>>53157007---
>What a pussy.Yeah. He's a recluse who's never been challenged who just got bitched out of his only notable power in an instant while totally surrounded by creeps, he's probably gonna give up. Will the status of a character from the first chapter evolve over the course of a story? The world may never know.
>Game LiteralismNothing I can do about that one unfortunately, you probably won't love this story (although it doesn't sound like you do already) if acknowledgments to the games' conventions bother you.
>Geyser descriptionThat's fair, you'll see as it goes on but everyone who looks at it sees it a different way, that thing will be described a million times before the story's over, I'm not blowing the whole load on its first appearance.
>Psychic TypeThe telepathic communication was while he was talking to the guiding voice, once he starts talking to Zangoose he's just adapting to the weird way that Pokémon talk which will go unspecified beyond just projecting their voices to form a coherent language that just so happens to be English; you can see before Nathan learns how to talk in his Pokémon voice he's just squawking as a Natu which makes Zangoose think he might be Wild.
>Scene transitionFormatting error converting to Ao3, my bad, I'll fix it right away; the original release has the proper formatting break as the rest of the scene transitions.
>Fire/WaterNot amazing competitively but from a lore standpoint it's one of those "Whoaaaaa" polar opposite types. At least you're questioning the narrator here, good. Who *is* telling you these scenes?
>Vulnerable sincerityAny sincerity from The Champion is vulnerable
>World assertionsThe world is one of the big mysteries at the heart of the story, you're asking the right questions.
>RecapFor style, like a soap opera or ATLA (and for readers who just need a refresher instead of a reread)
