shrikestrike:

trufflesmushroom:

shrikestrike:

having every pokemon plus their evolutions and pre-evolutions in your boxes organized by number is called a “living pokedex” which while being technically correct also makes you the player sound like a goddamn pokemon movie villain

i always wondered what it’s like to be a pokemon in storage. sleeping… forever… forgotten and alone… just part of one huge collection

they address it directly in 7th gen, and there’s this collection of little islands where they are apparently free to go as they please. the main villain for the first set of 7th gen games keeps her pokemon in like. cryogenic storage so they’re safe forever–this critical stance i think wants you to go “oh so previous games maybe you WEREN’T locking them away in the void forever with a pc”

the cartoons are like “oh yeah they just get sent back to the professor and live happily on his ranch” but… dude sends out so many ten year olds every year… how many goddamn pokemon can he manage there…

i guess how I’ve rationalized the games in my head is that most people only have maybe 10 to 15 personal pokemon at MOST, mayyyybe 20, and the player character is just a one-kid ecological terror catching everything they can, breeding 500 eevees and releasing almost all of them at once, taming and storing literal gods (leaving empty shrines and unheard prayers)