Pedestal (fanfic)/YMMV


 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Most of the cast.
 * Angst? What Angst?: Averted.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Chapter 94, a non-canon story written for.
 * Complete Monster:.
 * She also . Or so she claims.
 * Chapter 153 cements  as one of these.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome:.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: The Running Gag of the protagonist never getting the Pokemon he wanted. Reaches hilarious levels with.
 * Also, he never gets to name them.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming:  becoming attached to the Pokemon Egg, insisting it's hers. When it hatches, she latches onto the   inside.
 * Die for Our Ship: Alicia suffered a lot of this when the protagonist has a crush on her, mainly from the Namnar/Hanna and Nick/Namnar fans. However, this quickly died down when she was revealled as a Lipstick Lesbian.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Nick.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Kostya and Ike.
 * Epileptic Trees: In the first half, there was much speculation as to where the plot was going. Chapter 57 promptly destroyed that.
 * On the deviantArt account hosting the story, the author has been actively sowing seeds for these among some of the readers.
 * Fridge Logic: Where did the video surveillance of the  go?
 * Harsher or Hilarious In Hindsight: After the protagonist gets lost in Eterna Forest and ends up back at the start, he discovers the Valley Windworks building again, and in his frustration orders Des to set it on fire. (Obviously, he doesn't.) Later on, during the Tournament art,
 * Ho Yay: Nick and the narrator for starters. Doesn't help that the author seems to encourage it via Deviant ART commentary.
 * HSQ: The Wham! Episode, Chapter 57. And its aftermath.
 * The whole entire story.
 * Les Yay:
 * Mary Sue: Deconstructed as hell. None of the main cast is anywhere near this trope, but a few of the villians are purposely characterized this way along with being genocidal monsters.
 * Memetic Molester: Kostya, unfortunately.
 * Memetic Sex God: Nick.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Chapters 57 and 58 make it clear that that mark was passed a couple miles back.
 * A smaller, perhaps foreshadow-y one happened when.
 * Definitely foreshadowing with the events of chapter 121. The chapter was even titled "A Horizon To Catch Up To".
 * Nightmare Fuel: The Abomasnow. And Froslass. Literally.
 * Psychic Pokemon. Especially unfriendly ones.
 * The actual nightmares.
 * The entire story at this point.
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Subverted in the fact that Alicia has never been shown or stated to be in anything but a dress.
 * Tear Jerker:.
 * The circumstances that led to.
 * The.
 * What happened to, overlapping with Nightmare Fuel.
 * Carlita, Oonu  , and Ike.
 * The Woobie: The protagonist.
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Subverted in the fact that Alicia has never been shown or stated to be in anything but a dress.
 * Tear Jerker:.
 * The circumstances that led to.
 * The.
 * What happened to, overlapping with Nightmare Fuel.
 * Carlita, Oonu  , and Ike.
 * The Woobie: The protagonist.
 * The Woobie: The protagonist.