Tag: Chansey

I adopted my Chansey after she trained to be a medical Pokémon. I got her to help me with my hypochondriac tendencies, and she’s been amazing for my mental health and helping me get over my issues. But I just recently caught the flu and was throwing up and she had me bedridden, and was taking care of me. This was great and helped me recover fast but since then she’s been trying to keep me bedridden, even though I’m okay now. Is this normal? What is going on?

Considering the fact that you’ve mentioned hypochondria, I feel it’s necessary to begin by making it clear that everything you’ve mentioned is completely normal, from the symptoms you’re describing (as exhausting as they are on a physical level, given that it takes effort to, well, throw up) to the way your chansey is behaving. It’s good to hear that you’re recovering, anonymous, and I have no doubt you’re well on your way to complete recovery, even if your chansey is being extra cautious on your behalf.

That having been said, although the most severe symptoms of the flu subside within a few days (which is likely what you’re experiencing), it actually takes the human body a bit longer to recover—up to two weeks, in fact. It seems like you had a rather exhausting bout of the flu as well, judging by the vomiting, so you may actually need those extra days to fully heal. During this time, although you may feel fine, you may still be contagious, and chansey, who are often trained to work in hospital settings, understand the risk to that. So in a way, keeping you bedridden is her way of keeping the disease contained—or, in other words, she’s quarantining you. Additionally, she may also be observing you and forcing you to rest so she can be certain your body has healed properly. Complications from the flu are extremely rare, but a good nurse chansey will always be do her best to keep a lookout for them and help her charges avoid them, so to speak.

My best advice, as odd as it is for me to say this (according to my colleagues’ opinions, anyway), is to let her treat you. Take it easy for the next few days and get plenty of rest, even if you feel ready to get back to your usual routine. If she continues this behavior past two weeks, then it would be a good idea to show her that you’re all right and to establish with her clearly that you’ve gotten over the flu days ago. More than likely, however, she’ll let you get up and about as soon as two weeks have passed.

In other words, anonymous, I wouldn’t worry about it for now, no.

The Chansey Line

Happiny
The Playhouse Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 440
Entry: This small, egg-like pokémon carries around a smooth, round stone that it apparently mistakes for an egg. It is not recommend that one tells a happiny—even in jest—that the stone is not, in fact, an egg, as doing so will result in the happiny bursting into tears, which in turn will result in a very stern lecture from your research partner.

Chansey
The Egg Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 113
Entry: The evolved form of happiny, by battle experience, during the day, if the subject is holding an oval stone. A rare, motherly pokémon with incredible regenerative abilities, chansey are practical angels to trainers and those in the medical field. They possess the ability to lay eggs whose yolk have unique healing properties, and whenever these pokémon come across injured humans or pokémon, it will generously share these eggs with these parties. Of course, what is not often mentioned is how chansey will share these eggs—which is to say, never twist your ankle in a field where chansey are known to live, as this will very likely result in you being hit with Egg Bomb from every possible angle. Yolk will get everywhere. Even in places you didn’t think it would be possible for yolk to be.

Blissey
The Happiness Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 242
Entry: The evolved form of chansey, as a result of a heightened sense of happiness. The eggs it lays are composed of chemicals that induce euphoria in any human that consumes it. Additionally, blissey fur is highly sensitive and is, through means not yet understood, capable of detecting sadness. Using both abilities, blissey have a tendency to stop whatever they’re doing and rush towards any source of unhappiness in order to share their eggs with the unfortunate person. One would think, given the above, that blissey would be popular pokémon to have around hospitals and other sources of high stress levels, but this is only true for carefully trained blissey. There has been more than one incident of casually trained or wild blissey wreaking havoc on college campuses or in the wild due to their tendency to rush towards sources of unhappiness, and given the fact that “sharing” for a blissey means the same thing as “sharing” does for chansey, each of these instances ended, literally speaking, quite messily. Needless to say, one can expect to be cleaning yolk off themselves up to a week later.