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the heart-chink by A_Pen for chimeric_kintsugi
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
02 May 2026
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“Kailani,” the Professor says, sounding sorry. “Not everything can be fixed.”
A small story featuring turtles, beaches, and broken things, for kintsugi.
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"Ah, the sea," sighed Professor Okido, stepping up to the railing beside Wataru. "You know, there's a Johtanese riddle I've always found poignant. 'They say that Lugia only suffers the same traveler to cross her oceans once. How, then, can a traveler return?'"
The answer seemed obvious.
"You fly back," Wataru said.
Or: How does an orphan from a secluded valley in Johto rise to become the first champion of the unified Kanto-Johto region? This is a story of leaving home, finding home, principles, politics, and of course, dragons. This is the story of Lance.
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The Peak by A_Pen
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: HeartGold & SoulSilver | Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions, Pokemon anime
28 Jul 2025
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"Trainer is the one you love, who loves you back. Owner is the one who holds your freedom; when you regain it, you fly far away."
Hunter J gets more than she bargained for when she decides to try poaching on Mt Silver.
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In the aftermath of a peaceful protest gone wrong, a sawsbuck and her trainer must decide what they’re willing to betray.
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An Ode for Threads by A_Pen
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Colosseum & XD
08 Oct 2023
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Let me be clear. This is not an answer, an apology, or an amelioration. It isn’t going to help. As exercises go, it is one in futility.
If I knew why I was doing this, I wouldn’t need to be here at all.
A.k.a. if Cormac McCarthy wrote Orre!fic. You’re welcome.
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The Walls of Khthon by Farla for A_Pen
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
02 Oct 2021
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You've got to take kiddies on the occasional field trip, and it's true the walls do block out how the sky really looks. Still, I wish someone else could've been picked for the job.
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Spring by WildBoots
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Gold & Silver & Crystal | Pokemon Gold Silver Crystal Versions
01 Oct 2025
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“It feels like I’m not a real trainer until I do this.”
Chris Nakano has worked hard to become a trainer his dad would have been proud of. But his plans for the Indigo League slip sideways when he discovers a strange girl lying in the snow. A bittersweet, leisurely-paced coming of age story.
"Can I come with you?"
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02 Apr 2020
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Suicune's special boy lands a weird babysitting job and is very flustered.
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Illya is invited to a Passover seder.
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20 Apr 2020
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Touching and humorous take on Jewish!Illya at a Red Seder.
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It's hard to have conversations between different gems. Rose knows she's probably just annoying the pearl like she does everyone else, but she can't help herself.
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- Part 2 of Germination
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18 Apr 2020
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Every time I read this I just . . . what's understood and what's missed up until the very end, is so beautiful.
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You mean to write more than you actually do, but you do think of home often. A series of self-contained vignettes about relationships between people and space, inspired by Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities."
COMPLETE.
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02 Apr 2020
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A set of vignettes on the themes of the wilderness and the city, leaving home and finding it, impermanence, loss and beauty.