Though I can’t really ask him myself, I have a feeling that my honedge has taken an interest in human activity. He’s attempting to “talk” with humans rather than other pokémon. My honedge has also done more domestic things like trying to help me cook, reading my books and indulging in some TV. I find it endearing that he’s trying to get to know more about my race but I feel like the spirit inside him is trying to get in touch with who he was in his past life. What should I do?

Some ghost-types that were supposedly humans at one point (according to popular theory or folklore anyway) often develop human-like habits after lengthy periods of cohabitation with one, so your honedge’s behavior actually isn’t that unusual. Oftentimes, it’s perfectly harmless and limited to just mild human-like habits (such as the ones you’re describing), but other times, it progresses to full-blown human-like mentality (that is, an insistence on doing everything human-like, from sharing meals at the dinner table with their trainers to, perhaps, a romantic interest in their trainers) or, if they had retained their memories from their human lives, an interest in their former selves.

In both of the more extreme cases, they’re relatively harmless—well, unless some of the habits are more disruptive to your own life or if helping your honedge with his quest to find remnants of his human self is out of your means. Regarding either, though, it’s best to communicate with him and figure out his needs, or at least establish boundaries. It never hurts to tell him that you support him, and if there’s anything you can do to help him, it will strengthen your bond if you do so.

Best of luck, anonymous!