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=== Fan Works ===
* ''Unwilling Service'', a ''[[Pokemon]]'' fanfic series currently spanning [http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600056055 three] [http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600056056 simultaneous] [http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600056057 fics], barely managed to see four chapters in total between 2011-14 before author SeaRover1986 (formerly McKnight) declared it dead. He revived it in May 2016, to take his focus off of another project that wasn't going anywhere, but while he managed to putwrite outup a chapter for each of the three fics in quick succession, his beta-writer, someone calling himself Jake, encountered one problem after another, especially in light of a burglary in October that year, which required him to move back in with his family and endure a hectic lifestyle. The author continued to hold out on him until he caved in and revealed how he really felt about the story. Things didn't fare much better when the author took to Upwork, and the resulting frustration led to increasing animosity between him and his former beta-writer, whom he had also been friends with for over a decade; most people who proposed to take it up either failed to understand what he expected of them (even after getting his original beta to summarize what he did before), went silent, had to back out, or lost interest by the time he got back to them after putting them on hold in favor of those before them. This spanned three attempts before he pulled the plug early in last said attempt and even wrote something on his blog that he retracted upon being called out, but which still led their friendship into a bitter multi-month decline. Even the two and only freelancers who actually did follow through with a chapter or so eventually stopped responding to his messages, leading him to Freelancer instead when he posted the project one last time on Upwork, contacted multiple other Freelancers recommended to him, and had the project taken down for content violations. At this point, Rover has already decided just to commission outright for an initial draft of the whole story instead. (And that wasn't a decision he made lightly; originally, he planned for the project to be some kind of personal game for himself, especially regarding his plans for the Pal Park and both of the Battle Frontiers, having once loved the actual games but since realizing one thing after another about them that rubbed him the wrong way.)
** One thing also worth noting in particular is their dispute about [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Jamie]] (now [[The Legend of Thunder!|Jimmy]]) having muscles, towards the end of 2012. The author asked Jake at least three times not to buff him up, which he ignored as he proceeded just to do things his way and then tell him to redo the relevant scenes himself. He did redo some of them after being called out for his disobedience, but not before justifying himself first and arguing with him, and even then, there were still some things left that only muscles could explain (which he only managed to get rid of years later by having someone else do the whole chapter over). Eventually, this was one of the few things he cited when asked multiple times to cite what he came to hate about the story itself.
*** There is also the issue of the PokéWalker, one of Rover's favorite aspects of a pair of games that Jake very outright ''hates'' to this day.
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