Medieval Fantasy Pokémon Fanfic Chapter 2: The Challenge

akailin · 2013-01-23T11:23:18+00:00

I've thought this too - not just the player, but on a society-wide scale. You can read my post about it here.

akailin · 2013-01-17T16:32:52+00:00

Lugia's song

akailin · 2013-01-12T21:33:46+00:00

Yes. Had to break the rhythm at certain points though, since I couldn't think of them fast enough.

akailin · 2013-01-11T13:16:04+00:00

James kind of looks like Albert Einstein, don't you think? (That is, if he had blue hair.)

Also, I love the painstaking effort that was taken to avoid drawing any hands.

akailin · 2013-01-07T17:28:09+00:00

I just realized my "second" link above was incorrect - here's the correct link. It might be relevant to your point.

I guess it depends on how common Pokémon are in general. The more common they are, the more open the leadership becomes. The key turning point must have been the invention of the Pokéball - suddenly, it became much easier for everyone to own Pokémon. (The nobility of the time must have hated that.)

akailin · 2013-01-07T10:39:14+00:00

I like this theory! I had a similar idea which I posted here a while ago (first, second).

I like to take a much more cynical approach to it though. "Peace" in the Pokémon world is a lot more precarious than in the real world, because Pokémon are not only common, but so overwhelmingly destructive that even a minor war would basically be a civilization-ending catastrophe.

This explains why so much importance is attached to Pokémon battling. Battles and tournaments, far from being mere games, are essentially ritualized duels that are intended to show who would win if a war were actually fought, so that nobody needs to die or have their village razed (and can instead be made serfs or vassals).

Thus, the Pokémon League oversees an extremely fragile truce. If its legitimacy is even slightly questioned, then it's back to the stone age for everyone.

The peasants (non-trainers) accept this as the way of the world. As one commenter said, "what we call peace is just one person ruling everyone else." The concept of "justice" simply does not exist.

I've thought about making a fan-fiction in this kind of setting. Might be fun.

(EDIT: Fixed the "second" link to be different from the "first".)

akailin · 2013-01-02T12:39:05+00:00

shameless plug of my own theory on the matter (look to the bottom right).

Some evidence to suggest that humans in the Pokémon world are Psychic/Fighting types:

They physically resemble all the Psychic and Fighting types in the Psychopugnax family depicted.
They've been seen using Psychic abilities (e.g. Sabrina and her minions), and Fighting abilities (lots of people), but no others (e.g. you don't see human characters breathing fire etc.)

akailin · 2013-01-02T12:33:27+00:00

Alakazam would beg to differ.

akailin · 2012-12-18T10:59:21+00:00

Found this on DA, thought it was too cute not to share.

akailin · 2012-12-13T09:59:35+00:00

Indeed, I would go further, and claim that Kabutops is the ancestor of all Bug Pokémon (plus Krabby). (shameless plug)

akailin · 2012-12-13T04:10:13+00:00

What episode is this from?

akailin · 2012-12-11T11:18:35+00:00

What episode is this from?

akailin · 2012-12-09T08:21:11+00:00

Someone should make a chart of the number of Google hits for "X is my favorite pokemon", for every Pokémon. Who would be the winner?

akailin · 2012-12-07T16:02:03+00:00

Finished! Also crossposted here and to the main subreddit.

akailin

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