The Plot Bunny Thread

Writing three intertwining fics that are a series of crossovers between Pokemon and Kingdom Hearts. Need help choosing which Starter Pokemon each of the three main characters should get.
For the three Kanto Starters and Torchic's lines, there will be no Mega Evolutions, as it wouldn't be fair to the others.

But... I'm probably going to go with Hoenn, because of the poll results of this thread here:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=323388

Back to the plot of the fics.


Three friends from the Destiny Islands are chosen by the Keyblade, and are visited by Master Nom E. Kop, who brings the gift of Pokemon to the worlds, sending the three friends on the Mark of Mastery Exam. However, Xemnas and the rest of Organization XIX (eighteen other Nobodies for each type of Pokemon, plus Xemnas) are trying to interfere. Not only that, but the villains of each world have formed an alliance, unleashing the Heartless in all worlds. The Exam then soon becomes a clash between Light and Darkness. Will Trava, Ogon, and Vody (Russian for Grass, Fire, and Water respectively) be able to find the Keyholes to each world for their exam and stop Xemnas? Find out by reading Pokemon Crossed: Kingdom Hearts (which will have three stories, Green, Red, and Blue)!

Okay, I've had this idea rolling around in my skull for some time now, and I wanted to get some feedback on it. Seeing as how this is a Pokémon forum, this is probably the best place to see if it interests anyone...

So, basically, I thought of writing prequels to all of the games, from the perspectives of the villains (you know, Giovanni, Ghetsis, Lysandre). These stories would revolve around their beginnings as trainers, and why they became the villains that they are. Then, the stories would go up through the course of each game from the villainous leaders' perspectives, and finally end after their ultimate defeat.

So, are people interested in this idea? If so, do they have an ideas they'd like to throw my way, or a villain they'd like to see first?

Hmmm... villain perspective prequels. Might be interesting depending on how do you present their worldview, in particular in the case of Cyrus and Lysandre.

Would we see Lysandre's "fall from idealism" with Sycamore as a sad, unknowing spectator? What builds Giovanni's concept of power and profit? Would we be talking about RBY!Giovanni (who upon defeat admits to be motivated by a pursue of knowledge and safety, more or less) or FRLG!Giovanni (who is more flanderized as a ISO Standard Mafia Boss)? What the _heck_ did Archie and Maxie learn in Geography class for them to come up with those goals… if it was even their idea?

Also, I know this seems to be focused on the "main sequence" games and only the main villains but what about the other people who are observably evil but just don't show? When the right hand man of Lysandre betrays you (and him) for activating the WEAPON; or why would the new admins of Team Rocket risk a public uprising if their purpose is to bring the old boss back and resume operations; or when there's a poor kid raised by a Zoroark and taught all falsehoods from which to basically build a religion… there's a lot of interesting ideas that stay "just outside the spotlight" yet feel like they would be very interesting to bring along.

Now, I have to say... the potential for Children!Archie and Maxie metaphorically fighting over a cookie jar at school? Oooooh, this alone I think would make it worth reading for me.

This is an idea I had recently. Nothing concrete about it yet though. Basically, it would kind of be a fic which would serve as an anti "Shinies in Journey Fics" fic. It would explore what would happen if you actually managed to catch a shiny in the pokemon world. Would it get taken in for experimentation? Make you a celebrity? Could you sell it to get rich? Would it be a target for thieves? It's something I think could be interesting, if done right. It feels to me like a one shot, but it might be able to be expanded into a series.

MusikMaestro said:

This is an idea I had recently. Nothing concrete about it yet though. Basically, it would kind of be a fic which would serve as an anti "Shinies in Journey Fics" fic. It would explore what would happen if you actually managed to catch a shiny in the pokemon world. Would it get taken in for experimentation? Make you a celebrity? Could you sell it to get rich? Would it be a target for thieves? It's something I think could be interesting, if done right. It feels to me like a one shot, but it might be able to be expanded into a series.

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So, what exactly do you need help with? I'm normally against shiny pokemon in fics, but if it's so rare that the trainer instantly becomes famous, I could see it working.

I'm kinda stuck with the aprroach, and I could do with some help for that. Should it be a one-off, or a series, for instance?

MusikMaestro said:

I'm kinda stuck with the aprroach, and I could do with some help for that. Should it be a one-off, or a series, for instance?

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That depends, do you want to show one aspect of the fame, or several? If you want to show several, then this would definitely have to be a chaptered fic.

So I had an idea recently for a Pokemon story and wanted to see what the general opinion of my idea seemed to be before I started actually writing it out, since it is still in the planning stages (And thus, it is open to changes).

Basically, it would be a sequel of sorts to the events of Pokemon Platinum. A basic premise is that Team Galactic has become a legit organization or company, with Saturn as the leader. The events of the story would be kicked off by something causing Saturn to suddenly go all evil again (I have it all worked out, but won't reveal the reason behind his Heel-Face Turn due to it being heavily involved with the plot). The story would try to focus equal parts on Saturn and the protagonists from the original game while also exploring certain

Anyway, thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions? Anything at all that isn't covered in those three one-word questions?

I had this idea in my head for quite some time.

It's a Digimon fanfic that would basically be my ideas for a seventh season.

"Digimon Aura Force" will be about a group of Tokyo teens (Note: I'll make this fic as if it were the English dubbed version, as I cannot think of any Japanese names that would suit each human character), who end up buying an online game called "Digimon Aura Force", and end up getting literally trapped in the game with their Digimon partner.

It will have some Digimon of my creation, and some extremely underrated official Digimon which have hardly seen the light of day in the Digimon franchise (like Monmon, whom I used a lot in Digimon World 3).

I based some of this loosely on (what I have read in reviews about) Sword Art Online, and various Digimon World video games.

Let me know what you guys think about these basic details.

@ SetheKing

Well, you didn't exactly give us much to go off of. I can't really give my thoughts on an idea until I know the reasoning behind everything. It would be nice to know the driving force behind the whole story, since anything can happen if you set it up correctly. The outline you gave us is good, but it's nothing stellar. I'm afraid I can't say much else because what makes a story stellar is the set up and the driving force, which you didn't say.

@ Digimon Kaiser

I'm sorry, but I've never seen Digimon, so I can't really help you.

Hellos Kind People!

I am Teh Fisharmahn, although not on my ID. I once tried making a game on this forum, but people didn't fancy joining in. I decided, that first I'll write something and check whether anyone likes it and then, if yes, try doing the game. This idea evolved into "Actually writting itself is cool, the game isn't a must". Well, I always had this lust for writting anything but if somebody were to share their views on my piece of art, that would be great.

Because of that I want to know if my idea is good, hence I ask here. So, since it's been about 20 years since Pokemon were created, many of those who liked them as children are grown-ups now. This applies to me too. That's why the candy-like world of Pocket Monsters doesn't seem like a thing I'd like (this does not apply to the games, but to the Anime and many peaces of fan art). That's why I decided that what I want to write is to be more realistic. I wrote something that were to be included in the first part of what I want to write, but I can as well put it here.

Please, give me some feedback. It does not include the main plot, just what the world is to be like in a short version. I'd also gladly answer any questions here.

Here it goes:

Although what you are about to read is not actually a Pokémon fiction, it was heavily inspired by the franchise. There are, although, no Pokéballs nor Poké-centers and even no real Pokémon for that matter. There is going to be death, cursing, excessive amount of blood and some mourning too. You have been warned.
But let's stick to the idea. What will it be exactly?


This world is a pessimistic view of the future of ours. It is the beginning of the XXIV century, year 2311 to be precise. People made a spectacular progress in many branches of technology – electronics makes life extremely simple, astronautics let people touch the stars, genetics saved lives and…
And then took many more.


It was late XXI century when humans learned to manipulate genes at will. Many visionaries appeared telling tales of a world without weakness. There were to be no illnesses, no premature deaths, no fear for the life of your close ones. This led many people to believe this idea and support it.
And this was the first step to their doom. After gene manipulation became available to everyone who had some excessive amount of money, people were divided into "regular" and "superior" humans. This eventually led to a new kind of racism which developed into a world-wide war won by the majority – the ones, who were not mutated – but for a great cost as less than a billion people survived. When everybody thought the genetics was done with, it struck from where the humans did not expect – nature. It turned out that the first tests were run on plants which were then forgotten. They gained sentience and decided to reclaim what was taken from them – the world itself.


Since then humanity struggles to survive in this broken world. They use what was left of "the old world" – the achievements of science – but achieve nothing on their own as the only thing they care for now is to live.

So basically... what one thinks about a more realistic Pokémon world? You may need to be more specific then, or at least give us some examples. ;p For example... in what way more realistic? Say, is there a more active government; if so, how would it be run best in such a world? Age limits on when one can start training Pokémon? Is it even feasible to have gyms/etc and a career as a Pokémon trainer? Are that the sort of things you were considering on implementing.

Well, kay, I didn't really state this one, so I will now :D

Anyhow, my main idea is that it is a future world broken by science achievements gone wrong. The "pokemon" are mutated animals, plants and objects (that were somehow given sentience and a semi-living form). Although nobody here will ever use a term "Pokemon" (maybe in jokes, but I doubt this one), all these creatures will be easy to identify as one of them. I also mean to add a kind of "pokedex" or more likely a guide featuring all these creatures that any character from my fiction might meet. I would, say, add one entry each part. This would look like a page from some scientific book.

But about the novel. There are a lot less humans after 300 years that there are now. Thay all live in cities hundrets of kilometers apart and very rarely venture anywhere beyond the city walls, as that's where the wilderness is and wilderness means death (to most). That's because the mutated animals and plants live there and they do not always like company.

The idea to make it a little more adventurous is to write about certain people, presumably some that are secretly mutated. There still will be prejudice towards them, so they won't be able to come back to the community. Also, to make it more like Pokemon, people will tame some of these creatures. Of course, most will fear this act and even think of it as wrong and show some sort of hostility.

There will not be Gyms, trainers and Pokemon league. Mostly survival and discovering secrets. There will be secret organisations that still work on genes, some, that try to fight them off. My fiction will mostly circulate around people, who are active in either genetics or fighting it.

I myself am a fanatic of science fantasy, hence the idea of not too distant future with genes manipulation to such an extend, that it can be easily classified as fantasy. I am not biology student, I don't even like it that much, but I'll try to make it as accurate as possible.

And of course, shooting a charizard (named elsewise) in the head with a sniper rifle for trophy will be kinda normal.

I absolutely LOVE writing stories from a Pokémon's perspective. This time, I'll be writing one about legendaries.

Yveltal is in love with the beautiful Articuno, and he believes that she loves him back. However, when he discovers that she never felt the same and has found a mate, he is consumed by envy. He enters the training of a mysterious Honchkrow deemed "The Corruptor," where he learns many sneaky, evil tactics. One day, Yveltal goes too far, and Articuno enters a fit of rage. In order to make up for his deeds, Yveltal must get help from an old friend, sacrificing his life to return peace to his home.

Hm... I notice that a lot of these story ideas are very serious. It's okay if I post an idea for a satire here, right?

I've noticed that a common plot in pokemon fanfiction seems to be the evil team leaders joining forces and trying to rule the world together. I want to write a comedic fanfiction that somewhat deconstructs this, because I've always find those fanfiction to be not-very-well though through.

Here's my idea: the main character of the story will be Giovanni, and the narration will be in third-person, told "over his shoulder." The story will begin with Giovanni leaving PWT Facility at night, after a tournament. Long story short, he gets trapped in an illusion by a psychic-type, such as a Hypno. Giovanni then wakes up in a strange building with all of his pokemon missing.

Workers in the building escort Giovanni to a meeting room, where everything becomes clear--this building hold E-Anon meetings, that is, a recovery center for evil people (just like Al-Anon, except far more incompetent)! My idea here is that since the authorities of the pokemon world seem rather lazy, all they have criminals do is have psychotherapy. In fact, in my vision of E-Anon, most "villains" are really just mildly petty people, like trainers who feel guilty about not letting they're Pichu evolve because it's too cute the way it is.

The only other actually evil people in the story aside from Giovanni will be Ghetsis (who will be on medication) and Cyrus, because neither of them reformed to died. Cyrus and Ghetsis will be introduced to Giovanni by the workers at E-Anon, who tell Giovanni that those two have been forced to go to meetings the longest, but for some reason they haven't improved much.

The premise of the story will be that Giovanni must find a way to pretend to reform and escape, while not losing his mind throughout all of these meetings and the team-building exercises that go with them. Cyrus and Ghetsis will be involved as well, although Ghetsis will probably end up recovering his Hydreigon and then he'll try to make it eat everyone or something.

I have most of the story worked out, but I'm not totally sure how to end it. I'm thinking that Giovanni will actually end up wanting to do evil effectively again, while it ends up being the workers that "fall off the wagon,'' as it were?

Alright, in hindsight, I really should've said more. Okay, to elaborate on my original idea:

Basically, when Cyrus ended up opening that rift/portal/whatever you call want to call it to Distortion World, even though Giratina was stopped by the original hero, it basically screwed up the barriers between worlds. Meaning that Cyrus screwing with the Legendaries is slowly causing the Apocalypse and that, in a currently undecided upon number of years, the world would essentially get consumed by the Distortion World, which would probably cause the deaths of many, if not all, of mankind.

Saturn, now running the reformed Team Galactic as a sort-of mega corporation, would be made aware of this due to one of the company's projects on Mount Coronet, would end up forming a new Team Galactic to do what he thinks is saving the world by way of trying to use the Legendaries in some way.

It would take a slightly AU approach to Platinum's ending (Lucas didn't defeat Cynthia and become Champion, Barry has ended up working at the Battle Tower and is following in the footsteps of his father Palmer, and Dawn is trying to become a Pokemon Professor like Rowan.)

It would likely be a relatively short-to-average length story in terms of chapters, and I am wanting to use these pre-existing characters and some original characters to try and give an in-depth insight into all viewpoints on the story's conflict and the repercussions their actions would have on everything. I hope that makes sense.

So, I hope that is sufficient information to get a general idea concerning it. I also need to come up with a title, so any suggestion for that are more than welcome. Like I said, suggestions, opinions, etc. are requested.

SetheKing said:

Basically, when Cyrus ended up opening that rift/portal/whatever you call want to call it to Distortion World, even though Giratina was stopped by the original hero, it basically screwed up the barriers between worlds. Meaning that Cyrus screwing with the Legendaries is slowly causing the Apocalypse and that, in a currently undecided upon number of years, the world would essentially get consumed by the Distortion World, which would probably cause the deaths of many, if not all, of mankind.

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This sounds like a fine idea to me. There's only two suggestions I would make:

One, it isn't like the portal to the Distortion World closed or anything. Is Saturn going to go searching for Cyrus? Does Cyrus (assuming he's even alive) know what's going on? If so, does Saturn know that he knows that?

Second, how does Saturn figure out that the world is being consumed by the distortion world? If it looks like some huge disaster, why would Saturn notice before anyone else? People travel around Mt. Coronet all the time.

Because your plot idea is vague, I don't get the sense of Saturn's motivations or anything like that, so I can't offer any advice on that front. Not that I really understand the characters of the Galactic Admins anyway, but...

I was recently inspired by The Kane Chronicles trilogy by Rick Riordan, and wanted to write something somewhat similar with Legendary Pokemon.

I was thinking (NOTE: the following would make more sense if you have read The Red Pyramid) about which legendary Pokemon the two protagonists should host (like a god possessing a human, for example).

I am having difficulty picking which mascot legendaries I should use...

(Female lead on left, Male on Right)
Ho-Oh and Lugia?
Kyogre and Groudon?
Palkia and Dialga?
Reshiram and Zekrom?
Yveltal and Xerneas?

I have narrowed it down to these. Can someone help me decide?

I think the best answer you're going to get here is that we can't make that decision for you. Each one of those legendaries have their own special powers, and only you can decide which ones would fit your story best.

There's also the matter of how people here might not have read that series of books, and aren't sure how to help you best on your story.

Asty's right that this needs to be your decision, especially because of how fundamentally this should affect the events in your story. Ho-Oh and Lugia for example have vastly different roles in the world than Xerneas and Ylvelvalvulwhatever. I would pick whichever ones you find most compelling and interesting on their own and use what you find interesting about them to help drive the story.

(And yeah, I don't know what books you're talking about, so I might be totally off base.)

If you're just looking for an arbitrary tie-breaker though, pick Ho-Oh and Lugia because they're the coolest and Gen II was the best. :D

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PLOT TWIST they weren't actually legendaries they were just Guilmon the whole time MIND BLOWN