YMMV / Travels of the Trifecta

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Chapter 9 features a location called Plumeria Town, before the debut of Team Skull admin Plumeria in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
• Ho Yay: There is some of this between Paul and Conway. Paul in particular comes off as a Tsundere towards Conway regarding their friendship in several scenes, and there is a bit of a running gag in the first half of the story where Paul is afraid that Conway will do something perverted to him. In Chapter 7, Brandon even outright says that they bicker Like an Old Married Couple in one scene. After they break up, they still are in each other's minds a lot (especially for Conway, who constantly compares Barry to Paul), with the biggest example being during their respective Gym battles in Chapter 19. Paul finally uses the strategy he thought of with Conway against Candice. For Conway's part, he hallucinates Paul scolding him over catching a "weak" Smoochum which gives him and his Smoochum the drive to prove that it is NOT a weak Pokemon.
• The Woobie:
  • Paul's Weavile. First he makes it Surf him to catch a boat, and after it fails because it just gets too tired using Surf and Ice Beam at the same time, he threatens to release it if it gets knocked out at the Canalave Gym, which specializes in Steel types (which Weavile, being an Ice type, is weak to). It does win the badge for Paul (who, ironically, is the one who leaves the gym unconscious because of his sickness-induced Post-Victory Collapse), but he simply considers them to be "even." He then scolds it harshly for wanting to help him dig through the snow on Route 216, and even after it helps save his life by going to get help after he falls off the cliff, he still can't actually bring himself to intelligibly thank it or apologize (although he does mutter something that it takes as a thank you but Conway isn't satisfied and scolds Paul for it).
  • Conway, considering that his parents barely acknowledge his existence, his older sister bullies him and his beloved older cousin turns out to be Saturn from Team Galactic.

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