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Post by PlatinumSun on Feb 9, 2015 6:06:53 GMT
Since, I can't make a story at this point on Fanfiction.net, I'll see if anyone can give me tips on how to go about with this story:
Title: A Birthday Like No Other
Ash Ketchum's 13th birthday is coming up, and is excited about reuniting with his friends at his birthday party. For the record, this story takes place prior to Ash going to the Unova region. Last year, he got to see Misty, Brock, Tracy, May, Max, Gary, Professor Oak, and his own mother. Ash was hoping for the same thing in addition to his newest companion, Dawn. However, certain circumstances leads to Ash's friends to be unable to reach Pallet Town in time. The only ones who will be there are Tracy, Delia and Dawn, but Tracy has the flu really badly though so Delia decides to nurture him back to health in the meantime, so that leads to alone time with Dawn.
Can I have suggestions? How long should Dawn stay be in Pallet Town? How should Ash and Dawn spend their days together? What should Dawn's birthday gift to Ash be? How do you build up to a romantic scene? What should the story's second genre be (the first is romance)?
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Post by NovaStorm on Feb 9, 2015 17:52:19 GMT
Since, I can't make a story at this point on Fanfiction.net, I'll see if anyone can give me tips on how to go about with this story: Title: A Birthday Like No OtherAsh Ketchum's 13th birthday is coming up, and is excited about reuniting with his friends at his birthday party. For the record, this story takes place prior to Ash going to the Unova region. Last year, he got to see Misty, Brock, Tracy, May, Max, Gary, Professor Oak, and his own mother. Ash was hoping for the same thing in addition to his newest companion, Dawn. However, certain circumstances leads to Ash's friends to be unable to reach Pallet Town in time. The only ones who will be there are Tracy, Delia and Dawn, but Tracy has the flu really badly though so Delia decides to nurture him back to health in the meantime, so that leads to alone time with Dawn. Can I have suggestions?How long should Dawn stay be in Pallet Town? How should Ash and Dawn spend their days together? What should Dawn's birthday gift to Ash be? How do you build up to a romantic scene? What should the story's second genre be (the first is romance)? What I like about this idea is that it could actually fit in the canon timeline. They don't define how long Ash is in Pallet Town before he goes to Unova, so the timeskip is a perfect time period to write a fic about How long should Dawn stay: I like 1-2 months, but this is just me liking realistic shenanigans. Others may have other wants Spend their days: Maybe you could have a theme for each week. One week could be Pokémon bonding, another could be preparing for some party together, another week could be someone slowly teaching the two romance and so on. Dawn's birthday gift to Ash: His Unova gloves!!! You could make it where Delia didn't have gloves for Ash to wear so its a good thing Dawn had some for Ash. Plus it would be very symbolic because the memory and love of Dawn in Unova will always be at the palm of his hands as he travels. Second genre: Adventure or friendship, you could make it a light hearted relaxing story showing Ash and Dawn being at peace together in the radiant sun of Pallet Town. I can feel the feels already Build up to a romantic scene: Hardest part for me. Ash's density needs to be broken, so maybe Brock or someone could give Ash a formal lecture about romance at his house. Dawn could be spying on them and start to have increased romantic feelings herself. Then, with Brock description of romance, the first person that would come to Ash's mind is Dawn and the first person to come to Dawn's mind is Ash. But the possibilities are endless. Do what you want
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Post by PlatinumSun on Feb 9, 2015 18:20:16 GMT
Since, I can't make a story at this point on Fanfiction.net, I'll see if anyone can give me tips on how to go about with this story: Title: A Birthday Like No OtherAsh Ketchum's 13th birthday is coming up, and is excited about reuniting with his friends at his birthday party. For the record, this story takes place prior to Ash going to the Unova region. Last year, he got to see Misty, Brock, Tracy, May, Max, Gary, Professor Oak, and his own mother. Ash was hoping for the same thing in addition to his newest companion, Dawn. However, certain circumstances leads to Ash's friends to be unable to reach Pallet Town in time. The only ones who will be there are Tracy, Delia and Dawn, but Tracy has the flu really badly though so Delia decides to nurture him back to health in the meantime, so that leads to alone time with Dawn. Can I have suggestions?How long should Dawn stay be in Pallet Town? How should Ash and Dawn spend their days together? What should Dawn's birthday gift to Ash be? How do you build up to a romantic scene? What should the story's second genre be (the first is romance)? What I like about this idea is that it could actually fit in the canon timeline. They don't define how long Ash is in Pallet Town before he goes to Unova, so the timeskip is a perfect time period to write a fic about How long should Dawn stay: I like 1-2 months, but this is just me liking realistic shenanigans. Others may have other wants Spend their days: Maybe you could have a theme for each week. One week could be Pokémon bonding, another could be preparing for some party together, another week could be someone slowly teaching the two romance and so on. Dawn's birthday gift to Ash: His Unova gloves!!! You could make it where Delia didn't have gloves for Ash to wear so its a good thing Dawn had some for Ash. Plus it would be very symbolic because the memory and love of Dawn in Unova will always be at the palm of his hands as he travels. Second genre: Adventure or friendship, you could make it a light hearted relaxing story showing Ash and Dawn being at peace together in the radiant sun of Pallet Town. I can feel the feels already Build up to a romantic scene: Hardest part for me. Ash's density needs to be broken, so maybe Brock or someone could give Ash a formal lecture about romance at his house. Dawn could be spying on them and start to have increased romantic feelings herself. Then, with Brock description of romance, the first person that would come to Ash's mind is Dawn and the first person to come to Dawn's mind is Ash. But the possibilities are endless. Do what you want I really do appreciate the suggestions. Your right, it is the perfect time period for this story. I do like the weekly theme idea and it seems to go well with the 1-2 month idea, but I was expecting you give a time in days, not months. Ex: 3 days That birthday gift seems like a really great idea as well as the friendship genre. I wasn't going to put Brock in the story, but you gave me idea to create a flashback of Ash and Brock talking while they were on the boat to Kanto. About that "One week could be Pokémon bonding, another could be preparing for some party together, another week could be someone slowly teaching the two romance and so on," thing, that would mean writing out social activities and I am really bad at that.
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Post by mew151 on Feb 10, 2015 17:00:23 GMT
The "romantic scene" I can only see working for Ash is this: Pokémon battle(s).
Have Dawn challenge Ash to a battle and have them directly communicate while battling. Ash is the type of person that fully understands the situation if explained directly, instead of riddles, hints and some outside stuff. Surround the field to reinforce Dawn's points.
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Post by Madun on Feb 10, 2015 21:14:12 GMT
My first thought about the present was maybe an album with the results of the photo shooting with Buneary. I mean, it was the reason she didn't got with him, so he could at least look at it. But I think the idea with the gloves is much better. Maybe she could give photos to Pikachu. The length of the stay depends on the length of the fic. If it's not that long, a few days or a week should suffice. Otherwise a few weeks should be fine. Usually, I'd say that they spend a lot of time training together, but since there's no big event coming up, they should be able to relax more than usual. Maybe they travel a little, and Ash shows her a bit of Kanto, at least the region around Pallet Town? I'd like to help more, but I have so little time right now, and barely any motivation or creativity to work on my own story.
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Post by NovaStorm on Feb 10, 2015 21:33:11 GMT
My first thought about the present was maybe an album with the results of the photo shooting with Buneary. I mean, it was the reason she didn't got with him, so he could at least look at it. But I think the idea with the gloves is much better. Maybe she could give photos to Pikachu. The length of the stay depends on the length of the fic. If it's not that long, a few days or a week should suffice. Otherwise a few weeks should be fine. Usually, I'd say that they spend a lot of time training together, but since there's no big event coming up, they should be able to relax more than usual. Maybe they travel a little, and Ash shows her a bit of Kanto, at least the region around Pallet Town? I'd like to help more, but I have so little time right now, and barely any motivation or creativity to work on my own story. An album from Buneary's photo shoot would be a good gift as well. Dawn could give him both the gloves and the album. Maybe Ash and Dawn could discuss how the photo shoot went while in Pallet Town.
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Post by shpee on Feb 25, 2015 20:37:32 GMT
YOUR FIC NEEDS MOAR SKELETON!
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Post by PlatinumSun on Mar 1, 2015 5:31:56 GMT
CHAPTER 1 COMPLETE!! Can someone proofread this for me? It would be greatly appreciated.
A Birthday Like No Other
Chapter 1: Just My Luck
It was another beautiful morning for Pallet Town, home of none other than Ash Ketchum. Tomorrow, Ash will be finally be 13 and Ash cannot wait for this because every year, there would be a birthday party for Ash and it would also be a reunion for him and his friends. Last year, he got to see Misty, Brock, Tracy, Gary, May, Max, Professor Oak, and his mother, Delia. Ash really enjoyed spending time with all of them that day. This year, he his newest friend, Dawn, will be coming along and Ash would be able introduce her to his other friends aw well as catch up with all of them see how they're doing.
Ash is in his home, eating breakfast with Delia and Pikachu. He's wearing red and white hat with a blue pokeball on it as well as his blue and white hoodie and black jeans. He's also wearing his high tops sneakers and black finger-less gloves with a green border around it. As they were eating breakfast some news came up on their TV.
"And it seems that Kyogre is not in a good mood as an intense storm is hitting the Hoenn region." said the weatherman. "Officials are forbidding any transportation going in or out of the region for the next week."
Upon hearing this, Ash said, "Damn. Guess May and Max can't come here then."
"It's okay Ash, you still have your other friends to talk to," replied Delia.
"Yeah, I guess."
"I can't wait to meet your new friend, Dawn. You spoke so highly of her," said Delia. Ash responded, "Yeah me too. Hopefully, Sinnoh doesn't have a storm too." He then looked at their TV to make sure there wasn't anything about Sinnoh.
He wont say it out loud, but he misses Dawn. More than anyone else he had to say goodbye to. In the short time they spent together, Ash and Dawn became so close together that you would think they were childhood siblings or actual siblings. They said goodbye in Sinnoh, Ash felt sad to leave her and was confused by this. It's not like when he said goodbye to Misty and Brock where he actually cried. It seemed worse to the point that Ash took a break from travelling. He hasn't left Pallet Town since his Sinnoh adventures. Sure, it allowed him to spend time with his mother and his Pokémon, but it also gave him time to reminisce on his lost against Tobias and his farewell with Dawn. That goodbye is still in his head.
"Wait a minute," said Dawn. She raised her hand. Ash understood what she was doing and gave out his own hand for one of their trademark high fives. Maybe their last one. Time started to slow down more and more as their hands got closer together. Ash... Dawn... so close yet so far away...
"Ash. Ash. Ash!" Delia clapped her hands together. This brought Ash back. "Huh?" "Didn't you say you were going Professor Oak's Lab?" she asked.
"Oh, that's right! Let's get going Pikachu." "Pikapi" Pikachu hopped on Ash's shoulder and they headed out the door to their way to the professor's lab.
-(At Professor Oak's Lab)-
"Well good morning to you Ash," said one of Professor Oak's aides. "Good morning to you too, sir," responded Ash. "Hey, have seen Professor Oak yet?"
The aide shook his head. He said, "Gary called his grandfather last night. Gary said that he and Professor Rowan might have a breakthrough with what they're doing. Professor Oak decided to head to Sinnoh to assist in anyway he can."
"So, they wont be here tomorrow?" Ash asked. "No. Why? What's tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow's my birthday." The aide responded, "Oh, congratulations. One step closer to adulthood. Oh! look at the time. I have to do something. Bye Ash."
"Oh, okay. See ya." Ash was disappointed. He thought, Man, first May and Max, and now both of the Oaks cant be here. Well at least I know for sure Tracy will be here. He looks around the lab. Say, where is Tracy anyways?
Ash headed outside to the Oak Corral. Upon seeing his friends, Pikachu hopped off Ash's shoulder and ran to his other Pokémon to play with them. Meanwhile, Ash looked around for Tracy. Well, he's not feeding the Pokémon, He thought. And he's not at the tree where he sketches. Maybe he's in his bedroom.
When he was at the Tracy's door, Ash started off with a knock. "Hey Tracy. Are you in here?" He was answered with coughing inside the room. Ash responded, "I'm coming in."
"Tracy has Nemungis," said a female aide. "This isn't fatal, but its extremely rare. Normally, people would have symptoms for months, but with proper treatment, the symptoms can go away in a few weeks. Unfortunately, due to it being so rare, none of us aides can give Tracy proper treatment."
Ash quickly said, "My mom knows how. I had this before when I was younger. I'm sure she would be more than happy to help you, Tracy." Before anything else was said, he rushed out to get his mom.
(Later)
"Yep, this is definitely Nemungis," Delia said. "It will be alright Tracy, I know what I'm doing." She turns to her son. "You don't mind if I'm here most of the time during your birthday?"
"No, it will be alright. As long as Tracy starts feeling better." To Tracy, Ash said, "No need to worry, Tracy. Just focus on getting better." Tracy responded with another cough.
Now that Tracy was sick, Ash became concerned. At this rate, Ash is going to spend his birthday alone, with the exception of his Pokémon of course which would be the first time ever. So that means Misty, Brock, and Dawn might make it. Maybe I should call them to make sure that they're coming.
Back at his house, Ash immediately calls Dawn's home. No answer. Okay, time to call Misty. Ash had to wait for a minute until Misty answered with the screen turning on.
"Hello?"
"Hey Misty. What happened to your arm?" asked Ash. Misty's left are was covered in a cast.
"Oh this? Well, a few days ago, I uh, was chasing someone and I crashed into something." A smirk appeared on Ash's face. Typical Misty. Misty's temper tended to get the best of her sometimes.
"Anyways," Misty continued. "I'm not allowed to travel. Doctor's order."
"Damn. Hey do you know where Brock is by any chance?"
"Actually, Brock was the one that treated my arm. He told that He can't come either. Something about his teacher being really strict and not letting him get out of town unless its an emergency." Ash was speechless. Them too huh? "I got to go now. Sorry that I can't come and have fun tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye," Ash said quietly. With this, Misty hung up and the screen turned black. Dawn! Ash called Dawn's house again. Ring... ring... ring... no answer.
Ash sighed and laid down on his couch. This really will be his first birthday by himself. Of course, Ash has his Pokémon whom he loves all of them dearly, but Pokémon company can't completely replace people company. With these thoughts, the boy closes his eyes and eventually drifts into the dream world.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Ash woke up and stood up. He looked out the window. The sky was a dark orange changing to black. "Coming! he said.
As he opened the door, he didn't expect to see who he saw: a familiar looking blue-haired girl with a black mini-dress, a pink mini-skirt, a pink scarf, a white beanie with a pokeball, and an annoyed face.
"Finally Ash!" said Dawn. "I have been here for half an hour. And I know this is your house bec-" she was interrupted by two arms going around. Ash hugging her, he said "I'm so glad that you are here."
A smile quickly appears on her face as she returns the hug. "It's good to see you too Ash."
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