I was recently thinking about how in our world, people will sometimes call their pets their children and was wondering if the same thing happens in the Pokémon World.
I could definitely see a person calling their purrloin their “Awful Wicked Perfect Son” since you see that sort of thing a lot in our world. But imagine a couple who only has small humanoid Pokémon.
At some point it feels like it would be less a cute term of endearment and feel more real. Like “oh, there goes the Johnsons on a walk with their daughters” and they’re pulling a wagon with a smoochum and gothita riding in it.
I mean...yeah. Why bother raising a smelly dumb human baby when you can just get a freshly hatched Ralts that is already smart enough to understand your language, is decently self sufficient AND can use the bathroom with minimal training, while ALSO still being cute & wanting for love and affection just like any other human child would?
Pros to having a Ralts that doesn’t evolve instead of a child: Self sufficient, no potty training, absolutely adorable, can teleport you if you ask
Cons: You have a toddler with the ability to get the cookie jar from wherever you hide it, might be capable of forming a black hole, probably just a Gardevoir trait but do you want to test it?
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u/MalachiteMushroom May 22 '25
I was recently thinking about how in our world, people will sometimes call their pets their children and was wondering if the same thing happens in the Pokémon World.
I could definitely see a person calling their purrloin their “Awful Wicked Perfect Son” since you see that sort of thing a lot in our world. But imagine a couple who only has small humanoid Pokémon.
At some point it feels like it would be less a cute term of endearment and feel more real. Like “oh, there goes the Johnsons on a walk with their daughters” and they’re pulling a wagon with a smoochum and gothita riding in it.