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I believe a pretty creative trope is the start of Xenoblade Chronicles. The start is your typical revenge story, but it evolves into something more as you meet different characters and learn things. You can definitely see Shulk grow and somewhat question why he's doing this and if he should.
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That actually sounds really interesting, I've always been interested in the franchise since I saw Shulk in smash (backslash spam), I might finally get around to checking the game out then.
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I don't like when the character dies and is reborn as a Pokemon, it also kinda renders it mootish
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I 100% agree with this. To me it seems that being a human before is useless if it doesn't have any implications. Same with losing memories when transformed/transported. You might as well just write a pokemon in the first place.
One of my all time favourite tropes is, more of a meta trope than a narrative one, the title drop. When you're thousands of words into the story and invested in the world and then all of a sudden the author uses the title in the narrative. I guess it's double the points when the title seems obscure, or you aren't quite sure how it relates to the story, but when it is mentioned everything makes sense. Apart from just being a cool thing to see, I think that it demonstrates that the author put real care and thought into their work. to set something like that up.
In terms of character, I've always been fond of hard asses with a softer side. It's cheeky and done quite often, but in my experience these characters are so wholesome that you just want them to succeed. A great example would be Knuckle from Hunter x Hunter. Character tropes I don't like would probably be the person that's crazy just for the sake of being crazy, I'm sure it can be done right-- I just haven't seen it yet.
In the pokemon world, I'm a sucker for journey fics; if they follow the cookie cutter model or do something completely different, it doesn't matter. I think that pokemon just inspires this feeling of adventure and discovery that I always enjoy reading. The scope of the world is huge and holds so much potential, I think that's largely why I always find myself coming back to my pokemon stories.