Subject: I found a fanfic I wrote when I was 4
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Posted on: 2016-07-03 10:04:00 UTC
I'm visiting my parents over the weekend, and I found that they had kept some things from when I was 4. I noticed a few sheets of paper bound with string, and it turned out to be a Pokémon fanfic based on generation 1. Between the writing having faded and the horrible writing (in more than one sense) there's portion of it that I can't actually understand, but I do still remember the basic plot. The fic's title appears to be, in true generation 1 style, a sequence of glitched out characters (I can't read it and can't remember), starring a character whose name is a different sequence of glitch characters. She does not have a word of description in the entire fic.
There are 3 chapters to it. The first has Articuno land in front of the protagonist and tell her that "three is bad stuff in the volcana" [sic]. She then rides Articuno to a volcano and fight Moltres while still on Articuno's back. Using the help of her Bulbasaur, she captures Moltres. Chapter 2 is basically the same, but with Zapdos doing the unspecified bad stuff in a power plant. Chapter 3 is the epic conclusion, in which true culprit is revealed to be 'M (some friends had shown me the old man glitch, and I tried it out), so the protagonist flies on Articuno with the other two legendary birds following her to Cinnabar Island for the ultimate showdown! After a drawn out, 5 sentence fight, everything seems hopeless, but then the protagonist throws a master ball (presumably from the 6th slot in her bag) and successfully catches the glitch. "THE END".
I'm probably not going to be posting it online because it would be hard to replicate some of the more unusual writing errors on the paper, and because I do not want to spawn a mini-MissingNo. horde. I do still find it funny that I actually found this fic, and that I was able to write a 3 chapter suefic at age 4. It's also a humorous contrast to some of my writing from high school, which contained prose that was both beige and urple at the same time and stretched English grammar as far as possible without breaking it. It's fun to take a trip down memory lane occasionally.