The Gothita Line

Gothita
The Fixation Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 574
Entry: A small, child-like pokémon first discovered in the grasslands and forests of Unova. These strange pokémon use their ribbon-like feelers to increase their psychic powers, which they in turn use to observe people and pokémon at every waking hour of the day. However, when its eyes widen and its ribbons sway as if blown by the breeze, it is said that the gothita is actually staring at something only its kind can see. What, exactly? Well, readers, considering the fact that they’re notoriously morbid pokémon who constantly observe the living, one can only guess that it is perhaps not the warm aura of love and happiness projected by a trainer and their team.

Gothorita
The Manipulate Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 575
Entry: The evolved form of gothita, by battle experience. According to many old tales, gothorita create friends for themselves by using their hypnotic powers to control children on starry nights, when the starlight increases their celestial-based powers. This is a gross misconception. Gothorita are not nearly as selective with their victims, they don’t puppeteer humans on only starry nights, and how dare anyone have the audacity to think otherwise.

Gothitelle
The Astral Body Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 576
Entry: The evolved form of gothorita, by battle experience. Extremely talented in divination and precognition, all gothitelle possess the ability to see into the future by observing the movement and positions of stars and other celestial bodies in the night sky. Upon first meeting with a human, a gothitelle will typically determine their future the first night they get. Humans can tell when a gothitelle has successfully determined their life span when the gothitelle bursts into tears when they next meet. Whether or not that indicates that the human is due to die sooner or later is still a matter of scientific debate.

Spoink and Grumpig

Spoink
The Bounce Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 325
Entry: A small, pig-like pokémon native to mountainous regions. The pearl on its head, which is collected from regional clamperl, amplifies its telekinetic abilities greatly. Most spoink spend their entire lives searching for even better pearls … which is understandable, seeing as clamperl are obviously not native to spoink’s natural mountainous habitat. (How wild spoink managed to get their first pearls is both a mystery and a subject of pokémonological interest.)

Grumpig
The Manipulate Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 326
Entry: The evolved form of spoink, by battle experience. Grumpig control targets by channeling telekinetic forces through their black pearls and doing a hypnotic dance. The dance is so alluring, so irresistible, so inescapable that the moment a grumpig performs it on a single human, every other human in the area will flock to them and dance along with it. For this reason, the dance itself has become hugely popular overseas and is often performed at events, regardless of whether or not a grumpig is present for the festivities. This is especially so in Unova, where the dance is known by locals as the “Electric Slide.”

Some people may not know this, but unlike wilds ralts (whom are ‘attracted’ to kind-hearted trainers), ralts that are hatched from eggs from breeders (or worse, rescued from poke-mills) tend to form bonds with trainers that have latent physic abilities. These ralts, and their evolutions, have a stronger connection with their trainers, well beyond what the pokedex entries state.

Bill: It’s true that people with psychic abilities—latent or not—tend to form stronger bonds with psychic-types in general. This is for either of two reasons. First, if the trainer’s abilities are unlocked and overt, then it’s easier for that human to empathize with their pokémon, both emotionally speaking and psychically speaking. That is to say, psychics not only understand their pokémon better, but they can use their own abilities to forge connections with them. Likewise, trainers with unlocked abilities can sometimes use those same powers to strengthen the bond between themselves and their pokémon. Think of it like holding hands with someone, and neither of you want to let go.

Second, if the trainer’s abilities are latent, then the reverse happens, and the psychic-type will latch onto that human—perhaps even attempt to awaken those talents, in certain cases.

Of course, it should be noted that according to some experts, such as Saffron City’s own Sabrina, everyone has latent psychic abilities on one level or another, but to be fair, there is still some debate in the academic circles about whether or not this is true. Studies thus far have been largely inconclusive on the matter.

In short, what you say has more than a few grains of truth to it, dear reader, and ralts are indeed open to forming strong bonds with humans they feel a particularly intense level of empathy towards, especially if the human in question is capable of reciprocating psychically.

Johto Legendaries, Part II

Lugia
The Diving Pokémon
Type: Psychic/Flying
Official Registration #: 249
Entry: The guardian of the sea, according to Johtonian legend. Also according to Johtonian legend, Lugia is the god of storms, and as such, even the slightest flutter of its wings can generate hurricanes so strong it can flatten entire villages, as well as rainstorms so persistent they last for forty days. Both are, of course, absolutely fantastic for a region that relied on the shipping and fishing industries up until fifty years ago. Thus, to ensure that they held Lugia’s favor (or, in other words, to ensure that they kept Lugia pleased so Lugia would avoid annihilating Johto’s fleets of fishing and merchant ships, as well as most of its coastal population), the Johtonians constructed one of the largest, tallest, and most ornate shrines dedicated to a legendary pokémon in existence. However, given the normal Johtonian disposition of fighting literally anything that moves and is not Johtonian, this ended just about as well as one would think it did.

Drowzee and Hypno

Drowzee
The Hypnosis Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 96
Entry: This tapir-like pokémon is not only a master at inducing sleep, but it’s also a oneirovore—or creature that consumes dreams. It is said that if your nose feels itchy in the middle of the night, it means that drowzee is attempting to consume your dreams through your nostrils. This is, in fact, the only creature that should really be eating anything out of the nose, should any small children be reading this blog. (So you see, parents, this website is fantastically educational and fit for humans of all ages.)

Bill, a couple posts ago, you were talking about mating rituals, violence among pokémon, and things one should never Google. —LH

All of which are important lessons, my dear Lanette. —Bill

Hypno
The Hypnosis Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 97
Entry: The evolved form of drowzee, by battle experience. Using its pendulum, hypno is capable of inducing sleep in most thinking lifeforms within seconds. Much like its preevolved form, hypno is also an oneirovore, and thus, it uses its hypnotic abilities to prey on the dreams of humans and other pokémon. In the case of one little girl who had what were apparently particularly sweet dreams, a hypno snatched her away in order to continue feeding on her dreams specifically. This is the only recorded instance of a kidnapping by hypno on record, unlike the hundreds of other known instances of other pokémon preying on unaware trainers and children. So naturally, because of this, a number of vocal groups think the species as a whole is dangerous, and hypno has become the favored subject of those who wish to write sensationalist literature concerning the dangers of pokémon.

Lunatone and Solrock

Lunatone
The Meteorite Pokémon
Type: Rock/Psychic
Official Registration #: 337
Entry: A cave-dwelling, moon-shaped meteor pokémon. Due to the fact that it had been discovered at the site of a meteoroid strike, popular theory states that lunatone came from space. Although there has been no definite evidence proving this, it’s very clear that lunatone is affected by celestial objects: as the moon gets closer to being full, lunatone begin to swarm and grow in power. On the night of the full moon, lunatone begin to glow intensely, and such a sight has been known to intimidate even the bravest humans and pokémon. Just about the only creatures who are not intimidated by lunatone in this state are members of the clefairy line, who have been known to mistake lunatone for the moon itself and proceed to engage in prayer dances beneath lunatone swarms to appease their lunar deities.

Solrock
The Meteorite Pokémon
Type: Rock/Psychic
Official Registration #: 338
Entry: A cave-dwelling, sun-shaped meteor pokémon. Due to the fact that it had been discovered at the site of a meteoroid strike, popular theory states that solrock came from space. Although there has been no definite evidence proving this, solrock are greatly affected by the state of the sun. During sunny days, solrock become more energetic and are capable of storing sunlight within its body. When it spins, solrock can release this energy in the form of intense waves of heat and light. As this is a cave-dwelling pokémon that has no known sleep cycle, this behavior has also been known to greatly confuse the clefairy it sometimes cohabits with.

Staryu and Starmie

Staryu
The Star Shape Pokémon
Type: Water
Official Registration #: 120
Entry: A starfish pokémon native to warm seas. Known for being a resilient pokémon, staryu are capable of regenerating any part of its body that it loses in battle, so long as its jewel-like core remains intact. Moreover, the core functions as not only a staryu’s source of power besides the organs located at the tips of its arms but also its main form of communication, as the gem is capable of flashing in specific patterns understood only by other staryu and starmie. Thus, a staryu’s core is a fascinating organ with multiple extremely legitimate purposes and is not there “just to look pretty,” contrary to what some former gym leaders have been telling the schoolchildren of Cerulean City.

Starmie
The Mysterious Pokémon
Type: Water/Psychic
Official Registration #: 121
Entry: The evolved form of staryu, by exposure to water stone. In ancient times, the people of Kanto once believed that starmie were really staryu transformed by the reflection of the stars. While this has been found to be completely untrue, starmie do apparently have a connection with space. Specifically, at night, starmie have been known to lie on their backs and shoot radio signals from their jewel-like cores into the sky. While the scientific community is not in agreement with why exactly they do this, the prevailing theory is, of course, aliens.

Meditite and Medicham

Meditite
The Meditate Pokémon
Type: Fighting/Psychic
Official Registration #: 307
Entry: In order to heighten its spiritual and physical strength, this monkey-like pokémon undergoes rigorous training in mountainous areas. This training involves extreme methods such as meditating for hours and consuming only one berry a day. It should be noted that this sort of exercise is extremely taxing on the body and should not be undertaken by any unprepared human trainers seeking to attain enlightenment alongside their meditite partners.

Are you speaking from experience, Bill? Because to be fair, there’s a difference between this and forgoing basic physical needs to write your senior thesis. —LH

What difference would that be? —Bill

Medicham
The Meditate Pokémon
Type: Fighting/Psychic
Official Registration #: 308
Entry: The evolved form of meditite, by battle experience. Through years of hardcore meditation and extended periods of near starvation, this pokémon is able to develop both telekinetic and aura-viewing powers. It is said that the closer it gets to spiritual enlightenment by denying itself earthly pleasures—including food—the easier it is for a medicham to view auras in the form of brilliantly colored lights.

Oh, much like you what you were experiencing by the end of finals week. I stand corrected. —LH

At least I passed. —Bill

According to our proctors, yes. According to the ER physician, no. —LH

Exeggcute and Exeggutor

Exeggcute
The Egg Pokémon
Type: Grass/Psychic
Official Registration #: 102
Entry: An egg-like pokémon gifted with incredible telekinetic and telepathic powers. When one egg is separated from the bunch, it can use these wondrous abilities to locate and rejoin its group. Of course, given the fact that this means each egg clearly demonstrates autonomy, one must ask why researchers never classify an individual exeggcute component as being its own pokémon. And the answer, dear reader, is pokémon is wonderful, aren’t they?

Exeggutor
The Coconut Pokémon
Type: Grass/Psychic
Official Registration #: 103
Entry: The evolved form of exeggcute, by exposure to leaf stone. This palm tree-like pokémon originated in the tropics, and much of its behavior reflects this. It perks up most during sunny weather, when it’s able to collect sunlight in its coconut heads and grow. Such growth tends to be steady everywhere but Alola, where the abundant sun causes the energy somehow mutates exeggutor into long-necked dragon-type creatures. One may be wondering how it gains the dragon-type of all possible elements, never mind why it mutates in the region of Alola only, but the answer to this, dear reader, is that pokémon are indeed wonderful, majestic beings.

Elgyem and Beheeyem

Elgyem
The Cerebral Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 605
Entry: According to conspiracy theorists, this small, humanoid pokémon arrived to Earth over fifty years ago, via a UFO that crash-landed in the desert. This, of course, is a rather silly claim, not only because this claim is entirely baseless but also because everyone knows that the only non-legendary pokémon of extraterrestrial origin is clefairy.

Beheeyem
The Cerebral Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 606
Entry: The evolved form of elgyem, by battle experience. Very little is known about this humanoid pokémon. It has been observed to communicate with other beheeyem by flashing colored lights from its three fingers, but the patterns it uses has never been decoded. Then again, given the fact that beheeyem also possess the capability of using its telepathy to alter the memories of those around it, perhaps we have succeeded in decoding the beheeyem language and just don’t remember it.

Bill, please stop taunting the conspiracy theorists when most of your fans fall into that exact category. —LH

They are? Well, that’s a relief. I’m pretty sure one of them found out about a certain … incident involving a clefairy, so it’s good to know it’s likely it’ll be passed off as just another delightful conspiracy. —Bill

What? —LH

What? —Bill