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''[[BadassCreed …Until the last ember fades.]]''

''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance'' is a [[PokemonMysteryDungeon Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]] FanFic written by [=ScytheRider=], something of a subtle {{Deconstruction}} of the titular {{Roguelike}} games.

It chronicles the story of Char--a human who awakens to find himself having been transformed into a Charmander, stripped of all [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memories of his past life]], and left stranded in Ambera, a world where [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] can talk and have built a thriving civilization. All is not well in Ambera however, as it is being ruled by a tyrannical entity only known as "[[{{EvilOverlord}} The Master]]". If that's not bad enough, Ambera is also plagued by "the Watchers", a mysterious group of ghost Pokémon that only appear at night and relentlessly attack any being unfortunate enough to encounter them.

Crossing paths with a fugitive Bulbasaur, Char is quickly drawn into the resistance movement against the enigmatic Master. After their recruitment, the two are taken under the wings of an elderly Scyther who happens to be one of the all-star players of the resistance movement. But things don't stay simple for very long: Char soon learns he was lured into the resistance because he possesses a rare latent ability called the Call that randomly turns him into a psychic atomic bomb and mind-controls every Pokémon who hears his telepathic call. When he learns that the resistance wants to use his power to summon legendary Pokémon and win the war, Char finds himself in over his head in ways he never thought possible.

The story itself can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4298303/1/Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Silver_Resistance here]], and, despite [[ScheduleSlip multiple long hiatuses]], it is once again updating. It boasts two [[{{SpinOff}} SpinOffs]] as of this writing: [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5454359/1/Silver_Resistance_Mystery_of_the_Heart Silver Resistance: Mystery of the Heart]] by Diego Zeyon (which itself has a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6552771/1/ prequel]] and now has [[FanFic/MysteryOfTheHeart it's own page]]), and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6118017/1/Forgetting Forgetting]] by {{Tropers/Gorsecloud}}. ''Silver Resistance'' also has a prequel set several decades in the past, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5035742/1/Emerald_Chronicles_A_Frozen_Flame Emerald Chronicles: A Frozen Flame]], featuring [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters numerous fan-created characters]].

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!!Tropes featured in ''FanFic/PokemonMysteryDungeonSilverResistance'':

* AltText: The revision's author commentary sorta counts as this.
* [[spoiler:AnArmAndALeg]]: Char in the Temporal Tower arc; [[spoiler:it's temporary, though.]]
* ArcWords: The author admitted to "four places at once" and "come crashing down" being these. The latter has been revealed to refer to [[spoiler:the fall of Temporal Tower]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Played completely straight by Scythe and Adiel. Both (relatively) tower over their subordinates in martial prowess, wisdom, and experience.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Adrellos Scyther clan, complete with the "duel for leadership" tradition.
* {{Backstory}}: Scythe has several chapters dedicated to this.
* BadassCreed: Several, including the Adrellos Creed, and Team Remorse's "Why do we rise? So that ''he'' will fall!"
* BlessedWithSuck: So, you have been gifted with a phenomenally powerful form of telepathy that has the ability to [[spoiler: subconsciously influence the minds of your friends (see entry under TheEmpath below)]], summon Pokémon and [[DemonicSpiders Watchers]] from miles away when you're experiencing an 'episode', compel legendary Pokémon, and whose nature you can barely comprehend, much less control? [[spoiler: The Call]] could be considered the ''epitome'' of this trope.
** Also played painfully straight with [[spoiler: Lily, Char, Saura, and Lucario]]; the last of whom was [[spoiler: born without the ability to use Aura.]]
* BrickJoke: "Team Peanuts".
* BrokenPedestal: The reason Ray's brother disappeared before Ray joined the resistance was because [[spoiler: he became a traitor, and Scythe ordered him to be killed.]]
* [[spoiler: ButNowIMustGo: Scythe, after they all leave Temporal Tower.]]
* CainAndAbel: Invoked with Scythe and Adiel.
** Inverted, due to [[spoiler: Scythe originally being the Cain to Adiel's Abel.]]
* CallToAdventure: The author claims that Char's power was not named after this trope, but it seems to evoke this effect on the characters around him.
* CatapultNightmare: Char's "sentry duty" dream. Also becomes a chronic problem with Saura later.
* CharacterDevelopment: ''Lots'' of it.
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Poor Celebi...]]
** [[spoiler: Also, poor Prince, when he is told his memories of an awful deed were erased. He even asks to be deleted from the time line upon hearing it.]]
** [[spoiler: Char gets one too.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Char:''' Look, whoever you are. I failed. I was an awful leader, I let down all of my closest friends, I almost got everyone killed in the blizzard... And now, I just got us captured. We're probably being taken to the Master's dungeon right now, as we speak. I failed, alright? This is the end.]]
* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Saura's]] village certainly qualifies, as does Zona's in the SpinOff and Frozen Spring in ''Frozen Flame''.
** EverybodysDeadDave in the latter two examples.
* DoorStopper: 50 chapters in, with 20 chapters being either the previous 50 split up into parts or specials, and we are currently over 500,000 words. ''At the halfway mark''. It's not Ri2's Mystery Dungeon epic ''Fanfic/BraveNewWorld'', at over 2,000,000 words, but it still should take a while to read.
* TheEmpath: Inverted by [[spoiler:Anyone with the Call. They're essentially impressing their emotions and perceptions on the Pokémon around them]] without realizing it. In some cases it's good ([[spoiler: Lily and Prince]]), but others not so much (See the NiceJobBreakingItHero entry below).
* TheEmpire: The Master's reign over Ambera has many trappings of this, though it seems to be a surprisingly benign and laissez-faire version, at first... (See OffstageVillainy below.)
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Gold Division base, explained to be a former Pokémon academy.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: An inversion, of sorts: Char is surprised to discover that being a Fire-type does ''not'' grant him immunity to fire, and that it's not a very good idea to [[spoiler: sleep in a burning brazier]]. Otherwise played mostly straight; this is [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]], after all.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Fate Surprises All'', Adiel [[spoiler: decides not to kill Saura's family and kidnap his siblings, because he fears they're being protected by divine providence.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: Happens to Celebi when [[spoiler: Temporal Tower falls]]. 
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Master's fortress is obliquely described thus.
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: Happens several times, namely in the prologue and the interlude, and in Saura's first-person POV chapter.
** Also happens shortly after meeting Celebi. Confusingly, quotation marks are not used to indicate most dialogue. It turns out that [[spoiler: all the main characters died and are reduced to spirits, and thus are incapable of talking anymore.]]
* FiveBadBand: The Master's high command. Unfortunately, due to the ridiculous levels of OffstageVillainy, the only thing we know is their names (through Prince in Temporal Tower) and their species (through either extra stories or direct confirmation).
** BigBad: The Master, [[CaptainObvious obviously]]. [[spoiler: Maybe a Mewtwo.]]
** TheDragon: Enigma the Mismagius
** TheBrute: Adiel the Scizor
** TheEvilGenius: Cepheus the Nidoking (A fan-character submitted by {{Tropers/Khrysophylax}})
** TheDarkChick: Mirandalys the Ninetales (an AscendedExtra from Diego Zeyon's SpinOff fanfic, ''Mystery of the Heart'')
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Adron (Scythe)]]
* FiveManBand: Team Ember has:
** TheHero: Char
** TheLancer: Saura
** TheBigGuy: Ray
** TheSmartGuy / SixthRanger: Scythe
** TheChick: Otto
* FromBadToWorse: The fate of Emerald Division in general and [[spoiler: Prince's Silver Division]] in particular. Both suffered catastrophic losses in a battle with the Master's forces that took place between the events of ''Frozen Flame'' and ''Silver Resistance''.
* GenreSavvy: The entirety of Team Ember, when approached by Team X as part of an ''extremely'' obvious attempt to infiltrate the Gold Division in Chapter 23.
* GhostTown: The Watchers and the Master's other servants have made more than one settlement in Ambera into one of these.
** Also, there is at least one example of a ''literal'' ghost town (i.e. a town populated by ghosts): Blackriver City.
* GottaCatchEmAll: Domo is a Ditto with the power to [[ShapeShifter transform into any Pokémon]] he's seen in his life. His life's mission is to see every Pokémon.
* HeelFaceTurn: Present in Scythe's backstory.
* IndyPloy: Meta example: the author commentary on the DeviantArt upload/revision shows that, after he wrote the prologue, he knew almost nothing about how the story will go, except for Char being the leader, Saura being the partner, Scythe being important... somehow, and the plot being about the Resistance. It was all made up as it went along, through theming.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The Master is a BalefulPolymorph similar to Char. It was meant to punish him, but as a reflective transformation, his lust for power turned him into (possibly) Mewtwo.]]
** [=ScytheRider=] spends the first half-million words of the story building up to two giant spoilers. [[spoiler: He then immediately gives them to us (Char's name and the Voice's identity) in the first sentence of the rewrite commentary.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Lucario. Though not [[BlessedWithSuck without reason]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Char is the most obvious example[[spoiler: but Prince qualifies as well. He involuntarily burned down an entire town after being attacked by the Watchers and had a psychic erase his memory because of his guilt.]]
* LaResistance
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* {{Magibabble}}: The author goes into ''great'' detail to explain how a lot of taken-for-granted game mechanics and Pokémon attacks actually work.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: [[spoiler: Celebi]] does this twice. Check TheReveal Below.
* MadnessMantra: Scythe's "Survive, survive, survive, survive..."
* MemoryGambit: Char apparently created one of these for himself before being transformed and having his memory erased. 
* MindProbe: Performed by Eva to sense Char's call ability. 
* MindRape: The byproduct of coming into contact with the Watchers and ''not'' dying will usually result in this, to a tragic degree.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Both the members of Team X and their apparent leader, Dusknoir, seem to be the embodiment of this trope. This may be a clever [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] by the author, considering [[TheDragon what type]] of character the other Dusknoir was in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2.
** [[spoiler: NotSoHarmlessVillain is probably a better description, with what happened in Chapter 68. In summation, Team X actually succeed in knocking out Team Ember. Of course, due to the intervention of either Giratina or Arceus (whichever one is the voice), they don't actually succeed in capturing them.]]
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Char's selfless spirit does ''not'' go along well with the fact that WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou is in full effect.
* {{Names to Run Away from Really Fast}}: If "The Master" wasn't bad, try '''the Watchers.'''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: In a recent chapter, Char realizes that he, Saura, and Lily have been subconsciously broadcasting their doubts to Scythe--who is especially sensitive to the Call--for the past several weeks.]] Essentially, more they doubted [[spoiler: Scythe]], the more unstable he became, and it fed a vicious cycle of erratic behavior on his part. (Confused? See TheEmpath entry above.)
* NocturnalMooks: The Watchers are a particularly unsettling example of this.
* TheObiWan: Domo the Ditto, and later Prince the Infernape are the only characters who seem to be able to relate directly to Char and teach him more about his fire power.
* OffstageVillainy: The Master, to ridiculous lengths. We never see most of the awful things he's done, only hear about them.
** Similarly, we have the Master's generals. We know almost nothing except their names and possibly their species of Pokemon - Adiel, Enigma, Cepheus and Mirandalys.
*** [[spoiler: However, the DeviantArt exclusive bonus chapters do reveal more about Cepheus. Namely that he's Ray and Rautzen's uncle.]]
* OlympusMons: Many legendary Pokémon feature prominently in the story arc, either as a part of the basic mythology or appearing in actual cameos.
** Though, in a slight subversion (and since this is a Mystery Dungeon FanFic), no one is concerned with capturing said gods. [[spoiler: Partially because one of them is already captured.]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Saura [[spoiler: (not really)]] and Ray, by Char.
* PluckyComicRelief: Ray provides most of this. 
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Clan Adrellos may be an example of this trope, though some could argue they're a subtle [[{{Deconstruction}} subversion]].
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Char gradually treats Scythe more personally throughout the story, and eventually starts trying to call him out on things he disagrees with.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Evergreen Guild in Emerald Chronicles.
** You've got the leader with split personality, Yuu the overly-excitable second-in-command, Seismic, a child in an adult's body, several more who are mentioned, and Lily, who [[spoiler: has The Call]]. This is actually [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the fact that upon seeing all their quirks, Lily runs away from the Guild after she first came to join.
** Also, the entire Evergreen Guild is a ShoutOut to the Wigglytuff Guild in PokemonMysteryDungeon 2.
* RunningGag: [[WildMassGuessing Evidence that Game Freak/Chunsoft reads Silver Resistance]] in the revision's author commentary.
* TheGlomp: Saura does this to Char occasionally. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] [[FridgeBrilliance as Saura doesn't have arms.]]
** [[spoiler: Char returns the favor when he learns that Saura didn't lose his memory.]]
* TheRemnant: A rare non-villainous example, but the Emerald Division in its present form may qualify [[spoiler: after the sack of Rayquaza's Clutch]].
* TheReveal: A [[InfoDump BIG one]] in chapter 47. After finally reaching the top of Temporal Tower, Char and the others meet Dialga, who explains [[spoiler: that Char is one of many humans that transformed, but unable to determine his real name or purpose with no past to go on. Why he/she is a PhysicalGod that can't abuse the power of Time. That [[YouCantFightFate Fate]] [[DiscussedTrope CAN]] [[SubvertedTrope be changed]], [[JustifiedTrope only its very hard to do so]]. Watchers, or Newborns, are really Pokemon not born yet that reside in Giratina's [[MirrorUniverse Reverse Realm]] and appear as ghost pokemon to better comprehend them. And finally, the Call is really called Heart-speak, an ability found dormant in all Pokemon that allow them to understand humans and other Pokemon to a telepathic level, based on how much time they spend with humans. However, it's a subtle and unchanging force, and isn't meant to grow in strength or be controlled, much less explode like Char's case.]]
** This is all true... except that [[spoiler: Dialga was just A SECOND projection made by Celebi, as a means to answer their questions. The first one she also made for 'security' to scare the team away because Dialga's been missing for some time now. And The Call that happened every 27 years? It was Celebi broadcasting a signal through the Time Gears, trying to find Dialga, but unaware of what damage she was doing.]] Scythe [[LaughingMad doesn't take it well]].
** To clear up the terminology about [[spoiler:the Call, "Heart-speak" is the innate ability that affects others (such as Scythe), and "the Call" is what happens when Celebi's signal is received by someone with said "heart-speak" and is sent out towards others.]]
** The rewrite commentary on DeviantArt isn't particularly subtle. The first line has [=ScytheRider=] tossing out [[spoiler: the fact that Char is named Amadeus, and that the voice is Giratina - both facts that aren't revealed until Chapter 69.]]
** The special episode ''Fate Surprises All'' reveals that [[spoiler: Saura has a god on his side, most likely Dialga, and Adiel is now going to get the Master's forces to leave Saura and his family alone, because he doesn't want to risk divine vengeance. Also, Saura was actually adopted, and was given to his family by Adiel, who found him originally.]]
*** [[spoiler: Divine intervention is probably not what happened. It was most likely Celebi cutting off the timeline at the wrong place, causing, in the words of Dialga, "several denizens of the time stream to perceive time running in reverse for about six minutes". Seeing as only Adiel and Saurlee noticed it, and it was only a few minutes of time reversal...]]
**** [[spoiler: The DeviantArt journal on the chapter not only confirms this, it also outright states that the god Saura has on his side is actually referring to Amadeus's pre-arranged plan-which would logically protect Saura from Adiel.]]
** Another commentary-given reveal. [[spoiler: Domo, the Ditto who saw Mew, was actually transformed permanently into a Mew, but is held back because he thinks that he is still a Ditto.]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Played somewhat straight in the case of Ambera's resistance divisions.
* SempaiKohai: Scythe, again, to both his own resistance team and Team Ember. Though, just as above, this is later deconstructed.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: The Temporal Tower arc.]]
* ShoutOut: The author has used the fic to make numerous of these to its inspiration, the PokemonMysteryDungeon games, as well as roguelikes in general
** There are also several Shout Outs to others fanworks, such as CharCole.
** He even shouts out to his own fics, including, of all things, his badfic: "RAYQUAZA DOES NOT PLAY WITH BLOCKS."
* SongFic: Subverted. The story contains lots of poetry inserts, but most of them are actually original lyrics to melodies from PokemonMysteryDungeon. The others are just free verse poetry.
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: Ray and Saura [[spoiler: but not actually Saura]] are this to Char, neither having the world-shaping Call.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: ''Have a good rest, Amadeus...'']]
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Chapter 42 has six of them at once.
* XanatosGambit: Scythe instructs the heroes about creating these at one point, explaining that sometimes you can cause your enemies to help you by trying to stop you. Both he and Adiel pit this trope against each other. 
* XanatosSpeedChess: Eventually revealed to have been invoked on multiple occasions by Scythe, largely as a result of the protagonists' actions and (arguably) existence, which derailed many of his carefully laid plans. Unfortunately, this doesn't last long, for Adiel is ''also'' an extremely capable Chessmaster.

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* BadassGrandpa: [[OldMaster Prince is]] ''[[OldMaster old.]]'' How old? He's nearing his eightieth birthday, and still managed to hand [[BadAss Scythe]] his ass.
* BalefulPolymorph: In keeping with the tradition of [[{{PokemonMysteryDungeon}} Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]], this occurs to Char at the very beginning of the story.
* BigBad: The Master. 
* BigBrotherMentor: Arguably, Scythe. Later, this is deconstructed.
* BlessedWithSuck: So, you have been gifted with a phenomenally powerful form of telepathy that has the ability to [[spoiler: subconsciously influence the minds of your friends (see entry under TheEmpath below)]], summon Pokémon and [[DemonicSpiders Watchers]] from miles away when you're experiencing an 'episode', compel legendary Pokémon, and whose nature you can barely comprehend, much less control? [[spoiler: The Call]] could be considered the ''epitome'' of this trope.
** Also played painfully straight with [[spoiler: Lily, Char, Saura, and Lucario]]; the last of whom was [[spoiler: born without the ability to use Aura.]]
* BloodKnight: Adiel.

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