Pokemon Adventures
by Xadhoom
Welcome, one and all and whoever bothers even reading this section. I suppose I should explain what this particular story/collection is going to be about? Well, to be more verbose than the title, this series is going to revolve around just about every shipping that the Pokemon Adventures fandom contains.
Partially, this project was initiated because I feel that the archive isn't diverse enough in the mangaverse shippings it offers. In my experience, somewhere between 70 and 90 % of the ship-fics around here are about:
Special - OldRival - MangaQuest - Frantic - Commoner - Haughty - Chess
While I in no way mean to suggest that this is not fully permissible or that these pairings are in any way bad, I just like less run-of-the-mill ships than mostly comes out and about. To illustrate my point, let us consider how many pairings that can be made using only the regional groups.
Red/Yellow - Green/Blue - Red/Green - Blue/Yellow - Red/Blue - Green/Yellow
Gold/Silver - Gold/Crystal - Silver/Crystal
Ruby/Sapphire - Ruby/Emerald - Sapphire/Emerald
And our total comes to 4/12 possible pairings (at the very least, I've got enough ta work with here). To further illustrate the point, let us lift the restriction of 'same region's group' (we have no reason not to, given how they canonically are implied to interact offpage).
I'll spare you the tedious list this time and just tell you the end result: 45 different combinations between the first ten Pokedex Holders alone, and yes, I have spelled it out the long around. Factor in the additions from Sinnoh, Unova & Kalos (Diamond & Pearl & Platinum, Black & White & Lack-Two and Whi-Two, X & Y), we wind up with 19 characters each with 18 possible pairings: Almost 350 possible combinations, threesomes not counted but counting the redundancies of that '350' number.
Relatedly to the above points/fandom gripes, I would be more than happy to accept pairings/threesomes to write about, provided they revolve around any one (or two) of the first 10 Pokedex Holders in some way. Het/Yaoi/Yuri/Interspecies... I severely doubt that any pairing no matter how unconventional could make me hesitant to write about it. Yes, this is a challenge to anyone reading this.
Disregarding my meandering and extensive musings about the shipping fandom, I hope that you enjoy this chapter.
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Okay, now that I reread this, I can see how this would read as little more than senseless phrases clustered together. I'm not entirely certain myself what manner of elaborate metaphor or statement was intended with this, and I'm not even going to bother wracking my brain trying to figure it out.
In lieu of other idle prattle, I hope that you enjoy this weird-as-all-hell Frontiershipping oneshot. If you can make sense of it, you win.
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