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Palletshipping Fic - Help?

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Xeniaph

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Hey, whoever is reading this. At the moment, I'm writing a Palletshipping fic (as you probably guessed by the thread title), and I need some criticism before I really get into it. The story takes place in a bit more modernized version of Pallet Town, but starts at a party in Cerulean (if you haven't guessed, it's hosted by Misty and her sisters). Ash and Gary meet after a long time, and romance blooms between the two after so long. :) Obviously, they try to hide it, doesn't work, fall in love, yadda yadda yadda. A couple of things I want to ask the general public:
  • Title
    So, I'm still really debating a title. One I have is "Hi to Kōri," just because it's a little more creative than the translation I have for it ("Fire and Ice;" it's lame, but it fits well). There are some other ideas, but I thought it didn't sound too bad. Comment on it at will.
  • Gay characters: I was almost thinking of making Misty a lesbian. What do you guys think? Is it too much to include Mity as another gay character? I thought her denial and subsequent acceptance of her relationship with a woman I am not going to mention was cute. What do you think? Is it too many gay characters to make it believeable? (hint, hint: she's the outside push in their relationship)
  • To smut, or not to smut?
    I know that some people have differing ideas on this subject. I will need fluff, but I need to decide if the story should have smut or not (hence the Hamlet reference). Personally, I like smut, but I don't know about this community and I can simply hint at it. What do you think?
So, those are all the things I can think of, at the moment. Make any other comments if you think of them. I want to get a finally good fanfic out there.
 
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1) Pick a new name all together. Fire and Ice is cliche and putting a cliche in Japanese doesn't help.

2) No Misty lesbian unless you're aiming for another ship in there. Too many gay characters reduce believability.

3) Smut is debatable. I like smut, but you get less traffic if it is. Personal choice. Are you good at writing smut?
 
1) Yeah. I thought so, too. But making a title is haaaaaaaard... ;)
2) That's what I thought. I really like lesbian Misty, though... I'll think about it (if anyone will respond...)
3) I'm fairly good at writing smut. Obviously, not straight smut, but I'm good. I'll see how others think.
Thanks, Ren!
 
1. Maybe "Hidden Motives"?
2. No. Just no.
3. I don't see any problem with that

But: THIS IS YOUR Fic! You can do anything you want with it!
 
Thanks, Team. And yeah, I know. I just like it when people like my things. It makes me happy. And is lesbo Misty really so bad? I mean, I thought I might get like a "It may not be such a good idea," or something, but an outright "No"? Hm... I guess not. Oh, well. Unless someone wants to vehemently disagree with both Team and Ren.

Okay, if you read this, and you don't like lez Misty, tell me either "No more gays" or give me a suggestion. Brock always seemed like he was denying something with all of that skirt-chasing (totally kidding, BTW).

*E.D.I.T.* And to the title suggestion, the whole "hide it form each other" thing is a minor plot point. It isn't really much to capitalize the whole story on... but then again, it may work in nicely with the actiony sub-plot. A hidden motive with "Hidden Motives"... ;)
 
Here's the thing, people have to suspend a certain amount of belief that 2 canonly non-gay characters are gay enough to be in a relationship. Asking them to do it with 3 or 4 or more can snap people out of the suspended belief and make your fic seem kind of "slash fangirly".

So unless you REALLY REALLY want to throw in an additional femslash misty ship, I'd just leave it out. Or at least leave it at only very vague hints.
 
Well, I'm not dying for gay Misty. I think I'll just leave it out.
And I resent that comment! I am a slash fangirl! :ksmile:
 
Xeniaph said:
Well, I'm not dying for gay Misty. I think I'll just leave it out.
And I resent that comment! I am a slash fangirl! :ksmile:
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XDDD It's ok, so I am (-works on her Lt Surge/Koga fic-). I should say it can make it seem "UBER over the top slash fangirly"
 
Thank you for clarifying. And Lt. Surge and Koga... Hmm...
 
The characters aren't canonically straight, nor are they canonically gay. So there. By the way, lesbian Misty would be out of character, but I can tell you that tomboy lesbian relationships work really well, so you need to have the plot advance far enough to show how Misty slowly changes her feelings towards Girl and begins to think that gender does not need to be a character BARRIER.

EDIT: God I hate typos.
 
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Well, maybe for the name, "It's about time"?

Also, a good idea is to have them start off really hating eachother in the beginning, and one final blow out where they admit their deep attaraction for eachother at the same time. You don't have to, of course.
 
For the Misty problem, here's my solution: don't mention Misty's lesbian interests at all in that fic, but consider using her in a different one. Personally, I do this all the time when I've got an interesting trait for a minor character, but it would make the whole plotline too crowded if it was mentioned and had emphasis put on it. I don't know if shipping titles follow the same conventions as regular ones, nor do I know what smut actually is, so I'll leave my contributions at that. (Hah, can you tell I'm no fan of shipping? XD)
 
@Optl: Yeah, thats what I thought, too. And she doesn't have to be, like, super-butch lesbian.
@Anon: Again, the whole getting past the denial is only a minor part. Theres a lot more to the story.
@Giratina!: That might be a good idea. I'd need to learn how to write lesbian fluff, though...
 
THE BEGINNING!!! :D

And so it begins. After reviewing your posts and shifting through some ideas and finally getting a plot list together, I have begun writing!
:7up:​
So, if anyone here is interested, Thursday I will post the beginning of the first chapter. I hope it turns out well! Because, if it doesn't, baaaad things will happen... :scared:
 
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