History FanFic / PokemonTheUnknownContinuum

* ShoutOut: Some of the chapter titles include [[Music/DreamTheater Stream of Consciousness, This is the Life, Raise the Knife]], [[Music/{{Rush}} Limelight, The Wreckers]], and [[Music/{{Metallica}} To Live is to Die]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6421734/1/Pokemon-The-Unknown-Continuum Pokemon: The Unknown Continuum]]'' is a fanfiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2579075/Pocket-fulla-shells Pocket-fulla-shells]], based loosely on the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games. It follows Floyd, a cynical bassist from Edinburgh, who suddenly finds his family, friends, and life whisked away from him when he awakens in another world in a body that isn’t his.

** The fic deconstructs the game’s romanticization of the Guild, pointing out just how dangerous, violent, and mentally scarring life as an explorer in the PMD universe would really be. Floyd fears for his life every day and wonders why his peers don’t seem to have a problem with it.
** While Chatot’s strict, rigid nature is PlayedForLaughs in the games, this fic portrays him as a manipulative BadBoss.

** Floyd’s rant about the Palkians’ belief in “pokemon souls” and reincarnation seems pretty random at first. We find out in the final chapters that [[spoiler: Serge was a devout Palkian during his human life.]]

* [[spoiler: IChooseToStay]]: An odd example of this trope occurs in Chapter 15. After [[spoiler: Floyd discovers his entire human life has been taken over by a doppelganger]], he decides that it’s in his best interest to [[spoiler: stay in the pokemon world, punishing evildoers. He figures that if he can’t go back home, he can at least make the best of his new life.]]

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Averted with Floyd. He’s devoutly religious and constantly talks about it throughout the story.

** Floyd’s name is likely based on the protagonist of ''Music/TheWall'', Floyd Pinkerton, or is a shout out to [[Music/PinkFloyd the band]] in general.

* SpecialPersonNormalName: According to the afterword, Wigglytuff’s birth name is [[spoiler: Edmund]].

-->[[spoiler: '''Serge''']]: [[Music/MetropolisPt2ScenesFromAMemory We’ll meet again, my friend, someday soon]].

** Chapter 34. [[spoiler: The original Floyd fades away because the timeline that led to him going back in time ceases to exist. Unlike in the original Explorers games, he isn’t coming back. The author cements this fact by switching to Serge’s point of view for the remainder of the story.]]

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Averted ''hard'' with Floyd. He’s devoutly religious and constantly talks about it throughout the story.

** The scene in which [[spoiler: Serge visits the grave of his preincarnation in the human world]] may be one to Music/MetropolisPt2ScenesFromAMemory.

** Floyd’s name is likely based on the protagonist of ''[[Music/TheWall]]'', Floyd Pinkerton, or is a shout out to [[Music/PinkFloyd the band]] in general.

** Floyd’s name is likely based on the protagonist of ''[[Music/TheWall]]'', Floyd Pinkerton, or is a shout out to the band in general.