Cycloneblaze
Commenting on: 01-10-12

Great, great story. You really get the emotions across. I felt a bit sad reading it - it was that kind of story.

I wish the trainer wouldn't be so indecisive and just accept that her Butterfree is happy again, but I guess I'd feel different if I was that trainer. Oh well. Anyway, great work Butterfree =D

[25/01/2012 18:53:06]

Yamiidenryuu

So what's with this weird sprite for Wormadam in the sprite generator? (It's the HGSS shiny sprite.) Is it some sort of funky beta sprite or what? Also, that for of Wormadam is missing the second animation frame for both normal and shiny.

[25/01/2012 02:10:42]

Richie

Lol, "Meatshields"!



XD

[23/01/2012 03:31:36]

Xumahare
Commenting on: 01-10-12

I remember using Butterfree against Brock so many times, having played and restarted Yellow a lot. He always ended up in the box, though.



Of course, the first time I played through and beat Yellow, I used a Pidgey, who ended up being level 100 by the time I was finished with the game. I feel bad now, about the rest of my team, who ended up just being low-leveled meatshields and HM slaves. ._.



All-in-all, great story, Butterfree. <3

[22/01/2012 05:32:27]

Slix
Website: Poliwager
Commenting on: 01-10-12

I really liked the story too. It was almost making me cry… I liked the whole way it was written and it related to me as well. All too many times I've done the exact same thing and said to myself I'd train whatever Pokémon and never end up doing it and when I do, it makes me feel bad that I put it off so long. Well done, Butterfree. :)

[21/01/2012 00:49:56]

Marina Nanaju

Eh… Been a while since I been here. Can't remember what I called myself before, was it Star, or DolphinGirl, or what? D::



Anyyyways… Loved the new fanfic. Twas amazing. Great update on the fake pokemon guide. Really haven't been here in a while…

[20/01/2012 18:14:26]

Amaterasu
Website: The Operator Boards

Hey guys remember me? :u

[20/01/2012 01:45:00]

Richie

@Butterfree and Hikaru, I'm quite scared that the forum is going to crash, so I'm trying to find some kind of document..storing thingy. I may try Yarny.

[19/01/2012 04:04:07]

sarahc
Commenting on: 01-10-12

This is exactly how I feel when I use a Pokemon for a few battles, and then just dump it in the box.



You, madam, are a genius. The piece works so well, it's beautifully written, and just…wow. </worship>

[18/01/2012 23:45:21]

Hiikaru

Richie: Have you tried Yarny!

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

Butterfree
Admin
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]