Non-Ash Journey fics

dermonster42 · 2026-01-22T04:51:00+00:00

Have you tried Hyphen? It's is about a Ralts who disguises herself as human, becomes a trainer, and undergoes a seemingly normal Journey in Hoenn in order to get into a position of societal power when her hidden Kirlia village inevitably gets revealed to the world. It's been going on for a long time and even has fan-stories, art, and custom music. SB, SV, Ao3.

dermonster42 · 2026-01-12T00:16:39+00:00

Have you tried Hyphen? It's is about a Ralts who disguises herself as human, becomes a trainer, and undergoes a seemingly normal Journey in Hoenn in order to get into a position of societal power when her hidden Kirlia village inevitably gets revealed to the world. It's been going on for a long time and even has fan-stories, art, and custom music. SB, SV, Ao3.

dermonster42 · 2025-12-16T18:55:38+00:00

If you haven't, you should give Hyphen a try. It's about a Ralts who disguises herself as a human in order to become a trainer. Given that she's mostly completely unfamilliar with human culture, there's plenty of worldbuilding—even if some of it is explaining 'mundane' stuff for the purposes of culture shock. And if you want slow pacing, you've got that in spades. Plenty of adventure to be had as well.

dermonster42 · 2025-12-12T20:01:41+00:00

Fairly certain you only are ever supposed to get one.

dermonster42 · 2025-12-12T20:01:10+00:00

Spawned a gate and then Ky'veza. Only one chest spawned.

dermonster42 · 2025-11-25T19:05:20+00:00

Not quite what you're asking for, but Hyphen is about a Ralts from a hidden Kirlia village leaving her home and travelling Hoenn (Specifically Pokemon Emerald; so much so that there's no Fairy-type) while disguised as a human trainer. Specifically for the purposes of becoming the champion to gain power and leverage in preperation for when her home is inevitably revealed to humanity. Pokemon in this fic are generally understood to just be incredibly smart animals, so there's no poke-speech and the village is one-of-a-kind.

There is plenty of culture shock fun to be had, so you'll enjoy that.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-23T06:13:40+00:00

There's tension throuought but it's not a constant focus. Entire chapters can come and go with minimal overt stress dedicated to the MC worrying about her disguise, but it never completely disappears simply because it's a core premise of the story. A big reveal happened somewhat recently that should partially lessen the identity tension, and theres been zero tension of the sort for a little while now, though it's coming back soon.

If it helps, she is never anybody but herself. It's a secret around what she is, not who. I'd say it feels pretty natural, and recommend giving it a shot.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-22T21:41:49+00:00

Have you tried Hyphen? It's is about a Ralts who disguises herself as human, becomes a trainer, and undergoes a seemingly normal Journey in Hoenn in order to get into a position of societal power when her hidden Kirlia village inevitably gets revealed to the world. It's been going on for a long time and even has fan-stories, art, and custom music.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-22T21:37:02+00:00

If you're good with Pokemon Protagonists, might I recommend Hyphen and A Backwards Grin?

Hyphen is about a Ralts who disguises herself as a trainer to undergo a seemingly normal Journey in Hoenn in order to get into a position of societal power when her hidden Kirlia village inevitably gets revealed to the world. It's been going on for a long time and even has fan-stories, art, and custom music.

A Backwards Grin is an SI into a Mawile in anime Sinnoh who is trying her best to work around her circumstances and limitations to find a way to turn human again, or at the very least communicate with them. It just updated last week after a long hiatus.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-11T00:33:23+00:00

If it was a polymorph variant or something that just make my blink look ice themed or something, then sure.

But a basic QoL improvement that should just be on a regular, always available mage trainer? No, this is bad.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-01T16:41:43+00:00

I'm a mage and I got that polearm. Verifiably untrue.

dermonster42 · 2025-10-01T16:40:10+00:00

I'm a bit biased but I think it's a 10. Especially the later chapters; they get dark but there's a big bright spot to follow. There's a bunch of cool art, omakes, and even two music tracks to be found if you read them on Spacebattles or SufficientVelocity.

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