And one last thing. After several months of "cooling" from the previous discussion of the other thread, I already had a change in viewpoint. So don't try to dispute over my past post. Those are already my word in the past, not now.
You do know that the only one who's trying to debate anything from that argument is
you, right? :/ I mean, you
were the one who brought that back up, and you
are the one who seems rather insistent on talking about that argument. I mean, if you
really don't want to continue debating past points, then you'd want to avoid bringing it up, right? I'm perfectly willing to go on my merry way tonight without talking about what we were saying in July, and I'm sure that Air Dragon and the others would prefer to avoid watching their topic get derailed when a lot of people have a lot of interesting things to say. So it's really just for everyone's best interests to forget about the July thing and move on. Only way you can do that is if we -- including you, Crystal -- all agree to avoid talking about it.
That being said, I know you don't like me, Crystal, but if you have any beef with me, I'd rather discuss it via VMs if you're so inclined. Otherwise, let's not derail the thread with past shenanigans, shall we?
So with that all said and done...
Don't you understand that creating a fakemon and creating a story to tell is two different things?
Well,
that sounds just a wee bit patronizing.
But ignoring the tone, eeeeehhhh, in a way. Kind of, sort of in a way. Sure, when you create a fakemon for the sake of creating a fakemon, you tend to add a lot of detail to it, but there's nothing really stopping you from bringing it to life in a story except your own skill level. That's why I've always said it's a lot like creating an original character: because at its core, you're using a lot of the same skills. You have to be careful in how you describe the character or fakemon, and you have to be very selective in what details you share and creative in how you present those details. Do you have a lot more responsibility in creating a fakemon than someone who's writing a trainer fic involving just canonmon? Yes. Do you have to have professional-level skills in order to write fakemon into a fic? No. There's plenty of people -- on this site, even -- who can write fakemon fic without much of a problem. Dragonfree's a good example, but if you want to go for someone who isn't net-famous partially for fakemon fic, you could go with Air Dragon.
Sure, you don't see that many people write fakemon, but it's not always because of how easy or difficult it is. It has a lot more to do with the fact that not that many people are interested in doing so. There's various reasons why. Some people
don't feel creative enough (in their own opinion of themselves) to pull off fakemon in a story, but others prefer working with canon Pokémon, either because they don't see a reason to do anything else (what with there being 649 canon ones to use) or because they just like writing about their favorite Pokémon. Some even avoid writing fakemon because they mistakenly think that there'd be a stigma attached to doing so, which was part of my point in the first place (saying there's nothing wrong with fakemon in order to encourage people who might fall into this group to go ahead and write what they want to write).
So my main point is that it might be slightly harder to write fakemon into a fic, but it's certainly not over-the-top difficult, either. Even how much detail you need tends to depend completely on the story. The first battles I wrote with the Ixodida, for example, were done when I didn't even know what the Ixodida could do besides "they can use claw-based attacks and whatever element-based attacks their bodies look like they can do, they can't die unless their parasite core is destroyed, and Bill can take a beating because he's a Steel-type." To this day, I
still don't know what the Ixodida's base stats or full movepool are. I also don't know things like what special ability they have (unless I decide down the line to give them a fan-created one after all) or what effects their non-game-mechanics abilities could have on a battle. (Example? Still can't decide what level of hive-mindedness they possess. Because I'm hilariously indecisive most days.) Same thing could be said with creating an original character for any other writer. You could plan out every single detail about them before writing, or you could just figure out a very loose and short profile and save the rest for later. It really depends on how you write. Some people can't write a character without doing a thorough profile on them, and others prefer making things up as they go along. (Plotters and pantsers, in other words.)
Or in other words, I guess what I'm trying to say is it depends on the person, so we should encourage writers to give them a shot if they're so inclined. Of course, not everyone
is, so not everyone
does. And there's a considerable chunk of people who don't, not because they don't want to face the challenge of adding them to a fic but instead because they just plain prefer working with canon 'mon.
And of course, not much of this is really trying to argue with you. I agree that it
is more difficult than just writing a trainer fic (or any other fic, for that matter) with canon 'mon. In fact, I also agree that you need to know a good chunk of details about your species before tackling the subject. (I couldn't write the Ixodida without knowing that laundry list of details, after all.) I just think that whereas any three-year-old (as you say) can create a fakemon, then maybe it's more like any nine-year-old can write one. (I'm still proud of that fakemon I tried to write in one of my first fics way back when. I miss that thing.)
