History YMMV / Traveler

* ArchivePanic: At over a million words long, it can be an imposing challenge to get through.
** With currently seventy four chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently seventy three chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[Heartwarming/{{Traveler}} Has it's own page]].

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/{{Traveler}} Has it's own page]]

* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/{{Traveler}} Has it's own page]].

* TheWoobie: Seeker is a previously abused Zubat who's too weak to do battle and was permanently scarred by Ash's Golduck while [[TakingTheBullet saving Ash from the water Pokemon's attack]]. She mostly serves as a TagalongKid for the group.

** With currently seventy two chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently seventy chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently sixty nine chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently sixty seven chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* Tearjerker:
** Infernus dying temporarily during the battle with Moltres.
** Agatha's death in chapter 67

** With currently sixty six chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** During the Indigo Conference, Ash [[spoiler:makes history by coming in second place. Previously, no rookie trainer had ever even reached the semifinals]].
** Lance's strongest Dragonite easily defeats Ash's entire team at once.
** When confronting an Unown created clone of himself, Ash [[spoiler:uses the Concept of Fire to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire on it until the clone melts]]]].
** Ash manages to take down two of Cynthia's Pokémon and almost defeats her strongest Pokémon, Princess the Garchomp.
** In chapter 59, Ash beats a Pokemon Master.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** Ash reuniting with his mom after [[spoiler: fighting Pierce on the Sevii Islands.]]
** Nidorino, Ash's first friend and brother, evolving into Nidoking and hugging Ash.
** Delia [[spoiler: comforting Ash after he loses the finals.]]
** Oddly enough, [[BloodKnight Infernus]] of all people has one when he [[spoiler: gives up the Fire Sphere, proving his loyalty and friendship to Ash, and gives him a genuine smile that has nothing to do with battle or training.]]
** Upon opening his birthday gift, a book on the history of Hoenn, Ash's mother is worried he doesn't like it and offers to return it, only for Ash to sincerely insist he loves it.
** When a bunch of ghost type pokémon are causing trouble in the Arid Zone, Ash is sent in to catch them so they can be taken elsewhere. One, a Sandygast, is moved enough by Ash's offer of a home and family to allow itself to be caught without a fight.
** He may have been a villain, but Giovanni did show some semblance of care for Ash. First was by respecting Ash enough to use an actual team of Pokémon against him instead of just using Mewtwo like he did with Gary. Second, he did his best to reign in Mewtwo to prevent it from hurting Ash during the battle of Viridian City.
** Lance and his dragons. It's obvious that he cares for them and is excited for when his newly acquired Gible and Bagon evolve into their final forms, Garchomp and Salamance respectively.
** Despite not being his Pokemon, Saph is very attached to Ash and even allowed some of her scales to be gifted to him.

** Ash manages to take down two of Cynthia's Pokémon and almost defeats her strongest Pokémon, Garchomp.

** With currently sixty five chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* HilariousInHindsight: In this fic, Ash enters the Indigo Conference and gets all the way to the finals before losing. Several months later, Ash would do the same in anime.

** Ash manages to take down two of Cynthia's pokemon and almost defeats her strongest pokemon, Garchomp.

** With currently sixty four chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** During the Indigo Conference, Ash [[spoiler:makes history by coming in second place. Previously, no rookie trainer had ever even reached the semifinals]].
** Lance's strongest Dragonite easily defeats Ash's entire team at once.
** When confronting an Unown created clone of himself, Ash [[spoiler:uses the Concept of Fire to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire on it until the clone melts]]]].
** Ash manages to take down two of Cynthia's pokemon and almost defeats her strongest pokemon, Garchomp.
** In chapter 59, Ash beats a Pokemon Master.

* WhatAnIdiot: Jonathan, one of Ash's traveling companions, battles Surge after Ash. Rather than using Rhyhorn which would resist or be immune to all of Raichu's attacks, he uses Charmander in the hopes it'll evolve mid-battle like Ash's Nidoran did (ignoring that said evolution was literally the only reason Ash won). Naturally he gets curb-stomped.
* TheWoobie: Seeker is a previously abused Zubat who's too weak to do battle and was permanently scarred by Ash's Golduck while [[TakingTHeBullet saving Ash from the water Pokemon's attack]]. She mostly serves as a TagAlongKid for the group.

** With currently sixty three chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently sixty two chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently sixty chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

** With currently over fifty chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.

* RunningGag: The text seems to have one in the form of "<Ash's destination> awaited him".
** Almost every time Ash departs somewhere, his mother reminds him, "don't forget to change your underwear." He always leaves before she can finish.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Upon opening his birthday gift, a book on the history of Hoenn, Ash's mother is worried he doesn't like it and offers to return it, only for Ash to sincerely insist he loves it.

* NightmareFuel: Basically every appearance Mewtwo makes is horrific.
** It's first appearance is destroying the S.S. Anne and killing thousands.
** In it's second, Mewtwo easily takes on the Elite Four and dozens of ACE trainers, leaving most injured and several dead.
** Mewtwo's third appearance coincides with [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie the first movie]] and unlike canon, it's made clear that nearly every trainer that didn't reach New Island died. Furthermore, the initial battle against Mewtwo's clones is part of a cruel game. For each of his clones defeated, he'll spare one region of the continent from destruction, but Kanto is doomed regardless. Mewtwo also breaks a trainer's arm then fixes it to prove a point, buries Moltres at the bottom of the sea, and declares his intention to use the trainers who reached New Island as his lieutenants to conquer the world [[BrainwashedAndCrazy regardless of their consent]].
** Even after his sorta redemption, Mewtwo still performs horrific acts like [[spoiler:stopping Ash's heart for thinking a colony of Metagross was more impressive than itself]].
** Spiritomb qualifies in universe, giving off an aura of pure malice and dread. Making matters worse, it was created by unmaking 108 people and binding their souls together into a keystone.
** In-universe, Ash is filled with dread to know that Articuno's high priestess, who helped create the first Jynx through HumanSacrifice, is both still alive and aware of him and his connection to Articuno.
** In chapter 54, Agatha explains how her family attempted to merge humans with ghosts, creating insane abominations that weren't human, ghosts, or even a proper combination of the two. Eventually they used newborn children. When her family fell from grace, Agatha's grandfather used her, turning her into a perfect combination of human and ghost.
** The old parts of Lavender Town never see any true sunlight, even in the middle of the day. And at night, the streets are absolutely filled with ghost types searching for living to prey upon. As Ash walks towards Lavender Tower in the evening, he's quickly followed by a horde of ghosts looking for a moment of weakness to pounce.