History Fanfic / OvercomingtheClashingTides

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Alex owned a Piplup, a gift from her parents right before she left for the Sinnoh region. It eventually evolved off-screen into Prinplup and later Empoleon in the prequel.

--->'''Shiro:''' [[Persona3 I've been waiting for this]].
--->'''Amethyst:''' [[Persona3 I'll ''execute'' you.]]

Overcoming The Clashing Tides is a Pokémon Anime/Special [[{{Crossover}} crossover]] fanfiction by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2656579/ DemigodWitch96]].

* AerithAndBob: Basically, all of the second generation Dex Holders.
** [[{{Lampshaded}} Lampshaded]] by Bree Ketchum.
* [[spoiler: AlternateTimeline: Apparently, the Dex Holders' kids and the anime gang's kids were never meant to meet.]]
** [[spoiler: Originally, the Dex Holders and the anime gang were from different dimensions. But after Cyrus messed with Palkia and Dialga, trying to create his own world, it forced the two dimensions to collide. However, Arceus managed to fix it, but there is now a dimension where the Dex Holders and the anime gang exist side by side.]]
* BadassFamily: The Fawkes family.
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Auburn and Jade.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Jay/Ashley and Cobalt/Alex.
** First thought to be the case with Pyrite/Lena, but is shown later on that they get along ''just fine''.
* BerserkButton: Almost everybody has one!
* BewareTheNiceOnes: ''Citrine''.
* {{Childhood Friends}}: All of the second generation Pokédex Holders are one group.
** Ashley, Drake, Lewis, Kyle, and Alex are another.
** Can't forget about Maria, Jay, and Lizzie.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Averted with the anime kids.
** Royalshipping (Mercury x Ame) and Forestshipping (Jet x Citrine)
** Annnnd Auburn and Jade.
*** They even have a ChildhoodMarriagePromise.
* {{Covert Pervert}}: BRONZE.
* CurbStompBattle: Courtesy of Citrine.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Alex, of course.
** Drake's got his moments, too.
** Jasper seems to be joining the club.

* {{Elemental Powers}}: [[spoiler: MARIA.]]
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Jay and Ashley, Jet and Citrine, Jade and Auburn...
* {{Everythings Better With Penguins}}: Alex owned a Piplup, a gift from her parents right before she left for the Sinnoh region. It eventually evolved off-screen into Prinplup and later Empoleon in the prequel.
* {{Four Girl Ensemble}}: Ashley, Maria, Alex, and Lizzie.
* {{Heroic Lineage}}: Ashley and Maria.
** Ashley is an [[spoiler: Aura Guardian in training.]]
** Maria can [[spoiler: use water as a weapon]].
* HoldYourHippogriffs
* {{Hopeless Suitor}}: Sorry, Jonah.
** Also Rory for Jet.
*** But she gets better.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Ashley does this to Drake after he and Maria start dating.

* InTheHood: The Resistance's spy is seen wearing one.
** Also lampshaded by Em.
-->'''Em:''' Is the cloak really necessary?
* {{Long Lost Relative}}: Waaaay too many to count.
* {{The Medic}}: Citrine, duh.
* MomentKiller: Ashley killed a fluffy moment between Drake and Maria.

* {{Nice Guy}}: Drake, of course.
** Well, he is growing a spine, now.
** Mercury ''used'' to be this.
* {{Ninja}}: [[spoiler: Alex and Drake.]].
* {{Non Human Sidekick}}: All of the Pokémon!
* NotSoStoic: Alex.

* {{Oblivious to Love}}: CITRINE.
** Heck, even Ashley.
** Heck, even Drake to an extent.
* {{Older Than They Look}}: Citrine.
** She got it from Yellow but it's not as severe. She's sixteen, but can pass as a thirteen-year-old.
* {{Original Character}}: All of the main characters!
* {{Psychic Powers}}: Citrine and Jet. Citrine can heal and talk to Pokemon and Jet can only talk...
** Also Ashley
* [[spoiler: PubertySuperpower: Ashley and Maria both got a special ability for their sixteenth birthday.]]
* {{The Quiet One}}: JET.
** Alex, sort of.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** Ashley is the red. Alex is the blue.
* RunningGag: The author seems to be hinting at one in the second arc.
** Whenever any of the main character mentions a slang word from [[spoiler: their time]], it earns them odd looks.
* {{SavvyGuy EnergeticGirl}}: Eventually this is how Bronze and Lizzie's relationship is going to be. And maybe Mercury and Amethyst.
* {{Say My Name}}: Ashley seems to enjoy doing this.

* {{She Is Not My Girlfriend}}: *coughs* Almost every couple in the story.

* {{Shout Out}}: Many

-->'''Shiro:''' [[Persona3 I've been waiting for this]].
-->'''Amethyst:''' [[Persona3 I'll ''execute'' you.]]
--> Robin Fawkes. [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Black haired, blue eyed, and has a talent for hacking into computer systems]].
* {{Shut up Hannibal}}: Ghetsis has been the target of this trope many, many times.
* SiblingYinYang: Many of the siblings in the story are this.

* StalkerWithACrush: Remember Conway from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl?
** [[spoiler: He returns and reveals that he is Rory's adoptive father]].
** And did I forget to mention that he still has an, ah, interest in Dawn?
* TheStoic: Jet has his moments.

* [[spoiler: SuperpowerfulGenetics: Ashley and Maria.]]
** [[spoiler: Ashley inherited Aura from Ash and Maria inherited [[MakingASplash water manipulation from Misty]].]]
** Annnnnd add [[spoiler: Lewis]].
* SuggestiveCollision: Cobalt and Alex in the second chapter. He fell on her, and well, accidentally groped her.
** In Cobalt's defense, it was an accident.
** Alex didn't even care about his apology. She just punched him.

** Hm, that may be a reason why things went so downhill after that.
* {{Supreme Chef}}: Ashley grew up learning how to cook from her grandmother, Delia. In the prologue, Mercury is mentioned to have inherited Dia's skills in the kitchen.
* {{Time Travel}}: The main characters are now stuck in the past... [[spoiler: When their parents just got together. Awkward... And some of the parents aren't even together...]]
** Now they're in the distant [[spoiler: future. Oh yeah, have I mentioned that the new government is anti-Pokemon?]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Ashley, in a way and so is Alex, even though Dawn makes her wear skirts sometimes. Maria is between from a tomboy and girly girl.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Plenty of examples.
** First, Ashley, Alex, and Drake. The three of them were childhood friends and very close.
** Same with Maria, Jay, and Lizzie.
** Paul and Dawn's kids count too.
** Technically, Ash and Misty's kids would count too, but Danny is too young.
** Ruby and Sapphire's children fulfill this trope.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl:
** There's Diamond and Platinum's children, but [[spoiler: since Copper is dead now, it doesn't really count]].
** Red and Yellow have three children, [[spoiler: Auburn]], Jasper, and Citrine.
** There's also Green and Blue's kids, [[spoiler: Jade]], Cobalt, and Sora.
** Mangaquest kids: [[spoiler: Pyrite]], Bronze, and Opal.
** Silver and Kotone's kids, [[spoiler: Thallium]], Jet, and Garnet.
** Can't forget Drew and May's kids, Jay, Lizzie, and Thomas.
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Poor Mercury.
* TheUnreveal: Not a lot of people were shocked that Auburn and Jade were the [[spoiler: kids of Red & Yellow and Green & Blue respectively]].
** Averted when Opal reveals that there were [[spoiler: more missing kids]].
* UptightLovesWild: Gender Flipped.
** Alex Shinji: smart, strategical, and super serious.
** Cobalt Oak: easy going, enjoys teasing Alex, and is basically a male version of Blue.
** You do the math.
* {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}: Ashley and Alex all the way.
* WorldOfBadass: ...Nah.
* [[YouNeedToGetLaid You Really Need A Girlfriend]]: Bronze gets this sometimes.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Jax.

* {{Fingerless Gloves}}: Alex owns a black pair, [[spoiler: a gift from Lizzie for her birthday]].

** Bronze: He has ''blue'' hair, his name is '''BRONZE''', and he's the genius of the group. He just screams [[HarryPotter Ravenclaw]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Jay/Ashley, Cobalt/Alex, Jonah/Em

* {{Beware the Nice Ones}}: Lizzie, Drake, and Citrine.
** Citrine takes after her mother when it comes to her temperament. She may be short but she will kick your butt if you make her angry.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Older Sibling Instinct]]: Where to begin?
* {{Bilingual Bonus}}: Apparently, Mercury and Copper can speak Japanese.
* BraidsOfAction: Lizzie has hers in one long French braid.
* BreakTheCutie: Mercury gets his near the end of the first arc when [[spoiler: Copper dies]].
** Annnnnd then there's Rory.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Rory seems to find Conway's treatment of her normal, flinching when somebody raises their hand, as if she is going to be hit]].
** Annnnd there's Thallium.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Ashley swears that she isn't jealous but everybody can see that she's lying... Especially when she is beating Jay up with her bat.

** Auburn is the [[BadPun red oni]] and Jade is the blue oni.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Brother]]: Poor Mercury.

[[HotBlooded Ashley]] and [[MakingASplash Maria]] are the twin daughters of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Ash and Misty]]. Drake and [[DeadpanSnarker Alexandra]] (aka Alex) are the twin children of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Paul and Dawn]]. [[HandsomeDevil Jason]] (aka Jay) and [[ShipperonDeck Elizabeth]] (aka Lizzie) are the children of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Drew and May]].

[[OblivioustoLove Citrine]] is the daughter of [[PokemonSpecial Red and Yellow]]. [[DragonRider Cobalt]] is the son of [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Green and Blue]]. [[BadassBookworm Bronze]] is the son of [[PokemonSpecial Gold and Crystal]]. [[TheQuietOne Jet]] is the son of [[PokemonSpecial Silver]] and his wife, [[{{Pokemon}} Kotone]]. [[ActionGirl Amethyst]] (sometimes called Ame) is the daughter of [[UptightLovesWild Ruby and Sapphire]]. [[SupremeChef Mercury]] is the son of [[BodyguardCrush Dia and Platina]].

Other characters are the main characters' parents [[spoiler: (both present and past)]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Lewis]], son of Gary and Leaf, cousin of both the Ketchum twins and Cobalt, [[WildChild Tanzanite]] (or Tanzy), Amethyst's younger sister, [[HopelessSuitor Jonah]], the son of Trip and Iris, and [[DeadLittleSister Copper]] [[spoiler: who of Chapter 24 is now dead]], the younger brother of Mercury, [[ButtMonkey Ronnie]], the cousin of Drake and Alex and son of Reggie and Maylene.

Overcoming the Clashing Tides has humor, romance, some drama, and friendship. Read to find out more!

** Both of the Ketchum twins consider the boy that they were closest to in childhood as [[LikeBrotherAndSister a brother]].
** Unfortunately, both Jet and Mercury's crushes on Citrine and Amethyst respectively are unrequited.
** Ame and Citrine eventually get better.
* {{Covert Pervert}}: After an, ah, interesting scene with Bronze and Lizzie, Bronze is revealed to be one.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Jay. He became veeeery paranoid]].

** [[spoiler: Copper sacrificed his soul so Kyurem would calm down, letting the others beat Ghetsis]]. It was not pretty when Mercury got his revenge.

* GadgeeterGenius: Robin, [[spoiler: Auburn and Jade's daughter]].
* {{Get A Room}}: Lewis and Tanzy. Heck, Pearl even comments on their fighting!
-->'''Pearl:''' Get a room, you two!
-->'''Lewis & Tanzy:''' *glares*
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: Cyan is revealed to be really Sora, and he betrays the rebels in favor for the government, killing Lewis in the process]].
** [[spoiler: Cobalt was ''not'' happy.]]
** [[spoiler: Eventually, this is averted as it is revealed that Sora was playing double agent.]]

* {{Hopeless Suitor}}: Sorry, Amethyst. Drake belongs with Maria.
** Jonah seems to be joining this trope as well.
* [[spoiler: [[HowDoIShootWeb How Do I Shoot Aura?]]: Ashley really had no idea until she got training.]]

** Amethyst too, even though she totally ships Citrine and Jet together.

*** IT'S ALL ASH'S FAULT.

** AUBURN.

* WorldOfBadass: Let's see...
** The Ketchum twins. One of them has [[spoiler: spiritual powers and the other can manipulate water]].
** The Shinji twins are [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]].
** The Hayden siblings wield [[spoiler: [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas and can control elements]]]].
** Citrine may not look like much, but she is [[TheMedic a healer]], ''and'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes kick major ass]] with her Pokemon team.
** Cobalt excels at both training Pokemon and [[BadassNormal karate]].
** Bronze's a BadassBookworm.
** Jet can be pretty quiet, [[BewareTheQuietOnes but he is not someone you mess with]].
** Amethyst and Tanzy are the daughters of Ruby and Sapphire. And they both inherited Sapphire's [[ActionGirl fierce personality and capability to kick ass]].
** Mercury is a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Noble Who Actually Does Something]].
*** Don't even get me started on the ''Resistance''.

[[HotBlooded Ashley]] and [[MakingASplash Maria]] are the twin daughters of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Ash and Misty]]. [[TheArcher Drake]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Alexandra]] (aka Alex) are the twin children of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Paul and Dawn]]. [[HandsomeDevil Jason]] (aka Jay) and [[ShipperonDeck Elizabeth]] (aka Lizzie) are the children of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Pokemon Drew and May]].