History Fanfic / TheSunSoul

* Omnicidal Maniac: [[spoiler:Mewtwo. His EvilPlan is to KillAllHumans with an army of Pokémon.]]

* BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler: The savants]]

* BigBadEnsemble: at first, Team Rocket serves as the main antagonist force, but [[spoiler:Elm]] and [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] are giving the group a run for its money. After [[spoiler:Elm's death and Team Rocket's EnemyMine with Ash]], [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] becomes the only BigBad.
** Subverted, as it is revealed the story had only one BigBad from the beginning: [[spoiler: Mewtwo, who manipulated Elm, Ash, and everyone to destroy mankind.]]

** Subverted in chapter 30, [[spoiler: Giovanni and what appears to be a large contingent of Rockets]] intended to do this during the fight with [[spoiler: Elm]]. They were a bit late to the party though.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[spoiler: Misty hails from one.]]

* BlackWidow: [[spoiler: Misty]] apparently acted as one once.
* BornLucky: Ash, apparently, surviving amazing odds; [[spoiler: falling off a waterfall]] among others. [[spoiler: It's not simply luck]].

* {{Doorstopper}}: So far it is 327,640 words as of Chapter 36, so it counts.

* ItGotWorse: Ash goes from losing his entire hometown, his mother, and entire childhood in a night to being thrown into a continent-spanning conspiracy that culminates in him being [[spoiler:stabbed, thrown off waterfalls, attacked by [[HeroKiller Jesse and James]] over and over, and generally nearly killed on a fairly regular basis.]] Oh, and then [[spoiler:Misty, his lover, is brutally murdered in a battle he insisted they fight]]. Not to mention [[spoiler:Pikachu gets killed as well]]. And then [[spoiler:professor Oak]]... How much worse can things get?

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ash. He seems to command an unusual amount of respect from Pokemon he catches or commands, and they seem to intuitively understand his orders. Most notable with Blastoise, who is described by Misty as rather dense, stubborn and tactically disinclined, but under Ash's command suddenly understands completely new tactics and obeys without hesitation.

* Goddamned Bats: [[spoiler:Agatha]] is overwhelmed by every single Zubat from victory road attacking at once.

* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Misty expresses surprise that Ash can bond with and control Pokemon on a level that shouldn't be possible; on numerous occasions she observes that Ash performs actions with just-caught Pokemon that would have left anyone else dead. Ash is ''completely'' unaware of this [[spoiler:until he gets told about him being a savant]].

A DarkerAndEdgier take on Pokemon, this fic chronicles the journey of Ash Ketchum in a more realistic, dangerous Pokemon world where death and corruption are rife. Pokemon are dangerous enough that one red Gyarados can wipe out an entire town, science has focused mainly on researching pokemon, leading to very advanced medicine but relatively little in terms of computers, transport etc, transportation is mainly on foot/per pokemon (with cars being right out, even in the core region) and there being an actual frontier to human civilization.

The story follows Ash Ketchum, but not as we know him from the anime. An early experience with Pokemon in his childhood teaches him to respect Pokemon for the dangerous nature they possess, a lesson that stays with him throughout the rest of the story. With his traveling companion Misty, a girl with a mysterious past, Ash attempts to get to the bottom of why Team Rocket are occupying Mt. Moon and trying to enter Cerulean Cave. Along the way he meets Bill the scientist, a reclusive inventor, Dawn, a fellow trainer with whom he shares a mysterious connection, Jesse and James, who are constantly at odds with Ash and Misty, and the ever manipulative [[MagnificentBastard Mewtwo]]. Warning: character deaths, [[{{Gorn}} violence, and gore]] ahead.

** Even more recently, [[spoiler:James, Ash's Butterfree, and Pikachu. Yeah, his first pokemon is dead]].

* AxCrazy: Cade the bug hunter. [[spoiler:Catching pokemon and their trainers for bug food...]]

* TheBeastmaster: Everyone with a Pokemon, but especially Ash, who seems to command unusual respect and obedience from pokemon around him. [[spoiler: There's a good reason for that: savants are basically beings born to be beastmasters.]]

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Zombie pokemon even.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ash. He seems to command an unusual amount of respect from pokemon he catches or commands, and they seem to intuitively understand his orders. Most notable with Blastoise, who is described by Misty as rather dense, stubborn and tactically disinclined, but under Ash's command suddenly understands completely new tactics and obeys without hesitation.

* MythologyGag: In the beginning, Ash is rescued by Professor Oak while running through - you guessed it - [[PokemonRedandBlue tall grass]].

* TranshumanAliens: Humanity seems to be set out for this as they adapt to the pokemon around them. [[spoiler:Ash is one of these, a savant, able to bond with pokemon on a deeper unconscious level.]]

** [[spoiler: Mewtwo's tactic in the final battle boils down to using an army of Pokemon this way.]]

* YouFailEconomicsForever: Invoked in-universe. The people of Celadon city see nothing wrong with paying for timber, iron, ect., with money that they print (while exporting next to nothing). As Erika points out, this is a very bad idea.

* AffablyEvil: the BigBad [[spoiler:aka Mewtwo]], surprisingly. He insists on talking to Ash with civility, offers him hospitality, and even proposes him to become sort-of friends and share the world.

* {{Doorstopper}}: So far it is 321,813 words as of Chapter 35, so it counts.

* Omnicidal Maniac: [[spoiler:Mewtwo. His EvilPlan is apparently to KillAllHumans with an army of Pokémon.]]

* ZergRush: The "[[GreyandGreyMorality bad guys]]" try this in [[spoiler:the battle for Celadon]] after their trainers fail to carry the day.

* DoomMagnet: [[spoiler:Two cities are]] destroyed while Ash is nearby. [[spoiler: Averted in the case of Cerulean City, though.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: So far it is 314,189 words as of Chapter 34, so it counts.

* Goddamned Bats: [[spoiler: Agatha]] is overwhelmed by every single Zubat from victory road attacking at once.

** [[spoiler: Janine seems to have upgraded to full time party member, she's been around all through Cinnabar.]]
* GutFeeling: [[spoiler: Savant powers manifest as an intuitive sense of exactly what needs to be done. At one point Bill tells Ash he should listen to his little thoughts that come from nowhere, because they're right.]]

** Mightyena for [[spoiler: May]].
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Misty, Violet and Kasumi, though the exact roles are in question due to unreliable narrators. Violet is agreed to be an Abel and Misty admits she was a Cain in the past, but Kasumi could have been either one. Plus Misty's HeelFaceTurn and Kasumi's animosity towards her makes things more complicated.]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Prior to Ash's journey, [[spoiler:Norman, Caroline, and Max. Apparently Professor Oak was responsible[[hottip:*:then again, it's [[VillainsNeverLie Professor Elm]] who says this]]. Needless to say, May is ''pissed''.]]

* {{Doorstopper}}: So far it is 311,246 words as of Chapter 33, so it counts.

* FridgeHorror: If you think Kanto, Johto, and the regions from the 'mainline' are this bad, think about what Orre is like.
** [[strike:Since Orre has few wild pokemon, it's probably better off than them]] Wild Pokemon alone do not a CrapsackWorld make. If all the crap in Kanto and Johto is a result of [[spoiler:Mewtwo, and Elm]] trying to conquer the world and [[spoiler:Team Rocket trying to hold it together]], imagine what [[CompleteMonster Cipher]] is doing...
*** Which was pretty much the original point. It seems to be closer to confirmation with Zvika's statement that Orre uses brainwashing to fill its armies with expendable troops.

* [[spoiler: [[AlmostDeadGuy Almost Dead Girl]]: Johanna, who holds on just long enough to give Ash her Charmeleon and tell it to obey him.]]

* RelationshipUpgrade: Ash and Misty get into a relationship, and have explicitly had sex. It's strongly implied that Jessie and James have had the same.
** Ash and [[spoiler:Janine]] later on.

* ShipTease: Ever since [[spoiler:Misty died]], Ash/Janine has been hinted at a lot.

* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Professor Elm]] gets results, but he seriously overestimates his sway over [[spoiler:his right-hand-girl and pet [[BeastMaster Savant]], May.]] This ends [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute predictably.]]]]

* HeroicSociopath: Ash's Haunter.

* HeroKiller: ''Jessie and James.'' No, seriously. They have a Charizard, for Arceus' sake!
** Most of the reason they haven't killed Ash was because of [[spoiler:his savant heritage[[hottip:*:which, for example, allowed him to survive a lethal Smog cloud]]]].

** According to his mom, his name is [[spoiler: Giovanni. Yes, ''that'' one.]]
*** [[spoiler: He's not disappeared anymore]] as of the end of chapter 30.

* {{Doorstopper}}: So far it is 306,515 words as of Chapter 32, so it counts.