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Bill, why don’t you tell Lanette about the epic sequel to the Clefairy incident, the Nidorino incident.

She already knows. There was … a very long conversation after I told her.

Seriously, Bill. It’s a trans-regional teleporter. How do you keep merging yourself with pokémon through it? —LH

In my defense—hey, wait a second. —Bill

How do the rest of you know about that?!

I heard that the Bulbasaur population is bouncing back in Kanto! That’s great! I love the little guys!

It is, in part thanks to more aggressive anti-poaching practices in the region. Remember, everyone: if you must obtain a bulbasaur from a person, be sure to do so only from a certified breeder, shelter, or pokémon professor.

That having been said, I quite agree with you on the subject of bulbasaur, but perhaps I’m a little biased. Other than eevee, I maintain that bulbasaur is the best starter, and anyone who disagrees would be welcome to meet the fully evolved starter with the best disposition I’ve ever met.

Bill, your venusaur is that well-behaved because it’s unconscious for half the day and eating for the other half. —LH

Resting, Lanette. He’s just resting. It’s not easy being a guard pokémon. —Bill

Considering you live in a remote corner of Kanto? I’m sure it isn’t. —LH

What if I hatch a bunch of Yamask eggs? Is that mass genocide?

On a serious note (compared to my last post and response to your question, that is), it actually depends on whether or not you believe wholeheartedly in the folklore associated with yamask. Given the frequency of a yamask birth, the consensus among pokémon researchers is that it’s statistically unlikely that yamask are the spirits of deceased humans. Rather, it’s more likely that yamask are simply pokémon attached to mask-like objects that, through our tendency to see ourselves in literally everything (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia), human beings have interpreted to resemble human faces.

The same can be said for phantump, actually. They’re not literally the lost souls of human children; we just created folklore that says they are because their appearances and cries resemble those of distressed toddlers. The only difference is that Kaloseans realized this rather quickly because trevenant decidedly do not resemble distressed toddlers on any level.

I said in the wild because they don’t have a trainer to carry that sort of bond with. So do all members of the ralts line just naturally have that mentality, even if they don’t have a trainer? If so, why don’t other human-like Pokémon have that (specifically other psychic human-like Pokémon such as Alakazam, Jynx, Mr. Mime, Medicham, and ESPECIALLY Gothitelle!)? What makes the ralts line so special here?

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.

So based on that logic, do Gardevoir breed with other Pokémon in the human-like egg group in the wild?

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

Just read the Ralts egg group ask. What the heck does Oedipal mean? I can’t really understand the answer without knowing what that word means.

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

Is it possible for a Zorua line member andor Ditto to become permanently stuck in a transformation (or at least choose to stay in one)?

Choose to stay as one? Yes, absolutely. Some shapeshifters have preferred forms, and they’ll attempt to assume these forms whenever possible.

Get permanently stuck as one, however, is a different story, and the answer there is “no.” Such transformations are always conscious for the most part. There’s always something that will trigger a de-transformation, no matter how careful a ditto or zorua/zoroark is.