One Blue Trainer's Fumbling Journey to the Top

Follow the adventure of Maple, who can barely remember the basic type advantages, as she fumbles and bumbles her way to the top of the league! This is a tribute to the first time any of us played a Pokemon game, and as such I thought it fitting that this should be a nuzlocke of one of the first Pokemon games: Pokemon Blue. I hope you enjoy it! Read it in order here. Want to trade Pokemon?

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First Battle

((Yeah, I lost the first battle. Shush. It would have been silly to restart the game over this, so instead I will use it as part of the story.))

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Yup. This is off to an excellent start.

Also available on DeviantArt.

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Pokemon Trade?

What I have to trade:

Boxes full of 5IVs: Riolu, Dedenne, and Lapras

6IVs: Three Dedenne (All are male with cheek pouch. Two are level 1 and are gentle and bold respectively. The last is level 59 due to breeding and is bashful.)

Legendaries: Deoxys (lvl 80), Rayquaza (lvl 86), Articuno (lvl 50)

Shinys: Whiscash (lvl 44), Poliwrath (lvl 33), Dragalge (lvl 50), Alomomola (lvl 35), and Glaceon (lvl 31).

I’ll take pretty much anything for the 5IVs but I prefer 5IV. 

For the 6IVs, I prefer 6IV males that aren’t from the U.S., but I’ll take any 6IV or shiny. (I’m trying to collect a breeder for each egg-group since that’s easier than finding a 6IV ditto, particularly one from another country.)

I primarily want Shinys for the Legendaries and Shinys, but I’ll take 6IV.

So shoot me a message or something if you want to trade? :)

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We finally have Pokemon! :D

 Also on DeviantArt.

I always feel bad for the 3rd starter. What does it do all day after its friends leave?

Canthro was actually the name of my Squirtle in the first Pokemon game I played (LeafGreen) so I really wanted to use it again here. No real meaning to it, it was just a random string of letters. I’m quite proud that I managed to put some thought behind it here. 

Also, I finally looked up Tumblr’s max image sizes and make sure to keep within those dimensions and it looks much better this time.

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2 pages in and not a single Pokemon has showed up. Truly the height of a Pokemon adventure right here.

Also uploaded to DeviantArt.

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And so with the re-release of Pokemon Blue on the 3ds, I can begin this Nuzlocke! 

Since Tumblr can’t seem to get the image quality right, I uploaded it to DeviantArt as well.

The rules will be outlined later in-story. Just one thing you should note right now: Pokemon won’t die in this comic, just become hospitalized. I never understood how Pokeon battling could continue as a sport if there really was that high a mortality rate.

A little about Maple:

As you can see we have a rather reluctant heroine. I thought it would be a fun idea to have a trainer who never learned more than the basics about Pokemon for this adventure. It’s a tribute of sorts to our first play-throughs of Pokemon games. Her design is a combination of the FireRed/LeafGreen protagonists. Since the first games don’t have the choice for a female protagonist I thought it would be fitting to have elements of the male character in the design.

A little about me:

The first Pokemon game I ever played was a borrowed copy of Leaf Green. I never did beat the Champion in that game. A few years later I borrowed Heart Gold. I beat Johto there but barely even started Kanto. Finally I bought Y and have beaten that one completely. So now it’s time to go back to the beginning and see if I can do better this time than I did in Leaf Green.

My mod blog: @maplestarscribbles

My MLP OC ask blog: @ask-maplestartoys