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No. 5855
You know all of those rules of biology we have in the real world that allow us to make sane predictions about the natural world? Some of you might even be biology majors. Think of all those rules written down on a piece of paper. Concentrate hard on that paper. Now crumple it up and throw it away.
I'm going to show you why those rules don't apply, what rules obviously do, and what conclusions we can draw from them. Some are mundane, and some will make you think.
There are three major rules to biology in the Pokeverse.
1. The child is always the same species as the mother. (In the case of Ditto, the Ditto becomes a female of whatever species the father is, so this still holds. In the case of the Nidorans, consider them to be one species with an excessive amount of sexual variance.)
2. The child adopts the powers of the father, not the mother. This allows a child of a species usually unable to learn a move access to that move.
3. There is no such thing as a hybrid, at all. If two Pokemon breed, there is never a such thing as a half-breed. The only remnant of the father's lineage is his power. No phenotypes or genotypes are passed down.
Why is this important, and which of our important Earth-biology concepts are discarded here? In short, almost all of them. For example, we call each type of Pokemon a "species" much of the time, or assume them to be each separate species. This doesn't work; since two Pokemon of different types can breed to create viable offspring, we must rule that these Pokemon are the same species according to our rules.
This leads many to jump to the conclusion that we can generalize the concept of a species to an egg group. But many Pokemon exist at the boundaries of egg groups. Do these two Pokemon then exist as two separate species? And since we can use these Pokemon as "gateway" Pokemon to pass moves between egg groups, does the transitive property (A = B, B = C, A = C) apply here in a manner?
So let's toss out the entire concept of a species. Next on the list is the idea of an "egg". There are two possibilities. First, the egg is a game mechanic for the generalization of Pokemon birthing methods. The only Pokemon that clearly is egg-hatched is Togepi. For a lot of Pokemon, being hatched from an egg doesn't make a whole lot of sense (see: Grass-types). However, if we accept that all Pokemon are literally born from eggs and that this is generalized across a wide range of sentient creatures (many of them extraordinarily human-esque in shape and function), we can extrapolate that perhaps humans are also born from eggs in the Pokeverse. Is there a single live birth ever shown in canon?
"But they're humans, just like us!" Hardly. They may look and act like us, but the humans in the Pokemon universe are no more our equivalents than the Pokemon themselves, and in fact, the final piece of this proposal is the suggestion that Pokeverse humans are simply the dominant Pokemon of the age. Humans are Normal-type Pokemon who remain at a low level throughout their lives. Their ability to capture other Pokemon and have them fight on the human's behalf prevents the human from having to engage in combat (robbing it of EXP).
Before I go into specifics, I want to clarify my reasoning. In the Pokeverse, all of the animals have been replaced by Pokemon. There are no animals which are not Pokemon, and many of them look almost identical to their real-world counterparts, but they still have "magic powers" compared to that counterpart, along with the breeding abilities that come along with being a Pokemon (all impossible for the real animal). Why would these rules not extend to humans? I do have some evidence that they do.
There exists an entire trainer type of psychics. The ultimate example (or the highest-level psychic human) is Sabrina. She communicates with her Pokemon telepathically, she can accomplish astounding feats with her mind, and she was naturally gifted with these powers from an early age. (Even though she says we all have psychic abilities, hers are hardly equal to a normal human's natural gifts.) If the anime is taken to be canon, we see that her father is also psychically gifted (he can teleport). This implies that rule 2 does apply to humans as well (furthering my idea that humans are also Pokemon). Occam's Razor allows us to make a simple assumption, fitting with the rules of Pokemon biology, that explains the facts without resorting to pure chance of genetic mutation. If Sabrina's grandfather, on her father's side, is a Psychic-type Pokemon, the lineage of power is straight down the males. Teleportation, at that, is a signature of the Abra line, and Sabrina has a special affinity with her Alakazam. Not coincidental. (Sabrina's own children, if you're wondering, will be normal humans without her extraordinary psychic powers, according to rules 1 & 2.)
All of the major Fighting trainers are also somewhat good examples. Bruno, Chuck, and Brawly all spar with their Pokemon, who can be understood to be much, much stronger than the average human being. Bruno is an especially good example. Packing a Hitmonchan, a Hitmonlee, and even a Machamp of level higher than 50, his own body must be an absolute killing machine to even survive in spars like that. In RB, Bruno says: "Through rigorous training, people and Pokémon can become stronger without limit. I've lived and trained with my Fighting Pokémon!" Clearly, Pokemon have a limit of power (level 100) but if that's "without limit" compared to normal Pokemon, then the idea that Humans can "become stronger" (in the Pokeverse, read: level up) then they must have some sort of leveling system. Otherwise their Attack and Defense stats would remain constant, and Bruno could never survive even a single punch from his level Machamp or keep up with the lightning-fast punches of Hitmonchan. Since we have muscles just like the Fighting-types in question, it's a bit more difficult to "prove" Pokemon lineage, but there must be some explanation for the natural talent of these leaders. Similarly to the case of Sabrina, a single Pokemon up the male side would pass the powers straight down.
Why are they not visibly part Pokemon? Rule 3. The same reason a Pokemon child looks nothing like the father.
-The Guy Who Takes This Shit Way Too Seriously, Mefached
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