Deadly.Braviary's Nominations

Semipostapocalyptic Hoenn … evil, evil legendary killer … Wow, this is too good for words.

The Cutlerine delivers yet another fantastic epic, this time adapting the storyline of Black and White. Peppered with quasi-demons, black humour, and cats, this story would win the 'Most Appropriate Title' award as well (if there was one).

A witty story set in a version of Kanto populated almost entirely by glitch Pokemon. What happens when Red, an ordinary trainer from the 'real' Kanto falls into Tanko with his Charmander? Hilarity, that's what.

It's a medical drama, with nurse Blissey as the eponymous protagonist. It makes several nods to game and anime canon, and yet remains a wholly unexpected work. No genre can categorise this.

The … Actually, IDEK what it's called … the universe of PMD: Overthrown, by Knightfall. Yeah, that should be OK.
This is a fantastic, insane, surreal, horrifying, brilliant place. It is pure magic. The characters in it are either as crazy as the universe itself, or more crazy than that. And, I being the lover of insanity I am, nominate this universe for this award because … Gah. You read the fic and tell me I shouldn't nominate it.

It's Unova, but Unova as you've never seen it before! Regenschein's, the friendly neighbourhood Black City department store, brings Chaos upon us all right before the pagan festival of Eostre, and the world switches itself at midnight, when all that resembles the events of Pokemon Black, becomes the property of Pokemon White!

This is the fourth time I'm nominating this story. Go back and read all the descriptions. Now come back and tell me it doesn't deserve this as well.

It's fun to watch these childhood friends bicker, all the while thinking, "Yep… He likes her," so that you smugly grin and watch their friendship becomes a relationship reminiscent of Ron and Hermione.

How far would you go to save your brother? That is the entire plot of this story in a nutshell, and this fic shows a brilliant relationship between two fantastically real brothers. Bro in a coma? No problem, I'll just hop over to Sinnoh, catch a couple of legendaries, and come back and fix stuff.

"Smogons are Pokémon trainers," explained Miror B. "Or at least, they were. According to legend, when a Pokémon trainer allows his or her zealous desire to become the best get the better of them, over the years they undergo a sort of transformation, and become this less-than-human thing. When one challenges you to a battle, you cannot refuse, and if you lose, you become one of them. Moreover, they use these strange powers of theirs to impose ridiculous restrictions on the battles they wage, such as, no one side can have more than one Pokémon asleep at the same time, not counting Pokémon using Rest." … "What's more, Smogons have no emotions, other than a desire to battle and win," continued Miror B. "They do not feel, so any attempts to appeal to any part of them that may still be human are futile. They have no emotional connection to their Pokémon whatsoever, and this emotionless state eventually spreads to the Pokémon."

"So they don't have souls," Cheeseball stated.

"Essentially, yes," Miror B. nodded.

That extract about sums it up.

A glitch-infested version of Kanto, with two constantly arguing childhood friends and a hapless trainer from the more familiar version of Kanto journeying through it. As they try to defeat gyms, they also contend with two villainous teams at war with each other, Debug and Error, which are fighting against and for the glitch Pokemon respectively.

It's not just a trainer fic. It's so much more than that. The characters are real and flawed, and you want so much to believe that they'll survive their next battle, because, keeping with the 'dark-and-gritty' theme, there's also a legendary-killer out there, and it's the job of the protagonists to unite the other legends in battle against this killer. And they want the badges too!

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fics aren't a rare breed, but PMD with an insane Metagross? Plus, it also has Gear, one of my favourite characters, the eternal 'good cop' Magnezone. But, because this fic is twisted, bad stuff happens to everyone. For example, take Leo. He used to be human, now he's a Charmeleon. Then he's 'employed' by a freaky voice in his head. That's how grippingly surreal this fic is.

An origin story which is a trainerfic as well, Roots gives us the story of Michael Rowan, rebellious teenager and expert strategist, and his adventures through Sinnoh. Complete with glitchy Pokedex prototypes and Team Galactic, this is simply a damn good story.

Yeah, it's called the child. It impersonates dead people. It punches Charizards and PokeDex machines. You don't know its name, its gender, its motivation to do what it does. But still, somehow, whether you believe it's 'good' or 'evil', you want to see more of it.

Yeah, he's crazy. And he does stupid crap like throwing a sailor overboard into freezing, freezing water, and saying, "I'm gonna terrorize all the ecos." But he's a quirky, fun guy, and when he needs to be serious, the stuff he says is right from the heart, you can tell. But when he's not serious … he's still a lot of fun.

The first time you meet Teiresias, it's a blind, scarred, and extremely freaky Liepard. A while after, you realise Teiresias is not just a Liepard. It's some kind of demon, able to possess mortal bodies to anchor it to our world, while still being able to walk through a shadowy nether-realm. And, seeing as Crack'd isn't finished yet, I think I can safely bet that this particular villain is going to get even freakier.