History Fanfic / Pedestal

* AbortedArc: What ever happened to that red jacket...?
** Word of God states the jacket would have gone to a planned cross-over.
* AccidentalAimingSkills: The protagonist is pro at this - especially when trying to catch birds.

* ActionGirl: Carlita.
** [[spoiler: Ultimately, Hanna. Her secret weapon lays waste to Nick's team, and she even beats Nick himself in a fistfight.]]
* ActionSurvivor: It's a wonder that the protagonist is still alive at this point, especially after being mauled by Pokemon (and people!) so many times.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Both Hanna and [[spoiler:Nick]] have one.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Carlita's tail gets chopped off during the battle with Nick.]]
* AntiAir: Ike was meant to be this, but Kostya and Alice are used, more often than not - mostly because the protagonist doesn't believe Ike can be trusted.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The main character has been involved in four so far
** The first is when he breaks out of the warehouse during The Tournament arc.
** The second is when he faces Vaporeon in Sunyshore.
** [[spoiler: The third and fourth come in quick succession during the Stark Mountain battle. First he faces down Lola just outside Stark Mountain, and then he battles Nick deep within the heart of the mountain.]]

* BigSleep: [[spoiler: Nick's death at the hands of Arceus.]]
--> [[spoiler: Then, he shut his eyes tight and leaned against Chase, just as the white pokémon leaned down and pressed the tip of its snout against the dragon's forehead.]]

* [[spoiler: BrokenPedestal]]: The plot and much of the character interactions later in the story thrive off of this trope.
* ButtMonkey: The protagonist. Let's face it, life for him isn't exactly peachy.

* ComingOfAgeStory: The story starts off ''technically'' when the protagonist is ten. Five years so far have passed.

* CreatorCameo: [[spoiler: Chapter 94.]]

* DarkIsEvil: The dark-haired trainer [[spoiler: turned out to be Nick, and we find that out just before his FreakOut]]. He has also been stated to wear dark clothes from then on out.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Rather, ghost types aren't evil. Mostly.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''most'' original trainer pokemon fics out there.

* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler: Benjamin's mother was executed for being in Team Galactic. His father is in prison for life.]]

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: The mercenary's girlfriend, Zoe, dies this way after being shot by Vaporeon.]]

* [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even The Boys Want Him]]: Nick, the protagonist.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The only way for the story to end peacefully at this point is if [[spoiler: Nick goes to jail or dies]]. Considering the protagonist's feelings towards him and [[spoiler: the fact that he already ''bailed him out of prison once before'']]...
** [[spoiler: He dies. Via Arceus]].

* FamedInStory: Played straight with the protagonist, though it's an unfortunate thing as it could reveal [[spoiler: his friendship with Nick]].

* {{Fangirl}}: Implied with Hanna's remark in chapter 16. She has also been shown to root for the protagonist and Alicia's relationship, even going as far as to help him out.
** Cossette, to an extent.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: The protagonist can be seen as this, sometimes. [[spoiler: Not any more! Now we have his full name, gender and [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/TEAM-AWESOME-149112749 several]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/99-fate-164295789 pieces]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/Pedestal-REAL-Reason-163061462 of]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/62-effort-166456099 art]] by the author to give us an idea of his appearance! So what if it took 150+ chapters?]]

* FlatWhat: Nick's reaction to [[spoiler: hearing that Matthew is dead]]. Possibly deconstructed, given the circumstances and description of how flat the word was.
* FourIsDeath: There are four Pidgey chicks when the main character adopts them. Is it ''that'' surprising that not all of them make it? [[spoiler: Poor Oonu and Woonu...]]

* FreakOut: [[spoiler: Nick]] suffers a HUGE one. The rest of the story after that point follows the protagonist, and [[spoiler:the rest of the region]], struggling to deal with the fallout from it.
** Most of Sunyshore and the remaining Gym race trainers suffer one during the [[spoiler: media attack]].
** Benjamin has one after [[spoiler: he kills someone for the first time.]]

* GroinAttack: Hanna uses one during her fistfight with [[spoiler: Nick.]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: The main character, more and more as the story wears on.
** [[spoiler: Lampshaded by ''Arceus'', of all things.]]

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Keith, since much of his early appearances involve his participation in an event on national television.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Vai gets stabbed with one of Koel's feathers.]]

* IdiotHair: The protagonist has one in pictures drawn by the author.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Archie and [[spoiler: Alicia]], and their respective relationships with the protagonist.
* ImportantHaircut: Cynthia cuts her hair short after the Champions Tragedy.

* LivingShadow: Kostya and Pollyanna take this form regularly - but subverted a bit in that that's not their real form.

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler: Des to Isabella, [=NamNar=] to Woonu, [=NamNar=] to Archie, [=NamNar=] to Lola... And most recently, [=NamNar=] to Nick.]]

* NoNameGiven: The protagonist of the story. See NamelessNarrative above.

* OutsourcingFate[=/=]HumanityOnTrial: [[spoiler: Arceus tries to judge humanity based on the actions of the main characters]].

* ProperlyParanoid: Well, Des ''is'' weak against water...
** Likewise, Vaikuntha won't let Koel fight fire Pokemon.

* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: Not becoming [[DarkIsNotEvil dark doesn't mean becoming evil]]; it means using dark type Pokemon to hide from psychics]]. See KarmicTwistEnding above.

* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Early in the story, the protagonist regularly gets dreams visited by [[ItMakesSenseInContext stalker ghosts and goddesses of love]]. Though he didn't actually see the future in any of them and the culprits of the dream invasions are psychic or ghost pokemone.

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Subverted in the fact that Alicia has never been shown or stated to be in anything ''but'' a dress.

* [[spoiler:RivalTurnedEvil]]: Fuels ''all'' of the conflict in the later parts of the story.

%%* ShoutOut: One part has a small reference to WebVideo/MarbleHornets and Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos. [[ParanoiaFuel The protagonist reacts accordingly.]]

* StockNinjaWeaponry: Keith has enough hidden knives for any situation. His preference for using poison type Pokemon may also qualify.

* StrangerSafety: The Pokemon universe thrives off of this, and our hero is no exception.

* TalkingYourWayOut: The main character orders his pokemon to do this in order to convert some hostile pokemon to their side. Probably would've worked better if they weren't in the middle of a raging battle at the time...

* TheAllConcealingI: There are more than 150 chapters at this point and we ''still'' don't know the narrator's name.
* TheBusCameBack: For Hanna at the end of the Vaporeon arc.
* TheCavalry: Played straight for both sides during [[spoiler: the battle with Lola on Stark Mountain.]]

%%* TheFashionista: Hanna shows shades of this.
%%* TheNotLoveInterest: Hanna.
* TheReveal: The narrator's name is finally revealed at the end of chapter 159.
* TheRunaway: Cossette is implied to have run away from home after having an argument with her parents shortly after the main character moves to Sunyshore, and is currently living with him in the gym.
* TheStarscream: Ike ''detests'' being made a trainer's pokemon, and for the first part of the story actively looks for ways to undermine the main character. He gradually grows out of this as the story progresses.
%%* TheStoic: Des.

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: The dark-haired trainer turning out to be Nick]], for the protagonist at least.
** [[spoiler: The black hoodie-wearing trainer turning out to be ''Lola''.]]

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The protagonist, Nick and Lola were this for a short while.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: NICK. He murdered Hanna's team to stop the protagonist from getting too involved with him.]]

* WhamEpisode: In the first half, there was much speculation as to where the plot was going. Chapter 57 promptly destroyed that.
** Chapter 132, as well.
* WhamLine: Chapter 121: [[spoiler: "Des. Kill it."]]
** Chapter 147: [[spoiler: "I've missed you so much, Matthew."]]
** The meaning of these words: [[spoiler: "Let go."]]
** Chapter 156 is ''full'' of them. The most jarring would have to be [[spoiler: "...A slow waltz, perhaps," and "...he won't be able to see again."]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Pedestal]] gives an absolutely ''epic'' one to the protagonist. It [[HesBack snaps him out of his mindset]].
** Again: [[spoiler: "Des. Kill it."]]

-->"[=NamNar=], c'mere."
-->"Uh, ''who''?"
-->"You, silly."

* ADayInTheLimelight: Both Hanna and [[spoiler: Nick]] have one.

* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Carlita]] gets fitted with an artiftical [[spoiler: tail]] after the events of the final fight. However, even with the new limb her doctors find it unlikely that [[spoiler: she'll ever dance again.]]

* BackForTheFinale: Jude makes an appearance for [[spoiler: Oonu's]] funeral in the final chapter.

** The second is when he faces Vaporeon in Sunyshore

* AlluringAnglerfish: Most ghosts do this at some point.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Taken ''UpToEleven''. The protagonist [[spoiler: completely and utterly fails in his job to ScrewDestiny, and the entire regions suffers for it.]]

* TheCheerleader: Hanna doesn't lampshade it; she proclaims it, drags others along with her, and even dresses for the part.

* NamelessNarrative: We (and [[WordOfGod the author]]) call him [=NamNar=], short for the Nameless Narrator, since his name is never revealed during the course of the story. The author keeps the protagonist's gender unknown for half the story. The protagonist's name is literally the ''last two words of the story''.

%%* PowerTrio: (In The Beginning)

It later becomes DarkerAndEdgier than the games, with heavy deconstruction of prophecies deciding fates and the general them of chosen ones, and the consequences of ignoring warnings. However, it still has moments of comedy.

It later becomes DarkerAndEdgier than the games ever dreamed of, with prophecies, genre deconstructions, and the consequences of ignoring warnings. However, it still has moments of comedy.

''Pedestal'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic that starts out deceptively similar to other stories. A young trainer aspires ToBeAMaster, with great dreams of being the best, placing his hoped-for Pokemon on a [[TitleDrop pedestal]]. A year later than most trainers, he finally receives his starter... And it's a Numel. HilarityEnsues, but not for long.

It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4871317/1/Pedestal here]].

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: The protagonist can be seen as this, sometimes. [[spoiler: Not any more! Now we have his full name, gender and [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/TEAM-AWESOME-149112749 several]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/99-fate-164295789 pieces]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/Pedestal-REAL-Reason-163061462 of]] [[http://digital-skitty.deviantart.com/art/62-effort-166456099 art]] by the author to give us an idea of his appearance! So what if it took 150+ chapters?]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Lola. She has an EarlyBirdCameo when the main characters journey to Snowpoint, and while she gets more focus during the tournament and gym race arcs the most pivotal moment she's involved in is [[spoiler: being killed on national televison.]] Much later, it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead her murder was a sham]], ''and'' she's had a hand in almost all the obstacles the main character has had to face in the story so far - such as being the driving force behind Nick's worsening SanitySlippage, the organiser of the nightmare attacks, and being one who goaded the main character into attacking Vaporeon by sending messages from Nick's number. She's also manipulated many events in the protagonists life from behind the scenes, such as fixing the tournament so that they'd achieve a gym postion and covering up their involvement in Nick's prison break. Finally she's 'the first' in the ghosts' prophecy...]]

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Zigzagged. In Stark Mountain characters wearing dark clothing are shown to be extremely uncomfortable and non-fire pokemon have a hard time battling for long periods due to the heat. However a [[RopeBridge rickety rope bridge]] can somehow stand over a pool of lava without bursting into flames...

%%* DeusExMachina/DiabolusExMachina: The entire [[spoiler: Arceus scene]] in the chapter 154 could be seen as this.

* DisguisedInDrag: The protagonist cross dresses as a girl in order to get past border control. He later swaps outfits with another girl in order to [[spoiler: escape from Sunyshore Gym.]]

* BattleButler: Jacques, Cossette's loyal Gallade.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: This makes up a large part of the plot.

* BilingualBonus: Cossette and her family speak French natively, and it's been implied that Jude speaks it, too.
* BittersweetEnding
* BlindSeer: Katerina.

* CheerfulChild: Cossette. Carlita is the pokemon version of this.
** Completely averted with the protagonist and Benjamin.

* CliffHanger: There are some truly terrible ones, some coming right after an even worse one before it.

* DarkFic: Though not apparent at first.

* DeadpanSnarker: The protagonist and Lola.

* DeusExMachina[=/=]DiabolusExMachina: The entire [[spoiler: Arceus scene]] in the chapter 154 could be seen as this.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of many Pokemon friendship fics.

* DoubleMeaningTitle

* EvilFormerFriend [[spoiler: Nick to the protagonist.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Nick.]]

* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Nick.]]

** Nick, [[spoiler: even before his [[FreakOut ''incident'']]]].
** Jude, played straight.

* GratuitousNinja: Keith.

* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Ike and Carlita become this after the Stark Mountain fiasco.]]

* HotBlooded: Carlita, Des (when he gets mad, anyway).

* JustifiedTitle

* KickChick: Carlita.

* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Alicia.]]
* LethalLavaLand: The inside of Stark Mountain.

* LovableAlphaBitch: Hanna, Alice to an extent.
* MacheteMayhem: Vaikuntha could go this way.
** [[spoiler: Lola recently picked up the habit as well. With actual results.]]
** The protagonist's efforts to jump and the bandwagon [[EpicFail have so far fallen a bit flat.]]
--> [[spoiler: "Wow, that was... sort of pathetic," Nick called encouragingly. "Wanna try again?"]]

* MamaBear: Alice, most trainers if their teams are threatened.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler: The nightmares.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Even lampshaded by a couple characters at various points.
* MoralityPet: The Pidgey chicks and Cossette for the narrator. Zarek, too, although for a shorter time.
** In a way, most Pokemon become this to their trainers, and even vice versa.
* MotorMouth: Alicia talks a lot, especially when nervous.
* MusicalThemeNaming: Alice.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Initially played straight with Hanna, but she has come into her own later in the story.

* PlayedForLaughs: A lot of the violence in the early chapters...only the [[MoodWhiplash injuries don't simply go away.]]
* PowderKegCrowd: The protagonist and his friends face the wrath of one during the [[spoiler:Gym race arc]].
* PowerTrio: (In The Beginning)
** Super Ego: Nick
** Ego: Narrator
** Id: Hanna

* PropheticFallacy: And how!

* PsychoSupporter: If they use a [[ItMakesSenseInContext Pokemon name]], chances are they fit this.
* PutOnABus: Happens to Hanna and Jude at different points during the Vaporeon arc.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Nick.]] You could make a case for him being a case of TheMentallyIll, considering he never truly recovers from his psychotic break.

* SelectiveSlaughter: [[spoiler: Nick, Houndoom, Stantler and Vaporeon. If you ''deserve'' your Pokemon, well then, you're okay in their books!]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy

** His Garchomp, Chase, is a shout-out to Chevy Chase, voice of the landshark in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skits.

* ShoutOut: One part has a small reference to WebVideo/MarbleHornets and Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos. [[ParanoiaFuel The protagonist reacts accordingly.]]
* ShovelStrike: Used to [[spoiler: kill Stantler and Houndoom]].

* SoProudOfYou: This is pretty much the last thing [[spoiler: Nick says to the protagonist before he leaves for evildom.]]

* {{Socialite}}: Hanna.
* SourSupporter: Ike. Sometimes, even Des fills this trope when his trainer gets whiny or loses track of the right way.
* SpoiledBrat: Hanna, though the fandom loves her for it.
** Cossette and Zarek fit this, too, thanks to the main character.
* StaticStunGun: Ike, most of Lola's team.

* StoutStrength: Des.

* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler: Nick, the protagonist.]]

* TeamMom: The protagonist. It's even been lampshaded by a couple characters.

* TheFashionista: Hanna shows shades of this.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Hanna.

* TheStoic: Des.

* AnyoneCanDie
* ApatheticCitizens: Deconstructed.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Literally with Jude, though it's actually a shiny Pokemon.
* BabiesEverAfter

* TokenEvilTeammate: Ike.
* TokenMiniMoe: Cossette.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Carlita and Alice.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The [[spoiler: riot in Sunyshore]].
* TouchOfDeath: How [[spoiler: Arceus kills Nick and Chase.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Alice.

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Chapter 148, told by Nick as his sanity starts slipping.]]
* UnlikelyHero: Went the first started out on his journey, nobody would have pegged the protagonist as being the one who'd eventually bring peace to the region.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Vaporeon has shades of this.]]
** [[spoiler: NICK. He murdered Hanna's team to stop the protagonist from getting too involved with him.]]

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: [[spoiler: Chapters 151 and 152]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Nick]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Taken ''UpToEleven''.

* PlayedForLaughs: A lot of the violence is. Only to coincide with MoodWhiplash when the other characters/the readers realize that the injuries don't simply go away.

* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: It's hard to tell. But then there are the nightmares. Which takes this trope somewhat literally, as [[spoiler:a psychic caused them]].
** Earlier in the story, the protagonist regularly gets dreams visited by [[ItMakesSenseInContext stalker ghosts and goddesses of love]]. Again, taken a little more literally, as he didn't actually see the future in any of them.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Jude ditches the main character after his WhatTheHellHero moment at the end of the Vaporeon arc. The main character does this when [[spoiler: he quits being a gym leader after the events at Stark Mountain.]]

** Sonya, towards Nathan, although her exact age is unknown.

* TheRunaway: Cossette is implied to have run away from home after having an argument with her parents, shortly after the main character moves to Sunyshore, and is currently living with him in the gym.

* TitleDrop: The main character gives an ''epic'' one during his confrontation with [[spoiler: Nick.]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: Thanks to the story always avoiding naming the protagonist, readers eventually dub them NamNar (short for Nameless Narrator). Even the AuthorAvatar starts referring to them as such.

* ChekhovsGunman: Lola. She has an EarlyBirdCameo when the main characters journey to Snowpoint, and while she gets more focus during the tournament and gym race arcs the most pivotal moment she's involved in is [[spoiler: being killed on national televison.]] Much later, it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead her murder was a sham]], ''and'' she's had a hand in almost all the obstacles the main character has had to face in the story so far - such as being the driving force behind Nick's worsen SanitySlippage, the organiser of the nightmare attacks, and being one who goaded the main character into attacking Vaporeon by sending messages from Nick's number. She's also manipulated many events in the protagonists life from behind the scenes, such as fixing the tournament so that they'd achieve a gym postion and covering up their involvement in Nick's prison break. Finally she's 'the first' in the ghosts' prophecy...]]

* AccidentalMisnaming:

* ChekhovsGunman: Lola. She's first introduced very early on in the story as random goth trainer who got stranded in Snowpoint. She then pops up during the tournament and gym race arcs. Her third major apperance sees her [[spoiler: being killed on national televison.]] However the later chapters reveal that [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead not only is she alive]], but that she's the person who's responsible for worsening Nick's SanitySlippage, she fixed the gym race slightly so the main character got a gym position, she organized the nightmare attack, she owns the Xatu that has been invading the main character's dreams lately, she goaded the main character into attacking Vaporeon by sending messages from Nick's number, she knows the truth about the prison break and helped to cover the main characters involvement in it, and finally she's 'the first' in the ghosts' prophecy...]]

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Zigzagged. In Stark Mountain characters wearing dark clothing are shown to be extremely uncomfortable and non fire pokemon have a hard time battling for long periods due to the heat. The lava is shown to be able to easily kill and destroy things. However a [[RopeBridge rickety rope bridge]] can somehow stand without bursting into flames...

* DisguisedInDrag: The protagonist cross dresses as a girl in order to get past border control.
** And to get out of the Sunyshore Gym, although he actually [[spoiler:swapped places with a specific girl to get out]].

* spoiler: AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Carlita's tail gets chopped off during the battle with Nick.]]

* ArtificialLimbs Artificial Tail]]: [[spoiler: Carlita]] gets fitted with one after the events of the final fight. However, the extent of her injuries means that she still [[spoiler: will never dance again.]]

** [[spoiler: The third and fourth come in quick succession during the Stark Mountain battle. First he face down Lola just outside Stark Mountain, and then he battles Nick deep in the heart of the mountain.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Interestingly, two examples in The Tournament arc: [[spoiler: inverted when [=NamNar=] busts ''out'' of the building to save people, and when the main antagonist, Nick, shows up and kills his own followers to stop the fighting and probably save them from a very bloody CurbStompBattle.]]

** Sela and Vaikuntha tend to become this from time to time, most recently [[spoiler:with the rest of the Gym leaders at Stark Mountain]].
* BigSleep: [[spoiler: Nick, when he's killed by Arceus]]

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: The main character, although how innocent he is at this point in the story is debatable. And more often than not, it's his own blood.
** [[spoiler: Cossette, very literally taken.]]

* KidHero: THe protagonist brings peace to the region at the tender age of 15.