>>54366161lol I linked that, and actually I was specifically looking for a lance/Cynthia pairing instead, not a Cynthia dies fic. Like, trust me when I say you'll like it because it's more about an unknown conspiracy element and the three main OC characters coming of age in a Sinnoh that's falling apart (the sister brother relationship between the trainer from Johto and his sister who tagged along is really sweet and charming imo, and the way she comforts him and provides him companionship during the story, in contrast with tbe other siblings being separated) and the daughter of Lance and Cynthia finding her own identity as a person than it is about the champions dying (well it's also about the political fallout of everything collapsing in a deeply fragile world, Cynthia dying kick-starting that process into high gear). Of course her death is touched on but trust me when I say it's the event that sparks everything into motion rather than something extensively moaned about or dwelled on. I like the realism of it (not grimdark realism, the other two fics cement that) and it avoids being needlessly edgy actually, there's little bloodshed and random killing for the sake of killing, though a major event in the story is a death of a pokemon and the psychological effect it has on that Pokemon's trainer, as if a brother had died. I feel that if you don't care much for the whole champion's dying part then you should at least read it for the johtoan trainer making his mark on the world, I just felt that it actually moved on from the death aspect pretty quickly
