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Koiking
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 43: To Champion Island
Well, not all starters come from Champion Island. Some come from the Terarium in Blueberry Academy.
[03/10/2025 05:26:27]
WTF
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 26: Dead or Alive
Sunflora? What the FUCK.
[03/07/2025 06:41:25]
WTF
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 30: The Dragons of Ouen
There are three wtfs in this chapter: What Scyther is talking about, the ellipses and me.
[03/06/2025 08:40:00]
Koiking
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 6: The Mammal, the Monster and the Mental Change
I think Splash should do exactly 1 damage if it's raining and the opponent has a 4x weakness to Water. Oh wait, and Splash should actually be a Water-type move instead of a Normal-type move.
[03/06/2025 06:39:29]
Arceus
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 5: The Lake of Purity
"holy Miltank!" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Please take this out. When I created Miltank, I instantly regretted it. Right now, the top of the list of things that I hate is:
1. Miltank
2. Giratina
3. Silvally
[03/06/2025 06:34:29]
Ash Ketchum
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Pokémon Festival – May 24th: The Threat
Maybe, after the kid who wants to be me gets his Pichu, you could have Alan say "Okay, this kid clearly wants to be my dad, so if any one of you finds him not hugging his Pichu, busting up Team Rocket or losing in the Kanto League because of a lazy Charizard, you should tell him that he should oversleep more."
[03/05/2025 05:53:07]
PokéManiac
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOEp)
Chapter: Prologue
I don't know where to comment this, so I'll just comment it here. The Ouen map works in Google Chrome too.
[03/04/2025 14:26:46]
ILOVETHISFIC
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOEp)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 75: Mewtwo²
Sorry. I just… Mew, Chalenor and Chaletwo? Yeah. The Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. I understand that. But Entei? It feels like you just randomly picked him from the (does quick math) 30 or so other legendaries. He's a minor character. When I read that part, the first thing I thought was "Okay, so the Legendary Beast Trio is the Legendary Beast Duo now, but why?" I have a solution though. Some of Entei's Pokédex entries claim that he's born whenever a volcano erupts. What if it's the other way around? What if, when Entei dies, if his soul can find an active volcano quickly enough, he is reborn and that volcano erupts?Reply: The other thirty legendaries didn't choose Spirit, nor were they condescending dicks who had their own, kind of exploitative plan going to escape the war by using mortal Pokémon. Any of the others would have been random; Entei was not. I already explained the narrative reasons I found it appropriate for him to die, but you kind of ignored those in favor of acting like I just wanted to kill a legendary and rolled a die. That's absolutely not why I killed him! I had no desire to kill off a random legendary just because, and didn't; I did it because I found it the right end for Entei's particular role in the story.
Meanwhile, I think it would genuinely be pretty random and pointless to hastily retcon that actually Entei's totally not dead if he finds an active volcano. What does that change or contribute to the narrative? Why is it better if Entei lives? To me, that wouldn't contribute anything other than undermining Spirit's chance to move on from this pretty questionable codependency she had going on with him.
Maybe we just have a philosophical difference, where you tend to feel that it's just generally better the more characters make it out alive. That's definitely not how I feel about stories. It's okay if you do! It's fine if you don't like that Entei died. All I can do is explain why I wrote it the way I did, and it's up to you whether you're happy with that answer or whether what I write is to your taste.
[03/04/2025 14:24:04]
???
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Ouen League – Chapter 48: The Second Preliminary
What's that Ash-wannabee's team?
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…You still here? Than I guess you should know that I got a Pikachu as my spam verification Pokémon.Reply: I never gave him a full team, since he never actually appears on-screen. It would have consisted of Pokémon that Ash famously had.
[03/03/2025 09:17:48]
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Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Ouen League – Chapter 47: The First Preliminary
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[03/03/2025 08:13:45]
An empathetic person
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 1: The Pokémon on the Road
I understand this school thingamajig with you. Being bullied is HARD.
[02/27/2025 08:06:05]
ILOVETHISFIC
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 9: Mew's Escape
I just realized that with inter-Pokéball transfers, you could abuse your Master Ball by simply transferring the Pokémon in it into the cheapest ball you can get, recharging it, catching a new Pokémon, transferring it into the cheapest ball you can get, etc.Reply: Master Balls can't be recharged. The whole point is a given trainer can only have one.
[02/26/2025 01:27:46]
ILOVETHISFIC
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOEp)
Chapter: The Final Stretch – Chapter 75: Mewtwo²
Why did Entei di? So random and so pointless. Please remove it.Reply: For narrative reasons. There's an irony that I like to Entei's very insistence that he had a better method to evade the War leading to his downfall. Additionally, Spirit's character arc is about her vain self-image revolving around being chosen, maintained in the face of Entei's selfishness and utter lack of giving a damn about her; Spirit ultimately failing to protect Entei, even as she tried far harder than he really deserved, was another fun bit of irony while also ultimately setting her free and giving her the chance to grow a new and healthier self-image that doesn't revolve around Entei.
You do realize it's very rude and kind of irritating to comment on other people's creative work ordering them to remove bits you don't like, right? You can express your opinion, and maybe if you do it in a thoughtful and convincing way (as opposed to just calling it "so random and pointless" without elaboration), I might even agree with you. But you don't get to just tell me to make the story different according to how you think it should go. It makes you sound very entitled. I hope you're not acting like this with other people who make things you enjoy!
[02/26/2025 00:43:20]
PMEX
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 77: Home
Could you please make a side story about Molzapart and the dragons? It would be cool to see Rainteicune too.Reply: Unfortunately I don't have any plans at the moment to make a side story about Molzapart and the dragons. If you think that story sounds compelling, feel free to write your own, though!
[02/25/2025 05:02:07]
ILOVETHISFIC
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 2: The Book
"I am deeply amused by how much Chaletwo and Mewtwo absolutely do not sound like themselves, and in fact sound oddly like each other, in these quotes. In a different world, maybe there'd be some kind of amazing plot twist about Chaletwo and Mewtwo having traded places." Maybe you could make it so Mew accidentally traded their personalities for a short time?Reply: Haha. Nah, the next revision would just not have this nonsense.
[02/11/2025 04:46:24]
Replier
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Pokémon Festival – May 23rd: The Pokémon Frenzy Tournament
Helenoodle, sorry to spoiler this, but all of Mark's Pokémon will be fully evolved by the time the story ends.
[02/03/2025 14:29:54]
MarkAfterTheLastBattle
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Pokémon Festival – May 23rd: The Pokémon Frenzy Tournament
Now that I calmed down, I can remind you that G-Max Gengar's mouth is a black hole.
[02/03/2025 14:28:57]
MarkAfterTheLastBattle
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Pokémon Festival – May 23rd: The Pokémon Frenzy Tournament
GET THIS HELL OF A CHAPTER OUT OF THE FANFIC THE FRENZY TOURNAMENT IS JUST A SLIGHTLY LESS OUTRIGHT WAY OF SAYING TRAINERS WATCH AS THEIR POKÉMON GET MORTALLY WOUNDED AND THEY CAN DO NOTHING THROW THIS FUCKING CHAPTER INTO GMAX GENGARS MOUTH RIGHT NOW
[02/03/2025 14:26:20]
May
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: The Pokémon Festival – May 22nd: The Attack Approval
Yeah, this was a waste of a chapter. (Aside from Mark catching Leta.)
[02/03/2025 01:40:31]
Tither
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 2: The Book
This Molzapart thing is just hurting my brain. I mean, Pokémon Wiki calls it Zapmolcuno, Bulbapedia calls it Thu-Fi-Zer and now TQftL (my favorite Pokémon fanfic ever btw) calls it… you guessed it… Molzapart! WHAT IS GOING ON?! CAN'T IT JUST GET A CONSISTENT NAME?!Reply: Molzapart is a totally different Pokémon from the manga's 'Zapmolcuno', and made up long before I had any idea an Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres fusion existed in the manga. Most notably, Zapmolcuno is just a fusion of Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres created by Team Rocket and has three heads, while Molzapart is also part Mew, has psychic powers, and has only one head.
[01/24/2025 01:19:00]