Clockwork Heart is a 2017 AU Pokémon Slash Fic wherein Ash is the robot created by Clemont to help him in the Lumiose Gym.
It can be read on FFN here
and Archive Of Our Own here![]()
Tropes featured in Clockwork Heart include:
- Alternate Universe Fic: Ash is a Ridiculously Human Robot.
- Angst: More than you'd think for a fluffy Slash Fic.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Ash starts off using canon-esque unorthodox tactics, despite Clemont not programming him to do so.
- Heroic RRoD: Ash dies from his code being scrambled beyond recognition when he fought off a reprogramming at Team Rocket's hands. Clemont is forced to reprogram him from the ground up.
- Interspecies Romance: Between a robot and a human.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Ash is a robot, and has self-sacrificial tendencies, so...Ash: I think I broke my hand again. Sorry, Clemont.
- No-Sell: Ash's skin is made out of a rubber-like material, making him immune to electricity. This comes in handy when he's forced to take his Pikachu into a Clemontic Shower to save his life after an attack by Team Rocket, which would've killed a human.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Ash is one.
- Robosexual: Clemont is in love with his robot.
- Shock and Awe: Aside from the usual suspects, Ash's original incarnation apparently had this.
- Slash Fic: Ash Ketchum x Lumiose City's Clemont.
- Wham Line: Right there in the archive warnings.
- Of course, this isn't too surprising, considering that Clemont's robot is destroyed in canon.
