Pokemon fan fics have been lacking in the orginallity department. It's always orginal trainers setting off to become champions, rivals, starter pokemon, love intrest and so on. I somewhat am started to get annyoyed by it. The fandom is huge and people don't always have to write about journey fics, but that's the majority anyway.
I mean how annoying is it? You finish reading someones OT jouney chapter then click on the next fic and find it's the same concept. You ever notice how people have some orginal beginning in the OT fic then lose the creative juice and becomes cookie cutter?