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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: A recurring worry Pikachu has is that Ash will leave him behind when he grows up. The fic was written before Ash's Not Allowed to Grow Up status was properly established; Ash will never grow up and leave Pikachu behind because he'll always be ten years old.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: Several aspects of the fic point to it being written around 2000-2002. The narrative is set in Johto without any subtle nods to later events in the anime and unironically has Pikachu worrying about Ash growing up one day and leaving him behind; the two went on to have adventures together in half a dozen regions after Johto, and Ash eventually became one of the most infamous cases of Not Allowed to Grow Up in anime history. The fic is also styled archaically, being presented as a blank white page with text written in an unconventional font that's hosted on a Pokemon-specific fansitenote  instead of a general fanfiction archive.
  • The Woobie: Pikachu of all Pokemon. Over the course of the fic, he finds love, but starts to question his bond with Ash, nearly gets mauled to death by an Ursaring because of his Love Interest carefree nature, and at the end realizes just how important his bond with Ash is, and has to make a choice between living in the wild with Pichi or continuing his adventures with Ash. He decides to stay with Ash, which results in one of the most depressing goodbyes in possibly all of Pokémon fanfiction. If Misty hadn't already given him a hug and started to comfort him shortly after, the audience might have tried to do so by hugging their computer monitors instead.

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