Thread:RubyTheMaster/@comment-4750363-20130605200748/@comment-5025667-20130611165235

Kh just interrupted a rather serious conversation. XD

Blood and gore seems to be my main gripe with most creepypastas, it seems that some just throw it in there for the sake of it. And to add to good measure, let's slaughter just about every Pokemon in the story! Most Pokepastas tend to be mindless, and even some of the more famous ones such as "Creepy Black", "Pokemon Dead Channel" and "Abandon Lonliness" all have lost their touch on me for the most part, although the last one has a more greater meaning to me than the others.

For my own pasta, I did rehash some of the ideas of other pastas and used some of the plot points that you have brought up. One of the Pokemon was abandoned, and there is some gore in it along with one mention of blood (and even then, that goes away rather quickly). In fact, my pasta is loosely based on Abandon Lonliness or more specifically the titular character which is one of the main characters of the story and brought him to life, per say (my pasta takes place in the "real world", while AL is a haunted game).

But from what I have gathered here, I seem to have actually out-do my inspiration according to most people that have read. The fact that I even won CotM with it surprises me greatly. By comparison its well-written competior, Prototype 10: Would You Kindly?, has no elements of the cliches we have listed and is a great pasta.

And by my comparison, mine actually uses some cliches without overdoing it, despite what people tell me. The concept of an abandoned Pokemon isn't anything new, after all. But I tried my hardest in order to try to avoid coming off as "just another Pokepasta". I tried giving the character depth and their seperate personalities, I tried coming up with a coherent plot that doesn't take too many cues from other pastas (even from its inspiration) and most of all control the level of violence. Mine turned out to be more plot-based.

The problem I have with Pokepastas is that most of them are too soft in trying to scare the reader. "X Pokemon has died"? Reading that same sentence over and over gets on my nerves. After all, we are writing scary stories here. The lack of details in terms of most Pokepastas and bad creepypastas in general is what grinds my gears. Instantly killing a character with no describtion as to how, why and in what ways did they react never works for me in a Pokepasta.

One of the characters in my pasta suffers over the course of its latter half.