Who has their own Pikachu roasting away in their game, leveling it up to 100. Pretending like it isn’t Animal Slave Labor, or anything else. Not thinking to much about what Pokemon means, what happens in the world- and why.
The latest generation of Pokemon games by Nintendo, Black and White. Propose there is more to the world of Pokemon. Making a Pokemon version of PETA as the bad guys. Drilling in ideas of setting Pokemon free from Humans and all that mumbo jumbo.
However that isn’t what I’m thinking out load about when it comes to Pokemon. No I have found many less meaningful things to bitch about today.
For one thing, do Pokemon age? Yes there are baby Pokemon, and yes there are levels which the Pokemon have to strong hold themselves through. But I see the levels as more of a fitness level, a training level not an age indication. Evolving when they get stronger, not when they get older.
You don’t see Pokemon growing wrinkles, getting hair down there, experiencing love and then loosing it. Pokemon seem to disregard all nature ideals especially ones we humans see every day as we grow older. No a Pokemons age happens behind closed doors, and is secret to everyone including themselves, like a 80 year old with botox. The Pokemon aging process is highly confusing.
Which is why, it is best to leave it alone- and rattle your mind with another Pokemon conundrum. Are TMs and HMs a Human intervention to Pokemon- or do Pokemon naturally know the moves?
This riddling thought is much easier to answer. In an answer which can be researched and looked into. The answer is both. You see a Pokemon can be taught these moves, like a Dog. There you have your human intervention.
But what says you about the naturally learned ones which Pokemon experience by leveling up. Are these Human intervention? There are some movies which the Pokemon learns when it is born, these are clearly without divine intervention from the Poke’ Master. However the ones it learns as it levels up, are these moves it develops because its a little smarter then before- an ape making fire? Or is this observation more of a behind the scenes theory, one of Aliens giving man the technology to make fire- and we did nothing of the kind to understand it ourselves?
Are the Pokemon Trainers clearly teaching the Pokemon moves as they see fit when they reach milestones? A kind of Dojo style training. For example in the Anime where Ash teaches Squirtle a move by telling it to perform a certain water based task. Suddenly the little Pokemon adapted this into a move.
So are moves learned by the master or nature? This is something I’ve riddled myself into a hole here, one with no clear answer.
Just like the aging Pokemon, the natural learning Pokemon is a myth. Grounded with theories which decide do they exist?