Fascinating! I wonder if they have any difficulty in typing. Granted, I didn’t have much trouble (other than reaching my keyboard in the first place and adjusting for the fact that I had shorter and fewer fingers), but one must admit that the keyboard is awkwardly designed for human use only.
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Huh. That gives me an idea…!
I’d stop him, but this sounds like an innocent project that will keep him busy for a while. Unless he decides to test it on himself … again. —LH
Oh, quite possibly! Ditto as well!
Blazes, would you believe I’ve never thought about it? But it’s quite thrilling, honestly—the idea of communicating unknowingly to an entire pokémon audience! I can only wonder how many of these asks are actually the words of pokémon themselves!
They don’t know me.
(No, literally, they don’t. Or do I have pokémon readers besides the occasional rotom or porygon? That would be interesting, actually…)
They’re pokémon. All of them are furries.
Or perhaps not. I’m not entirely sure about the terminology, contrary to popular belief.
You’ve actually hit the nail rather on the head right there: they naturally have that mentality. Keep in mind that ralts are naturally highly psychic and become attuned to partners based on empathic probes first and foremost, not to mention the fact that most wild pokémon seem to be aware of humanity (seeing as wild pokémon can choose to venture out and find trainers or withdraw further into the wilderness to avoid us). Whereas alakazam, jynx, and so forth are attracted to like minds, for the sensitive members of the ralts line, they’re repelled by anything they consider a potential battling partners and caretakers—i.e., humans. Thus, they’re also repelled by anything that reminds them of humans, even if they themselves have never spent time with our kind.
They do not. Gardevoir only breed with members of the amorphous egg group, not only because the amorphous egg group consists of the only pokémon that can produce a viable egg with the ralts line anyway but also because of the Oedipus complex concept Lanette was describing (with the most unfortunate terminology possible).
Bill, if we’re going to criticize each other’s unfortunate wording, I have a few dozen pokédex entries to talk about with you… —LH
Lanette. You’re the one who said it, so you get to explain it.
Honestly, Bill, you’ve joked about the more colorful parts of the internet multiple times, and this is where you draw the line? It means “something related to the Oedipus complex.” “Oedipus complex,” for those of you who don’t know, is the idea that some people want to have intimate relations with one of their parents, usually their mother. Although we could get into whether or not Freud, who coined this term, is at all credible, the point is that the term “oedipal” means “anything related to the idea of wanting to date your parents.” —LH
I should really hope not. Otherwise, I’d have a lot of blocking to do.
This is actually a rather interesting question because there’s a bit of debate about it. You see, taxonomically and up until recently, poochyena were considered a canine pokémon. Many researchers still classify them as such when describing their behavior, as they behave very much like true canine pokémon (forming packs, hunting as a group, guarding territory as canines would, and so forth). In this regard, they’re often though to be the Hoennian cousins of growlithe or houndour—the latter especially, given the fact that poochyena’s behavior most closely mirrors that (possibly owing to their shared dark type).
However, genetically, it was recently discovered that poochyena are more accurately their own classification and that this branch of the pokémon evolutionary tree is less related to true canines and more related to … zangoose. Both families belong to, of all things, the feline class of pokémon; it’s just that they adapted to fill completely different niches. While zangoose is technically more cat-like than poochyena (albeit, yes, zangoose is still not a true cat, and in any case, skitty fills that ecological niche for Hoenn), the going theory is that poochyena developed canine characteristics due to the lack of a true canine species in the region (vulpix notwithstanding, as it only lives on a specific island on an island).
Regarding the subject of the ralts line’s egg group, this ask should answer your question, anonymous: http://bills-pokedex.tumblr.com/post/150226460696/why-isnt-the-ralts-family-in-the-human-like-egg
That said, birth defects are generally rare, and given the fact that a breeder is loaning you mate for your gardevoir (breeders are usually very careful about what they use as breeding stock), unless there are genetic defects with your own gardevoir, it’s unlikely that you’ll have to worry about that at all. Still, be sure to keep the egg warm and in a well-ventilated place to ensure that the hatchling will be healthy.
For those curious, in the meantime, ralts are extremely fragile pokémon, so it is true that defects are possible and that many of the possibilities have to do with this species’ fragility. Premature hatchlings are often too frail to live without vigorous assistance via artificial support at first, often due to immune systems that haven’t fully developed yet. However, that’s the generous side of things. There are plenty of defects that render a hatchling unviable for life at all, usually involving malformed organs or organs that haven’t fully developed at all. In rare instances—particularly crossbreeds with members of the gastly or misdreavus line—that organ may even include skin. Additionally, because of how small and slender a ralts body is, you may see a ralts with its internal organs squished one way or the other, but again, this is incredibly rare and only really occurs when both of the parents carry certain genetic anomalies.
But once more, all defects within the ralts line tend to be rare, especially if you’re working with a breeder’s pokémon, so it’s very likely you’ll simply have a happy, healthy baby ralts. (It should also be noted that the diversity or lack thereof of the egg group doesn’t have anything to do with the frequency of birth defects among hatchlings. If that were true, then we humans would be in quite a bit of trouble, given the fact that we have only ever been able to mate with one species, right? So long as pokémon are not genetically related—and given the fact that many members of the amorphous egg group are quite common, it’s unlikely you’ll be forced to breed blood relatives—the hatchlings will typically be fine.)
That having been said, best of luck and congratulations, anonymous!
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