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- Take Off Your Clothes: Sable brings up bathing in a furo to invoke this. Justified since she hates looking at torn clothing, and had to come up with an excuse so she could sew the clothes back up. Kidd sees right through it, but at least Sable is nice enough to offer some clothes for them to borrow.
- Take That!:
- When insulting a trainer's performance at the talent show, Robin makes a jab about The Rosemary Chronicle being cheap, unimpressive and lacking substance.
- One side chapter rips into the idol industry and shows it as a callous industry that exploits their performers and covers up a suicide by promoting a new idol duo.
- Talent Contest: Chapter 34's plot is about a talent show for high schoolers, involving the trio crossdressing to get in. Tank only gets second place.
- Tantrum Throwing: When Holly loses for the first time in battle, she throws rocks at trees in a fit of anger. Unfortunately for her, one of those rocks hits an unsuspecting Ariados and leads her into trouble.
- Teen Hater: Downplayed. Dobie looks down on the teenage protagonists (to the point he gets violent with one of them), but in general it's shown he doesn't like most animals in society.
- Temple of Doom: Mirage Tower in Route 111 is much more dangerous than in the games. Two floors that look the exact same, a door that automatically locks visitors in, and collapses on itself by the end of the chapter. It's later revealed an explorer named Sunny died and was cannibalized inside.
- The Big Damn Kiss: At the end of chapter 36, Kidd kisses Holly after her victory in the Petalburg City gym battle.
- The Bus Came Back: Several characters reappear outside of their debut chapters:
- Chapter 27 has Static (the Mauville gym leader) return to solve a power outage.
- Chapter 30 has the return of Raymond and Axel (Kidd's fellow coordinators)
- There Are No Therapists: Zig-zagged. It's mentioned before that Kidd had to go into therapy most likely for dealing with being assaulted by his teacher, but it's also suggested that going on a Pokemon journey is therapy for the trio.
- There Is Only One Bed: Lampshaded in one chapter ("great, they really were in a fanfiction".) The trio initially sleep in different spots (Tank in the bed, Holly on a couch, and Kidd in the bathtub), but after Holly falls off the couch and lands on her arm, they settle with sleeping in the same bed.
- Theme Naming: For the main characters' Pokémon, and for gym leaders:
- Tank goes with a plant theme, Kidd goes with astrology, and Holly goes with manga characters.
- Gym leaders: Coco is foreign languages Giorno and Outlandos, Frobert names his Pokemon after anime characters, Static gets electrical puns, Phoebe gets pepper variants, Butch's theme is movie characters and Celia's is cloud names.
- Thieving Pet: Fortree City's wild Kecleon are kleptomaniacs who steal from everyone in town.
- Three Plus Two: The main story follows the main trio of Holly, Tank and Kidd. Later chapters add Frank and Apollo as part of the group.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl:
- Static's a squirrel, Bangle (his wife) is a tiger that's at least twice his height.
- Asuka (Holly's Gyarados) is much larger than the rest of her teammates.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Kidd is initially aloof and snarky to everybody, but lightens up throughout the story. He goes from dismissing his starter to telling her he's proud of her.
- Town Girls: A mixed-gender variant. Kidd is the refined Uptown (appearance-conscious, not interested in battling at first) , Holly is the hotheaded battle-loving Out of Town, and Tank is the outgoing leader Downtown.
- Trans Tribulations: Before coming out, Holly had a lot of internal anxiety about the idea of coming out. One nightmare she has shows her socially transitioning but being made fun of and even left behind by Tank and Kidd.
- Trauma Button: In chapter 24, Kidd inflicts this on himself by confessing that he's in love with both Tank and Holly. A later scene in the chapter shows the last time he told someone he loved them, they coldly rejected them and stopped talking to him.
- Tsundere: Kidd is a male version in the early chapters, being snarky and arguing frequently but secretly caring about his companions. He abandons this trait and is much more open with his emotions.
- Two Guys and a Girl:
- The trio's starters (Aquarius is the Girl to Fern's and Jojo's Guys).
- Coco (Rustboro's Gym Leader) is the Girl to Clay and Tucker's Two Guys.
- Starting in chapter 42, Holly is the Girl to Kidd and Tank's Two Guys.
- Unexplained Accent: Mornay is Galarian, Tamako is Hoennian, yet Holly (a Unovan) has a heavy Southern accent.
- Ungrateful Bastard: The wild Grumpig in chapter 22 isn't thankful for Bagon saving one of her children from being pinned under a rock. She accuses Bagon of trying to hurt her child.
- Unovans Are Cowboys: Buck is from Unova and he is very much Southern (a thicker accent than Benedict's, dresses as a cowboy, and is described as "Unovan as sweet tea and apple pie").
- The Unfought: Victoria is the only trainer in the Mauville Gym that Holly doesn't take on. In the Fortree Gym, Holly only challenges two of the gym trainers rather than all of them.
- Vague Age: Several characters don't have a confirmed age, but its' obvious what their age range is.
- The Gym Leaders are all adults, but in different age ranges i.e. Butch is old enough to have a wife and a daughter, while Klaus has a teenage niece. Coco and Frobert are suggested to be younger adults.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The main trio argue and snark with each other but still care for each other. Later chapters drop this trait out of genuine care.
- Water Is Womanly: Kidd is the most 'sensitive' of the trio and has the Water-type starter. Holly's only female Pokémon on her team is her Gyarados.
- Water Wake Up: A Pokémon variant: Izora (the Weather Institute's Castform) wakes up Holly with a Water Gun attack and Kidd with a Powder Snow attack.
- Western Zodiac: Kidd's Pokemon take on this theme for nicknames (Aquarius the Swampert, Libra the Kadabra, Aries the Pikachu, Scorpio the Shelgon, Gemini the Skitty and Pisces the Feebas).
- Weird Weather: The Hoenn region is usually a subtropical region. Things get weird when the Petalburg Woods is covered in snow and ice. It's later revealed to be because of a trainer's disobedient Froslass.
- Wham Episode: There's several:
- Chapter 26 changes up the main character's dynamics Kidd wins his first Contest, the trio confess they're in love with each other, and by the end of the chapter, are an official throuple.
- Chapter 42 has the following happen: Holly comes out as a girl and she uses Mega Evolution for the first time in battle.
- Wham Line: Chapter 36 reveals a dark secret about one of the Hoenn cities:Ed: "Why do you care? It’s not like we killed Fortree City’s Gym Leader."
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Deconstructed. Because of Butch’s job as a Gym Leader, Dolly holds a grudge against gym battles and Pokemon as a whole. Tank and Kidd have to talk her out of saying her dad's the worst parent.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: In chapter 34, the trio crossdress in order to get in somewhere and they end up enjoying it.
- Wine Is Classy: Kidd, the 'cultured' one of the trio, believes in this. He tries to order wine several times through the story. Unfortunately for him, he's underage so he isn't actually drinking it. He later drops this trait (and desire to drink in general) after trying some bad sake and nearly passing out in the onsen.
- What If?: According to the authoress, this fic was inspired by other Pokemon/Animal Crossing crossovers. But unlike the rest (i.e. Pokémon characters as Animal Crossing villagers), this fan work does the opposite.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Downplayed. The main battle of Chapter 28 is a reference to Legends: Arceus (including the trainers hiding from a large dangerous Pokémon), but there's no time traveling shenanigans going on.
- Worldbuilding: The Hoenn region is more fleshed out compared to the source material. Dewford Town is revealed to be the only establishment of a larger settlement called Juniper Island, while Route 119 is home to a Draconian cemetery.
- You Are Number 6: Used by both Team Pastel and Cottage for their grunts. Samuel the cat (the Pastel grunt the boys fight in chapter five) is 'Grunt 184'. Fittingly enough, he uses an Azumarill (#184 in the National Dex.) Other grunts include: 40, 121, 55, 80, 222, 184, 119, 320 and 219.
- Zerg Rush: Used several times as a reference to Horde Battles, and used as character development for Kidd and/or his Pokemon.
- The group has to battle an aggressive horde of Zubat in chapter seven. He catches an Abra because of this.
- Kidd battles a horde of Magnemite in chapter eleven. Because of this, Aquarius evolves.
- Zodiac Motifs: Kidd names all his Pokémon after Western Zodiac signs. This includes: Aquarius the shiny Swampert (an air-headed Genki Girl), Libra the Kadabra (the calm reliable member), Aries the Pikachu (an independent former contest star), Scorpio the Shelgon (a mysterious dragon who ran away from her home in the Meteor Falls), Gemini the Skitty (a playful ditz not unlike Aquarius) and Pisces the Feebas (shy and mysterious).
