>>54912976>>54914348>I can't think of many stories beyond 10k words that use a Fennekin starter.I can think of one; the one I've been procrastinating on for years, now.
116k.
I need to finish this damned thing before I forget what it's supposed to be about.
Which would be: Fluffy foxes with fiery predilections.
>>54916221>>54916579Here's the shizzle.
"The champion" is singular, so when definite it takes a singular pronoun. Period.
Plural pronouns can be used in a singular mode under specific conditions, to indicate that the speaker is uncertain of the party (saw one person but there could be more), the antecedent is representative (describing a singular case that applies to a population's members), is an agent (one person is speaking for a group), or the speaker is referring to an abstraction (that's what They want you to think).
The accurate, correct, and not stupid maneuver is simple: Don't use a pronoun when it's awkward in the English language. Write a conformant sentence instead. Words have roles that have been field tested and debugged for centuries. Follow the wisdom of the forefathers, not the errant wanderings of juvenile novices.
>The champion was just here and defeated an entire group of the criminals single-handedly!Simple.
Of course, if the champion's pokemon were involved,
>The champion was just here and they defeated an entire group of the criminals all by themselves.Yes, the lowest effort fix is an addition of one word.
This "they" simultaneously serves the agent role and communicates the associated pokemon and as a pronoun for champion+team, which is kinda cool and why the plural pronoun has this particular flexibility. But just because it can flex when needed doesn't mean it should be bent habitually.
Clarity is king. Don't pronoun when you don't need to, and when multiple pronouns must be used, select a pattern that minimizes ambiguity.
