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unrepentantAuthor
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Hi there, I'm unrepentantAuthor, and I write a pokémon fanfiction called Different Eyes. It's mostly about pokémorphs, but as I've worked on it I've found questions of worldbuilding come up time and time again. It's in my nature as an author to pay attention to details of the setting, and to try to compromise between the essence of the canon and my desire to be realistic, or at least to feel authentic.
I'll post in here occasionally with bits and pieces of worldbuilding specific to Different Eyes, but I'm sure to be more active if you ask questions and prompt me to think about whatever aspect of the pokémon world most interests you.
To start out, here's a somewhat concise summary of the setting of Different Eyes...
The pokémon world as shown in the anime, the games, the manga - those are just that. Entertainment media. This world is a world of pokémon to be sure, but it's also our world, a parallel timeline in which kami are real and you can capture them in metal spheres that fit in your pocket.
The countries of the world are largely the same, but as pokémon exist, not so much wilderness has been devastated. It's hardly to maintain an intensive logging industry when the local fauna fight back with magical powers. Nevertheless, history has played out similarly, perhaps by chance but perhaps by fate. The modern world is a benign one in relative terms, but climate change, international conflict and systemic poverty exist just as they do in our world.
Not all the fantasy technologies from the franchise exist in this setting. Pokéballs do, of course, but that's a cutting edge tech relying on the mysterious and poorly understood matter composition of pokémon. No teleportation here!
Pokémon themselves vocalise like animals rather than saying their names. (Growing up mostly with the games, I always found the anime convention infuriating. Note that Origins and Generations follow this convention!) They are also widely varied within their species, in the same way that animals in our world are rarely homogenous within a population. There are also many thousands of pokémon species in existence, though cataloguing them is arduous.
Obviously the critical uniqueness in this setting is the existence of pokémorphs: pokémon-human hybrids created from living pokémon in secret. An urban legend exists about a pokémon with human genes and human intelligence called "Mewtwo" but it has never been verified by a reputable source. When the story begins, they are a new development by an organisation known as Perihelion, ostensibly to bridge the gap in communication between species, but also to use as agents against their ideological opponents. More on pokémorphs in later posts.
[Index to come]
So, please, do ask questions about the setting and comment on what I share! I have a lot of fun getting stuck into worldbuilding, I hope there are others here who feel the same.
I'll post in here occasionally with bits and pieces of worldbuilding specific to Different Eyes, but I'm sure to be more active if you ask questions and prompt me to think about whatever aspect of the pokémon world most interests you.
To start out, here's a somewhat concise summary of the setting of Different Eyes...
The pokémon world as shown in the anime, the games, the manga - those are just that. Entertainment media. This world is a world of pokémon to be sure, but it's also our world, a parallel timeline in which kami are real and you can capture them in metal spheres that fit in your pocket.
The countries of the world are largely the same, but as pokémon exist, not so much wilderness has been devastated. It's hardly to maintain an intensive logging industry when the local fauna fight back with magical powers. Nevertheless, history has played out similarly, perhaps by chance but perhaps by fate. The modern world is a benign one in relative terms, but climate change, international conflict and systemic poverty exist just as they do in our world.
Not all the fantasy technologies from the franchise exist in this setting. Pokéballs do, of course, but that's a cutting edge tech relying on the mysterious and poorly understood matter composition of pokémon. No teleportation here!
Pokémon themselves vocalise like animals rather than saying their names. (Growing up mostly with the games, I always found the anime convention infuriating. Note that Origins and Generations follow this convention!) They are also widely varied within their species, in the same way that animals in our world are rarely homogenous within a population. There are also many thousands of pokémon species in existence, though cataloguing them is arduous.
Obviously the critical uniqueness in this setting is the existence of pokémorphs: pokémon-human hybrids created from living pokémon in secret. An urban legend exists about a pokémon with human genes and human intelligence called "Mewtwo" but it has never been verified by a reputable source. When the story begins, they are a new development by an organisation known as Perihelion, ostensibly to bridge the gap in communication between species, but also to use as agents against their ideological opponents. More on pokémorphs in later posts.
[Index to come]
So, please, do ask questions about the setting and comment on what I share! I have a lot of fun getting stuck into worldbuilding, I hope there are others here who feel the same.