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It is very much a coping mechanism - and the fact that it's consciously one is actually a sign of Kieran's growth! Not so long ago, the notion that he doesn't matter was just an Ingrained Truth in Kieran's mind, but now he has a small spark of the belief that he does matter at least a little...

Chapter 3 – This wasn’t supposed to happen – The tears had stopped a while ago. Which was good, really, because it meant Kieran didn’t have to think about whatever reason he could have had for crying. He could even mostly ignore the pain, now that it’d lessened to a dull ache. It only really...

Definitely a much healthier way now, in that he's directly facing the scary things that he's struggling with! His whole thing before of getting stronger with battling was largely a very indirect, running-away-from-the-problem sort of coping mechanism that would, in his head, somehow just make...

Oops. :unquag: If Gustavus hadn't outright figured Kieran had captured Ogerpon and was doing this purely because he's the kid who knows the most about Ogerpon and probably knows where it disappeared to, then Kieran would have found it harder to deny that he's actually a pretty important figure...

~~~ Chapter 2 – You’re just okay being this weak forever? – It was cold and his body ached. He groaned, shifting, the surface beneath him hard and uncomfortable. This… wasn’t his bed…? This was— Fear jolted Kieran fully awake as everything came flooding back. On instinct, he tried to get his...

@Dragonfree And even aside from everyone else's attitude to training... Kieran kinda just traumatised himself with how unhealthily hard he was pushing himself back then, and being in the Terarium, where most of that training took place, sometimes vaguely triggers that. :unquag: :veelove: (he's...

Well, here I am, somehow writing a Pokéfic again for the first time in forever. The kinds of fic I do occasionally write these days are always canon character-focused, which I never in a million years expected to want to do in the Pokémon fandom. But by some unprecedented miracle, the Pokémon...