Clockwork Heart
is a 2017 AU Pokemon Slash Fic wherein Ash is the robot created by Clemont to help him in the Lumiose Gym.
Tropes featured in Clockwork Heart include:
- Angst: More than you'd think for a fluffy Slash Fic.
- Alternate Universe Fic: Ash is a Ridiculously Human Robot.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Ash starts off using canon-esque unorthodox tactics, despite Clemont not programming him to do so.
- Heroic RRoD: Ash dies from his code being scrambled beyond recognition when he fought off a reprogramming at Team Rocket's hands. Clemont is forced to reprogram him from the ground up.
- Interspecies Romance: Between a robot and a human.
- No-Sell: Ash's skin is made out of a rubber-like material, making him immune to electricity. This comes in handy when he's forced to take his Pikachu into a Clemontic Shower to save his life after an attack by Team Rocket, which would've killed a human.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Ash is a robot, and has self-sacrificial tendencies, so...Ash: I think I broke my hand again. Sorry, Clemont.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Ash is one.
- Robosexual: Clemont is in love with his robot.
- Shock and Awe: Aside from the usual suspects, Ash's original incarnation apparently had this.
- Slash Fic: Ash Ketchum x Lumiose City's Clemont.
- Wham Line: Right there in the archive warnings.
- Of course, this isn't too surprising, considering that Clemont's robot is destroyed in canon.
