" ...I killed and controlled life by my own agency. I bring nothing but destruction. Were I to have a mate, even a child, neither of them would last very long by my hands. I am a cursed being doomed to desire but not receive. What I did to Mew was as such. My desire was not returned, at least not in the way I hoped it would. That, my friend, is my human side..."
The story begins three centuries in the future with bad news: the Pokémon world is on the brink of a world war. Ho-oh calls for a conference for the Legendaries on this issue, and give first-hand accounts about the world falling apart. For fear of becoming as the common man, he instructs everyone to get over rivalries and make friendships with one another.
Skip ahead two months to when the rumored war comes to pass, and the future looks grim. That is until the world is suddenly destroyed, leaving the Legendaries alive but devastated, unsure what to do about their failures.
But that is when the story really begins.
Forsaken is a Pokémon Fan Fic written by lilpurplebird, revolving around the lives of the Legendaries as they attempt to recover and fix up the world. They go through their own personal trials of life, and then are put to the test by an outside force that has chosen the dead world for its own evil purposes, doing so through Mew and Mewtwo.
Have we mentioned this is a romance?
The story is currently on-going, and can be read both here
, and here.
Forsaken provides examples of:
- A God Am I: Legion wanting a world of demons suggests he wants to be the ruler of it.
- All Men Are Perverts: It’s hard to tell if Deoxys is even this trope, or just enjoys messing with everyone’s heads.
- Amicably Divorced: Darkrai and Cresselia, though more like "amicably separated".
- As the Good Book Says...: A few characters quote passages from the Bible throughout the story (directly or indirectly), in which one doubles as a Title Drop.
- Arceus and Amber actually quote from The Book of Mormon.
- Some of the accompanying lyrics in the beginning of chapters are scripture verses.
- A Taste of the Lash: A crystalline lash at that. Poor Manaphy and Mewtwo.
- The Atoner: A few characters fall under this category, though it’s Mewtwo and Mew who expresses it the most.
- Attempted Rape: Both Mew and Mewtwo experience this. see also Near-Rape Experience
- Berserk Button:
- Mewtwo really doesn't like it when Mew is in harm's way or being threatened in any way, shape, or form.
- Heavily implied this happened to Latios in the past when his sister got badly hurt.
- Big Damn Heroes: Ho-oh and Kyogre froze and burned Jediah and his followers after he got Taken for Granite by Azelf. Averted with Lugia, who got lost.
- Big "OMG!": Lugia gives a big one when he sees a dead body.
- Blood from the Mouth: Happens to Mewtwo and Mew whenever a crystal is destroyed due to blood connections.
- Body Motifs: The eyes get a lot of attention before the numerous scars start appearing.
- Break Them by Talking: The method Legion uses the most when gloating.
- Breather Episode: Chapter fourteen. Chapter eighteen may also count.
- Chekhov's Gun: The vial containing the remnants of Clarity Lake.
- Chekhov's Skill: The water had to be transferred mouth-to-mouth to keep from spilling.
- Cliffhanger: A cruel one is in chapter seventeen.
- Climbing Climax: The climb of the Tree of Beginning.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Goes hand-in-hand with Kiss of Life in a spiritual sense. It's not until Mew drowns that it becomes mostly averted.
- Despair Event Horizon: The Fanfic. However, it's Mew who has it worse off.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Usually between Suicune and her brothers, though other females have smacked around other males for being perverts or for saying something out-of-line; this is often done for comedic reasons. Not so when it comes to a possessed Mew smacking around Celebi and Mewtwo.
- Downer Beginning: The world is destroyed at the start of the story — can't get more downer than that.
- The Dragon: Jediah, something he’s proud of, though he may be The Pawn if Shaymin was serious about it.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Legion shows subtle shades of a sense of sick, albeit sexual humor.
- Evil Laugh: Always Legion, bordering on Laughing Mad at times. Made creepier as it's done through Mew.
- Every Scar Has a Story: Mew has a faint one from her C-section.
- Eye Scream:
- Rayquaza ends up losing an eye fighting off meteors. He gets better.
- Deoxys remarks offhandedly that he once gouged out his own eyes for witnessing human sex. Given his character, this was Played for Laughs.
- Faith–Heel Turn: Happens to Mew prior to the story. Implied this happens or has happened to a lot of the Legendaries.
- Flipping the Bird: Usually done between Deoxys and Rayquaza; also because the author didn’t want to write explicit swears despite the M-rating.
- Flower Motif: The revived Tree of Beginning's crystalline heart is in the shape of a water lily.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Nastily done with Deoxys after getting his hands cut off.
- Gorn: It got more prominent as the story progressed.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Zigzagged for the most part. For example, it is played straight during the C-section, until it was subverted with the deaths of the scientists.
- Growing Up Sucks
- Hand on Womb: Mew does this after being impregnated. This was used in an early chapter to foreshadow the Foregone Conclusion.
- Heroic BSoD: Happens a couple of times with Mewtwo, but most notably after seeing Mew's memories and how she got the BSOD herself.
- Immortal Immaturity: Most of the Legendaries, much to the chagrin of the others.
- Intimate Healing: Mewtwo does this with a starved Mew, which eventually leads to a kiss. She doesn't take it well.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: Done by Legion to show Mewtwo what happened to Mew couple of years prior to the story.
- Lecherous Licking: Legion again. For the most part.
- Longing Look: Both Scyther and Ho-oh have pointed this out to Mewtwo in a couple of occasions.
- Love Epiphany: Mewtwo had one of these, revealed in a flashback. Mew had feelings for a long time, but she fully accepted it once she was "dead".
- Lust: Mewtwo struggles with this a lot.
- Manipulative Bastard: Where do we begin with Legion?
- Meaningful Name:
- Mew's real name reflects both her personality and desires.
- Darkrai and Cresselia's son is named Adam.
- Mind Rape: Implied Legion did this to Mewtwo as “punishment”.
- Near-Rape Experience: Mewtwo just wanted to be loved.
- Neck Snap: Happens with a psychic blow to the head described as a loud pop. It's when the neck is set back into place that it snaps. And it's bloody. It was also how "Sir" died.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Legion delivers this to Celebi early on for no reason other than to know the feeling of physically beating someone up.
- Ouija Board: It gets messy. Deoxys should have listened.
- Precision F-Strike:"Falling my ass, we're not doing shit about it!"Legion: "Fuck me. Hard."
- Really 700 Years Old: Many if not all of the Legendaries are thousands of years old despite their mortality.
- Scars Are Forever: Mew has deep scars on her wrists, face, neck and throat from Legion's impact.
- Seduction-Proof Marriage: An inversion. Even though they are mates, Legion in Mew's body attempts multiple times to seduce Mewtwo by rubbing it in that he's physically attracted to her. Yet despite numerous close calls, he always finds a way to fight back.
- Shout-Out: The aforementioned Intimate Healing came from Princess Mononoke.
- The shoulder angel and devil seemed to have been inspired by Kronk's shoulder entities.
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it where Mew burns a bra in her hand.
- The lashing scene was pretty much taken from The Passion
of the Christ. - LIAR!
- Upon crashing through a wall, Lugia asks if he missed the butt-kicking.
- Sneeze of Doom: Keep Entei away from freshly-purified waters when he’s got a cold.
- Spit-Trail Kiss: There’s quite a few.
- Unhand Them, Villain!: Mewtwo to Legion a good few times. He refuses at first, but then later complies by slicing Mew's throat open and having her body drop off the cliff.
- Villainous Breakdown: Mewtwo’s tested Legion’s patience far too many times...
- Wham Episode: The end of chapter seven.
- Window Love: A variation where Mew in the Spirit World can't touch Mewtwo, but he can reach through the mirror without issue.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Too many to name, or else you'd be here all day.
