The Hacker [Pokemon Fanfiction]

The Hacker: Fun Facts

Woah! Is this an update? Nope! I was thinking about this book and realized there were small things that some people did pick up on, while most didn't really know. Since I didn't really ever state it. But I thought it would be fun to add some fun facts that I had when writing!

First: Leaf is half-Latino, half-white.

Explanation: I tend to like to include diversity in my books. My first book, Saving You, featured a protagonist who was supposed to be of Indian descent. The whole cycle of the two storms, one of fire and the other of drowning typhoons, were actually based off an Indian myth of the apocalypse. In my current work, Lost in Reality, Kate is supposed to have some Italian blood. I think the only thought I put to that was writing that she had olive skin so, you know.

 In this book, although Leaf is an American citizen, her father is a first generation child of a family who immigrated from Mexico. It was given in small context clues such as them living in Texas, and Leaf's last name being Verde. In multiple languages (Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish), it translates to green. It was a bit redundant for her to go from Leaf Green in a different language to Leaf Green, but it was also a way for me to tie in her ultimate destiny to be in the game.

Also a little insider, I wrote that her father died from a mugging. In my assumption, I imagined it as a gang of (white) people jumped him and beat him to hell since he was of a different ethnicity. Even though he was born in the U.S. and contributed majorly as he worked for the American Branch of Nintendo (he was stealing them jobs, ya know?? Please note that I'm joking.)

What made me decide it? Uh... I don't know. I'm a pasty white girl, but I really care about my lineage. I have Polish, Russian, German, Finnish, English, Native American and Jewish blood. So basically White, but I care about each one as building small pieces of me. I grew up near Detroit, and that is some melting pot area. A few cities over we have one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States, I worked in a Dry Cleaners with numerous Romanian immigrants, I went to a preschool were half my friends were African American, and when I entered elementary school, I asked my mom why everyone was so white like me? I'm not color blind. I am maybe highly aware of the different cultures around me. 

So uh... That's not really an answer. I guess my reasoning is, "Why not?"

Two: I wrote Copycat in literally just to be a Red Herring for Mew

Explanation: I saw a lot of people calling Copycat Mew and I was like, "NOPE!" I mean, Mew was already a bit hidden with Leaf, but the fact that I hadn't evolved Vulpix yet had some people suspicious so I threw in Copycat. Plus she gave a good subplot to the story that really brought some emotion to build the end of the book.

I grew to love Copycat, because she became the voice of many readers during the time, expressing their shipping frustrations and sometimes impatience, but was still someone adorable and that Leaf and I both cared about very much.

Three: Gym leader Sabrina was written into a chapter just because when I wrote my first couple chapters, someone commented, "What if I ship SabrinaxLeaf?! THEN WHAT?! WHERE IS MY CONTENT!" it was a joke and an acquaintance at the time. 

Explanation: WHY NOT?!?!? I give the shippers what they want. Other than... you know, blue and leaf. And... I tease, okay?

Four: I had a self-insert character written throughout the story. her name was Aster.

Explanation: Go look for yourself! You'll find two characters, Aster and Rain sprinkled into the story. Their first intro was when Blue was flirting with a bunch of girls to see how many numbers he could get.

Originally, these two characters were from a Naruto fanfiction that my best friend and I were working on and based off of ourselves. The book ended up falling through, but the characters had always stuck with me. It was then after my book came out, that Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were released when in the Delta episode that I met Zinnia who kept talking about Aster.