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>Thread question: Your fic is now a different genre, how do things go?
>>59348518(OP) >Your fic is now a different genre, how do things go? It died because I have zero experience when it comes to romance and can't use bullshit random go like in an action story
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)21:32:46
>>59348518(OP) I have thought about writing an April fool's chapter where the genre and style of the fic changes drastically as a gag
>>59348518(OP) Well it's kind of a romance, action/adventure, journey thing so I assume it'd become a tragedy, intrigue thriller, mainly set in one location. Honestly you wouldn't have to change Rhys that much, just make Clair less accommodating towards gim, hen dial up his self conceit a little and he'd probably end up falling into Team Rocket eventually. I'd have to flesh out Mahogany Town more as the story would mostly take place there. You wouldn't have to change anything about Weavile, she'd fit that hypothetical story as is.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)21:41:57
>>59348518(OP) >PoPT but done in “Wonders of Alola” style reboot >All of the factions are run by hot female characters of the franchise >Ian is a chad who takes over Po Town almost immediately and proceeds conquering each faction one by one, taking the defeated ladies of as concubines I was drunk and horny one night and got Grok to do some chapters. Was a bit of a laugh the next morning.
>>59348518(OP) >The trenches that morning were as cold and wet as they had been every morning. But they were steadily growing more empty as soldiers and their pokemon failed to return from the Chansey tent. Even as they worked through the night, he knew that that were faces he saw yesterday that he would not be seeing today. A part of him considered that the worst part was how numb he had grown to the death surrounding them. But that part was numb too, and the part of him that remained was glad for it. To think that he could see a man scramble through the mud as a Flareon cooked the meat from his and feel nothing. He doubted he would ever be able to look at an Eevee the same way again. "War is hell, Tobio." A gruff voice said, and he looked up to where Poochyena was sitting beside him. The puppy pokemon took a long drag from his cigarette as he stared a thousand yards away at the far sidd of the trench. "Good mons dying and killing... For what? This isn't how life should be. This isn't normal." Poochyena scowled as he chewed on his cig. >"You're right." Tobio said as he scoffed and looked up at the grey sky. "It's PokeNormal."
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)22:34:14
>>59348349 >Kuzey having Tyrunt As long as he has Aunt Vi he’d be safe, but I don’t think Tyrunt would ever bend to him.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)22:36:58
>>59348693 I think Daria would be a better pick long term.
>>59348693 I was just thinking, Ian might be an interesting match with Crest because he's got an ego that even puts Wartortle's to shame. The only reason he listens to Kuzey is they're brothers (and Crest thinks he's the big brother). Ian would have to do a lot of appeasing to keep him feeling like the main character.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)22:56:52
>>59348745 Really? Crest just sort of blended into the background for me, honestly Phylla feels more notable even if I know that's wrong. Mind you I say notable and not "has a strongly defined personality." Probably my fault for not paying as much attention to him as I should've been.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:00:21
>>59348751 Next chapter has a full-on pow wow with all the main Pokemon so hopefully I can cement their characters a little more for you, but yeah Crest is a brat that thinks he's the only Pokemon Kuzey really needs. Phylla is a freeloading attention hog, and a food thief to boot.
I wanted the fight with Golett to be a peek into his headspace, that Crest is overjoyed to fight like this because Kuzey's finally got his head in the game.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:02:11
>>59348518(OP) It's a romcom where nobody can get any because the person they pine after pines after another like in Midsummer Night's Dream. I refuse to explain.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:02:54
>>59348769 Well Max already doesn't want to fuck Weave in CSP.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:12:02
>>59348518(OP) >Your fic is now a different genre, how do things go? What genre is a journeyfic anyway?
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:13:32
>>59348518(OP) It's already a drama romance adventure mystery with comedic elements, I'm not really sure what it could pivot to
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:16:19
>>59348349 >>59348693 I haven't read Sellouts yet. I am honestly way behind on reading stuff and haven't read anything in months. But I'll go down some answers.
If Tobio had Blastoise then he would now have the right and be expected to claim the title of Captain of the Kingdom Knights. Which Tobio would not have wanted to do, so what would happen is he and Squirtle would become the most wanted thieves in the kingdom.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:24:25
>>59348806 To give you a picture of Maractus, the author described her eyes as being full of pure evil, and described her personality as being akin to Judge Holden in CCfag's comment section.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:29:10
>>59348745 Crest and Sawsbuck being attention whores would be fun to write. Honestly, I was seriously debating putting an Armarouge in Ian’s team at one point. Eventually I realized I didn’t want to double up on Psychic types for the “final” six of Ian’s team. Tfw the “Sawsbuck role” of my fic in development hell is an Armarouge
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:29:58
>>59348825 I think an Amourouge is very Konosuba coded so it works.
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:37:39
>>59348806 Found the comment he left. >The maractus at a distance looks totally normal, it's only when you get up close that you'd see the unsettling differences. She's roughly four hundred years old and it shows, where the ordinarily soft stellate-studded epidermis would be there is instead a dull green leather grading into more brown than green base, her spines are whittled down to nubs from years of use. The flowers that adorn her head are brunt at the edges. Lastly, I always pictured her face as Judge Holden's from Blood Meridian, a permanent grin etched into her face that just a little too wide and little too sharp, her eyes completely devoid of any joy, that when taken as a whole is entirely alien and immediately hostile. She also like building vietcong traps and humans romantically, and possible sexually..
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Anonymous06/09/26(Tue)23:59:17
>>59348827 It’s not the Konosuba one. >Tfw at least 2 more years of PoPT >Not sure I’ll have the motivation to do another Pokemon longfic Feels weird.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)00:02:03
Is Borne of Nutrition as bad as people say it is?
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)00:13:31
>>59348871 It’s extremely influential. Most of the tropes we bitch about in here actually became popular because of it, just worse writers executed those tropes very poorly. If it updated consistently (which its been doing better recently, to be fair) and didn’t have the overt foxlust I’d say it would be widely regarded as the GOAT of Pokemon fanfics.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)00:15:16
>>59348871 >bad The fic itself is one of the better ones. But it does treat nutrition as an unknown science that only the MC knows about.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)00:19:47
>>59348871 It's not that bad, it's a worthwhile read just to see how far its influence has propagated like what >>59348887 wrote. I dislike it because the author started to play it safe with his writing I think to protect the patreonbucks and so now it's quite bland and predictable.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)00:31:15
>>59348871 To add on (I’m >>59348887), I’d highly recommend any writer who wants to improve how they write fights to check it out. It’s not the only fic with good fights obviously, but it was very inspirational for me and I know many others.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)01:05:45
>>59348926 >>59348899 Well I guess I'll have to add it to my list then, the only question is does it go above or under Crystal Light?
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)01:07:45
>>59348871 Nah, it’s just easy to rag on. The nutrition magic is a plot hole, sure, but it’s fine otherwise unless you dislike feralfaggotry.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)01:09:58
>>59349076 >unless you dislike feralfaggotry It's interesting how many innocent readers completely miss the hints and think they're just really good friends.
>>59348815 >>59348837 Oh. I think Wol would be fucking dead. Real answer is that, depending if he got Maractus as his starter when he was a kid like Squirtle or as an adult like(?) Sellouts. As a kid he'd probably be pretty naive and believe he can help steer her away from being so violent only to eventually end up being groomed. As an adult he'd probably do the same but less as a naive child and more as an attempt to tame her to keep her from hurting people. Kinda funny for somebody to suggest pairing up the semi-pacifist with what sounds like a psychopath. Would be a Black Mage instead of a Knight.
Since I'm already talking about Wol, I'll go down a quick list of ones I can remember off the top of my head. This is all assuming he got them as his starter when he was a kid.
-He would have grown up to be more hot blooded from Crest's influence and would be a Red Mage. He'd evolve it into Armarouge and Garland would have Ceruledge. -Sawsbuck would have him become a White Mage, and if he got Tapu Bulu's blessing as well then he'd travel the land attempting to heal the blight around Elfheim and Melmond. -If he had Vahnzimmig then he'd be a Monk and I'd imagine he'd be pretty scared up from trying to take care of him. But he'd also be ripped as hell from the insane Garchomp that he is rumored to wrestle while insisting that its just a little troubled.
>>59349505 Nooooo you're not supposed to lets humans get hurt it completely destroys the fragile narrative that humans have a role in a world with supernatural monsters!!! Escalation is illegal so no one would do it not even wild pokemon!!!
SI guy into Erika who tries xer best not to fuck up while frauding as hard as possible to run a gym
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)04:39:18
>>59349572 Doesn't sound possible for the average guy, Erika was already surrounded by sycophants. Their noblesse girl gossip senses would spot the anomalous behavior immediately unless xhe was already a tranny to begin with and an expert in navigating cancel culture circles.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)04:40:45
>>59349592 They'll immediately notice something's wrong when Erika starts clumsily trying to hit on them instead of asserting her authority by jamming her fingers into them whenever she pleases.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)04:40:48
>>59349572 If you make Erika murderous you’ll help solidify a threadfic trope on the bingo card.
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Anonymous06/10/26(Wed)05:36:58
>>59349572 you mean this fic? https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14456636/1/Becoming-Erika
>>59349757 It all depends on the pace of your story. Also if you can fit a good arc for the starter even better. The culmination of the arc will matter far more to readers if you’re able to pull it off, no matter when the evolution happens.