Venia Silente
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Today Apr 21st is the International Day of Creativity and Innovation - a day where the UN and others encourage the creation of culture and the multidisciplinary study of the world around us.
As writers in the Pokémon fandom we are certainly well attuned to the need for inspiration and the context for creativity, adaptation and inspiration, as we go and run the entire gamut from original characters to adding new Pokémon or even entire maps and worlds and original settings.
But that's us. Today I'd like to ask: how do your characters do? How is culture preserved and expanded in your world and what role, if any, do your characters fit into that scheme of things?
Do your Trainers - and your Pokémon - content themselves with the path of fighting across routes and challenging Gyms, or do they go beyond the line of duty and seek the knowledge from different branches of Arts and Sciences - such as agriculture, psychology, chemistry or physiotherapy even - to complement their performance? Do your Coordinators study the musical arts and theatrical performance? For those writing PMD-esque fics, how do your teams or guilds preserve culture and pass down lessons to future applicants? Who is at the forefront of uplifting a civilization that is not exactly like humans'?
In other words, what do your characters do, if anything, to better understand and teach the world where they are fighting?
As writers in the Pokémon fandom we are certainly well attuned to the need for inspiration and the context for creativity, adaptation and inspiration, as we go and run the entire gamut from original characters to adding new Pokémon or even entire maps and worlds and original settings.
But that's us. Today I'd like to ask: how do your characters do? How is culture preserved and expanded in your world and what role, if any, do your characters fit into that scheme of things?
Do your Trainers - and your Pokémon - content themselves with the path of fighting across routes and challenging Gyms, or do they go beyond the line of duty and seek the knowledge from different branches of Arts and Sciences - such as agriculture, psychology, chemistry or physiotherapy even - to complement their performance? Do your Coordinators study the musical arts and theatrical performance? For those writing PMD-esque fics, how do your teams or guilds preserve culture and pass down lessons to future applicants? Who is at the forefront of uplifting a civilization that is not exactly like humans'?
In other words, what do your characters do, if anything, to better understand and teach the world where they are fighting?
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