Saffron

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Saffron is a Pokemon-inspired fan fic that presents the poke-world if the world would allow and encourage romantic and sexual relations between humans and pokemon. The story is presented from the viewpoint of a character who was driven over the edge by this development and started killing Pokemons.

You can read it here.

Although unrelated, it bears resemblance to Birthday Gift and Confiscated Twins.

• Anti Villain / Anti Hero: Your Mileage May Vary.
• Better Than It Sounds: The quotes here don't do the text justice, they were just needed to explain the tropes. It is better.
• Broken Bird: Lilly. Though she gets better.
• Career Killer: Jeff is given this opportunity in the end. He accepts.
• Covert Pervert: "Our Gym Leader, Sabrina, a closet fetishist [...]"
• Cluster F Bomb: The narrator is fond of this.
• Cold Blooded Torture.
• Conveniently Common Kink: Everyone loves porking Pokemon.
• Crapsack World: What the narrator believes it to be.
• Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon: Our narrator is keep on making his victims suffer and keeping them alive as much as he can.
• Dark Fic.
• Deadpan Snarker: The narrator.
• Deus Ex Machina: Jeff's breakout.
• Deconstruction: Of Pokemon Lemon Fics and the Furry Fandom. Oh and the theme of sexual (slavery) "liberation" laws in the future that, when played straight, have no contenders, especially not from those apparently profiting from it.
• Expy: First thought goes to Rorschach.
• Fan Dumb: Narrator thinks someone's tickle fetish is abhorrent and Ruined Forever his view on Aerodactyls.
• Fantastic Racism: Except the obvious, it seems there was a time when news presented "Pokephiles" being harassed and murdered like that was a good thing. Keep in mind, some of them were engaging in consensual sex.
• Fetish Fuel Future: Inverted. The narrator does not like how it turned out, and most likely neither does the author.
• Freak Out: The first kill.
• Great Escape.
• Heroic Sociopath: How the guy considers himself.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
• Ironic Death: He's fond of giving these. Also Sabrina.
• It Gets Easier.
• Karma Houdini: Those two that killed Bel. They get to go off and enjoy themselves, and we never hear about them again.
• La Resistance: Unova has one.
• Lampshaded Double Entendre: "when she grinded against me, my crotch was pretty much right up against her… well, you know. ".
• Laughing Mad.
• Manly Tears.
• More Than Mind Control: It's pretty obvious some of the Pokemon actually love their masters ... even in that way. All the thing about "seeing in their eyes regret" may be just how he decides to interpret it.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much.
• Naughty Tentacles: Victreebell has them and pokephiles love them.
• No Name Given: The narrator. Narrowly averted.
• The Place.
• Power Perversion Potential: The pokemons' abilities, also Sabrina's mind control.
• Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh: The narrator has this happen to him once, because he was not careful. Good thing he had the girls with him.
• Rape As Redemption: Why he rapes the second human victim. Also happens to him by the end, and it's Sabrina's Ironic Death.
• Religious And Mythological Theme Naming: Lily from Lilith. Bel could be made to represent Beelzebub too.
• Serial Killer.
• Stealth Parody: It's hard to take something seriously when tickle fetish is presented as worse than rape.
• Slasher Smile: "The grin crawled onto my face seemed like one of lust. But I'm sure you already know of it's true nature. ".
  • Lily adopts several later on.
• This Is My Story.
• To Know Him I Must Become Him: "I had to THINK like a Poképhile in order to kill them more efficiently.".
• Tomboy And Girly Girl: Bel and Lilly. The brains and the passion.
• Troubled Fetal Position: How the first pokemon victim died.
• Turned Against Their Masters: Lily.
• Unreliable Narrator: Dude's gone mental, and he definitely has a phobia of Pokemon sex.
• Villain Protagonist.
• What Measure Is A Non Human.
• X Meets Y: Rorschach meets (becomes?) Dexter meets Pokemon.