Pokémon

Pokémon is a multimedia franchise.

Plot
Pokémon follows the protagonist as they travel across the region, collecting creatures also known as “Pokémon”, taking down an evil organization, and eventually defeating the Elite Four to become the Champion.

The franchise started with the release of Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue for the Game Boy in Japan in 1996. Since then, it has expanded into several spin-off games, a trading card game, an anime series, movies, manga, and OVAs, among other incarnations.

Fanon
Pokémon has a very large fandom. The franchise is primarily a game, but it has diverse adaptations. Stories in multiple medias attract distinct niches of fans. Due to that, different ships involving the counterparts of the same characters are given different names, also the characters as well are considered separated people. For example, the game’s Serena, whose popular ships are LacewoodShipping, BoutiqueShipping, and KalosShipping, is not considered the same Serena of the anime, whose popular ship is AmourShipping; since Serena never met Ash as he does not exist in the games, added to the fact that both Serena have different personalities. Her counterpart of the Pokémon Special manga, Yvonne, also have different named ships, with LaverreShipping being the most popular involving the character. This rule is applied to all characters that have more than on version appearing in the game, anime, and manga.

In the games, most popular ships involve playable character with the rival, champion, or the playable character of the opposite/same gender. In anime, Ash gets shipped with all his companions and rivals, regardless of the genre, that follow him in his journey of the season. Ships involving recurrent characters, like RocketShipping, are a quite popular ship as well. In the Pokémon Adventures manga, the writer has a tradition of pairing together both counterparts of the playable characters of every game.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Pokémon tag on FanFiction.net
 * Pokémon tag on FanFiction.net

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WIKIS
 * Bulbapedia
 * Bulbapedia