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{{quote|''"[[Awful Truth|A war means money. Money in science, because if you use Pokemon they'll just beat each other to death until you catch some more.]]"''|'''[[Big Bad|De-Facto President Weiss]]''' to [[The Hero|Indigo Sepia]]}}
 
Imagine you took the world of [[Pokémon]] -- and put it into a very [[Studio Gainax]] [[Rule of Cool|style direction and narrative]]. With bits that seem to be a mixture of [[Chuck Palahniuk]] 's writing mixed with [[Cory Doctorow]] 's own style. The result might be close enough to the [[Fan Fiction]] [[Pokémon Sepia]], but only if you also added ''[[Doctor Who]]'' into the mix.
 
The pitch line is that there is a meteor headed on a path to destroy all of Earth. In fact, [[Stable Time Loop|it has done so]], [[Rubber Band History|a few times already]]. With the recent death of George Grau, president of Cyren (the Capital region in the nation of Spectrum), Vice-President [[President Evil|Jon Weiss]] steps into his shoes as de-facto President, nominating Stephen Schwarz, CEO of a supposed [[Mega Corp|Freight Company]], [[Peace and Love Incorporated|Rocket Logistics]]. In order to bring about the kind of funding to [[Apocalypse How|stop the Meteor]] headed [[Colony Drop|straight to Earth]], [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|he starts a war]], to justify more militant expenses.
 
Though, what nobody expects is for Team [[Temporal Paradox|Temporal]] to appear. Driving [[Rubber Band History|the timeline]], from [[Stable Time Loop|The Loop]], into one referred to as The [[Logic Bomb|Failure]], Team Temporal is mostly just a confused group of teens that just happened to be near by when a city wide genocide occured, an [[A Fete Worse Than Death|enraged Moltres turned on its trainer]] and several buildings exploding. Which only a [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity|minority of them were actually their own fault]]. Things get even weirder when [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]] shows up. A clone of Celebi, with an insatiable capacity and desire to learn. Add a few [[Mad God|Mad Gods]], [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetic engineering]], [[Time Travel]], computer hacking, corporate espionage, [[Send in Thethe Clones]] and you are about halfway through. Somewhat [[Planet Eris]] mostly because [[Word of God]] says Daebi is modelled after the [[It Amused Me|Discordian view of Eris]].
 
You can still see the story at its Protagonize location: https://web.archive.org/web/20100826090141/http://www.protagonize.com/story/pokemon-sepia-team-temporal-war-of-origins (provided the originally posting author hasn't gotten banned again)
 
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* [[A God Am I]]: Krystal Spectrum (due to being a little too close to a mass psionic incident caused by herself, Lady Kiss Void and Schwartz), Lady Kiss Void, Pearl and Schwatz.
* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: Considering that they [[Apocalypse Wow|Destroy The Universe]] to save the universe from [[Logic Bomb|being destroyed]] this is typically a good assumption.
* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]: {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] turns out to be very much this... mostly due to being [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]].}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Usually the result of ticking off [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]].
** A result of not wanting to tick off [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]], as she did invite you to tea. Screaming would be very impolite.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Inverted. By the time the final big bad is running around, [[The Starscream]] is already near his equal, as are several members of Team Temporal.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Arguably [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]]'s puppeteering of [[The Dragon|Perfection]]. Though Daebi/Celetwo does have access to a [[Time Abyss]] so it is hard to say, really.
** In [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Miasma Forest]] {{spoiler|The President of Attara Television Station finds he is alive again. Taking the [[Psuedo Nym]] Wehc Notselrahc.}}
* [[Badass]]: By the bucketload.
** [[Badass Bookworm]] / [[Badass Labcoat]]: Krystal.
** [[Badass Longcoat]]: Max, a required part of his gangster attire.
** [[Badass Normal]]: Roy, Wehc, Fuschia, Lavender, and pretty much any other average Joe who [[Took a Level Inin Badass|finds their way into]] [[Up to Eleven|Team Temporal]].
** [[Little Miss Badass]]: Celadon. In a fit of rage, Celadon nearly slaughters a Charizard.
** [[Lady of War]]: Lavender.
** [[Cool Shades]]: Everybody in Team Network
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* [[Beat the Curse Out of Him]]: Present in Krystal Spectrum going Shadow
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Stoenn Spectrum, Leader, Samuel Oak
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Sepia gets slavery / pretty much anything which can be seen as a violation of human rights.
** Celadon gets her sister.
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** Roy's Ego has improper handling of Pokemon as one... and cruel behaviour to Krystal Spectrum
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Arguably Lady Kiss Void (alternatively, she can be argued as a [[Yandere]] due to her main motives)
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Celadon, the dark-haired Psychic.
* [[Big Bad]]: Shifts per chapter.
** Birds: Samuel Oak.
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Schwartz and Perfection do qualify here.
* [[Cool Airship]]: The Vermillion
* [[Convicted Byby Public Opinion]]: How Rocket Logistics worked to deal with Team Temporal.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Weiss, Schwartz and perhaps Cinnabar
* [[Creepy Cleanliness]]: Perfection and Daebi/Celetwo
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* [[The Dead Have Names]]: Mixed with [[Bury Your Gays]] [[Cast Full of Gay|every now and then]].
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Part of why Lady Kiss Void appears.
* [[Death Byby Origin Story]] : Zigzagged... {{spoiler|Lady Kiss Void only [[Let's Get Dangerous]] after [[Morality Chain]] is killed }}
* [[Den of Iniquity]]: Subverted... unless you call Foozball particularly evil
** Zigzaged with [[Token Lesbian Couple|Lady Kiss Void]] having a [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]] set up. For her and her pet human.
* [[Diabolus Ex Nihilo]]: Daegre during the last battle.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea Withwith Cthulhu?]]: Pretty much anytime Daebi/Celetwo shows up.
** Often very literally.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Maximillion wins a fight with a God of Spacial Dimensions... in the God's own pocket dimension.
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* [[Doomed New Clothes]]: Krystal Spectrum grabs a new outfit in every town she is in, because of this.
* [[Doppelganger]]: Lady Kiss Void to Krystal Spectrum.
* [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]: Perfection.
* [[Dr. Feelgood]]: Krystal Spectrum is on the [[Clear My Name|run from the authorities]], and gets shot by Perfection. This was who they got to patch her up. She chose extreme pain instead of addiction.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma]]: Krystal Spectrum's reaction to [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]]'s [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] of [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda|Perfection]]
* [[The Eighties]]: Inverted, story takes place in the 1980s, and part of Krystal Spectrum's personal hell, was an overdose of this trope played straight in a fiction in the fiction.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Daebi/Celetwo : A Genetially engineered monstrocity that decided the time line is her own [[Time Abyss|personal play ground]]
** Roy's Slowking "Waffles" (AKA "Mr. Popo") fits into this nicely
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The Orchards where Daebi/Celetwo [[Did We Just Have Tea Withwith Cthulhu?|hosts her tea parties]] with [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels|Pachirisu]].
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Kult of Kiss and The Daemon Army both under Lady Kiss Void
* [[Empty Shell]]: Perfection after his [[Villainous Breakdown]] (don't worry about him though, he ticked off [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]] so he still is [[People Puppet|up and walking]]. He also has killer scone recipe you just have to try.)
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: [[The Starscream]] vs. The Elite Four vs. Rocket Logistics vs. [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity|Team Temporal]] vs. [[The Men in Black|Team Temporal]] vs. [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]] it kind of is the whole of the story at times.
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: What Krystal is stuck in, while going Shadow
** Again, [[Pokémon Sepia]]'s explaination for Pokemon Trozei!
* [[ET Gave Us Wi -Fi]]: The Daemon's Notebook was handed to Krystal at the age of five by [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]] with technologies not invented yet, to try to boost the situation.
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Perfection, Lady Kiss Void, Daebi/Celetwo.
* [[Evil Only Has to Win Once]]: See [[Enemy Civil War]] above.
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** Started popping up, when [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing|Lady Kiss Void]] {{spoiler|did not want her picture taken}}, but was running a [[Propraganda Machine]].
* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: When [[Eldritch Abomination|Daebi/Celetwo]] takes Team Temporal [[After the End]].
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]: A Darkrai is fused with a guy named Bob, who apparently hangs out with Captain Insanity, Fujitsu, Brian Blessed clone Captain Hyperion, and knows Daebi/Celetwo.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Sparkles]]: A normal result for having a [[Genki Girl]] who is [[The Cutie]] present in the plot. It eventually ends later on.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Zigzagged with [[Dark Magical Girl|Lady Kiss Void]] for [[Action Girl|Krystal Spectrum]]. Mostly via application of [[Cloning Blues]] early on, and [[Doppelganger|Lady Kiss Void]] deciding she does not WANT to be Krystal Spectrum.
* [[Evolving Weapon]]: The Pokemon to a certain extent. Krystal was using her Starmie, Espeon and Roselia as ways to augment her personal self... when she was coating herself in stopal to deal with Perfection's gun shot wound.
* [[Fantastic Aesop]]: Inverted. [[Time Travel|Time Travel Lemon Twist]] II to be specific.
** Also Zigzagged on [[Time Travel]] I a fair amount.
* [[The Farmer and Thethe Viper]]: {{spoiler|Part of the big change made to Lady Kiss Void to have her sacrifice herself.}}
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]: Being fed to Moltres.
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
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** Saffron (who is dead by the end of the first chapter).
* [[God Is Evil]]: Played straight AND inverted, when it turns out that the six Pokemon described as 'Gods' are pretty evenly split into good and bad.
* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]] How Daebi/Celetwo ended up becoming an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: Krystal Spectrum has some from her Psionic Armour. She just rarely uses them after the [[Doomed New Clothes|outfit was destroyed.]]
** [[Stat -O -Vision]]: Battery Power, messages, health levels, shadow states.
** [[Night Vision]]
** [[X-Ray Vision]]
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* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Zigzagged. Krystal worked on most of the technology--and it was not up to 100% at the start.
** Lady Kiss Void and the Daemon Army screwed this up... a glitch involving "removing use of a program from the log file" which had certain programs deleted after they appeared in the log file. {{spoiler|resulting in a lot of people stuck in The Pokemon Box at the end of Dragons Arc}}
* [[Identical Grandparent]]: Hinted [[Shout-Out|with]] [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Kochanski]] Spectrum. Who is listed as the [[Ouroboros]] in [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin|Daemon's Notebook]]
* [[I Control My Minions Through...]]:
** Fear Lady Kiss Void
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** Which adds for [[The Messiah|odd implications for Roy's Ego]].
* [[Ill Girl]]: Lady Kiss Void's pet human
** Admin Mercury {{spoiler|1=[[Word of God]] had a writer commenting about how she felt irritated she was beating the audience over the head with the fact Admin Fredrick Mercury, A JAG officer from the Galactic USoG Philedelphia (I see what you did there) had HIV... as she felt it was only missing a group of Drag Queens singing songs from [[Rent]], and the person from [[Degrassi High]] with HIV/AIDS doing an [[Afterschool Special (TV)|Afterschool Special]] type deal.}}
* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: A fair amount of Krystal Spectrum's [[Doomed New Clothes]].
** Commented on when in [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"|The Box]].
* [[Indy Ploy]]
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Krystal Spectrum... but she got better.
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*** Until {{spoiler|investigators started noticing that Team Temporal's profiles did not match their acts.}} Making them suspicious of Rocket Logistics.
* [[Lawful Evil]]
** Type 1: [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Deoxys]]
** Type 2: [[The Starscream|Lady Kiss Void]], [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda|Perfection]], Samuel Oak, Giovanni, Admin Mercury
** Type 3: Weiss, {{spoiler|Polaris}}, Leader
* [[Law of Conservation of Normality]]: This story takes place on [[Planet Eris]] during [[The Eighties]].
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** Deoxys
** {{spoiler|Lady Kiss Void}}
* [[Malicious Slander]]: How the [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity|HeroesWithBadPublicity]] goes into effect.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Krystal Spectrum to both Roy MacKaelan and Fujitsu.
** Krystal's daughter from the future to Fujitsu
* [[Master of Illusion]]: Lady Kiss Void, Leader, Team Network, Daebi/Celetwo, Krystal Spectrum, Private Dwayne Spectrum and many others.
** The ending of Pokemon Sepia, and various events in the adventures continuing to follow Sepia put a bit of a [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Butterfly]] onto Lady Kiss Void as far as [[Master of Illusion]]
* [[Memetic Molester]]: Waffles The Slowking to a certain extent. Seems to target [[The Woobie|Constance MacKealan]] for the most part.
* [[Merged Reality]]: Two. One being the driving purpose of story, and the other in the form of Pewter's construction of the Pokemon Box as a fully functioning world inside a computer.
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* [[No Periods, Period]]: Krystal Spectrum... who is pregnant one and a half times over the plot. {{spoiler|Palkia creates a pocket dimension two years in the future for Roy. So Roy could view his Wedding... and bait Roy into giving the lifeless doll to be Krystal in the Pocket Dimension the soul of his sister, to Squink Roy big time. That technically counts as half a pregnancy for Krystal.}}
** Though the pregnancy during the final battle arc, it is revealed she just doesn't talk about it with others (and may possibly be on birth control that limits how this time affects her over all).
* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: Ego, Conscious/Constant (lil' c), Id and Logic.
* [[Not What I Signed Onon For]]: Samuel Oak's reason for resignation.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: There are a few.
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* [[Plant Person]]: Daebi/Celetwo is this.
* [[Playboy Bunny|Playtrainer Lopunny]]: Krystal Spectrum runs around in an outfit like this as her third set of [[Doomed New Clothes]].
* [[Playing Withwith Puppets]]: Celetwo/Daebi's revenge on Perfection
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Often the result of [[Clothing Damage]] and [[Wardrobe Malfunction]] ... all too often targetting [[The Cutie|Krystal Spectrum]]
* [[The Plot Reaper]]: Sows his seeds early on, and often.
** Lady Kiss Void {{spoiler|Is moved to [[The Starscream]] after [[The Renfield]] / [[Ill Girl]] / [[Morality Chain]] dies.}}
** {{spoiler|Gym Leader Nick ends up dying. Which explains in a [[Fridge Brilliance]] sense how Krystal Spectrum was wondering around his gym so easily.}}
** Daebi/Celetwo {{spoiler|dies to help break [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] out of its home... and causes the Kanto Incident a year prior. She got better, [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] }}
** {{spoiler|Wehc is the dead president of Attara Television Station.}}
* [[Pocket Dimension]]: Each member of Team Temporal gets put into one of these as their private hell.
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* [[The Renfield]]: Jezibelle to Lady Kiss Void
* [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman]]: "When you could make it so that Ronald Reagan ruled Soviet Russia, as the greatest communist leader of all time, as easily as I could... well, you really cannot. So that is why I don't take orders from you." "Who is Ronald Reagan?"
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: The Boss Fight room for Lady Kiss Void {{spoiler|which is a mosoleummausoleum to {{[[Yandere |her Pet}} ]].}}
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: Pretty much everybody in the story applies to this. It is what allows Lady Kiss Void to go Yandere then [[The Starscream]].
* [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]: Any of the more kinking acts between Lady Kiss Void and her pet human tended to demonstrate elements of this.
** Working as rather zig -zagged usage of [[Bondage Is Bad]] since the characters doing this stuff for events glimpsed "on camera" were villains.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: We call that character development
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Lady Kiss Void's Pet wears one. Likely because Lady Kiss Void has a fetish for it.
* [[Save This Person Save the World]]: Played nearly straight on Vermillion
* [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted as Lady Kiss Void usually is dressed fairly sensible. Where as Krystal Spectrum has gotten {{[[Stripperiffic |other comments}}]] on her out fits.
* [[Sexy Jester]]: Celetwo/Daebi.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Lady Kiss Void and her pet human.
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** Type 2: Indigo Sepia
** Type 3: Daebi/Celetwo
* [[Send in Thethe Clones]]: The Daemon Army
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Mixed into a [[Rubber Band History]] [[Stable Time Loop]].
* [[Sex Dressed]]: Zigzagged.
* [[Sharing a Body]]: Fujitsu and Darktsu.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Roy's Ego... but only to irritate and annoy Roy for the most part.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Fuschia and Vermillion
* [[Slave Collar]]: Lady Kiss Void on her pet human. It is merely symbolic. Jezibelle would likely grab it back on, if it were removed from her.
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: {{spoiler|Vermil, when Lady Kiss Void is attempting to Mind Control '''the entire universe itself'''}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Royal MacKealan / MacKealan / MacKealen / MacKaelen
** Daebi/Celetwo but that is due to different time lines she is created in
** Mr. Popo and Waffles
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* [[Sue Donym]]: Unwillingly put upon anyone who is color traced. Taken to the extreme in that the pseudonym becomes the person's actual name.
* [[Super OCD]]: Perfection.
* [[There Are No Girls Onon the Internet]]: Subverted... the Internet seems to have been invented and solely consist of [[Me's a Crowd|female members]] at times.
* [[There Are No Good Executives]]: Subverted. They can be just as bad as anybody else. {{spoiler|The Board of Directors of Rocket Logistics even called Schwartz insane}}
* [[The Starscream]]: Lady Kiss Void. However, Perfection was heading this way, as well (Yes, this is in the right spot in the list for [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"|TheStarscream]]).
* [[This Is Madness]]: It gets said.
* [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]]: Daebi/Celetwo hands this to a young Krystal Spectrum to try to [[Temporal Paradox]] history enough.
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* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Lady Kiss Void {{spoiler|[[Yandere]] when her pet human dies.}}
* [[Villainous Harlequin]]: Roy's Ego.
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: Rocket Logistics.
* [[Virgin Sacrifice]]: Krystal Spectrum and Roy's Ego [[Hypocritical Humour|tease]] Roy about this.
* [[Visionary Villain]]: Deoxys, Schwartz, Weiss.
* [[Voice of the Resistance]]: Arguably Team Network. Though, they are more allied to just getting information than really any resistance.
* [["Wake -Up Call" Boss]]: The fight with the Rocket Admin, Selina could count as this.
* [[Wardrobe Malfunction]]: Krystal Spectrum, in every town see visits, if she does grab a new [[Doomed New Clothes]].
* [[We Do the Impossible]]:
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* [[White Mask of Doom]]: Perfection wore one.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Krystal Spectrum after going shadow.
** Technically this coupled with [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]] for Daebi/Celetwo
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Zigzaged when Leader comments on how poor Lady Kiss Void's chosen name is. Leader also being another example
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: The source of Perfections' [[Villainous Breakdown]]
* [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Lady Kiss Void pretended to be Stoenn Spectrum after Rocket Logistics took over. Citing grave errors in Rocket Logistics take over--that Titan Co. must return to "his" control. She pulled this while in her [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]] without anybody noticing too [[Flat What]].}}
* [[The Woobie]]: Constant MacKealan. She is put into a [[Brother-Sister Incest]] [[Bride and Switch]] situation and is often on the receiving end of the [[Memetic Molester|Memetic Molesters]]' [[Black Comedy Rape]].
* [[Word of Gay]]: Because the authors seem to detest [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]
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