Idea #1 -
The first idea I have (which is way, way later on in the story), the main character, Nareta (obviously), has her emotions taken away by Mesprit, whom she accidentally touches without knowing what it could do. Her traveling partner, who will be revealed once I actually write the story, tries to get her emotions back after seeing her without them for a few days. Of course, I'm still working on how she gets them back. But, before I do, I wanted to know if this was a good idea or not. And then I will work harder on how she gets them back.
I really like the idea of something of importance of the main character being stolen by a legendary/ordinary pokémon, but emotions are quite a doozy here. Not saying you shouldn't go through with it. In fact, if you can pull it off, that'd be seriously kickass. However, what you're looking at is essentially a Rei Ayanami: zero emotion and probably no perceivable personality. That's going to be
incredibly difficult to write, and a few readers may just be put off by it because the character will probably refuse to react to anything that happens to her. Basically, I'm saying it might be easy to forget that you can't have her react the same way as any other character might (sort of like, she can't jump away from something in fear because she won't be able to
feel fear, she won't be able to connect to the people she meets because she can't feel sympathetic or happy/friendly, that sort of thing), so it might be incredibly difficult.
If you think you can do it, I'd say try it. If you find that it doesn't work or are intimidated a bit by the task of paying
very close attention to what your character does, it'd still be really interesting to see a legendary take something away from a character, so I'd say definitely try playing with other prices before you scrap the concept altogether.
Idea #2 -
A new organization: Kurai-Dan. There are two partners who are named Narasami, or Mimi for short, and Hizaki. Kurai-Dan is an evil organization bent on world domination and purely such. They are also interested in the capture of the Legendary Pokémon, Mew. Mimi and Hizaki follow Nareta because they are interested in her Raichu, Floatzel, Gabite, and, Mimi's old Pokémon, Stantler. However, Nareta doesn't want to give up her Pokémon due to Mimi being an abusive trainer (i.e., she whips and beats her Pokémon). However, as a Buizel, Floatzel gets captured. In the process, despite not wanting to, Buizel is forced to evolve.
Not entirely following the part about Mimi being an abusive trainer and how that connects to Nareta. I suppose if you're going for a Ash-style, "No! I must be kind to my pokémon because they're my friends," then okay, that sounds understandable. And I like the idea of actual pokémon abuse being addressed by someone other than A.J. Still, it sounds like a pretty generic basic idea (as in, hero versus the evil team that wants to take over the world and steal the hero's pokémon), so it'll probably fly. You'll probably want to develop this one a bit further to make it slightly less basic and to take it a step beyond the usual Team Rocket formula. Kurai-Dan sounds incredibly sinister/cult-like, so I'm hoping you play this up with an elaborate plan to take over the world (elaborate a la what every other team aside from Team Rocket usually comes up with -- mmm, Team Dim Sun).
Idea #3 -
An evil Pokémon: Nareta's Hypno. As a wild Pokémon, Hypno possessed Nareta, making her destroy a single town before being captured by her (this idea I'm keeping).
That's really badass.
Afterwards, Nareta gains powers. She is able to see a single future event (up to 24 hours from her predictions) if she can touch the person's face, head, or any body part.
And that's potentially hilarious. I think the limitation of this power in itself is enough to justify it, really, simply because, come on. Molesting people just for the sake of reading their future? "Honest, officer! I wasn't groping him! I was trying to predict what will happen to him five minutes from now!"
Of course, the fact that you limit this power to only moments of love or tragedy really helps too. It reminds me of Ora from
Clover. Really cool power that ends up being not particularly useful except in certain situations.
One more thing, she can understand PokéSpeech, but only for the Pokémon with whom she has close relations, like her Raichu.
This I think it a bit more if-y. On the one hand, it can potentially be more of a hindrance than a help, but on the other hand, it may just make people sound off the Sue alarms, particularly if you're also making her unable to feel emotions (like sympathy) on top of this. It could be considered essentially matching with canon, though, if she can simply understand what her pokémon are thinking the way Ash can get a vibe from Pikachu just because they've been together for long enough to get that close to one another.
If that's what you mean, then sure, it's one of those things you can get away with by pointing to canon and going, "Hey,
they did it, so I can too." Which is always convenient, I think.