Line #12 Fanfic/TalesOfFlame


1	[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2987606/1/Tales_Of_Flame Tales Of Flame]] is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' ElsewhereFic based upon the Firered/Leafgreen games. Partially an AlternateUniverse FanFic as it makes the occasional reference to the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Anime]] such as Sabrina and Haunter but largely considers itself separate.
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3	Notable in that the story's Main Character isn't the trainer, rather following the eponymous Flame; a grumpy Charmander DeadpanSnarker who, after being captured in Viridian Forest, is seemingly stuck on the typical trainer's journey across Kanto. It doesn't take long for him to get caught up in numerous misadventures, everything from territorial disputes between wild Pokemon up to Team Rocket's machinations.
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5	The story is a hybrid of humour and action, able to switch between tense combat and slapstick at the drop of a hat, largely due to the eccentric and colourful cast which varies from the cheerful and optimistic {{Lancer}} Squirt to the {{Tsundere}} Pika. Many of whom have had considerable CharacterDevelopment throughout the story.
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7	Shares the same FanVerse with [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3173119/1/Anomaly Anomaly]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3232490/1/Hoenn_Chronicles Hoenn Chronicles]], although both are currently on hiatus.
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9	'''This fanfic provides examples of:'''
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11	* ActionGirl: Both Pika and Scarlet are quite willing to get stuck into a fight, [[spoiler:occasionally with [[CatFight each other]]]]
12	* ActionBomb: Anti, his body being made of pure energy, can use a more powerful version of Explosion, at the cost of vaporising. He capable of recovering though.
13	* AmusingInjuries: Fervo, much to his chagrin.
14	* ApologeticAttacker: Oddly enough, Flame does this during Vermilion [[spoiler:before a brief HeelFaceTurn]]
15	* AxeCrazy: Pika, again, dips into this occasionally when pushed too far and has been known to attack people with lawnmowers and hedge shears.
16	** Ryuu is this on a ''good'' day.
17	* BadassNormal: Could be given to Squirt, who lacks the fire power or agility of the rest of the cast, and yet can hold his own in fights with major villains [[spoiler:including being the only one left standing after fighting a Legendary]]
18	** Also Moron and Joanne, the trainers, who have gotten stuck into fights when they're just ordinary Humans.
19	* BattleAura: Combined with PowerGlows. Whenever Flame or Fervo see it, expect the phrase: [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "this is going to hurt"]]
20	* BattleButler: The aforementioned Grovyle is the head grounds-keeper of a mansion.
21	* BattleCry: Scout always announces his arrival with one of these.
22	* BarrierWarrior: Squirt and Karen make good use of Protect, although it can't withstand a repeated pounding it can usually take at least one or two shots from the BigBad. [[spoiler:Karen is even able to make a ramp with hers, allowing Grovyle to use it for [[CarFu Motorcycle Fu]]]]
23	* BerserkButton: Most of the cast has at least one. Setting it off in a battle is usually a ''really'' bad idea.
24	** Setting it off outside of battle isn't smart either.
25	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Do not make Blacky angry, ever. You won't even live long enough to regret that mistake. Likewise [[spoiler:when Mew stops goofing off, bad things happen]]
26	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Mew spends most of his time goofying off. Heaven help you if he stops.
27	* BlessedWithSuck: Mew certainly thinks his extremely long existence is a bit of a strain on his past relations.
28	* BringMyRedJacket: Flame is a dark orange and tends to take horrible beatings fairly often. Avoided with Scyther and Fervo, who are both green and tend to take the beatings left over.
29	* CharmPerson: Esteria knows Attract and is willing to use it to her advantage. [[spoiler:It doesn't work quite as well as she'd hoped.]]
30	* ChekhovsBoomerang: The Nidoran horn Flame wears around his neck. Shows up again in the second Cerulean arc, and again in Sevii. [[spoiler:Where Esteria manages to impale him with it. He recovered]] Is now in the possession of Eve, from Anomaly.
31	* ChekhovsGun: The Charmander Armour Flame wore, and eventually trashed, during Vermilion. He summons another set during the [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind Nightmare Arc]]
32	* CheerfulChild: Blacky couldn't be any more cheerful and innocent if he tried. His sister, however, tends to swing more to the cynical DeadpanSnarker side.
33	** Flame is implied to have been this when he was a kit. One Arbok later and, well, he got broken.
34	* CloudCuckooLander: Blacky, sometimes it's amazing he remembers how to breathe. Fervo also shows a tendency to ramble and gets side tracked easily during his narrations.
35	* CombatTentacles: Both Tentacruel and Tangela use these.
36	* CrazyEnoughToWork: Oddly enough, it's Scyther who tends to invoke this instead of the crazier members of the cast. Highlights include surfing down a street on a satellite dish and taking a SwordFight underwater, by jumping off of a bridge, when he was outnumbered.
37	* CryCute: Bizarrely, Pika gets a moment like this, completely breaking down in front of [[spoiler:unbeknownst to her, Fervo]]
38	* DeathGlare: Sabrina has a very powerful one that's capable of causing Jenny, her friend and normally completely unflappable, to start stammering.
39	* {{Determinator}}: Most of the cast. But the three most prone to this are Flame, Scyther and Fervo.
40	** Fervo having proven himself an absolute master of this by [[spoiler:facing down Mew, a fight he knows for a fact he can't win, takes the worst NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in the story and still gets up for round two the moment Mew turns to attack someone else.]]
41	* DisguisedInDrag: Squirt's extended time in a maid costume at the mansion.
42	* DramaPreservingHandicap: Often applies to Scyther, either from injuries obtained battles with {{Mooks}} or sheer exhaustion.
43	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Both Grovyle and Jenny have managed to reduce passengers to nervous wrecks. Even Sabrina is unsettled by having to ride in Jenny's car.
44	* DualWield: Sofia[[spoiler:/Sophia]] dual wields her species' bone clubs.
45	* DynamicEntry: Forms up over half of the BigDamnHeroes moments. A recent chapter was even titled this, and featured two of them in a row.
46	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Flame is very, very aware of this and frequently lampshades the fact that he can't go anywhere without something trying to kill him.
47	* FacePalmOfDoom: Fervo gives one to Frank's Machop. Subverted in that the point blank Shadowball does just as much damage to his arm as it did the Machop's face.
48	* FiveManBand: Moron's team fills this.
49	** {{The Hero}}/{{The Lancer}}: Flame and Fervo trade these off depending on who's narrating.
50	** TheBigGuy: Scyther
51	** TheSmartGuy: Squirt, being the OnlySaneMan of the group.
52	** {{The Chick}}/{{The Heart}}: Blacky, in spirit if not gender.
53	* FlashStep: Scyther is the capable of doing this without using TeleportSpam. [[spoiler: It proves very effective against Celes]]
54	** Grovyle combines Agility and Quick Attack to pull these off during a recent flashback
55	* ForWantOfANail: Anti says that [[spoiler: Scyther being at the Lavender Rocket Base]] was the Nail. Since [[spoiler: he]] wasn't there, it lead to his dimension going on the BadEnding route.
56	* GoneHorriblyRight: Ryuu and Antimew, Flame and Mew's AlternateUniverse counterparts [[spoiler:were captured by Team Rocket for an undetermined amount of time, pumped full of drugs and chemicals and put into stasis. When they're awoken by Flame, Ryuu mutates and promptly goes on a Rocket killing spree. It takes Flame, Mew and Anti to bring him down. Both he and Anti reappear in the real 'verse as nigh-unkillable phantoms.]]
57	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Flame has a large scar on the bridge of his face, but he's a good guy. Most of the time. Usually.
58	** Asmodeus gained a scar around his throat after his first appearence [[spoiler: it proves to be an effective GlamourFailure as it stays even when he shapeshifts.]]
59	* GrowlingGut: A pretty common occurrence in earlier chapters, especially with Flame. It even serves as a mood killer during would-be romantic moments between Flame and Scarlet on two occasions.
60	* HeroicBSOD: Just about all of the main cast have suffered from mild variants of these at some point or another.
61	** HeroicSafeMode: Scyther seems to default into this.
62	* HolyHandGrenade: The higher powers are all capable of a purifying attack, which proves nasty against phantoms like Anti.
63	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens to the [[SpiderTank Ariados Tank]] in Sevii, using it's own leg. [[spoiler: And in Saffron; Scyther manages to take down his EvilCounterpart Celes via an explosive BackStab]]
64	** [[spoiler:How Blacky killed that tentacruel by ''using himself'' comes to mind.]]
65	* ImprovisedWeapon: Most of the cast won't shy away from using makeshift weapons in a fight. JustForFun/{{Egregious}} examples include the use of a tree and a ''cliff''
66	* InconvenientSummons: When the Greens try to summon the Pokemon of Shadow, they get [[spoiler: Mew]]. He complains about being in the shower before hand and how hard it is to speed dry.
67	* LadyOfWar: Alice, racking up a pretty large body count in very little time.
68	* LargeHam: Mew and Anti. Fervo has shades of this too, although everyone has their moments.
69	* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: So, so many.
70	* MindScrew: The entire evilMew plotline took this to ridiculous lengths, managing to continue messing with reader's heads even after TheReveal.
71	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Asmodeus.
72	* NoNameGiven: Played for laughs with the trainer Moron, [[TheUnReveal where even the third person narrator will avoid revealing his name]] and Flame just doesn't care. Played straight with Scyther.
73	** Subverted with Grovyle, as we do eventually find out his name. [[spoiler:Gawain]]
74	* OmnicidalManiac: Ryuu on a ''bad'' day.
75	* PapaWolf: Don't go anywhere near Blacky or Spiral with the intent to harm.
76	** Threatening kids in general is a sure fire way to get Dione to turn on you.
77	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The main sign that Blacky's stopped being nice and is about to start ripping things apart.
78	* RunningGag: Scout crashing into trees, Flame falling out of them on his quest for apples, Treechu.
79	* ScheduleSlip: The update speed has slowly gotten worse and worse over the last year, currently averaging one update a month. The author claims AttentionDeficitOohShiny as the excuse.
80	* ShipperOnDeck: Fervo and Squirt teamed up in an attempt to set up Flame and Scarlet.
81	* ShipTease: Fervo/Pika gets teased regularly, even if it's only by proxy via Pika/Roderick [[spoiler: Fervo's mild-mannered, polite and less JerkAss alter-ego]]
82	* ShirtlessScene: While Grovyle is the only one of the Pokemon cast to wear a shirt, he has lost it during the most recent arc.
83	* StealthHiBye: Blacky manages to pull Stealth Hi's regularly, much to the bafflement of everyone else.
84	** Scyther's pretty fond of them too.
85	* StuffBlowingUp: Pretty much par for the course whenever Dione is in town. Or Mew, for that matter. It's pretty much how they say hi.
86	* SpiderTank: One shows up in Sevii and proves NighInvulnerable even when Mewtwo gets involved.
87	** A second shows up during the Nightmare Arc and eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn.
88	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Blacky has one that sets off whenever he gets really upset. [[spoiler: Although it doesn't attempt to hurt any of the TrueCompanions and has shades of DeadlyUpgrade, little consolation to the poor MonsterOfTheWeek on the receiving end of a beatdown.]]
89	* TalkingToThemself: Flame when he occasionally has conversations with the personality in his mind, [[spoiler:Sarah.]]
90	* TemptingFate: Despite the usual savvy of most of the cast, they still do this. Usually lampshaded though.
91	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Grovyle gives one to a Medicham in a flashback, finishing just before busting out the KamehameHadoken
92	* ThirdPersonPerson: Scyther talks like this normally, even referring to others in the third person. However he does slip back into normal speech whenever his emotions get the best of him. Typically, when this happens, much asskickery is about to ensure.
93	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Flame loves his apples and Fervo is fond of Oran berries.
94	* UnusualEuphemism: After uttering an F-Bomb in front of Eve and Blacky (a girl who hasn't gotten out much and an extremely young Umbreon), Flame begins to explain what it means:
95	--> '''Flame:''' "It means-"\
96	'''Mew:''' ''"If you don't tell her, I'll bring some creamy chocolate cake back from Hoenn for you.''\
97	'''Flame:''' "Cake!"
98	** After Blacky is told that most people prefer you call it "cake" instead, he corrects the other characters until they start using "cake" themselves.
99	* WaveMotionGun: Alpha's Hyper Beam is treated as one, being powerful enough when fully charged to melt through a blast door that withstood molten rock.
100	* WeNeedADistraction: Becomes a RunningGag during Saffron. Blacky's not very good at this.
101	** ''"I'm being a distraction!"''
102	** Squirt, however, is an excellent distraction. [[spoiler: as Mewthree finds out to its cost when Alpha and Flame get the jump on it]]
103	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Flame really doesn't like snakes [[spoiler:after one nearly ate him when he was a kit, until his sister pulled a HeroicSacrifice However, he can temporarily overcome that fear if bigger problems are around. Like Hypno.]]

Context Fanfic / TalesOfFlame