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• I'm about to fall apart. (Again, again.) by itspronouncedsai

  Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)  

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  10 Oct 2025

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  • Pocket Monsters | Pokemon & Original Pokemon Trainer(s)
  • Mimikkyu | Mimikyu & Original Pokemon Trainer(s)
  • Mimikkyu | Mimikyu & Original Character(s)
  • Mimikkyu | Mimikyu
  • Original Pokemon Trainer(s)
  • Joui | Nurse Joy
  • Mentioned Kibana | Raihan
  • References to Depression
  • mimikyu is just a little guy
  • well girl
  • but who's thinking about genders anyway
  • Nonbinary Character
  • Meta
  • like very meta
  • The Fourth Wall Does Not Exist
  • Post-Time Loop
  • time loop recovery
  • Existential Angst
  • protag is very self aware and calls me out on my shit
  • fuck you kyoei
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Slice of Life
  • Pokemon
  • Character Study
  • is it really a character study if its your character
  • sapphics at the end but its not very friendly sapphics

  Summary

  Depression works in mysterious ways. Sometimes it's crying, screaming, mourning, fighting, rotting—Sometimes it's acceptance that you're never going to get out of the hell hole you dug yourself into.

  Kyoei Joy falls into the latter category.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Where We Stand (On the Border of Life and Death) • Pokémon OCs

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,508

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  4

  Hits:

  30