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I wish there was more good Sabrina fanfiction on the Internet... it's so hard to find any stories that give a signficant focus on her (and not just focus on someone like Ash).
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XD Give me your email adress and I'll mail you so many fanfic links you'll drown in them. (Seriously, I have found that many fanfics, it can only be a problem to find the actual link....)
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Really? It's [email protected] ... I'd love to see them.
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^.~ Give me a week or so to gather all the links. (I don't have all of them saved, sadly...) Don't woryy, the time's worth it. After five years of searching, I believe I can say I've found enough fanfics for drowning in them. XD
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Okay, I'll wait patiently... it'll be worth it to finally get to see some Sabrina fanfics.
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Some? XD I'm now at number 58, and that's only ff.net .... (granted, she's not always the main character, but stil...)
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Wow... I couldn't have imagined there were that many... maybe she's not as forgotten as I thought. I guess she is one of the most remembered gym leaders from Kanto, or anywhere (besides Misty and Brock of course), because there were actually multiple episodes featuring her.
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113 stories, 43 with Sabrina being the main/almost main character...is that enough? XD I think I'll stop now, but the list isn't finished, that's for sure.
I think that's because most of Kanto is more remembered than anything else. I, for example, can't remember any of the first Jotho gym battles, but all of Kanto's. |
Oh, of course that's more than enough... I'm just shocked you were able to find that many.
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He, he, he...too much time + using various search engines + knowing sites with much fanwork = the formula. ^^ (+ having a few aces up your sleeve XD)
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It seems from some of the fanfiction that Koga x Sabrina (Venoshipping) is quite popular... what, did people just run out of other couples for Sabrina and stick her with the old man who already has a daughter? That's one shipping for Sabrina I definitely don't like... she needs someone as intellegent as her, I think, which is why Will is perfect for her.
Yes, I definitely spend too much time thinking about shippings... |
Well, they both have a Venomoth! XD
They both have that 'mysterious' aura. He's a ninja, she's psychic. They both are quiet, dark, 'evil'...in the manga, both of them are in TR....yeah, you can interprete that the way you want to, but I'm no venoshipper either. Koga's also too old for her, imo. And his way of thinking is not the one she needs, I agree. Too bad we know so little about Will...so good, because we can make him the way we want him to be. 0=) I don't think so much about shippings...I have a few shippings I really support and some I really hate, but othwise... |
I originally was going to put Sabrina with Gary in my fanfiction, because of a long-lost fanfiction I read a long time ago with those two together. That was before I read your posts here and realized what a perfect match Will and Sabrina were. I've seen several matches for Sabrina, but none of them really work for me...
-Gary: Too arrogant... Sabrina wouldn't be able to put up with it. -Ash: Too dense... opposites may attract, but I don't think Sabrina would ever put up with someone too stupid to figure out her father's identity. -Brock: For one thing, Brock never went crazy over Sabrina, which is kind of puzzling given the fact that I think Sabrina's very attractive. And Sabrina would see right through Brock's looks-first mindset right away. -James: The only female who could ever put up with James's craziness is Jessie, that's it. The only other male who could possibly be a good match for Sabrina besides Will (in my mind) is Morty. But I prefer Will being with Sabrina anyway. |
Sabrina x Gary, hm? Yeah, I've seen that shipping, too. Isn't really my favourite, but it can work, if Gary's personality is played and developed the right way. Which means: No arrogance anymore, just like you said. ^^ But more than that shipping, I've seen Sabrina x Ritchie. As I think of Ritchie as an even worse Ash clone, you better don't ask about my opinion...XD
If Ash ever starts to let his brain work, they might get together, but only then. And well, how big are the chances that Ash suddenly remembers there's something in his head...? I think Brock was simply too scared to ask her out. Even if he tried it, it would have ended with an unpleasently death...0=) Anyway, I don't think she's interested in a man that gets crazy over any other female human being that walks around within 1 kilometre... Yeah, James belongs with Jessie, him with any other female just doesn't seem right... ^^ Hehe, the same choice as me. Either Will or Morty (if you already got the fanfic links, try Wars, Myths and the Apocalypse for a cute Sabrina x Morty shipping. They're only background characters, but it's still cute how he starts to call her love in the second chapter...awww...). |
I first started shipping Sabrina and Gary together back when I thought of my favorite shipping of all, Silver x Jasmine. It was simple enough of a formula for me, to put the most beautiful girl gym leader (in my opinion) with the rival. But while I love the "opposites attract" connection with the two characters in my avatar, neither Sabrina nor Gary would be "in character" if they were in love. Sabrina couldn't be as mysterious and closed, Gary couldn't be as arrogant and loud. Maybe it could work, but there's just something extremely cute about Sabrina and Will telepathically talking to each other.
Now if only there were more of us Psychicshippers... |
The first person I shipped Sabrina with was my own character. XD But even though Will exists in my first fanfic, he and my character share similar character traits. So when I started another fanfic and I didn't want to reuse the old characters, I came back to using Will...^^ And since then, he has been my favourite among the 'official' characters. Sometimes, I still use my self-made ones, though...
I'm skeptical. Shippings that have way too many fans (Pokeshipping...) tend to get uncontrollable... |
Speaking of fanfics, I've noticed that Sabrina may be one of the most difficult characters to get right in a fanfic, especially when you want to keep things secret from the reader. She knows too much... you also really can't have her ask any questions, because she already knows the answer (unless she's asking a rhetorical question). She was too powerful as an antagonist, to the point where I had a hard time trying to think of a reasonable way for her to be "defeated." Maybe that's why she had to lose the battle to Ash in such a strange way, because she wasn't going to be defeated normally.
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*sighs* Yeah, that's a fact me and Satine (why doesn't she come here anymore? ;-; ) discussed often. It's so difficult writing her that every author makes his own Sabrina in a way.
*takes her own fanfic as an example again* Well, I don't have all of these problems, as I have at least two characters who are as strong as Sabrina- her best friend and later her daughter. XD Often, they block her from mindreading with their own power and the other main characters have dark pokemon to block her. I also don't have the problem with the "already knows everything and so doesn't have to ask". My Sabrina didn't want to learn how to see the future as this is something *quotes herself* "that shouldn't be known to any human". Knowing the future in every detail would be deathly... And how I made her "weaker"...well, I kept her "human". She might be a really powerful psychic, but physically, she's quite weak in my fanfic (and almost dies twice...). I'm not sure...Saffron Gym is one of the official ones, so most trainers would try to get a badge there and if Sabrina's that hard to beat...but well, there're always unofficial gyms. :P |
You're right, I've noticed that almost every single author has a different way of writing Sabrina's character. I personally have tried to make her extremely powerful, but having weaknesses towards certain things, such as Dark Pokemon. I also have her using her powers only for good, rather than evil, except of course at the beginning of my story when she was with Team Rocket.
It's very interesting to see where someone will put Sabrina in their story, either on Team Rocket, or as a normal gym leader. Unlike someone like Ash or Giovanni, she's not obviously good or obviously evil, she's sort of in between. That makes her such an intriguing character to write and read about. |
With only two episodes and a split personality (pardon the pun), she's bound to be written differently by everyone. Sabrina's not one-dimensional like, let's say, Erika and Surge. And these different versions are the reason I love reading fanfics. You can always compare and once find the 'perfect' Sabrina for you XD.
Hehe, I try the same, as I already said (and dark pokemon are also a weakness of her in my fanfic ^.~). There's sort of an 'borderline' in my fic. Before Ash's Haunter saved her, most things she did with her powers were bad (even going to far as killing), but after that, she only does good things. I agree completely. Sabrina's not black or white, she's gray. ^^ (At least if we're not talking abotu Ono's manga, where she's certainly white...) |
It's a shame we never got another chance to see Sabrina in the anime, to see what she would be like after her personality returned to her... then again, that could have been a bad thing, because the writers could have made her like any old character-of-the-day, overly nice toward Ash and that's about it.
The Sabrina in my stories is one who seems to keep on changing... a good thing, I think, because she's not static. Anytime you have a character with some sort of inner conflict, that character's usually going to be an interesting one, as she is. |
*quoting herself from another thread* *muses about how there was an episode named 'Psychic vs. Ghost! Midnight Battle!' in Kanto BF and the group was near Saffron...* The writers must hate me... XD
Even if the writers made her completeley goody-goody, it would at least have been interesting to see Sabrina at all (and maybe seeing how she lived with ther parents, if she still used her powers and so on). Hm, yeah, I noticed the changing. XD When I first read your story, I was like "With Team Rocket, against Team Rocket, with Team Rocket...?!?" Well, characters with an inner conflict have to change, because their conflict drives them on, they're searching for their place in the world, for the right thing to do. |
If Jasmine can return to the games, so can Sabrina... we'll have to hope she makes some sort of appearance in the fifth generation.
I personally didn't know where I liked Sabrina better for a while, with Team Rocket or against them, so it went back and forth, but now she's definitely on the good side. |
I haven't played D/P, so I don't know Jasmine's role in the games...why is she there and what is she doing?
A nice way of avoiding solid decisions. ^^ |
Oh, I haven't played it either, I've just read that she's in the game.
For me, Sabrina and Silver are the two most interesting characters to write in my fanfics... even though it's sort of challenging to get Sabrina's character the way I want her to be, it's still fun. |
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