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When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
I choose my characters' starting Pokemon rather randomly. I chose Sandshrew because it was the species after Pikachu, Voltorb because it was number one hundred, and Paras because I wanted a cool bug-type. So yeah, pretty random.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
For my only OC, I chose her starter Pokemon because I needed two rather common Pokemon that are rather easy to find, and that also fit the necessary roles that the Pokemon would fill in my plot. So she got a Pichu and a Totodile.

I know that the latter reason is going to cause all sorts of people to go insane, but meh. The Pokemon fit, and she was going to get them anyhow.

Also, the Pokemon are a version of my OTP from PMD.

Also, I'm a Pikachu fan. Of course I'm going to make one a main character.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
I haven't actually posted a story here, yet, but I've run many scenarios through my head. I don't tend to make it the cliche way of getting it from the professor or finding it weak and injured then nursing it back to health. It is just bleh.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?

Well, out of all my OCs, I only have one definate scenario of how a trainer got their particular starter.

In this case, it was a Gastly that had been haunting the homestead for the past few-hundred years, occasionally getting to know the generations of families living there and scaring them for kicks. He eventually left with his then-new-trainer because it was a good opportunity to see the world again, he was on friendly enough terms with the OC, and she needed a starter*.

Tada. It may need some work, but I'm always tweaking and fixing up explanations and backstories to keep 'em as Sue/Stu & cliché-free as possible. Of course, some clichés can't always be avoided, but that's why you try to put a new twist on 'em.


Anyway, hopefully that long-winded explanation is of some help?

*Author's Note: This particular Gastly, despite his age, was not at the time a high-leveled one; he had spent 95% of his "life" playing pranks and tricks and hauntings and very little time battling, let alone seeing other Pokémon. When he had battled, he had been a very young lil' Gastly and didn't "level-up" before he took to haunting this particular house.
 
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?

I won't worry about them. It's not like they'd be in the region I'm writing about. Maybe some trainers or something would do that.

If a sequel came out on some other game and/or literature with new canon, that'd stuff me over.

isn't fictional still wrong

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

A newbie trainer gets a newbie Pokemon. Nothing rare, nothing special, generally a starter, maybe something random.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?

I don't really have a method for it. One has a Treecko (because his line is my favourite), one has a Scyther (not given by a Professor, of course), one has a Pidgey, and one has a Piplup.
 
Uh-oh, DG got curious...

*bombards you all with...*

BA-BING!

When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
I don't really write OT fics really. But if I had to choose, I'd say something that kind of clicks with their personality. Personally, it's not what kind of Pokemon I go with, it's what the Pokemon's personality is actually.


When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
This is an interesting question, and I say that I put my own spin on it. [Blatant Advertising]Check out Reflection in the Storm in my sig! I like to think that I did a pretty good job on that trainer battle oneshot. But that's just me so check it out if you're curious.[/Blatant Advertising]

Well, to add to current active bold topics.
In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?

Unless certain plot events have pretty much made them take a certain Pokémon as the first they will use (such as Casey - notice I didn't say 'starter', because his literal starter was a Poliwag and wasn't received until after he beat the first Gym due to a few mishaps. The first Pokémon he received was a hyperactive Rotom), I will usually stick to the Region's starters. If the Region has no established starters, I pick a few for them.
 
When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
Anime, since my fic is anime-canon based.

In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?
Depends what fic it is. For Pokemon/Digimon, it's anime. For other fandom, it's real life. Just depends on what the basis is.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
I give 'em Pokemon I like. It's why Lisa started out with a Meowth (and a Chevrolet Caprice Classic, based on the same chassis as the 1977-1985 LeSabre.)

When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
Mostly anime based, minus the ridiculous crap like "AIM 4 TEH HORN". Obstacles in and near the arena have played a factor (my 8th Gym Battle is a good example) and I've invented several new move combos like "Protocol Number 479."

In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?
Pretty much anime, with some VERY good automobile/hotel drawings/animations.
 
When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
The anime and the manga (even if I only own one volume). The games just don't do much for me.

In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?
I'm honestly not sure. I don't pay attention to what my daydreams look like and what I imagine things to look like. I know what they are and where, say, windows on a building might be, but I don't actually see them, if that makes any sense whatsoever. They're just pictures to me. It's kind of like asking whether I think in pictures or words. It's hard to describe.
 
When starting of a newbie trainer, how do you decide their starting Pokemon?
In my current fic, I choose shinx only because of its evolved form/ parent: Luxray. The main character faces a Luxray right after he meets shinx, that's all I'm saying.


When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?
E. all of the above. I try to do things my way most of the time to make the story more mine, but I may use others for ideas here and there.


In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?
I know that this topic has been asked once before, but I don't remember my answer.

Either extremely realistic looking anime, or live action. I see Pokemon as furry creatures, not animals who look as if it has no fur and just skin a certain color. There are a few things I have not figured out yet. (Buizel/Floatzel's flotation sac for example, what is it made of, skin? )
 
Well, in other non-bold topic related news, to tone down the formality of the current bold topic fueled posts, I've been watching Code Geass and now I'm stuck on it and can't get back to writing till I finish it. D:

Curse you Code Geass! >:D
In all seriousness, I'll probably get back to writing after finishing Code Geass R2.

I need that procrastination herb...
 
Seems I haven't posted here in a while. Weird.

In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?

It's sort of a combination of live action and anime. I'd say the closest thing you could get would be Advent Children if you wanted a real-life example.

When writing out a Pokémon battle, do you take inspiration from the games, any of the manga, the anime, and/or put your own spin on it entirely?

If it's an official battle, I follow the anime stye, i.e. with trainers calling out attacks and their pokemon performing them. Otherwise, things get a little messier. Some trainers simply let their pokemon do all the decision-making (because, you know, instincts, right?) while other times they'll call out suggestions or encouragement. I often have the "trainers" fighting alongside their pokemon, though, because most of my work doesn't involve the typical master/slave relationship.
 
In what form do you visualize fanfiction? Anime, live-action, 3D, or something different altogether?

I think we've asked this before, and my answer is the same: I imagine them in anime style, mostly because I've drawn my characters so much in that anime-ish style it just plays out in my brain that way.
 
Guys, please help. I've hit a wall. I am not sure how I want to continue. I want to reach my goal this week, but as you can see I'm only at 9% *cries*

I don't have writes block (I don't think) I am just unsure how to get around a plot hole I just made myself. The reason I am having trouble is because Taylor, my main character, is supposed to befriend a Shinx. I can not for the life of me figure out how to do this.

It needs to happen in a time frame of a bout half a day. (in the story) I got there meeting over with, but I am not sure how to brake the ice between the two. Once I get the ice broken all will be fine. They are not in any immediate danger, and neither one of them have meet the other species before.

Any ideas?
 
There are classic ones, and not so classic ones:

- Meeting being attacked by other pokemon/trainers
- Meeting when it is already injured
- Meeting in plain site
- Bumping into each other by accident
- Your character accidentally hurting the pokemon
- You killed its parents
- Your character was sleeping and woke up next to it
- You were doing a dance routine and suddenly it joined in
- It was hungry, it tried to steal your food as you ate
- It defended you against a more feral pokemon
- You got lost, it guided you out
- You were listening to your iPod, and accidentally sat on it
- You chased it away at first but realized it got into danger, and decided to help it

any more? XD
 
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