Hiikaru

Richie: Have you tried Yarny!

[16/01/2012 21:37:36]

Butterfree
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Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

That's never a good idea. If you don't trust your computer, use an online document manager, like Google Docs, where you can edit it anytime and on your own time without any fear of losing it. The forum database has already been completely wiped once; as it is, if that happened again, you'd have lost the only copy of your fanfic, which would just royally suck.

[16/01/2012 04:10:36]

Richie

I can't trust my computer to save things like that. I've found it's better to spend a day typing it up.

[16/01/2012 03:31:39]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

…why don't you have your fanfic in a file on your computer?

[15/01/2012 23:27:43]

Richie

The forum's server has been busy for three hours.



*slams face against keyboard repeatdely*



I'm trying to work on my fanific, gorammit.

[15/01/2012 21:57:18]

Karpi
Commenting on: 01-10-12

It amuses me to remember that I had both Beedrill and Ledian on my silver version on my team. It honestly did not register in my mind that they were significantly weaker than my other pokemon. This story makes me wonder if, had I known more about how base stats worked, I would have dropped the two bug types from my team. In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't give up on them, but I know I would never do such a thing today. Poor bugs :(

[15/01/2012 00:12:38]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

One would have to be very naïve to take an anonymous guestbook declaration that somebody committed suicide at face value. In the unlikely case you're not a troll, do something to establish your credibility before making a claim like that.

[13/01/2012 18:37:59]

JimmitheCoo

Nidokingu committed suicide..

[13/01/2012 16:39:37]

Flametrainer13
Commenting on: 01-10-12

I've been trying to keep up with your updates, so imagine my joy when I saw the story! Really wonderful, it kinda makes me feel bad about those first few Pokémon I catch just to have more than my starter on my team at the very beginning. :( I'm going to favorite the page it's on, so I can keep coming back to read it. :D

[12/01/2012 23:55:17]

Polymetric Sesquialtera
Commenting on: 01-10-12

Oh jesus. I got Yellow for Christmas this year and decided that my team would consist of Pikachu, Flareon, Blastoise, Venusaur, Nidoqueen… and Butterfree. I use Butterfree so often in my main series games that it never really occurs to me that maybe it really isn't the best permanent team member, but I use it anyway. I had to specifically find good type advantages to send it out on when I faced the Elite Four… had to teach it Psychic and Mega Drain in order to keep it from fainting all the time… This story is so painfully true. (Except I never end up ditching Pokémon even if it means I reach the Elite Four with a Zigzagoon.)



It also made me want to start over Yellow even though I just beat it and do an experiment where I take a Butterfree and, through careful use of saves and leveling so as not to overlevel, find out the approximate point at which it loses its usefulness. But since I just beat Yellow idk if I can bear to part with this file.

[12/01/2012 21:16:18]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 01-10-12

Sky: This is not a retelling of something that happened to me on an actual game. It does have elements derived from personal experience - I did ditch my first Butterfree in Yellow at level 28 after thinking it was the best thing ever when it beat Brock, and wanted to train it up again but never got around to it - but ultimately this is a piece of fiction about a real Pokémon trainer with a real Butterfree, not someone playing a video game, so asking what game it is or what level the Butterfree was doesn't really make sense. It takes place in Kanto, and the Butterfree was left on the PC at some unspecified point before the trainer battled Blaine. There is no game, and even if levels were to be interpreted as an in-world feature, I don't know the Butterfree's exact level any more than I know the names of the trainer's friends. They don't have any significance to the story, so why would I decide on something specific for them?



Butterfree certainly didn't enter the Hall of Fame the time the trainer went and became champion, and I don't think a trainer in the Pokémon world would actually keep battling the Elite Four over and over again after they're already the champion. I suppose the trainer might have gone on to other regions, or been de- and then rethroned, but it is doubtful the Butterfree battled, what with the whole not-battling thing, so no, it was probably not entered in the Hall of Fame.



Ymedron: Well, the story wouldn't be very interesting if the Butterfree were having a grand old time on the PC. :P



I don't really have a single consistent headcanon - the box isn't like this "for me" so much as it is like this for the purposes of this story, because this story is most interesting that way. You might as well tell J.K. Rowling "Well, I don't think magic works that way" - of course you can prefer different magic systems, but ultimately magic is fictional either way, and Rowling is nowhere claiming the Harry Potter system is The Way Magic Works, just that it's how it works in Harry Potter. My stories all vary pretty wildly when it comes to anything that pertains to the interpretation of the world (barring those that explicitly happen in the same universe, like TQftL and Scyther's Story/The Fall of a Leader); they each just use the interpretation that seems most interesting for that story. If I were to think up an interesting story sometime that would call for the PC to be like your interpretation, I'd write that.



Blastoise Fortooate: I'm kind of surprised by how many readers just see the ending as unambiguously happy. Here I was thinking people would think it's stupidly indecisive.



KuroRekkuza: I had a Haunter on my permanent team in Crystal, and I was actually devastated to find I couldn't cancel trade evolutions when I traded everything over to Gold so I could restart Crystal. It just wasn't the same when she was a Gengar. D:



Thanks for your kind comments, everyone. Man, this was a whole lot better received than I thought it would be. Maybe all the time I spent on it just made me jaded. Or that contest I judged just made me think way, way too hard about one-shots.

[12/01/2012 17:42:02]

Sky
Commenting on: 01-10-12

So, did the Butterfree enter the Hall of Fame or what? Is this FR/LG? What level was the Butterfree?

[12/01/2012 13:33:40]

Ymedron
Commenting on: 01-10-12

The butterfree-story made me cry like many of your past ones have. However, to me the pokemon box is such a different place as it is for you - I always think that the pokemon are on a great enclosure, training and eating and sleeping and having downtime.

But then again, Im rotating about five boxes worth of pokemon, so thinking that they all have to rot for months on end in a pokeball is very… Crushing to think about.







I was also expecting the butterfree to do something evil, but Im glad that for once there isn't any sinister things going on.

[11/01/2012 23:31:59]

Blastoise Fortooate
Commenting on: 01-10-12

Butterfree, you managed to make a story with a happy ending that is till somehow sad! This is an amazing accomplishment.

[11/01/2012 22:26:12]

KuroRekkuza
Commenting on: 01-10-12

This is absolutely beautiful… this makes you realize that Pokémon can be more than just a computer program, that you can truly be connected to them, like they're living beings.

It reminds me of my Haunter, just hanging in my PC until I'm able to trade him to evolution, because he hasn't been rising to the challenge of defeating trainers. But he's my favorite Ghost, so you know what, I think I'm gonna go train him and have fun, and he'll evolve when he evolves.

[11/01/2012 22:18:32]

DarklitZelda543
Commenting on: 01-10-12

I managed to get through the Elite Four for the first time thanks to my Butterfree. But I do recall having to swap out some Pokemon for HM Slaves, and I regret dumping mine in the PC for a good amount of time.



In reference to how the Butterfree in your writing normally didn't do well, my Butterfree is the same way, sadly, so much relation there.



Good job, keep on writing!

[11/01/2012 21:07:52]

Alex
Website: Not Entirely Incoherent
Commenting on: 01-10-12

That was fantastic. When I played through my copy of Leafgreen a while back I switched my Butterfree out for a Mankey or something like that, quite early on, and now I feel all guilty about it :( Really well written, thanks for posting it.

[11/01/2012 18:04:27]

guy standing behind you
Commenting on: 01-10-12

This is excellent. It really shows that there is a bond between the trainer and pokemon more than that of always trying to win. It shows that the Butterfree has feelings too.

[11/01/2012 01:31:22]

Butterfree
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Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

Still Ten. Matt Smith is hilarious, but I really like Ten's relative humanity, and my absolute favorite episodes are all Ten episodes (Midnight, The Waters of Mars, and The End of Time), although The Girl Who Waited comes close. Moments like returning to save the Mars people anwyay and justifying it with an insane fit of megalomania, or his rant when he realizes he's going to have to die to save Wilfred, are the reason I like fiction, damn it.

[09/01/2012 22:37:37]

Yamiidenryuu

Oh, okay.



So which of the three new-Who Doctors is your favourite?

[09/01/2012 16:47:45]