Thread 58065725

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:
What is your regions stance on the use of unknown Pokemon?

>Previous thread:
>>58043036

>>58065725 (OP)
>What is your regions stance on the use of unknown Pokemon?
If it's coming out of a Pokéball then it is, legally, a Pokémon.

>>58065725 (OP)
Obligatory "Psychicfags STAY winning." And unknown Pokemon meaning ones from other regions that aren't found in that particular region? That'd be fine (although with strict regulations on releasing the Pokemon into the wild because of ecosystem balance).

I had a commenter mention he wanted a harem to form around my MC and had to tell him that wasn't happening. But my last project was that on steroids so I think he'll be happy with that

>>58065725 (OP)
Back in 2020 (during the covid days) i drew (very poorly) on MSpaint, how it was to re-play pokemon gold 20 years after it's release. It was fun but i didn't finish it for whatever reason

Anything psychic powers can do so can aura btw, even telekinesis

>>58065742
Should've been a little clearer but I was thinking more along the lines of lab created pokemon or hybrids. Should a team of scientists be allowed to enter a poke equivalent to a Boston Dynamics dog robot with a gun into an official tournament? I suppose >>58065735 is as good as an answer as any. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage_Pok%C3%A9mon
>>58065762
Post a few pages.

>>58065725 (OP)
Can I get away with including Clawitzermann?

>>58065828
>Should a team of scientists be allowed to enter a poke equivalent to a Boston Dynamics dog robot with a gun into an official tournament?
Maybe not them but I don't see a problem with them sending a representative to prove that said Pokémon is safe to use for anyone

>>58065725 (OP)
I want to see more "move creator" autism. The more detailed the better.

>>58065873
My MC's ace doesn't have a canon super-form or major upgrade, so I've been thinking of having them develop a signature move inspired by Mazinkaiser

>>58065817
Ash is merely a Psychicfag with immense latent potential but an IQ too low to properly harness it, as are all aurafags.

To the guy who wrote in mine own, you did great with the battle. :)

>>58065828
>Post a few pages.
i wll when i get back home (i'm currently posting while at my job instead of working)

>>58065817
Fool, Riolu simply punched the inside of the ball so hard it flew out of Ash's pocket.

>how can he punch when his body is currently energ-
Aura, you nonce strawman!

>>58065828
Sure why not. My mind went to a gimmicky tournament/tv show in the style of robot wars where you got teams of scientists and engineers making their DIY Pokémon to compete against eachother. I think a seperate circuit dedicated to this could do numbers on its own while pissing off purists.

>>58065725 (OP)
Most pokemon are unknown by everyone besides the few who dedicate their life to studying or training them. An unknown pokemon is like any animal someone may not have seen before. People will just go 'oh, neat' usually.

>>58065828
Considering this is literally what happens if you use Porygon, Silvally, or any of the Galar fossils in the games. And I'm pretty sure Gladion uses Silvally in post game matches. And Ash dide use a Dracovish in the world tournament. I don't see it as anything that needs to be addressed unless it impacts your fic in some way. Funny enough in my fic I actually had a throwaway line about controversy surrounding the use of Dracovish in the Masters 8. Not because it was an artificial pokemon, but because some considered its existence to be animal abuse.

>>58065873
I actually had the first conflict in one of my fics be somebody using Dream Eater on a massive scale to draw power from the collective unconscious. Wrote a whole in universe document describing the theoretical applications of the move and put it in the notes after the story. Was pretty proud of it.

>>58065742
Aurafags will continue to dominate, where's your fanfics psychicfag?

>>58066312
Don’t act like either of you write

>According to Lucario's Pokédex entry in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, aura was named by Professor Laventon.
>Legends: Arceus
>A most gallant-looking creature. It emits energy waves and controls them with precision, using them to sense even faraway beings. I have given the name “aura” to this power.
>The Pokédex entries in Pokémon Legends: Arceus are written by Laventon. Incidentally, he coined the term "scalchop" for Oshawott's signature seashell and the term "aura" for Lucario's signature energy wave control power. Laventon also observed that Unown resemble human writing from other lands, though no one takes him seriously

Aurafags come to daddy, your proud lost art? Is just a random name given by Laventon.

Aurafags are just psychicfags from a different branch

>>58065828
>>58065762
>>58065993
Well here it is, episode 1. Like i said, i replayed pokemon gold in 2020 and for the luls. I only made 3 "comics" of my time playing the game. All the events depicted are real.

>>58066380
Episode 2! I started experimenting a bit more with paint during this one. The Bugsy battle is very simple, mostly because with Cindaquil and Geodude he couldn't do much at all

>>58066380
S0VL

>Breeding is a thing
>IVs are a thing
So what happens when a Pokemon inherits all the recessive genes?

>>58066385
And the final episode, personally, i think this is the best one. I wanted to do more but i think i was in my last year of college in 2020 so i had to put all my effort in graduating. I have like 4 panels of episode 4 but that was as far as i got with it. I did complete the game and it was really fun, sometimes i really hate that i didn't finish the "comic" because there were some really cool moments and ideas. In that playthrough i didn't evolve any of my mons (besides abra) so it was a good challenge to beat the game with just first stage mons

>>58066395
Based Lopo saving the day

>>58066394
They lose their magical powers and become a mundane weak and less intelligent creature, like a fish, a cow, or a human.

>>58066409
Or a Snake?

>>58066406
yeah, Lopo was a real bro and because of that performance he continued with the team for the rest of the game

>>58066413
Yeah. But I get the feeling God would arrange things such that people believe the snake has dominant genes and, through many twists of fate, somehow ends up beating the strongest pokemon in the world.

>>58066394
they become poke-chow for the worthy mons

>>58066394
They go insane and take over a group of disenfranchised paramilitary Pokemon, stake out on some island in the middle of the ocean, and try to start a nuclear war.

Post the line/paragraph/segment from any fanfic that sticks with you or you think about often. Could be dialogue you thought was funny or good, well written description of environment or atmosphere, anything. Avoid spoilers if possible.

>>58066331
Laventon is one of if not the most impressive pokemon researchers in history. Professor Oak never had to deal with a time travelling kid from the future, sent into the past by a legendary pokemon, who he needed help from to deal with pokemon driven mad by-

Okay, you know what, bad example.

>>58066331
Aura has been practiced for eons but civilization keeps resetting because of legendary end of world scenarios and people forget the name but keep the techniques. Some places preserve techniques better than others, mostly dragonfags.

>>58066394
>Is a Breeder
>Runs a artificial platform out in the middle of the ocean that is dedicated to producing strong children 'trainers'
5 bucks says this guy is creating his own Les Eggfants Terribles project.

>>58066643
>>58066833
These line up surprisingly well....

>>58066395
what the fuck I love Lopo now.

>>58066833
Our hero Kieran? Unknowingly bred with DOZENS of fertile women after taking "trainer-boosting" pills from Cyrano and going undergoing suggestible sexual trances, btw.

>>58066719
I haven't read enough fanfiction to have any. The one line that did come to mind is not from a fanfiction but from a vore fetish short story and its really depressing.

>>58066859
Why is that dude choking that chick?

>>58066719
Link to whole interaction, couple paragraphs, from Game of Champions, chapter 6: https://rentry.co/ebe4bc26

>"An eevee? Nice starter. I'm sure it'll be a hit at the beauty contest when you quit training." A snide voice cut into my thoughts. I glanced to my right. The trainer was about my age, weedy, with an expression that told me it wasn't a compliment. By his side, a bayleef nosed the carpet, looking for grass. A bayleef - no wonder I felt so fucking irritated.

>Keeping a picture perfect smile on my face, I responded, "Oh my gosh, I didn't know they offered scholarships to special needs trainers too! Did you ride here on the short ponyta?"

>He ignored my jab, and jerked his chin at my eevee. "They may be good for quick elemental harrying in their evolutions, but they fall off in high competition where you're forced to stand and trade." He smiled nastily. "I guess the Oak name isn't all it's hyped up to be if they're dumb enough to try bringing lab pokemon into the arena."

>I held the smile as I ticked off several boxes in my head. Insulting my family, skills, talking like he knew better than me, and expecting me to fall for his pathetic attempts at baiting, check. Even with a noseful of bayleef musk jazzing me up I could see his ploy coming from a mile away.

>I was surprised to find myself pissed by his jab at my pokemon. Even if I was somewhat unenthused by her myself, you didn't insult a man's starter - it just wasn't done. I wasn't about to let anyone but me talk smack about my furry little disappointment.

>"Alright, you shit excuse for a mareep-fucking hedge trainer, you want to talk strategy?" I replied pleasantly, in an even tone completely unsuited for the bombs I was dropping. "You've been feeding that bayleaf expensive product to accelerate its growth. Maybe not candy - you might not be that stupid - but high class fertilizer, Celadon Gym stuff. You probably saw that Johto Finalist—CONT.

Fucking love Game of Champions Blue.

>aura
I think Hard Enough is the only story with an aura power system that makes a bit of sense since going by cultivation things would get messy

Is there an optimized time to post a one-shot or am I overthinking this and nobody’s gonna read it anyway?
>>58066861
C’mon now we all want to know

>>58066941
I stopped reading Hard Enough a long while back but doesn't it not actually use Aura? Brock uses Rock type and Dark type powers, not something fancy like aura.

>>58067058
No, no, no iirc aura gives them type energy just like how chakra lets you use nature elements after you master the basic stuff

>>58066951
>C’mon now we all want to know
"No! I'm going to have a family!
Fucked me up for life. Just went back to the story to make sure I had the quote right and I found that I'm the only person who ever left a comment 9 years ago.

Random idea for a fic that I'm tempted to write, but cutting myself off from doing because I don't wanna distract from the stories I'm already writing. Never really played Mystery Dungeon, the setting itself doesn't interest me much because it just seems like pokemon having a cute little world. But Cursed Creation got me thinking about politics and my own autism started to flare up.

Mass isekai incident. Instead of just one human being turned into a pokemon its a bunch of people. Specifically the major and minor characters from the games/anime/etc getting pulled through in random waves of isekai events. There wouldn't be any 'civilized' pokemon there to guide them, and the story would be about how the different characters survive and adapt as they build their own society while dealing with the disruptions and cultural upheavals caused by a new wave of isekais.

Specifically feeds my autism in a way because I get to think about what pokemon each character would become and how they might thrive or struggle. And everybody starts out as first stages so you'd have Brock/Onix, Misty/Staryu, Surge/Voltorb, Erika/Oddish, Sabrina/Abra, Koga/Venonat, Giovanni/Rhyhorn, Lorelei/Lapras, Bruno/Machop, Agatha/Gastly, Lance/Dratini, Red/Bulbasaur, Blue/Charizard, Green/Squirtle, Chase/Pikachu, Elaine/Eevee, Trace/Cubone... And then throw in some real bullshit by having different universe versions of characters show up. Like Ash/Pikachu, Misty/Psyduck, Brock/Happiny, Jessy/Ekans, James/Koffing, Meowth... I could just keep going. The autism demands blood.

>>58066719
>"Gible," Ursula said softly, watching her Pokémon struggle. "You don't have anything to be ashamed of. I couldn't ask more of you." Her words had no effect. Gible, battered, bruised, and tired as he was, staggered to his feet. He stood strong, as if calling on a power that had been in him all along.

>There was nothing but respect in Luna's eyes. "Glaceon. Let's finish this. Use Icy Wi-,"

>She stopped speaking, stupefied as Ursula gasped in astonishment. Her hands were trembling as she brought her hands to her mouth.

>Because Gible was glowing a brilliant white.

This whole scene is kino every time.
Pinnacle is, at least in my opinion, the only fic that manages to capture the anime's feeling in a genuine way and bits like this one are why.
Excellent pay-off that was slowly built-up through the fic until then.

>>58067182
That sounds like it would quickly and easily become a massive bloated clusterfuck.

>>58067224
I know. Awesome, right? Why do you think I'm trying to stop myself from writing it? I'm hoping spewing it out here will be enough of a mental exercise to sate the craving.

>>58065950
Thank you! I'm glad to know it was enjoyable. Action's been the most challenging aspect for me to write so far.

>>58066395
for me it's hoppig

>>58067182
>But Cursed Creation got me thinking about politics
What brought that about?

I'm giving a pokemon that doesn't have an official Mega Evolution the chance to Mega Evolve. Should I give them a non-canon form, or should I keep their form the same and crack some meta joke about the Gods not having prepared a mega form for that species yet?
Pic indirectly related.

>>58068069
Latter would make me roll my eyes, former is probably difficult.
Super Mystery Dungeon has a mechanic called, like, Ascension I think? that basically replaces Megas for Pokemon that don't have them. They glow yellow and get better numbers. If you don't want to come up with a separate Mega design you could do something like that.

>>58068069
You can probably use a different mechanic like BREAK from the TCG, one of the movies had a faux mega evolution mechanic too but iirc it harmed the Pokémon and the current anime has a drugs or something (?) that changes a Pokémon for a temporal boost of power

Alrighty, I hate Gigantamax/Dynamax, but I like the optics of a Gigantamax form (Grimmsnarl to be exact). Would it be world breaking if the MC had basically a Mega-Grimmsnarl that took the form of a much shorter Gigantamax Grimmsnarl?

>>58068190
I don't think so, but you might get people who dislike fake forms.

>>58068190
Doubt it, also you can unironically bullshit your way with aura, people will complaint? Yep, but just as many if not more will be okay with that because, again, aura

>>58068041
Evidently corruption is so rampant in town that a town guard can get fined for rescuing someone because he would be stealing work from dedicated rescue teams. The town just has a lot of bullshit going on as its seemingly inna cold war with an invading empire and there is smuggling that everyone participates in.

>>58068552
Tf, hope the story doesn't drown itself in politics.

>>58068739
I don't think it will. Im only on chapter three and it seems to mostly just be a way to explain why everything seems so cut throat in the region. Corruption is so widespread that you are either forced to engage with it or get screwed over.

What is the Ash-Greninja mechanic called? Can any Pokemon potentially get a boost and look like their trainer, or is that unique to Greninja?

>>58068977
It's called the battlebond phenomena. According to the anime, it happens naturally for people with a strong bond to their pokemon. This is evidence that nobody bonds with their pokemon in the entire animeverse except for Ash and only with his Greninja. According to the game it's a mutant Greninja ability that they probably only included because of its popularity among the anime watchers.

>>58068984
It's so bizarre. Such a clumsily handled event. Never watched the show beyond Gen 3, but Jesus Christ I can't think of any media that fumbled something as badly as Battle Bond Greninja. It's like if Goku lost against Frieza after going Super Saiyan.

Battle Bond is so weird too, since in concept it's just an unusual form of Mega Evolution. Both transform the mon into a super form, both are powered by the bond with a trainer... It feels like it was just an excuse to give Greninja a mega without having to give one to the other starters. Like they shot themselves in the foot by not giving any of the shillmons from gen 6 access to the regions gimmick so they scrambled to be able to give Ash's heavy hitter for the gen a super special 'totally not a mega' form. It sucks because it could be a pretty cool concept if it wasn't just a sloppy bandaid on a self made problem.

>>58069109
>It feels like it was just an excuse to give Greninja a mega without having to give one to the other starters.
It was. The Anime director wanted a mega for Greninja, Gamefreak said no, so the director made up bullshit to still get his way without spending a few minutes to consider the implications.
Although it was a really questionable move by Gamefreak to introduce a gimmick but not give any of the new pokemon access to that gimmick.

>>58068977
>Can any Pokemon potentially get a boost and look like their trainer
Sure but I think it was retconned to be basically a schizo dream where the transformation didn't really happen

>>58069148
Well they retconned it. Likely because it got a special form before the other two starters got a Mega. If we are lucky they'll all get that now with Battle Bond out of the way but I'm not gonna count on it.

I’ve been writing a fic where Rika and Larry are having a passive aggressive argument over which of them should use gliscor on their teams (Geeta is having the elite four add Kitakami pokemon to their teams for a battle showcase to show the “deep and profound ties the regions have with each other”). Penny brings Juliana to mediate and eventually, it’s determined that Larry should get to use Gliscor and for a brief moment, Larry feels triumphant, until Juliana points out how much more work it will be to take care of Gliscor and Larry rushes (or rather frantically lurches) back to try and convince Rika that she should REALLY be the one to use Gliscor on her team.

>>58069331
Why explain this all now instead of letting us read it in the fic? Explaining things too early can sap your motivation to actually do something, as your brain will register it as already being 'done' so to speak.

Psychics are so cool
Aurafags too

But why, why does everyone forget that real ninjas are a thing?

>>58069714
Never seen a ninja in pokemon before.

>>58069765
That's how you know they're good at it.

>>58069765
>>58069849
So Koga and his daughter are just larping?

>>58069765
The Shadow triad.
>>58069856
Compared to fantasy ninjas yes. Koga has never done anything impressive.

>>58069856
Nah, you need a public leader for all the spooks. Just like how we know who the director of the CIA is.

>>58069856
Who? I've never heard of those people before.

Writing MC Challenge
>Don't think to hard.
1) Gender
2) Name
3) Starter pokemon
4) What sets them apart?
>(Fighting style, pokemon, special powers, goal, origin, fate, science, nutrients, aura, technique, devil fruit, etc)
5) How would they perform in the last 3 Pokemon fics you read alongside the other characters(non-PMD)?

>>58070225
Female
Josie D. Fiend
Chikorita
Any pokemon she gives birth to is guaranteed to have perfect IVs in every stat.
1) In Mine Own - Pretty good, though she probably wouldn't be much help in the raid.
2) Prince of Po Town - Haven't read too deep yet, she'd probably be super useful considering she could provide new pokemon for whoever she joins
3) Crystal Light - Probably not that great, journey fics would be a struggle while pregnant

>>58070265
>Three thread stories
Based fic reader.

>>58070225
1- Male
2- Kevin Mire (alias Mudman)
3- Shellos
4- His unique Mud Aura (Water/Ground) allows him to ooze out large amounts of mud that he can change the viscosity of at will. He uses it to replenish the slug-like pokemon he specializes in (Goomy, Gulpin, etc), among other tricks. After a successful career in the trainer circuit, he became a Ranger that operates in remote swamp regions, dedicating himself to protecting the environment and the wildlife. Among the swamps, him and his team can become completely undetectable, a nightmare for poachers and criminals.

Don't remember what the last 3 fics I've read were, I've been reading other fandoms recently.

>>58070225
Male
Gavin Lowdin
Pawniard (F)
Shows himself outwardly as a shining example of a Steel type specialist, but he actually prefers cheap shots and dirty fighting.
The last three I've read were that Cynthia one, Hard Enough, and Viper in the Hole, so...

Once he hits the 3rd to 5th badge level, he'll sharpen up, but he's generally a nuisance to fight with all the feints and the fact that his starter's stuck as a Bisharp with an eviolite when she evolves. Probably add on whatever's the local psychic 'mon and a fighting type to fill out the party.

>>58065725 (OP)
Where's my capeshit story? Also do you guys think Emma's suit will be the new fad to supplant aura?

>>58071569
She's had that suit for 13 years.
It won't suddenly start some new trend in fics.

>>58071569
Working on the setting for it, if you don't mind it being half Kamen Rider half Precure in story beats.

>>58071573
How many did play her part tho? She's now on the cover so people will finally care, or pretend they always did anyways.

>>58071569
My Dissidia fic concept veers slightly in that direction by all the warriors of Chaos and Cosmos being able to infuse their Pokemon with the power of their crystals to give them superpowers compared to normal Pokemon. Though none of them put on funny costumes and play up larger than life alter egos except Kuja

>>58071580
>Dissidia
Where does Arceus fit tho? I know he likes to let humans deal with their own problems but foreign gods are different to ultra beasts and such

>>58071665
What's special about a Normal llama?

>>58071665
My headcanon for Arceus is that it chooses not to be fully omniscient because it created the world to see interesting stories. It doesn't realize the nature of the intrusion at first, and by the time it takes notice, it's too curious to see what the strangers from another world will do to intervene right away.

What the fuck is wrong with me I should be asleep.

Chapter uh... Fucking 6 of PokeNormal is finished. Shit gets a little crazy.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66247705/chapters/176909096

Sorry, crying Mr. Fuji this time.

>>58071721
Okay but could Arceus btfo Shinryu if he wanted to?

>>58071569
Which characters, bad guys or good guys, are smart enough to build a combat suit on Xeorisc's level?

>>58071867
Clemont
Colress
Faba
Bill
Meowth
Zero from the Giratina movie

>>58071867
Oak Labs, Sada/Turo
Bill
Every major regional company
Colress (and Plasma)
Rocket, Aqua, Magma, Galactic

>>58071886
>Clemont
I don't know if he's smart enough to match Xerosic with his morals holding him back.
>Meowth
They specialize in quick quantity, not quality. I don't know about you but while I might hazard getting in one of their vehicles I definitely wouldn't put on one of their combat suits.

>>58071957
TR would make a retardedly inefficient but cool looking mech rather than a sleek form fitting armor.

>>58071957
>I don't know if he's smart enough to match Xerosic with his morals holding him back
Are you implying he wouldn't be able to do it without harming the user? Anon, he built Lumiose tower as a kid

>>58072072
Early achievements in mundane civil engineering isn't quite in the same ball park as militarized combat suits.

>>58066380
>>58066385
Kek. Saved, this is really fun anon

I never thought being a balltist with my fic would be this entertaining.

Bump

Do you think she's really sowwy or would she do it again?

>>58073062
She likely underwent covert Malamar brainwashing and is now loyal to the IP in every way. The shota raping side effect is largely overlooked.

>>58073062
mega dragonite is so fucking ugly

>>58071743
I'd say it's dependant upon domain. If Shinryu entered the Pokemon world itself, Arceus could probably kick its ass, but in a neutral ground things would get murkier.

>>58073062
Wasn't she just a nepobaby like almost every Flare member and just doing stuff because it was a fad? She probably got better but it still doesn't make sense to make her a professor

>>58073090
She stole, hurt, most likely killed, and now she thinks she can go back to society like a normal person? She needs to be hanged so everyone she hurt can get justice.

>>58073078
There aren't even 5 non ugly megas.

>>58073095
To be fair Colress nuked a city and he was chilling in Alola

>>58073095
She needs to be banged and give birth for every person she killed.

>>58073109
Come on anon, some look cool.

>>58073125
Was Colress the one to pull the trigger? Technically all he did was give the nuke to a psychopath.

>>58073447
Sorry, I was forgetting some of the specifics on these.
There aren't even 3 mon ugly megas.

You get isekai'd by Arceus as a mad scientist with a limitation. You can make any one (1) extremely powerful combat suit, equal to Emma's suit as a baseline, which also morphs itself to the wearer to amplify their strengths. You can create and repair it cartoonishly fast, using scraps.

The catch is you cannot wear this suit yourself, or remotely control it in any way. It needs to be worn by another person (not pokemon) to function, and you cannot mind control them or control their actions in any form, nor place safeguards against them harming you. Your powers and body will fail you of you try, or if you attempt to create one while the last one is still functional.

Who do you give the suit to?

>>58073925
I give it to Emma as a mid-season upgrade after the newly-introduced villain manages to destroy the Essentia suit in a climactic showdown. I create it as an upgrade for her and dub it the Essenkaiser.

>>58073925
Korrina because if the suit can boost someone like Emma that much then it would do wonders to a trained fighter with aura potential, I could gather all data and cultivate my own aura to surpass anything the suit can do

>>58073925
Would you give it to aldith or what

>>58073925
Oh boy, I get to live out my fantasy of hero creation.
I'd like to be able to jack up the pain sensitivity of the suit. Also play both sides of the conflict by sharing parts of the suit design with the regions evil team.
Who do I choose?
Amnesia Anabel a la Build?
Lillie so she can fight augmented not!kaijin Ultra Beasts?
I get giddy thinking about how much pain and suffering they will have to overcome to become a hero.

>>58074143
>t. Arceus

>>58073925
I give the suit to Peony. He will protect the smiles of children everywhere.

>>58073925
>can't use it myself
>can mass produce it
>cannot mind control or control the actions of those who wear it
>can't even place safeguards
What good is a tool if you can't use it? What fool would trust something so potentially powerful in the hands of someone who ultimately cannot be controlled?
I make torture suits that amplify pain and cause the wearer to experience the pain their pokemon feel which is also subject to pain amplification. To provide incentive for the animals to amuse me, the suit gives some useful but ultimately meaningless benefits like enhanced athleticism, acrobatics, and a HUD that both displays information and suggestions that would only be useful to a beginner or intermediate trainer.
I'd mass produce the suits and spread them around randomly, starting with Kalos and Galar, then I'd kick back and enjoy as all the wannabe pro trainers who refuse to exercise or read a book inflict tremendous suffering on themselves just to feel what it would be like to be moderately competent.
I'm sure the League would ban the suits eventually, but I don't doubt that people would still use them when no one's looking. Just think of all the idiots who'd run off into the wilderness with the suits on, treating it like training wheels that they will never end up shedding. They'll return to society with their beefed up teams, taking off the suit as if no one will notice, but everyone will catch on to the trend of trainers with beginner-tier brains but middle-tier pokemon. Soon it will be common suspicion to accuse a middle-of-the-pack trainer of being a suitie.

>>58073925
Three answers jumped to mind, one normie and two fetish. I will stick with the not fetish idea for now.

First, I like seeing a lot of different heroes over just one. So I would actually make all my suits overtuned to be able to be extra powerful, but they are one time use because the extra power output would be too much of a strain for the suit to maintain function for more than a few hours. This would allow me to travel around and make suits for whomever I feel can best handle a situation when the need arises. I would customize each suit for the individual who currently needs it. This makes it so that if I have a travel companion or two I can remake their suit when needed, and making a suit for the wrong person won't have lasting consequences.

As an example, going with my homie Brock. He is my go to 'buddy' character. I would likely build different suit styles for him based on the situation. First up is Pewter Ranger suit, based on Onix high defense and the move Bide. Think the movie Black Panther effect of the suit being able to absorb energy from attacks and release them back. Another suit would be be the Megalix Armor suit. This one would be based on Mega Steelix, with magnetic based flight and attack and defensive abilities. Would be able to levitate based on the earth's own magnetic fields, and would have special plates that detach and float around the user so that they can be controlled for range and blocking. Also, a sorta joke suit called the Perv Bliss suit. It would be inspired by his Happiny and would be a super healing oriented suit. He could heal himself and others, and it would also boost his health and virility as a joke because he still won't be able to get laid.

>>58073925
I wouldn't make the suit if I can't wear it.
Why empower my enemy?

So what is the Treasure Hunt? Is it something you'd be graded on? What the it's limits? Surely I can't say like my Treasure Hunt is to sample all of Paldeas food and then never show up to class because I'm busy being a fat ass and stuffing my face.

>>58074940
It's a free grade boost to make Paldea's failing school structure look more successful than it is, much like when a test has an extra credit question at the end that boils down to "put anything here and get +5% to your score".

>>58074940
irl this is what it would be >>58074949

in world its a cultural thing about engaging in paldean culture. You do an activity and discuss it. They drove out all the nosepass who were flooding the region with geodudes and claiming paldea had no culture, so they have a rich society of happy people who show care for each other.

>>58074940
I see it as a form of work study.You can either partake in the gym challenge, set out on a pre-made set of tasks the school designs to encourage travel across the region and connecting with the culture, or submit and have approved a personal curriculum of your own intended studies to further your knowledge in a particular field that you're aiming for as a career. So the PC and Nemona took the gym challenge for their "official" Treasure Hunt, Penny took a generic one that was a cover for her work on bringing down Team Star, and Arven submitted a personal TH to study and seek out the Herba Mystica.

>>58074940
It's literally just a glorified summer report.
You've seen how in anime some character does a "what did you do during summer" thingy on the last day before classes begin again in a rush? It's pretty much that.

>>58075148
So you show up at school and your first day is the last day before summer break?

>>58075151
Not that guy, but...
It's the same thing as a journey, but modified for paldea and to make it more 'cultural' by making it unique.

Every region is "go around collecting badges, learning about the region, helping others, competing". The anime shows it clearly, only 8 badges but a whole lot more episodes. They've helped all sorts of people solve all sorts of problems, and they did it with pokemon that the locals often didn't have. Remember, not everyone is a trainer that can solve problems with pokemon.

In paldea it is presented as "collect badges", "stop team star", and "collect HM plants".

>>58065725 (OP)
I like the art, reminds me of the crush I had on Mr Krupp when I was younger

>>58065725 (OP)
Aura Guardians are Chads, they can create shields and barriers, have precognition, can see even when blindfold, boost themselves or their Pokémon, heal, share senses, telepathy and more.

>>58075220
Name one(1) aura guardian who did all of that.
You can't. I, however, can name many Psychics who can do all that.

>>58075231
me
I did that
didn't even need pokemon to win all the badges

>>58075231
Ash has but the faggot doesn't count, he isn't a guardian and closest ro be a reality bending psychic with all the bullshit he pulls out of air


But Riley did create a barrier

>>58074940
From a more idealistic perspective, it pretty much is a formal way of saying "Go out there and find out what you're passionate about". You can only learn so much from academics after all. Getting out in the world and having experiences that a structured classroom can't give you will help you figure out what you really want out of life. After all, most structured classroom school systems in real life (at least in America) are about teaching you to sit and follow orders for hours on end to be a good employee. Having a mix of classroom education and worldly experience is better than just focusing on one or the other.

I tried binging the anime to get semi-canon reference material for my stories and man I know I shouldn't expect great writing from a children's cartoon but this shit is so ass. Thank god for Bulbapedia autists writing up summaries for every single episode. Us DIgimon kids ate well growing up, I had no idea the pokefags had a show this bad. Plus our version of aura was way cooler

>>58073925
Zinnia because it would be the funniest thing ever. Devon would constantly try to create an even stronger suit to defeat her, but every time they're about to succeed, Zinnia would accidentally discover a new system or gadget that lets her mop the floor with Devon's fighter. Steven Stone loses his shit every time he sees this from a live feed in his office, and immediately calls up R&D to demand ANOTHER 150 million dollar suit that will surely get that pesky Draconid this time.

>>58075406
Imagine being this arrogant after all the ADVEEEEEEEEEEEEENTUREEEEEEEEES! mess, worse than Kanto pandering

>>58075433
150 million feels a bit low since a B2 costs the United States 2-4 billion to make.
Final boss would be Steven undergoing an battle bond mind meld with his mega Metagross to gattai a 9 armed Metagross. His meteor mashplosion is comparable to the oras meteor and would be stopped by a draco ascent rider kick by Zinnia who has returned to using the base suit.

>>58075445
No idea what you're talking about because I only stuck around for a season or two of Digimon. That's why I said "Digimon kids", I dropped that shit once I learned about fots anime. If I'm gonna consume bad writing there damn well better be big booby dog girls tearing each other's clothes off or a gamer sword arting all over the online scene.

Reminder that in the game's world you can't fight against destiny

>>58075479
"I can't go on, his meteors are too strong... This is the end."

And just as all hope is lost...

"Zinnia. Get up."

"...Aster?"

>>58075509
I'd argue you can, just not against an Earthling. Our one true God Yahweh blesses all his outgoing Isekaijin with a power of destiny that not even foreign gods can compete with. Why else would Arceus herself kneel before us?

>>58075509
What you can't oppose is the writer. That's why Ash was kept a jobber for so long.

>>58075900
I don't think the writer was behind that one, unless we're going so far back that we're blaming the writer for giving him negative IQ.

>>58075916
Nah, not that Ash isn't retarded but I'm pretty sure a senior in the anime staff wanted to keep him jobbing leagues forever.

>>58075524
>Why else would Arceus herself kneel before us?
Because it gets her head closer to dick sucking height.
You are correct, anon. Arceus kneels to the superiority of YHVH and his blessed flock.

>>58075509
No, you just can't oppose the MC, who is canonically the chosen champion/avatar of Arceus and every game is (canonically, btw) a different reincarnation of them. You can't get more bullshit than that.

>>58076274
This either implies that the MC dies immediately after most games, or that their soul is time travelling constantly.

Perhaps thr MCs are all part of a larger spirit that will one day come together.

>>58076274
Nah. I think the MCs are just avatars of (You).

>>58076274
It's >>58076374
In the context of the universe nobody but Arceus knows you're there playing as the characters; they look at "past lives" and what they see is past games you played.

>>58076441
What about the MCs of Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee? (You) get sucked into the world of Pokemon according to the opening cut scene.

>>58076449
I honestly just saw that as up to interpretation. You can believe that it holds deeper meaning, but I just saw it as a cute way to draw the player in. It has no bearings on the rest of the game so it really is whatever you prefer to believe.

>>58076274
Aura? Blaise. Psychics? Old news.

Rotometry is true power. The only thing able to see beyond the code of the world to gain knowledge of other planes of existence.

>>58075916
Ash is retarded but one guy was obssessed with making him lose, the SM writers had to tell him to fuck off.

Writing anything with Ash is hard to do thanks to that guy too, kinda hard to find a middle ground where he is retarded but mature

Crazy fanfic idea: what if TMs and HMs worked like Neuromods in Prey (2017)?

For those unaware, a Neuromod can implant a skill by rewriting your brain. It can be removed later, but doing so "resets" your brain to before the mod was installed, removing any memories gained since.

Crazy fanfic idea: what if TMs and HMs worked like Neuromods in Prey (2017)?

For those unaware, a Neuromod can implant a skill by rewriting your brain. It can be removed later, but doing so "resets" your brain to before the mod was installed, removing any memories gained since.

>>58076627
Sounds like a great way of molesting pokemon and then removing all their memories afterwards.

>>58075512
Steven is swarmed by a bunch of Deoxys.
Rams him and his Metagross into the main Deoxys meteor.
Blows himself up.
https://youtu.be/neVBd8JOOPU

Gun...

>>58076627
that just sounds dumb, why would you include that in a story, other than to add edginess?

>>58076546
>kinda hard to find a middle ground where he is retarded but mature
For the average person who's secretly writing him as a SI, absolutely. But retards with emotional intelligence or some down to earth wisdom are a common archetype, writing Ash is not much different from writing a good dog with a spark of sapience. Loyal, friendly, responds quickly to emotions, but is still fairly retarded. Not much different from how most people write pokemon, really.

>>58076523
>smirking as I use my rotometry to change my phone case to a different color
>my opponent, an unrefined aura ape, has lifted several cars with his mind and has launched them towards me
>I am sure to win because my ability is superior

>>58076523
Dexholders KNEEL before Rotometryholders

>>58077080
>Loyal, friendly, responds quickly to emotions, but is still fairly retarded
Sounds like Z Goku something which was killed by Super and even fans eat that shit up.

I have a workable idea for an arc of a fanfic, but thinking of the larger storyline always leads me to aura-psychic cultivation and legendary mythos. Which isn't a problem by itself, but it's hard to integrate the gym challenge into that without making it too mystical, especially for Galar. If I turn the story away from the gym challenges I feel like it will be abandoning any readers that might have gotten hooked on that aspect during the first arc. I like the sport of it too. No matter what I want the fic to start with a gym challenge, it introduces the world and the rules, lets the isekaijin get the basic gawking at the pokemon in real life out of the way and also lets the protagonist and the first pokemon bond and train.

>>58077634
>but it's hard to integrate the gym challenge into that without making it too mystical
What's the exact issue you're having?

>>58077650
Finding the balance between the mysticism and the commercialized sport of pokemon battling, particularly in a place like Galar where each gym leader battle is an event.

>>58077662
I meant how is the mysticism a problem. I can only take shots in the dark if there's not more context.
Like, is it because you're worried you'd be spending too much time on move crafting or esoteric training? You can shorthand it.
Is it because you think the mysticism culture would override Galar's culture? You can just say it doesn't, it's not like Pokeworld culture is much different from ours.

>>58077676
>Is it because you think the mysticism culture would override Galar's culture?
It's this, I like Galar as a region but the league there feels more commercialized than in any other region. I think if I don't give it some weight it will work against the world later on, but if I do it too much it won't feel like Galar anymore. Why do people treat pokemon battles like they're just entertainment if trainers that reach the victory road are just better than human in every way? I thought about circumventing it by making the people involved become larger than life the further the league goes, make it feel like the league somehow filters the wheat from the chaff despite the lights and ads. I could also double down on the competition and make it more dangerous, perhaps even deadly, without losing the televised sport aspect. The latter option will make Galar feel somewhat dystopian, but I think a pseudo dystopia with high tech existing right next to some ancient enchanted woods oddly works for Galar. In any case, just getting to talk about it is helpful.

>>58077700
Galar is Britain, so you get sports and castles

Royalty were big on occult stuff, plenty of room to have weird stuff.
Modern commercial vs older royalty stuff.
Gives you a perfect excuse to do the more commercial stuff, but then shift over to occult and back as you please.

>>58077700
>Why do people treat pokemon battles like they're just entertainment if trainers that reach the victory road are just better than human in every way?
This looks like the core issue, but how is it actually causing problems? It's already mostly like that in the pokeworld since a trainer's pokemon is a trainer's strength. Most people just don't have the talent, wealth, or willpower to succeed, which might seem like a cheap excuse but it's one the whole fandom has chosen to accept.

Something to consider: if this little shit can become an elite 4 then what's stopping everyone else?

>>58077700
Anon, why do you think the Chunin exams are such a big deal in Naruto? Because it filters the weak, it's perfect for normal people to see how their military/wizards fight and entertaining enough to just shut your brain down and watch a flashy fight. Pokémon training as a whole already filters like 80% of the population from becoming pro trainers, it also serve to inspire the next gen so they can keep things going.

What you really need to specify is how strong are you planning to make them, if your psychics/aurafags or whatever can go around blowing up mountains then it does become a problem.

>>58077754
>if this little shit can become an elite 4 then what's stopping everyone else?
Bad example, Paldea is the WEAKEST but ACTUALLY WEAKEST region so it really isn't that impressive.

>>58077742
That's an idea, old vs new, maybe pull in some faded glory themes and have the commercialized league be a response to the most powerful trainers dying/leaving Galar/disappearing as an attempt to bring in new blood, but it being done by people who don't have the culture of the old powerhouses and thus taint the purity of it. I don't know if I'll roll with that but it's given me something to think about.
>>58077754
I'd like to do something better than just that, have it feel like not an excuse but a natural consequence of the world. To make it feel real, after all a surefire way to upgrade every part of you is a great motivator to train.
>>58077755
>What you really need to specify is how strong are you planning to make them
Champions and the elite 4 are high wuxia tier adjusted to their elite pokemon's types, Cynthia and the people beyond the league but lower than the true bodies of the legendaries are low Xianxia tier. Either way the leagues put a cap on what's allowed, a ghost specialist can't just enslave the souls of those who challenge her to a match while wearing clothing branded with Pokecola TM.

>>58077797
>Champions and the elite 4 are high wuxia tier adjusted to their elite pokemon's types, Cynthia and the people beyond the league but lower than the true bodies of the legendaries are low Xianxia tier.
Anon, not everyone here knows what that's supposed to mean...
For anyone curious and iirc it can go from something like the difference in stats between Batman and Spider-Man to between Spider-Man and Superman but hax included, lots of hax that makes the average nasufag blush at the sheer nonsense.

Pic related is a high wuxia guy

>>58077847
>Anon, not everyone here knows what that's supposed to mean...
I was under the impression that RI and RTOC were mandatory reading in this thread. Next you'll tell me that the average anon in this thread can't even recite every Venerable from memory.

>>58077873
>RTOC
huh
haven't heard of that one
It'll go onto the to read pile
I'll definitely get to it eventually

>>58077873
I'm more of a wuxia guy
>Mount Hua
>Nanomachine
>Heavenly Demon can't love a normal life
>Absolute Regression
For Xianxia
>Martial World
>BTTH
>World's Apocalypse Online
And some others

>>58077891
I'll warn you that the story becomes much worse when the protagonist ascends, but the prior story is a masterpiece with the exception of one arc. Read until the ascension and then see how much more you can stomach.

Does anyone happen to know what this fanfic about a farmer finding a Buneary eating his crops, adopting it and then teaching it about farming? I think he fucks it later down the line but all I read was mostly cozy stuff

>>58077847
>high wuxia tier
The strongest attacks are capable of badly damaging a city.
>low Xianxia tier
A few casual attacks can easily crater a city.
>>58077873
>RI
Ew. I'd rather re-read God and Devil World or Terror Infinity than RI. I can't get more than 20 chapters in without wanting to bash my head against the wall.
RTOC
I dropped it somewhere around chapter 160. It wasn't bad, but I'm just really not a fan of the MC's regressor power (it's one of the reasons why I didn't care for Re:Zero, and why I HEAVILY filter MMO novels)

>>58078030
>Terror Infinity
That one is kino because it has gunkata, whatever happened to the sequel tho?

>>58077940
You're probably looking for Share And Share Alike by AlexanderMugetsu

>>58077634
>>58077662
>>58077700
>>58077797
Your mistake here is that you're putting Galar in too high of a pedestal. Like it's someplace worth a shit. Protip: It's not.
As someone who's working on a Galarfic myself, I'm utterly and completely shitting on Galar in nearly every single aspect, portraying it as a once cool place full of mystique and magic that went to shit all thanks to corporatism and consoomerism and the people becoming sheep.
Where the magic that used to be once was lost. A place so high of its own farts and stuck on its own bubble its society and people have completely declined.
Just like the actual Britain. If only Arthur was here to save us all...
And this includes the battling by the way, it all becoming a consoomer spectacle has made its people weak and its trainers weak, all further compounded by its isolation, how dependent it has become on mememax for both battling and spectacle that all the basics and proper battling have been neglected, how it being pay2enter has made it stagnant, etc.
Sorry, I'll never EVER buy's GF's shilling about Galar being a ***strong*** region, much less DA STRONGEST just because they needed to fellate Charizardino's microdick again.
Galar IS a shithole, don't be afraid to portray it as such, because anything you may add to it is near-guaranteed to be an improvement to Galarian society.

>>58078467
they would never caught me like that

>>58078747
So, what regions do you think hold up to have what he wants? A base for magic/cultivation

>>58078772
I'd say Johto, Sinnoh and Alola are the more "culture" heavy regions.
However, at least in my opinion, Sinnoh has the best balance between modernity and culture.
Hoenn is sorta balanced but doesn't have the same depth Sinnoh has.
I'd say Kanto is another decent candidate for a "bring back the magic" sorta storyline, specially so as its nexto Johto who's kept itself "cuture".
Unova leans towards "modern" but hasn't become a smog shithole like Kanto and there's some pretty decent "culture" here and there even if it doesn't go hard on it. Balanced leaning towards modernity.
Alola leaned on "culture" perhaps a bit to much, and that's actually something even the games touch upon with things like Kukui wanting to make a League there.
lol Paldea

Been thinking of some story ideas in the same world.
Got some headcanons I think are interesting, if anons are interested

>>58078811
I’m interested if it’s not aura/cultivation slop

>>58078811
What same world? But this>>58078815 too, I want something cool and if you use aura do something different than punching harder

>>58078747
So Galar is more snobbish than Kalos? Would they sneer at a trainer from a "barbaric" and "savage" region like Orre winning?

>>58078828
They'd cope, seethe and say d-doesn't count until the end of the time.

>>58078831
Yes. I like it. Galar it is for my fic after Orre.

>>58078815
>>58078826
Stories set in the same world, that is.
I'm a dragonfag, I'll admit it, aura is kinda cool though

>>58078826
Isn't everything about punching harder? You practice good nutrition for stronger punches, you learn new techniques for stronger punches, you evolve for stronger punches. A fire blast is simply a ranged fire punch which is simply a punch that's punching harder. Growl is simply a punch towards the enemy's defense. etc.

>>58078467
Brycen is the only one who looks like he tried to fight back

>>58078828
I know nothing about Orre but anytime I see a fic describe it they make orroids sound like savage beasts in the shapes of men.

>>58079091
Orre, by the game canon alone, was a desert shithole with a big criminal presence in the first game. Think Arizona, but the thug presence is more obvious. There's an entire underground town that's filled with criminals. Hell, even the PC is an ex criminal who steals pokemon.

But in the second game, it's cleaning up. Fewer blatant criminal enterprises. The coliseums aren't being run by Cipher. The cops are somewhat more effective. Sure, it's not to being a full region yet, but there's wild pokemon available, and it's getting cleaned up.

Where it goes from there is up to interpretation.

Unova should claim imminent domain and civilize those Orre apes already

>>58076841
What’s this from?

>>58079320
>There's an entire underground town that's filled with criminals.
Said underground town is abandoned, according to cut content of the second game. Probably empty as well.

>>58079642
The second AU movie the power us iirc

Is FFN purging anonymous reviews?

>>58079684
FFN shits itself every week. Just ignore it and act like its normal.

What are your favorite pokemon webcomics? I’m looking for inspiration

>>58079756
Thr only pokemon webcomic I ever read was the VGCats one.

>>58079650
Exactly. Orre cleaned itself up in the few years between Colo and XD. It's probably on its way to being a real region now, rather than just some desert shithole.

Orre was the other region AZ nuked.

>>58079822
A nice idea, if you want Mega Stones around Orre. Also to make the region more violent and wild, since Mega Evolved Pokemon can go berserk if they're not ready for the transformation. And Cipher could research the stones, maybe create Shadow Stones? Like Shadow Mewtwo in Pokken?

>>58079822
Ah yes, the great Franco Arizonan Conflict. Many lives were lost, but the frenchies would take our lives before they took our 99 cent tea.

>>58079822
Az's weapon is honestly the best way to implement magic or cultivation

>>58079859
>based on a place means its history must also be 1:1
Redpill me on France's 3000 year old space laser?

>>58079988
Destroyed by the sea people

>>58079988
They fucking killed Marie Antonniette's Furfrous and stacked their head at the base of her guillotine.

>>58079988
Pokegauls used the extinction beam against the Celestica people and brought about the fall of Pokerome

>>58079822
I was actually planning on it being another location of an Ultimate Weapon type thing. AZ nuked Paldea, causing the giant crater and the infinite energy hit a hibernating Terapagos. No Megas, but the infinity energy crystalized and that's how Tera came to be.

For Orre, someone stole the designs and tried to build their own a few decades later. That's when they fucked up and wiped the central part of the region clean. There are Mega Stones around thanks to it, but its taken centuries for the region to recover.

Hoenn's Mega Stones are thanks to Fug and the bickering morons, of course.

Yes, I'm writing something in Orre. How could you tell?

>>58080065
>Celestica
>being relevant to great Pokegaul
>being a Rome equivalent
While AZ was playing with lasers Celesticans were still a tribe of 6 incest freaks banging rocks together, meaning Pokegauls gave 0 fucks about them. 1000-2000 years later when Celestica finally became something the incest had caught up to them and wiped them out, meaning unlike Rome their culture and knowledge spread to no one.

>>58079988
>estrogen pill me
What do you think they are hiding in the catacombs?

>>58080143
>one of the few ancient cultures we actually know the name of
I wonder if the history of the pokemon world is just a clusterfuck of history being erased due to the destructive power of pokemon. The gods themselves descended upon Sinnoh a scant few generations prior and they seem all but forgotten. Hell, it might be implied that the only reason Cyrus even knows about Dialga and Palkia is because his great great great Grandma vowed that her descendants would remember the Galaxy Team's exploits.

>>58080165
>one of the few ancient cultures we actually know the name of
That the devs care to name.
But the key thing here is that when Celestica was wiped out, all of them were wiped out and no one carried the torch. Full stop, Celestica's bloodlines(sans Volo) and influence came to a complete and abrupt end. A contrast to Hoenn, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar who are all confirmed to have continued on as peoples after their respective borderline extinction events. So, technically the ancient unovans were just unovans, the ancient hoennians were just hoennians, etc.

>>58080165
Isn't that just a logical conclusion? The legendaries were always depicted as assholes beyond a few exceptions until Galar with the dog heroes, even in Paldeo the opposite to your game killed the professor

>>58080194
Then what are the old woman and Cynthia? Am I missing something or do you just have a hateboner for the Celestica?

And to say Unovans were just ancient Unovans seems like a really broad stroke to make when Unova makes a big deal about how culturally diverse it is. And we know that there was more than one culture in Hoenn because the Draconids aren't a majority. Cultures are not as solid and unchanging as your implying. Heck, thr name for the region being Sinnoh is relatively new in the timeline.

>>58080455
You're getting weirdly aggro about this. I don't get why you're defaulting to accusing me of having a hateboner for Celestica, I think it's cool.
Do you have a hateboner for Kalos? Completely understandable and I'm 100% on your side, but the facts still remain as they are. Celestica was completely wiped out save for two long-lived people, one of which became a reclusive hermit and the other which hid his identity and sold out to become a merchant. This means ancient Celestica is completely detached from modern Sinnoh and the rest of the world until the clans immigrated to Sinnoh and appropriated what they thought to be Celestica's culture.
>Cultures are not as solid and unchanging as your implying.
I never implied this, you just assumed that because you're mad jealous Unovan peoples and cultures continued on and evolved into the future whereas Celestican culture was wiped out and then flanderized by archeologists.

The Unovan BVLL of a king had his bloodline and cultural impacts continue on forever, so strongly in fact that his descendants can still speak to pokemon and automatically earn the Tao dragon's fealty. AZ's brother's bloodline and culture also persisted to the future. Celestica though, well, Cogita's womb remained barren and Volo's kids identify as Sinnohan rather than Celestican. Yikes.

>>58080508
>You're getting weirdly aggro about this.
Huh. Sorry if I came off that way, I was just getting weird vibes from the way you were wor-

>you're mad jealous
Oh. There it is again.

Three thousand years of pure, untainted heroic lineage, btw. Galarian BVLLS.

>>58080721
Concession accepted. Celestica has no connection to the future whereas all the other regions' ancient civilizations do.

>>58080727
Genuinely, what was wrong with them? They seem worse than evil, or spoiled, or even just dumb. Like they're genuinely inhuman in how absurdly cruel and freakishly unintelligent both of them are.

>>58080733
Low point of the series (it got worse)

>>58080733
They said sowwy for launching several terrorist attacks on their own soil and they sponsor the postgame tournament so it's all good

>>58080732
You got a link to this fanfic where you win fights you're pretending to have, or are you just using this thread to brainstorm?

>>58080733
Its a pretty common representation of royalty.

>>58080746
I'm sorry your headcanon of Celestica being Rome was shattered by facts and logic. But hey look on the bright side, you can ignore canon for your fanfic and have Celestica be the world-reaching empire that influenced and was remembered by every other civilization. You can ignore the fact Celestica is the only ancient civilization to be full stop destroyed and disconnected from continuity.

>>58080727
I thought the deal was that they were royalty in name only and nobody gave a shit about them but couldn't do anything anyways because even if they stopped being relevant to the country they still had keep them alive as a tradition

>>58080767
Always been interested in this but never read it. I like fusion as a concept way before the recent fads (blame Monster Rancher). What's the deal, is the pokemon like... Permanently trapped? How are they made? Is it consensual?

>>58080789
>In order for one to perform Burst, they will need a special item known as a Burst Heart (Japanese: Bハート). The Burst Heart is a small, pocket sized jewel that actually holds a Pokémon inside of it, sealed so that its power can be used by anyone wishing to fuse with it. The Burst Heart can be compared to a Poké Ball in that it holds a Pokémon inside, but is also different due to the fact that it doesn't store a Pokémon to be released for later use. If a Burst Heart is broken, the Pokémon inside will be freed. It is not known how a Burst Heart is made, but Artificial Burst Hearts (Japanese: 人工 Bハート) have been created by Great Gavel.
>Once Burst is activated, the user will have their physical traits increased greatly. Whatever abilities the user will get depends on the type of Pokémon used to combine; for example, a Ground-type Pokémon will make the user immune to Electric attacks. It is stated that in order to use Burst, one must go through rigorous training, or else their life will be in danger if they attempt it.
>It is shown that a person can actually be sent inside of their Burst Heart in order to better connect with the Pokémon inside. In Ryouga's Burst Heart, an entire field can be seen inside and a large area where his Zekrom is being held. Once he arrives at this spot, a key takes the form of a young gatekeeper boy to test him and see if he's worthy enough of seeing Zekrom. Once Ryouga passes the test, the boy turns back into his true form—a key—and allows him to see Zekrom.
>It is later revealed that a Burst Heart—like the Pokémon they contain—can become stronger as they get involved in more battles. This allows the Burst itself to become stronger at the same time as the Burst Warrior. Evolution still applies to Bursts; if a Pokémon inside of a Burst Heart evolves, so does the Burst of the user.
Nobody knows in-universe and it seems you can create fake ones

>>58080920
>and it seems you can create fake ones
There's a burst heart of this fucker out there

>>58080928
Same vibes

Partial bump, partial advice seeking post I probably already know the answer to. On my WIP, my twist reveal is a certain evil team is actually the big bad but has been holding back in the shadows (I swear there are plot reasons I don't want to get into the specifics). I'm like 20% of the way through the story, and I don't even want the evil team mentioned like 80% of the story (although the anatagonists through the story are secretly associated with the evil team). I think I've got hypothetical readers completely off the scent of this evil team so far in the WIP. I want to put a relatively innocuous scene where (not the main) character is shuffling through a closet that happens to have a uniform shirt with the evil team's symbol on it (think Team Galactic's G or Team Rocket's R). Am I right in thinking I should just have a vague description and not dangle the big twist so openly?

>>58081513
Good luck. You're describing what's essentially a letter and trying to hide it from your readers. The fact it's getting attention drawn to it at all would be anti-innocuous, especially if you try to get fancy with the description to avoid just saying it's the letter A with bone motifs.

>>58081513
I did basically the same thing in my first chapter setting up the ultimate villain by describing something completely innocuous, but I tried to avoid the curious readers from making that association by disguising it as a clue towards something else entirely. Make them catch the first twist so they're not thinking too hard about the second one.

>>58081528
Yeah. There's something else going on with the scene that should click with the readers as to "why" the scene is happening at all, and the rifling through shirts in the closet should be fast and relatively non-eventful. My hope is it goes unnoticed when I initially post, and like a month later some reader points it out in a comment or something like that. The dream of course is "oh shit that was foreshadowed so long ago" but I'm sure someone will figure it out. The evil team doesn't necessarily "belong" in the setting though so I might be able to sneak it

>>58081537
This is a good idea. It'll be hard associating it with the "first" twist I've got (it's not a big one to be fair, but a looming question for a good chunk of the story). Although I'm already getting ideas. Thank you anon.

>>58080920
Sounds stupid as hell but in a fun way. Funny that the main gimmick has no explanation.

>>58081547
Oh shit I knew it, its Team Meanies!

>>58080789
>>58080920
I'm batting around a toku-styled idea involving Burst.

Would it be going too far to say that an evo stone has to actually touch the 'mon inside the Burst Heart for it to evolve permanently, but it could change the form of the Burst Warrior for the duration of their transformation?

So an Eevee Burst Warrior could swap between evolutions when transforming, like a Kamen Rider does lately, rather than being locked into one?

>>58081513
you could describe several shirts with different unrelated designs for red herrings/camouflage

>>58081646
FUCK!
>>58081668
I was thinking a bit of that as well. There's another "mysterious group" (that are secretly good guys) that I'll have the character seemingly investigating while rifling through the closet with the shirts.

Quickly falling in love with having the "hater" rival for my protagonist just saying what would be thinly veiled reductive criticism of the slop I'm writing.

>>58081513
Whatever you go with just refrain from doing the thing where you scrap everything you planned because some readers saw where you were going.
I think rather than the team itself the biggest secret (to the reader) would be the name and face of the leadership and their actual motives.

>>58081699
>Whatever you go with just refrain from doing the thing where you scrap everything you planned because some readers saw where you were going
No worries there, this is really the only way things can go. When I assume it's guessed and readers are generally clued in the org is lurking in the shadows, every time it gets mentioned/hinted at will be (hopefully) exciting. Like every time something about Jon Snow's true lineage was mentioned in GoT
I did just came up with a part of the twist that will hopefully not be seen coming but will be really obvious once it hits. Too bad I'm well over a year away from getting to that (likely two if I'm being honest).

>>58081649
I think that would work as an artificial burst like that special Eevee in PokéSpe that could turn into any eevolution

>>58081699
>scrap everything you planned because some readers saw where you were going.
I don't know why the fuck writers think this is ever a good idea. You're wasting your and the readers time.
Even if the reveal is glaringly obvious. AOT is a prime example.
Armoured and Colossal Titan reveal? Beautiful, one of the best moments in the series, even when everyone figured it out day one after titan shifting was known to be a thing.
The ending? Christ Almighty. Perfect setup for a bittersweet poignant ending. Shits in the bed. Maybe I'm still coping.

Do pokefarms take up large swathes of land like in real life or do they have small chunks of land that rely on grass pokemagic to swiftly grow their harvests?
How do they get the metal to feed so many Steel types?
Are death row prisoners drained of their life force to more ethically feed domestic Litwicks?
Do Electric types feed on electricity or do they generate it? If the latter, then how are they treated and sustained by a society that's imminently going to face an energy crisis in ten bajillion years?
Which pokemon would be the premier egg producers for the culinary world?
If a pokemon mega evolves or dynamaxes and loses parts of their temporary body will the parts disappear upon reversion and will they continue missing parts of their body afterwards?

>>58082254
They cut a harvest once and then use pokecenter magic to restore it and then cut it again.

Other steel and rock types produce metal.

No, they are secretly handed over to important League trainers with ghost and dark types that can use a little life force power boost.

It's easy to create electricity. Make a rattata spin on a wheel, have it use Quick Attack and power your house for an hour.

Chansey.

All extra body parts get converted into energy when Pokemon detransform. If they get ripped off beforehand the Pokemon ends up exhausted.

>>58081649
That is an awesome idea and has precedence with the kind of bullshit Eevee has done in past games.

Don't forget to let your Rider know the Eevee exclusive move Baddie Bad

>>58081692
Can work great as an in character critique, just be wary of being too on the nose in a meta way. Could take the reader out of the scene..

>>58081772
>>58082392
That was one part of it. The other one penciled in is someone with an Applin Burst Heart

Can't do a Rider-like without a secondary after all.

>>58082406
Yeah, was thinking of some other split evos myself. Charcadet is super on the nose. I'd personally probably go with the Poliwag line because I like frogs.

Cosmog actually would be radical if it includes Necrozma forms.

>>58081649
get sabotaged when the enemy throws an everstone at you

>>58082564
Actually made me think of Digimon season 3 and how they had the card swipe gimmick (performed by a very rider like pose and a morpher device) and how some pokemon cards have the ability to prevent other cards from evolving. Just a whole sale random tangent.

>>58082399
It's very in-character for said character. New Prince of Po Town update for those enjoying the Ian humiliation ritual (this time with less humiliation)

>>58082734
I've always wanted to use a Pyroar and Tyrantrum in a fic before so you picking those 2 more than makes up for any humiliation ritual. I'm curious how you'll intepret the latter's temperment too.

>>58082770
Tyrunts are naturally difficult to handle, and in this universe Alphas are supposed to be very hard to handle too. This Alpha Tyrunt is going to be the problem child for a while.

>>58082555
Charcadet would go hard, yeah. Gloom could be funny.

>>58082564
What kind of Rider fan would I be if I didn't do that

>>58081692
post an example

>>58083305
I'll just mention what was in the chapter I just posted for PoPT since it was what I was referencing in the first place
>Mentor character has multiple training sessions with SI protag
>Mentor explains Pokemon pick up on their trainer's emotions and convictions, trainers must BELIEVE in their Pokemon
>Mentor's Liepard plays "cat and mouse" with protag's Litleo, helping it work on becoming more agile and elusive, something Litleo hasn't needed since it's not really hunted
>Rival with hate boner hears second hand and basically says "there's no way a former E4 trainer's training regimen is just 'believing in Pokemon and fucking play tag'"

>>58083366
>"there's no way a former E4 trainer's training regimen is just 'believing in Pokemon and fucking play tag'"
I see he hasn't heard about the affection battle mechanics.

>>58083366
>>58083416
I remember back in the day when people laughed at the friendship thing because their trainers were cool unlike the anime and muh levels through grinding, also all the meta stuff like "why would I tell my Pokémon to dodge?" because it wasn't the anime and their team didn't need such an obvious order.

Then GF made it canon...

>>58083366
>>Rival with hate boner hears second hand and basically says "there's no way a former E4 trainer's training regimen is just 'believing in Pokemon and fucking play tag'"
lmao, that’s great

>>58083366
>>58083500
Trainers having unique methods of training their Pokemon is extremely based and I love seeing it. One of my inter-party conflicts I'm setting up is about how my MC finds the way a companion trains her Pokemon disrespectful to her team.

>>58081692
>>58083366
Sounds like Frank Grimes from The Simpsons

>>58083767
>Be me
>Look up Frank Grimes
>See quotes
>Uncannily similar to the hater character, to the point I'm surprised I haven't been accused of being inspired by that exact character
Amazing. This all happens because I was inspired to do the Sengoku Jidai in a Legends Arceus type setting and somehow ended up in the modern day in Alola

Po Town anon, how long is the fic meant to be? Either total chapters or words if you know
I don't like reading shorter stuff

>>58084075
The first arc just got finished and I think there'll be 9 total arcs. Each one at least ten chapters, with them going to fifteen potential ones (I'm guessing). The chapter count I'm roughly guesstimating is 110-125 (I'm averaging 5-6k words a chapter, I'll let you do the math). Probably too ambitious to say now (especially since I'm just on chapter 14). The feather in my cap is I did finish "Wonders of Alola" (370k words, 88 chapters, mostly haremslop smut that got increasingly hard to write as I tried to keep things "fresh"). PoPT's chapters are beefier but a lot easier to write as the story really just flows (plus I have a detailed outline I loosely follow).

Speaking of training pokemon and each trainer being unique, how about nicknames for pokemon?Do you make sure there's a distinction between trainers who do nickname, and trainers who don't?

>>58084358
I find nicknames for the MC's team annoying, especially if it's another greek god naming convention. Nicknames I believe are best for other characters to avoid confusion if they have the same kind of pokemon.

>>58084358
My general rule so far is for canon trainers to not nickname Pokemon unless they did so in their games. For OCs it varies; some do, some don't. My MC tends to pick simple names that play off some physical trait of his Pokemon. The deuteragonist on the other hand tends to give her Pokemon very weird names that are basically just their cries - which she insists are what they told her their names are.

>>58084368
>especially if it's another greek god naming convention
Who even does that. The best nicknames are ones you can see a person actually using for a pet, but are also sneaky references.

Enno for a Trevenant, for example.

>>58084358
For me, of course there would be nicknames for Pokemon in a setting that is at all even slightly realistic, however, the writing medium is a bit difficult when it comes to large scale.

Say you have a group of three trainers journeying together. Each trainer eventually ends with 6 Pokemon each (at least, but let's stick with 6 each for now). That's 21 named characters. While that's not bad, it's a bit demanding on a reader's attention. You did pace out the catches well and nicely, so it's not bad at all actually. But oh, each of those trainers has a rival with 6 Pokemon each. Double the number. Oh, and two of the traveling companions have siblings that are also trainers with full teams. Add another 14 named characters. We haven't gotten to gym leaders though! Even if we narrow each leader down to just 3 Pokemon and they only use those 3 Pokemon at all times, that's another 32 named characters at the end of the day, and this is the most bare-bones journeyslop fic I can imagine.

I like nicknames, the more creative the better. But if you're going to include more than 8 trainers in a story, I think it's too much for 80% readers to keep track of, as shitty as that is to say.

>>58084358
In one of my fics there are no nicknames. Just not in the nature of my fics. Another one the MC's only pokemon does not have an official 'nickname' but he does call his poochyena various nicknames (Pooch, poochy, pup, buddy, pal, partner). The secondary main character has a Raticate with a nickname just because she is like that.

Is Pikachu's unexplained shape-shifting ability related to Aura??

>>58084451
No, it's related to dreams because Ash is in a coma.

>>58084458
>All of the Ash-fics are just various coma dreams Ash is having
Deep.

>>58084451
No, Infinite Energy is different to aura because, uhhhhhh... it just is?

>>58084467
AZ was a necroMANcer, not an aurasissy. It's mega evolution not aura evolution. God bless.

>>58084383
No idea, but I guess some people have seen it enough that they are sick of it.

But honestly, Thor is a killer name for a Wigglytuff.

>>58084451
This is a good example of why Pikachu is so forgotten in fanfics. He's unbearably cute and you can really make that shine in a visual medium, but in a written format he loses a lot of his shine and seems boring.

>>58084488
Nah, people just want to write cool shit and Pikachu at least in gameplay tends to suck balls unlest you boost him with items, they also tend to hate how popular Pikachu is compared to their shitmon or because it is a coded-Ash mon

>>58084451
Ash's Pikachu is one of the thousand arms of Arceus.

>>58084497
>Pikachu is Kyogre's grandson
woah...

Speaking of the anime is it me or are there less anime stories day by day? I expected new ones with the current cast

>>58084465
Different multiverses bro, we're a multiverseslop franchise

>>58084499
Pikachu says DEATH to water niggers and fuck gill breathers

>>58084507
Anipokefags are a dying breed. XY cucked them at the end, SM crashed and burned, SS failed to recover despite being a power fantasy, and SV ended up milquetoast with no shipbait because nobody likes or wants to ship an anime jogger.

>>58084451
Nah, he's just very malleable and Mimey gives him lessons in miming others from time to time.

>>58084716
Is that before or after they take turns fucking Ash's mother?

>>58084716
But that's boring, anon.

>>58084521
Shame, I would read a story about Ash after the end of the anime if it isn't journeytrash in Paldea

>>58084507
PokeAni fanfics have been dying for a long time now, the Ashnime just kept getting less and less popular as time went on and more and more people realized it and its characters/stories were not going anywhere despite how long it has been going on, made interest in writing about it diminish greatly.
XY gave it a second breath by seemingly doing everything the fans wanted it to do (down to making the seasonal Pokegirl be explicitly in love with Ash), but then the league happened and everything went downhill, literally, SM tried to give something fresh, but it utterly failed at getting and keeping more attention from the viewers, so interest just continued to plummet.
Then Journeys came and gave the final blow to the entire thing, in more ways than one.

>>58084754
>journeytrash in Paldea
Unfortunately for you that seems to be all the EoL Ash writers are doing. Not that I've done any extensive searching, that's a sea of filth you'll have to dive in yourself. Animefics are never good.

>>58084763
>Unfortunately for you that seems to be all the EoL Ash writers are doing.
You're right, wtf. How come people stopped being creative? It isn't just an anime problem, even SI stuff follows the same pattern but edgy.

>>58084780
Fanfic has always followed le popular thing, even back in 2009 or whenever. You just haven't seen that thing in forever so you're giving them more credit than they're due.

>>58084721
Mimey's in the cuck shed after Jessie muscled in.

>>58084780
You gotta know where to look, and animefics are one of the last places to look if you're after creativity.

>>58084801
I don't know man, I used to look in spacebattles but shit was the same with their SI and that place has no anime stuff at all beyond a few stories that are about SIs

>Having trouble picturing a character I'd described
>Helped myself visualize them with AI
I feel dirty

>>58084948
>AI
Unless you're an artist yourself or pay, why? Is it lazy? Maybe but just that and its not going away

>>58084948
The stories on forums like SB and QQ used to have media tabs with like a couple of original content posts. Now it's just AI art. I feel a twinge of cringe when the OP threadmarks an AI post with the media tag.

>>58084956
It was nice to get a peek at what I was picturing in my head, but normally I just resolve to focus harder on picturing them and spend a few days really clearing up their image in my mind. Even if what came out of this looks pretty good, I'm not happy with myself that I did it. I preferred the satisfaction of my own words being able to allow me to visualize them fully.

This was a shortcut that robbed me of the experience. Quicker, but not satisfying. Even my shitty MS paint doodles I'd do to aid myself were more rewarding.

>>58084967
>It was nice to get a peek at what I was picturing in my head
The AI didn't do that. It gaslit you with a generated prompt and rewrote the original image you had in your mind by convincing you the generated image was the real one.
The truth is now forever lost all because you couldn't imagine the apple.
>Even my shitty MS paint doodles I'd do to aid myself were more rewarding.
This is the way. Keeps your mind from letting go of the original image in favor of a gaslight.

>>58084948
Just imagine something else bro?

>>58084948
Legit, it’s a good consultant. Doing any copy/paste is bullshit, but it’s good to bounce ideas off of.

>>58084967
Anon the prompt was born from your imagination and it should still exist in your mind as the original even if AI drew it for you, you're not a robot right?

>>58085054
People can forget truths if fed lies, it matters how solid their grasp of the truth is. If the door to your house were changed to a different but still standard color you probably wouldn't notice.
Relying on AI for imagination is dangerous because it can very easily rewrite your hazy mental image with some generic trash. Sure, you now have a clear picture in your head, but it's not what you were originally thinking and now it even has 2 sets of ears and
ouroboros legs with false boots that blend into each other.

>>58085085
Just imagine an apple nigga it's not that hard

>>58085114
I'm not the one with the problem. I'm merely concerned for my slightly-less-human friends.

Anyone who can't spin the apple has no chance of unlocking Psychic or Aura abilities, and I feel so bad for them.

>>58085159
Who escalated here?

>>58084383
Silver SI does it

>>58084948
Try doodling on a paper like a bored schoolboy. Works for me.
No you don't need actual drawing ability.

>>58084451
that's just how Copycat works

>>58084358
If people name their fish and hamsters it just makes sense in-universe to name a Pokémon you spend so much time with. But stick with naming only the central characters team and also add some kind of reference to what those names refer to. Cuts down character bloat and makes it easier for people to remember what the fuck's going on when the story updates.

So rock tumb, how does it work? Energy stones become solid and disappear after a certain time?

>>58085351
Those aren't rocks made out of nothing, that would be silly, especially for a non-rock type. They're chunks of stone teleported from the earth's crust.

>>58085351
>disappear after a certain time
Anyone else hate this? Imagine being saved from dehydration in the desert thanks to a sudden rainstorm only to have the water you just drank disappear from inside of you.
I bet you could train a pokemon to hold onto the move's materialization for just long enough that somebody digests it. What implication would that have? Would millions of cells suddenly die as core components they integrated suddenly vanished? How would plants adapt to this? Are the rays from Sunny Day similarly lethal to plants?

>>58085351
It's so inconsistent honestly. I like to think the materials Pokémon moves create stay, just lose that magic power that makes them stronger than they should be.
>>58085363
Geodude teleport a stone through this mans cranium and lobotomize him immediately!

>>58085351
they're made of PP

>>58085419
water sport made with pp haha

New thread?

Close to page 10 anyways
>>58085796

>>58085206
Nobody, those are cherry blossom petal guns just like TR's rocket launcher.

>>58085351
I make it so it can differ from pokemon to pokemon, even of the same species based on the individual's preference/genetic history/understanding of their own power. For Rock Tomb a pokemon could simply take rocks nearby and hurl them, teleport rocks from elsewhere (maybe their is a psychic pokemon somewhere in their lineage, pokemon have a large capacity to interbreed), create rocks out of type/infinity energy, rapidly create them out of the nearby material/their body... The list goes on.

On that not, I prefer having the rocks remain after being used. If mineral pokemon are going to be eating rocks all the time than it only makes sense that they restore those rocks via using moves. This means pokemon battles are infact how pokemon shit.