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Results - Next Fiction Poll
🕑 Added 2025-07-15 20:13:20 +0000 UTCYou can find the original page for the poll here.
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Royal Road does not support multi-question polls, so when creating this poll, I divided it into categories and did not restrict how many options people could vote for. This set-up is flawed, but it’s good enough for gathering a usable result. Initially, I was going to run a second version of this poll with specified categories and narrowed-down options, but the results gave me enough to work with when it came to deciding which idea I want to write next.
In total, there were five categories of choices, with one “floater” choice that didn’t quite fit into any of them. In order, the categories included in this poll were Background, Journey Focus, Team Build, Region, and Specialty. When making my decision, I specifically looked at the top few options. I’ve bolded and underlined the ones I’ll be looking at when writing next.
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Background:
General Isekai / Use of Meta-Knowledge - 6.75 %
Experienced Protagonist / Advanced Trainer Start - 6.40%
Criminal Background / "Evil" Team Membership - 5.22%
Local Trainer / Native OC - 4.67%
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Journey Focus
Alternative, less structured goal and/or Slice of Life - 5.19%
Post-Gym Focus - 4.89%
Classic Journey Focus - 3.27%
Contest Focus - 2.33%
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Team Build
Capture and Training of "Lesser" Legendary Pokémon - 5.56%
Solo-run (A single, exceptionally strong Pokémon) - 3.39%
A classic, six-member team - 3.08%
"Breeder" - 2.75%
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Region
Later Gen Regions (Gens VI+) - 4.06%
Unova - 3.63%
Early Gen Regions (Gen I - IV) - 2.82%
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Specialty
Machine / Technology Pokémon Specialist - 5.24%
Generalist / No Specialty - 3.62%
Dragon Type Specialist - 3.52%
Ice Type Specialist - 3.37%
Sandstorm Team - 2.97%
Psychic Type Specialist - 2.94%
Poison Type Specialist - 2.83%
Bug Type Specialist - 2.42%
Ground Type Specialist - 2.37%
Water Type Specialist - 2.15%
Flying Type Specialist - 2.10%
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Misc. Category
Double Battle Focus - 2.47%
(While Double Battles weren’t the most popular option, I want to write Double Battles. The “official battles” of the next long fiction will have a more VGC-style lean, but there’ll still be the occasional single battle as well.)
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As an image, I’ve included all of the results below, colored by category, and I’ve included a downloadable version of it as part of this upload (however, the color-coding and formatting seem to not have been saved).
I do not regularly use Excel / Google Sheets, so I can’t say this is set up in the best way possible. The “Estimated Voters” category is the Total Votes divided by the Estimated Average Votes, and the Estimated Average Votes assumes people choose half of the total options (13 out of 27). Realistically, I believe the actual number of individual voters is higher, but I can’t find a way to pull that information from Royal Road.
Comments
Minh tri
Thanks for the update! I didn't get notification untill decided to revisit the poll. Can't wait for the next story!
Incarnated Whisp
Hello! I'm writing this comment as a quick update. I didn't feel that this information was "big" enough to warrant a full post. I'm hard at work writing the next fiction, a short story that'll hopefully serve as the introduction to the characters of the next long fiction (if everything works out). Right now, I'm aiming to have it done and being put out starting between the 10th and 15th of this month. It won't consist of many chapters (less than ten, mostly likely), but each chapter will be longer than usual, and the release schedule will be fast. I'm aiming to get the whole fiction done before posts start going up, and once it's over, I'll be working on the Type Specialist epilogue chapters from there. Those will consist of a few standalone chapters and a final, short story arc, and then I'll finally be moving on to the next long fiction. See you soon!
Thanatos
I meant to write this last week, but it slipped my mind. My first though of a "machine/technology" focus immediately went to a grandchild of Wattson, the Hoenn Electric gym leader. Can have a Magnezone as a starter and then a variety of steel and electric pokemon that fit the machine theme, going around in the later Regions, maybe something like an Interpol Field Agent as an excuse to move them around a bunch, or just settled down outside of Hoenn as an ACE trainer or similar.
