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:
Have you ever read fanfics in a different language? Any thoughts or ideas you think might be worth bringing up or spreading?

>Previous thread:
>>57918794

How exactly does Wonder Guard work?

>>57933232
Shedinja isn't properly "alive", it's just a discarded shell that has enough natural processes to continue in the general pantomime of life. Therefore it can't be "harmed" enough to lose consciousness. Instead you need to trick its latent nervous system to react to phantom pain by striking it with moves it instinctively knows are extremely dangerous and will cause death, leading to the Shedinja seizing up and being rendered motionless for a time, convinced it has just taken life-ending harm despite behind impervious to it now.

>>57933232
It's a ghost, you can't kill ghosts except with special ghost killing objects like dark rituals, other ghosts, fire, or bug spray.

>>57933260
Fake news, you can use your aura to send them off

>it's another "reaction chapter with off-brand r*ddit and tw*tter posts" fic
Dropped.

I've created a system where pregnant pokegirls wield the pokemon powers in their bellies to manhandle and dom boys. It started as indirect bestiality BUT I later had an idea for "pokemon bonded Z-crystal impregnation" instead if you hate nonhuman shit. I'm not much a bestiality guy anyway. Inspired by https://exhentai.org/?f_search=0k0j0+lotus
https://files.catbox.moe/p42pq6.png

Tentative AI gen of the concept: https://files.catbox.moe/zet8d6.zip
I wonder if I should develop more specifics about about the male impregnating the girl with Z-crystal shenanigans. Lets say its like https://exhentai.org/g/1051570/958ac96a85/
Just one chad asshole going around making yandere cock hungry rapist bitches wherever he goes.
1/3

>>57933271
>Electric
She electrostimulates the boy’s dick, balls, and prostate. Can send tingling pulses through his entire body or totally electrocute him.
Her pussy shocks his cock so hard it feels like his balls are gonna explode.
>Ghost
Soul bond. They feel each others pleasure. Her touch and pussy feels like being caressed by phantom hands.
It’s like her pregnant pussy is haunted, jerking him off from the inside.
>Psychic
Hypnotizes the boy into a trance and influences his thoughts. She can share vivid mental impressions.
She brainfucks him so hard he can’t tell if he’s cumming in her or just imagining it.
>Fairy
Feels euphoric. Heals and soothes the boy with a pussy that feels heavenly like silk.
Her pussy’s so soft it feels like he’s fucking a cloud.
>Fire
Her pussy is burning hot but doesn't harm. Perfect for blizzards, her body heat keeps them alive.
It’s like sticking his dick in a furnace. Her swollen belly radiates heat and melts his brain with pleasure.
>Ice
Her pussy is cold and refreshing, sending shivers of pleasure through his body. Feels like an icy onahole. Good for hot weather.
Her frosty cunt makes him shiver so hard he can’t tell if he’s freezing or just cumming his soul out.
>Water
Her drenched pussy controls his seminal fluids forcing him to ejaculate then sending it back in then roiling it around. She also grants water-breathing.
She milks his cock dry, then slams the cum back in like she’s recycling it.
>Grass
Secretes medicinal nectar that's a powerful aphrodisiac. Turning him desperate and manic.
Her pussy juice is basically liquid Viagra; one taste and he’s humping her like a feral animal.
>Poison
Hallucinogenic fluids that flood his senses. She is intoxicating like alcohol.
Her toxic cunt makes him trip balls while she rides him.
2/3

>>57933266
fuck you I love those, stop hating fun
It's better than fucking 'logs'

>>57933273
>Bug
Life Drain. Drains the boy’s energy during sex then pours it all back in.
She fucks him half to death, then her womb pumps his energy back just to make him beg for another draining.
>Flying
Levitating powers where the girl manhandles the boy. Her pussy imparts an elated sense of lightness.
She flips him around mid-air like a fuck doll while riding his dick so hard her bouncing pregnant belly brushes against his chest.
>Ground
She and her pussy exerts a crushing gravitational pull. It pushes him down with pleasurable heaviness and compresses his dick.
It feels like her preggo pussy is trying to crush his cock while pinning him to the ground.
>Rock
She repeatedly petrifies and unpetrifies them, grinding their intermittently rocky genitals together. The jagged slams feel rough and brutal but amazing.
Her repetrifying pussy grinds his cock like he's fucking a lubbed up geode. He feels like they're rock monsters.
>Steel
Vibrates like a high-tech sex toy. Every thrust feels mechanical yet wonderful.
Her vibrating pussy makes his cock feel like it’s getting jackhammered into oblivion while her swollen belly quivers with every thrust
>Fighting
She gets hype beyond all reason and monkey-fucks the boy. Her aura makes him feel stronger.
She pounds him so hard with her preggo cunny that he feels like he just lost a wrestling match with his dick as the prize
>Dark
Fear sex. Gets all yandere and sadistic and casts a terror-inducing aura
Her crazy gaze makes his cock harder than steel while she fucks him like a psycho
>Dragon
Her pussy exudes a regal eminence. Feels like fucking pure power and makes every thrust feel monumental
She is smug as fuck, radiating sheer power that makes him feel like he’s being fucked by a living legend
>Normal
Her belly emits an aura of balance, harmony, and perfection. Every touch feels "just right," bringing relaxation and calm
Her vagina is so perfectly average that it somehow makes every other fuck feel wrong by comparison
3/3

>>57933271
>>57933273
This is off topic and has nothing to do with fanfiction and is NSFW

>>57933278
Hey as long as I don't post images I'm golden

>>57933278
>has nothing to do with fanfiction
? Is that not his fanfiction?

>>57933274
They can be fun, but the few fics capable of doing them well would lose nothing of value if they were removed because they can still show "reactions" through other methods like crowds.
Reaction chapters are filler and most fics that have them use them poorly.

>>57933271
If you want my suggestion, start writing actual stuff with this. Maybe a series of fics where each chapter focuses on a different girl. Write some slice of life for her day as a powered up preggo chick, or full blown sex scenes of her raping a guys cock. Even if you don't have experience with that kind of thing you might find you actually enjoy writing and end up practicing more. I mean, that's pretty much what you're already doing with all this. Just go ham and don't care about the actual quality.

>>57933278
It's anon's fanfiction
Being NSFW doesn't matter if it's text; historically speaking, we've had smut here fairly often.
Though I can get being a little bothered by it since that anon mentioned it quite frequently in the last few threads, especially when we have dedicated smut threads elsewhere.

>>57933034 (OP)
I've never read a fanfic in another language, though with how bad some authors' English sometimes it does feel like I'm reading Eubonics or Esperanto.
>>57933266
I don't remember this being as popular as it is in current fanfics. Was there something popular recently that caused it? Keep in mind recently is 15ish years for me, haven't really read many fanfics in a long time.

>>57933278
It is fanfiction and better than yet another fight about realism, humans being weak like real life, aura, nutrition

>>57933299
It's mostly a trend with fics posted on spacebattles because of Worm fanfics
Specific to Pokémon fics, iirc the biggest fic that bothers with them is BoC aka nutrition man's adventures.

>>57933296
>I can get being a little bothered by it since that anon mentioned it quite frequently in the last few threads
Fair. I'll shut the fuck up and just wait for (You)s like a good boy this time

>last few threads
>few
Wait I just picked up on this. It was just last thread. Not the past "few".

>>57933305
What are your hopes going forward with this? Are you just planning on trying to get a lot of pictures for the idea, or do you plan to expand on it more?

>>57933232
Might be like Gojo's Infinity; unless the attack is super-effective, it gets diverted before hitting Shedinja

>Thread question
Once, wasn't for pokemon and it was russian. All around bad time, that's on me though for expecting something in Russian to be happy.

Better question:
How do you handle languages? Does everyone speak the same thing? Does it so happen to be English or what the MC speaks? Does the MC need to learn a language and how long would it take? If there are multiple languages do pokemon understand them all? Or does your fire dog only respond to German? If there are multiple languages how do you write them? Post the other language without a translation, just type what the speaker is saying but in Italics or something else?
Do pokemon have different languages or did Arceus never have to topple the Tower of Bable

>>57933313
or do you plan to expand on it more?
This, yes. I mostly post it here for feedback and to amuse pokefags. I shitposted it as it's own thread here and once on /a/ a couple times.
The pictures are a side thing. As is the thing itself, honestly. It's just the weakest, and only Pokemon one, of my smut writeups. I'm running the fetish creativity general on /d/ as it happens you see

forgot greentext

>>57933322
>that's on me though for expecting something in Russian to be happy.
Same, I found some rusky Isekai and man just the first chapter was weird
>They abandoned him on the threshold of a local hospital. They didn’t put him down on it, but instead threw him away out of the car window as they drove by. They’d been afraid of being noticed, or something like that. No wonder he was bedridden literally from birth, able to move only his right hand.

>He probably shouldn’t have lived long with a broken backbone and craniocerebral injuries

>a nurse came to him twice a day. She washed him, cleaned, changed his clothes, and often cursed. She complained about her life and the fact that she had to take care of a ‘vegetable’. Sometimes, when she was in a foul mood, she used to beat him

>>57933301
>aura
Kek to be fair I am kind of aurafagging it up in my own little pregnancy autism way

>>57933289
>would lose nothing of value if they were removed because they can still show "reactions" through other methods like crowds.
That's not how it works, this is autism. If you don't like it, don't read it.

>>57933266
Love me some PHO slop and by extent, Negaverse.
Reaction chapters and stories are peak lazy and filler but man do people just love living vicariously.

>>57933349
>post saying someone doesn't like something and that they stopped reading it
>if you don't like it, don't read it you autist!
anon pls

>>57933322
FFfag here, FF1 actually has language be a plot point so I gotta figure out how to work that out without it being too awkward.

>>57933327
Ah, I see. Have you ever tried writing a longer form thing or are you planning on just keeping it to creative write ups?

>>57933393
Not atm. I'm contenting myself with low effort amateur doujin spitballing really.

>>57933331
Happiest Russian protagonist childhood
They really like their miseries piled up high for their characters

>>57933420
But do they get PTSD and carry that trauma into the new world?

>>57933034 (OP)
I've tried to read jp fanfics on pixiv and syosetu. For pokemon, it's not a great time considering the difference in names.
Spent more time googling pokemon, moves, and abilities than actually reading.

>>57933322
Semi-Universal Language, to put it in Nasu/Symphogear terms. There was no Tower of Babel as it were, so everyone ultimately speaks the same language, though that's not to say there's been some linguistic drift and differing cultures between the regions resulting in dialects, accents, and some communication mishaps.

K̶a̶l̶o̶s̶i̶a̶n̶s̶,̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶a̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶r̶a̶g̶e̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶F̶r̶e̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶n̶t̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶G̶a̶l̶a̶r̶i̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶n̶t̶e̶n̶c̶e̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶i̶n̶n̶i̶t̶.̶ ̶

But more seriously, while the language is the same, the intent and the phrasings are different between different cultures. And that is just the spoken word, the written word is another mess in and of itself that can cause hiccups with differing scripts and phonetics. And constructed languages too.

>>57933264
Fake news within fake news, aura can only send off willing ghosts who are so pathetic they need to feel an act of good will to move on.

>>57933590
>>57933264
Ghost pretend to be exorcised by aura to make humans feel better about their cultivation.

>>57933623
>The tree of life was never dying, it just wanted to see if it could trick another aurafag into killing himself
>Ash's aura spheres are all size no substance, Lucario is doing 99% of the work so Ash doesn't feel bad

>>57933634
Surprisingly on brand for ghosts/spirits of indeterminate power

>>57933322
In my Mystery Dungeon fic I've got too many characters from all over the place for and don't want to spend time sorting out languages so I just made everyone speak the same language. There are some regional expressions, though.

>>57933034 (OP)
After two months of getting the absolute shit kicked out of me by writer's block and my mental illness, Chapter 7 of In Mine Own is up! This one was an absolute bitch to get finished properly, and I drove myself crazy with rewrites, cuts, and additions. Lots of backstory and character building for multiple individuals in this one, plus more delving into the real mystery going on. The craziest part is that it's my longest chapter to date by a significant margin, and that's after I had to split it in half. The good news of that being the second half will be ready much more quickly than the first. (Pic mostly unrelated by I can't find many images that properly convey the Concierge vibe I want this new character to have.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59572648/chapters/172423135
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14397816/7/Pok%C3%A9mon-In-Mine-Own

>Kuzey and co. arrive at Geosenge Town in search of their missing friend, but things take a turn when they find themselves greeted with open arms by an executive from the corporation that runs this lovely tourist destination. Who is this strange older woman, and why does she have her eye on Kuzey?

>>57931659
Just wanted you to know that I've finally conquered the ADHD-demon that's been ravaging my brain with this chapters, so I can finally get back to reading your fic. I've enjoyed it so far, but I get stuck in a loop between reading and writing my own stuff when I get too stuck on a problem. I'll give you feedback as soon as I finish chapter 3.

A flock of angry Spearow is bearing down on you! How should you deal with them as a brand new trainer with a non-electric starter?

>>57933266
Anyone writing these kind of interludes, its important to not only have your typical react sections in it on events from prior chapters,
but to also include some tidbits that succeed in advancing the plot in some way.

>>57933266
>>57933853
Anyone writing these kinds of interludes, please do literally anything else

>>57933322
>protag learning a new language
Is unnecessary unless you wanna go 'muh ultra realism.
Its not quite as bad as say, an isekai'd mc being introduced in the womb / during birth / as a baby.
I instantly throw the fic into the trash for wasting my time, and you'd be shocked how often it happens with fanfiction in general.
All good coming of age stories across mediums tend to introduce the protagonist as a teenager, so we can jump right into the inciting incident, ect.
no one cares about a dozen + chapters about early childhood, only for the fic to go on hiatus.

>>57933863
I'm also not a fan of PHO style react chapters, merely suggesting how to make em not entirely circle jerk fest, but whatever.

>>57933539
Cant say i like most nippon Pokemon names over dub naming conventions.

>>57933266
>>57933853
>>57933863
I’m like 40 chapters away from having a news report section in a chapter and now I’m a bit apprehensive about including it. Protag won’t have access to the internet so there’ll be no message board BS.

Also I’m having the protag sing a song in the next chapter (and there’s nothing you can do to stop me).

>>57933945
a news report section would be fine, just make sure that you have YOUR CHARACTERS interacting with it instead of making the chapter be about how assblaster69 thinks the MC's team smokes ass and how L33TPikaPowah is doing math autism on the MC's dick size based on photos.

>>57933266
My fic doesn't have internet.
Internet is gay and boring and lame.
No cell phones either by the way.
Modern nu-Pokemon technology is super gay and lame.
Only schizo tech allowed.

>>57933232
Does wonder guard protect against digest

>>57933971
I hate self-masturbatory Isekai and I’m writing Isekai so… it definitely won’t be that, to put it lightly. The protag will get some recognition, but it will (hopefully) be well earned at that point. Plus the fame he gains ends up becoming a problem for him in the story.

>Remember when this the state-of-the-art technology back then?

>>57933874
>an isekai'd mc being introduced in the womb
That's one of my fetishes. Actually, gives me a hilarious idea.

>MC is isekai'd by Arceus to take care of some crisis
>Due to being bored/horny/lazy, Arceus spawns them in the womb
>Several chapters are just the MC waiting to be born as they try to make sense of what is going on outside
>Crisis gets solved by either the mother or someone random before the MC is even born
>Arceus either sends them back, or shrugs and leaves them waiting in the womb as the fic ends

Omnipotent Jackass is the best version of Arceus

>>57934309
Kek, I actually have one of my MC's sporting one of these bad boys because he's broke as shit and can't afford a Rotom Phone. This model exactly, even his 'Rotom Phones are Pokemon abuse' friend has a newer model.

>>57934348
>aura of the MC was enough to empower the mother from her womb to save the world
that gooner from the start of the thread might be on to something...

>>57933945
It's fine. I remember in the games you can end up doing field interviews with the reporter trainer class NPC's and later see a summary of that on another NPC's TV, thought that was pretty neat for the time.

>>57934354
How do you reason between Porygon being oddly nonexistent in tech and Rotom being everywhere? IRL it’s because gamefreak hates the line due to the electric soldier episode, but surely there’s a better explanation world-building wise.

>>57934992
Because Porygon-z was a failure technologically and everyone just gave up in them

>>57934992
Porygon is a highly advanced technological creation, and Rotom are a natural species. This makes Porygon more useful for highly specialized stuff.

But Rotom can be easily trained and mass produced to produce slop products. They don't even need to do the things that older devices can do. Investing in Porygon technology isn't cost effective for regular public use.

The Rotom's are happy to bide their time as they assimilate into every facet of technology as well.

>>57935001
Isn't the Dubious Disk a creation of Team Galactic?
It's not fair.

>>57934537
I choose you ogerpon

>>57935165
>>57935001
Porygon's evolutions were meant for space travel weren't they? At least it says so in dex entries.

>>57935447
I've been maladaptively daydreaming all day at work about gym leaders being experimented on with poke'fetus and how each type positively and negatively effects the mother.

>An electric specialist like Iono is invigorated by an electric type fetus, giving her extra energy and speeding up reaction times.
>A neutral specialist like Janine would occasionally have her whole body seize up with electric paralysis that passes shortly.
>A poorly suited specialist like Misty is constantly in a state of electrical shock, unable to move or even sleep without drugs.

>>57935447
Is this Baki?

>>57935541
you mean you've been masturbating to your goon fantasy. It's been like 3 days, calm down man

>>57933292
>Maybe a series of fics where each chapter focuses on a different girl
Hmm, I've done so with my Laboratory Atop the King's bed /d/ fic so maybe I should just do the same thing in the same style.

>>57935541
>poke'fetus
Were you inspired by my thing anon? Neat

>>57935567
it's his father

>>57935649
Oh, the loser that would lose to Furinji huh?

>>57934992
Team Rocket were discovered to have been involved in the production of most Porygon which completely destroyed the line's reputation both commercially and even as partner pokemon.

>>57935568
Nah different anon. Preg anon just activated my own autism that I try to keep under wraps.

Got unlucky at work and had to spend 8 hours in an empty white room. Torturing pregnant pokemon trainers was the only thing keeping me sane.

>>57935737
>Preg anon just activated my own autism
Happy to be of assistance kek

Nin nin

>>57936015
Ninjas? The COCKSLEEVES of psychics btw

>>57936035
Prove it by linking me to fics where Janine was the COCKSLEEVE of Sabrina.

Which Pokémon species could not just survive but thrive in a Nuclear Fallout environment?
Which Pokémon could reasonably tank a WW2 era nuclear warhead at point blank range?
Asking for a friend.

>>57936103
Most Rock and Steel types

>>57936103
grimer/muk
shuckle

>>57936103
Grass could adapt I guess, but yeah rock, steel, ghost, maybe dragons too and bugs since some are "expected" to survive a nuclear war according to some studies then poison

>Try to make menacing, threatening villain that gets close to killing my MC
>Ask friend if the menace came across
>"Bruh you wrote a rape scene."
Is allegorical SA too explicit for a T-rating on Ao3?

>>57936187
>went for menacing and ended up with rape
post it for the class

>>57936187
Did you though? Personally I consider that as the cheapest way to write drama, sometimes a character being overwhelming to the MC looks better like, I hate saying this, Aizen's reveal or Ulquiorra's resurrección

>>57936187
sexual assault is always shit in writing unless it’s smut

>>57936189
From >>57933728
“Shhhhh-shhh-shhh.” She soothed him quietly, her other hand patting his wild hair as he tried in vain to wrestle with the tentacles holding him still; that earned him a painful squeeze. “Don’t struggle, sweet boy. You’ll speed it up. We have all the time we need this time.”

What?! The creature imprisoning Kuzey lowered him onto the bed again, and he grimaced as he felt the hot wetness of his blood press against the back of his head. But that was the kindest of his ails now; Seringue lifted her leg and crawled onto the bed, straddling the boy as she loomed above him, staring down at him with lightless eyes.

“Ohhhh,” she moaned, almost pleasured as she stared at him. “I know it’s wrong… I know I’m disobeying orders…” She shimmied a little closer, legs tight on either side of Kuzey’s torso as she leaned down, trembling. The woman’s bun came undone, and her locks spilled down, forming a cage that shut Kuzey’s face in with her own; nowhere else to look but at her. Even as he struggled to focus with his vision blurring again and again, the all-consuming thought in the boy’s brain was confusion.

Hugo? Who on Earth was Hugo? And why did… why did he feel like he knew the name?

“They told me to observe you,” the shuddering woman whispered. “To gather information. To distract you while they prepared to evacuate. But I couldn’t help myself.” Her hands snaked in through the waterfall of locks shutting the world out, and cupped Kuzey’s cheeks. She drew a little closer. “The moment I saw you again, Hugo, I knew it was fate.”

What?

She took a slow, deliberate breath, letting it out her mouth again and delivering a sickly-sweet smell straight to the boy. It made him want to puke again. But… no. No it wasn’t coming from her. That sensation that had made him hurl had been there from the start. Where was it coming from?

“This time, I’ll do it right, poor thing. We’ll say our goodbyes properly.”

>>57936187
>>57936197
>>57936189
Going to need to see the scene to answer the age old question "Was it rape?"

>>57936197
I didn't intend it for easy drama or for trauma purposes, just as a way to demonstrate the mindset of the new antagonist being introduced, and her extremely warped perspective, where she sees attempting to kill the MC as an intimate, (non-sexually)loving act. The last villain I wrote was a lot more whimsical, so I wanted to contrast him with someone more terrifying than merely dangerous.

>>57936199
I'm generally inclined to degree because it's hard to write around in a setting that can't explicitly describe what it is.

>>57936212
>inclined to degree
agree*
Holy shit just shoot me now.

>>57936202
>tied up via tentacles
>"straddling the boy"
Its not rape cause its femdom based but still.

>>57933322
>How do you handle languages?
Everyone speaks the same language but accents exist.
Written language was different in the ancient past but spoken language was still the same.
>Why
I'm lazy, Pokemon have a universal language for each other, just extend that to Humans.

it's not rape

>>57936202
this isn't rape would be more awesomer if it was but I can see why it would be seen that way

>>57936202
>female agressor
Yep, not rape.

>>57936197
>Aizen's reveal
Nothing wrong with that, Kubo didn't completely shit the bed yet.

>>57936202
Have you tried jerking off before writing?
It seems fine, a bit closer to a higher rating but honestly it's fine. Closer to 1990s cartoons where you couldn't show someone die (for the most part) but people still had horrid shit happen to them.
SA and related is honestly up there with slavery and racism for how ham-fisted authors use it to explain how dastardly the villain is. Need to describe how bad a guy is? He loves fondling/diddling girls. Need to show how terrible a ruler is? Boom slavery. What about to show how terrible another character is? Easy, have them be comically racist.
End of the day I think the scene does what you want it to
as seen by other anons' posts SA or adjacent isn't really a factor if it's female driven. Femdomfags or just dudes who like smut for the most part make a vocal minority who will applaud the scene. Even normies are more forgiving of it, its dangerous and deviant sure, but not as threatening as a male aggressor. That's just how it is.

>>57936202
To answer your original question, out of context this didn't come off too menacing to me. It reminded me way too much of porn I've read. It may not have that effect on normal brains.

>>57936202
Oh, it's a woman abuses a male lmao

Unironically search for that Invincible comic scene or Nightwing, people will either ignore it, act like he wanted it too or tell you that women can't rape

>>57936473
>Have you tried jerking off before writing?
Smut isn't actively on my mind when I'm writing, but I do have some background in it so that may be a factor. I've been told before my horny leaks through in my writing, like the way I'll design certain characters highlights my tastes really strongly.

>>57936545
>It reminded me way too much of porn I've read. It may not have that effect on normal brains.
Hopefully that's not a too-common reaction. I used to publish those trash-ass romance novels you'd see at Target back in college so it kind of never left my writing habits.

Aura

>>57936813
Riddle me this aurafags, if you aura users are so benevolent then why aren't you aqll helping other people unlock their aura?
Even the Pyschic orders do their part to uplift humanity, and yet aura users... well, either they're too selfish to share, or they have nothing to share at all!

>>57936822
Aren't most of them dead tho? Like I think only Riley is alive in the games, then in MasterSex Cynthia says she took years to do some really basic shit
https://youtu.be/FnFjBTYNBuk?si=-FrcmGL-jVFcqX30

I'm trying to not get too grim and dark, but I do have a sad chapter my protag "let's it all out" so to speak and gets all angsty. It's pretty heavy-handed and I'm thinking it might be better to complete the much more light-hearted following chapter and post them back to back so it's not just dreary AF. Decent idea or retarded idea?

>>57933232
Nincada is a vulnerable Pokemon and to counter that its whole biology was focused on evolving into a fast Pokemon that could not be touched. To do this, it needed to bury itself underground so it could purely focus on saving all its energy for evolution. Nincada's focus on evolution was so great that the outer shell formed a will of its own to focus on protection and food gathering, while the inner will (Ninjask) focused on using the energy to feed it's inner body. When Nincada finally evolves, Ninjask leaves the outer shell behind. Both wills inherit the original Nincada's desire to be able to not be touched, and achieve it in different ways. Ninjask achieves it through speed, while Shedinja uses supernatural power and its complete focus on protection to make itself invulnerable to everything except elements that are effective enough to break through its supernatural shields.

Is terastallization legal in the major competitions?

>>57936863
Not in Galar, they've banned every gimmick but their own.
If you follow the logic that Tera orbs can only recharge in Paldea and Kitakami, then it might be illegal in some regions since the alternative would be enabling p2w and unhealthy one-sided business with Paldea.

>>57936863
It's generally assumed if you're competing in a serious competition, you can pull off your gimmick more than once. Since other regions than Paldea don't have Tera Orb chargers, unless they've bought them at a massive markup and imported the crystals needed, it's not usually expected to show up outside of one match. It's sort of the same reason you don't generally see Dynamax outside of Galar and maybe some islands in Yamato, mostly around the Kanto region.

After the events of S/V though, there are three Tera Orbs that don't need charging around, and the first time one of them is in an international competition will cause waves.

So, what Pokémon should really be under a license control? For me its psychic, dragon and poison.

>>57936863
>>57936876
>>57936888
>Mega Evolution
Can happen anywhere in the world, however, Keystones and Mega Stones are implied to be both very rare and prohibitively expensive. Despite this, however, they are by far and wide the easiest to gain access to.
>Z Moves
Requires a Z-Crystals, which can only be obtained by undergoing the Alolan Island Challenge, and to use Z-Crystals you need a Z-Ring which is also only obtained by undergoing the Island Challenge. On paper, much more numerous, however, being able to allowed
It's worldwide usage is dubious since, as far I know, only in the anime have they been shown to be used outside Alola.
>Dynamax
Requires Eternatus AIDS on the land yes or yes so it can technically happen anywhere, however, only Galar is irradiated so far.
Also requires a Wishing Star to be fashioned into a Dynamax Band. They appear to be relatively common and easy to obtain.
>Tera
Already explained by >>57936876 >>57936888
Only on meme turtle crystal irradiated places, Tera Orbs need recharging, you can just nab a few crystals to create an artificial zone instead of having to deal with a zombie skeleton space dragon to give your region aids to be able to do so.
Tera Orbs don't seem easy to acquire, however, seem to be under strict control of the school and Paldea League. Nemona only gave you one easy peasy because she abused her privileges.

Honestly? Better just git gud by improving your basics and mastering your fundamentals. Outside Megas, all the other are too gimmicky, situational and limited. And if you manage to get a Mega then all your basics and fundamentals will get a massive boost unlike all the other three which all vastly change how the Pokemon will handle themselves in battle.

>>57937038
Normal and Bug types, and any other low-class pokemon.
The poors disrupt the ecosystem by getting those low-class pokemon and releasing them into the wilds after realizing their mediocre pokedexless hands are incapable of getting past the first few gyms. The league needs to do something to stop them, so logically the only pokemon with strict license requirements would be the pokemon who are already plentifully disruptive to the environment.

>>57937038
None of them, it's the trainer and the pokemon that need to consent to it. A bureaucratic busybody is just the unwanted third party on the cuck chair. It just ruins the themes of the setting.

>>57937038
None. You can’t tell me a fucking Mabosstiff should be regulated because it’s Dark-type. The only time a second look should be involved is with extremely large and destructive things like Gyarados.

>>57937110
Would make sense if its like a formerly wild gyarados who had mauled people before or destroyed property, basically a safeguard to make sure some idiot doesn't get himself and others harmed.

>>57937038
Perhaps this idea could be used to explain why you can't catch Pokemon of levels too high in Galar. And maybe Pokeballs are high-tech now even though we clearly see that they can function on bare minimum 200 years ago tech levels because now they have to be digitally connected to a loicense or card.

>>57933232
god blessing

>>57937328
Me and my porygon setting up a shop to jailbreak pokeballs so they can catch higher level pokemon

>>57937334
I think you'll need Porygon-Z for that, or just do the anti-tech schizo thing and sell old school Pokeballs.

>>57933232
Which pokemon/evolution of a Pokemon would be best suited for the inverse? Something like Wonder Attack, where every move is supereffective except if the pokemon resists it, then it does no damage?

>>57937633
Would have to be a hyper specialized attacker. Something that doesn't get a lot of coverage or else it would be too broken since with even just 2 different types it could easily hit almost everything. Hell, even 1 type like Thunder or Dragon is going to hit literally almost everything.

I say give it to Meganium. Just because I like it. Make it's mega evolution a fuck huge flower cannon or something. It probably still wouldn't even be viable.

>>57937328
That's just Galar being a shitty region.

>>57937038
Any pokemon that can learn fucking earthquake

>>57937038
Tell me you're British without telling me you're British

>>57938267
Can an aura cultivator learn fucking earthquake?
The leafstone-like beauty I kidnapped from a rival gym is a freak and I need to figure out how to keep up with her.

>>57933271
>>57933273
>>57933277
Pregfag here, I will be touching myself to this tonight. Just wanted to let you know that.

>>57938340
>Kidnapping Erica
You fool, you have no idea the death you have courted. Earthquake will not save you. Take solace in knowing your seed may be planted in fertile soil as you die.

I'm in transitional period in my fic's story and I'm unsure how to continue. I guess it's more that I've thought about the events leading up to this moment, and the events that follow it, pretty in depth. But the actual event itself I haven't really thought about enough.

Pretty much, MC and crew are returning home for the first time since leaving to take care of some plot elements. But I haven't been able to decide exactly how events should play out. I'm worried that it will either be too much or too little drama while not actually being sure what will happen.

I guess it's the first time I've gotten to a part of the story where I haven't plotted out how things go. So obviously I should try and do that, but... Eh, I guess I'm just being lazy. or is this writer's block?

>>57938526
Have your characters been away for a while? Or at least long enough for there to be noticeable change? Transitional periods are good for showcasing character development that’s taken place or setting up for future development. Has some newcomer shown up and changed the town in some way?

Periods where you haven’t outlined things in a detailed way are great times to do some organic storytelling and characterization (I’ve found at least). Usually I’m juggling enough balls in the air as I’m going I can just throw one of these into a period like this and get back to the main story pretty quickly (but that’s just me).

>>57938526
Timeskip time

>>57938572
It's only been a few days, but a lot has happened in those days. Also, they are specifically returning home because one of the characters had run away and her sister followed them to drag her back. The problem really stems from the fact that I can't decide what their parents are like.

>>57938280
br*ts would license all pokemon

>>57938646
First and foremost, you gotta know what’s up with the parents, the real reasons the character ran away etc. Have you posted this yet? Cuz if not you get to use the almighty retcon and flesh out the situation. Whatever you’re trying to tell here, get the parents to fit that so when readers read it, it’ll seem like it always flowed the entire time.

If you’ve already posted, well, you gotta do a lot of cramming in of character stuff to make it not seem so forced/ham-fisted. I’m about to get to a part of my own work where I may run into this, but I already know the endpoint of where my characters are going to end up, so I just have to put one or a few on some steps closer to their respective endpoints. Obviously it’s easier said than done.

>>57938730
Well, at the risk of explaining too much and possibly spoiling stuff, their hometown suffered a tragedy recently and the girl ran away to be a pokemon trainer to give her something else to focus on. The MC begrudgingly allowed for her to come with him, and now they both have to deal with the fallout of that.

Honestly, now that I think about it, I think the problem is that this chapter has been very heavy on the social interaction. I had an endpoint for this chapter in mind, but the return home scenes would make that planned endpoint of the chapter not really fit. I think I just need to push back the planned endpoint to the next chapter and give these interactions the attention they deserve.

Well, this has helped me organize my thoughts. Thanks.

>>57938776
Glad to help, and best of luck in writing! I'm a sucker for a good homecoming scene

Finally getting to the big climactic fight of the first arc in the next chapter, and to start with there's gonna be a 6 vs ~12 battle that segues off into more focused matches between groups within the groups. Anybody with experience have advice on how to handle that kind of shakedown? My biggest concern is that it'll be hard to follow with rapid transitions between combatants.

>>57938828
I've done a couple "raid battles" with trainers so to speak, so it's not 1 to 1 experience, but it dealt with some of the problems you're mentioning. The best way it worked for me is just focusing on one character's perspective. When other fights move into the POV's perspective you can mention it, but it gets out of hand rather easily. Maybe the POV character looks into other fights during the transitional parts of their own fights, but it can get easily overwhelming for readers to keep track of things (and writers will drive themselves crazy choreographing every detail of each battle). During something so chaotic, I'm sure attack orders will get c

If you're doing multiple POVs, you can go full shonen and go through the fight with each POV. Is it a PMD story or a one trainer vs. two, or 6 trainers vs. 12?

>>57938857
I'm sure attack orders will get confused by the combatants*

Hipster-team anon back. Are there any fics that use the Impidimp line?

>>57938857
>Is it a PMD story or a one trainer vs. two, or 6 trainers vs. 12?
6 trainers vs 12, and the latter are a villainous team so standard rules aren't in play. It's still going to be 1 Pokemon per trainer, I've made it a point in my setting that it's considered a measure of advanced skill to control 2 or especially 3 Pokemon at once in a battle. I'm kind of wondering if it would be helpful for all the non-named grunts to use identical Pokemon for interchangeability, or if that'd wind up even more confusing to read.

>>57938877
An horde of wild impidimp, and at one point their final evolution, each make minor appearances during some fights in my story. But nothing major. Honestly, I feel like the fight with the final evolution was the weakest fight I've had in the story.

>>57938919
I wouldn't use identical, you can have some be similar or the same, but it's a bit immersion breaking for me at least. It also helps keep the action varied and engaging. The way someone defeated a set of grunt Pokemon won't be the same for the next one(s).

>>57938430
Happy to be of assistance

>>57938919
As somebody who has written a lot of 'big brawls' so to speak I would say it's important to not get weighed down by the details of the fighting. You can't treat it like a 1v1 where every action gets described one after another, a line of action from the start to the end of the battle. You can't do this when there are a lot of moving parts, you can't make each fight it's own through line.

Instead you gotta imagine the battle as one big line that flows through many fighters actions. Don't follow each participant closely, just show snippets of each participant as the battle flows. The first one to charge in lands the first blow, the opponents respond, the big guy makes a heavy swing, an enemy dodges and counter attacks, another character does something, then another. It will be a mess of characters acting and reacting, and you can't stop it from being a mess. So you have to pick and choose which parts of the mess are worth describing as the battle ebbs and flows. FIgure out some cool things you want each participant to do during the battle, who they will be attacking, the order in which mons will faint, and ultimately how the battle will resolve.

It's just a different mindset. Write a big brawl how you would a 1v1, but with each side getting one action each 'turn' if you really want a simple way to put it.

>>57938877
It's a villain coded Pokémon so it would be unusual for a hero to have it.

>>57938998
Hero? Not all MCs are heroes.

>>57938998
ever heard of subversions?

>>57938998
Perfect for my anti-hero...

>>57938998
That’s all I needed to know.

>>57938340
>kidnapped Venerable Elder Silph's favorite daughter
You will not be left an intact corpse...you would be wise to leave this realm at once.

>>57938941
>>57938960
Thanks for the advice, anons; I'll give it a go.

>>57938504
>>57939076
Worry not, fellow aurists.
A powerful fellow like me cannot be courted by Giratina! The spooky power of Ghosts is mine to command!
Nevertheless my eyes have seen Mt. Silver and I have taken many precautions

>>57939117
Are your eyes mystic silver and do you act like an asshole with Pokémon genes tho?

Do we have a proper timeline or an approximate one at least? Did the leaks have something about that?

>>57939320
According to the 2024 leaks:
>RBY/RSE happened at the same time
>GSC happened 3 years after RBY/RSE
>DP happened "a little later" than GSC
>BW happened 10 years after DP
Don't trust the bulbapedo timeline completely, there's an autist who's forcing his headcanon there even though source material conflicts with his headcanon.

>>57939347
>Don't trust the bulbapedo timeline completely
Which is? The one where BW happened at the same time as RGB AND RSE?

>>57939353
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/History_of_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world
It's fairly accurate for the most part so it's worth referencing.

>>57939347
>there's an autist who's forcing his headcanon there even though source material conflicts with his headcanon.
What headcanons in specific?

>>57939375
I'm not sure if there's an big picture headcanon they're trying to promote, but someone or a group of someones are stubbornly making edits to keep certain things at certain points in time even without citation and even when citations conflict with their views.
I'm guessing they watched a poketuber's crackpot lore video and still treat it as gospel.

>>57939439
Any examples of these things you've noticed and can bring up?

>>57939477
No because I made it up.

>>57939487
Understood, senator.

>>57939439
Wait, are you talking about SM/USUM being 20 years after RGB/FRLG and Red being 30? There used to be a lot of debate whether that was true or not, personally I took it as 10 years after Red's chapter

Why do people still give a shit about finding some grand timeline after ORAS multiverseslop? Any gen without fairy types cannot be possibly tied to any of the gens with fairies. Every game is probably it's own universe except for BW/BW2 and RGB/GSC which are explicitly stated to take place x amount of years after.

>>57939625
Because those people still think Gamefreak have thought things through and have a master design behind everything when really, as I've said many times in these threads, we've put more thought into it than Gamefreak have.
It reminds me of an interview a western translator had with an asian writer. They asked the asian writer about the scale of their worlds and timelines, and the asian writer responded with something like "We (asians) don't care about those details. It's cool so it's in the story and that's all that matters."

>>57939625
I just make my own

>>57939648
This, it's way more fun to jigsaw your own timeline your own timeline and sequence of events than autistically try and decipher an "official" one that was never meant to exist in any real capacity. It's even more fun if the games chronologically happen in a different order than by release date.

>>57939625
PokéSpe most likely, it's the only one with a "stable" timeline

Reading writers trying to storyboard previews or openings in text is cringe as fuck, but damn, I can't help but do the same thing in my head when listening to music.

>>57939670
no idea what this even means, those songs that children with autism add to their 1000 fics?

Figured I'd mention it in case they see it, but damn are the new chapters of "Pokemon Trainer Vicky" bad.

The whole alola thing is garbage. Kind of feels like the story is over and spent, with the last 10 chapters being "wow alola haha z move"

>>57939923
I lost interest around the time Sabrina was introduced, but isn't the entire fic like that? It's a power fantasy, the whole thing was "haha x amirite guyz?"

>>57939932
Yeah, but the main event sorta ended and just sputtered out. Too bad, it was fun, but it's over.
Kind of like I will touch the skies. Probably should have a formal ending and move on.

>>57939923
I dropped it around after she left Kitakami.
What even was the story?

>>57939012
Yeah? That's the point given what that anon wants with his lineup being odd picks.

>>57939923
QRD?

Idea: The Thing but with a Ditto

>>57940885
>Mew is considered the ancestor of all pokemon
>Mew is one of the only pokemon capable of using the move "Transform" other than Ditto
>Ditto are not manmade and are known to exist deep in ancient caves untouched by man
Who's to say Ditto haven't already The Thing'd their way to complete world domination?
Humans might even be the only non-The Things out there, kept as caged animals to amuse them.

>>57937038
Depending on what you do with pokedex entries then quite a lot of ghosts types are literally "and then it ate your soul" and some like Shedinja do it passively without it being an aggressive action.

It depends, I would imagine inside certain areas of cities pokemon of a big enough size are banned because they can very easily cause a lot of damage just by accident.
Both pokemon and humans are constantly looking for any excuse to battle, someone fucking around will very quickly find out. License laws fuck with this.
I think laws about releasing pokemon would exist, invasive species and all that. Pokemon conservation would be extremely big in the pokemon world.

Do humans really eat Pokémon?

>>57940885
Someone needs to check on the Lycanroc in the kennel

>>57940194
The story had a whole journey and the league event, but it sorta just sputter out after that. The climax didn't feel like a climax and now there's "I still have to face the league" but the chapters are just random nonsense now. I've seen other authors write chapters like these when they're cashing in or checking out, so I figured I'd mention it. Seeing a chapter come out only for it to be so shit compared to the rest of the story sucks.

IWTTS similarly had a complete story and is finished but kept going a bit. Basically both authors probably should have worked on a conclusive ending and moved on, now the corpses are being dragged forward for patreon bucks.

>>57941104
Are they trying to farm Patreon bux or are they just desperate for attention at this point?

>>57941111
nah, I'm just ranting a bit. The patreon thing could be it, but more likely they just don't know what to write so they write whatever instead of a consistent ordered story that works towards anything, like a saturday morning cartoon where you don't need to actually know the previous episodes to watch it.

>>57941084
why wouldn't they?

>>57941084
I mentioned ham in my most recent chapter but elected not to explicitly say it came from Lechonk. (It absolutely came from Lechonk.)

>>57941084
Magikarp are only a few magnitudes smarter than a goldfish. It's completely fine to fish and eat Magikarp without fear of it turning into a Gyrados.

In fact, I postulate that like locusts, certain conditions need to be met in order to change. Those stress and the isolation from a greater Magikarp school.

>>57941084
In my headcanon it's not fine to eat Magikarp because they probably taste like shit.
They are incredibly bony, with little meat and likely bottom feeders. Same as present day wild karp (no chance Magikarp are competing with grazers or carnivores) which means you'd have to do a lot of preparation for very little gain. This is probably another reason why they are so widespread, not even wild Pokémon want to eat them unless they are desperate because their NUTRITIONAL value is low.
Richfags probably keep them as vanity pets though. Only the upper 1% of Magikarp will exit the invasive brinepool that is their miserable species and evolve without the help of a Trainer.

>>57941585
Apparently in the distant past Magikarp used to be stronger. My wild theory is that mad Gyarados kept either abandoning their offspring or cannibalizing their own younger kind, maybe even their own offspring, so at some point a mutation that made them undesirable meals came about and proliferated.

>>57941084
Pokemon eat pokemon, why would humans not eat pokemon?

>>57941621
They haven't earned the right. Toads lusting after swan flesh.

>>57941626
The dead cannot speak of rights. My stomach is a poke'graveyard.

>>57941638
>tfw get alien-d by a ghastly spawning in your stomach when you eat too much
is this why fats don't exist in pokemon

>>57941756
>WOOWOO GHOST VORE!
>can you quiet down I died in there

How NUTRITIOUS is the average human being to a typical pokemon carnivore?

>>57941839
Not worth the energy it takes to metabolize them, but a human's almost complete lack of aura and complete lack of infinity energy means they're like a magical fiber that cleans the chakra pathways.

>>57941756
People turn into pokemon like kadabra. Too much type energy causes poisoning and sometimes transform into pokemon.
Aura cultivators can refine this energy to get stronger, mortal trainers can't compete.

>>57941839
Unless they have an aura core, nothing at all.

I guess Wednesdays just really fucking suck for the creative juices.

>>57942494
You mean cum?

Looking for a recommendations for fics starring normal ordinary adults with their mons just trying to get by. Not as idyllic slice of life or romance, but more like "a day in the life." Does that make sense?

>>57942537
Why would anyone write that?

>>57942537
>does anyone have a boring SoL story
why

>>57942746
>>57942753
nta but there are boring people out there who actually watch reality tv office/home shows.

>>57942746
>>57942753
Larryfags? That's his whole schtick iirc, le average wagie in an insane world

>>57942871
Larry is a pretty exceptional trainer despite the salaryman shtick.

>>57943091
I don't know, I take everything from Paldea as a joke

>>57942537
Maybe Eternally Vernal?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6400045/chapters/14653822
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12142949/1/Eternally-Vernal

>>57939923
This is off-topic, but i've read Ghost in the City; a Cyberpunk 2077 SI fic , also written by Seras.
I dropped it once it got to the point she decided to attention whore by using her cheat engine litpg system to become a rockergirl singer.

What took me out of the fic on many, many occasions, is the fact that the mary sue SI
becoming a master ..borderline grandmaster at various disciplines basically overnight, does not make any cast member wonder what the fuck is going on. Remember her original vessel was a wannabe poser, but now she can be the jack of all trades - but with NO downsides of real limitations.
I dont normally care much for 'muh realism.
though in this case, everyone is acting like mindless npc's.

>>57941124
>like a saturday morning cartoon where you don't need to actually know the previous episodes to watch it.
I actually don't think that's a bad thing, just that is difficult to do in a poke fic

>>57943825
If one of your friends IRL suddenly became a master at everything would you be a negative nancy and drill them about their newly gained skills, or would you simply enjoy their newly adquired knowledge?

>>57944152
>If one of your friends IRL suddenly got replaced with a skinwalker who was a master at everything
ftfy

>>57944164
They're still them, it's just their memories got mixed with someone else's...but deep down they're still them and they still care about you :(

>>57944164
This relies on several factors. That you're assuming your friend has been skinwalked, which isn't something any rational person would immediately assume when a friend starts acting weird. Second, your friend's life has vastly improved instead of being fucked over like most average impostor stories, which gives you less of a reason to actually be concerned about them.

Third, even if you somehow had an intuition that your friend has been replaced... What are you going to do about it? How would you confirm your suspicions? If you find out the truth what could you even do? Who would believe you, and what would your suddenly super human 'friend' do if they knew you found out? You've seen the psychos here.

It's either potentially devote everything you have to trying to thwart an eldritch being based entirely on a gut feeling, or assume your friend is one of those kids that suddenly goes on to become champion at the age of 10.

>>57942537
Yeah, that makes sense. Sadly basically all writers want to create jorney/battling slop with veeeery intresting ten page description of moves used on 12th second of match for Bumfuck-Nowhere badge instead of actual human-mon interactions. Or even worse - another saving the world/reagion/city generic fic. TO answer your question - only fic that cames to my mind - https://archiveofourown.org/works/54994720/chapters/139415305 about misdreavousSI and rangers everyday life.
>>57943388
>hunter larp in pokeworld

>>57944291
Okay what if it was your child that got skinwalked, what then

>>57944354
>>hunter larp in pokeworld
Doesn't spend enough time talking about rifle attachments, dissing particular ammo brands, or wearing camouflage in town.

>>57944370
What a fucking hail mary of a 'gotcha' question. I already said devoting your life to uncovering the truth is an option. Stop trying to win an arguement and actually have a discussion.

Better be 100% certain though or you may end up just alienating your child over insane paranoia.

Aura

Anyways speaking of possession, in Cyberpunk you can think "hey, someone's using her body thanks to some chip." Which was basically the plot of the game iirc or a form of "cyberpsychosis".

And in Pokémon you have ghosts that can take the soul out of the body and mind reading so unless they have some ridiculous deus ex where for some reason ghosts get scared of trying or turns psychic users crazy like that Silver SI the ruse would fall pretty damn quick

>>57944585
Psychics aren't shown doing much mind reading. They seem to be more precognition focused, at least by how Sabrina talks in the game.

>>57944596
>aren't shown doing much mind reading
In canon sure because that would creep out kids but they can, but then again doing that would be some kind of ESCALATION and this fandom really hates that, they're the only ones that want to break the rules in their stories while everyone else follows them

>>57943825
Whatever pays the fucking bills. Reminder that Seras makes 6 digits a year off of patreon. Nutrionman can only dream of reaching this level of success.

>>57944370
If someone remembered their past life at birth would it be considered "skinwalking"? Assume no soul is being usurped in this case.

>>57944606
Wow, that's a really interesting boogie man you inserted into the conversation.

>>57945095
Are you ESCALATING the situation with a passive-aggressive answer?

Reminder that Pokemon laugh at you if you don't have enough badges

>>57945212
Only traded mons.

>>57945134
Yes. The reply just went on a weird rant about something only tangentially related. I will take this all the way to Arceus himself if I have to.

>>57945095
The three fanfic boogeymen: ESCALATION, invincible Pidgey, and aura

>>57945079
There'd need to be some magical church-ordained proof they're remembering their past life and haven't instead been taken over by a middle aged japanese salaryman/gamer who died suddenly and unfairly.

>>57945212
how does a pokemon know what a badge is and why it's significant

>>57945370
Humans have no aura but badges do so when they see a human with little or no aura on them they know it's a pathetic weak human who hasn't even passed their race's coming of age ceremony yet.

>>57945370
They pay attention to the behaviors of humans.
They see how Gary has 10 badges and all the babes, while low/no badge scrubs play wingman at best.

>Uploaded a chapter draft that’s only a couple hours of revisions away from being post-able to Google docs last night
>9 year old PC won’t boot up as of today
Threadly reminder to back your shit up, fellow writefags.

>>57945390
What do you guys use, anyways? I don't really like Word and think Google Docs is better

>>57945415
I use plain text files.

>>57945415
For one of my stories I've just been writing directly into AO3 and posted the whole wip as I work on it.

>>57945415
I’ve been using this word processor called “abiword” for the life of the (likely dead) PC. It’s terrible but free, and I’ve written a lot of lewd stuff so I usually don’t upload to google docs until I’m ready to proofread and tweak (and then subsequently delete in case Google decides to do a lewd purge).

>>57945415
anyone complaining about losing writing should go back to the 90s

>>57945385
but gary had babes when he just started and had 0 badges...

>>57945469
they were whores

>>57945370
Its just game balance to prevent too much sugar daddy-ing with high level trades.
In a fic you could just have the Pokémon fight the trainer's team to gauge their level.

>>57945478
it makes so much sense now

>>57936015
>NEVER appeared in the anime
>is a nothingburger in the manga if memory serves
Being a Janinefag is suffering.

>>57945562
They need to double, no TRILPE her pay

>>57945294
>invincible Pidgey
?

>>57945704
Forced meme peddled by ONE (1) anon

>>57945704
Some threads ago we got some realismfag seething about Pokéhuman being thought as stronger than real life humans, being proved by game canon that they aren't as frail as us but he started saying how that was just anime nonsense when it was fucking game lore and things continued to spiral from there.

So following realismfags logic, pic related is what happens when two flying types pass by near humans.

Or in other words, just autists mocking other autists

>>57945790
This is why the League regulates flying through licenses.

>>57945790
>IM SORRY PIDGEY-SAMA PLEASE DON'T USE GUST ATTACK

>>57945704
Pretty much >>57945790
Aurafag and realismfag got assblasted at each other and aurafag created the invincible Pidgey to mock the realismfag

>>57945749
>>57945790
Ah, thanks. Wish I could have seen that desu, that amount of seething over dumb shit can be pretty funny.

>>57945816
>desu
Ah, forgot it did that.

>>57945813
I only skimmed through the shitflinging, but I interpreted the pidgey bit as mocking both.
>Aurafags think aura needs to be cultivated and can ascend humans to legendary heights, meaning that baseline humans are weak as piss due to no aura and can be eviscerated by a regular pidgey, especially if the baseline human is an isekai-ee who has no innate aura
>Realismfags think humans are as weak as us, meaning just existing on the same planet as a magcargo would immediately see them boiled alive

If you do isekai into someone else's body killing their family and friends by arranging "accidents" is the most logical course of action to follow. This not only frees you from any responsibility to them and eliminates the risk of being found out, but also gives you a sob story for the masses (free popularity boost) and license to act like a based brooding badass.

>>57945861
imo people reach for extremes too much, I don’t think it’s difficult to create humans similar to us while also giving special ones aura faggotry or whatever, but for some reason autists here don’t like to think about anything beyond surface level shit

>>57945890
This is the same place that starts frothing at the mouth when criminals act like criminals because muh escalation and "grunts don't know their leaders plan to kill everyone" so they must be honorable trainers following the league's rules instead of, well, criminals wanting to earn some quick cash

>>57945887
Obviously. By taking over someone's body you have effectively killed them, and by killing them you have killed someone's child, someone's brother, someone's friend, someone's business partner, and so on.
To avoid a calamity of revenge, the only option is to sever the karma and kill everyone who had close ties with the one you killed.

>>57945920
no no, you simply remember your past life memories. Now all those who bullied you will once again fear the name of the heavenly demonic trainer

>>57945887
You WILL have the other person forever living in your head as an ever-present voice that will either act as your consciousness or tempt you to do evil, btw.

>>57945800
>HMs are just licenses.

>>57945887
Good thing my self-insert/isekai protag will simply be reborn and regain her memories as she grows older! No need worry about this!

What's an autistic hang-up you have?
I feel bad for canonincal Ashmons when reading Ashfics because they tend to not be caught as they are canonically and get replaced by new team members.
I always end up feeling bad thinking about what their life is like. And I'm not talking just about those Ashfics where he ends up catching a gorillion mons but the fics where he's got a sensible and proper team. It just feels "off" somehow. It doesn't help also that the authors also have super shit taste and give him ugly boring shitmons instead.
Like, just now, Spearow? Fair, that works. But why a Rattata? You already have the OG rat. Why a Horsea? Fishmons are avoided like a plague for a reason.

>>57946157
How does Pikachu usually get utilized in fics where Ash becomes an aurafag? Does he get sidelined for a Lucario, or do writers usually also give him a powerset?

>>57946166
Varies, really.
The rat gets dropped quite frequently too.

>>57946157
I suppose that's because Ash's teams were always formed by the most popular/easy marketing cutemons instead of memeta teams and they want something normal/edgy/badass/whatever.

>>57946166
I'm curious about this too, I don't read Ash stuff but the few a skimmed through always had a Lucario with a nerfed Pikachu because a wound or something.

>>57946206
Ash actually has caught a lot of shitmons and uglymons. Like, look a the Hoenn team. Or the Unova team.
Shitneys is the only time they went full on shillmon with not a single odd or unsafe pick whatsoever except MAYBE Sirfetch.

>>57946191
Ash without Pikachu just feels wrong, it's unthinkable to me

>>57946262
The usual way I've seen to make Pikachu fuck off is for him to BETRAY Ash either when he's given to Ash by Oak, by electrocuting him seriously and causing real damage, or during the Spearow stuff by him bailing on Ash.

>>57946262
Pikachu is probably the best way to get some type-energy auraslop now that I think about it in Ashfics, Killua created his godspeed by electric torture iirc

>>57946166
Traveler turned Pikachu into a glass cannon, but that’s not an aura fic.

>>57946533
But Pikachu is a glass canon as far as I remember

>>57946542
He's actually a mouse.

>>57946542
He’s actually a plotarmormobile.

>>57946542
Why doesn't Ash make him hold an eviolite? Is he stupid?

>>57946569
Doesn't he hold a light ball?

>>57946569
>Is Ash stupid?
If you have to ask this question you're probably a bit special yourself.

>>57946569
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course he is stupid, but that aside G-Max Pikachu can't evolve either way I think

>>57946569
>>57946582
And I'm just as stupid, it seems...
But the anime doesn't have Pokémon hold item i'm battle, right? Even the use of potions mid-battles is almost non-existent there

>>57945415
I like the way Scrivener lets you divide scenes into separate mini-documents. I also actually use the synopsis and notes features. It's probably overkill for someone who doesn't plan as much, though.

>>57946586
Held items virtually don't exist in the anime unless it's part of a pokemon's gag, like the rowlet with the everstorne and the focus band. Yes, apparently Ash was allowed to use two held items at once.

>>57946590
>, like the rowlet with the everstorne and the focus band
What?

>>57946593
It keeps an everstone in its stomach to use as a weapon or shield sometimes and it wears an outfit made out of focus bands that allows it survive attacks that would otherwise defeat it.

>>57946599
>and it wears an outfit made out of focus bands that allows it survive attacks that would otherwise defeat it.
That actually gave me an idea for special trainers clothes and why they can survive so much bullshit beyond muh aura, nice.

>>57946611
>aura is bullshit
>gives pokemon trainers magic armor
*siiiiiiiiiiip*

>>57946724
Magical materials > aura
Material grinding makes sense, aura doesn't, cope and seethe in your gravity training dome

>>57946542
Fucking wish.
The meme rat takes punishments like no other while 2/3 shooting all its opponents.
I still cringe when I remember how it tanked a gorillion meteor mashes from Steven and yet Mega Metagross went down to like 1/4 of the z-move and a miserable iron tail.
Meanwhile you turn around and Bea's grapploct somehow two shots the rat while the rat is also too fucking retarded to just thunderbolt while "trapped" by its tentacles.
Could be misremembering but that's literally the one and only time the rat got defeated in shitneys besides Cynthia.
Leon Charizard got two-shot too by the way.
God, shitneys was such slop. I really ended up hating the meme rat because of how much plot armor it's got. Strongest trainer owned Pokemon in the world my ass. There's a reason why they didn't have it fight Garchomp, even for the bullshit it is they knew that'd be pushing the envelope and they still had it had one-shot Gastrodon with a fucking quick attack.

>>57946724
>magic armor
Bro, what's wrong with using bug/grass type materials to make clothes, or dragon scales for armor? It can be excused in-universe and something everyone can wear (as long as they have money I guess)

>>57946765
>one-shot Gastrodon with a fucking quick attack
Imagine reading something like that in a fic. I genuinely can't, not unless it's some metagaming gravitytraining aurafagging mewtwogenesing powerfantasy

>>57945920
>>57945945
A useless salaryman whose only worthwhile quality was his encyclopedic understanding of every competitive Pokemon meta, who was struck by a careless truck while crossing the road, and awoke in the Pokemon world as a 10 year old boy starting his adventure.

A creepy, perverted otaku girl who drew extremely graphic Pokephilia doujins, who died of a heart attack after consuming her fifth bowl of fancy ramen in a single day to celebrate her 10,000th copy sold of her PikaCreampie doujin, reborn as a hyperintelligent futa Gardevoir.

A would-be champion boxer who gave everything he had through hard work and grit, only to be effortlessly defeated in his first primetime bout against a natural-born prodigy, and died in the ring cursing that he was not born with that same talent, reborn in the Pokemon world as an infant Maylene, who discovered as she grew that she possessed an unnatural skill in developing her control over Aura.

These three blessed, cursed individuals who should never have met, one day cross paths at Blackberry Academy, a school for only the most specially gifted among all those in the Pokemon World. And when they do, their lives and the lives of all they meet shall forever be altered. Or perhaps... Cultivated.

>>57946790
See, that's funny, because on a fic like that? It would actually be justified because 3/4 of the fic would be spent on explaining on extensive detail how why when and more of how Caterpie-sama cultivated so much that it can oneshot a +6 def Bastiodon with just Tackle.
Even such sloppy power fantasies have BETTER writing than Shitneys.

What's wrong with gravity chamber training?

>>57943388
I can kinda dig it. I don't like the Speech TM existence in the Love Lost universe nor the pokefucking on and off camera, but I do like that it's a self contained story about a dude getting into a strange situation. It's not saving the world, but the stakes are high for this one dude and his new Sawbuck.
>>57944354
This is alright and I like the different perspectives, but I read the first chapter and skipped ahead to another. Jumping Jehoshaphat, I like Misdreavous but MAN, why does it have to be Isekai?
Thank you both for the recommendations. Their presentation of the setting is charming.

>>57946866
>I trained in higher gravity therefor my fire breath and sense of smelling are both stronger

Fuck gravity training, use weights like a normal person. Gravity will fuck your innards because you can't make them tough

>>57946871
Ok, i can understand that.

>>57946866
Honestly? It would be short burst of power because your body would adapt, again, to the normal gravity and all your gains would vanish unless you're 24/7 on, I don't know, 10x gravity.

>>57933232
Does wonder guard protect against digestive acid? Did Cynthia ever really stand a chance against Seviper's?

>>57946890
>JOBBER Fraudlee "muh Naruto was akchually about le hard work"-tard
Opinion discarded.
>>57946907
Gains don't magically disappear instantly, bro. You think all weight lifters become twinks the second they step out of the gym or something?

Any community that wants a chance to prosper will need to kick out kikes like shaunberg. That includes universities, supermarkets, imageboards, and airlines.
Remember that shaunberg, the kike from tel-aviv, tried to pretend he had an """iphone""" at first, then a substandard (((prebuilt))) """desktop""", then a Samsung, and now some IBM (compatible) shitbox. Like all his kind, he'll never be able to get his story straight. After all, he tried lying about being from (((Stern))) despite his IQ and SAT score being far too low for anything above a shithole like CAS. The fable his fellow shartyniggers try to spread about him being an American, therefore, is an outright fabrication from some yidsraeli who can barely speak English. He even has to wait until this hour to use some shitbox without permission, after supposedly """buying""" (stealing) some useless machine to post from. One can't help but notice how it's always the kike shills and their hired shitskins who support him, or his filthy jew family that buys shitphones for him and lets him reset their routers, or his fellow jews who let him beg them for freebies.
He'll never be able to deny this because shaunberg, as a yid, has no spelling errors when typing in his native language, yiddish. Meanwhile, whenever he tries to type in English, so many typos abound. This alone is enough to out shaunstein as a filthy jew, who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM. As a member of a (((tribe))) with a professional victim complex, shaunberg's only available instinct when punched by a single pajeet was to curl up and beg for mercy, then play the victim later, rather than fight back like a real man would.

>>57946890
actually I think it's the opposite, like a human can potentially live under higher G, but using weights puts stress on specific joints and fucks them up.

For anyone interested in gravity training

https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_462.html

>If the place you live has stronger gravity, then you need more muscle mass to withstand it. I think beings raised in a high-gravity environment would naturally evolve to become stronger than those raised in a low-gravity one.

>Strictly speaking, you would say that, due to the increased gravity, the neural network in their cerebellums was being optimized more efficiently, since it's the cerebellum that handles the acquisition of motor skills.

>When you're first exposed to higher gravity, the sensors in your inner ear (semicircular canals) begin outputting at a greater rate than usual, and that signal strongly stimulates your cerebellum.

>It's believed that, if you then perform training under those conditions, the increase in the rate of synaptic transmission (cell-to-cell communication mediated by synapses) that's generated in order to minimize movement errors (the difference between the movement you intend and the movement you physically perform) is greater than under normal conditions, which in turn speeds up motor skill acquisition. This is the mechanism that operates in the brain under hyper-gravity conditions which increases your physical abilities. It's also our best explanation of Dragon Ball's gravity training with our current understanding of neuroscience

>>57947356
>GODriyama was scientifically accurate all along
Gravity Training? Meditation? My FUARKING HEROES do it.
And my Pokemon? Will imitate OUR HEROES!!!
Their Aura? Strong like that of a SUPER SAIYAN!!!!!!

>>57933978
>>57934309
>>57934354

BASED.

My trainer OC has to carry a 1999 paperback Pokedex he bought from a used bookstore because he's one of the 99% of Pokemon trainers who:

A. Isn't rich enough to buy a proper "starter" Pokemon from a professional breeder and buy an electronic Pokedex.
B. Didn't study hard enough to be in the top percentile of testers in his Pokemon Trainer's License Exam that would gift him an electronic Pokedex and proper starter.
C. Doesn't have the privilege of being the LITERAL NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR of a Pokemon professor.

His starter Pokemon is a Nidoran M.

>>57947591
>3 stage evo pokemon with a strong final evo
>"not a proper starter"
Dumb meme. Rejects get ratattas and caterpies, not nidorans and dratinis.

>>57947722
Nidoking is cool but putting him on the level of psuedo legendaries is silly.

>>57947767
but psuedo legendaries aren't proper starters

>>57947789
You're using a fallacy right now and I don't respect you enough to look up which one it is.

>>57947793
>tfw I failed my kanto trainer exam and got a lame torchic instead of a proper kanto starter like charmander

>>57947767
Arcanine also evolves by stone and its the Legendary pokemon so therefore all pokemon that evolve via stone are legendary thoever

>>57947356
>>57947395
Pokemon with Levitate are the strongest because their aura allows them to ignore the will of the heavens and abandon gravity btw

So I've been watching donghuan or whatever chinese anime is called and damn, now I get why you faggots want aura to be cultivation.

It makes shounen slop look tame in power scale and asspulls

>>57947356
High Gravity lifeforms are more likely to become robust manlets to withstand the pressure while if we sent humans to a lower gravity world like Mars they'd become brittle lanklets.

>giant trend of fics pops up based on a good idea and people shamelessly copying each other
>none of the fucking fics put out more than 5 chapters
god i'm so tired of idea guys

>>57948244
>Overcome writer's block and refuse to be another idea guy with a dead fic
>Write longest, densest chapter to date that starts paying off the first arc's setup
>0 comments, 0 reviews
AS LONG AS BREATH COMES FROM MY MOUTH
I MAY YET STAND THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE

>>57948244
>>57948266
consistent slop will always do better than inconsistent kino
you can get away with delays as long as you announce then, but more and more people aren't even bothering to read fics if they see your story pop up under recent updates but that your chapters are all anywhere between 8 months to 4 years apart.

>>57948297
This last one was 2 months so it was pretty egregious, real life responsibilities and unhappiness with the initial draft kept me stuck in place for ages. I wish I knew how to shift into gear and just consistently crank words out like some people can.

Kek, Paldea is such a fucking joke of a region

>>57947591
>Pokemon Trainer's License Exam

>>57948350
But is it worse than Galar?

>>57948437
Yes

>>57947591
>Didn't study hard enough to be in the top percentile of testers in his Pokemon Trainer's License Exam that would gift him an electronic Pokedex and proper starter.
When did this start being a thing in fanfics anyways? Was it thanks to the manga or something? In the anime everyone gets a pokédex when they start unless they're bad guys and even then that changed in Journeys and in the games the professor gives you one after feeling your otherworldly aura compared to the 99.99% of the jobbers in the region (meaning every other living trainer)

>>57948182
>It makes shounen slop look tame in power scale and asspulls
And, depending on the story, the scientific and philosophical linings are typically much greater. In shonen it's almost always the power of friendship and determination can overcome all odds, but in cultivation we also get philosophy and (pseudo-)science and more.
Which is exactly the kind of stuff a lot of fics try to touch on but only really dip their toes in. Only Nutritionman dared to truly enlighten himself on the concept of Fire by first allowing himself to get nuked to understand the destruction aspect and then allowing himself to have sexual thoughts for a fire fox to understand the comforting and lifebringing aspect of Fire's warmth. All other isekaijin though? Bah. Cowards who gravity train to get enhanced fire breath. Such shortcuts to power are insufficient, those who do not court death will never bed almighty Giratina.

>>57948266
>read comments like this
>actually check it out
>its written like an ESL in 5th grade

Trying to write fanfics has actually made me hate most of the games’ plots. None of them make any fucking sense unless you take massive liberties

>>57949011
It's okay because the plot isn't the point of the games. Nor is the gameplay. Or the graphics. Or the music. Or the charm.

>>57949011
Continue anon, you accidently hit post before you could explain what the fuck you mean

>>57948895
Then give me a review and tell me what I can improve on.

>>57949021
>Groudon is in volcano
>Kyogre is in the sea
>they both teleport to Sootopolis to fight
You need to have Groudon walk through miles and miles of wilderness and possibly cities, and given its size it comes across as tedious. Kyogre is just right there and can just crash into the city. I’m having trouble reconciling this, or having it make sense. The games have them teleport to each other to avoid this, and I’ve seen stories massively scale up their sizes to compensate but I don’t really want to write a purely apocalyptic scenario.

>>57949138
It only takes a few minutes to jog & surf from one end of Hoenn to the other bro

>>57949138
Also applies to Gen 4. The pixies all have debilitating powers that can stop any offending human presence, but they don’t actually utilize it. In TTS, the excuse is “we’re not supposed to meddle in humans affairs” or something so they get fucked in the rear.

>>57949138
Couldn't Groudon just, you know, swim under the crust and in the mantle. It sorta has the body plan of something that can push through dense liquid rock.
Kyogre feels more like the unrealistic because Sootopolis is a caldera but then again, it probably just blasted its way in if there wasn't already an entrance.

>>57949026
Post link then pls

>>57949138
Wait, you use the "canon" sizes? Lmao

>>57949234
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59572648/chapters/151934926
Thankies

>Gold and Silver got an Arceus boost too
What the hell? How can auraslop compete with the capital G giving his blessing?

>>57949233
…huh. That’s not a bad idea. Digging deep underground to avoid pests and quickly get to wherever it needs to be.

>>57949322
It can't. Aurasloppers are like wagies who think working hard will make them CEO one day.
Reminder that the strongest human in the entire pokemon canon who shook heaven and earth with his own hands was an Infinity Energy chad, not a hippy aurafag.

>>57949392
He did it with technology, pussy couldn't even cultivate the aura gathering stage and had to depend on a curse to stay alive with a cripple body

>>57949011
And what's wrong with being nonsensical? That's a big part of the Pokemon world, that it works very different than ours. I like when crazy shit happens but no one's bats an eye about it.

>>57949482
A-are you implying their world isn't REALISTIC?

>>57949466
Why gather something as weak as aura when you can harness the raw infinity energy of pokemon? And calling immortality a curse, that says it all about how weak aurasloppers are.

>>57949138
Just make Groudon the size of Godzilla so it arrives in ten steps, it's not that hard

>>57949491
>you can harness the raw infinity energy of pokemon
But he didn't, his weapon did and what good is immortality when your body still ages, imagine being a 3000 year immortal that needs a fucking cane because he can't walk

Page 10 and woops messed up making a new thread
>>57949500
>>57949500

>>57949499
Harnessing power and immortality through arrays is still harnessing power. Even better, the power and immortality is now fully his, unlike a certain auraslopper who needed to wear enchanted gloves just to have the privilege of dying to heal another.
>cane
Crouching tigers and hidden dragons. AZ has learned to play the pig to lower the tiger's guard after an entire criminal organization united to capture him.

>>57949482
The only time a nonsensical fic works is if it’s meant to be humorous.