although I have no idea where this trope came from. >>59572523Right, I was confusing the fact that Vulpix is (probably) the reincarnation of the Lioness from the beginning with something else. I don't think that is confirmed but it really does make sense in retrospect.Although it's a bit sad Zinnia won't win and Lee will (not) fuck the phox, instead reamning in a limbo because of Fuggman.
just started playing Pokemon academy lifeis this where I talk about itdoes it have a reputation beyond the faux anime art?it's definitely passing the time so far. I just beat hilbert to have him let me use his pokemon I have only ever beat Pokemon ruby when I was younger, I found out about it on /vg/ /vn/ and while I can go back there, its not like I frequent it enough. so far it's a handful, but I appreciate the straightforwardness and especially the varying battle perspectives; definitely seems like a high school story rather than a pokemon game
>>59575253>but I don't really buy Zinnia's speech about Lee being too cowardly in battlessince every battle highlights how brutal they areYeah. This is what I think is sort of a “nothing criticism of the MC” that highlights how morally good/superior they are. Also it goes in a reasonable grey area that you can at least slightly understand the mentor’s argument. I’m sure there’s a proper literary term for this. It’s a way to flaw your MC wiithout making them a braindead idiot at the start. I did variations of this with Plumeria lecturing Ian plenty so I’m not hating, it’s a useful tool to have.>Zinnia won’t get the nutrition maximalistYeah, it’s unfortunate as they have good chemistry together and Zinnia definitely is a great counterpoint to Lee’s super knowledge but naivety/world experience.I hate Brendaan being 10 and being allowed to go out into such a dangeroud world (that is simultaneously thought out). I suppose it’s to excuse his dumbass moments. He shoulld’ve at least been a teenager. Although I hate 10 year old protags in general as they’re rarely written as a straight up 10 year old
>>59575513We used to have someone here do a marnie vn
>>59575513>is this where I talk about itthe general thread for playing fangames like that migrated to four multiplied by two chan during the month-long outage a while back but other playing fangame threads still pop up here that being said academy life is visual novel enough to count as story and/or reading I thinkas for the reputation I hear it's great with some unnecessary homolust sprinkled inat least until week 10 where it goes down the shitter, but the guy who's eternally seething about it tends to exaggerate stuff so take that with a grain of salt
>>59575253>That said, I did like Lee talking about his PTSDyou don't mean the therapy shit, right?
Decks Exist to be Stacked... was pretty damn good.
>>59574609characters with split personalities
>>59575515>I’m sure there’s a proper literary term for this. It’s a way to flaw your MC wiithout making them a braindead idiot at the start. I did variations of this with Plumeria lecturing Ian plenty so I’m not hating, it’s a useful tool to have.I only really noticed it in Lee's case because he's so strong already, like both him and Ian from PoPT are largely on upward tracks but Ian is significantly less overpowered in comparison to the people around him. Like the flaws aren't the most meaningful, but Lee is also really fucking strong, ironically I find PoPT just going out and having Tapu Bulu bless Deeling more acceptable. Especially because that happens as a direct result of Ian's character and not mechanical means.>I hate Brendaan being 10 and being allowed to go out into such a dangeroud world> "What? I didn't become a trainer at twelve because I wanted to wait, dad held me back two years to tutor me. Geography and politics were included!"He's actually. Still it's a bit weird that twelve year olds are trusted to become trainers since, again, every battle highlights how brutal pokemon are. This is despite the fact Lee first meeting with pokemon is them helping him out of the goodness of their furry little hearts. Funnily enough the whole "Jenny and Joy" thing that Hyphen also has bothers me a little but more than this, but that's just my strong personal bias.>>59575662I liked the moments with Treecko, Shinx, and Corviknight. The pace slows down a nice but and Lee allows himself to be open, besides Shinx is cute and it ties the trauma of his past life and nuking into the story in way that isn't more:>BURNING>OLD PEOPLE BURNING>EVERYONE PUT YOUR HANDS UPI have the vague notion that it'll become annoying but it, alongside nutrition, haven't actually played THAT big of a role yet despite Lee's pokemon being so strong they bridge the gap between a 'bad' trainer like him, and good trainers like Zinnia, Andre, Brendan...etc
>>59575688My green wife wins again
>>59575867The BURNING PTSD shit was so fucking annoying. Just catastrophically unsubtle to the point where it has the opposite of the intended effect. I rolled my eyes every time it came up.
>>59576166it's also really unserious to start a pokefic with a nuclear war
>>59574641Yeah, but there's that one immortal naruto guy that gets diced into tiny pices, what happens then?
>>59576203That guy who got his head cut off and had his still living head buried in the ground?I am now imagining Lysander's disembodied head used as the third Dugtrio head.
>>59576203you regen like Majin Buu
>Put in joke/lore for a friend who helped me with a fic>It takes him months to read it but he finally, finally gets it!I am a happy man.
>Gym Leader Fraud: Opening DayI've tried this chapter to write a better battle scene than my previous attempts. Is it better? I don't know, I'd appreciate any feedback on it.https://archiveofourown.org/works/88650066/chapters/245757046
>>59566458How strong are barriers created by Pokemon?
>>59576429protect is invincible against everything other than that bullshit powercreepmon nintendo released with one of the shart and shield dlcs
>>59576429Depends on the type. I view Protect as practically invincible but with a very short deploy timer, if a Pokemon can keep it up for even five seconds they're in the top percentile. Stuff like Reflect would be more like a layer of padding over the Pokemon that cushions blows but can't stop them outright.
>>59576432then what stops them from being used as an attack?
>>59576477Can't keep it up for long.
>>59576486just use a Light Clay
>>59576477Because then it would be called something other than protect.
>>59576477>>59576580Psyshield Bash is literally that
>>59576429Impenetrable against anything that doesn't have protection-skipping effects.>>59576432Feint is a direct counter to Protection, and a few other (ability supported) moves are also not affected or partially (1/4) weakened. So it has its weakspots.
Borne of Caution (BoC) 26-to-30I got kind of sad for Zinnia's sake when I read chapter 26. Not only does Lee and Vulpiz not think of her as a close friend, but they think her track record is abysmal when all she's done is help them successfully. He's only traveling with her because she's useful to him, textually.I was surprised really, I guess it's because Lee is so meek, he acts nice to her, and doesn't actively think about her that much that I missed it until now. She poured her heart out to him already, told him her whole deal and about Aster, and Lee is still keeping secrets and she has so little reason to put faith in anything but his knowledge of pokemon. She's always trying to help him, even her not thinking of Lee and Brendon as friends is more her being afraid of closeness and guilt. And of course Lee knows so much about her already due to his meta knowledge, at least he tells her some about his past in 27.Especially since the other love interest, the eventual main one Vulpix, has sort of just been a pokemon.Even the narration translating what she's been saying 1:1, which happened very early on, was dropped for the patchy psychic speak that Lee can't fully make out, so she's sort of de-emphasized.28 was I think the first log chapter I really liked, I might end up writing a log or journal chapter myself in the near future as an in-between-arca thing like IMO-anon did.I'm not exactly a fan of Lee having to go to therapy, mainly because despite his lapses he's handling the situation well all things considered. Therapy isn't a fix-all solution and I think just being more open with Zinnia and getting more of a life outside of 24/7 devotion is his Pokemon is more of an answer. Despite myself I did kind of like the moment with Vulpix in 29I didn't care much about the pokemon PoV in 30 but that's due to my biases.Also>With haste borne of cautionNo words needed.Also I didn't mention it last time but I liked Cournety being groom on sight with Brendon.
>>59574961Literally can’t even upload a note saying “the site’s broken, please check out where the fic is posted on other sites for new updates until it’s fixed.”>>59576277Well now that I’ve given up on trying to upload to FFN, I shall get caught up here GLFanon.
>>59569036in my fic, gyms have small nurseries inside them where they breed Pokemon frequently, so that they always have low-level mons
https://archiveofourown.org/works/81146136/chapters/245825931New Mahogany, ultimate chapter of the current arc, well penultimate. It's the climax but the next chapter is the last chapter of the arc.
>>59569036> How long do they take on teams looking for their 1st badge before they become too strong for that level ? A season ? Multiple seasons ?If they are consistently fighting everyday it might take a few weeks or a month. > Will they grow to the strength of an 8-badger just by being a gym pokemon or is there some other ceiling ?For most Pokemon, no. Eventually they will plateau at a 3-5th badge level if they aren’t training and some Pokemon just don’t grow that strong without intense effort, Butterfree isn’t ever going to be an eight badge Pokemon, a Dragonite would get there without much training other than doing the equivalent of going on a daily walk. Higher badge Pokemon used at a gym are chosen for being stronger Pokemon and that’s on top of any training or experience they have, but by the time they reach the 6-8 badge level, becoming better is a lot more effort and by just fighting every now and then they likely won’t reach a higher level.>Does the gym eventually end up with an army of pokemon ?The league manages most of them as loans to the Gym but the Gym can do it themselves but usually choose not to since it costs a lot.
>>59576477It's a high-end Aura contract, which is why nearly every pokemon can learn it. You sacrifice all offense for a nigh-impenetrable defense for that specific moment, or so goes the official narrative. The REAL truth is that Protect is a Prayer directly to Arceus, who grants divine near-perfect Protection to anyone who invokes him, but also added the condition that repeated invocations have a higher chance of failing because he's an asshole like that. It explains why even level 1 shitters are capable of executing it flawlessly and to its full power. It's a shortened version of an ancient prayer predating all civilization, condensed into a single word, a plea, a truth: Protect. Also why it's Normal type.>>59576600Notice that Psyshield Bash doesn't actually protect you against damage and just raises your defense after the fact, since it's a damaging move.
>>59577324Stealing this.
>>59577324>Regigigas couldn't learn Protect for 4 generations because Arceus was mad at him Naruhodo...
>>59577324arceus is a slut and legendary = deity trope is exceptionally trite
>>59577324>Notice that Psyshield Bash doesn't actually protect you against damageBecause even gamefreak despite all their retardation know better than to add a regular move that both protects and attacks
>>59577369We can infer the logic of the pokemon world through the abstractions from the games
>>59577362Arceus is the one legendary that's allowed to be a deity given he is literally the creator god of the pokemon universe. His form that surpasses any other legendary pokemon in power is just an avatar holding a fraction of his power, one of his THOUSAND arms btw.
>>59577362ngl Arceus is a slut anyways, I want to fuck an arrogant goddess into submission.
>>59577375>he is literally the creator god of the pokemon universeno he aint. Gamefreak is. They literally self-inserted their entire company in as the creators.
>>59577401Morimoto vs Red who wins?
>>59577401Arceus is Aus the creator god according to in-house documents that were leaked two years ago.
>>59577448in-house documents that GAMEFREAK wrote.Making Arceus and Aus both frauds who don't even know they're frauds.
>>59577375I don't know if it was from a threadfic or not but I remember reading a passage in here where a Kimono Girl implies that Ho-Oh and other legendaries are the incarnated hands of Arceus.
>>59577457GameFreak are merely game masters; as far as in-game lore are concerned, they're game developers and nothing more. Sure they do a wink and nod to the player, but they're as relevant as the annoying dog of Undertale/Deltarune.
>>59577487They aren't masters of anything, they are freaks, freaks of the game. It's in their name.
>>59577495.....way to misread the context, idiot.
>>59577448Leaks aren't canon, they only provide a glimpse into what could have been and a hint at what they probably consider canon.Also Aus wasn't a creator god even in the leaks so idk where you're getting that from. She got her ass beat by a bunch of eggshells that she didn't even create l o l
>>59577495Forget context, this is straight text.
>>59576158Fucking hell, she's so unbelievably cute. She got me back into pokemon after losing interest after RSE and she'll always be my pokemon waifu.
Your MC receives an invitation to Scott's island. How does it go?
>>59578281He'll go straight for the spanish boys.
>>59578281Scott's an important character in my fic and it's been real hard not making epstein jokes
Doing the unthinkable and writing a fic where Arceus is a good guy and Giratina is the bad guy
>>59578724not my hecking wholesome worm boy
>>59578724B-but I thought church bad demons good????!????
>>59578724also, Cynthia is just a normal woman and not a wholesome quirky chungus girl
>>59572886Pokemon sitting in cars are really funny for some reason
Recommendations for pokephilia fics?
>>59578724Oh yeah? In my fic, Arceus is the good guy, AND GIRATINA IS TOO.
>>59579830I go with the theory that Giratina's ass whooping and capture in Legends Arceus mellowed them out. After learning the value of friendship (or isekaijin dick, depending) they get character development, leading to them saving the world from Cyrus instead of trying to destroy it. Huh. Now that I think about it, Cyrus and Giratina are relevant to my fic so I'll have to keep that in mind.
>>59579893I go for Immortal Hulk logic: Giratina is Arceus's Hulk. Its rage, sorrow, loneliness and fear taking shape in a shadow self that inhabits and protects the mirrored side of our reality. Giratina isn't malevolent, but a defense mechanism.
>>59579830>>59579893Giratina was a jealous brat when it was created and tried to ruin things, as spoiled children do. Got the time out corner with nothing to do but watch people's lives through windows into the world for ages, and learned the error of its ways by getting very parasocial for some of them.
>>59579893Isekaijin pussy changes a 'mon
>>59579176Guess I'll shill mine if you’re asking:https://archiveofourown.org/series/3500662
>>59579978>galvantula
>>59579997Here's a few pure smutfics too if you rather.https://archiveofourown.org/works/82629196https://archiveofourown.org/works/32221807
>>59579176Hug your cat day:https://archiveofourown.org/works/87797886#bookmark-formFrom Spicefags alt account.
>>59579934I go with Arceus and Giratina being college buddies that became enemies after they both fell for the same girl (Regigigas)
>>59566458Do scarecrows work in the Pokemon world? There's Cacturne but the Dex doesn't say anything about them scaring Flying-types
>>59580384Regular scarecrows work, yes. But they also work on humans, since pokehumans are notoriously unable to see through disguises.
>>59580384>be birdmon>flying over some idiot human's farm>he's got an ugly ass cactus with sunglasses on>start charging up a gust to ruin the farm for the luls>suddenly his ugly cactus thing teleports in front of me >while still 500 miles in the air>sucker punches me back into the warring conquest ageI don't see why it wouldn't work
Checking the RR comments for BoC chapter 21 was sort of odd to me, why do people care so much about the nickname Dolittle? Even Lee just shrugs it off because he assume the movie exists in the pokemon universe, is it actually important?
>>59580552Because it means Eddy Murphy exists in the Pokémon world
>>59580552>An inconsequential, recurring joke that just wouldn’t hit the same way if there was a different, in-universe equivalent is triggering RR readersI’m not surprised.Canon character
>>59580037Already read it! It was absolutely fantastic.Not enough sweaty declarations of love for my taste, but partially made up for it in pure smut.
>>59579978I will absolutely read this later! Thanks! If it holds interest (easy task), I'll make sure to leave a comment with thoughts too!
>>59579934I made a post stating that Giratina was created in response of the Titans' assualt after Arceus' birth; making it destruction incarnate: >>59580279>>59580202
>>59579978>gay>>59580028>rimming>gayWhat a waste of my clicks
>>59580916beggars can't be choosers
>>59580922But they can make their opinion known and tag shit
We all know Arceus is pronounced ar-KAY-oos, but is Giratina pronounced with a hard G or more like giraffe?
>>59580969It's pronounced Giratina, not Giratina
>>59580969Hard G, soft r. "Gigatina"
>>59580969Giratina, as in vagina
>>59580969Heresy!It's Ar-See-us
>>59580969pretty sure its name comes from guillotine
It's arkeos actually
>>59580969The RKS system that Silvally uses is based on Arceus. So the proper pronunciation is AR-KAY-ES. I still say Ar-see-us though. No gods no kings.
>>59580981It goes
>>59580985Sex inducing look
>>59580845>>59580849Sweaty confessions of spider love will take a while. Was initially a smut writing request for someone getting swarmed by a group of Joltiks. Liked the characters and setting enough to keep writing past the ending.>>59580916>he stopped right before the straight scolipede pornAlways test their pokefucking power level first.
>>59581020Build-up is super important anyway; makes the payoff so much more adorable once you're invested.
>>59580998The point of the RKS system is they're doing it wrong, thus the pronunciation is wrong. It's Arse-ee-us. Movies confirm.
Borne of Caution (BoC) 31-to-35You know Andre's description of the Dark-type as being the type of true emotions and type of violence itself, is funny. Both because of how edgy it is, the fact I feel like every type can be described like that, and because of how wrong the first part sounds to me. All Dark-type moves have secondary effects, they're underhanded and don't play fair, but seem close in essence to Normal-types, and a lot of its moves are psychological tricks with a theme of obscuring reason or martial arts moves.I actually feel bad for him, he was using setup moves, evasion, swords dance, dominating the fight, but Ash just nuked Absol with a Thunderbolt. It's hard not to pity the guy even if he's an asshole, just because of how overpowered everyone else is where he has to spend years to get to their level and even then can't compare.Also, funnily enough, despite the fic's occasional mention of NUTRITION, it's only become a real explicit focus at chapter 32. Honestly I can believe Ash, Andre, Misty, May, really a lot of the kid characters not being in the know about Nutrition, but really I expected professional battlers, or at least Brock, to know about Nutrition as well. But I guess that's standard Iskeaijin fare.Chapter 33 is also when the therapy starts, reading out made me wonder why Lee had to be saying these things to a therapist and not Zinnia. Like really, she already decided to not do her stupid plan, so it only really exists for mellow drama, and I'd rather Lee talk to someone important about what happened. Besides I still don't really buy it, Lee is remarkably functional, I don't think the story needed this and it doesn't really benefit from it's inclusion. Also every time I see the pokemon Maractus I get SELLOUTS flashbanged.
>>59581457 (me)I like Corvisquire running away and Fuggman using that to give Lee a real reason for disliking Zinnia due to what she says, but with the previous chapter and my knowledge of future ones, chapter 34 feels like the start of the slow down. Honestly I'm a bit surprised Lee went to battle Watson anyways and didn't go looking for Corvisquire instead, it feels like a sort of selfish, out-of-character action from him.Also I thought people were over-exaggerating when they said Lee was cheating with Vulpix, but using a pokemon outside of a battle to help win is just cheating. I guess I only take issue with it because it's an official league match, it just feels like cheating and Lee doesn't even consider it might be wrong. So it's not like he's being malicious, just empty-headed, I dunno feels weird for him to not even consider it since he does care about the league.Then again he and Vulpix seem determined to go against Zinnia's good advice about maintaining a distance.Even with Vulpix, I'm surprised he won the match against Watson. Losing a pokemon right before a match just feels like the sort of mental debuff that would cause a trainer even on their A-game to lose. But no, Vulpix is just that strong. And honestly I think Lee being so passive here kind of lowered my opinion of him.I liked the stuff on move patenting, very scummy, I'm gonna steal it. Although I didn't find the whole sequence that interesting, patenting moves just to get money kinda feels unimportant, plot wise. And the ERROR! Too much damage stuff.Still didn't care for the pokemon PoV again, at least Swablu knows Corviquire is fine.Also -2 for having a in-universe thread appear in a fic, only S&F can get away with it.
>>59578427Drew please...
>>59581571Glad to have another SELLOUT, in the thread.
Which thread MCs do you think your MC could take in a Pokemon battle? What about a no holds barred street fight?
>>59581691I'm assuming in the latter scenario the characters are bloodlusted.Rhys could take Andy or Drew in a pokemon battle, probably? At least Maractus and Cheri hasn't shown herself to be impressive. Andrews special ability of not existing within fate doesn't do much because Rhys doesn't come from a deterministic universe. A street fight is more even but I think Andy or Drew are more likely to kill Rhys than not.Oh yeah he could beat John CSP is a pokemon battle as well but he losses even harder, just gets bodied in a fight, dead within seconds.Ian PoPTand WoL are too strong for him, in both categories. He loses to Kuzey in a pokemon battle but probably beats him 9 times out of 10 in a street fight to the death. Will Spice and Fox is probably even in both categories.
>>59581457I like Ash wank when he's considered the side character.
>>59581717Honestly, I'm very neutral on Ash, I just don't think about him. I think I get what Fuggman was going for, Ash mentions he started doing better battle-prepping and training which was his weakpoint. so he beats the brick-head-against-wall strategy man, showing him he needs better battle prep or he's just going to get stat checked.But Ash and Andre also don't show up much after this, they aren't very important and it doesn't feel like they can measure up to Lee despite the lip service paid to Lee's weaknesses. Part of that is my view of the story being tainted from meta info, but I would have preferred Ash have been clever, rather then him just, literally, glass Absol and all of it's Double Team clones.That and, to a lesser degree, I'm not fond of stat checks. I would rather have Ash be clever, especially because Ash already sort of feels like a stat-check-guy, so him learning to stat check better doesn't feel like that much of an improvement.
People who Ashwank prior to gen 4 didn't watch the anime. Pikachu wasn't a powerhouse outside of plot moments until then and Ash himself was still fumbling blindly until Paul kicked his ass in gear.
>>59581786The rat beat Regice back in the Battle Frontier.
>>59581794>outside of plot moments
>trying to powerscale a children's anime
>>59581807thanks for the awesome reaction image fellow redditer!
>>59581816You're welcome friend, feel free to save it!
>>59581422>doing it wrong>it works exactly as intended
>>59581691Tobio no diffs them all via deus ex machina and outside interference. Huh. I made that as a joke but I just realized that every single entity so far has been beaten like that.
>>59581877It's not the Multitype ability, so they did it wrong. Them getting the name mostly right but still wrong reflects that.
Hahaha, I'm writing again after like six weeks. A whole 350~ words added.
>>59581913is that guy three feet tall or somethingzoroark are 5'3 monlets
>>59581952The key to happiness is disregarding canon dex height and weight entries. Sometimes even designs, like the lucario nose lol
>>59581691I'm still reading up on the current thread fics, but>AndrewThe SELLOUTS are so dogshit at Pokemon battles that Andrew refuses to participate in them unless forced, so I feel like there's a win there. In the street, Andrew wins before anyone knows what's happening, though. Just a matter of ESCALATION.>LeoI am confident he could beat Leo either way. Which in a Pokemon battle is the equivalent of an arthritic old man beating up a toddler, but it is there.
>>59581691Haven’t read all the fics but I’d imagine just about everybody could beat them in a battle, and definitely everybody could beat them in a fist fight
>>59581786People tend to forget that Pikachu got the shit kicked out of him way too many times and think he was always in god mode, when that only happened as you said at the end of DP and the Kalos League where it carried all the jobbers
>>59581691Ian’s had 60+ chapters of decelopment, Tapu Bulu blessing BS, months of training from Grimsley, and EXP Candy shenanigans. It’d be weird if he wasn’t top 2 with Wol at this point.
>>59581020rimming is just not good. i am not totally against buttstuff by itself, but licking an asshole is already disgusting after the prep work required is done, let alone if it's of a wild pokemon who had none.
>>59582090Pokemon don't poop, so it's okay
>>59582096They do though, their poop is just turned into infinity energy unless you're implying Devon actually kill Pokémon
>>59582096>mfw mulch is a psyop
>>59582123The league doesn't want you to know they're pulling a Taylor Farms.
>>59582096
>>59582165He doesn't want to admit that Kalosians shit on the street
>>59581691my MC defeats a Machoke by himself in chapter one
>>59582180Calling them Kalosian is a stretch, not like they were born here...
>>59576477it cant move
>>59582197Based! Got a link?
>>59582322it's not finished yet
>>59581958Andy and Drew sort of come across as comical incompetents to me, but they succeeded anyway because they exist outside of fate and also have THE EMPEROR micromanaging them.Honestly I think they lose to anybody who comes from a non-deterministic universe, and conversely win against everyone who has fate shit like Wol.
Which pokemon activists are most at risk for assassination in the pokemon world?
>>59582652activists are the ones who want to kill everyone
>>59582090>let alone if it's of a wild pokemon who had none.It's the wild Pokemon licking human butt, as Mew intended
>>59582656>Ghetsis gets N assassinated during a rally in Castelia >a shooter is found and blamed, in reality it was an exploding microphone sending shrapnel through his neck>N becomes a martyr and the region becomes heatedly divided, more people start releasing their pokemon It's all about the optics
>>59582524The clap if you believe miracle shit is worth considering too.
>>59582652Mr. Fuji, for his evil dark past
Every Pokemon can win any battle after consuming the Berserk Gene
>>59582766Yeah but Andy is a pretty shitty mage and the Nephandi suck shit anyways. If another PC is playing by Mage: The Ascension rules I assume they just win.But if you only give Andy and Drew sphere magic they just gonna win even if they die to paradox afterwords, so it's best to exclude it from the equation. Although conversely I think a character should have access to the rote techniques from their story.
>>59582826true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxVd6KEaLw
Nicknaming my first three Pokemon as Who, What and I-don't-know to annoy the referees
Been meaning to make a comic about the Holon region for a year or so, I’m thinking of making it pretty short so that I can focus on other stories later. Would you think that it’s be a waste if it barely explored the surface and didn’t go deep in the lore/fanon stuff?
>>59582826Why is this true.
>>59583119No, art is never a waste. But also you're doing an undeveloped topic so keeping it surface level is fine. No need to make up head canons for a small project.
>>59582826Berserking is a certified jobber flag
Borne of Caution (BoC) 36-to-40 Starting to near the end (45~) now, either way, Chapter 36 has what I consider Vulpix's first real romance flag, as well as the whole 'Ninetails' live for a thousand years, thingy. Well I don't care much for it, I don't think I've tried to hide the fact I prefer Zinnia over Vulpix/Ninetails, and besides that I don't like pokepihilia with non-anthromons.There's also the 'why am I thing' and I don't like it, mainly because I know the ending is that she's Giratina bore. Yeah I kind of get the point, she's different from other pokemon, ignoring the fact other pokemon don't seem to sense this and treat her differently for it. Corvisquire just thinks she's crazy. So it doesn't really affect her character much. I more or less understand her angst about it either way but her being that way in the first place just feels like another blessing Ian already has in his favor, when he's already so strong. (Although I will admit I myself have been to harsh on things like Seed Sniper when it isn't as important as coveragance, it's just a useful comparison point with Hyphen)Also it's really funny when Lee thinks of his career as being a 'low-level trainer' when he's hot shit. He's even rated as part of the top 10 up-and-coming trainers expected to appear in the league. Aarons from Silph Co calls him an excerpt.Team Rocket showed up again, and honestly I think their inclusion is kind of a waste. Meowth can speak english and Team Rocket is rather fun, why not give him at least one moment to talk with Vulpix before she evolves?Oh yeah and Courtney (Groomer Prime) shows up. Lee's an idiot for allowing her on the team, seriously? He can manage venomous hatred for Team Rocket but can't get Brendan to give Courtney the boot. Just call his dad and explain the FULL situation since Birch is in on the Isekaijin secret. She's even wearing her red hoodie, she practically screams Team Magma.
>>59583369Come on she's a red-and-pink chick with a Camerupt and a Mightyena! I don't care if he never played ORAS or read the manga, he's played Emerald tons of time and the most obvious Team Magma Gruny/Admin walks in front of him and he losses his braincells. And Zinnia is stupid, she's dumb, her plan is bad, why is he going along with it? They don't even tell Brendan, even Brendan's pokemon know about Courtney.I think the Courtney stuff is the first thing in the story I actively dislike. Seriously, Zinnia lets herself get rage baited by Brendan, a 12 year old, while she and Lee are letting him be groomed by Courtney. What I mean to say is that this feels forced.It's interesting that Type Energy is something pokemon generate, I ended up doing something different where it exists in nature with different environments having different concentrations of each element, sometimes to dangerous extents. That type energy in the environment is then effectively, inhaled and exhaled by pokemon, used to generate moves and power their bodily functions.Also I think pokemon being able to learn any move of any type and use it at max effectiveness, like Lee teaching his Grovyle Feint Attack, is bullshit. I do think it's a good example of Isekaijin knowledge as the explanation makes sense for why natives wouldn't figure it out. But it is bullshit.Oh yeah Chapter 38 is also the act 1 finale... honestly it doesn't feel like a finale, there's still a lot of loose threads and the wind down after the climax is a bit long. I do like ending it on Cournety though, it's a pretty good signpost for her.Devon trying to make artificial evo stones is interesting enough to hold it's own story, very fun idea, I'll be surprised if something like that doesn't show up in IMO.Corvisquire is one pokemon PoV I like, he's such a dick, and fun as well.As another side note, it's weird that Nobel/Totem/Alpha pokemon are called Giant Gene pokemon in BoC.
>>59583372If you were getting groomed by a hot chick would you want your idiot furry babysitter to step in?Alternatively, Lee's natural perversion made him forget that Brendan is a pokemon game protagonist and not an h-game protagonist and that he can't show Courtney his 8 badges and super rod to fix her right then and there
>>59583428Nah I don't blame Brendan. Zinnia and Lee on the other hand are dumb, they're Emma level dumb. Seriously, they can already tell Brendan is salivating over her and that she's a Magama Admin.It's so dumb, and Zinnia lowers herself to Brendan's 12 year old level after he over-reacts to her asking Courtney about Devon.Seriously everyone knows but him, it's so dumb. They responsible for him, Birch trusted Lee with his son's lively hood and safety and Lee pulls this shit?Wtf
I fuck with all good-faith criticism but if any of it actually stings it's definitely my Emma becoming shorthand for "dumbass" lmao
>>59583540I mean, the homeless don't get much education
>>59583540I was thinking more of Emma:>Man Corbeau, aka Lysandre and Giovanni's love child, would be such a great mayor.Although Emma!IMO, Lee, and Zinnia!BoC do endanger a child. Although I don't which is worse: Kuzey actually getting molested and almost killed or Zinnia and Lee knowingly keeping Brendan in the dark.But Lee is probably the worse person given he was personally entrusted by Birch and chose to put Brendan in danger. I don't care if the original idea was Zinnia's.
>>59583540Someone has to be the fall guy/gal for stupid moments that help setup or exasperate conflict. The key is to not make it the same person each time. I realized this about 3.5 arcs too late with Selene in PoPT
>>59583372>I ended up doing something different where it exists in nature with different environments having different concentrations of each element, sometimes to dangerous extentsKinda like mtg color mana. It's a neat take and does a lot to explain regional form type differences.
>>59583496I don't blame him either, I'm saying that Lee was being courteous (and retarded)
>>59583669Actually... wait shit that's probably where the inspiration came from I've been an MtG fan since elementary school. I didn't even realize that, although aside from subconscious inspirations I was thinking of the Neathbow from Sunless Sea. An illegal spectrum of light that warps reality.
>>59583680I probably wouldn't be so angry at it if Lee didn't take every chance he had to condemn Team Rocket. Like if he didn't take them seriously his reaction to Courtney would make more sense, but this is just so hard to square, how can he be this much of a doormat? Not to mention Zinnia, hot headed Zinnia. Although unlike Lee she has a history of bad idiot plans.
Does "I'll Make Them All Disappear" ever get good? 30 chapters in and it's just harem anime slop and getting worse
>>59584180>30 chapters>Bisexual Female Character>M/M>HaremWhat do you think?
HEy guys, I;m going to write some Isekaijin where the main character is a guy who is reborn as a hot chick, taking special knowledge about the games with them to the Poekmon world. They only fuck other girls (ostensibly bisexual, really just straight in a girl's body, trans-gay) and are instantly liked by everyone and get really strong right away bcause of their unique knowledge on nutrition and custom battle moves. ALso they discover the Fairy type soon after arrival, because the in-universe professors hadn't gotten around to it They have zero survival expertise and have never touched a chicken or goat or horse before, or even owned a dog, but that doesn't matter as this is POKEMON and IRL animal handling has no basis on it. Apparently that is the popular reader formula.Subscribe to my Patreon to get early access.
>>59584228Well? Wheres the link?And who are you bashing? Tobias? Steven?
Thread is almost over.What did (you) read this week?I last read a bunch of doujins instead of fics. Reread "Dating a Team Magma Grunt" and as for non-pokemon stuff, "The Story of a Trainer Who Became an Umamusume" on danbooru.
>>59584424AI slop anime fanfiction
>>59584424Reading Spice and Fox. I hadn’t been very interested at first because the name made me think ot was a guy running a store with a Braixen, and I couldn't see that being interesting for 30 chapters. I was wrong.
>>59584424Finished my writing bender of 25k words in 2 weeks to finish the firrst half of PoPT, caught up and critiqued GLF, finished the Mahogany update. Gonna finish Crazed Creation then play roulette for what I read while on IRL Ula’Ula Island
>>59584424I spoiled myself on Hug your cat, Willow's Winnings and Decks Exist to be Stacked (I have a type), and now I'm flicking through all stories trying to find a decent read.Have had bad luck since. Everything's either grammatically poor or shallow as a puddle.
>>59584424caught up on a bunch of stories that I was putting off catching up on some of which are pokemon relatedread like 250 more chapters of cultivation group chathaven't found any good new pokemon fics to read but I also haven't really been looking, it's been too soon since my last perusal and I'd like to give new stuff some time to stock up on chapters
>fic has natures and held items>Pokemon can only have four moveshuge red flag
>>59584424I haven’t been reading any fics this week but I have been reading Plutarch’s works part of a collection called ‘On Sparta’. I’ve been getting back into finishing all the ancient sources on Greece. Thucydides is the best ancient historian overall and (you) should read him.>>59584486I’ve really appreciated your feedback. You’ve given me a lot to think about, even if you think it’s nitpicking it does a lot of good for me
>>59584842>writer tries to justify it with something retarded like "it's impossible to memorize more than 4 things at a time"lmao
>>59584847Happy to help GLFanon. As I said in the post, I got help from og threadbros in here and they really helped me develop more quickly than I would’ve on my own. I’m seriously happy to be able to continue that cycle (albeit, after years of what I hope is improvement have taken place lmao).
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