IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Right, let's get things back on track. New plans abound, in four main areas

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Fans who've waited far too long will be pleased to learn I will be updating The Psychic Jinjuuriki soon, but not perhaps in the way one might expect...

The existing version of this story is rushed along, spends longer than I would have liked acting out the canon plot, and generally could use an update, both on the old material and the new.

Basically, I'm going to make a re-released version of the story. Each week (let's say on Sunday), I will try to improve one existing chapter and add it to a "new" story - The Psychic Jinjuuriki Retold - and, after doing so, remove the existing version of the chapter. I plan to add extra character moments and interactions, expand on certain condensed segments and generally de-rush the story. And maybe shake up a few plot points along the way. This way, anyone who wants to read on quickly can do so after they catch up with the retold version, and others can just read the improved version as it comes out. Eventually, this retold story will cover what I had planned to release in Into the Abyss, Quest for the Lunar Wing, and more.

Recent update: Sorry about the delay in chapter 3. In keeping with some of the changes I'd like to make to the rewrite, this chapter will need practically entirely rewritten. I have also located several major plotholes in the original version that will need fixed before going any further, and I'd like to settle what I'm doing after the ending "The Psychic Jinjuuriki" gets to.

Honestly, I don't even know what I want to do with it any more. I've put up a poll on what I should do with it, but if you don't feel your thoughts match any of the options, please PM me

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Heroes of Darkness will be updated as often as it is. No real change there

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Instruments of Time has the rest of the main plot planned out, and a few side prequels mused about. However, I'm having a tough time writing it. If anyone wants to help me as like a co-writer or something, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, expect updates in very infrequent bursts

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I will soon be reviving Let the Game Begin. It will pick up where it left off, and I plan to update it somewhere between weekly and bi-weekly.

Apart from these four stories, everything else is on hold

Also, sorry to anyone waiting on it, but I'm afraid I'll be taking down Ouroboros Chaos Engine. It seemed like a neat premise in my head but it would be way too big an undertaking to write up the whole thing. Anyone who wants to continue it, PM me and we'll talk about it

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this profile

Hi there

Rise of Galaxia is now complete! It HAD a sequel, Remnants of Galaxia, but I wasn't happy with it. Someday I'll rewrite it. Someday.

There's also my newer crossover "The instruments of time", which is far, FAR more crossovery than Galaxia. If I could recommend only one of my fanfics, it would undoubtably be Instruments of Time. I wanted to write stories about so many things, I let my readers decide, and as a result we got this story. How exactly does time, as a concept, become broken whilst events continue to occur? And for that matter, how can such an event have occurred in any one moment in time? Will our various assorted heroes somehow fix it (/have fixed it/be in the process of fixing it)? Only time will tell... if they ever get around to gathering those instruments and fixing it that is.

And then there's my most popular story; an alternate Naruto crossover story where the titular hero receives training from the rogue artificial lifeform and being of mass destruction Mewtwo before the story properly starts and learns many Pokemon attacks and psychic abilities before he's out of the academy, a kind of "Psychic Jinjuuriki", if you will. He gets put in Team 7 as usual (except this time with Hinata instead of Sakura for no as-yet explained reason), meets some additional Pokemon and ninjas and partakes in a variety of activities that vaguely approximates some parallel with the original plot for a while. NOW HAS A SEQUEL - and a Bleach crosssover at that

And now I have a tournament story, with a twist! (Beyond the obvious Instruments-style character selection twist).

I also offer my services as a beta reader/idea giver to anyone who needs help with a story.

The Heroes of Darkness: I had this story up for some time now, but now I'm putting a new spin on it: Each chapter will be written by a different writer! The writer's so far: Me, zachary.techman/ZTCrossoverwriter, A. Fox and Glumshanks

Recently I've come to a realization about why I think "Instruments of Time" and "Let the Game Begin" never get nearly as many views as the Psychic Jinjuuriki and, to a lesser extent, Marvel vs Jump. It's the series classifications. Few people look in the X-overs section because it's swamped with miscellaneous non-fanfics, blatant disregards to the "no real people" rule, non-stories (lists of challenges and story ideas, etc), basically anything that no real category exists for - to the point that virtually no-one goes there in search of a mega-crossover comprising too many series to actually judge which two are most prevailant. For that reason, I am considering changing their classification.

Pokemon: Seperate Game and Anime continuities

It's worth noting that the Pokemon anime and games are separate universes/continuities. One need only look as far as the creation of Mewtwo or such to see this. Any of my stories containing a Pokemon element to them (with the exception of Let the Game begin, due to requests) will be set in the game continuity, or derivations thereof. This is most noticeable in the Psychic Jinjuuriki.

This distinction may lead to some differences and distinctions between the two that I would like to clarify now:

1. All, or at least most, of the Legendary Pokemon are one-of-a-kind, godlike entities

They're kind of like a pantheon of deities. You've got Arceus as the creator god, then other deities of Land (Groudon), Sea (Kyogre), Sky (Rayquaza), Time (Dialga), Space (Palkia), Distortion World/other dimensions (Giratina), Truth (Reshiram), Ideals (Zekrom), Life (Xerneas), Death (Yveltal), Order (Zygarde), Dreams (Cresselia), Nightmares (Darkrai), emotions, knowledge, willpower, storms, fertility, victory, the list goes on. The lesser trios are less powerful, but we still get origin stories for most of them - the beasts were three Pokemon who died in the fire that burned down Brass Tower (now Burned Tower) and were brought back by Ho-oh, the golems were created by Regigigas in his image from spare materials, and the Musketeers and Kami, despite not having a known origin story, still have lore that refers to them in a personal manner. I guess the only ones who don't are the Bird Trio and Heatran; there could hypothetically be more than one of each of them, but I like to believe otherwise because it would seem weird if they were standout exceptions. As for the non-legendary Pokemon and humans, I have my theories as to their origins (Mew being the progenitor of the non-legendary Pokémon, for instance) but that's another story and all mostly speculation.

But why, you may ask, would such a divine being be able to be defeated by the lowly mortal non-legendary Pokemon (with difficulty)? It's stated in Diamond and Pearl that Legendary Pokemon can't use their full power when bound by a Pokeball, hence why Team Galactic had to go considerably out of their way to acquire a means to contain them without limiting their power (the Red Chain). When you're fighting them and trying to catch them, they're sort of testing if you're worthy for them to follow you, hence why Reshiram and Zekrom, who you're sort of destined to fight alongside, are a lot easier to capture

Solgaleo and Lunala don't necessarily disprove most of this divine-esque nature.

2. Pokemon have distinct cries much like their in-game cries rather than having a language comprised of their species name

In the anime, Pokemon have a language based on their species name. This is not the case in the games, where they have more fitting animal-like cries. I will stick to the latter in my stories (except Dankey Kang Country), mostly because of a preference for the games but also partially because the name-cries of the anime are silly. I get that they probably probably wrote it that way in the anime to help younger viewers remember the names of their favourite Pokemon, but when you really think about the name-language it seems even more ridiculous than it used to when I watched the anime as a child.

Really think about it. Either all the species of Pokemon in the world just unanimously came to the conclusion they'd evolve vocal chords that only allowed them to make sounds that sounded like what the humans had decided to name them, which is incredibly silly, or they named the Pokemon after the sounds they made, which is slightly less ridiculous but gets pretty silly when you consider all the Pokemon names. Unless they named anything appearing in a Pokemon name after the Pokemon (i.e. lamps in that world are named after Lampent, vapour is named after Vaporeon, ivy is named after Ivysaur, etc), but even that is ridiculous! Did they simultaneously name sand after Sandshrew and Sandslash in Kanto and Sandile in Unova? And why would these two isolated Pokemon families sound so similar? What did they call gravel in Unova before they heard from Kanto and their Gravellers? As well as this, many Pokemon have very distinctive interesting sounds ingame that I find much more interesting

An exception can perhaps be made for Pikachu as it is actually heard in-game with a name-cry. Its name doesn't seem to correspond to anything in particular (and when one really gets into the meaning of its name its a combination of onomatopoeia which only really furthers this point), so I can accept that they probably named it after its cry much like the cuckoo in our world was named for its distinctive sound.

Long live the Age of the Venomoth!

Yeah... Copy-paste profile fillers are dumb. I had a stack of them ironically for a while, but they were just cluttering the place up, so now they're gone.