History FanFic / Symbiosis

* BiTheWay: Lucas, which resulted in [[spoiler:his fascist family ousting him]]; and Captain Torch, [[spoiler:who was in love with both Sabrina and Atsushi.]]

* PredationIsNatural: Though no less traumatic for a young Ash when a pair of Vulpix friends end up coincidentally killing a Rattata he had previously befriended. He's more or less come to terms with it by the time he sets out on his journey.

'''NOTICE:''' The first chapters have undergone ''heavy'' editions, bordeline rewrite, therefore some tropes/details in this article may not be in the FanFic anymore (but they used to).

!!This {{Anime/Pokemon}} FanFic contains examples of the following tropes:

* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Elle refused to talk to her grandmather, Chiyoko for years because she acts like an EvilMatriarch and [[spoiler: believes her to be responsible for James's death.]] Chiyoko had nothing to do with it and simply thought Elle was lashing out.

** Giovanni's son being abducted from ''Manga/PokemonSpecial''.

* 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 ruined when various criminal organizations come after Tommy when they learn of his existence.]]

* BadassGrandma: Agatha. Surrounds herself with an entourage of Ghost Pokemon and can fight Sabrina to a standstill.

** Jessie and James get downright ''furious'' when Ash calls them "good guys". [[spoiler:Turns out it's a {{Trigger}} for them, as it takes them back to memories when they were tortured to catatonia.]]

** Giovanni's son being abducted from PokemonSpecial.

* 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.

** 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 it's own strength and that the child needed to breath when they were out exploring.

* CastOfSnowflakes: Many of the minor characters and [=OCs=] have fleshed out personality and distinct characteristics.

** The only example so far is [[spoiler:Ash]]; [[spoiler:he]] is (as far as we know) not anti-magical in any form or way. What prevented Agatha's spell from working was a Loophole. Agatha's sleep spell requires people to think in the same language as the caster; having a different [[SpeaksFluentAnimal first language]] is enough to cancel the spell.Meaning, that spells with this or a similar condition might not work on [[spoiler:him, or Tommy for that matter]].

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Ash has a horrified moment of realization when Brock explains to him why the various teams want [[MacGuffinGirl Tom]][[SpeaksFluentAnimal my]] so bad to the point of fighting each other. The explanation of how the villain teams would exploit Tommy, the reveal of that Office Jenny and her superiors deliberately groomed Tommy to unlock the ability, and the sheer devastation of the herd being killed alongside corpses of humans splayed over the burned ground, forces Ash to conclude that he will never tell Misty or Brock or anyone else the truth.

* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Elle refused to talk to her grandmather, Chiyoko for years because she acts like an EvilMatriarch and [[spoiler: believes her to be responsible for James's death.]] Chiyoko had nothing to with it and simply thought Elle was lashing out.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Subverted. When sending Ash to school, Poison Lance and Pocket Watch fear that Ash will be ostracized because of his subpar language skills. However, because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon, they don't really care.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]], apparently the [[FunctionalMagic magic]] used in this universe has so many restrictions, that even the most inane things can stop/cancel it.

* ChekhovsGag: Pikachu going giggly and power mad over his ability to harness lightning from storms. [[spoiler:After Damian threathens to kill Ash, Pikachu [[AssholeVictim electrocutes him and his gang to death]], before cremating them with Lightning Bolt.]]

* ChekhovsGun

* TrainingFromHell: After the raid on the Pokemon village, Ash pleads with Brock to help him make him less of a liability in fights like this. This is the kind of training Brock puts Ash through...and Brock gets frustrated when Ash ''spoiler:doesn't complain about the intensity of it all]].

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

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Everyone at the Umagoya funeral, except for the main trio, dies at the hands of Krieg.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Ash vs Krieg. [[spoiler:Krieg beat Ash's team and then him, despite both him and Charizard having a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening. They would have been killed if Broch and Misty hadn't shown up.]]