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to play a role by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
11 Feb 2026
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‘Dawn’ was the name of a Champion, a young girl who had beaten the odds and come out on top over all the other trainers in the Sinnoh Region, who had been lauded as a battling prodigy on the cusp of a decorated career. It was the name of a starry-eyed child whose life was brimming with opportunity.
Akari was no longer that child.
And yet ‘Champion’ was a title that opened doors which an ordinary trainer would never have the ability to. It was a title that came hand in hand with duty, but one that held no small amount of power – power that could be used to scour the earth for hints of a dragon that most relegated to mere myths and legends.
Dawn is finding her uncle, no matter what name she opts to use. No matter what name he opts to use.
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- Part 5 of Ancient Trackways
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glacial steel, azure skies by critrate
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions, Pocket Monsters: Red & Green & Blue & Yellow | Pokemon Red Green Blue Yellow Versions, Pocket Monsters: FireRed & LeafGreen | Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen Versions
22 Dec 2025
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“I’ll tell it to you straight. Geeta’s offerin’ you a spot as a Gym Leader.” Ryme said. “The Glaseado Gym has been empty since Juan moved to Hoenn. Not got any settlement round it like mine, but somethin’ tells me you’re better suited for that anyway.”
Taking on the role of Gym Leader would mean that he would be able to battle, day in and day out, with his new team. The tempestuous storm that he had only been able to let loose during that battle with Geeta would have countless opportunities to rage free, filling him with that very same heady rush of glee and frenetic action.
It would mean returning to the pursuit that had given him life, yet the same one that had taken it away.
After his journey in Kanto reached its ultimate conclusion, Red's panicked flight from civilisation lands him on a very different mountain. Halfway across the world, where his fame hopefully has yet to spread, he attempts to rebuild.
Blue follows anyway.
(aka: Red becomes Grusha)
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rise above it all by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
24 Oct 2025
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Zekrom couldn’t hold back a full team of six while protecting both of his young charges.
There were too many variables, too many factors to consider. How could he leap into battle and still ensure the safety of both Hilda and N, when Ghetsis had so openly stated his malintent?
Then a tightly-contained orb of scorching heat blasted past Zekrom and hit the opposing Bisharp head-on, and he faintly recalled that Alder’s footsteps had been accompanied by another’s.
He recognised the attack in a heartbeat.
N’s formula to change the world involved three key variables. Team Plasma, the Pokémon League Champion, and the Dragon of Ideals, Zekrom.
Ingo, dormant within the Dark Stone, had other plans - and so did his brother.
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- Part 4 of Ancient Trackways
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Duckie @goducksgo
are you fr suggesting a kpop group murdered their rivals on stage and got away with it lmaokieran @legendary_brush
the namsan tower performance WASN’T just special effects (sfx), a thread [1/?]misty @kpopismylife
oomf what the hellThe new Honmoon isn't perfect.
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a part to play, living by written lines by critrate, nucifraga
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
29 Mar 2025
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Cynthia let out a startled, slightly too high-pitched laugh. “You’re telling me you’re – if what I’m hearing is right – one of Unova’s legendary dragons in human form?” She clutched the ends on her sweater’s long sleeves into balls, knuckles white. “...the worst part is that I see it. If I had to pick one, Zekrom – right?”
Her breaths came quicker now. “But that means– all those years ago, I displaced Zekrom with those rifts that I tore in space-time. Heavens, why didn’t you seek me out and rip me apart when you regained your memories?”
Two regions over, half a century before N's coronation, two not-quite-humans run into each other once more. The rain continues to fall.
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- Part 2 of Ancient Trackways
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Ancient Trackways by critrate, nucifraga
Fandom Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
11 Feb 2026
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The union of three of my favourite PL:A character-related tropes:
- Ingo is Zekrom (& Emmet is Reshiram)
- Volo is Cynthia
- Akari is the DPPt protagonist
ft. very long time loopIt is my belief that each story can be read standalone, though reading other stories in the series will definitely strengthen your overall understanding. The planned exception will be the fifth, and likely final, work in this series.
The full timeline, including reference years & where each work in this series falls on the timeline, can be found in the End Notes of to play a role. The works in this series are more or less in chronological/intended reading order, though.
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x-over compilation by calliphlox, critrate, nucifraga
Fandom Alien Stage (Web Series), Ensemble Stars! (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Naruto, The Flash (TV 2014), プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 痛いのは嫌なので防御力に極振りしたいと思います。| BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt so I'll Max Out My Defense. (Anime), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
06 Oct 2025
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critrate - main writing account. works hosted on this have been edited.
nucifraga - secondary writing account for lower-effort (i.e. written in one sitting & unedited) fics
calliphox - account used for archiving abandoned ideas.
Using different accounts, instead of different pseuds, because it allows me to adjust email settings & other Preferences.- Words:
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1. That Green Fellow? I think he's Barbatos.
Aether POV. Aether's missing something about how Mondstadt treat the topic of Barbatos... He just can't pinpoint what it is.
Fix-It for Signora's attack. First work in the series.2. For the Lack of a Gnosis
Zhongli POV. A visit paid to Mondstadt in the aftermath of Osial's defeat turns out decidedly unproductive.
Attempt at humour, looks into timeline changes.
2.1. Alternative - Act 2, Scene 1
Zhongli POV. Initial draft of the starting scene for ^ that can stand alone pretty well.- Words:
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The Very Last Place One Expects to Run into One’s History Professor by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Oct 2020
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Group projects are the worst: everyone knows that. Harry had been focusing on keeping his friendship with Ron and Hermione intact during their History of Magic project, but in actual fact, that didn’t turn out to be the problem. No—because something always has to go wrong in Harry’s life, they have instead encountered a mishap with the Time-Turner Hermione was apparently using to take even more classes than usual, so instead of squabbling in a nice little Welsh bookshop, they are now squabbling in a remote forest, surrounded by medieval knights who keep brandishing swords and shouting in a foreign language. But that somehow isn’t the weirdest part: because standing amongst the knights, unarmed and wearing ragged clothing, is (for some godforsaken reason) Hogwarts’ new history teacher.
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Cedric Diggory doesn't know what to think of the Hufflepuff girl with terrible hair, but whatever it is, it's probably half-decent.
(semi/si written entirely from Cedric's POV)
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- Part 17 of lulu's self insert fics
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Bookmarked by critrate
15 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Author is clearly from the UK & the UK accuracy shows. Very heartwarming.
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willow bark and chamomile by schrodingers__cat
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
22 Feb 2023
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The heroes have found themselves separated and trapped under the bones of a long-dead leviathan. Luckily, Legend has never been more prepared for something in his life.
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- Part 2 of schro’s linked universe fics!
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Bookmarked by critrate
04 Dec 2025
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StT: This is actually so sweet but also really bittersweet. It's lovely to see the takes that the author has on what each character's ideal dream would be. I think that they're really realistic to each of the LU individuals and /
typed: / I did particularly enjoy Warriors' section even though I don't typically care for him. The character study part is just- perfection.
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Dennis snaps awake with startling clarity.
For a moment, he fumbles, assaulted with the depressingly familiar scent of perforated bowel, set against a backdrop of sweat and hospital disinfectant. The clamour of ambulance sirens fades to reveal the unmistakable sounds of an Emergency Department – a constant symphony of disorganised shouting and vital sign monitors beeping to the tune of patients’ heart rates.
He can see an x-ray box in the distance – the type that had gone obsolete decades ago, with the advent of digital patient records and more stringent patient confidentiality laws. The scrubs that some people are wearing are a far more familiar sight, but something isn't right about this picture.
Seemingly without rhyme or reason, Dennis Whitaker flits between ERs as day turns into night. Inexplicably, in this other ER, his only constant seems to be John Carter - now, if only he could figure out why.
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May and the World by gghero
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Ruby & Sapphire & Emerald | Pokemon Ruby Sapphire Emerald Versions, Pocket Monsters: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire | Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Versions
30 Sep 2017
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(AU) May is a three-year-old orphan who is adopted by Archie and Maxie. With her new family, she'll soon discover many things and learn important life lessons through various situations.
Bookmarked by critrate
21 Jan 2025