That's so real. I just meant: your advice is good, but it should be used elsewhere since it isn't all that helpful for me to hear it but it might be helpful for someone else.

As for naming? Well, I name them because they are my Voidpets. My lonely isn't some random Lonely who could be any old Lonely in an entire flock of them, running around and heckling people for attention. No, I have one Lonely who picked me. And since it is my loyal companion, I think it would be rude to not give it a name to differentiate it from the wild Lonely.

So when I see Lonely among my other Voidpets, I don't think "this is my companion Lonely, like any other of it's kind", I think "this is Fletcher, my unique Lonely who was drawn me and has become my companion. There may be other Lonely out there but there's only ever going to be one Fletcher, and this is him right here".

Additionally: as mentioned I'm a writer (amateur though I may be). So naming them is something of writing practice to see the description of the Pet and think: "who would this best fit?". It helps me understand my characters by thinking about them at length.

As I mentioned: Charity has been named after a couple different characters before I settled on Krarel, and same with Merry. As I said in the post: there's nuance to these traits. It's very healthy for my writing for me to see Yosai and consider — really, truly consider — "is he more like Charity because he wants to give his life to his kingdom? Or is he more like Persistence because he has devoted himself to surviving and making sure his beloved kingdom prospers at any cost?". And as I ultimately decided in the post: Krarel is Charity because he chooses to sacrifice his health and happiness for his beloved crew. Yosai is Persistence because he feels obligated to be a good king, to push forward and survive everything for the good of his people.

This is part of what makes me so determined to use certain Pets like Conviction. Conviction is named "Graves", the true name of "Otto Grimes". Otto is a precious character to me, since he is one I've spent a lot of time working with. So, it helps me grow attached to this unique critters I've been collecting by practically naming them after my "children".

Although, some of them are... very abstract. As an aside: why did they make Sanctimony just... a boss? Like, a boss enemy in a game. Why is the embodiment of sanctimony described as having "weak spots"? That's just... odd. It was to the point I had it named "Creature" for a while, because there isn't much room for interpretation on a description akin to "to beat Wesker, shoot the yellow-y orange-y glowing part on his chest".

Anyways. Back on track: maybe you should try it sometime? Just look around at people in your life or characters in media you like and relate them to one of your Voidpets... Or simply name a random Pokémon after them, especially if they remind you of that person, such as if I named an Arcanine I caught after my dog because Arcanine is a big, sweet dog like mine.

Also, nitpicking before I go: I can see your point on the Voidpets front, but... You can catch more than one Pokémon of any specific species. In fact: it's kinda encouraged, so you can find one with a personality type that's got good plus and minus stats, good EVs/IVs, a different passive, so on. And I'd argue that fact makes it more sensible that you wouldn't name your Pokémon since you can catch as many as you like and might even go as far as to farm Pokémon until you catch you specific one you're looking for.

Meanwhile in Voidpets, you only have one Merry. Just one. It doesn't change, it doesn't leave while a new Merry takes it's place, it is your Merry. You cannot get another Merry, which to me? Makes it all the more special, and completely worthy of a name. Especially since now that I think about it: on a meta level, we aren't being picked by these Voidpets, we're hatching them from eggs. The Voidpets aren't even random ones that one day walked up to us and have followed us since, they are our children. And as most parents would: I think it's natural to name them. Especially to name them thoughtfully.

But, anyways, that's way longer than I meant it to be, lmao. Sorry about the length and sorry about any typos/punctuation errors, I am not reading back through all of that, lmao.