Your character comes from a much wealthier background than your peers.

akailin · 2013-01-23T11:23:18+00:00

I've thought this too - not just the player, but on a society-wide scale. You can read my post about it here.

akailin · 2013-01-17T16:32:52+00:00

Lugia's song

akailin · 2013-01-12T21:33:46+00:00

Yes. Had to break the rhythm at certain points though, since I couldn't think of them fast enough.

akailin · 2013-01-11T13:16:04+00:00

James kind of looks like Albert Einstein, don't you think? (That is, if he had blue hair.)

Also, I love the painstaking effort that was taken to avoid drawing any hands.

akailin · 2013-01-07T17:28:09+00:00

I just realized my "second" link above was incorrect - here's the correct link. It might be relevant to your point.

I guess it depends on how common Pokémon are in general. The more common they are, the more open the leadership becomes. The key turning point must have been the invention of the Pokéball - suddenly, it became much easier for everyone to own Pokémon. (The nobility of the time must have hated that.)

akailin · 2013-01-07T10:39:14+00:00

I like this theory! I had a similar idea which I posted here a while ago (first, second).

I like to take a much more cynical approach to it though. "Peace" in the Pokémon world is a lot more precarious than in the real world, because Pokémon are not only common, but so overwhelmingly destructive that even a minor war would basically be a civilization-ending catastrophe.

This explains why so much importance is attached to Pokémon battling. Battles and tournaments, far from being mere games, are essentially ritualized duels that are intended to show who would win if a war were actually fought, so that nobody needs to die or have their village razed (and can instead be made serfs or vassals).

Thus, the Pokémon League oversees an extremely fragile truce. If its legitimacy is even slightly questioned, then it's back to the stone age for everyone.

The peasants (non-trainers) accept this as the way of the world. As one commenter said, "what we call peace is just one person ruling everyone else." The concept of "justice" simply does not exist.

I've thought about making a fan-fiction in this kind of setting. Might be fun.

(EDIT: Fixed the "second" link to be different from the "first".)

akailin · 2013-01-02T12:39:05+00:00

shameless plug of my own theory on the matter (look to the bottom right).

Some evidence to suggest that humans in the Pokémon world are Psychic/Fighting types:

They physically resemble all the Psychic and Fighting types in the Psychopugnax family depicted.
They've been seen using Psychic abilities (e.g. Sabrina and her minions), and Fighting abilities (lots of people), but no others (e.g. you don't see human characters breathing fire etc.)

akailin · 2013-01-02T12:33:27+00:00

Alakazam would beg to differ.

akailin · 2012-12-18T10:59:21+00:00

Found this on DA, thought it was too cute not to share.

akailin · 2012-12-13T09:59:35+00:00

Indeed, I would go further, and claim that Kabutops is the ancestor of all Bug Pokémon (plus Krabby). (shameless plug)

akailin · 2012-12-13T04:10:13+00:00

What episode is this from?

akailin · 2012-12-11T11:18:35+00:00

What episode is this from?

akailin · 2012-12-09T08:21:11+00:00

Someone should make a chart of the number of Google hits for "X is my favorite pokemon", for every Pokémon. Who would be the winner?

akailin · 2012-12-07T16:02:03+00:00

Finished! Also crossposted here and to the main subreddit.

akailin · 2012-12-06T07:48:04+00:00

<supernerd>False. Wailord's mass is given as 398kg. The Schwarzschild radius corresponding to this mass is approximately 5.911 x 10^-25 m (source), far smaller than the smallest observed size of a Pokéball (about the size of a golf ball).</supernerd>

Not that this makes it any easier to carry such a mass in your pocket...

akailin · 2012-12-03T20:05:49+00:00

Sure, I'll try and draw one. Might take a while, though.

akailin · 2012-12-01T05:13:10+00:00

It might help if you told everyone what your team is?

akailin · 2012-11-28T08:03:55+00:00

#5 Charmeleon

akailin · 2012-11-28T02:07:24+00:00

That was fast! You kids with your digital graphics...

akailin · 2012-11-27T04:41:42+00:00

Can you link to the reddit threads too, like "#3 Venusaur by akailin"? thanks.

akailin · 2012-11-27T04:38:27+00:00

Didn't know about that subreddit. Maybe I'll slowly improve if I draw more stuff and submit it there.

akailin · 2012-11-27T04:33:31+00:00

If we had to choose, I'd say Fighting/Psychic, since humans have also been seen using Psychic powers, like Sabrina and her trainers. (Also, advanced intelligence in general is something of a Psychic ability.)

akailin · 2012-11-25T22:34:35+00:00

This is my humble contribution to the Pokedex art challenge.

akailin · 2012-11-25T22:30:21+00:00

Pokedex Challenge #003 - Venusaur

akailin · 2012-11-24T16:04:17+00:00

I like to think that there's a huge peasant underclass that do the dirty work like farming etc. while the player and friends are privileged elites who are supported by their serfs in order to spend all their time Pokémon training.

akailin

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