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* PastExperienceNightmare: The trio have these in chapter twelve, These pop up several times for the protagonists, showing [[spoiler: ''something'' happened between Kidd and things like Holly's anxiety about coming out as trans or Frank coping with the death of his teacher, Tank and someone from his mom's birthday party, and Holly and her old babysitter. Going by the dialogue it's heavily implied to be sexual assault]].Croagunk.
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* ReincarnationFriendship: It's implied that the trios were hippies in their past lives, suggested by a book they find in an abandoned Secret Base.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: In chapter 45, the main characters talk about what member they'd be in a band. The only thing they can settle on is that Holly would be the drummer.
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** Holly's Gyarados is the only girl on her team. This helps her win the battle against Phoebe's Torkoal (who uses Attract to knock Freiza down a peg).
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* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Frank's Croagunk, Belladonna, died before the story began, and her loss still impacts him. Leopold (the former gym leader of Fortree City) is also dead and the Fortree residents are still reeling from his loss.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: Bella (the mouse in the Mauville City gym) is a ''very'' energeticguitarist. But then she loses after getting ahead of herself.guitarist who rocks out before and during her battle against Holly.
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** Kidd catches a Pikachu (the chapter appropriately titled "Electrify my Heart Beneath the Same Sun")
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwWvCGDGBg Japan has a 'calming' emergency alert]]
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* PiggybackCute: After evolving into a Gardevoir, Makoto carries Holly this way on his back to showcase his newfound strength.
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* PaletteSwap: Kidd's Marshtomp and Holly's Gyarados are shiny Pokemon.
* ParasolOfPrettiness: Lucy (one of the Slateport coordinators) uses a parasol as part of her performance.
* ParentalFashionVeto: Don yells at Apollo to "put on a normal shirt".
* ParentalNeglect: It's a throwaway line, but Holly says her mom cares more about playing video games than her.
* ParentalSubstitute: In chapter 28, Sable lets the boys stay the night at her place, and she treats them like her own children. Justified since [[spoiler:she’s expecting children soon and is building up her maternal nature]].
* PastExperienceNightmare: The trio have these in chapter twelve, showing [[spoiler: ''something'' happened between Kidd and his teacher, Tank and someone from his mom's birthday party, and Holly and her old babysitter. Going by the dialogue it's heavily implied to be sexual assault]].
* ThePeepingTom: Kenneth (Phoebe's dad) was caught spying on the ladies' side of the hot spring. Deconstructed since this act gets him in a LOT of trouble: with the Pokemon League (he ends up resigning from his position as Gym Leader instead of being straight up fired), and his entire family ends up banned from the hot spring.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Kidd tries to buy some drinks from a vending machine. After the machine takes his money and loses power, he results to punching the machine until ''several'' drinks pop out. It takes the teamwork of Aries to catch every drink possible.
* PiggybackCute: After evolving into a Gardevoir, Makoto carries Holly this way to showcase his newfound strength.
* PinkIsErotic: Everything in Goldenrod City's red-light district is pink.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Team Pastel's color schemes; Judy and the generic female grunts have pink fur, while Julian/Filbert/the male grunts have blue fur.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Frank's Croagunk, Belladonna, died before the story began, and her loss still impacts him.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: Bella (the mouse in the Mauville City gym) is a ''very'' energetic guitarist. But then she loses after getting ahead of herself.
* PowerOutagePlot: Chapter 27's main conflict is when Mauville City's power goes out, and Static has to go fix the backup generator.
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Poor Holly and Purrl walk in on Olivia and Rudy (Purrl's parents) in the middle of them doing it.]]
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Several canon pairings so far:
** Tom Nook and Sable have some ShipTease in the games. Here, they're happily married and even expecting children soon.
** Static and Bangle, two villagers, are stated to be married.
* {{Pun}}:
** Holly is a chicken with a snappy personality, and her starter is a Torchic. You could say she's ''cocky''.
** Frank is an eagle, aloof and implied to [[spoiler: have his starter Pokemon ''die''.]] He's a BrokenBird.
** The Kachineko family are a family of battle-loving cats. Kachinuki is the Japanese name of the Winstrate family, while replacing the 'nuki' with 'neko'.
* PunBasedTitle: 'Catch Me at the Kachinekos' is a play on both 'catch me' and 'kachi'.
* QueerColors: The fanfic's logo has blue/pink/purple (the bi pride flag) in it, and the main characters are bisexual.
* QueerFlowers: Both Lilycove's and Mossdeep's gay districts are named the Blue Rose. Lilycove's gay district is also decorated with flowers like green carnations, white lilies and violets.
** Apollo, a gay man, is also frequently associated with roses.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad:
** The second and third gyms have these for gym trainers (Bill and Goose are hotheaded jocks, Tammi is a disco cosplayer, and Bella is a hotheaded rock guitarist.)
** The Kachinekos. They're a group of battle-loving cats with their own quirks.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Holly gives a scathing one to the hotel receptionist in Mauville City, after snapping from the disgusting conditions.
** In chapter 31, Tank snaps and gives one to Professor Nook after he yells at him for not catching one Pokemon for research. Tank also lashes out at a Weather Institute employee who tries to kick him out.
* ReferenceOverdosed: There's multiple references to both canon and fanmade Pokémon content, every Animal Crossing game, music the author likes, etc. The subtitle of the main installment, Fly Me to the Moon, comes from the famous jazz song (albeit, referencing the Claire version).
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Kidd and Tank find a book written by a group of hippies. One picture shows the hippies in question: a hen named Magnolia, a goat named Kent and a rhino named Neil. It's implied that this was their past lives.
* ReincarnationFriendship: It's implied that the trios were hippies in their past lives, suggested by a book they find in an abandoned Secret Base.
* {{Retcon}}: Tank was initially written as someone who caught Pokémon for the fun of it, but was retconned to be one of Professor Nook's researchers (keeping the catching-based goal).
** Castform (the Weather Institute Pokemon) are stated to be genetically engineered by Silph Co. instead of being created by the Institute themselves.
* TheRival: Raymond is one to Kidd in contests. Flora is implied to be Holly's rival in taking on the Hoenn League.
* RotatingArcs: Holly's Gym Badge quest and Kidd's Contest endeavors are in different chapters, but still tie in together.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: There's enough examples to have its own page [[RelatedInTheAdaptation/PokemonCrossingFlyMeToTheMoon here]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: As of chapter twenty-four, [[spoiler: the three main characters are all dating each other.]]
* RhinoRampage: Downplayed with Tank. He's more headfirst and impulsive than a violent brute, but eventually calms down through the story.
* RuderAndCruder: Downplayed. The main characters aren't dropping F-bombs every chapter, but older characters (namely the Hawkians family: Don, Frank and Apollo) swear often.
* TheRunaway: Kidd is the Abused type. His mom is emotionally abusive while his dad wants ''nothing'' to do with him. Unsurprisingly, he'd rather travel the region with two guys he just met.
* RunningAwayToCry: After the crowd repeatedly insults her [[spoiler: for losing her first gym match]], Phoebe runs off to cry near the Pokemon Center.
* RunningGag: There's several that pop up through the story:
** Aquarius picking up random things off the ground.
** Kidd ordering wine at restaurants, and failing to get it. This gets RunningGagged by the Lavaridge arc after he gets too dizzy at an onsen.
** The trio ordering a comically huge portion of food.
* SavageWolves: Dobie (the leader of Team Cottage) is a wolf, and he's a ruthless team leader who stops at nothing to get what he wants. He's also physically and mentally abusive to his cohorts, punches Tank in the face, and nearly kills Blathers over meteor shards.
* SecretRelationship: Apollo and Wolfgang are in a happy relationship, but due to Apollo's status as the Champion, they have to hide their relationship outside of gay bars.
* SecondLove: Both Tom Nook and Sable are this to each other. Sable used to date Lyle while Tom Nook was involved with Crazy Redd. After the two split off, Tom Nook and Sable fell in love and got married.
* SeinfeldianConversation: In chapter 45, the main characters talk about what member they'd be in a band. The only thing they can settle on is that Holly would be the drummer.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Kidd is the Sensitive (aesthetic-conscious, cautious, taking on Contests as of chapter six), to Tank's Manly (impulsive, outgoing, confident, casually-dressed). As a group, the trio are the Sensitive (more in touch emotionally) to Apollo and Frank's Manly (emotionally repressed and aloof).
* SickEpisode: Chapter 18 has Tank and Kidd falling ill to the fictional illness 'Dokuvirus'. Deconstructed since Holly grows stressed from helping both her friends all day. Reconstructed since Frank comes by to help out.
* ShamuFu: In the Meteor Falls, Kidd's Abra uses Holly's Magikarp to smack down Fauna's Vulpix.
* ShockAndAwe:
** Kidd catches a Pikachu (the chapter appropriately titled "Electrify my Heart Beneath the Same Sun")
** The theme of chapter eleven is electricity. Tank catches a Plusle and Minun, while Holly catches an Electrike, and Kidd takes on a horde of Magnemite.
* ShoppingMontage: While his friends go find the gym, Kidd does this; trying on several outfits in the process.
* ShowWithinAShow: There's several in-universe shows referenced, including [[Series/CharliesAngels Rotom's Charming Angels]], [[{{Toku}} Crossing Rider Go]] and [[Anime/PrettyCure Pretty Refresh]].
* ShownTheirWork: While working on the fic, the writer researched Japanese culture along with details specific to the Kyushu region.
** The first ramen scene has the boys order tonkotsu ramen (a variant that originated in Kyushu aka the region of Japan that Hoenn is based on).
** The trio eating roe in chapter six. Nagasaki (the prefecture where Dewford Town and Slateport City are based on) has a roe speciality called karasumi.
** The boys get dumpling soup and toriten in Fallarbor Town, along with a spread of dumplings in Lavaridge Town. These are foods served in the Oita area of Kyushu (where Fallarbor Town is based).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwWvCGDGBg Japan has a 'calming' emergency alert]]
** The kindergartners wear actual Japanese kindergartner uniforms, right down to the yellow hats.
** Octopus-shaped slides are a real thing in Japanese playgrounds.
** Several characters have last names that are commonly found or originate in Kyushu: Kobayashi, Morikawa, and Nakamura.
* SkinnyDipping: On Route 119, the boys unwind from their trip by going skinny dipping in Prism Lake. And then Kidd accidentally kills a Carvanha.
* SleepCute: How the group sleeps in chapter twelve, all piled up on each other.
* SleepDeprivation: The trio try to pull an all-nighter in chapter twelve but fail. They end up falling asleep on the Mauville roof.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Several instances in the story:
** The Masuda mention is alluded to, and implied to be the reason Kidd's starter is shiny.
** Kidd's Pikachu, Aries, is the Cosplay Pikachu (noted with a black mark on her tail). Fittingly enough, she joins Kidd after his first contest.
** Static's Magneton [[spoiler: evolves after a hard battle in New Mauville. In [=ORAS=], Magneton only evolve in New Mauville, an area with a magnetic field.]]
** Kirlia's branched evolution is alluded to. Holly decides on letting Makoto pick what he wants to evolve into. Later, [[spoiler: Makoto evolves into Gardevoir to defeat a Garchomp]]
* SoftGlass: Averted. Holly punches the window, leaving several shards and cuts on her arm.
* SpaghettiKiss: In chapter 31, Tank and Kidd share a stick of pocky, which leads to [[spoiler: their first kiss.]]
* SpeciesSurname:
** The Hawkian family is all eagles.
** The Sussexes are chickens (Sussex is a British breed of chicken).
** On a bilingual bonus, the Kachineko family are cats.
* SpidersAreScary: One of the Ariados in Petalburg Woods ''tries to eat one of the protagonists''. Subverted in a later chapter which shows her as a MamaBear who joins the heroes in battle because a Froslass tangled up her net so she couldn't feed her babies.
* StarCrossedLovers: Dawnheart the Zangoose and Giorgio the Seviper, two Pokemon who are in love despite being from rivaling clans.
* StarterMon: While the main protagonists have the conventional Hoenn starters, several characters have different ones:
** Tom Nook: Oddish.
** Frank: Croagunk.
** Apollo: Beldum.
** Flora: Minccino.
** Raymond: Eevee.
* StarterVillain: The wild Poochyena on Route 101 is the first confrontation of the journey, seen terrorizing a little girl.
* StellarName: As part of the cosmic themes in the story, the Team Pastel leader and admins have this for their last names: Nebula, Berenice and Galassia.
* StraightGay: Cesar and Cyrano are a married couple but don't fit into any gay stereotypes.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Apollo is dashingly handsome, but he confesses to the protagonists that he hates being objectified constantly by his fangirls.
* SolarAndLunar: A thematic motif throughout the series. Scenes featuring daytime/the sun are energetic and full of action, while scenes with nighttime/the moon are usually more calm and lead to character development.
* SoreLoser: Several characters in the series don't know how to take a loss, whether its related to Pokémon battles or contests:
** Sparro is one after Holly and Tank beat him fairly in battle.
** Raymond lashes out and throws a fit after losing a Contest.
** The crowd watching Phoebe's first gym battle. When she loses, they start booing her and throwing cans her way. Phoebe herself is only upset the crowd is booing her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Some villagers are delegated to this:
** Roald (the penguin) is Holly's first trainer battle, which encourages her to keep going and reach for battling. The two of them reunite after taming Roald's Froslass.
** Sparro (the bird who appears in chapter four, but the reason [[spoiler: Holly's Torchic evolves, helping her win her first Gym Badge.]])
** Rooney only physically appears in one chapter so far (as a trainer who teaches Holly's Combusken how to use Low Sweep) but there's a lot revealed to him: [[spoiler: Rooney is Frank's ex-boyfriend, his Poliwrath was a gift and it's implied Rooney is still bitter about the breakup.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple:
** Holly's Gyarados is the only girl on her team. This helps her win the battle against Phoebe's Torkoal (who uses Attract to knock Freiza down a peg).
** Static's only female Pokemon is an Electivire he caught at the end of chapter 27.
** After Holly comes out in chapter 42, she becomes this to the main group.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Cesar and Cyrano snark at each other as a form of affection.
* SuckySchool: Fortree Middle School only appears in a spinoff chapter, but isn't depicted as a pleasant place. The principal not only blames a disabled student for failing all his exams, but admits to refusing accommodations for ''any'' disabled student.
* SurferDude: Frobert is a downplayed version of this (talks this way but isn't surfing 24/7).
* SweetTooth: Holly has this when it comes to caffeinated drinks. Well, more like sweet beak since [[FurryReminder most birds don't ''have'' teeth]].
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* PaletteSwap: Kidd's Marshtomp and Holly's Gyarados are shiny Pokemon.
* ParasolOfPrettiness: Lucy (one of the Slateport coordinators) uses a parasol as part of her performance.
* ParentalFashionVeto: Don yells at Apollo to "put on a normal shirt".
* ParentalNeglect: It's a throwaway line, but Holly says her mom cares more about playing video games than her.
* ParentalSubstitute: In chapter 28, Sable lets the boys stay the night at her place, and she treats them like her own children. Justified since [[spoiler:she’s expecting children soon and is building up her maternal nature]].
* PastExperienceNightmare: The trio have these in chapter twelve, showing [[spoiler: ''something'' happened between Kidd and his teacher, Tank and someone from his mom's birthday party, and Holly and her old babysitter. Going by the dialogue it's heavily implied to be sexual assault]].
* ThePeepingTom: Kenneth (Phoebe's dad) was caught spying on the ladies' side of the hot spring. Deconstructed since this act gets him in a LOT of trouble: with the Pokemon League (he ends up resigning from his position as Gym Leader instead of being straight up fired), and his entire family ends up banned from the hot spring.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Kidd tries to buy some drinks from a vending machine. After the machine takes his money and loses power, he results to punching the machine until ''several'' drinks pop out. It takes the teamwork of Aries to catch every drink possible.
* PiggybackCute: After evolving into a Gardevoir, Makoto carries Holly this way to showcase his newfound strength.
* PinkIsErotic: Everything in Goldenrod City's red-light district is pink.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Team Pastel's color schemes; Judy and the generic female grunts have pink fur, while Julian/Filbert/the male grunts have blue fur.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Frank's Croagunk, Belladonna, died before the story began, and her loss still impacts him.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: Bella (the mouse in the Mauville City gym) is a ''very'' energetic guitarist. But then she loses after getting ahead of herself.
* PowerOutagePlot: Chapter 27's main conflict is when Mauville City's power goes out, and Static has to go fix the backup generator.
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Poor Holly and Purrl walk in on Olivia and Rudy (Purrl's parents) in the middle of them doing it.]]
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Several canon pairings so far:
** Tom Nook and Sable have some ShipTease in the games. Here, they're happily married and even expecting children soon.
** Static and Bangle, two villagers, are stated to be married.
* {{Pun}}:
** Holly is a chicken with a snappy personality, and her starter is a Torchic. You could say she's ''cocky''.
** Frank is an eagle, aloof and implied to [[spoiler: have his starter Pokemon ''die''.]] He's a BrokenBird.
** The Kachineko family are a family of battle-loving cats. Kachinuki is the Japanese name of the Winstrate family, while replacing the 'nuki' with 'neko'.
* PunBasedTitle: 'Catch Me at the Kachinekos' is a play on both 'catch me' and 'kachi'.
* QueerColors: The fanfic's logo has blue/pink/purple (the bi pride flag) in it, and the main characters are bisexual.
* QueerFlowers: Both Lilycove's and Mossdeep's gay districts are named the Blue Rose. Lilycove's gay district is also decorated with flowers like green carnations, white lilies and violets.
** Apollo, a gay man, is also frequently associated with roses.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad:
** The second and third gyms have these for gym trainers (Bill and Goose are hotheaded jocks, Tammi is a disco cosplayer, and Bella is a hotheaded rock guitarist.)
** The Kachinekos. They're a group of battle-loving cats with their own quirks.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Holly gives a scathing one to the hotel receptionist in Mauville City, after snapping from the disgusting conditions.
** In chapter 31, Tank snaps and gives one to Professor Nook after he yells at him for not catching one Pokemon for research. Tank also lashes out at a Weather Institute employee who tries to kick him out.
* ReferenceOverdosed: There's multiple references to both canon and fanmade Pokémon content, every Animal Crossing game, music the author likes, etc. The subtitle of the main installment, Fly Me to the Moon, comes from the famous jazz song (albeit, referencing the Claire version).
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Kidd and Tank find a book written by a group of hippies. One picture shows the hippies in question: a hen named Magnolia, a goat named Kent and a rhino named Neil. It's implied that this was their past lives.
* ReincarnationFriendship: It's implied that the trios were hippies in their past lives, suggested by a book they find in an abandoned Secret Base.
* {{Retcon}}: Tank was initially written as someone who caught Pokémon for the fun of it, but was retconned to be one of Professor Nook's researchers (keeping the catching-based goal).
** Castform (the Weather Institute Pokemon) are stated to be genetically engineered by Silph Co. instead of being created by the Institute themselves.
* TheRival: Raymond is one to Kidd in contests. Flora is implied to be Holly's rival in taking on the Hoenn League.
* RotatingArcs: Holly's Gym Badge quest and Kidd's Contest endeavors are in different chapters, but still tie in together.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: There's enough examples to have its own page [[RelatedInTheAdaptation/PokemonCrossingFlyMeToTheMoon here]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: As of chapter twenty-four, [[spoiler: the three main characters are all dating each other.]]
* RhinoRampage: Downplayed with Tank. He's more headfirst and impulsive than a violent brute, but eventually calms down through the story.
* RuderAndCruder: Downplayed. The main characters aren't dropping F-bombs every chapter, but older characters (namely the Hawkians family: Don, Frank and Apollo) swear often.
* TheRunaway: Kidd is the Abused type. His mom is emotionally abusive while his dad wants ''nothing'' to do with him. Unsurprisingly, he'd rather travel the region with two guys he just met.
* RunningAwayToCry: After the crowd repeatedly insults her [[spoiler: for losing her first gym match]], Phoebe runs off to cry near the Pokemon Center.
* RunningGag: There's several that pop up through the story:
** Aquarius picking up random things off the ground.
** Kidd ordering wine at restaurants, and failing to get it. This gets RunningGagged by the Lavaridge arc after he gets too dizzy at an onsen.
** The trio ordering a comically huge portion of food.
* SavageWolves: Dobie (the leader of Team Cottage) is a wolf, and he's a ruthless team leader who stops at nothing to get what he wants. He's also physically and mentally abusive to his cohorts, punches Tank in the face, and nearly kills Blathers over meteor shards.
* SecretRelationship: Apollo and Wolfgang are in a happy relationship, but due to Apollo's status as the Champion, they have to hide their relationship outside of gay bars.
* SecondLove: Both Tom Nook and Sable are this to each other. Sable used to date Lyle while Tom Nook was involved with Crazy Redd. After the two split off, Tom Nook and Sable fell in love and got married.
* SeinfeldianConversation: In chapter 45, the main characters talk about what member they'd be in a band. The only thing they can settle on is that Holly would be the drummer.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Kidd is the Sensitive (aesthetic-conscious, cautious, taking on Contests as of chapter six), to Tank's Manly (impulsive, outgoing, confident, casually-dressed). As a group, the trio are the Sensitive (more in touch emotionally) to Apollo and Frank's Manly (emotionally repressed and aloof).
* SickEpisode: Chapter 18 has Tank and Kidd falling ill to the fictional illness 'Dokuvirus'. Deconstructed since Holly grows stressed from helping both her friends all day. Reconstructed since Frank comes by to help out.
* ShamuFu: In the Meteor Falls, Kidd's Abra uses Holly's Magikarp to smack down Fauna's Vulpix.
* ShockAndAwe:
** Kidd catches a Pikachu (the chapter appropriately titled "Electrify my Heart Beneath the Same Sun")
** The theme of chapter eleven is electricity. Tank catches a Plusle and Minun, while Holly catches an Electrike, and Kidd takes on a horde of Magnemite.
* ShoppingMontage: While his friends go find the gym, Kidd does this; trying on several outfits in the process.
* ShowWithinAShow: There's several in-universe shows referenced, including [[Series/CharliesAngels Rotom's Charming Angels]], [[{{Toku}} Crossing Rider Go]] and [[Anime/PrettyCure Pretty Refresh]].
* ShownTheirWork: While working on the fic, the writer researched Japanese culture along with details specific to the Kyushu region.
** The first ramen scene has the boys order tonkotsu ramen (a variant that originated in Kyushu aka the region of Japan that Hoenn is based on).
** The trio eating roe in chapter six. Nagasaki (the prefecture where Dewford Town and Slateport City are based on) has a roe speciality called karasumi.
** The boys get dumpling soup and toriten in Fallarbor Town, along with a spread of dumplings in Lavaridge Town. These are foods served in the Oita area of Kyushu (where Fallarbor Town is based).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwWvCGDGBg Japan has a 'calming' emergency alert]]
** The kindergartners wear actual Japanese kindergartner uniforms, right down to the yellow hats.
** Octopus-shaped slides are a real thing in Japanese playgrounds.
** Several characters have last names that are commonly found or originate in Kyushu: Kobayashi, Morikawa, and Nakamura.
* SkinnyDipping: On Route 119, the boys unwind from their trip by going skinny dipping in Prism Lake. And then Kidd accidentally kills a Carvanha.
* SleepCute: How the group sleeps in chapter twelve, all piled up on each other.
* SleepDeprivation: The trio try to pull an all-nighter in chapter twelve but fail. They end up falling asleep on the Mauville roof.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Several instances in the story:
** The Masuda mention is alluded to, and implied to be the reason Kidd's starter is shiny.
** Kidd's Pikachu, Aries, is the Cosplay Pikachu (noted with a black mark on her tail). Fittingly enough, she joins Kidd after his first contest.
** Static's Magneton [[spoiler: evolves after a hard battle in New Mauville. In [=ORAS=], Magneton only evolve in New Mauville, an area with a magnetic field.]]
** Kirlia's branched evolution is alluded to. Holly decides on letting Makoto pick what he wants to evolve into. Later, [[spoiler: Makoto evolves into Gardevoir to defeat a Garchomp]]
* SoftGlass: Averted. Holly punches the window, leaving several shards and cuts on her arm.
* SpaghettiKiss: In chapter 31, Tank and Kidd share a stick of pocky, which leads to [[spoiler: their first kiss.]]
* SpeciesSurname:
** The Hawkian family is all eagles.
** The Sussexes are chickens (Sussex is a British breed of chicken).
** On a bilingual bonus, the Kachineko family are cats.
* SpidersAreScary: One of the Ariados in Petalburg Woods ''tries to eat one of the protagonists''. Subverted in a later chapter which shows her as a MamaBear who joins the heroes in battle because a Froslass tangled up her net so she couldn't feed her babies.
* StarCrossedLovers: Dawnheart the Zangoose and Giorgio the Seviper, two Pokemon who are in love despite being from rivaling clans.
* StarterMon: While the main protagonists have the conventional Hoenn starters, several characters have different ones:
** Tom Nook: Oddish.
** Frank: Croagunk.
** Apollo: Beldum.
** Flora: Minccino.
** Raymond: Eevee.
* StarterVillain: The wild Poochyena on Route 101 is the first confrontation of the journey, seen terrorizing a little girl.
* StellarName: As part of the cosmic themes in the story, the Team Pastel leader and admins have this for their last names: Nebula, Berenice and Galassia.
* StraightGay: Cesar and Cyrano are a married couple but don't fit into any gay stereotypes.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Apollo is dashingly handsome, but he confesses to the protagonists that he hates being objectified constantly by his fangirls.
* SolarAndLunar: A thematic motif throughout the series. Scenes featuring daytime/the sun are energetic and full of action, while scenes with nighttime/the moon are usually more calm and lead to character development.
* SoreLoser: Several characters in the series don't know how to take a loss, whether its related to Pokémon battles or contests:
** Sparro is one after Holly and Tank beat him fairly in battle.
** Raymond lashes out and throws a fit after losing a Contest.
** The crowd watching Phoebe's first gym battle. When she loses, they start booing her and throwing cans her way. Phoebe herself is only upset the crowd is booing her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Some villagers are delegated to this:
** Roald (the penguin) is Holly's first trainer battle, which encourages her to keep going and reach for battling. The two of them reunite after taming Roald's Froslass.
** Sparro (the bird who appears in chapter four, but the reason [[spoiler: Holly's Torchic evolves, helping her win her first Gym Badge.]])
** Rooney only physically appears in one chapter so far (as a trainer who teaches Holly's Combusken how to use Low Sweep) but there's a lot revealed to him: [[spoiler: Rooney is Frank's ex-boyfriend, his Poliwrath was a gift and it's implied Rooney is still bitter about the breakup.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple:
** Holly's Gyarados is the only girl on her team. This helps her win the battle against Phoebe's Torkoal (who uses Attract to knock Freiza down a peg).
** Static's only female Pokemon is an Electivire he caught at the end of chapter 27.
** After Holly comes out in chapter 42, she becomes this to the main group.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Cesar and Cyrano snark at each other as a form of affection.
* SuckySchool: Fortree Middle School only appears in a spinoff chapter, but isn't depicted as a pleasant place. The principal not only blames a disabled student for failing all his exams, but admits to refusing accommodations for ''any'' disabled student.
* SurferDude: Frobert is a downplayed version of this (talks this way but isn't surfing 24/7).
* SweetTooth: Holly has this when it comes to caffeinated drinks. Well, more like sweet beak since [[FurryReminder most birds don't ''have'' teeth]].
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