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Hello everyone, and welcome to Mirror Adventures: A Tragedy of False Smiles! This is a Pokémon fanfic based on the Kalos saga anime episode "The Cave of Mirrors", which features an alternate universe where everyone's personalities are the opposite — or "mirror image", so to speak — of their real-world ones. Mirror Adventures intends to explore this concept further by not only focusing on the mirror versions of Ash Ketchum and his companions from the Kalos saga, but also those of other characters from the anime, and possibly those of characters from other continuities of the franchise as well. Additionally, this story will also explore how everyone's mirrored personalities affect the choices they make, and how the consequences of those choices affect other characters and the wider world around them.
There are a few things that readers should know about Mirror Adventures before diving in:
First: Mirror Adventures will be a traditionally chaptered story, with its narrative being split between two main characters. With some exceptions, each chapter will be focused specifically on one of these main characters. That said, both narratives are interconnected with each other in various ways, and they're also both connected to a larger story going on behind the scenes. With that in mind, it's highly recommended that you read Mirror Adventures from the beginning and in its entirety in order to fully understand the story.
Second: This will not be a direct re-telling of the anime except with mirror characters. There is simply too much changed in this universe for such an approach to be realistically possible, and honestly speaking, I don't believe that it would make for a particularly good story anyway. That said, that doesn't mean that elements of certain episodes won't possibly inspire stories in Mirror Adventures, or that characters from said episodes may never appear elsewhere in different roles that are fitting for their mirrored personalities.
Third: Although the story as a whole is rated TEEN at this time of writing, it should be noted that the ratings for individual chapters will vary wildly as the story goes on and will encompass all three ratings including EVERYONE, TEEN, and MATURE. In other words, it is very possible to have an EVERYONE-rated chapter be followed directly by a MATURE-rated chapter, and vice versa. Additionally, there will be a point in the story (around chapter three) where potentially objectionable and disturbing content will start appearing with increased frequency, and things will get significantly more intense from there. Consequently, the story will have a higher number of TEEN- and MATURE-rated chapters as it goes on, and it's extremely likely that the majority of chapters — and the fic as a whole — will have a MATURE rating by the story's end. Please keep all of this in mind should you choose to invest yourself in this story; per forum rules, detailed descriptions of potentially objectionable or disturbing content will be available for each chapter (although note that some of them may be placed in spolier tags).
As far as content ratings go, chapters that are rated EVERYONE or rated TEEN will generally contain one or more of the following:
- Mild-to-moderate depictions of violence, including but not limited to: slightly more intense and realistic battle sequences than the canon anime, minor depictions of blood, Pokémon-on-human violence, and the use of firearms and other realistic weapons,
- Occasional crude or impolite language, including more or less everything between "crap" and "shit", as well as the use of more directly insulting language, including words like "bastard" and "bitch" (the latter being used mostly in a non-misogynistic manner),
- Instances of character death, including deaths of main characters (basically, any character can die at any time, for any reason),
- Low-to-medium-level depictions of mature themes, including occasional suggestive jokes or references; explorations of real-world themes such as war, crime, corruption, and sociopolitical conflict; and mild but nonetheless potentially disturbing depictions of bullying, child abuse, and neglect of an emotional, psychological, and (less frequently) physical nature.
- Unflinching depictions of violence, including graphic descriptions of blood, gore, and death, and full depictions of the effects of Pokémon attacks, firearms, and other weapons,
- Strong language that will almost certainly offend at least some readers, including the varying (but potentially very frequent) use of essentially any curse word that's not a slur, or basically everything up to and including words like "fuck" and all of its variants,
- Full depictions of mature themes, including more graphic and explicit explorations of everything mentioned in the EVERYONE/TEEN rating section, but not including sexual content (which will be limited to kissing and hand-holding + suggestive references at worst).
Mirror Adventures: A Tragedy of False Smiles
[Table of Contents]
[Chapter 1] A Burning Light in the Darkness! Mirror Ash's Adventures at Summer Camp! ~Prologue, Part 1~ (09/30/2019)
[Chapter 2] Mirror Ash and Mirror Serena! The Perils of a Dangerous World! ~Prologue, Part 2~ (06/05/2020)
[Chapter 3] The Oak Legacy! Professor Oak VS The Great Warrior of Light! ~Mirror Professor Oak Interlude~ (05/08/2021)
[Notes and Updates]
[05/29/2020] Chapters 1 and 2 have been merged into a single new Chapter 1 entitled: "A Burning Light in the Darkness! Mirror Ash's Adventures at Summer Camp!" Several edits have also been made since the last revision, most of which are small but some of which are significant (the basic plot and characters remain unchanged, however).
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