Saffron
Saffron is a Pokémon-inspired fan fic that presents the poke-world if the world would allow and encourage romantic and sexual relations between humans and pokemon. The story is presented from the viewpoint of a character who was driven over the edge by this development and started killing Pokemons.
Although unrelated, it bears strong resemblance to Birthday Gift and Confiscated Twins.
Tropes used in Saffron include:
- Broken Bird: Lilly. Though she gets better.
- Career Killer: Jeff is given this opportunity in the end. He accepts.
- Covert Pervert: "Our Gym Leader, Sabrina, a closet fetishist [...]"
- Cluster F-Bomb: The narrator is fond of this.
- Cold-Blooded Torture.
- Conveniently-Common Kink: Everyone loves porking Pokemon.
- Crapsack World: What the narrator believes it to be.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Our narrator is keep on making his victims suffer and keeping them alive as much as he can.
- Dark Fic.
- Deadpan Snarker: The narrator.
- Deus Ex Machina: Jeff's breakout.
- Deconstruction: Of Pokemon LemonFics and the Furry Fandom. Oh and the theme of sexual (slavery) "liberation" laws in the future that, when played straight, have no contenders, especially not from the ones apparently profiting from it.
- Expy: First thought goes to Rorschach.
- Fantastic Racism: Except the obvious, it seems there was a time when news presented "Pokephiles" being harassed and murdered like that was a good thing.
- Fetish Fuel Future: Inverted. The narrator does not like how it turned out, and most likely neither does the author.
- Freak-Out: The first kill.
- Great Escape.
- If You Know What I Mean: "when she grinded against me, my crotch was pretty much right up against her… well, you know. ".
- Ironic Death: He's fond of giving these. Also Sabrina.
- It Gets Easier.
- Karma Houdini: Those two that killed Bel. They get to go off and enjoy themselves, and we never hear about them again.
- La Résistance: Unova has one.
- Laughing Mad
- Manly Tears
- Meaningful Name: Lily from Lilith. Bel could be made to represent Beelzebub too.
- More Than Mind Control: It's pretty obvious some of the Pokemon actually love their masters ... even in that way. All the thing about "seeing in their eyes regret" may be just how he decides to interpret it.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much.
- Naughty Tentacles: Victreebell has them and pokephiles love them.
- Power Perversion Potential: The pokemons' abilities, also Sabrina's mind control.
- Rape as Redemption: Why he rapes the second human victim. Also happens to him by the end, and it's Sabrina's Ironic Death.
- Serial Killer.
- Stealth Parody: It's hard to take something seriously when tickle fetish is presented as worse than rape.
- Slasher Smile: "The grin crawled onto my face seemed like one of lust. But I'm sure you already know of it's true nature. ".
- Lily adopts several later on.
- Sociopathic Hero: How the guy considers himself.
- This Is My Story.
- To Know Him I Must Become Him: "I had to THINK like a Poképhile in order to kill them more efficiently.".
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Bel and Lilly. The brains and the passion.
- Troubled Fetal Position: How the first pokemon victim died.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Lily.
- Unreliable Narrator: Dude's gone mental, and he definitely has a phobia of Pokemon sex.
- Villain Protagonist.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
- X Meets Y: Rorschach meets (becomes?) Dexter meets Pokémon.