WarEmerald
Keep Calm and Battle On
Towns Folk
Since playing Pokémon Go for almost a year and seeing them (almost) in our reality, it really got me thinking. Especially about how things could be different if we had a more pokemon type reality. These questions are some that are definitely in the forefront of my mind. You can answer them all or just focus on one. I'm trying to wrap my brain around what it would be like in the pokemon world. Also a lot of these answers could be found in the shows, movies, and probably the games, but I wasn't taking any notes. Thank you for your time and thoughts.
- -Life span? There's cemeteries shown, fossil pokemon that can be brought back to life, thousand year old pokemon hybernating. We have revives, sprays, medicine, and Nurse Hopes that bring their health back. But does that stop them from dying?
- We know of free will evolving when they don't need stones or objects. What do they do with the objects? Do they eat it, absorb it, crush it? Where do they store it? They don't have pockets! Do some pokemon go out and try to find their objects? Do others avoid it? When should a trainer give them the object? How do trainers know if a pokemon are defective or need an object?
- How does training work? We have DMs and TMs, but how do they work on pokemon? We have seen trainers and gym leaders show the move physically to their pokemon. How should pokemon really be trained?
- What about pokemon collecting? One example could be a room full of pokeballs on shelves with labels. Or zoos in cities. Pokemon showing, which one is the most beautiful or best trained. Sanctuaries that are used for no capturing. Egg hatcheries that are filled with caring staff that are ready to help care for these little pokemon. What about pet pokemon stores or should there be? Pokemon are companions. They could be captured in the wild or maybe they could be given as a gift that you train for a lifetime.
- So we've learned that all pokemon come from eggs, but is that really what happens? A lot of pokemon seem and act like mammals. Shouldn't they be giving birth them instead of laying eggs? How do plant/grass type pokemon lay eggs? Wouldn't it be more of a pollination like situation?
- What about ill moral people that use pokemon for only money? Like black market dealings, pokemon mills that just breed them for money, poaching, product testing, defective pokemon studies. Have there been cases of people eating pokemon? Like a Miltank steak or magicarp sushi? Or maybe there is a black market of poke-meat?
- Pokemon eating pokemon. It happens in the wild, the pokedex even says so. Would you feed your flying-type a bunch of caterpies? But what if you are a flying-type breeder and your neighbor/friend is a bug-type breeder? Would that be awkward to the bug-type person? Or is it a more normal thought like snakes eating mice?
- The age old questions. What's really inside a pokeball? How does the PCs work? Are pokemon basically living technology that go from code to living being? Or is it a teleportion device?