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- Parasol of Prettiness: Lucy (one of the Slateport coordinators) uses a parasol as part of her performance and gets a round of applause.
- Parental Fashion Veto: In one chapter, Don yells at Apollo to put on some normal clothes instead of the flashy Champion get-up the latter is usually wearing.
- Parental Neglect: Both of Holly's parents are guilty of this. Holly states that Tamoko would rather play Eevee Crossings than reach out to her own child, while Mornay is emotionally distant and selfish (such as using his child's Poké Scout funds for gambling).
- Parental Substitute: In chapter 28, Sable lets the boys stay the night at her place, and she treats them like her own children. Justified since she’s expecting children soon and is building up her maternal nature.
- Past Experience Nightmare: These pop up several times for the protagonists, showing things like Holly's anxiety about coming out as trans or Frank coping with the death of his Croagunk.
- The Peeping Tom: 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.
- Percussive Maintenance: 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.
- Piggyback Cute: After evolving into a Gardevoir, Makoto carries Holly on his back to showcase his newfound strength.
- Pink Is Erotic: Everything in Goldenrod City's red-light district is tinted pink, with the narrative stating Tom Nook's face blushing the whole time.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Team Pastel's color schemes; Judy and the generic female grunts have pink fur, while Julian/Filbert/the male grunts have blue fur.
- Posthumous Character: 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.
- The Power of Rock: Bella (the mouse in the Mauville City gym) is a very energetic guitarist who rocks out before and during her battle against Holly.
- Power Outage Plot: Chapter 27's main conflict is when Mauville City's power goes out, and Static has to go fix the backup generator.
- Primal Scene: Poor Holly and Purrl walk in on Olivia and Rudy (Purrl's parents) in the middle of them doing it.
- Promoted to Love Interest: Several canon pairings so far:
- Tom Nook and Sable have some Ship Tease 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 with an aloof personality and a dead starter Pokémon. He's a Broken Bird.
- 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'.
- Pun-Based Title: 'Catch Me at the Kachinekos' is a play on the pronunciation for 'catch me' and 'kachi'.
- Queer Colors: The fanfic's logo has blue/pink/purple (the bi pride flag) in it, and the main characters are bisexual.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Before officially coming out, Holly is established as being trans when she has dreams about being a girl.
- Queer Flowers: 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.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad:
- 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 (Rudy and Olivia's healthy sexuality, Purrl's tsundere tendencies).
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- 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.
- Reference Overdosed: 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).
- Reincarnation-Identifying Trait: 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.
- Reincarnation Friendship: It's implied that the trios were hippies in their past lives, suggested by a book they find in an abandoned Secret Base. The hippies in question were good friends who jammed out together.
- 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.
- The Rival: Raymond is one to Kidd in contests. Flora is implied to be Holly's rival in taking on the Hoenn League.
- Rotating Arcs: Holly's Gym Badge quest and Kidd's Contest endeavors are in different chapters, but still tie in together.
- Related in the Adaptation: There's enough examples to have its own page here.
- Relationship Upgrade: As of chapter twenty-four, the three main characters are all dating each other.
- Rhino Rampage: Downplayed with Tank. He's more headfirst and impulsive than a violent brute, but eventually calms down through the story.
- Ruder and Cruder: Downplayed. The main characters aren't dropping F-bombs every chapter, but older characters (namely the Hawkwind family: Don, Frank and Apollo) swear often.
- The Runaway: 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.
- Running Away to Cry: After the crowd repeatedly insults her for losing her first gym match, Phoebe runs off to cry near the Pokemon Center.
- Running Gag: There's several that pop up through the story:
- Kidd ordering wine at restaurants, and failing to get it. This gets Running Gagged by the Lavaridge arc after he gets too dizzy at an onsen.
- Waiters and chefs reacting to the trio ordering a comically huge portion of food.
- Apollo starring in adult magazines.
- Savage Wolves: 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.
- Secret Relationship: 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.
- Second Love: 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.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: In chapter 45, the main characters talk about what member they'd be in a band. The only role they can settle on is that Holly would be the drummer.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: 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).
- Sick Episode: 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.
- Shamu Fu: In the Meteor Falls, Kidd's Abra uses Holly's Magikarp to smack down Fauna's Vulpix.
- Shock and Awe:
- The theme of chapter eleven is electricity. Tank catches a Plusle and Minun, while Holly catches an Electrike, and Kidd battles a horde of Magnemite.
- Shopping Montage: While his friends go find the gym, Kidd runs off to a boutique; trying on several outfits in the process.
- Show Within a Show: There's several in-universe shows referenced, including Rotom's Charming Angels, Crossing Rider Go and Pretty Refresh.
- Shown Their Work: 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 group 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).
- 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.
- Skinny Dipping: On Route 119, the main trio unwind from their trip by going skinny dipping in Prism Lake. And then Kidd accidentally kills a Carvanha.
- Sleep Cute: While staying at Mauville City during their first visit, the group fall asleep on each other's shoulders.
- Sleep Deprivation: The trio try to pull an all-nighter in chapter twelve but fail. They end up falling asleep on the Mauville roof.
- Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration: Several instances in the story:
- The Masuda mention is alluded to, and implied to be the reason Kidd's starter is a 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 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, Makoto evolves into Gardevoir to defeat a rampaging Garchomp.
- Soft Glass: Averted. Holly punches the window, leaving several shards and cuts on her arm.
- Spaghetti Kiss: In chapter 31, Tank and Kidd share a stick of pocky, which leads to their first kiss.
- Species Surname: Due to having a cast of anthro animals, this was bound to happen:
- The Hawkwind family is all eagles.
- The Sussexes are chickens (Sussex is a British breed of chicken).
- The Grenouilles are a family of frogs.
- On a bilingual bonus, the Kachineko family are cats.
- Dobie, a wolf, has the last name Lupus.
- Spiders Are Scary: One of the Ariados in Petalburg Woods tries to eat one of the protagonists. Subverted in a later chapter which shows her as a Mama Bear who joins the heroes in battle because a Froslass tangled up her net so she couldn't feed her babies.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Dawnheart the Zangoose and Giorgio the Seviper, two Pokémon who are in love despite being from rivaling clans.
- Starter Mon: 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.
- Starter Villain: The wild Poochyena on Route 101 is the first confrontation of the journey, seen terrorizing a little girl.
- Stellar Name: 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.
- Straight Gay: Cesar and Cyrano are a married couple who appear in one chapter but don't fit into any gay stereotypes (Cyrano works in glassblowing and Cesar is a regular guy who snarks as a form of affection).
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Apollo is considered extremely handsome in-universe, but hates the fangirls who only like him for his good looks.
- Solar and Lunar: 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.
- Sore Loser: 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.
- Small Role, Big Impact: 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 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: Rooney is Frank's ex-boyfriend, his Poliwrath was a gift and it's implied Rooney is still bitter about the breakup.
- The Smurfette Principle:
- 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 Frieza 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 her group of five.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Cesar and Cyrano (the couple who live on Route 113) snark at each other as a form of affection.
- Sucky School: 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.
- Surfer Dude: Frobert, the Dewford Town gym leader, is often seen surfing and hanging around the water with his Hariyama.
- Sweet Tooth: Holly has this when it comes to caffeinated drinks. Well, more like sweet beak since most birds don't ''have'' teeth.
