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  • Abandon Shipping: Seamus was looked to be paired up with Merle until she was revealed to just be a Zoroark.
  • Accidental Innuendo: The description of the sun rising one morning reads "Dawn came earlier than expected"...which wouldn't be that bad...if Dawn wasn't a character in the series (even if not present at the time).
  • Anti-Climax Boss: The resolution between Seamus and Travis at the end of Turbulence gave the impression that Travis was this. Was later remedied by his return in Tribulations and proper resolution there.
  • Audience Awareness Advantage: The reveal that Kukui, Guzma and Akela were all friends and classmates with one another. It was never told to Ash or the others, but instead revealed in piecemeal with Kukui. When the reveal came, many thought Ash and the others had already been told this and shouldn't have been surprised.
  • Broken Base: The timing of announcing Serena's pregnancy. For those who support when it occurred, announcing it any other time would have changed the entire climax and the characters. For it's detractors, they feel announcing it earlier would have provided more of an emotional stake to the climax.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal:
    • Necrozma is the one helping Lusamine in the Alola Trilogy.
    • Deirdre is Travis' mother.
  • Crack Pairing: Heads were turned at Sawyer and Miette being shipped together.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Christopher, considering his silent nature as well as being a Token Good Teammate, along with owning a Tyrantrum.
    • Nanu. From being a Deadpan Snarker Blood Knight to single-handedly taking out half of IDEAL, he qualifies.
    • Mayor Aston of Ancien City, who is Cool Old Guy in his conversations with the protagonist, owns a Shiny Tyranitar and defends his city when it's invaded, despite his advanced age.
    • Reeree in Tribulations quickly became one owing to the WMG surrounding her identity and later revealing her identity as an alternate Serena who was different.
    • Maka is on her way to this thanks to her positive personality, refreshingly different team and goal along with her quirks in wanting to be a filmmaker.
    • The fic's interpretation of Lana going from Shy Blue-Haired Girl to Beware the Quiet Ones in a flash made many love the Ancienverse's take on her.
    • Kahili. For an empty character in the games, her Blood Knight and Brutal Honesty, along with becoming a mentor to Ash, made her rather popular.
    • Alastair. Despite his status as a villain, he quickly showed himself as popular with his no-nonsense attitude, unending devotion to his cause and being a guy that just doesn't stay down. Helps that he's one of the few members of IDEAL to live.
  • Even Better Sequel: While Teamwork is considered to be really great, many consider Turbulence to be "a near perfect piece of work", while Tribulations is typically held as most readers' favorite installment. Time will tell for The Alola Trilogy.
  • Fan Nickname: Somewhat. The name "Fakey" was used only a couple times early on in Tribulations to reference alternate Gary but the fandom took to calling him that despite it never really being used on any other occasion.
  • Growing the Beard: Turbulence is considered this for the series. While Teamwork came off as this happy adventure with a villain appearing, giving it the feeling of a movie plot or a villain team plot, Turbulence turns that intensity up to 12 and runs with it, managing to give one surprise after the other with a more serious plot than before.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Most of the Alolan trilogy was conceived and written in the early days of the SM anime, but it still manages to guess that would Ash catch the Rockruff living with Professor Kukui.
    • Dalton is pretty much like a less extreme Lysandre, and the themes associated with him are a stronger version of those in the Flare arc, which aired 2 months after Turbulence finished.
    • During Acerola's trial, Team Rocket become involved for the first and last time in one of Ash's trials. Almost a year later, Team Rocket is involved in Ash partaking of Acerola's trial in the anime.
    • Nanu likes getting under Ash's skin every time they meet in Trials, including and up to his Grand Trial. When the anime aired Nanu's episodes almost a year later, the same exact thing happened (albeit with less punches).
  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Seamus, mostly. He looked down on everyone with disdain and hatred, boasted of his skills and was downright nasty to one of his teammates opponents. Then it's revealed in Turbulence that his father left when he was young and he was raised by a single mother while being taught by a man who influenced his fighting style. At the same time, he formed a friendship with two people who would one day leave him, one of them outright betraying him. All this only culminates in his teacher losing his path and Seamus being forced to fight against him and later bury both him and his daughter, who it was implied he was in love with.
    • Guzma. His constant antagonizing of Ash and willingness to do heinous things just to get him running certainly fulfills the Jerkass part, but when it's later shown that he was beaten as a child, and fell behind his best friends before being cast aside by them and society, along with falling prey to Lusamine's manipulations, he really starts to own the Woobie status.
    • Deirdre. To start with, she was simply a woman that wanted to make the world a better place. Then she was manipulated by Michael, was captured, tortured until she lost the use of her legs, and was forced to live in a wheelchair, barely clinging to life. Of course, she still helped kill a bunch of people.
  • Like You Would Really Do It:
    • Ash (along with Clemont, Astrid and Seamus) appear to be blown off the map when Nova Town explodes. Not a single reader believed he was actually dead. Come Chapter 12, they were right.
    • Yes, the whole series is going to end with IDEAL winning and the good guys sucked into the void. Obviously not as of just a chapter after it happened.
  • Memetic Mutation: "Bruce and Trent were just holding back." note 
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • Travis crosses this when he betrays everyone to fight alongside the Draconids. Further enforced in Turbulence when he proceeds to smash Rocky's face in for little reason.
    • Lusamine when she has Faba Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
  • One-Scene Wonder:
    • The Champions and Elite Four members of other regions all get one scene in Turbulence, but what a scene it was!
    • Zinnia returns for a couple paragraphs towards the end of Tomorrow.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
    • Team Brutal sans Travis after they show their good sides and work to change.
    • Keoni in the oneshot Fourths, Films and Forgiveness for letting go off his pursuit of Serena, apologizing to her and Ash and his surprising Ship Tease with Maka.
  • The Scrappy: Tolbert, owing to killing fan favorite Lionel, along with Rocky and acting smugly self-righteous the whole time.
  • Ships That Pass in the Night: Done three times in the series in relation to the main anime: Sawyer and Miette, Brock and Aria, and Bonnie and Max.
  • Shocking Moments:
    • In Teamwork Chapter 17: the power goes out, the Draconids attack, various members of the teams are revealed to be part of them, a dimension seems to be opening and Ash is defeated.
    • In Turbulence, Merle is revealed to be a Zoroark.
    • Tribulations raises the stakes higher with Ash's father coming back and dying, the villains being alternate versions of the heroes, Reeree's death and the reveal of the man who's been subtly influencing everything in the anime up to this point. Also, Alain loses in a fair fight.
    • Tomorrow probably has the highest quantity of this in the series. From the very beginning, Lionel is killed in an explosion, Team Rocket makes moves as the villains, Nova Town is attacked thrice, Rocky dies, Deirdre is revealed to be Travis' mother, Matori of Team Rocket is revealed to have never been loyal to Team Rocket, and Mount Lanakila is blown up. The climax takes this even further with brutal fights, numerous character deaths, Deirdre revealed to have been an illusion from the beginning and IDEAL actually ''winning''.
  • Take That, Scrappy!:
    • Many a fan rejoiced when Travis had been killed.
    • Tolbert's death via his own explosion is considered rather satsifying. His earlier defeat by Astrid and Aidan is another moment.
  • Tearjerker:
    • Reeree's death and echo of Serena's earlier words to her.
    • Reeree reuniting with Ash and Mimi in the afterlife before going on their eternal journey together.
    • Jack's death, but more Ash's subsequent reaction left not a dry eye from a reader.
    • Lillie telling her mother "I love you" and holding her as she dies.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Downplayed, but a number of fans believed Bonnie was set up to be the one to take down Tolbert after he killed Lionel (someone she was close to) and then Rocky (done so right in front of her). The fight ultimately went to Astrid and Aidan. While Bonnie herself isn't seen as wasted, it's looked at as a wasted opportunity for her.
  • Too Cool to Live: Lionel and Nanu.
  • Win Back the Crowd: In a sense. Epicocity's works hadn't been doing as well as his past fics until these were widely well-received in the Amourshipping and Pokemon anime community.
  • The Woobie: Reeree. Her father leaves her shortly after she's born. The she meets, befriends and falls in love with her Ash only to have him die shortly into their journey together. Then she's recruited by her father for DARC only to slowly lose her sense of self. When she finally realizes everything she thought was a lie, she sacrifices herself for Serena and dies, sobbing, in her arms. You seriously just want to give her a hug.

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