The Crimson Gardevoir Iceberg charts

Iceberg Charts, or Iceberg Tiers, refer to a series of humorous images summarizing knowledge about a specific topic, with the top layers being the knowledge of most people know, and bottom layers are the most obscure information only the dedicated fans would know or be interested in.

## History of Iceberg Tiers about The Crimson Gardevoir

### Iceberg version 1

Some fans from the official The Crimson Gardevoir Discord server started joking about obscure facts about the story as far back as 2021. The first iceberg chart was posted on **#zlewdomancer-chat-room** by MegaGenesis on October 31st, 2021. It was a very simple iceberg containing some information about the story, characters, theories and facts about the fandom.

### Iceberg version 2

V2 of the iceberg chart was posted on November 6th, 2021. It was a more refined version of the original chart.

### Iceberg version 3

V3 was posted on June 23rd 2022 by MegaGenesis. It is the more up-to-date and complete one so far.

## Explaining The Crimson Gardevoir Iceberg

### Tier 1

* **Zlewdomancer34:** Main article. Is the creator of *The Crimson Gardevoir*.
* **TCG Discord Server:** Is the official Discord server for fans of the work created by Zlewdomancer34 himself in 2021.
* **Poké-lemons oneshots:** Is a series of M rated Pokémon fan fiction oneshots released by Zlewdomancer34 in parallel with TCG. While it was never officially completed or cancelled, this side project has been dormant since November 2017. It has 13 chapters as of the time of this writing, or 13 individual stories. Lewdo (Zlewdomancer34) explained these oneshots do not share the same universe as Max and Scarlet, and thus, these characters will never cross over.
* **Rating on FFdN:** For a brief time, *The Crimson Gardevoir* reached third place in the highest rated M Romance Pokémon stories on Fanfiction.net.

### Tier 2

* **My Unwanted Life:** It is a fan fiction written by user murloc rampage between 2015 and 2016 and posted on Fanfiction.net. Zlewdomancer34 said the Gardevoir OC of this story inspired him to create Scarlet.
* **Drago/dubs:** Refer to the What Ifs and byte size stories written by fan Drago using the characters from *The Crimson Gardevoir*.
* **Fan art:** There are fan arts about *The Crimson Gardevoir* made over the years. Notorious artists in the fandom are NoFlail, or 'JigaCat', and MegaGenesis.
* **Accessories used by the girls:** Every Pokémon from Max's team uses some sort of accessory. Lewdo must have forgotten or forgone this trait of the characters because he rarely brings attention to this in the story. Scarlet wears a black choker with a Mega Stone holder with the shape of a human skull and spikes; Bonny wears a bandana around her neck, where she placed her Mega Stone; Dusk wears a gold heart necklace; May uses scrunchies at the base of her giant maw, where she keeps her Mega Stone; Aurora wears one leather glove with a Mega Stone holder; Luna wears Scarlet's old choker around her forearm, which is just a simple black leather choker; Sally doesn't appear to have any accessory of her own, but she was gifted one of Max's shirts. Jade used to wear a green necklace around her neck. Her necklace now belongs to Max, which he started wearing around his neck the day he left the Spencer Mansion to resume his journey.
* **Ballandroll:** Zlewdomancer34's previous profile name on Fanfiction.net.

### Tier 3

* **Beta Chapters/Lost media:** It was said by Lewdo that some chapters were scrapped or changed significantly before release, leading to a plethora of lost scenes that will likely never see the light. One example was the how the events of the Body Switching Arc (Chapters 93, 94, 95) originally played out: instead of a Manaphy attacking Scarlet and Max, it was the Lake Trio (Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf) in the betas. May didn't had her own fight scene, and Luna was edgier with her words.
* **Original description:** The original description for *The Crimson Gardevoir* on Fanfiction.net was replaced with a newer, likely cleaner version. The old version has since been lost to the world.
* **Tokken**: main article. Tokken is an active fan and overwhelmingly fond of Lewdo. He is the source of much 'cursed' media within the community with his constant desire for the characters to lose or experience all manner of unthinkable grief. Much to his sadism, he is among the very few who actually enjoy and support *Qsalyla* as a character.
* **Stephanie**: main article. Stephanie was a girl tortured and killed by Scarlet in Chapter 12.
* **Lauren**: Lauren is the name of a female Gardevoir OC created by itrulydontcare for the fanfiction named after her. She is concerningly similar to Scarlet in many ways, and some readers pointed out how the story she is a part of feels very reminiscent of *The Crimson Gardevoir.*
* **TCG was supposed to be just a oneshot**: *The Crimson Gardevoir*, by the author's admission, was originally intended to be a quick one-chapter story featuring the titular Gardevoir having sex with Max, the male protagonist. This is evident by the writing style and personalities of both characters compared to the rest of the story, wherein they both received far more complex personalities starting from Chapter 2.

### Tier 4

* **The Ditto Chapter:** Refers to Chapter 92, which is a filler story about Max and the girls stopping by a Pokémon Brothel called Cheeky Barn, where Max pays for the girls to have sex with the Dittos there as much as they want. This chapter garnered infamy among some readers because they felt very displeased by the concept of other males having sex with Max's Pokémon. Some readers not active in the Discord server left a few angry commentaries in the review section of Fanfiction.net when this chapter was posted. Some other fans liked this chapter as it was one of very few moments in the story the girls had the same levels of sexual freedom Max usually has.
* **TCG rewrite project on Wattpad:** Lewdo wanted to rewrite some of the early portions of *The Crimson Gardevoir* for a while, to fix inconsistences in the portrayal of the characters and add more details to the world. He started rewriting and reposting the new edition on the website Wattpad, but the project has been frozen for quite a while and it appears Lewdo lost interest.
* **Zoroark tag:** Very early in *The Crimson Gardevoir*'s life, the story had Zoroark in the tags in Fanfiction.net, 30 chapters before Luna was introduced. It still not known why the tag was removed after Luna joined the team, but it is speculated it was to prevent major spoilers for new readers.
* **The Mansion Arc:** Refers to the story arc that takes place after Jade's death, going from Chapter 73 to 82. It is considered a milestone in the story, as this is where the Time Skip takes place. It is infamous and quite disliked by the fandom of *The Crimson Gardevoir* because of the abrupt change of tone and plot progression from Chapter 75 onwards with the introduction of the character Mad-Ji. Many fans also voiced their dislike of how Lewdo handled the Time Skip, literally skipping a lot of character development we'll never see, such as Dusk's evolution into Delphox. It is theorized by fans that Lewdo felt pressured by reviewers from Fanfiction.net nagging him about the depressive tone the story was in after Jade's death.
* **Max's psychology:** main article. ￼ It is a theory written by reviewer ZtheH from Fanfiction.net about Max's state of mind up until Chapter 72.
* **Scarlet and Qsalyla are sisters:** A theory fans coined about the possibility of Scarlet and Qsalyla being related. The theory goes on to explain how Scarlet's parents had another offspring after her, and that was Qsalyla. This theory tries to explain Qsalyla's obsession with Scarlet.

### Tier 5

* **Luna Animatic Project:** main article. ￼ It is an animatic of the character Luna with voice lines from Renamon, made by MegaGenesis and Drago.
* **The 30 Longest Pokémon Fanfiction:** refers to a post made by user u/PokekidKanto on r/pokemonfanfiction on February 23rd, 2022, listing the 30 longest Pokémon fanfiction from AO3 and Fanfiction.net. *The Crimson Gardevoir* appears tied in 11th place with other six fanfictions.
* **Rados' broken economy:** It is a theory coined by fan Lucio about the background story of the Rados region. This theory tries to explain how Pokémon training fell out of popularity in Rados, while also giving more context for Max's dad's anger issues.
* **Vicky was supposed to join the team:** While it was never confirmed by Lewdo, fans theorized Vicky was supposed to the be the replacement for Jade in the team, before this idea was scrapped to make way to the return of Sally.

### Tier 6

* **Jade's egg theory:** Refers to a dark theory about Jade being sexually abused by Qsalyla's Gallades and laying an egg secretly from the group, in Chapter 68. This theory was posted by some fans on the discord server before Dimitri was introduced, so the theory went on explaining how Scarlet would find said egg and raise Jade's offspring as her own, in atonement for how she mistreated the pale gardevoir.
* **LordGhostStriker:** He is the first person the write a review for *The Crimson Gardevoir*, way back on November 6th, 2015. His commentary was: "will she get a rival for her love of max?"
* **Luna is into incest:** This is an inside joke amongst the TCG fans in the Discord server. Because Luna calls Max her "little pup" and said he reminds her of her son, some fans joked about Luna being into incest.
* **Loki:** main article. ￼ It is the name given to Luna's dead son by the *The Crimson Gardevoir* fandom. This fanom version of Luna's son is it's own character separated from how he is described in the canon material.
* **How to pronounce "Qsalyla"?:** It is still up in the hair how to pronounce the name Qsalyla. Some fans ignore the Q, some just call her "Lyla".

### Tier 7

* T**he group is being followed by the Army:** It is a theory created after the events of Special Chapter: Classified Information. Fans believe the Rados Army have their sights on Scarlet since the day she escaped the lab and are following each of her and Max's steps.
* **Xerath & Bsalyla:** They are joke characters made by the fans. They were made to satirize the abundance of Gardevoir characters in the story and only exist in fanom material.
* **Anti-Pokémon Training sentiment in Rados:** Another theory coined by some fans, after the events of Chapter 72. It talks about how there might be some sort of political movement brewing in Rados that wants to ban Pokémon Trainers permanently.

### Tier 8

* **Scarlet will be punished by her crimes in the end:** Despite being the main character of the story, readers must not forget the many crimes committed by Scarlet before and after meeting Max. The story rarely addresses this aspect of her past, however, that didn't stop fans from speculating she will be punished in some way. This theory gained some traction after the events of the Special Chapter and the ending of Chapter 82.
* **Max's mother:** Very little is known about her in the story aside from her mysterious death when he was a child.
* **Max will never get his Trainer License:** Given how many times Max forgot about legalizing his Trainer Permit, fans joke about him being prohibited from entering the Rados League because of his invalid permit. However, as of Chapter 102 Max finally got his Trainer Permit signed by a official Pokémon Doctor, allowing him to enter official tournaments.
* **Max's full name:** In Chapter 102 it was finally revealed that Max's surname is Elms, making him Max Elms. In the Special RP, with Zlewdomancer34 himself, Max was called Maximilian by his father. This information might or might not be canon. If so, his full name is Maximillian Elms.