Have you considered a pair of black glasses? These can be adjusted to fit any pokémon (or you can purchase custom-made ones for a specific species online), and they’re quite stylish, if you ask me.
Tag: Audino
Hello Bill! How are you doing? I hope all these questions are not exhausting you! I’ve started a new job in the Tapu Village’s clinic. I had to take an assistant with me since I’m on a wheelchair though I’ve never had one in my previous work in Hau’oli City’s children hospital. I’ve began to work with an audino and though he is a sweetie, he treats me like I’m more of a patient than a workmate. How can I tell him that it’s unnecessary? It’s uncomfortable and my human coworkers shrug it off.
It’s not exhausting at all, although I do hope you all will forgive me for my speed as of late.
That having been said, this is a bit of a tricky situation, yes, but luckily, you’re dealing with a medical pokémon. Medical pokémon are highly intelligent to the point where they possess essentially human levels of awareness only, well, without the ability to speak our language. They have to be, not only to maintain excellent bedside manners but also because they’re often asked to perform complicated tasks that a patient’s life may depend on.
I say all of this because your best course of action is … talking to him. While I wouldn’t recommend being blunt about it (as he is your coworker, and in any case, pokémon are still generally more thin-skinned than humans are), simply informing him that you feel uncomfortable with certain behaviors and outline what you would prefer him to do instead should be enough.
Also, make it clear that you’re not in pain and not in immediate need for medical attention. You can also do this through your actions: as with all pokémon that dote a little too much on trainers recovering from injuries, the more your partner sees you completing tasks on your own, the easier it will be for him to understand you don’t need his help with everything (or anything on a personal level).
Best of luck!
Audino
Audino
The Hearing Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 531
Entry: A rabbit-like pokémon native to the fields of Unova. Audino possess not only sensitive ears but also specialized feelers for detecting sound, which in combination gift it with the most sensitive hearing in the pokémon kingdom. As such, audino are typically timid pokémon, but they also make great healers, not only because they have the ability to detect aliments and heartbeats by sound but also because they have a natural inclination towards wanting to cure others. It is thus one of the gentlest pokémon in existence as well as one of the most useful to both trainers and civilians alike … yet most of Unova know it as “the best punching bag to use if you really want to get your pokémon some battle experience.”
Mega Audino
The Hearing Pokémon
Type: Normal/Fairy
Official Registration #: 531+
Entry: The advanced form of audino, via audinite. Upon achieving mega evolution, audino gain a considerable boost in their defensive capabilities, a slight boost in one of their offensive capabilities, an affinity for the fairy element, and an insatiable thirst for vengeance towards humans who only valued them as target practice for their pokémon teams.
I assure you, they do not gain one of those things… —LH
You’re right. Their offensive capabilities don’t really get that much better after mega evolution. —Bill
psychms
replied to your post “Are some species pokemon more prone to certain illnesses or conditions…”
Huh, it seems cruel that despite the fact that Audino tend to have anxiety due to an inborn aversion to humanity, they are so often seen in Unovan Pokemon Centers. Don’t they have to deal with a lot of human contact there? What’s the deal with that?
Very astute of you to point out, @psychms!
In truth, anxiety in pokémon, particularly the more human-like ones such as clefairy or audino, can possibly be managed the same way human anxiety is with proper care and patience from their human partners. In other words, it’s entirely possible to work with these species in order to maintain or even lessen their symptoms so that they may lead functional lives alongside humans. However, the younger such care begins, the easier it is to acclimate one of these pokémon to a human-based environment, and many Unovan audino nurses are actually specifically bred for the job from carefully selected parents who do not exhibit anxiety at all towards human kind. (Not all audino have this aversion, strangely enough. The ones that appear in what local Unovans call “shaking grass” are of particular note for this behavior.)
Of course, the inborn aversion is related to these species’ sensitivity to noise, and particularly loud noises may cause these pokémon to panic. That’s why nurse audino undergo special training to minimize the likelihood of this occurring.
Admittedly, it’s true that it seems a little odd to go to these sorts of lengths just to groom an audino to be a nurse, but in truth, issues with noise aside, audino are actually the third best suited pokémon for medical work in existence due to their other abilities, including an inclination to help others, ability to hear another’s physical state, and actual healing techniques. (The first and second best nurse pokémon are, of course, chansey and blissey, respectively.) Once trained to manage its sensitivity to noise and its shyness around humans, it can also be a highly dedicated worker and loyal companion to a Nurse Joy.
Audino
Audino
The Hearing Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 531
Entry: A rabbit-like pokémon native to the fields of Unova. Audino possess not only sensitive ears but also specialized feelers for detecting sound, which in combination gift it with the most sensitive hearing in the pokémon kingdom. As such, audino are typically timid pokémon, but they also make great healers, not only because they have the ability to detect aliments and heartbeats by sound but also because they have a natural inclination towards wanting to cure others. It is thus one of the gentlest pokémon in existence as well as one of the most useful to both trainers and civilians alike … yet most of Unova know it as “the best punching bag to use if you really want to get your pokémon some battle experience.”
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