Dealing only with the fics I have posted here (I have others at other websites)...
Back when I wrote
Unheard, virtually the only kind of Mystery Dungeon fics you could find were based, if not directly on the game's plot, than at least heavily inspired by it. No one yet had, as far as I had seen (but I could be wrong), attempted to write anything to explore the world from a different angle. I'm a fan of anthropomorphic novels, and one question you see rarely addressed is the question of what carnivores eat when they live in a world where their potential prey is very much sapient. While Unheard remains underdeveloped (I said I would update and rewrite parts to incorporate everything I had thought up, but you know how time is...that, and I dislike the story and feel somewhat ashamed of going back and reading it again in order TO revise it, lol ^^' ), it's strangely popular on FF.net and has a fair amount of reviews and favorites, and I've even been asked permission of others to host it elsewhere. I guess people like it because it was a very different take on the Mystery Dungeon universe (where do carnivore pokemon get their meat? Exactly where you think they would) than what was being published at the time.
Lost and Found was almost an immediate "must write" fic for me, and as much as I love it, virtually no one else does (maybe it's a bit TOO different..that, and people just don't care about Pokémon Ranger fanfics. Personally, I find Rangers fascinating and would love to see more fic about em). The reason it was a must write is because I'm a Plusle fangirl and was happy to see a character who had one as a main.
As soon as I saw that, I KNEW they had to be ficced. ^^ As I played through the beginning of the game (I actually wrote the fic when I was only a few brief hours in), I knew the interaction I saw between Hinata and Plusle was just screaming to be elaborated on, and it would be the perfect opportunity for me to both write a Pokémon POV fic in my own...ahem, unique...way...along with presenting how I believe the (platonic!) human/pokémon relationship to be like.
Where Even Kilroy Hasn't Been could well be said to be my attempt to out-weird everyone else in the fandom (except for the people writing really freaky porn, at least XD ). The inspiration for it was my frustration with most "Anywhere But Here" fanfics - i.e., fics where a character from our own world is somehow teleported to the Pokémon world. These characters are almost invariably Pokémon fans to begin with, are very familiar with the creatures and rules of the world, almost never over the age of eighteen, and never come from any time period other than the modern day. With Lester, I sought to change all that. XD He has never heard of pokémon, knows nothing about them or about the world, is a twenty one year old Navy seaman, and happens to have been living in the year 1941. I wanted to take a character like this, to whom the Pokémon world would, instead of being a flight of escapism and a wonderful experience for the victim, would instead be a harrowing nightmare to which he would have to struggle to adapt to even survive. I also wanted the opportunity to write a character who could be cruel and heartless towards a pokémon (it's not as idyllic as it looks in the ad banner, for sure!
) without being the stereotypical cardboard abuser you see in a lot of Trainer fics.