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Wasn't much that needed editing, actually. Good work on this one. However, one thing struck me as odd - the dialog at the very end cuts off abruptly for some reason.

Sure, I've got time to kill.

Have a prinny suit. It makes people tack 'dood' to the end of every sentence, and looks like a penguin with peglegs and tiny bat wings. Oh, and a pouch for pointy and/or explody objects.

Have a prinny suit. It has the unusual side-effect of making you say 'dood' after every sentence. It looks like a penguin with small demon wings on the back and a pouch for explody and/or pointy objects. A Scarf of Non-Explodiness, which negates the explosiveness of prinnies when thrown, is optional. The suit will go well with the baby penguin, at least.

Pokemon doesn't have many canon explanations for these, as a reuslt, some of them are often left to the fandom to decide. A lot of these are also assumptions and guesses on my part to apply logic to the world.

First paragraph: It's a show aimed at kids mostly, same as the games. Characters don't look 10, but rather cna fit into most early age brackets. And yes, Pokemon is anime.

There is no logical explanation behind Pokeballs, other than the diffusion of matter. In my stories, the Pokeball contains technology capable of transferring physical matter into a pure energy form, thus allowing the Pokemon to be stored within the Pokeball. As all amtter is simply different forms of energy, the conversion is easy enough to say in theory, but hard ot put into practice. Additionally, Pokeballs can expand or reduce in size due to the technology of the Pokeball moving around, thus allowing it to enter a more compact mode. It's unsure what the inside of a Pokeball is like, seeing as the being inside is theoretically pure energy, but it is often guessed, and supported by Nintendo, that the inside of the Pokeball varies to give the mind of the Pokemon, or the physical body if the energy process turns it to energy, then to matter again inside the Pokeball, a more sane level of existance. A water type may need water, thus the Pokeball compensates thruogh inbuilt technology. In this thread, of the inside of a Pokeball is chosen to suit the Pokemon, it also follows that the environment is suitable for the Pokemon to rest and heal. Given the choice, I suppose a Pokemon may even be able to listen to events occuring outside its Pokeball, giving the possibility that the Pokeball has psychic capabilities and responds to the thoughts of a Pokemon.
Within the anime and games, Pokemon do need additional medicine for particularly extreme wounds or conditions (Poisoned, as an example), but other than that, Pokemon have probably developed accelerated healing abilities as a result of their frequent practice of battling. Pokemon have aso been shown to be fed regularly outside of the Pokeball, showing that the Pokeball doesn't seem to provide nutrition. As a result, they can starve to death unless they are Ghost Types.

Pokemon do not evolve constantly, as each tends to have one, or at most, two forms to evolve into. Humans are constantly evolving in their childhood to their teenage, and then adult forms, it's just more gradual. In the case of Pokemon, these changes are more sudden. It's the training that allows a Pokemon to evolve, similar to how exercise and nutrition allows the human body to grow towards adulthood. It's quite similar to the human developement, just occurs at set stages that can spontaneously happen, whether upon an emotion trigger or the need to evolve to deal with their current situation (See when Ash's Charmeleon evolved to Charizard to save Ash from the Aerodactyl). The elemental stones are shown to contain concentrated doses of whatever element they represent, which leads to the suggestion of radioactivity, a natural element not found on earth or even divine blessing.
Eevee is capable of evolving because it is very adaptable. It has been specifically noted that Eevee's DNA is unstable, allowing it to potentially absorb part of the environment around it and evolve to best suit it. This would explain why Eevee evolves around the Ice Rock in Diamond and Pearl, or to Vaporean when exposed to a Water Stone.

Pokemon attacks can be a bit tricky, but again, I also dealt with this in my own Pokemon fanfic. The water used by certain water Pokemon (Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, etc) is developed in an internal water pouch which frequently fills with either excess saliva, stomach acid (Explaining why several Water Types are also poison types), or is capable of combining oxygen in the air with hydrogen produced naturally by the body.
Leaves and vines are harder to explain. However, there are cases where plants can be quite effective against regular metal. Theoretically, by binding together thousands of paper thin layers of membrane, you can create a substance equal in power to steal. This would be seal in a laquer naturally product by grass Pokemon. The vines may simply be the result of seeds carried by the Pokemon being forced to grow rapidly, or even the Grass Pokemon itself forcing its body to grow by concentrating sunlight, nutrients and water in its body to force the growth or attack (Solarbeam requires sunlight to fire, etc).

And that's all stuff I've dealt with in my story. It's actually quite fun, applying logic, you just gotta ask 'How can this work', and then create the theories. I dealt with the paradox of 'Pokemon fire = Not Death' vs 'Building on Fire = Death' by saying that fire types excrete a natural chemical in their fire sacs which limits the heat their flames can reach.

I, personally, gave up on logic in Pokemon a long time ago. I don't think it's meant to make sense, but just to entertain. It's a fantasy world with different rules etc.

Lights etc are just visual effects, for the viewers, in my opinion. Kids are attracted by shiny things.

Evolution could just be a case of 'I'm too powerful/experienced for this form now, I need to be at the next one to continue getting stronger.' There are exceptions, of course (i.e. Ash/Satoshi's Pikachu and its ability to defeat almost anything), but most things evolve once they're strong enough. I believe it was mentioned somewhere, perhaps in the Pokedex of one of the games, that Eevee has an unstable genetic code and therefore can evolve into whatever Pokemon is attuned to the stone you use on it (about seven or so now I think).

People do age in anime, most of the time, but Pokemon is just weird with its non-aging. The Digimon Adventures 01 characters were older by the time of 02, to use your other mon-anime example. Bleach, Gundam 00, Naruto, Code Geass and Ouran all show the characters aging, whether through time skips to the future or flashbacks to the past.

Good luck with figuring out Pokemon logic and science.

Does Pokémon have any logic in whatsoever? Because I’ve got a fic in progress but, as I’m trying to go for a thought-out story, I’m thinking about all the wacky things that tend to happen in it. Let’s ignore the whole romantic tension between ten-year-old and the fact that said ten-year-olds can defeat a crime syndicate time and time again and that no-one ever ages (does anyone age in any cartoon/anime? (Pokémon’s anime, right?)).

Pokéballs: is there a logical explanation for the fact that metal, which seems to have a lot of electronics inside, can expand from the size of my big toe to the size of my palm? Is there an explanation for the fact that Pokémon, random creatures with at least 493 species, can all be shot at with a… laser(?) and turned into a laser and sucked into a Pokéball (which then is compressed back to toe-size)? Is there a logical explanation for how they come out (in a weird flash of white light)? Hell, is there an explanation for how they can sometimes come out on their own? They can’t be in stasis of any sort, because they generally seem to know what’s going on (also, they’d be angry if all they ever saw was battle after battle). Also, they seem to heal between battles even if they haven’t been sprayed with Salvon or whatever’s in that bottle they sometimes use. And if they’re not in stasis, then can they starve to death if they’re not let out for a long time?

Pokémon Evolution: How the hell do they evolve so constantly? And why do they glow when it happens? They only seem to need to beat up a few other Pokémon to evolve (or have a catalyst in the form of a magic rock, of which an explanation would also be useful). At least Digimon had an explanation: they were all pieces of data, so they could happily switch back and forth between all sorts of evolutionary stages. Also, the Digidestineds’ Digivices (Digithis, Digithat) seemed to act as a trigger. But Pokémon has no explanation. And what’s up with Eevee? It can evolve into one of five things???

Pokémon Attacks: Some can be explained. Psychic attacks simply require brainpower, fire attacks obviously come from a fuel source within the Pokémon et cetera. But were does the water in Water Gun come from? How do they form explosive(?) bubbles with Bubble Beam? Where do all these razor-sharp (and as strong as steel) leaves and infinitely long vines come from with Grass-types and their Razor Leaf and Vine Whip attacks?

This wasn’t meant to be as long as it was, but I spotted more and more weird things as I went. Any help would be very appreciated. Also, if you can explain any more weird things that I’ve missed, that would be just as good. Even if you can’t explain them, point out the weird stuff so I know what to deweirdify.

Just a quick one here: Is it absolutely essential for a crash dummy to be used when dealing with a 1st person badfic? I'm not entirely sure and it was pointed out to me by somebody that it tends to be the done thing. So if the crash dummy is all you can use or if there's another way of getting around the problem... well, help would be appreciated in this matter, thank you.

I could see the whole thing of it. If it was the last leg of the M, I would have been more likely to confuse it with an l.

It's a solution for everything.

*takes hand and upsie daisy*

All of the above. ^^;

P.S - *happy quack*

I just finished the latest chapter of a fanfic I'm in the middle of. It's called Voyage of the Cat's Eye and it's a Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles AU (with a bunch of other CLAMP crossovers). It's set in a pirate 'verse and it's romantic/comedy/adventure.

Basically, my problem is this. Cassie normally betas for me, and quite energetically. She's already done most of the chapter, but I went back and edited quite a lot so I need her back. However, at the moment I'm unable to get in touch with her so I need a new beta! It's basically just spelling and grammar issues, along with any thoughts on pacing and the like. I know not many of you know the fandom in question, but that's okay because it's an AU and I'm pretty comfortable with my characterisation. I just need someone to spell and grammar check for me.

Any volunteers?

Here, let me help you. *offers hand* Holes are not a fun place to be.

You don't have to actually write stories to be part of this community, of course, but if you want to, I'm sure you could find some form of badfic that you could mock. What is it about them that upsets your stomach? Bad spelling and grammar? OOC-ness? Plotholes big enough to sink the Titanic?

PS - welcome! *quacks*

Hey, I said "something tall and blue."  That describes trolls as well, don't it?

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/68673.html

In which there is SLASH.

Well, what did you EXPECT us to do? *innocent face*

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/68383.html#cutid1

Last part. Worst part. Involves Aslan. You have been warned.

What you thought was "i" may have been the end of "M".

Since I don't know what it looked like exactly, I couldn't say for sure.

Welcome, when you come to your senses and play Hoard side I would love to quest with you. I play on the Dunemaul server.

I play a healadin named Platus. Wanted to name him Plato but it was not allowed.

Leto

I have in fact read the OS.

*now attempts to dig herself out of this lovely hole*

What I was trying to say was that upon reflection, i'd be bad at writing PPC stories since I can't stomach badfics.

I was babbling about writing something separate from the PPC.

However, I still plan on following the PPC with a hikkikomori fanaticism.

Apologetically,
MsDuck

P.S - Thanks for the duck! :D

After all, that'd be a bit convoulted, heh.