>>11776129I'm doing something similar - the only people who get starters and Pokedexes are those who can start off from a professor, everyone else starts with what they can get from wherever they are. I'm using it differently than you, though; I'm using it as a jumping-off point to build up some issues around the inherent flaws in the world presented in the game.
>>11780164You might like Sun Soul, it's one of the better things I've read. Yeah, it admittedly is pretty edgy and shit, but I think it's one of the rare cases where that angle is played fairly decently. It's long and fully complete.