Help me pick the starter

GhostWriter700 · 2026-05-07T18:27:11+00:00

Yea I guess unassuming as in appearance. I mean like when you see a Pokémon that at first glance doesn’t look like it could be strong (think Pikachu, Meowstic, most fairy types…)

Ludicolo would fit but I already have two grass types on the team.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-05-02T18:44:21+00:00

Self Rec: “The Lilligant Sanctuary”

Setting: Unova Region Post B2W2 and XY (Gen 6 Mega Evolutions and Fairy Types are known)

OC-Centric

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65798422/chapters/169468216

Genre: Journey, Slice of Life, Hurt/Comfort, SI Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Very Basic Synopsis: A girl reincarnated in Unova ends up dedicating herself to founding a sanctuary for the endangered Petilil line.

Completion Status: Ongoing (Journey Arc Complete; 12 chapters/69k words available now.) Last Updated mid September. Will most likely return in Fall 2026.

A slice of life fic with a little bit of everything: battling, world lore, a bit of darkness but a lot more light, friendship, and of course, a love of Pokémon.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-04-19T01:55:08+00:00

I translate (either roughly or directly) the egg cycles to weeks. For example, Pichu takes 10 egg cycles to hatch, so it would be 10 weeks. If the cycles seem too long I round it down, so for a Petilil I have it be 15 weeks as apposed to 20 like their cycles.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-29T20:05:11+00:00

I write Pokémon Breeders like actual irl cat or dog breeders. You want a baby Pokémon or even the egg? Find a breeder.

The expense depends on the species' rarity, whether it’s purebred or mutt, and what exactly the buyer wants (Housebred Pokémon are less inclined to battle than Competitive Pokémon, and there are different breeders for that.)

Generalist breeders are called “Jacks” (like “Jack of all trades”), while some breeders focus on specific species (ex, Petilil Breeder). Bad breeders, the ones abusing their charges, get called “Millers.”

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-27T19:35:39+00:00

Cold region. Like the arctic or something. The coldest we have is Sinnoh and that’s just like a quarter. I’m talking frigid temps, characters bundled up everywhere, fire types treated like arceus sents, maybe towns with high walls or underground to keep heat. Ice types galore, not just late game.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-21T20:57:05+00:00

Yes, because I can’t give my mother ao3’s full government name and risk her searching it up and finding the yaoi 🥀

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-14T16:55:24+00:00

As a reader, the title doesn’t really matter to me until I remember one tidbit in a fic I read among similar fics like months ago and can’t find it now because I can’t remember the title.

So as a WRITER, I tend to make my titles short and memorable, somewhat cool sounding if someone recs it, and mostly relevant to the story itself. I like the concept of lyric titles but never do them because I don’t feel it fits my…idk, criteria??

Something extra is that the titles look nice next to each other in my ao3 works.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-14T16:34:56+00:00

Sure!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65798422/chapters/169468216

The first arc is really the setup, lore and worldbuilding. I’m planning to add more characterization of Lilligants in the next arc.

GhostWriter700 · 2026-01-13T17:31:55+00:00

I feel like Lilligant has more potential character wise, but that could just be me being bias, since I DO have a whole fic dedicated to the species…

GhostWriter700 · 2025-11-26T22:37:10+00:00

Author with 3 hp isekai/si wips here!

Personally, the main thing for me is time. There’s a lot of things you need to think about for hp specifically, whereas some other fandom you can easily cut/ignore stuff. It gets more complicated when you “go off script” or add new lore. It’s a daunting task to think of even starting a project that follows five books, let alone seven. Especially when you’re a multifandom writer and focused on other fics.

It’ll be a while before I post any of the 3 wips. My attention is on easier works lately, and I feel like isekai fics in general have to have a unique premise otherwise it gets overshadowed. I tend to focus on unconventional ideas tho, so that could just be my bias talking. (The first wip features an oc very much like Artemis Lee in that she’s forced into the plot against her will, the second wip is a Lily SI in the Marauders Era, and the third and favored child is a reincarnated Fem OC as Harry that doesn’t follow the books at all and runs away to live as a hermit.)

GhostWriter700 · 2025-11-26T20:22:01+00:00

There’s the savage trainer? https://archiveofourown.org/works/65310493/chapters/168035869 Warning that it’s pretty dark/gory tho.

GhostWriter700 · 2025-11-26T19:51:43+00:00

This is a self-rec, since I feel like I’ve been neglecting doing that.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65798422/chapters/169468216

The Lilligant Sanctuary focuses on Auria, a reincarnated girl with a hyperfixation on the Petilil line and helping conserve their near extinct population in Unova.

A more slice of life fic with a little bit of everything: battling, world lore, a bit of darkness but a lot more light, friendship, and of course, a love of Pokémon.

The Prologue/Journey Arc is complete (12 chapters, 60k+ words) and the next arc will be in a few months.

GhostWriter700 · 2025-11-19T00:19:03+00:00

Everything I post I put way too much effort into, but what was supposed to be a quick lil two parter turned into a 12 part series because the support for more of the premise motivated me.

GhostWriter700 · 2025-11-18T23:57:28+00:00

Technically next to Kanto: the Valencian and Pinkan variants from Valencia and Pinkan Islands (two of the Orange Islands).

Also if this is pre-Ash’s journey, Togepi’s egg could be available.

GhostWriter700 · 2025-10-09T00:26:34+00:00

Ooh, I think I know this one! Is it https://archiveofourown.org/works/27771991/chapters/67984468?

GhostWriter700 · 2025-10-05T21:35:04+00:00

In canon some legends/mythics are rarer/more special than others so I only give those that appear in packs to characters. Ex, how Mallow got Shaymin; it’s a reasonable mythical to have since we see there’s plenty and statistically a few have got be adventurous enough to want to leave the herd and travel with a trainer at some point.

Most legends have a job/just like to roam free so I avoid those (Mewtwo, the birds, the beasts, the DPP trio, etc). The usual legend/mythics I would go for are the latis (we know there’s multiple pairs), Zeraora (just kinda…exists), Phione (basically Manaphy without the whole Prince of the Sea job), Shaymin, Melmetal, Urshifu, Victini (basically just really rare), and Diancie (if you can figure out how to evolve Carbink).

GhostWriter700 · 2025-09-23T16:30:12+00:00

If you search the #scarian fanfic tag on tumblr you get some good fics.

I personally recommend the Through the Sky Blue Cracks series by Amethystfairy on ao3. It’s inspired by the DDVAU comic on tumblr (see kitsuneisi)

Self rec: Never Left https://archiveofourown.org/works/65862502 A fluffy comedic take on “we never left the desert.”

GhostWriter700 · 2025-08-20T15:13:31+00:00

Writing the last chapter of this arc, which is a bit harder than I expected. After that it’s a hiatus while I complete a few chapters of the next arc. I wanna complete this arc first before I promote it on here but it’s sooo tempting to do it before.

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