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Man so I decided to venture into some not-pokemon fanfiction as a breather and it's really weird.
Like in ways I wouldn't expect even, like how the fact that I've been playing pokemon since I was a kid and being really devoted to it for a lot of that time since has left me with enough knowledge about the world that I have a really concrete headcanon of how everything works regardless of whether it's something that's ever come up or anything. Like now that I'm trying something without that same familiarity I'm really lost, because I'm so confused about so much of the mechanics of the world. Even my original fiction isn't as confusing as this, because at least there if I'm not sure of how something works, whatever I end up thinking up as a solution is immediately canon if I wish it to be, but in this it's like "yeah this could work like this, but does everything else support it? Is it possible some later revelations will invalidate it?" Then there are the issues like the one that is giving me the most grief at the moment: putting a character through a scenario that nothing in canon sheds light on how they would react in it. This is made even more frustrating since it's something the character must've gone through at some point, but it happened off screen since they're not that important.
All in all I have to say it's the most frustrating and fun writing experience I've had in a while. Would recommend trying it yourself.
