History FanFic / Symbiosis

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:A Team Rocket shareholder building an illegal dam, finds out about Jessie and James and their [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast destructive habits]]. He wished that they would show up and wreak some havoc.]]

* ActionGirl: Misty and Melanie.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Damian turns from a {{Jerkass}} trainer to an AxeCrazy SocialDarwinist. The Construction Director making the dam over a Diglett supercolony is a Team Rocket shareholder who tricks trainers into killing pokemon.

* AndCallHimGeorge: The Muk loves humans...Unfortunately he doesn't know that by covering humans with his goop in order to cuddle them suffocates and kills humans. [[spoiler: He accidentally kills several members of Elle's family through this, at the behest of Krieg's pokemon. When he realizes this, he kills himself.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Damian]], when he is reduced to ash by Pikachu's Lightingbolt.

* AxCrazy: If you are part of a Team, you have good chance of being this.

* BatmanGambit

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Elle's family is very wealthy and elite, but they all despise each other and oust Elle for becoming a pokemon trainer. Elle implied its common among traditional families. [[spoiler: James' family was ''worse'' to the point that they had him tortured because he didn't want to be anything like them.]] Elle notes that many rich families have fully functional dungeons that get used on family members that act out of line.

* BoringButPractical

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Pocket Watch uses his hypnosis to register Ash into school and put him into speech therapy. He also puts a general mental suggestion for people to not to notice Ash too much

* BreatherEpisode: A number of them.

* ButNotTooForeign: the names of many [=OCs=] suggest this.
* TheBusCameBack: Gary in the Diglett chapter.

* ChildSoldiers: The Gym Leaders and Gym Trainers.
* ChildhoodFriends: Ash and Gary.

* DramaticIrony: Misty and Brock believe that Aaron is a normal, if sheltered child but Aaron's pokemon and enemies know that he can speak pokemon and that his real name is Ash Ketchum. Everytime Aaron tries to tell them he gets interrupted and with the lastest events, he decides to fully leave them in the dark of his true identity.

** Professor Oak constantly beats himself up for failing to protect Delia Ketchum and her family not knowing that Ash survived and is the new trainer and his grandson's friend.

* GenreSavvy: How does Ash plan on going to the Indigo League [[spoiler:knowing that it's sooner away than he thinks, he's still on the shelf from the aforementioned beatdown from Kreig and he at this point only has ''four'' badges (with one Gym Leader out of commission)]]? The answer is: [[spoiler:he doesn't. With the League likely to be put on hold until the logistics of the Indigo-Johto merger are finalized, Ash gets the idea to go visit other regions in the meantime]].

* HehHehYouSaidX

* [[spoiler:ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: It was grey, wet and dreary at Atsushi's funeral.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: And how!

* MundaneSolution: Ash points out to Venomoth [[spoiler:that he could have solved the hypnotized children problem by having his son, Venonat, guard the children and have himself contact the police.]]

* NonverbalMiscommunication

* ShootTheDog

* WildChild: Deliberately {{averted}} by Poison Lance, as he made sure that Ash still had human contact, including sending him to school. While Ash still can't understand figures of speech, he is able to speak and read human language.

* MrExposition
* MundaneObjectAmazement: Ash was very amazed by the fish in the Cerulean Gym's aquarium.

* MultiEthnicName: Most [=OCs=] have names that are a mix of japanese and western names.

The story opens in Pallet Town, just after Ash's parents were killed in a fire caused by a mysterious criminal organization. His father's badly-injured Mareep barely escapes with a toddler-aged Ash on his back, being chased by Houndooms. They escape into Viridan Forest, where a Weedle named Poison Lance [[CurbstompBattle kills the Houndoom pack]], and is just in time to hear [[LastRequest the dying Mareep's wish]] for him to protect Ash. Poison Lance grants Mareep's wish, and the Pokemon community of Viridan Forest raise and protect Ash in memory of the Ketchums, who are remembered fondly for being friends to all of [=PokeKind=]. They try to protect Ash as much as possible while balancing Ash's needs as a human. This unique upbringing results in Ash having the ability to speak both languages - Human ''and'' Pokémon.

* TriangRelations: [[spoiler:Torch was implied to be love with both [[BrokenBird Sabrina]] and Atsushi.]]

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7917071/1/Symbiosis Symbiosis]]'' is an AU {{Anime/Pokemon}} fic, set in the anime-verse but with a major catalyst in the first chapter that throws off the entire original plot.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: If seeing Agatha of the [[BigGood Elite Four]] and Professor Oak are any example, anyone in charge tends to be this.
** AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: You need to be strong to ''get'' these positions in the first place!

* BigBad: Team Rocket, during the Kanto arc at least.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: If seeing Agatha of the [[BigGood Elite Four]] and Professor Oak are any example, anyone in charge tends to be this.
** AsskickingEqualsAuthority: You need to be strong to ''get'' these positions in the first place!

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Everyone at the Umagoya funeral, except for the main trio and Thomas, dies at the hands of Krieg... who is then killed by Geodude.]]

* WeaponOfChoice:
** [[GrievousHarmWithABody Magikarp]], for Primeape.
** Brock: his [[BatterUp spiked club]].
** Misty: her [[DualWielding dual trench knives]].
** He has yet to fight, but Ash/Aaron is being trained with a MartialArtsStaff.

** He has yet to fight, but Ash/Aaron is being trained with a SimpleStaff.

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: The Safari Zone rangers deliberately hid a child away from his desperately searching parents so they could groom him to becoming a functional WildChild that they could exploit. The Safari Zone rangers die in droves and their park is ruined when various criminal organizations come after Tommy when they learn of his existence.]]

** Misty: her [[DualWielding dual]] [[KnifeNut trench knives]].

* AdultFear: Professor Oak loses his student, Delia, and her family due to an unknown criminal organization attacking them in the night. In the night in which Oak was too exhausted to hear the resulting explosion. He had not put any security measures because Pallet Town seemed '' safe.''
** Misty is viciously attacked by a flock of Spearow in a typically safe area. It was only due to Ash's intervention that she survived that encounter.
** A little girl was smothered to death by a Muk that didn't know its own strength and that the child needed to breath when they were out exploring.

** BiggerBad: The opening chapter implies it to be [[spoiler:Ghetsis Harmonia.]]

* TriangRelations: [[spoiler:Torch was implied to be love with both [[BrokenBird Sabrina]] and [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Atsushi]].]]

* RealityEnsues: How does Ash plan on going to the Indigo League [[spoiler:knowing that it's sooner away than he thinks, he's still on the shelf from the aforementioned beatdown from Kreig and he at this point only has ''four'' badges (with one Gym Leader out of commission)]]? The answer is: [[spoiler:he doesn't. With the League likely to be put on hold until the logistics of the Indigo-Johto merger are finalized, Ash gets the idea to go visit other regions in the meantime]].

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Downplayed, therapists do exist, and Erika serves as an informal therapist/confidante for trainers and gym leaders. Ash simply hasn't had any access to them and Brock is avoiding addressing his issues with his father's ParentalAbadonment. When Ash does get to talk to Erika, he can't tell her much without putting himself in danger.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: The Muk. [[spoiler: It ends up killing several humans due this.]]

* WildChild: Deliberately {{averted}} by Poison Lance, as he made sure that Ash still had human contact to understand social cues. While Ash still can't understand social mores, he is be able to understand and speak human language and be literate. He even sent Ash to school and made sure Ash talked to humans.

* [[RaisedByWolves Raised by Pokémon]]: It is the very premise of this story.

* FriendlyRival: Gary, who makes Ash his rival for the sake of competition but otherwise has a lot of respect for him.