History YMMV / TravelsOfTheTrifecta

* WhatAnIdiot: Paul is heading for Snowpoint City alone after making a bet with Conway that he could do it without help, and plans to take the toughest section of Route 216:
** '''You'd Expect''': That he'd at least dress warmly and have his Pokemon help get through obstacles, considering he has a Weavile which is well-suited for a cold climate, [[ExactWords and he never outright mentioned his Pokemon when making the bet, only that he wouldn't need Conway's help.]]\\
'''Instead''': He doesn't change his clothes at all even though Conway warns him to do so, and when faced with a wall of snow and Weavile wants to help him, he outright threatens to release Weavile and all his Pokemon for daring to suggest that he might need help (because he interpreted the terms of the bet as meaning that he would do it without even his own Pokemon's help).\\
'''Result''': He gets through the wall of snow, but is too tired and frostbitten to notice his surroundings, and ends up falling off a cliff and ends up needing his Pokemon and Conway to save his life.

** Conway, considering that his parents barely acknowledge his existence, his older sister bullies him and his beloved older cousin [[spoiler:turns out to be Saturn from Team Galactic]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Chapter 9 features a location called Plumeria Town. An actual character named Plumeria would appear in ''Videogame/PokemonSunAndMoon.''

* TheWoobie: 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 PostVictoryCollapse), 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).

* FridgeBrilliance: If Lemonade can heal a Pokemon's HP in the games, can it also help a sick human get over an illness faster? When Paul drank lemonade in Chapter 7 to help with taking medicine, maybe it also helped him recover from his cold/flu before he visited Reggie in the hospital. Also, on the topic of Paul needing to be over his cold/flu by the time he visited Reggie in Chapter 7, that was a good idea because then he wouldn't be contagious in a place where people would be immune/compromised, and he in turn would be less likely to catch something from someone else at the hospital once his own immune system was done battling that cold/flu. [[spoiler: Since we learn later on that Paul actually has a genetically weak immune system, staying away from other people who are contagious would be important for him.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: If Lemonade can heal a Pokemon's HP in the games, can it also help a sick human get over an illness faster? When Paul drank lemonade in Chapter 7 to help with taking medicine, maybe it also helped him recover from his cold/flu before he visited Reggie in the hospital. Also, on the topic of Paul needing to be over his cold/flu by the time he visited Reggie in Chapter 7, that was a good idea because then he wouldn't be contagious in a place where people would be immunocompromised, and he in turn would be less likely to catch something from someone else at the hospital once his own immune system was done battling that cold/flu. [[spoiler: Since we learn later on that Paul actually has a genetically weak immune system, staying away from other people who are contagious would be important for him.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: If Lemonade can heal a Pokemon's HP in the games, can it also help a sick human get over an illness faster? When Paul drank lemonade in Chapter 7 to help with taking medicine, maybe it also helped him recover from his cold/flu before he visited Reggie in the hospital. Also, on the topic of Paul needing to be over his cold/flu by the time he visited Reggie in Chapter 7, that was a good idea because then he wouldn't be contagious in a place where people would be immunocompromised, and he in turn would be less likely to catch something from someone else at the hospital once his own immune system was done battling that cold/flu. [[spoiler: Since we learn later on that he actually has a genetically weak immune system, staying away from other people who are contagious would be important for him.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: If Lemonade can heal a Pokemon's HP in the games, can it also help a sick human get over an illness faster? When Paul drank lemonade in Chapter 7 to help with taking medicine, maybe it also helped him recover from his cold/flu before he visited Reggie in the hospital. Also, on the topic of Paul needing to be over his cold/flu by the time he visited Reggie in Chapter 7, that was a good idea because then he wouldn't be contagious in a place where people would be immunocompromised, and he in turn would be less likely to catch something from someone else at the hospital once his own immune system was done battling that cold/flu.

* HoYay: 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. 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.

** '''You'd Expect''': That he'd at least dress warmly and have his Pokemon help get through obstacles, considering he has a Weavile which is well-suited for a cold climate. He never outright mentioned his Pokemon when making the bet, only that he wouldn't need Conway's help, so having his own, personally trained Pokemon help wouldn't necessarily cost him the bet.\\

* WhatAnIdiot: * Paul is heading for Snowpoint City, and plans to take the toughest section of Route 216:
** '''You'd Expect''': That he'd at least dress warmly and have his Pokemon help get through obstacles, considering he has a Weavile which is well-suited for a cold climate.\\
'''Instead''': He doesn't change his clothes at all even though Conway warns him to do so, and when faced with a wall of snow and Weavile wants to help him, he outright threatens to release Weavile and all his Pokemon for daring to suggest that he might need help (because of a bet he had made with Conway).\\

* TheWoobie: 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, 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).

* TheWoobie: 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, but he simply considers them to be "even." (Ironically, Paul is the one who ends up leaving the gym unconscious because of his sickness-induced PostVictoryCollapse.) 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).

* TheWoobie: 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, 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).

* TheWoobie: Paul's Weavile. First he makes it Surf him to catch a boat, and after it fails because it just gets too tired, 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, 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).