Pokemon Fanfiction Glossary

[Tezza]

G'day people! I'm working on a website for Pokemon fanfiction tutorials and Negrek brought to my attention that when you first enter the fandom there are so many words people use on a newbie that they get lost. Mary-Sue, Anywhere But Here fiction, scripting, purple prose and so on.

What words should be included and perhaps give your own definitions. I am looking for the definitions of all those weird 'shipping words I've come across, Eldershipping and so forth.

Also I also want to do summaries of the generic kinds of fanfictions people write. Things such Game Fics, where people use the games as a guide, XD fics where they follow the XD plot, Legendary Girl fics where a kid is chosen to befriend legends and excetra.

Thanks!

 

[FlamingRuby]

Musical Adventure-a type of adventure fic in which music plays a major role.
Canon-the show/games as we know it
Fanon-a fan-created theory generally accepted as canon

 

[Literate]

Good. *claps* Many people don't know what a Mary-Sue is.

Journey Fics: Where people go on any kind of journey.
Original Trainer Fic: Where the main character is a trainer.
Author's Universe: Where the characters from any story/anime/fiction is removed from their plot world and enter the author's made up one.

I can't be much help since I'm kind of new to this sort of thing as well. ^.^;

Good luck!

~Literate

 

[Shrike Flamestar]

Crossover- Media where concepts and/or characters from multiple original works are merged and interact with each other.
Shipping- Supporting relationships, whether canon or not, between characters from any form of media.

There’s a whole forum in the Anime section of these boards dedicated to Shipping if you want to find out more about it and what specific ships are. Now, I don’t know how risqué you want this thing to be, but there’s also:

Lemon- A term applied to media, especially fanfiction, to describe that it contains explicit sexual content.

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

From the Dictionary of Terms in the newbie forum:

Shipping

Shipping - A relationship between two or more characters in Anime

Doujinshi - Fan Made Manga

Hentai - Animated Pornography. FORBIDDEN at this forum
Sukenbe - Hardcore Pornography. FORBIDDEN at this forum

Ecchi - The Japanese pronunciation of the 'H' in 'Hentai'

Het - Short form of Hetrosexual, a male x female relationship
Shojo-ai - A female x female relationship
Shonen-ai - A male x male relationship

Yuri - A sexually explicit female x female relationship
Yaoi - A sexually explicit male x male relationship

RPG

RPG - Role Playing Game
RPGer - A person who takes part in Role Playing Games

Twink - A person who's character is invincible, unbeatable or more important that anything else. An immature RPGer
Godmodding - Portraying the character as unbeatable
Power Playing - Portraying the character as unbeatable

LSU - Late Sign Ups
OOC - Out of Character
IC / BIC - In Character / Back in Character
NPC - Non-Participating Character

Bunnying - Taking control of another person's character and making them act unnaturally.

Game Master - The owner or person running an RPG


Fanfic

Fanfic - Fan Fiction.
Fic - An article of Fan Fiction

AAML - Ash And Misty Love. Ash x Misty Shipping

JAJL - Jessie And James Love. A Jessie x James Shipping

PWP - Plot What Plot?

POV - Point Of View

AU - Alternate Universe

Lemon - A fic with strong explicit sexual themes. FORBIDDEN at this forum
Lime - A fic with with strong sexual themes.

Journey Fic - A story revolving around a character on a Pokemon Journey

Canon - Official recognition of a series
Fanon - Fan belief of a series, unconfirmed by by Canon or official sources.
Jossed - Fanon disproved by an official source or Canon.

Mary Sue - A female, unrealistically perfect character, that offers no originality
Gary Stu - A male, unrealistically perfect character, that offers no originality

Writer's Block - A condition that writers have when they are stuck for ideas

 

[Seijiro Mafuné]

SI/Self-Insert: when an author puts a character just like/close to him/herself. Usually developing into a Mary Sue/Gary Stu.

AAMayL: Ash and May Love. Ash x May shipping.

Flame: Negative review without an actual reason.

NPC actually means 'Non-Playable Character'.

 

[Faerie]

AAMRN - Ash and Misty Romance Novel

AAMayRN - Ash and May Romance Novel

TAMRN - Tracy and Misty Romance Novel

...Etcetera, etcetera. Same goes with most any shipping fanfic. I see this a lot on ff.net and I thought it would be helpful since I didn't see it in the list RaZoR LeAf posted. Those are the most common ones.

 

[YamiShenya]

Author's Universe: Where the characters from any story/anime/fiction is removed from their plot world and enter the author's made up one.

...is it now. I've been reading fanfics for four years or so, and I've never encountered this definition. It's always been 'Alternate Universe' for AU. Is it just specific fandoms that define it as such, or...? It's true that I haven't much followed the Pokémon fanfiction scene.

 

[Act]

Journey Fics: Where people go on any kind of journey.
Original Trainer Fic: Where the main character is a trainer.

Generally, Journey and OT fics are synonymous. Also, just because a character is a trainer does not make it an OT. An OT generally involves a character travelling around with a mission, whether it be collecting badges, stopping an organization, or whatever. It's very broad, and branches off into 'save the world' fic, possibly pokemorph fic, and so on; though, usually, it is just generic game-like travelling. And just to repeat it, OT and Journey fics are one in the same. -.-'

Author's Universe: Where the characters from any story/anime/fiction is removed from their plot world and enter the author's made up one.

AU means Alternate Universe, dear. It's a fic that placs canon characters into different positions in their worlds or worlds which function under different rules, IE, an AU in which Ash is a member of team Aqua, or Misty is a model, or all of this happens, except on a planet with zero gravity or something. It's usually used as an excuse to horribly butcher canon and personalities, and an actual AU fic is pretty uncommon. Por ejemple, a fic that says, "This is AU because Ash is buff and Misty doesn't exist so he can hook up with May," is total crap. >.>

Yeah. That.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Jossed - Fanon disproved by an official source or Canon.

I thought Jossed meant canon that was later contradicted, like Origin of Love and Truth.

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

NPC actually means 'Non-Playable Character'.

In video games yes, in forum RPGs it's Participating, since it's a character created by a participant, but not their main one.

I thought Jossed meant canon that was later contradicted, like Origin of Love and Truth.

I dunno. I saw it on Wikipedia I think while I was writing the list.

 

[Tezza]

Sorry to bump this thread, I thought some other people might have more definitions before I post it.