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The end result is a story that is is dark and well-written with solid, realistic characters. The Pokémorph children also have varied but realistic personalities, in many cases exploring what an average, normal person would do in the situations that the characters are thrown into.
There are also multiple "Dave and Mia discuss..." shorts, which can be found on the author's [http://www.dragonflycave.com/fanfiction.aspx#morphic fanfiction page] on [[The Cave of Dragonflies|her website]]. They involve [[Exactly What It Says
Early in the morning of April 1st 2011, a [http://www.dragonflycave.com/morphic2-1.htm sequel written by a new author] was posted. In the evening, however, it was revealed to be a hoax, and [http://www.dragonflycave.com/realmorphic2-1.htm the real chapter] (written by the original author) was supposedly posted. The day after, it was revealed that, too, was a hoax.▼
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▲Early in the morning of April
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* [[Alternate Universe]]: Pokémon are not as powerful as they are in the games, and are also less important politically. (The world is not ruled by gym leaders and the Pokémon League, for example.)
** To be fair, only [[Pokémon Special]] (itself an [[Alternate Universe]]) established that the world was ruled by the League, we don't see any really powerful Pokémon because the villains use guns and everyone else with a Pokémon only use them as pets. I don't think the author even mentioned what region/country the story takes place in, nor does it really apply to the story. Of course given that this story is much more [[Darker and Edgier]] compared to mainstream Pokémon, it would probably be safe to assume that this is the case.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Cruelly subverted in chapter 13, where Lucy arrives far too late to save most of the kids.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Mia and Will are dead and the kids are going to be under house arrest for the rest of their lives...but the Church of Holy Truth is no longer a threat, Gabriel was saved, and the kids' fates could have been a ''lot'' worse if Dave hadn't pulled strings.}}
* [[Blessed
* [[Blood Knight]]: Every Pokemorph has at least some aspect of
* [[Break the Cutie]]: A male variant. {{spoiler|Gabriel}} is the "snap" variety; he does not take well to {{spoiler|Brian's death}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Subverted with Felicia, who is killed the instant it looks like she's going to be useful.}}
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* [[Designer Babies]]: Well, duh.
* [[Determinator]] / [[The Unfettered]]: Dave. He regularly goes to court and pulls strings to the point of obsession in order to give the Pokémorphs a normal life. (This is an interesting juxtaposition with his normal [[Jerkass]] personality)
* [[Freak
* [[Guilt Complex]]: {{spoiler|Jack}} and {{spoiler|Katherine}} get this during the ending. The former because {{spoiler|he was the one who led the suicidal rescue mission in the first place}} and the latter because {{spoiler|she was the most "[[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In a non-fictional example, [http://www.dragonflycave.com/tqftl/blog.aspx?c=entry&a=232#comments this] series of comments, starting from one Mudskipper and in retrospect painfully obvious.
* {{spoiler|[[Interrupted Suicide]]}}: {{spoiler|Jack}}, arguing that [[I Am a Monster]]. {{spoiler|Gabriel talks him out of it, on the basis that Gabriel deserves to die a lot more than Jack does.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Dave.
** Subverted, as he is also extremely selfless when it comes to protecting the Pokémorphs, and [[Determinator|will stop at]] ''[[The Unfettered|nothing]]'' to ensure their safety and survival. The juxtaposition is rather intriguing and somewhat bizarre.
*** [[Jerk
* [[Kid Hero
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Eight Pokémorphs distributed across six homes, with each home also having (usually two) parents and optional extra siblings, though not much tends to be seen of them. This wouldn't be that much in, say, a TV show with several seasons, but this is a fourteen-chapter fanfic. This in combination with the slow progress of the fic has led to many readers forgetting who everybody is between chapters.
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
** And there's also an example of this that borders on [[Artistic License: Biology|You Fail Biology Forever]]: Katherine, due to the fact that Roselia mature much faster than ordinary humans, is physically much older than the other Pokémorphs. Okay. But the story apparently interprets physical age as mental age; she skips grades, eventually learns how to drive, and is often regarded as the wisest and most mature of the group. Except that ''she is the exact same age as everyone else mentally''
*** Her capacity for rational thought, judgement, processing power, hormone levels etc. develop at the speed of her brain, which is the same accelerated speed at which the rest of her body ages. However, she has still only actually lived in the world for ten years, the same as everyone else, making her just as ''inexperienced'' as they are.
*** ''Sort of'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Dave in one of the "Dave and Mia discuss..." bonus chapters. He points out that while she looks and acts more like a teenager, she's still technically ten.
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** And before then, {{spoiler|Chapter 7}}. It goes from Jean bragging about the movie contract to {{spoiler|Brian getting killed}}.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Brian and Gabriel.
* [[Personality Powers]]: Overlaps with [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Dave ''is'' genuinely a [[Jerkass]], but he gets fonder of the Pokémorphs eventually (especially Jean and Mia), and in some of his interactions with Mia (mainly the Dave-and-Mia-discuss chapters), he's quite noticeably less of a [[Jerkass]].
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Most of the Pokémorphs are mostly human with a few Pokémon features.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Gabriel internally calls Dave out on a truckload of things {{spoiler|at Brian's funeral}}.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Brian}}.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Will and Mia}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: There is a lot of swearing, at least 90% of which is in Dave's dialogue and internal monologue.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: ''Mia''.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Jean.
* [[Take That]]: Part of what kicks off the plot is the mention of a series of books about a [[Half
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 13, the [[Wham! Episode]].}}
* [[This Is Reality]]: In chapter 12:
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** {{spoiler|[[Foreshadowing|He's]] [[Anyone Can Die|right]].}}
** Also in chapter 14. Dave likes this trope:
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* [[Thou Shall Not Kill]]: {{spoiler|Subverted ''hard''. In chapter 13, when the kids opt to knock out or paralyze the religious extremists instead of killing them, they get up again just when the kids think they're safe. The result is not pretty. It only gets better when they start killing the fanatics.}}
* [[Transformation Trauma]]: In chapter 13, {{spoiler|Jean accidentally touches a Fire Stone and}} evolves. However, since they're only part Pokémon, ''only half of them evolves''. Their human body struggles to keep up, and the result is...not pretty.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Referenced [[In
* [[Wham! Episode]]: ''Two''. The first is {{spoiler|chapter 7}}, in which things start going downhill fast and the [[Sacrificial Lamb]] dies, and another in {{spoiler|chapter 13}}, not only because it contains extreme [[Mood Whiplash]], but also because {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die]]}} comes into effect.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The "real" version was stated by [[Word of God]] to be an "alternate universe".
* [[Back
* [[Easy Evangelism]]: Bubbles pulls this one on Jean. Dave is at least a bit more canny...
* [[Genki Girl]]: Bubbles {{spoiler|who is really Isaac Daniels's Mew}}.
* [[Not
** Averted in the "real" version, where the author even says she was trying to keep Dave as in-character as possible.
* [[Stealth Parody]]
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