Hello Bill, my name is Blossom the Alakazam and my trainer has been feeling down lately. I was wondering if there is anything I could do to help her. We’re all worried and want to help, but I had decided it was best to seek advice first. Thank you for your time.

Speaking from experience, sometimes, the best thing a pokémon can do is simply show their trainers that they’re there and that they acknowledge their trainer’s existence. Even simply being in the same room as your trainer can go quite a long way (although physical signs of affection certainly don’t hurt). If you’d like to be more active, sometimes, small things can go a long way too. For example, if you or your teammates are capable of doing small tasks around your home (cleaning or cooking are the foremost things), this may cheer your trainer up a bit—or at least help her relax and let her know that there are others who quite literally care for her.

Another important thing to know is that humans aren’t often as open about what’s on their minds as pokémon are. It may take time before your trainer is ready to talk about what’s troubling her or even to express the exact emotion she’s feeling. Be patient with her and let her express herself in her own way. If she shares with you, all you have to do is listen.

Best of luck, Blossom! May your trainer feel better soon!

The Abra Line

bills-pokedex:

Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.

Mega Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65+
Entry: The advanced form of alakazam, via alakazite. The array of spoon-like objects it gains upon mega evolution are psychic amplifiers that greatly enhance its telekinetic abilities. They are not, as the internet claims, for consuming vanillite ~~although some mega alakazam use them for this too~~.

Hey Bill, sorry about the length, but I’m hoping perhaps you could help me figure out what’s happening to my Alakazam. I’ve had him since I was a little girl and he’s always been my best friend, but lately he’s been distancing himself. He no longer wants to join me on trips to the lake or walks in the park when I’m off on my work rotation. He’s been sleeping much more than usual and has been much slower in reacting or answering me when I address him. He’s never been a big eater but now he hardly eats a complete meal once a day, no matter why I try to give him. His fur has also thinning in patchy areas despite how well it’s kept. Is there anything I can do for him, to keep things from getting worse?

Bill: Well, if your partner had been an alakazam since you were young, there’s a good likelihood that he’s … well, getting old. For one, if he evolved naturally, then by default, he’s likely pretty advanced in age. For another, if he hadn’t, alakazam don’t live that much longer after evolution. I don’t mean to say that they live short lives afterwards, of course; I mean to say that they don’t often live as long as their human partners. Sometimes, they don’t quite make it to twenty years after their final evolution. The stress of containing their incredible psychic abilities can take a physical toll on them, you see.

I know that sounds quite depressing, but alakazam frequently deal with the subject with grace, as yours seems to be. Many of the signals you’re describing match up with classic behavior for when an alakazam is, well, making its final preparations. Of course, I could be wrong, and it’s important to communicate with your local pokémon center to be absolutely certain, but if I’m right, then what you’re seeing are signs that your alakazam is slowing down, breaking himself away from your life in order to get you acclimated to life without him, and, put simply, getting ready to pass on.

As I’ve said, communicate with your local Nurse Joy to be absolutely certain, but if she agrees, the best you can do is make your alakazam feel comfortable. He already knows that you will always be by his side, even until the end, but it wouldn’t hurt to physically be there for him as well.

The Abra Line

Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.