Next Fiction Poll Information

This post is public to let everyone read it, so please be wary of posting spoilers in the comments!

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This is a bit of a weird post since it’s neither an announcement nor a chapter. I’ve already mentioned the upcoming poll, so this is to further explain how that poll will work.

As it stands, I have over a dozen ideas that I could flesh out into full stories, and I need help narrowing them down to know what I should write next. Part of the reason I run these polls is that when I plan things for the first time, I often tend to flip-flop between different ideas, and it helps me when I can focus on a singular, solid plan.

This poll will be there to gauge the ideas people want to see the most and help me narrow down which story to write. It will be similar to the Type specialist poll at the end of the Type Specialist, but the options will not just be limited to choosing your favorite Type.

As an example, one of the stories I want to write involves a protagonist that’s trying to leave Team Magma. If the “Criminal” background proves to be unpopular, or if people are hardly interested in Hoenn as a region, then I’ll know that the concept isn’t worth fleshing out.

I will be posting the poll after Royal Road finishes its Ilex Forest arc, which should end at the end of next week. Any number of options will be available to be voted on, but the end result will be closer to the Ghost Type team member poll in that I’ll look at the top few options rather than take the outright most voted. Some choices are incompatible, after all.

Once the poll is out, I’ll likely leave it open until this fiction ends. Right now, I mostly just wanted to share my preliminary list of ideas. If you have anything you want me to include, please leave a comment, and if it’s something I’m interested in writing, I’ll likely add it to the options when the poll comes out!

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This list is broken up into categories to help me organize my ideas, but the actual poll will see all of the options bundled together in one big list.

Character Options
-Experienced Protagonist / Advanced trainer start
-Criminal Background / “Evil” Team Membership
-General Isekai / use of Meta-knowledge
-Local Trainer / Native OC

Plot Focus Options
-Contest Focus
-Classic Journey Focus
-Post-Gym Focus (Battle Frontier / World Coronation Series)
-Alternative, less structured goal and/or Slice of Life

Pokémon / Team Options
-Capture and Training of “Lesser” Legendary Pokémon (Latios/Latias, Articuno, certain Mythicals)
-Capture and Training of “Greater” Legendary Pokémon (Groudon, Rayquaza, Kyurem)
-Solo-run (A single, exceptionally strong Pokémon)
-“Breeder” (Training a great number of weaker Pokémon with a handful of stand-out exceptions)
-Classic, six-member team

Setting Options
-Early Regions (Gens I - IV)
-Unova (Gen V)
-Later Gen Regions (Gens VI+)

Specialty Options
-Water Type Specialist
-Ice Type Specialist
-Dragon Type Specialist
-Psychic Type Specialist
-Bug Type Specialist
-Poison Type Specialist
-Ground Type Specialist
-Machine / Technology Pokémon Specialist

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If you have any questions, please ask them and I will do my best to respond! Additionally, if this poll feels like it’s too much, tell me and I will look into cutting down the options or finding a way to set it up differently.