User blog comment:Absol102/How do you guys feel about Pokepastas?/@comment-25052433-20180121062020

In the right hands, any topic can be turned into a successful story. I remember when I first started checking out this site, I enjoyed some of the Pokemon stories.

Fun Fact: Back when I was still in the Army in 2012, I was stuck on a boring assignment in Kuwait after the draw down from Iraq. Long days of doing pointless labor counting down the days until we got deployed back to the States. To kill the time I started playing around on one of the many Nintendo emulators that we file shared among eachother, and I decided to dip back into Pokemon.

Anyway, that emulator I had came with a built in Game Genie, and I decided to look up some cheat codes for Pokemon Red... or Blue, I forget which one. Anyway, in my search for Pokemon secrets I stumbled upon the Creepypasta Wiki for the very first time. I'd had no real exposure to the genre before that, and even though I was a man in my 30's in the military, I honestly wasn't sure if what I was reading was based on real facts or not. The Pokemon story had screen shots and was detailed... I really enjoyed it and found the appeal in the 'haunted game' concept.

After that I just kept click the random button and was hooked. Eventually 2014 would roll around. I was out of the Army by then and back home in New Orleans. One night I came up with an idea for a story called Secret Bar and decided that the Creepypasta Wiki was the place I'd want to right it. I've never left.

Now that my long winded re-telling of facts that you never asked for is over, I'll address your questionin more detail.

Can a Pokemom horror story succeed? Of course. Quite a few are considered classics. Stephen King has written amazing horror stories about an old broken down pick-up truck he saw in a field, or a strange storm that rains evil frogs.

The main issue with the Pokemon stories is the same issue that damaged the haunted game trope in general. Over saturation. The game stories got popular. Then the Spongebob stories got popular, the My Little Pony stories got popular, the OC with a catch phrase stories got popular... and before you can say "I choose you!" this Wiki was flooded them. Had they all been incredibly well written and executed pastas, they'd likely still be here. Sadly, people began to rush to push them out and what we got was a lot of sub-par, grammatical nightmares that essentially all told the same story.

So, cause and effect being what it is, many of those themes were blacklisted, and still are. However, if someone wanted to badly enough, they could make a great story out of just about anything. Pokemon is no different.

To FINALLY answer your question, the way I feel about a Pokemon pasta is the same as I would feel about a Lovecraftian demon story (my personal faves.) If the story is well written and executed, then it is due the emotions that it brings out.