Story - Decades

[farla]

Posted Decades, one of the prewritten one-shots mentioned in the last entry. It's about a rattata who gets captured.

...I'm going to get comments about how you totally agree all trainers are evil, aren't I? You have no idea how frustrated I get by those.

Anyway, the story idea is actually a really old one I've had for years, and the story itself, come to think of it, was written in the first couple weeks of last summer. Years ago I read a fanfic about a young boy getting his family's pokemon from his mother. It was unfinished at the time and I never read it again, but one line from it stuck with me for years and probably the only reason even remember the rest of it is that one little line.

Oftentimes, authors write things without fully considering the implications, and, for whatever reason, the Pokemon fandom seems particularly vulnerable to this happening. It's odd sometimes to read a line and realize that what the author has inadvertantly created something far worse than they ever thought of.

Comments

[kddreams.livejournal.com]

"...I'm going to get comments about how you totally agree all trainers are evil, aren't I?"

Well, a lot of people in this world are followers...

[farla.livejournal.com]

Which would be great if they wanted to follow what I was actually saying, but is less great when they're praising me for a message I don't have.

[wintersheir]

Can you quote the line, if you remember it? I feel curious, now. ^_^

[farla.livejournal.com]

I finally dug up the story on my fifth try, so here it is:

"He probably has a good dozen years left thanks to the pokéball."

The preceding line says that although the rapidash has younger siblings, they're likely too old to race now, while he...

It's A Story of Stories (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/493121/1/), if you're interested.

[wintersheir]

Heyy, interesting. I might try reading the 'fic if I can get past the mostly-solid blocks of text.

[niftysgirl.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, most of the writers in Pokemon are... young. And, by being young, they don't form their own opinions. Granted, there are exceptions (you, I bet) but mostly... why do you think school has so many cliques? In my opinion, people don't GET opinions until they're out of high school.
Um. I've personally never thought about how time passes for a pokemon... I've all ways sort of envisioned something kind of vague... the mind is there but the body isn't. And if the body isn't there, well, how can it age?
Thought provoking, like so much of your work.
And trainers aren't evil. They're ten years old, and as I've stated, don't have their own opinions so they follow the majority, which follows the big companies that have been around since pokemon training started, it would seem, and THOSE companies are evil.
Yup.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if people want to blindly follow my opinions, they should pay a bit more attention to what those are. One of the things that periodically annoys me is posting some random one-shot and getting a 'I totally agree! People shouldn't hurt pokemon!' review when it had nothing to do with that.

Neh. I find the real issue with trainers isn't a matter of even following, it's just raw apathy. They don't, ultimately, care. They might care if you pointed out what they were doing, or they might not, but that really doesn't matter.

[silawen.livejournal.com]

*smiles* I love rattata, such nifty creatures. Very nice story, as usual.