Bill, I don’t want to be the one to ask this, but I lost the coin toss. Why… Why does Nuzleaf have/appear to have nipples. (I assumed that since a) it’s at least partly grass type and b) it hatches from an egg, they’re not… they’re not actually. Y’know.)

Those are wood knots. Perfectly natural. You may even notice that no two nuzleaf wood knots are alike if you lean in and look close enough … which understandably, not many people would want to do. Largely to avoid being on the receiving end of a Bullet Seed.

Is it cannibalism if my Nuzleaf eats greens? He doesn’t eat nuts though.

This is actually an excellent question with an awkwardly simple answer: no. Just as eating beef doesn’t automatically make you a cannibal, allowing your nuzleaf to eat greens doesn’t make him one. There are plenty of species of plants, so a plant eating another plant is really more or less akin to an animal eating another animal, if we oversimplify things.

However, technically speaking, you would be more of a cannibal than your nuzleaf. Although plant pokémon bear striking similarities to actual plants on a cellular level, they’re not even in the same phylogenic kingdom (as opposed to us humans and cows, which are). So, yes, there’s nothing wrong with nuzleaf eating plants.

The Seedot Line

Seedot
The Acorn Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 273
Entry: A small, acorn-like pokémon native to dense forests. It hangs from trees, where it’s often indistinguishable from ordinary seeds or apricorns. There, it waits until a human or another pokémon comes close, at which point it suddenly shakes violently to scare its target. There is literally no reason for this; seedot simply enjoys scaring people because that’s how it goes. As an added bonus, any attempt made by its victims to retaliate against this scaring is usually met with Bide. Because you can never be too much of a delightful sentient being.

Nuzleaf
The Wily Pokémon
Type: Grass/Dark
Official Registration #: 274
Entry: The evolved form of seedot, by battle experience. This childlike pokémon has the ability to play a grass flute, which tends to make passing humans feel uneasy. It also has the ability to drive trainers to capture only one pokémon whenever they enter new areas and abandon any pokémon that has fainted in the heat of battle, but whether or not this has anything to do with the actual flute playing is still up for debate.

Shiftry
The Wicked Pokémon
Type: Grass/Dark
Official Registration #: 275
Entry: The evolved form of nuzleaf, by exposure to leaf stone. This mysterious pokémon is said to be a forest guardian. When humans venture into its sanctum within the deepest, darkest parts of the forest, it uses the giant, leafy fans it has on its hands to whip up winds of up to 100 miles per hour to blow the foe away. Given this description, it may seem odd that shiftry would be designated the wicked pokémon, but this perhaps says quite a bit about humanity’s relationship with nature up until recently.