DISCUSSION: Most Popular Region to Set a Fic

[KatrinaSForest]

Dang. Not sure how I missed the poll yesterday. I could have tied Unova with Hoeen and make it extra indecisive. ^_^

 

[LightningTopaz]

@KatrinaSForest

If that had happened. Houen and Unova would've shared gold, Shinou/Hisui would've taken silver, and Johto, side regions, and fan regions would've all shared the bronze.

 

[DigitalGen6]

They can still share platinum though, I heard that’s lesser than bronze. If not, what is?

 

[Greninjaman]

They can still share platinum though, I heard that’s lesser than bronze. If not, what is?

Would platinum be better than gold though?

 

[LightningTopaz]

@Greninjaman

Actually, platinum is better than gold, with diamond as the best (at least by music award logic)

 

[DigitalGen6]

@Greninjaman

Actually, platinum is better than gold, with diamond as the best (at least by music award logic)

Then what’s lesser than bronze?

• Pokémon Platinum
• Pokémon Diamond/Brilliant Diamond
• Pokémon Gold/HeartGold
• Pokémon Silver/SoulSilver
• Pokémon Bronze/BrickBronze

 

[LightningTopaz]

@DigitalGen6

You could argue iron or tin, although sometimes iron is better than bronze.

 

[Greninjaman]

Now, why did Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova get so many more votes than the rest? The others don't have more than three.

 

[DigitalGen6]

Now, why did Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova get so many more votes than the rest? The others don't have more than three.

Probably because of how many fanfictions they have, but that’s just my guess

 

[Greninjaman]

Probably because of how many fanfictions they have, but that’s just my guess

That's true.

 

[Greninjaman]

Sorry for the double post
@LightningTopaz
I think it would have been better if the poll never closed and was just left open or was given more than 2 weeks.

 

[LightningTopaz]

@Greninjaman

I'll keep that in mind for future polls....but we can keep the thread permanently open for discussion.

 

[Emelie]

It's fun when you have two characters from different regions/cultures and have one of them visit the other person's region. The idea of Serena trying to teach Ash French is adorable lol. But maybe that's just because I'm interested in Japanese and studied French in the past.

Time traveling and ancestor/descendant fics in Hisui are also interesting because then you have a lost culture to deal with even though the region is the same. It's like a culture shock but you're still at home lol. Then you can reverse it and have the ancestor go to the future and experience a similar culture shock.

 

[Greninjaman]

Here's something that I came across: Someone considers Kanto to be perfect for fanfics because there is no world-ending legend like there is for most of the other regions. You can keep the conflict level down to "street-level" as they put it (since most of Team Rocket are simply thieves) or you could do "government conspiracies" and "illegal experiments" (Mewtwo).

 

[LightningTopaz]

@Greninjaman

This means you can make Team Rocket as relatively harmless or as dangerous as you want. That, and they have been known to be dangerous on several occasions (eg. Silph Tower, the Radio Tower, the Lake of Rage, the Lugia storyline in GSC), so as much as Jessie, James, and Meowth fail at even the simplest tasks, doesn't mean the full Team is a pushover.

 

[Greninjaman]

@LightningTopaz
Have to wonder how no one realized that Giovanni the Gym Leader and Giovanni the Team Rocket Boss are the same person.

 

[LightningTopaz]

Have to wonder how no one realized that Giovanni the Gym Leader and Giovanni the Team Rocket Boss are the same person.

Somebody write a story where some trainer DOES realize this, please?

 

[DigitalGen6]

Somebody write a story where some trainer DOES realize this, please?

I’m writing a Pokémon Adventures story (anime) where one of the characters DOES realize that. I’m not even at that point yet because I’m too lazy, but which character do you think should be the one to realize that? (I’ll PM you the story after I find it)

 

[Greninjaman]

@LightningTopaz
@DigitalGen6

I feel like at least ONE of the Viridian City Gym Trainers would have noticed. Heck, what about his family?

 

[DigitalGen6]

Silver likely would, since that’s his dad