Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fanfic by Darker Shining.
It focuses on a Shinx and an Eevee that have recently started a rescue team together. One day, the two come across an unconscious Mienfoo while exploring a dungeon. They soon discover that the Mienfoo has no memory of who he is, or how he got there. Little do they know, that is just the first mystery they'll come across...
It can be read here.
Tropes used in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance include:
- Amnesiac Hero: Chiaki.
- Character Tics: Blitz tends to rub the yellow rings on his forelegs together when nervous.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter is named after a line of dialogue from said chapter.
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The story begins on this line, and lampshades it.
- Seers: Stella the town oracle and her daughter Bow.
- Shout-Out: There are already a few to the TV Tropes roleplay We Are All Pokémon Trainers, which the writer is part of.
- Tongue on the Flagpole: Nurse Giselle's dialogue while treating a Lickitung alludes to something similar to this having happened to the Lickitung off-screen.