It's important to know a few things before you start the story.
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1. This story isn't 100% "dark". I'm tired of seeing Pokémon fanfics that try to be hyper-realistic and painfully grim all the time. There WILL be very heavy and dangerous events, but they won't be in every chapter.
2. I have no professional writing experience. I intend to get better with each chapter, but please don't expect a masterpiece right away.
3. I have NO idea if this will end up being a single-love-interest romance, a harem, or the protagonist deciding to stick his dick in a tree and call it his wife. I'll let that develop naturally as the story goes, whatever fits the moment best is what it'll be.
4. Chapter updates at the start will depend on the support the story gets: comments, Power Stones, or ratings. Even a small amount of support will speed up updates. (At peak times I can post more than five chapters a day.)
5. English is not my first language. I'm doing my best to make the story readable, but if you spot typos or awkward phrasing, now you know why.
One last addendum:
5.1 This story was ORIGINALLY planned as a multiverse fanfic, but that idea changed (kinda). The main focus will be the Pokémon universe, and possibly alternate worlds inside that universe. I won't dive into other works/anime much for now, I'll focus on them AFTER the Pokémon part is finished: once its problems are resolved and the regions (or at least half of them) are explored.
5.2 And don't expect the protagonist and others to be 100% reliant on Pokémon. But also don't expect some idiot to take a Hyper Beam from a Rayquaza to the face and walk away unscathed...