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I've got a topic that I am rather curious about as it will help me when I get further into my story. It's also inspired by the 5th gen coming out.

How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? for instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? for instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?

Because the new pokemon *seem* specific to that new region, I ignore it. There isn't much else we can do otherwise, unless if you wanted to mention or introduce the closest thing: fakemon.

But it is still up to one's interpretation on how they want the pokemon world to work too. :)
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? for instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?

Wow, now that you've mentioned it, the fifth gen. might clash with my story. Well, what I'm going to do (because it's obvious my story will not be finished this year if I keep doing a chapter a month) is possibly just ignore the fifth gen. My story focuses heavily on the Pokemon Legendaries, so it wouldn't make sense to insert fifth gen. Pokemon but deny the existence of the region's Legends.

Now, if it's any other story, I'll add some of the new Pokemon here and there.

- Kat
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? For instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?
I might refer to a specific new Pokemon once or twice, but that's about it. I usually ignore most Pokemon that aren't from Kanto anyways, so a new generation won't be much of a problem.
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? For instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?

Like Feign said, most Pokemon are specific to their region. So my characters generally don't run into any Pokemon except for those native to the region they're currently in. If they do run into any Pokemon from an outside region, it's owned by a trainer so it's easier to explain why the non-native Pokemon is there. (Like how one character guessed that another came from Hoenn because he had a Blaziken on his team.)

I might reference the other region's Pokemon somehow. Mainly I focus on the Legendaries, since they make up the mythology of the world, but even then it's no big deal because each region seems to have their own beliefs on who did what when.

Edit: Fictional is a noun?
 
The only Fictional that's a noun that I can find is a German musical project. "Fictional" always was an adjective to me.

It just struck me when I read that question. Maybe 157/Ca will explain.
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? For instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?
With Heart of the Sea, I originally wrote it back when there is not too much info of Diamond/Pearl, so I only featured the Pokemon from the first three gens. However, the rewrite I'm posting now I didn't include the fourth gen Pokemon, but I did include fourth gen attacks. If the fifth gen gets out before I get some chapters of HotS done though, I think I won't put in any fifth gen anytime soon.

As for the regions thing, depends what canon I'm going for. If the story is game based, I'll go with the Pokemon native in that region route and only way you'll see a Pokemon outside of that region is from another trainer. With anime, anything goes. With NE, I went more with the anime route, so pretty much you'll see all kinds of Pokemon popping up. So when it comes to fifth gen, it'll depend what canon I'm going for. However, I'll try to include them one way or another.

Fun trivia: Incidentally, when Platinum came out, Tropius and Kirlia weren't native to Sinnoh before, but now they are. XD
 
Oh X_X I should have seen that XD

Well, we as the reader can realize that 'fictional' replaces 'fiction/fic/story' etc, so I suppose we can surmise from there.

Fictional could imply that it is or remains to be fiction (as to what we're writing). I might be over-analyzing this, but it is quite late now, and that is probably what I am doing.

I think playing Mad Libs quite a bit, as a kid, really helped me on that front. XD

I remember I got one at a garage sale, partly used, and the person who had filled it in, had used the correct words in the proper places, as often times the Mad Libs would recite something that was famous.
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? For instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?
Mine was started between 3rd and 4th Gen. I originally was going to ignore all 4th gen Pokemon, but when my pair and I decided to have our characters make cameo appearances in each other's fics, I had to incorporate her (character's) Sinnoh Pokemon at the time. What made it easier was that her character actually was from Sinnoh and several of the chapters with her were on a cruise ship with trainers from all over the world. So, her character had her Sinnoh Pokemon, and the only other ones that showed up belonged to other people on the ship. Otherwise, I stuck with all 1-3 gen Pokemon.

tl;dr: I made 4th gen Pokemon native to Sinnoh only, and only used them in conjunction with other trainers from Sinnoh.
 
Haahahaha. I was tired last night, sometimes my fingers have a mind of their own when I'm tired. I guess one of them decided to hold "Shift" while typing fictional. *smacks right hand* "Bad Pinky"
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your piece of fiction? For instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?
I usually just let Pokemon stick to their region of habitat. In an ongoing piece, I only introduce new Pokemon if I find a way they may be relevant to the storyline. If not, I just ignore the new gen until I start a new story. :3
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming on in your Fictional? for instance, do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely till next story?

I started writing after the fourth gen was released, so I've never dealt with the problem of regions hopping into your stories mid-fic. But I'll probably still be writing Pokémon fanfiction when the fifth generation rolls around, so I think that I'll either ignore the new generation until the next story or add the new Pokémon as belonging to characters or being characters themselves. It depends on the concepts or characters introduced - they probably won't turn into important plot points (unless I get jossed) until the next story I write.
 
Fictional can be a noun.

In "the fictional" for example, is it an adjective or a noun?

Just like how "the supernatural" can be used as a noun.

But, uhm, even then, I still don't see how 157 can possibly be right...
 
Ninja Caterpie said:
Fictional can be a noun.

In "the fictional" for example, is it an adjective or a noun?

Just like how "the supernatural" can be used as a noun.

But, uhm, even then, I still don't see how 157 can possibly be right...
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I already said that it was a typo >.>
 
Bah, I always miss the good parts of this. Urgh. Oh, well. ;P Stupid writer's block. Blargh.
 
157 said:
I already said that it was a typo >.>
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I was going to say, we had discussed that a few posts ago.

Though, 157, it wasn't the capital letter for "Fictional", it was the fact that you used it as a noun form in your question.

And now it's really confusing here.
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming out in your fictional? For instance: do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely until next story?

Topic edited (should be correct now.)
 
How do you handle a new generation of Pokemon coming out in your fictional? For instance: do you add in some of the new Pokemon, or just ignore them completely until next story?
Well, I'm writing a fic taking place in Hoenn. (which, to my recollection, is a tourist attraction.) Seeing as it is such, I will probably just stick the 5th Gen in as Trainer's Pokemon or something should I find that there is an appropriate place to put them, and a new Pokemon that I really like.

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I'm having trouble with this, so...

When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?

Although I haven't written any journey fics (and won't due to the fact I'll probably bore myself to tears), I always imagine giving newbie trainers a Pokemon I personally like or one I think would fit them the best. If the trainer has great ambitions of becoming a pilot after he has seen the world through being a trainer, why not give him a Bagon who also has the dream to fly? I usually throw the whole "but [insert Pokemon here] is so overused/rare" out the window. If the Pokemon was received through a way that makes sense and isn't far fetched like, "he found the Pokemon abandoned one day and decided to take him home" sort of thing, why not?

- Kat
 
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