Pokemon Headcanons Part 2

 

Please remember that while it's an amalgamation of the franchise of the whole including manga and anime, not just the video games, I will make it clear when to draw the line because I plan to make it just a bit more on realistic end. 

Pokemon League and Activities Committees

The easiest to discuss. 

These boards handle all things Pokemon. While I listed those committees, there are other committees for Pokemon arts and sports. The Activities board refers to Contests, Performing, PokeRinger, individual Pokemon competitions that have nothing to do with battling but rather activities that aren't the arts and sports though sometimes they might overlap with obstacle courses competitions and races. They also give out quite a decent amount of prize money, even when you win a ribbon or Princess Key or any competition regulated by them.

Note that while the Contests might have a battle aspect, it's less focused on battling and making your Pokemon the star with using the attacks to redirect to their advantage. The point is to make the movement softer. Knocking out Pokemon is only a side effect, not a direct thing. 

These guys regulate the tournaments’ rules and make it clear there are no fatalities outside of lacerations and broken bones. Any enhancement performance drugs and other forms of cheating (drugging opponents, etc) would put the trainer and their team immediately on the blacklist. 

Now the Champion itself is the one who runs the laws and campaigns for trainers in that region. That means while they are certainly the most powerful trainer in the region, they aren't a politician either. What they are basically is how the Pokemon League will run and how the region's Pokemon and trainer laws are done. Still, they have to get it through the official government first but since they're powerful, they can get through and make the campaigns easier. Just to be clear, Champions aren't politicians but they are powerful forces of nature to change the laws in that region. 

For example, if a Champion wants trainers to pass a test first before even going on a journey or if they want to care for a Pokemon, then they must go through the Pokemon League first and then the government. However, Champions don't have too much power despite how powerful they are as they are trainers and celebrities first not politicians. What they do have is power from the masses as well as the Pokemon League. If the Pokemon League even wants to listen to them.

This depends on region to region though since Galar's Champion is far more a celebrity than someone who would consider the safety of the region such as Lance and Cynthia in the anime. Notice I said anime because those guys are far more active there than the games where they act as guides while Leon is far more active in his role as a protector in the game. Not that Galar Champion can't act as a protector. 

Even then the Champion role is mostly the marketability and public perception on top of known responsibility in Galar. He tried to save Galar but it was Hop and the player who saved the region instead and that has weighed on him considering his short in the Pokemon Evolutions Specials. Really, while it's for the best Leon is no longer Champion after what he went through as a celebrity from a young age that in no way he could deal with it, being Chairman might put more of a spotlight but slightly less since the Champion is far more visible unless Leon wants to do showmanship with being an emcee. He's still young. 

The only regions that share the same Pokemon League and Activities Committee are the Japan-based regions, Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh. Technically, the other regions Sevii Islands/Orange Archipelago, Fiore, Almia, Oblivia, Ferrum, and Ransei could be considered part of the Japan-based regions too. 

What is notable is that while Unova and Alola are based in the US and Hawaii, the latter of which is part of the US that Hawaiians hate the colonialism and imperialism of, they are depicted as separate and as their own nation. Orre, being Arizona inspired, is a separate region and nation from Unova and Alola therefore the whole USA does not exist but only in regional forms with no Manifest Destiny whatsoever. Honestly, it's better that way. 

That means everywhere else would have their own Pokemon League and Activities Committees, especially when the Activities Committees would have to find ways to bring in new trainers, foreign or otherwise into new activities that are available. Again, just because Pokemon Gym Challenge is far more restrictive (needing a sponsor) doesn't mean that other activities are available for trainers who weren't sponsored and yet still want to train so something else needs to be in Galar and not be limited to sponsored trainers. This is why Ash is not getting any Galar badges outside of visiting Galar sites like stadiums and tourist spots. At least, he can still participate in the Island Challenge in Alola. 

About the Island Challenge, there are people who would go and complete one trial or a few trials for the rest of their time there. The point is for getting stronger with Pokemon as one and really it's not required to go for every one of them unless you are that ambitious. 

However, it should be noted that the Island Challenge is one way to get a Z-Crystal but not necessarily the only way since it could be found or won at a local contest/tournament. Z-(Power) Ring could only be made by a Sparkling Stone which can be found via Stoutland Search or available after completing Hala's trial at the very least. 

However, despite this, the region has a Pokemon Dex that basically details each and every Pokemon that exists in this world. Though regional Dexs are available, the application to have a worldwide Dex that got every Dex entry in every region, as well as their location, is set. 

Along those lines, there would be multiregional events. Tournaments of all kinds take place in different regions every year such as the Grand Festivals (to be sure, these are annual in every region as long as you have the ribbons in said region to qualify), Wallace Cup, Baccer World Cup, PokeRinger, World Coronation Series, other kinds of World Series/Cup, and Champions-only tournaments. There would be multiregional tournaments for trainers though some would be invite-only and others not so. 

Though, unlike other regions, Galar has its own exclusivity that the Champion almost never leaves Galar for other regions, not even for a convention outside. While Galar is new now, Leon seemed almost exclusively there than a hinted retirement elsewhere. Red and Blue settled at Battle Tree and Galar seemed specialized competitive there so... It's not that I don't think Leon can't go up against Cynthia or Lance, it's just that Galar seemed so specialized that I don't think that many foreigners making a home there like Kabu, it's not exactly foreign trainer-friendly if there are any foreign trainers who are allowed to partake in events over there like the Battle Tree or even take on an Island Challenge where it's viable you can simply vie at one trial or more specifically aimed at your specialized typing and don't need to participate in the rest. Unless you are that ambitious to participate in all of them. 

It's fact that you can't exactly export Dynamax (not even Gigamax either though feeding them Max Soup would do the trick), unlike Mega Evolution and Z-moves. So yeah, Galar is so specialized to its detriment. While it has amazing sites and Pokemon battling is a pastime seen in stadiums and television everywhere else, it just seemed like that one activity that overwhelmed all other possibilities in Galar. Therefore, it has to be reasonable to have non-sponsored trainers participate in Pokemon League events that are not the Gym Challenge such as Contests and Performing in Galar. 

The Pokemon League will have the IDs of trainers which will be given to them by a Pokemon Professor and their assistants; Pokemon Center Nurse Joy and their nurses; and Officer Jenny. 

However, the trainer's license itself is revoked should animal abuse be made to light and can be revoked by the Nurse Joys, Officer Jennys, Gym Leaders, anybody associated with the Pokemon League. Even then, it must be from a trusted source that can provide why the trainer must be revoked of their license. There are already blacklisted trainers who are willing to use steroids and drug opponents' food so there are trainers whose licenses got completely revoked for their abuse. 

Typically, the Pokemon Professors are funded really well as they are studying for the benefit of the Pokemon world. Usually, they’re funded by the Pokemon League, philanthropic donations, and government grants. 

The Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys are Pokemon League officials. They help as much in giving trainers their first Pokemon as much as give trainers their IDs. They help keep gyms as official gyms if not up to keep and sent as officials to decide the gym leader's spirit to keep their gyms. They are also investigators in their own right to seek out illegal activity in Pokémon Centers. 

These gyms and the families behind them have to upkeep them. It's also a source of income for them as they can also take in apprentices in a type specialist. These gyms are moreover types specialists whereas the Champion is the various types with pseudo-legendaries by their side, not that they can't be type specialists as Iris is. 

Galar is the exception to the rule since rarely do they ever pass down family-wise. Newly established like the Circhester and Stow-on-Side Gyms though the Circhester Ice Gym and the Stow-on-Side Fighting Gym are far more established than the Rock and Ghost Gyms. The Motostoke Gym had always been there, just given to Kabu. Hammerlocke and Spikemuth are the oldest Gyms there with Raihan's family passing down hereditarily. The Minor League gyms are more slightly have been established, just haven’t been a Major one unlike the slighter better known Circhester Rock and Stow-on-Side Ghost gyms. At least those are slightly applicable for the Gym Challenge.

These gyms are also encouraged to open their doors for other activities like Pokemon Contests. For the Pokemon Contests in gyms, it's best to hold it one week per month. They could open up a school or offer a course of something. Cheren's a teacher on top of his gym leader duties. 

Ya know the ten gyms thing that people make fun of Gary for? Did they forget about the Dark City episode where two groups are trying to establish their own gyms in a city? That's why I think there are more than eight gyms in each region for each type. It's just eight gyms that are the requirement to participate in the top league, challenging the Elite Four, and challenging the Champion for the title. 

Noticeably in Galar, there's a Minor League; the Minor League has been slightly expanded in Masters that if they don't keep up with training, they might be demoted and switched around the order. Very likely, there's a yearly inspection. We were introduced to the Pokemon League inspection in the anime so it makes sense that something similar would do. 

Depending on how many badges you have, the gym leader will adjust their level and Pokemon, holding back for first-timers. They can train their Pokemon however they like but for a Gym, they must have appropriate force. Not everyone is going to start off with the same gym as they can register wherever to the League at a Pokemon center. Gym leaders are meant to have reserves, rotating teams depending on the badges challengers have gathered as well as training on their own so they wish. Hey, if they go hard, they might even be promoted to the Elite Four or pass the torch to the gym’s successor. 

Sometimes if the Gym takes in Gym Trainers, they might be the successor to the current gym leader. Again, it could still be families to newly established, it's still a need to pass the torch to someone who can take losses and yet still be the strongest trainer. Sometimes, if the gym leader is off doing training or other duties, the strongest trainer would take over for the time being. 

There are gyms that have been passed down from family members to newly established. While in the game these gyms have been established either when they settled down in the region (Kabu in Galar as he's originally from Hoenn though the stadium should already be there before Kabu ever became the gym leader) or just new, the anime had established those things as an expansion of the games which gives little way of a story. We know Professor Birch and Norman went to college together but did Norman take over the Normal gym or establish it himself? 

As for contests, an establishment can hold a contest biweekly. That way, it allows more applicants for Grand Festivals as well as mini Contests that concentrate on the usual Beauty, Cute, Cool, Clever, and Tough. The Contests are moreover a combo of those categories with a battle aspect while the mini Contests are focused primarily on those without the battle aspect just like the games’ incarnation with rankings and all. I think the mini Contests are more like what we see with Serena in Journeys. We got the mention of the Wallace Cup which we know have the battle aspect. 

Appeals last three minutes and can showcase up to 46 Coordinators. Though who will advance to the Battle stage varies, it must be an even number. The same said for the smaller specific contests. 

Contest Battles are five minutes, won by the most points, and fainted Pokemon are automatically a loss. If there is a tie at the end of the time limit, then it’s sudden death overtime with no time limit and must end with a fainted Pokemon or reaching zero points. Penalty cards such as neither side launching an attack, subtracting half the designated points can be handed out. Disqualifications like being handed a second yellow card or cheating tactics caught will be immediate. 

The ribbons and their designs are up to the establishment with the approval of the Pokemon Activities Committee. However, the constant elements are a little crown-like decor on top of the shaped center; depending on the establishment, they could forgo it all together like Alamos Town (who holds it annually rather than biweekly as it's a historical site and the design itself is a colorful version of the Space-Time Towers) or has more expensive materials to make it like actual gold, rubies, and fabrics on the Wallace Cup's Aqua Ribbon. 

Course, those ribbons are only acceptable in the entire regions that offer the Grand Festivals such as Wallace Cup's Aqua Ribbon counting worldwide. For example, Unova ribbons count only in Unova just as Hoenn ribbons count in Hoenn only whereas the special ones would either count in specific regions or count for contests worldwide. The Alamos Ribbon counts worldwide too as it’s the site of history. Towns that offer historical sites aka where the Legendaries are the site of prayer, then it’s worldwide viability for the Grand Festivals. 

The smaller contests have similar designs to the main establishment's big contest but it's on the slightly smaller and inexpensive end as it focused primarily on specific requisites. 

Now, the Grand Festivals require five ribbons across five different towns/cities. Coordinators can keep the ribbons and not register for the Grand Festival and it would be fine. Unlike the Pokemon League where you need to re-register after competing in the leagues previously, the ribbons only count for one Grand Festival and that's it. 

You can keep the ribbons no matter the year it had been earned because only when it's a Grand Festival registered ribbon that it's only a decorative piece that might have some effect on a Pokemon's status or whatever. 

It all depends if you didn't have all the ribbons on time or want to participate in the Grand Festival another year. No matter what, the ribbons you won will not be registered as a Grand Festival ribbon until then, you can earn how many ribbons you want and still can register for the next one. 

It's just like the badge system for the Pokemon League. If you already won the eight badges, you can just re-register for the next year after a year-long training. You don't have to go and battle the Gym Leaders again unlike Coordinators who can partake in the same biweekly Contest until they earn the same ribbon again. 

Again, Coordinators can have the same ribbon they earn the year previously because only as long as it was registered to the Grand Festival and the database of ribbons they register only to the Grand Festival because only the Coordinators decide which ribbons they want to register with. No matter the year and season they earn it in, it doesn't matter as long as it's registered to the Grand Festival only. 

While contests aired on TV and you can still see them up on their website, Coordinators can choose when they want to participate in the Grand Festival and still be fine. 

Judges are Top Coordinators, the local Nurse Joy, local Pokemon Fan Club President, and Pokemon Contest Official Judges like Chairman Raoul Contesta, Dexter, Jordan, Keira, and other official judges. Of course, it all depends on different factors on when which judge will judge which due to time constraints such as Nurse Joy with the Center to think of and Contesta having to deal with business meetings and sponsors. Therefore, judges must be different every time. 

Pokemon Performing is more Pokemon Beauty Queen (focusing on Cute and Beauty though that depends on the activities the establishment will choose) so that's why I think Pokemon Contests could eventually come over there. While Contests are demonstrated talent and strength in a softer sense together, Performing and becoming Kalos Queen is more Beauty Queen than Coordinators where it's viable for everyone instead of just women and transwomen (gender is still complicated so it eventually opens for trans and drag queens if it helps). Though much like rhythmic gymnastics, I'm sure there are Pokemon performing for men even if it's not quite as well-known. 

From what was seen, Pokepuff baking, Rhydon herding, trivia quizzing, and styling are just some of the activities seen. Though the main thing was the performance stuff with props. 

Similarly, just like Pokemon Contest ribbons, it's designed by the establishment with approval by the Pokemon Activities Committees. Again, I don't think these guys are incredibly expensive unless it's the Kalos Queen trophy. 

Pokemon breeders have their own competitions and focus more on grooming and well care of the Pokemon, attacks included. While it's no Beauty Queen or improv combination of moves, it's more of the beautification process (grooming, nutrition) as well as raising for health and friendship. Breeders are effective trainers as well as healthcare specialists, ensuring Pokemon keep up with their training and health. They earn their certification from the League. 

They're also in charge of raising starters as well on top of Professors raising starters for beginner trainers. They often give these starters to the local Nurse Joys in the towns as they too help beginner trainers the same way the Pokemon Professors do. 

They work primarily in Pokemon Daycares or open up their own. People who aren't breeders can open up their own daycares as a babysitting business or trusted care for additional Pokemon but not actual breeding. However, to care for the eggs that will be inevitable in a Daycare, then they must hire breeders. Daycares must have a League certification to have eggs which is inevitable. 

The eggs in these Daycares could be sold given they have a license for it from the Pokemon League, giving or selling to various professors, trainers, and organizations like farmers and ranchers. Customers like people who just want a friend would also be one too. Daycares usually make most of their money through the method of legal egg trade on top of trainers dropping off their Pokemon with a trainer fee. 

Egg moves are developed by them and still in wild Pokemon too so I imagine while they can't force Pokemon to mate, they could develop relationships that could result in an egg in these egg groups at the very least. However, it's best these Pokemon are learned through these Pokemon attempting to teach or talk to it while it was an Egg than forcing them to mate unlike the games with some exceptions (surviving on 1 HP based on friendship, etc), these are sapient monsters. It's more on the realistic side if all Pokemon have egg moves, particularly if they have a parent but whether or not they will have that lucky move over others is up in the air. 

Pokemon centers offer amenities for trainers as long as they have a license. It's all free. 

The nurses and doctors working at a Pokemon Center are paid due to the Pokemon Center being under the League. They are paid handsomely regardless even if they are working at a different clinic or hospital. Then again, everyone is making a living at 25-30 bucks per hour. 

To become a Pokemon Master or Type Master, you must travel around the world, study, and compete in Pokemon competitions; if you are going to be a Type Master, go and compete in the type-related competitions, just concentrate on the type only. After that, with recommendations from Champions, Elite Four, or a Type Master, then they can go and qualify. 

With those qualifications, you must go up against fellow Top Type Masters to consider standing beside them. You must defeat them to even be titled. 

To become a Pokemon Master on a battle competitive form, you must battle Top Type Experts, Pokemon Masters, and the Champion. However, beating the Champion isn't a requirement, beating at least half or two-thirds of their team is deemed qualified. Again, it's not every day that one can beat the Champion after getting every badge. Though if you did beat the Champion, you'll be the Champion on top of being an official Pokemon Master. 

These Pokemon Masters are highly paid and if they're Champions, then they're the highest-paid trainer. 

Though the highest-paid people would be corporate CEOs of the Pokemon world. While no Seto Kaiba (if that was the case we should’ve seen Clemont having a freaking black card already due to his achievements or Professor Oak leaving money behind for his family enough for them to live for years in comfort due to his own achievements though black cards should be given to them at some point in time when they're properly adults), when we see Macros Cosmos… Yeah, Rose gotta have the most money made out of the entire country. When Clemont was the one to build the RotomDex, then the Rotom Phone gotta be invented by someone to the point the Rotom was stationary than excitable. 

Child prodigies of the Pokemon world are often well-regarded. Though it's best to leave the kids to be kids than throw them into the spotlight at a young age. Fanon had always depicted the game characters as having shame for having the title slip through their fingers (Blue), too much pressure to the point he left to Mount Silver (Red), leaving the post that Iris took over instead (Hilbert/Black), and marketability/public perception/responsibility (Leon). 

It does help that as seen in the anime, the winners of the League tend to be older teens and adults. I'm pretty sure Ash, Gary, and Ritchie were the youngest 10-11-year-olds there since I don't recall anybody younger or barely older than those three. 

Honestly, as long as these children would live their lives as kids, then they should be able to make their own choice if they want to become a Type Master or not. Being Type Masters and even Pokemon Masters than having the role of a Champion, a politician at least the one who has the main say in the law of trainers/protector of the region/strongest trainer of the region. While there are fans of the Champion, the Champion has far too much responsibility to place on a kid's shoulders. 

Even Top Coordinator/Contest Master is a far better position than Champion because outside of celebrity stuff like talk shows, shows in general, and some modeling work, there's also the Top Coordinator Convention as well as other Top Coordinator-related events that focused on the Contests. 

Now to talk about the League Conferences and Grand Festivals. You must register for them at a Pokemon Center though, in the latter's case, it's the Contest Pass.

Those are held in the bigger stadiums or even on the League grounds. Usually, the conferences and festivals take place within weeks of each other. Not to mention, forcefields are built into the stadium so that the attacks won't harm the audience. Regardless of how superhuman the humans are in the Pokemon world, the Gigantamax and their attacks are highly destructive. 

A note about the Lumoise Conference stadium, since it was noted that it wasn't held there annually, then it was probably held where the Kalos League would have taken place east of Sandalune City where they should be a city over with the stadium. Since that stadium is new, I'm just gonna call the Kalos League Conference the Fleur-de-lis Conference. It switched between Lumoise and Fleur-de-lis every year since the Lumiose Stadium was built. 

Usually, applicants run through 200-ish trainers, sometimes mid-250-ish when we got to Indigo. We got over 100-ish when we got to Vertress, Unova's league. It's not as if it's a set number when trainers do register and re-registered to participate. With the exception of the Grand Festivals where only those with five ribbons can compete and it's not like it's a re-registration case on that one since ribbons can only count towards the Grand Festival no matter what the year they earned it but could only be used once and never be used again after Grand Festival registration. 

That's the biggest number at least as of when I looked up the Sinnoh Grand Festival, some 100-ish coordinators participated so it depends on how many coordinators will actually participate. Only 64 coordinators will make it through the appeals round of the Grand Festival. Grand Festivals would take place in a span of two to three days with the 200 odd coordinators going about in the Appeals and then the remaining going out on the Battle Rounds the next day. Or 32 coordinators in the Sinnoh Grand Festival. Kanto got 270 coordinators at their Grand Festival with only 16 heading to the final round, the 64 of which in the second round have to go in another Appeals Round; therefore it takes over the course of three days. So yeah, I think it all depends on how many coordinators registered in the end. They have to be prepared for that many coordinators. It depends on how many Battle rounds they want though because either they can draw it out with 64 to close it down quickly with 16 immediately. It would be fun to have a second round of Appeals or just have Battles. 

Though in Kanto and Hoenn, there is a first preliminary Appeals round in which the Coordinator must showcase one Pokemon with one move in which 64 will advance. The second Appeals round allows more moves though in which 16 (Kanto)/32 (Hoenn) will advance.  I think the same can be said about Johto. Unova and everywhere else could have the Sinnoh process of just having one Appeals round with only 16 heading to the Battle Round. The easiest would be that process than having two Appeals rounds unless you want to showcase Appeals more. 

Grand Festivals always have the Battle rounds as Double Battles. However, Sinnoh switched between single and double Appeals. Depending on the Contest establishment including the Grand Festival, there can be Double performances and/or Double Battles. 

However, making it to the Top 16 is really good. If they can continue that by either climbing up in future conferences or in future tournaments, it could really do well. Really, making it to the top 16 is amazing and should be enough to have caught an eye. 

Though a large problem is that trainers will and can become directionless in their journey. If they score a worse showing at any of the League tournaments or even in a single Contest throughout the year, then it will make trainers aimless. That makes them vulnerable to falling through the cracks. Not everyone is gonna be Red but a lot of people are gonna be Youngster Joeys in the end. 

That’s gonna be the League’s main problem as even in canon, Team Skull was formed by a bunch of essentially mediocre trainers lashing out against the League system. It’s even as far back as the Team Rocket TRio (Wobbuffet doesn’t have the same tragedy as we know he got on the team by accident) as we know it with their backstory in mind as despite having a license for Jessie and James, they fell through the cracks and became criminals. 

How are they gonna combat it? 

Well, make tests for trainers and only up to four trainers may leave. Yes, everyone will eventually have a Pokemon of their choice but only they will leave should they pass the test. That said, even passing the test will not guarantee that one is truly ready to take on the journey. Though the tests initially are only from the regional professor, their town, and the closest towns in proximity. If the tests are spread to the Pokemon centers, then it would do some good. 

People would eventually earn their first Pokemon as a rite of passage but will not go on a journey till they pass the test. But even then do they have the mentality to go on the journey no matter how important the journey is? Even just passing the test does not mean they’re truly ready to go on a long journey that needs all the stubbornness and willpower to even overcome losses in the big leagues. 

The journey can be just like a coming of age as much as it can be destroying self-esteem. It’s growing up but one would need willpower and boneheaded stubbornness the combination of Hibari Kyouya and Sasagawa Ryouhei to even make it. 

Worldwide Organizations

Now, we're going to talk about Pokemon Rangers and the Ranger Union.

Pokemon Rangers are a mix of police officers and park rangers, keeping the routes and the forests safe for travelers as well as arresting Pokemon poachers and hunters. While the city/town's police jurisdiction is only in the town/city and its adjacent routes at least till the roads are not there, Pokemon Rangers have far more jurisdiction in arresting poachers and hunters as well as keeping the routes and forests safe. They help calm wild Pokemon and help solve ecological problems as well as keep reserves that are restricted from trainers like Charicific Valley. Their duties around are to maintain the Pokemon population to keep it from being overpopulated/underpopulated as well as make sure it's safe. If there are Pokemon from other regions coming over, as long as they kept it safe, then it's fine. Just as long as that Pokemon is safe for everyone involved even if that Pokemon was trained from hell to back. 

It's a worldwide effort to keep travelers safe so that wild Pokemon in that particular area aren't attacking them. While trainers are prepped to know as well as travel guides available, it's still needed because Pokemon Rangers would make an outcry if anything seemed wrong because the point is to keep things safe around for travelers and protect the Pokemon for trainers' use as well as protecting the ecosystem. 

This is different from a park ranger whose main job is to protect and preserve a reserve. These guys’ duties encompass population control, ecological problems, arresting criminals, the safety of travelers, and calming wild Pokemon. 

The other worldwide organization that we know of is the International Police. As far as we can see, these guys handle Interpol. These guys upon meeting Fallers would immediately register them including alternates. These guys will handle just as much as the local law enforcement the aftermath and other stuff after the defeat. They would have info from the investigation into the Teams and other bad people to bring them to justice. 

Think of them as Interpol really.

Religion

We know for a fact the Legendaries and Mythicals are worshipped. There are shrines and temples littered across regions. 

Discounting those are somewhat common (well common in the sense that they’re secretive or found in large numbers in selected areas) and simply aren’t worshipped only declared Legendary for their feats such as the Kubfu/Urshifu line, Zarude, and Zeraora outside of the Legendary Titans that exist in every region since Hoenn (well, the Tree of Beginning trio counts), realistically you can’t catch them that easily. 

The ones I’m not counting as worshipped are Magearna, Zarude, the Kubfu line, the Silvally line, Genesect, Deoxys, and the Meltan line. Diancie and Volcanion are up in the air as they’re reclusive and rare but their feats are known yet not worshipped enough to have shrines. 

Marshadow counts as Ho-oh’s herald by default so he’s worshipped just as Keldeo is as a Sword of Justice. 

The titans, birds, dogs, Heatran, Darkrai, Eon duo, Cresselia, Swords of Justice, Forces of Nature, Mew, and Lugia could be caught as long as they’re not the Alphas. However, the Swords of Justice also have Alphas. Just to be clear, I think the Shaumoti Lugia is the Alpha, the original one back at Ecruteak City before making the Shaumoti Islands their home permanently though Lugia would go back and forth from Shaumoti and the Burned Tower. However, there is only one of Regigigas, Mewtwo, and Arceus. 

Still, there are legendaries that have two or three with that last one being the Shiny but no more. The others reach the double digits but not the pseudo-legendaries numbers. So rare that their numbers are low and more secretive than even the rare ones. The Arceus in which the one we capture is the avatar not the original so that’s easy to explain as Arceus avatar just taking on a different coloring. 

The alien Legendaries like Eternatus may be many or at least a few like Deoxys and Ultra Beasts though the Ultra Beasts are plentiful. 

I like the Shiny Rayquaza to not include it so to better explain the wack Galar weather, there’s a secret breeding ground for Rayquaza. Even then, there’s not a lot of them, just enough to throw the weather out of the window.

Or we could have the other Forces of Natures messing the weather up so much they decide to settle there. 

Basically, the demigods - Rayquaza, Celebi, the Forces of Nature, Swords of Justice, Mew -  really are the ones that have a few at least. The lesser gods have more. Yet they’re still rare. 

The Alphas are the gods, natural calamities. Mess with them no matter the intention and they will punish you. One day they’ll be benevolent but the next they’ll punish humanity for things humans can't understand. They live way too long yet they are still willing to admit mistakes. They have their own conflicts with each other and humans could only be saved by another Alpha. Humans will be collateral damage in their feuds. At the same time, humans see them in awe of their might and wisdom.

Because of their power, if they have access to healing moves, it would be elevated that they could cure diseases like cancer. Standard healing moves would alleviate but the disease will remain. 

Think of them as the Greek gods, flawed but unlike those Greek gods, they were willing to admit their lacking. They’re omnipotent but they’re fallible.

Just to clarify, none of these guys are the pure embodiment of good or evil. The Tao trio does not count as they are Yin Yang, not pure heroism or good ideals or purity. 

Their shrines and temples are there and just as diverse as our own religion and their practices. There are hints but we never see them practice it. We know they are worshipped explicitly, just that we can’t see it due to Pokemon’s desire to not offend and produce controversy. 

That said, it's not widespread. While people would know about it and use their names in vain, the worship would only go so far with only a few smatterings of temples and shrines that are only upkeep by their devout followers. That said, I do think people would do stuff like pray for good luck and other 

Religion isn't that big in the Pokemon world. I don't think Arceus and the other gods bother about the lack of worship in the modern-day. 

Holidays

This one is far more speculative. While religion isn't that widespread outside of sects that worship, these celebrations would center on these myths which are far more widespread than the worship practice. 

General holidays like Christmas and Halloween would be widespread albeit with interpretations depending on the region. Dark and Ghost Pokemon would gladly partake in Halloween. I'm sure there are Pokemon equivalents to our holidays and celebrations. 

Pokemon types and Pokemon Day itself would be immense. On Pokemon Partner Day, the trainer would give a present to their first Pokemon and celebrate with a feast with the rest of their Pokemon. 

While there is something like Valentine's Day, the romantic holiday also celebrates friendship as well as they make sweets for friends and Pokemon. A White Day would still exist. 

On holidays, there could be special events there too. It depends on what it is and how overall important the practice is. 

I imagine religious sects would do their own thing. Note that I didn't say cults though cults would have their own rituals and such. Ugh, I don't wanna think about cults. 

Government

Each town is run by a mayor or a congregation of trusted politicians. However, they must answer to the region's government system, including kingdoms. 

Kingdoms are allowed to run provided they are only located in one area and won’t try to expand. They can act as tourist spots or remain isolated. 

The official royal family of said regions, discounting the small kingdoms, that did take over the region now does not have official power at all meaning they won't have to do lipservice charity and live off the money from the commoners. They can take roles politically if trained. That means if they were to have their own money and not from their national reserve or just be investors or have some businesses, they have to work at it. For example, the Camaron Castle is a historical site and doesn't live off donations or taxes from the commoners but rather through the reserves the Queens have made over the years. Donations do come in but it's for the preservation rather than having the royal family spending it needlessly on wealth. 

When it comes to big businesses, well, just like the military being the bodyguard for the rich, they are allowed to run freely to the point of a monopoly. Macros Cosmos is a pervasive force in Galar. Except instead of the military, it’s their money and connections. 

Scientists similarly run free and allow to research Pokemon. However, the laws are either too shady or too many loopholes as somehow we got a scientist freely using Mew’s DNA for cloning. Outside of the villainous grand plans, Mew’s DNA was approved for testing and we got Mewtwo up to including Dex entries. And outside of awe, Mew’s DNA! I thought it would be preserved, not be used as cloning with a guy known for his cloning efforts no matter his reputation. 

Scientists will get a whole lot of government grants, particularly the main regional ones. 

Even then the newest entries for the new fossil Pokémon in Galar seemed to imply the scientists have just as much as a hand as if they were bribed or took it as face value when these guys are abominations, sweet abominations but abominations all the same or trying desperately to explain as if it’s normal when the outcry about them is huge. I’m sure the Galarian scientists are scrambling or just in shock. I know fans were shocked as well as paleontologist enthusiasts because it’s a known part of paleontologist history. 

Hey, we got fossil revival but simpler than Jurassic Park. Just pick a fossil and voila you got your dinosaur. 

Whether the government likes it or not, the Pokemon League is the one that sets up everything Pokemon least have a part in things like the import of new Pokemon into the wildlife since the Alolan government was the one who brought in Yungoos to deal with the accidental import of Rattatta and Raticate. Personally, I think the Pokemon League will at least have some hand in them. That means the Champion and the Board will have some effort in the laws even if they aren't politicians. Therefore making the Pokemon League very powerful. 

However, it means they are powerful just because they run the League and everything Pokemon as well as having subsections or connections to other Pokemon-related organizations dealing with various other activities and sports. 

Woman's rights (this is not just white women, guys, this is just as much BIPOC women, particularly the black women, no misogynoir), LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC are granted equal rights as everyone is defined by their Pokemon. Seriously, I doubt the Pokemon under slaves would have anything good to say about slave owners and kill them, using their deadliest attacks. Even being befriended by slaves would lead to slave owners being dead. Even if slaveowners have their own, there is no doubt that Pokemon will protect their partners come hell, particularly if they will attack the slaveowner. 

Gay marriages, taxes for the 1%, taxes according to income and wealth, high life-making minimum wages (25 bucks hourly), and universal free healthcare that would benefit travelers. Homeless shelters are made just as Pokemon Centers offering free room, board, and food functions to the point more rooms are built adjacent to the Centers just the same for the homeless. Just as long as they have a license. 

Free public transit is also a thing. As noticed in the anime, the Mount Quena bus, it's free once a week/month when it's available. 

Programs for mental disabilities would exist, especially when they exist in real life. 

Though that would depend on the town even if the government will enforce it. 

It's just the main problem in Pokemon society was that not every trainer is going to be a Red and going to end up being Youngster Joey. Directionless if the more talented trainers are going to call them mediocre.  

Not that having loan sharks and debt collectors breathing down necks isn't a problem either, especially when they are paid well. However, if they are irresponsible with money or they're just too young to have their own apartment without what goes into making it home without being foreclosed, then it's bad. 

And it's not like the impoverished don't exist either. They might have a better chance of getting money as a trainer and finding trainer-related jobs with it. Too young like Jessie and you might just barely survive and just make it. I mean Jessie did make it to college before falling through the cracks to join Team Rocket when she was lost and aimless despite her own talents. 

Human issues like abuse, neglect, corruption, homeless, impoverished, organized crime and political issues would still exist. Murder would still exist of course but murderers would have to complete it by also murdering that person's Pokemon as well. 

While I see the Pokemon world as humanity done right for the most part, there have to be flaws in that system. 

Thomas Astruc and Miraculous Ladybug

 

I haven't been catching up since Chat Blanc honestly. After Chat Blanc, the show just became repetitive and stale. Though it had been stale well before Chat Blanc. Believe me when I say that I will leave ML on as background white noise. That's how I saw it after everything, even now.

I'm not even that invested in the show anymore. 

The writing is just so terrible. It's repetitive and inconsistent and for a supposed slow burn, it doesn't feel like a slow burn. Normally, repetitiveness would work only if there's an end goal in mind and a clear arc. This is why I don't mind Shounen Jump's long-ass arcs because there is an end goal in an arc. 

Well, there is an end goal: Gabriel/Hawkmoth's goal to revive his wife and Adrienette's love story. The myth arc is there. 

However, the writing feels like a soap, and soaps followed a similar formula with shounen. At least soaps have a purpose! ML’s writing feels like a soap that’s horribly written and aimless while still having an end goal. It feels aimless when we got little to no development from all the characters. 

However, its major inconsistencies with the writing and its treatment of characters, every damn character are negligible. The wasting potential of every single character in favor of having so-called feminism at the front view with only Marinette/Ladybug as the center instead of giving the other characters and especially the deuteragonist equal time to shine and provide just as much importance. 

This is not the slow-burn kind of writing I'm used to with One Piece where the character development is subtle in comparison to the over-the-top worldbuilding adventure. This is not the slow-burn kind of writing romance because it's gone on for far too long because the plot has not been moving until apparently S4. The plot has not been moving at all because there are no clear arcs! There is no clear anything because apparently according to Astruc, it's best out of order because it's a fucking kid's show! 

Have they ever been exposed to manga and anime even kids' shows over there have a clear arc. Even gag manga/anime have arcs! I don't see any clear arcs beyond the myth arc in ML. 

I have been exposed to wasted potential before in the likes of VLD for example. ML has already been thrown into the pile with VLD and other wasted potentials. I believe as long as Astruc is there, the show is not going to get better as I've been pretty exposed to VLD's showrunners as well as Butch Hartman. ML and Astruc already washed over me like a splash of water. Genshin Impact is teetering down this road due to its current staff of writers and censorship through the waifu and flavor text problems that had been there from the start. 

With Astruc at the helm and his stubbornness about everything regarding LB and especially how it's written using SJW guilt trips as if he's the one about feminism and POC when the show is anything but that, especially when the show is so very performative. 

What Astruc wants is a basic show with the smartest and most beautiful gal he wanted to have with an ex whom everyone praises the shit out of - she is still the most fleshed out with the most tribulations such as people not believing her, mistakes catching up to her, pressure, etc whereas Adrien slowly became a doll because he can’t snoop to ruin his perfection. I think people are confusing certain self-inserts with dreams and what is Astruc’s true writing as Zoe is unable to develop beyond a doll. At least he knows to make drama to hurt Marinette but never on his dolls beyond the surface. And surface I meant thinking the real problems are love rather than feeling of inadequacy or feeling replaced. People are saying Adrien is the self-insert because he wasn’t treated that harshly by the plot of certain episodes but considering later on he can’t even fight an Akuma without others’ help and his lack of knowledge from everyone he loves, I think it’s a low bar for an overall terribly written show. - with a blonde love interest that acts as a satellite who he is willing to put down because Astruc is gender obsessive instead of an actual feminist. The bully girl is irredeemable when she's just a young girl. The mentor is not even there half the time to even teach something or at all really. The BIPOC characters are in the background with little to no development but in their hero forms, their skins lightened. Performative progressive BIPOC characters and feminism.

What myth arc he had is background noise in comparison to the love square. Everything is background noise to the love story. If you can even call it that when we know the love square is endgame anyway.

And at this point, all I want is for the love square to stop because I don't give a single fuck about it anymore. At this point, I don't even care about the endgame anymore, not when the plot is not even moving forward. It doesn't even feel planned at all when the writing just degenerating impressively. 

When Chloe is getting the wrong end of the stick due to Astruc's hatred while Adrien gets degraded into a comic relief sidekick satellite love interest instead of an equal and not even getting the character development at all just as Marinette is not getting the character development she needed to actually have a relationship with Adrien aka moving past her stalker tendencies and getting past the image of Adrien while the other characters are getting powers due to Dues ex Machina plot, the plot is just flimsy and it's like watching Danny Phantom all over again with Butch Hartman at the helm. 

Watching ML is like watching a trainwreck and not even a trainwreck that I can look away from either. In fact, the investment that I could get from ML is long gone and I'm only here for the interesting minimal parts because the potential won't be fulfilled in any way when we got Astruc. 

I have no investment as long as Astruc remains in town with ML. 

I’m mainly reading ML fanfics over the show. At least, the fics have better writing and more passion than the Astruc show. The fics are better than the show. 

And I have no problem telling that to Astruc to his face. He can’t block me if I tell him constructive criticism on his face. And he can't block me here. 

Kids' shows are better than this. ML is just an okay show if I’m being generous when the word I prefer is mediocre. I would only let my kid watch this only with stipulations and as background white noise.

What Astruc is doing is putting his show on the level of Danny Phantom. A well-loved show turned shitshow because of the OG creator instead of the writers who want nuanced writing. Steve Marmel is Danny Phantom’s true mastermind, not Butch Hartman. 

Listen, the original team behind Genshin Impact left en masse so we got new writers for Inazuma and it's anything but great. I heard something similar with VLD only with overbearing showrunners somewhere around S3 while Genshin's problem for Inazuma at least was a mix of already present problems of waifu writing for the women who got dating sim writing with all the falling over for Traveler and flavor text problems for lore (Signora, holy shit, her lore was a nightmare only in artifact descriptions which are horrifying in terms of writing especially writing for a female morally gray/villainous female character who got such a unique design) on top of censorship issues so... 

He’s not Alex Hirsch or Patrick McHale or Stephen Hillenburg or Lauren Faust. He’s the French Butch Hartman. I haven’t heard much about Butch since the Oaxis disaster but even then I have seen his YT channel going around. 

Honestly, Astruc is just like Butch. What these guys should do is act as the creative mastermind but not the one to tell the story. Look at George Lucas but even George Lucas is a storyteller so he got points about knowing the basic structure of a plot and storytelling (like you get what the prequels were aiming for despite its many problems and there are plot and characterization as well as the worldbuilding that till this day the prequels-related media like Clone Wars took full advantage of because the worldbuilding is amazing and could lead to many spectacular stories) despite his stilted dialogue and over-reliance on CGI. However, George Lucas know how to step back and let others do the job so he got even more points over Butch Hartman and Thomas Astruc any day. Just look at how he oversees Filoni. 

While Astruc was the main problem behind every writing decision when he came into the scene (personally, seeing Chloe's character development was so great until Astruc returned where he made it clear that she won't ever receive a Miraculous ever again), I haven't heard about writers backlash as unlike I heard from other productions. 

The defense of 'it's a kids' show! It's not meant to be anything deep!' is stupid when the standards for television are different now. You can still have your episodic episodes while still having deep themes. You can still have a great story and still have themes while being an episodic show. 

ML has more fillers than I have ever seen in a Western show. Anime studios have been cutting back on filler arcs, now only making anime-only scenes adapted from manga/light novel shows. There are filler episodes but even then, that's limited to breather episodes like beach/hot spring/vacation episodes away from the stress. 

ML just has so much filler and doesn't impact the overall story at all. If we are going to have a slice-of-life with ML, it's not doing so well, not when the other characters are poorly developed or even developed at all. 

At least, Danny Phantom knew when to end even if it came at the cost of everything before the final season. Like, you know, Danni and Dan, Marmel got ideas, man! Even with that lost potential, at least Butch knew how to end the series on a stupid high note. That finale is still one of the worst I have ever seen come out of a Western animated series and a series out of its entirety! A high note but a stupid one. 

Miraculous would have seasons after this as well as specials. I'm not looking forward to it, not when the specials are fillers in ways that aren't meaningful. The story is not a slow burn. I have dealt with slow-burn stories before but this is getting way too long and nothing is going forward, literally, nothing is moving forward beyond plot devices to the point characters are just chess pieces instead of actual people moving from point A to point b. At this point, I'm not expecting much from Epheremal. 

When even KHR is better than ML, then I question the writing because at least the shounen aspect of the whole gag manga was there. The craziness of the gag manga part has always been the Vongola insanity. Although there were mixed opinions about the change from gag manga to shounen battle manga, the Vongola insanity has always been one of the consistent factors. 

ML isn't consistent, a problem that permeates the show since apparently according to Astruc, it's meant to be out of order as a kids' show from what I heard at least. That's...that's awful! If you are gonna have this overarching plot about the Agreste family mess, then it should be consistent. 

Even now, ATLA has a bit of a problem of younger kids not quite getting the story but at least they aren't treating kids like they are idiots. Astruc is treating kids like idiots. 

Steven Universe has a problem with having storyboards first with a bit of lore splashing and not constructing a story beforehand. It has its own consistent issues but at least they don't treat kids like idiots. Except when it comes to the deeper and darker implications where the fascist regime overheads were forgiven just for having feelings for a loved one. And they don't have to work to make amends or anything at all or make the punishment for themselves. 

But at least, SU was aware of its darker implications, given what Rebecca Sugar has stated. 

ML, not so much unless it benefits them to actually take advantage of it. The whole Chat Blanc and Epheremal thing aren't consistent outside of possibilities of what Adrien could lead to when he snapped. 

Except ML doesn't treat Adrien or any character with any respect. Adrien has been degraded to a love interest and his connection to the plot is only used as a plot device instead of a true and honest deuteragonist. Because he doesn't have screen time by himself, by himself, not with Plagg, just himself with his hobbies, not have everything decided by him. Just have him contemplating by himself or watching stuff he likes unheeded by the stuffy environment. 

Nope, he's a doll and at this point, given how little he has in terms of development, I reckon the Sentimonster theory is honestly better because I just want something anything out of him to make him his own character instead of this plot device even though the Sentimonster theory would make him even more of a plot device. The Shanghai special made it pretty clear he's a plot device when that special was y'know supposed to be special. 

Speaking of which, because Adrien is a doll completely negates any possible sneaking around or talking with Marinette as the other deuteragonist, Felix is there just so Adrien can't develop further because Felix got the story that Adrien should've gotten. The ironic thing about this is that Astruc treating Adrien is how Gabriel treats Adrien throughout the story. Adrien is a doll, a prize to be won, his emotional abuse is seen as not abuse by Astruc which is rotten because I saw Dabi's suffering of emotional abuse from his dad negated by so many people who hate him in and out-of-universe similarly and I hate that. 

The same goes for Chloe and Zoe because, like Adrien, Zoe is treated like a doll and can't develop further, taking all of Chloe's nuances and character development into one character but without anything; Zoe is just a nice doll. Her sapphism means nothing to me and I'm demi bi but how can I when Zoe's sapphism is used to push the straight white-passing couple? Yeah, fuck no. 

Yeah, this is Thomas Astruc's writing clear as day and it made clear that if Felix was going to take Adrien's story anyway and Adrien have to be a good boy taking all the abuse and lies from everyone close in his life out of the loop, then Astruc shouldn't have made Adrien in the first place if he's going to remain a doll. Because of his hatred for Chloe due to his childhood bullying that he can't seem to be the bigger man with - though considering how the fantasies with Marinette and Sabine saying stuff about his ex which is creepy -, Zoe is just bland and nothing about her will be more developed or given much depth because the sapphism sure as hell ain't gonna be looked at more in-depth. 

When MariChat is the healthiest of the entire love square, I just want to know more about Adrien than what we know now. This is not a lot, not when the focus on Adrien is negligible given how important he is to the overall plot with Gabriel. 

I'm not asking Adrien to be the leader, since when I ever mention that when all I want is to have focus. 

At this point, it's getting too repetitive and the real plot points are plot devices. Adrien became a plot device in that Shanghai special and didn't receive any good attention outside of being a Marinette stalker and one Cataclysm. Adrien is now a plot device with little development outside of what we just know. 

He won't be utilized because Astruc is gender obsessive and won't give any good development to anyone including his main girl Marinette because she's perfect the way she is and whatever flaws and hypocrisies she has is nothing. Marinette is not perfect but for Astruc, she is the daughter he would never have with an ex. Personally, thinking of a kid with an ex is just a bad way of coping. How about just treating Marinette as her own character instead of your daughter who does no wrong. Or she did wrong and realized it, making her a hypocrite instead when she doesn't tell Chat Noir. 

I would like to have similar notions for Alya, Nino, Chloe, and everyone in the fucking cast but when that development is just so tiny. Unlike the subtle development of the Strawhats and the cast of One Piece in general, this one is not taking the subtle or any route of development. It's just one wonky line zigzagging and not the slow kind that real people take, I mean the inconsistent wacky line that goes everywhere with no hint of self-awareness. Chloe is the worst offender and it's not by choice either since Astruc is all about his hate for her. 

But if he's aware that his hate is not good, given that stupid self-insert episode, then he should be aware of just how badly everything is going and that the story just started getting picked up now in S4. This is not slow-build when there are no clear arcs with a central theme around it. There is a difference between this and Princess Tutu and that Princess Tutu has a fucking plot and consistency on top of themes. 

Y’know, I have seen arguments that the Chloe thing was a betrayal arc that people don’t or simply can’t change though I have seen a better argument that Chloe doesn’t know how to change. The thing is that Astruc refused to acknowledge emotional abuse with both Chloe and Adrien so why do they even want to think that path, knowing Chloe is by the end of the day a child suffering from emotional abuse and victim-blamed while still acknowledging her actions? Seriously, the refusal to acknowledge emotional abuse and the overall bad writing should make it clear that the Chloe thing was what writers wanted versus the showrunner. And Astruc has demonstrated time and time again just how bad of a writer he is with his perfect dolls that can’t develop and the lack of themes and structure while still keeping it episodic. Why even defend him as a writer when there is a phrase where nobody hates the show more than the fans? And the self-insert episode shows his ego and arrogance about his writing talent in a big way? Other long-running shows like Pokémon demonstrated themes and structure while keeping it episodic is better than this. 

There's a difference between One Piece's repetitiveness of saving the country from bad guys/dictatorship when that's the overarching theme of freedom and ML's themes if ML took advantage of its themes at all. 

Prior to the Astruc takeover, I thought the common theme would be love and all its ups and downs including its toxicity. Instead of what themes it has, it just turned into a plot device or degraded into nothingness. I don't think I would see Adrien as his own character under Astruc's penmanship, not when at this point he's just a trophy for Marinette and a constantly insulted Chat Noir who was unable to do anything right even as Misterbug. Chloe won't ever have her character development ever again under Astruc's watchful eye. 

Hey, he won't be getting any kind of development of what we already know anyway. It's not like Epheremal would do anything to help this sheltered abused kid who needs a support system. I don't think as much as Gorilla isn't involved in the mess, he could talk it out to them. 

Why am I ranting? I'm ranting at this point because it's not like I can change Astruc's mind about the plot and character progression or even good regression though not on the plot end since the plot is being dragged into oblivion and unlike One Piece, ML doesn't merit its longer seasons, not when there are no clear arcs. 

Astruc is dead-set on his 'plans' for ML. 

For anyone even wanting to reason with him, it's not gonna happen because Astruc wants no critiques. Does he throw fits from official criticisms thrown at him by pros? Because he throws fits whenever someone even questions his writing online. 

If I was an official critic in France and thrashing the story right now, I will be professional about it but express my disappointment that the plot this long to even happen when it had been stagnant for far too long. 

Y'know what, Astruc is gone and we already have better writing from fans anyhow so begone Astruc. 

When I got Tiger and Bunny Season 2 to look forward to on top of the new season of Vanitas no Carte as well as the adaptation of Spy X Family on top of One Piece and maybe MHA (even though I'm restarting that one while I'm just waiting for the raid to end in Wano at most; unlike OP where I know where I left off, I forgot where I left off in MHA and thought it best to just binge), ML is not gonna get picked up by me for a long time. 

Mostly, it's just one episode then and there, not when the plot is just this slow-moving and not even having the tension needed for the myth arc. At this point, I'm waiting for the series to end so I could binge it. 

Here is my advice for anyone wanting to watch ML: It's not the best written or even has the fill for potential. It's not a good kind of slow-burn or even has a consistent anything. You really have to search for how to watch the series in order to make sense of it all. It's not bad, just mediocre and on the level of Danny Phantom in my opinion. 

Seriously, you would find more consistency and good slow burn elsewhere. 

Pokemon Headcanons Part 1

This is mainly a fun post. I will sometimes link back to some Tumblr posts. There are going to be walls of texts so I’m gonna put up bullet points. 

This is a mashup of the franchise including manga, anime, and video games. I'm aiming for a slightly realistic end while the fantastical elements remain. 

In general, the Pokemon world is malleable. Just look at the difference between Professor Wormwood's interpretations and this fanfiction. Why not look up SkylightSparkle on Tumblr for her Pokemon headcanons?

Just to make it clear, while I care little for the darker Pokemon AUs when we already got official confirmation of the Pokemon’s desire for fighting outside their usual habitats for their own prestige and the symbiosis between humans and Pokemon - in which the Pokemon get more of a varied experience and stronger opponents while the trainers get a career raising powerful Pokemon - from Professor Rowan. 

Every time I see the ‘humans are forcing these animals who don’t want to fight! These animals are just trying to live their lives!’ argument and all the dark shit neglecting that these Pokémon are built for battle and want to fight because they want to do and it’s a great proof of growth in strength and power! While Battles are outlawed in Ryme City, the characters sure as hell aren’t arguing as they can watch battling and they need to fight for power and strength they want to gain outside their habitat. 

There’s a difference between the nuance of N and the refusal to listen to those arguments. At least N got something interesting to say rather than tired arguments that makes the strict regulations look like underground dogfighting. I’m tired of just seeing the latter without any nuance and belief of the connection we see. There is a fucking reason why we see Ash gaining Pikachu’s trust! Fuck, battling isn’t the only thing in the world as contests are a thing! I’m just so tired to see such arguments when I rather want nuances like seeing that Detective Pikachu which didn’t take a negative stance and took the same stance as Pokemon Conquest and early Pokemon under Shudo’s show running with the heavy green messages and the original ending of the Pokemon marching. Did they forget Shudo’s original intentions? Like I said, those tired arguments are drilled to the ground and unimaginative as I rather have the nuances than something I see over and over. It’s like they’re arguing against something without offering a solution or even bothering that these Pokémon just have much of a desire to get out of their habitat to find opponents to better their strength and power they won’t get from their own habitat. They aren’t offering a solution except stop fighting when fighting is in the blood for most Pokémon. 

And that not everyone is going to be the best. There are going to be more Youngster Joeys than Reds. I think these people are forgetting the odds of whose going to be Masters and who is not. 

Oh because it’s not Digimon Tamers enough even though we got the manga and the darker stuff implied already through unspoken implications. Nah darker AUs when it’s there in canon there is dark shit already and better existential introspections like mediocrity in a path they want to be in or closeness to Pokemon better than humans when humans shun you are food for the brain than needless darkness. I like the unspoken implications and the undertones than outright dark unless the darkness serves the story well. The last thing we need is a darkness-induced apathy with no levity. And that's the argument for the edgier stuff because it's dark for the sake of dark instead of using the darkness to serve a purpose beyond 'realism and darkness!'. 

I like dark stuff. If you see my AO3 bookmarks, you notice loads of dark stuff. It’s just from the Pokemon fandom, the dark stuff is just not nuanced or plain bad when I see the same parroted arguments. 

It's basically the Power Rangers equivalent of 'child soldiers' even though it's clear that Zordon made it clear he never wanted to have their ranger duties get in the way of their dreams. The closest child soldier that Power Rangers even got was Samurai. Every time I see this argument made, I want to get drunk just as much as I see the arguments in the Pokemon fandom about the fighting. Unlike the 4Kids who have very misguided thinking of existential thoughts as they kept the themes in the special rather than the 'fighting is bad' theme which thanks Arceus. Remember the fighting is bad is from the 4Kids while in the original movie, it's the cloning blues and the right to live alongside the natural born. I doubt Shudo was going for the 'fighting is bad' route when he's perfectly willing to have all the dark stuff in his novelization. 

There is dark stuff in Pokémon. It’s not just implied either as the Dex entries can get dark and the unspoken implications speak louder. It’s just that real-life animal fighting gets rid of a lot of imagination and suspension of disbelief and here the realism only makes sense if it has nothing to do with the battling.

Besides, downer endings are the refuge for the cowards in Pokemon fandom. Downer endings do not capture Pokemon's spirit. You can go for a bittersweet but too dark could ruin the point of what makes Pokemon. 

General Pokemon Stuff that is not Government or Pokemon League

On a general basis, the Pokemon world would be a mix of magical, pseudoscience, and actual science has thrown together. Hey, at least it didn't spit in the face of science like Power Rangers. 

Time is strange in the Pokemon world. Steampunk and magical stuff in the likes of Apricorn balls, the Ancient Weapon, and Magearna have been there for a long time that standard eras might be quicker than it would take years to end. That is why while the PLA is at the least 1920s or a century ago and 30 years give or take by hints that are easily shrugged away, its true-time period might be longer as pockets of humanity might integrate with Pokémon that it’s unbelievable that Japan in-universe would take longer to get integrated than the rest of the world. Even then, those sects aren't the same as the much larger villages. 

Personally, it could be thousands of years ago as steampunk materials are in use. It would take generations and more than a century for the humans of Hisui to integrate with Pokémon and so many Pokémon will take time to see humans are the best avenue of gathering strength through combat. Honestly, the steampunk aspect is far too much and the timeline in the Pokemon universe might be quicker in some aspects and slower in others. Generations of fear do not go away for the Hisui settlers to the point that a ten year can go out and capture a team in 100 years. Even with the series’ power of friendship, that’s still too unrealistic for settlers to suddenly embrace Pokemon after Pokemon attack their villages and kill people. Not to mention, the Hisuian forms do not go away in a century, which takes centuries in part of ecological, sociological, and geological changes. I would understand the Diamond/Pearl Clans, the analogous Ainu people, disappearing like that is what happened but evolution and this sudden change of perfect integration do not happen in a century. Not when the Hisuian people aren't that widespread enough. 

Or Hisui was just behind in the curve when everybody in other regions got Pokémon. Hisui just might’ve continued the treacherous past until they reintegrated. 

Give it centuries of years so that mindset would disappear and Pokemon are fully integrated that it seems unbelievable that Pokemon wasn’t originally part of it. It would take time to settle that Pokemon could be used in everyday stuff and warfare, centuries of it - though it would not take long for warfare usage of Pokémon - before that mindset become so ingrained that things are better when Pokemon and humans are one than separate for thousands of years. By that point of the Pokemon League establishment, there are many mini-tournaments held annually and so forth. When Pokemon see better avenues of gaining strength, they will want to be part of it. 

That’s why while it’s reasonable to believe to say PLA takes place some 130 years ago, that means shit when that’s too unrealistic even for Pokemon. I firmly believe that while our timeline is similar but since the tech and the world are different, it could take place thousands of years ago. Pockets of humanity having their Pokémon do not count as they probably integrated into them long ago as opposed to the villages and towns that survived Pokemon attacks. Again, generations of fear and regional forms do not go away in a century. Having just a few tamed ones in town does not mean that 10-year-olds can go on journeys a century from now, not with the generations and centuries upon thousands of work to even allow that to pass. 

This is totally different from the worshipped Pokemon who would take a different stance. 

Besides when we got Pokemon and human marriages in the way back past long before the time of human and Pokemon strife. That could mean that humans have lived with Pokemon, disguised or otherwise, and married them when Pokemon aren't seen as these monsters but treated as potential lifemates. So yeah, this period of time of Pokemon and human strife might only last for some time before they can reconnect. 

The Pokemon timeline is weird. 

I think of it similarly to the Power Rangers timeline where time is much quicker and slower in some aspects. 

At least, in the dex entries, there is science even if it's based on magical creatures. It admits the scientists have no clue about some of their most physics-defying ones. 

In real life, Pokemon could learn more attacks than four. Even Detective Pikachu the movie ignored that, giving the eponymous character five moves. 

Honestly, I don't give a shit about type advantages or stats. Just because I'm interested in IVs, EVs, natures, abilities, and stats now doesn't mean I would care about it in a story format outside of strategies. I remember a saying from well-known Pokemon fanfic; type advantage is only a recommendation. With training and experience, one can overpower or defeat through quick thinking or control of the field. Unlike a freaking video game, this is real life where one could use moves to make the field to their advantage or find creativity in combinations or something. That means more than four moves. At the same time, it's not limitless so I just cut up to at least 6 or 7 moves at the very least and 10 to 20 at the most. Because outside of biological functions, those amount of moves would be decent enough for survival in the wild. The ones who need it the most are the ones with a shallow move pool or the four move system severely dealt them a blow. The Eeveelutions are this so hard.  

Though the difference is that the moves that they will forget or will not use again are the enhancements or better versions of the moves they learn before. For example, no need to do Tackle and Harden when you got Quick Attack and Iron Defense respectively. 

Technically Pokemon can learn all the moves they can do in their respective learn set but it’s not recommended or rarely work well. The top limit of at least 20 is better than having the entire list of 146 (Clefable) though Legendaries are excused from this as they are basically gods anyhow. The Legendaries and some Mythicals got an excuse but Pokemon below them could master their entire list but rarely work well.

However, I adhere to the anime where any Pokémon is capable of being badass. There is no such thing as weak Pokemon, only weak trainers. It’s just I will lean to the competition if I want strategies or tips when it comes to the stuff I barely have an understanding of. But even then, I want more creativity beyond basic move sets so that’s why I expanded the move set limits so I could do something. 

The reason I did the expanded move set and did not have the strict 4 moves set was that I'm a newbie when it comes to Pokemon strategies. I remember my old strategies when I was a casual, using loads of brute force moves and less so on status moves. And then there's the tag team which has totally different rules so that's way off for me. I barely understand the competitive scene for Pokemon. 

Then there's the Pokemon that I plan for certain characters which have different tiers based on their stats and that means the four moves set that I grasp when it comes to the game is less so when it comes to the competitive scene where people have to find creative ways to benefit their Pokemon. 

I'd rather have a Pokemon be a cleric, a wall, and a sweeper all at once. The other roles (scout/lead/anti-lead, revenge killer, Rapid Spinner, Sleep Absorber, Spiker, Choice user, and support) could be all those roles at once too. I barely understood any of these roles even with a basic search. Just useful and beneficial moves for all and the best fit for circumstances is what I got. I'm a better Coordinator than I am a Battler when I played the games. Please, my brother referred to me whenever we want to participate in Contests. 

When we got somehow magnetic fields (Chargestone Cave got floating rocks that are somehow a symptom of the electricity) that are on par with One Piece's extremes which is a world that in no way could exist, then anything that is just science could not explain. 

Because of the purity of their resources and their medicinal contents, the humans there live longer than here where the average lifespan is 80 years. Without any immortal byproducts like the Ancient Weapon keeping AZ immortal except with only the growth of white/gray hair, then it's possible humanity in the Pokemon world can live to 100 or so years old. 

Pokemon would be used in everyday things. Every media in the Pokemon franchise showcase this brilliantly. For example, chefs including patisseries would use Slurpuff and Alcremie as major help. In the newest Dex entry for Slurpuff, doctors are considering Slurpuff as a beneficial help in the medical field. It's not surprising since Hypno is working in hospitals to help insomnia. 

Service and therapy Pokemon exists. Pokemon are so intrinsic that various traditions include them in some way. 

For example, the Best Pokemon are there to stand beside their trainer at the altar or the one walking the bride down the aisle or creating things like flower crowns or spun silk veils. 

Many companies would name themselves after a Pokemon. As seen in the Detective Pikachu movie poster, there are Jigglypuff Records for example. Not to say that there aren't any original named businesses and products. 

Trainers are allowed to carry more than six only if they're not using them in battle/contests/performances/competitions. The only trainer class allowed to carry more than six are the trainers involved in sports and Pokemon Rangers. Technically trainers are allowed to hold an egg even if they have a full party of six. If you can carry more than six Pokémon when you’re a trainer, then you must have permission from the regional professor, particularly if you are just going to have three or four reserve members instead of practically building an army in every region you are in. 

To switch Pokeballs in the Transfer Machine (which works just as well as a Trade machine), they have to switch them out at a Pokemon Center and Daycare Center. Families are allowed to take in the Pokemon if they don't want Pokemon Professors or Daycare professionals. Just as long as someone you trust, then it's fine to send it over to them. 

Humans have evolved themselves to take Pokemon attacks or to survive just enough to be taken to a hospital. They would be resistant to allergies to a major extent. Hey, this is the place where pure water in this world has healing and medicinal qualities. This is different from Ghost Pokemon. 

As for the legendaries and mythical, there will be more than one. However, they are rare because of course, they are; they just tend to keep to themselves. Just to be clear, there will be one Alpha Legendary/Mythical that oversees their domain who will be reborn again via an egg. Just don't capture the Alpha, just don't or else throw the world into a mess. The other ones are perfectly fine for capture but not the original Alpha. 

About Pokemon poachers, they are catching Pokemon not with Pokeballs since those would immediately register them as theirs. Since they are catching Pokemon for the black market or for rich people who want rare Pokemon for a high price, they're hunters essentially when hunting Pokemon is banned. 

General Pokemon - the animals, not the world itself - can be found here. It's helpful given how the reports try to explain the Pokemon scientifically while still keeping its magical world like Fairy Force. There are those I have disagreements with such as eating these Pokémon like Skiddo and Appletun so be clear these are my headcanons and those are his. However, since going through this is too much right now, it’s best to leave this when it’s best to explain. 

Though they are still useful. See Petilil's report of the regrowing of the leaves that were taken as a medicinal ingredient but grow ill should the leaves taken far too often. 

The Dex entries, while useful, are missing info with context. 

For the heights, I think it averaged the max height while the anime showcased their average height. The Dex height shows how large these animals could be while the average sizes would be what the anime and the Let’s Go games show. Pokemon can vary in size from each other even in their evolution forms. This includes Totem Pokemon and even sizes found in the wild in Pokémon though those guys are mainly the leaders of their packs and rarely interact with humans, perfectly capable of surviving in the wild. PLA also showcases this with the Alpha Pokemon which are the size of the Dex entries at the least while the normal sizes we are used to are the average sizes. The anime isn't pulling stuff out of their ass with the giant Pokemon or large than average size Pokemon. They do exist, just the ones that we see often in the anime are the average sizes rather than the averaged max size that the Dex dictated. 

There are the asexual and intersex or spontaneous reproduction systems of particular species, especially when they’re generally either male or female. These are animals first after all. 

Evolution via Friendship or affection in the wild is either due to mating or even the care of others. 

Now about the eggs themselves. Those are typically daycares and breeders aka captivity not that this method isn’t available to the wild Pokemon. In the wild, depending on which animal Pokemon are based on, they either birth live young or do birth eggs. For survival purposes, most species would breed via Egg so that their young have all the abilities they need. Not that they can’t birth live young, particularly the species that are in abundance and living relatively peaceful lives away from predators. Those who see the live young are scientists out in the field, Pokemon Watchers, nature photographers, and some chance encounters. Just to be clear, nobody in the Pokemon has ever seen Pokemon lay an egg before canonically so seeing two possible methods must be an amazing thing for evolution. 

That said, despite what the game and anime show babies capable upon hatching, they still are babies and need weeks of development before having their first match. This means babies who are tiny versions of their stronger selves before growing. 

Eggs are colored to what the Pokemon looked like. If you want the more generic color and want more of a mystery, go for the dotted color ones. Personally, for me, I like the designs more than the dots. 

While there is such thing as a Move Tutor, it’s best for Move Tutors to have their Pokemon demonstrate a move, and then the Pokemon student in question would follow practicing until they master. It works for traveling trainers who didn’t want to leave the Pokemon behind. Though they will still tutor them in those moves by teaching them. 

Trained Pokemon or Pokemon under the care of humans tend to have a different diet, personality, and overall lifestyle from the wild ones. Not that they don’t have the scariness of certain behaviors like the Chandelure evolutionary family’s need for energy that they solely rely on that they need constant eye. 

Normally, there would be some species, three to five per route/city/town. However, when we see Ryme City in the movie holding up to over thirty species with the Pidgeot line and Braviary lines being the most in the air, somehow we saw Alolan native Pokemon like Comfey in a Kantonian city. Not to mention in the Lental region, there are over 200 species in total with over 19 species alone in one stage. 

I do have a fondness for Shinies I do like. However, I'm just as drawn to alternately colored Pokemon that aren't exactly Shiny but Shiny all the same. Please, I love the alternately colored Pokemon in the anime where we see slight adjustments. I'm not talking about regional variants, just differently colored enough that it couldn't be called Shiny officially but just slight colorings. Therefore, it's easy for me to imagine the black coloring on a Shiny Mega Gallade to invoke a design of a tux just like the Shiny Mega Gardevoir's black dress. 

I imagine Shinies are rare in the wild because it's easier for predators to seek out more than normal ones, discounting the rare births in captivity. Shinies stick out like a sore thumb and alternately colored ones are just another cherry on top. However, humans regard Shinies with awe and often catch them. Shinies, due to their rarity, are prized by humans.

While gift Pokemon is a thing, it's best for beginner trainers to befriend a potential starter first and get that line of connection first. Sometimes, it can be done as a look or even just a day of bonding. It makes more sense realistically and for story weight. Then again, to even have the regional starter, beginner trainers must go through hoops just to choose a starter. Even then, not everyone in the world is gonna start with the regional starter so it's easier that way. 

The evolutionary methods for Eevee are known commonly though the stones should the region do not have their own Mossy/Icy Rocks. Stones are far more in abundance than Mega and Key Stones. 

Food

This one is much harder. Fishermen are said to still exist while hunters are nigh gone. Sushi shops still exist after all. 

Hunting Pokémon will be banned especially after the debacles that were Kangaskhan, Lapras, Farfetch’d, and Sharpedo - not listed here are the other Pokemon who were nearly hunted to extinction but were able to restore their numbers kind of since Farfetch’d is still indicated to still be rare. 

Over-harvesting the food they produce is also frowned upon as Chansey and Blissey are rare in the wild due to the over-harvest of the eggs they produce. 

Finding food produced by Pokemon like their autotomy is in the grey because wild Pokémon need it more than humans do; humans can eat it but still, it’s in the wild. However, that autotomy factor must not involve actually cutting it illegally because nature is far more important here than making a buck just because these Pokémon can regrow them later. In the wild, the wild is important whereas you must have a license to farm or even as a trainer who knows the autotomy feature will fall off. 

Now, for meat from seafood to eggs to meat from land animals, I always thought of it as artificially made. If real animals can't exist alongside Pokemon because the food chain would make the real animals die out, then the meats have to be artificial. Now, while I don't take Takeshi Shudo for his word a lot of the time because of how the anime has evolved since then, he did make interesting notes about animals being extinct so... these artificial meats have to make sense. 

As for fishing, well... Fishermen are said to still exist. So either fish still exist or they also eat fish Pokemon as detailed below. Since the world is very malleable, we can decide which or even have artificial meat. If I have to guess, it’s based on abundance and not veering into overfishing. While Pokemon is intelligent, I just don’t know unless they still eat the fishes listed below but in the expensive restaurants or in the black market or something with artificial meats, they replicate the taste and texture of the non-autotomy fishes. Hey, we know there are predator and prey as well as parasitic relations in the Pokemon animal kingdom. 

Or regular fish and regular pigs, cows, etc bred in captivity. Either way, any route that I show can still be right. 

But this is different from food like 

• Slowpoke Tail - no idea what food equivalent they're supposed to be. It's not nutritious so there's that. It's an autotomy feature so these tails will fall off when they should be instead of being severed. 
• Crabrawler pincers - crab that only has little meat on it. Kingler is more based on a king crab, the most known crab that we eat. Again, autotomy. 
• Clauncher/Clawitzer claws - shrimps but we're eating the autotomy feature that has lots of meat. Again, autotomy. 
• Basculin - bass. We eat bass. 
• Wishiwashi - sardines. That's what they are. 
• Barraskewda - barracuda meat that is edible in real life
• there might be other Water Pokemon I haven’t listed here because it seemed like Water Pokemon are eaten most of the time. But the probably would be
• Qwilfish - pufferfish and it’s a delicacy in Japan so… 

The latter three have been implied to be eaten in the past because unlike the first three Pokemon food on this list could just regrow their appendages. Wishiwashi, Basculin, and Baraskewda could still be eaten now because the only way I could take them getting eaten is if they are just like the common fishes we see in supermarkets now. We know for sure Tentacool and Goldeen are common in waters. 

On a side-note about the Slowpoke Tail, according to the song, the foodstuff was supposed to be suckled like honeysuckle, not eaten because the only apparent way for it to be eaten was to be dried. This is weird since, in the latest generation, we were introduced to a smoked version of the foodstuff, which is something only done to completely edible food. Not to mention, according to this menu, there's Braciole (slices of meat that are pan-fried or grilled) of Slowpoke Tail. Even in the manga, there's a grilled version of Slowpoke Tail, not dried and used in soups, actually grilled in a fashion similar to ikayaki. Since then, I too started to ignore the suckled factor and only dried to eat when even the mangaka people ignored that little detail. 

As for the illegal obtainment, I'm thinking that's more cutting the tail off from wild Pokemon regardless of when it will fall off. That's what I think the illegal factor would make the most sense. I think similarly to Miltank ranches, there would be seaside Slowpoke farms just like Corsola farms. Why else would there be an Azure Bay Slowpoke Tail ready for a restaurant? Slowpoke is in no way an endangered species and their tails grow back and edible so it would make the most sense humans would want to eat the tails. Still, the illegality factor makes sense when we're dealing with Team Rocket here who would cut off the tails of wild Slowpokes and sell them off. Why could it be sold but not remarked upon by authorities unless there's a license or legality involved that you can sell them and as a food shop, you can sell this food under the right circumstances? It's not like it's a secret when that guy is telling it. 

Seriously, if there are Tropius ranches, then there should be Slowpoke farms. When the tails in form of various food products the world over are being sold and eaten even in the Gold and Silver, the selling of the tail didn’t raise any eyebrows until it was learned Team Rocket was behind this particular establishment. Remember even a random Grunt remarked its delicacy back in a freaking Japan-based region. Honestly, it’s more licensing and taking wild tails without the due to nature regardless the animals will grow it back. 

• Sharpedo fins used to be hunted for the fins for likely Sharpedo fin soup - maybe because I saw them all the time in Pokemon media that it's not quite a Magikarp level of common or even Goldeen but it's somewhere in the middle where you can find them for the most part but aren't as rare as Farfetch'd who was indeed hunted to near extinction and are rare to find; considering how shark fin soup is pretty good, at least using imitation meats for the dish at least is really good as my family usually prefer my mom's recipe for it alongside her famous bun rieu, something my pregnant cousins really crave only her recipe and my eldest cousin's husband's favorite; honestly, as long as imitation meats for Sharpedo fins are done so well that hunting for Sharpedo decreased so drastically though it's a worldwide law about hunting Sharpedo. Very likely to have restored to healthy numbers.
• similarly, Farfetch'd, the Kantoian form that is, have been hunted to near-extinction and thus are rare. Unlike Lapras, I haven't seen dex entries about breeding to restoring Farfetch'd to a decent number. Based on ducks. Galarian Farfetch'd while rare didn't have to deal with that problem since they're knights. But they would have to survive their harsh environments even with their adaptation so it seems Galarian Farfetch’d is still rare just like its Kantoian form.
• Cherubi - eaten in the past by Pokemon and humans alike though the humans part would be negligible now. Based on cherries. 
• Bounsweet juice - like Cherubi, Pokemon and humans have eaten them in the past though Bounsweet was way too sweet for human consumption yet the juices are edible for humans if diluted. Based on mangosteen and unlike Steenee and Tsareena, at least we can get food from it. 
• Appletun - the skin on the back is edible and used to be a popular treat but I don't know if Appletun could just regrow the skin back since this Pokemon is apple pie incarnate so there is the likelihood of just regrowing via eating Sweet Apples
• Petilil - leaves on its head that can be boiled and the Dex entries haven’t mentioned if it’ll fall off or not but considering they’re living plants, they could regrow them
• Bayleef's neck leaves that have a small shoot of a tree in them - fragrances for medicinal effects. Not quite harvest, but could sniff it for health effects
• Glossifleur's pollen and Eldegoss' seeds - used for remedies for the sick while the latter is used as a snack or as a nutritious food for the malnourished. 
• Leafeon's fragrance - like Bayleef, fragrances but not for medicine but for perfume. Like living plants, they could regrow them as they live off of sunshine and photosynthesis just like Torterra. Torterra would regrow its mini forest. Or they could place their plant into a shell until it's alright. 
• Gloom's odor - for perfume ingredients though Vileplume could be viable for perfume too, I guess. Though with poison, extreme dilution is needed. 
• Weezing's gases - extreme dilution to make perfume. 
• Salazzle's gases - extreme dilution to make perfume
• Spritzee and Aromatisse - They emit perfume, bad and good that could be made into perfume just like Leafeon's probably. They're basically perfumes in a Pokemon. 
• Cinccino’s oil - this species secretes oil that can spread over nests to protect from dust. Dex said the oil is effective and really expensive at the market. Since it secretes and spreads, then they could still do it but be careful about it.

As for dairy, we got the popular Moomoo milk produced daily by Miltanks (cow's milk) that can be made into dairy products like ice cream and cheese with only the cheese being added into the latest generation though the other products have always been a part of other media. 

Skiddo is more likely to produce milk as they are goats though from what I read about its evolution, Gogoat, is not likely to produce milk as much as Skiddo would. Then again, Gogoat is still a goat even if it's based on goats that we don't use for milk preferably from. Skiddo and Gogoat learn Milk Drink, Miltank's signature move so... Obviously, it's goat's milk. 

This is the same I think with Wooloo and Dubwool, the former of which is far more useful in farms in their first evolution who would produce the equivalent of sheep's milk. Dubwool and Gogoat would be better elsewhere than being domestic sheep and goat. Honestly, they most likely produce milk though from what I read about those inspirations, humans don't drink their milk. The wool from Dubwool has to be useful somewhere since apparently, it's so springy it's a trampoline. It might not learn Milk Drink but they’re still sheep.

As for the other food/material gathered by humans, 

• Chansey and Blissey have eggs every day and like Miltank, must be gathered. Though given the rarity of Chansey and Blissey outside of Pokemon Centers and trainers, it's to get artificial eggs that are not the same. These eggs are exceptionally delicious and egg-based & any recipes using eggs will be scrumptious. Though in this case, this one will be heavily regulated and this line preferred their eggs to be eaten by the given party, not be resold at a high price. 
• Octillery's ink (their equivalent of squid ink although artificial squid ink would still be made) is said to be used in cooking. 
• Combee and Vespiquen make honey
• Paras and Parasect has a fungus that can be used to make medicine
• Ribombee's pollen puffs are used in supplements 
• Gabite's scales are used for medicine 
• Seadra's bones and fins are also used in medicine
• Shuckle is used as a fermenting source to make juices
• Tropius produce bananas or fruits as it said in the text edible for humans. 
• Bug Pokemon's silk particularly that of Ariados and the Leavanny line being used for weaving/sewing. 
• Then are other Pokemon appendages that are used for medicine or fragrances like Petilil (Lilligant secretes oil from their flower so that's easily extracted) and Leafeon which suggest autotomy features. I have to look up how on earth they would extract Leafeon's fragrance safely without destroying Leafeon. 

Food produced by Pokemon and consumed by humans is deemed okay, especially if humans have way too many and often donate to either local markets or businesses that deal in distributing those materials to companies in need of those materials. That’s how I see 

• wool shorn by trainers from Wooloo/Dubwool - for clothes, etc though special treatment must be done to lessen the trampoline nature of Dubwool’s fleece.
• while Mareep will shed instead of shorn - for clothes, etc. Like Dubwool, special treatment to lessen the electricity. 
• Crabrawler's claws - food
• Clauncher and Clawitzer's claws - food
• Slowpoke's tails - food
• shed fur from Lopunny - for winter clothing like mufflers and hats
• Chansey/Blissey's eggs - food. Heavily regulated and only the given party may eat it but not resell it. The eggs sold are incredibly expensive due to this and often best for the given party and teammates. For the trainers’ sake, I hope they read up on the regulations.
• Tropius' fruit/bananas - food
• Liligant's flower oil - essential oils
• Glossifleur's pollen - for remedies
• Cinccino’s oil - skin treatment oils. Though this one is best for smaller vials than actual donations since these just keep secretes the oil. 
• Pyukumuku's oil - slime for skin moisturizer. It secretes every day like Cinccino but best be careful just like the aforementioned Pokemon. 
• Ribombee's pollen puffs - medicinal supplements and food
• shed skin from Dratini - for boots but are mostly used by luxury 
• Tangela’s vines - As herbs. Said to snap easily and painlessly when pulled. There’s also supposed to be a distinct scent so perfume is too likely. 
• shed Heart Scales from Luvdisc - for jewelry, collecting
• Clamperl's pearls - for jewelry. More valuable pearls than Shellder's pearls. Though the Dex did say it only produced one pearl in its lifetime since it's based on clams, 2-5 pearls would make sense.
• Shellder's pearls - for jewelry. Though Shellder will discard their pearls, making it easier for collecting. I think this species, like oysters, would make 26 pearls. 
• Skarmory’s shed feathers - for knives, swords, and other sharp objects
• Aron’s shed armor - for steel items 
• Kingdra’s shed scales - for jewelry, collecting
• Linoone’s shed fur - for shaving brushes
• Gabite’s shed scales - for medicine
• Kantoian Sandslash’s shed and broken paws and spikes - carving plows for tilling farm fields
• Diggersby’s shed fur - heavy winter clothing
• Hakamo-o’s shed scales - can be molded and processed to make pots and pans
• Wigglytuff’s shed fur - for yarn
• Eldegoss' cotton fluff and seeds - likely shed as they blow in the wind as they are basically cotton balls on animals and cotton are blown to the wind. It's likely autotomy if people are using it for cotton and yarn. This Pokemon already spreading its seed to fertilize therefore it must be possible that they're spreading the cotton too. The seeds are used as food. 
• Cottonee and Whimiscott's cotton fluff - likely shed if blown to the wind. Autotomy feature if people use it for cotton. Like Eldegoss, their cotton must be blown off as well. Already, the latter's cotton fluff was said to tear and scatter should it build up too much in the Dex. 
• Talonflame’s feathers - used to be wings, but feathers would be more accessible and would need to make flame-retardant wear 
• Petilil’s leaves - for medicine. They’re plants so they likely regrow it but best not be hasty pulling the leaves too often will let them be sick so pull them when they’re ready and wait at least some time. 
• Leavanny line and Ariados’ silk - for sewing though it’s best not to donate them when these guys will help with the sewing if it’s your hobby
• Sharpedo’s fangs - accessories
• Corsola horns - for jewelry, fine craftsmanship 

being donated to businesses that need or have more use of them. Unless the trainer knows how to use the wool or fur or feathers or scales or horns or armor or skin in a way that won’t waste, the trainers have to carry around the excess until they reach a town. Course, they could also sell them too to specialized shops that would distribute them. 

Pokemon-shaped food and appliances (Pokemon merch would be extremely popular.) are a huge thing in the Pokemon world. I imagine these would do such as one and two. The food offered at the real-life Pokemon cafe could also help as they may be real products in the series including seasonal offers (cherry blossom season, holidays, etc) depending on the region. Just look up the official Pokemon Cafe food pictures on Google. 

Kalos celebrate Halloween so I can see them offer the Halloween Pokemon-shaped food as well as everywhere else celebrating Christmas so the same could be said though it's more a mix of familial and romantic in Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh while more familial in Kalos, Alola, and Galar. 

Menus would also use Berries which are also available for human consumption. Growing these berries would do well for restaurants since Berries seem to grow everywhere as long as it's kept healthy. We got Berry Tarts from the Pokemon Cafe game as well as the Pecha Berry tart as well as Pecha Pate. So yeah, fit for human and Pokemon consumption. 

This goes with the fruits and vegetables which are naturally grown. Unlike artificial meats, these are completely natural. Crops are fine too. 

About the Poffins, I always thought it was a choux pastry filled with berry compote with the seeds on top are the berry seeds or leftovers. It could also be homemade custard. Berry reduction is only a part of the beginning process. 

Education

I have a headcanon that trainers on the road learn electronically. Y'know all those adverts from so-called schools that have students learn at their own pace, the kind that looks so scammy? Or a better example of BTS's college of choice and how they chose to go to college online due to their hectic schedules? Imagine that but instead provided by the Pokemon League and the government. 

Pokemon journeys are a huge part of the lore and you can start your journey no matter the age (in BW2, our player character was 16 and our protag in SWSH was in their tweens) unless you are younger than 10 where then you must be supervised. I know that it's commonly accepted that kids younger than 10 could receive their first Pokemon as seen by many games and even anime characters (one-off characters who look way younger than Max yet somehow already have their first Pokemon) but cannot participate in any official League stuff like competitions. 

In the anime, holding Pokemon from one trainer and given to another has been accepted as shown by Clemont and Bonnie. While I always held the belief that Max will one day go back to the Pokemon Center somewhere between Sootopolis and Izabe Island with his Treeko likely and another Pokemon he would catch because he made a promise dammit to come back for the Ralts, it could go either way since kids as young as 10 are legally allowed to own their own Pokemon. 

So it makes sense for traveling trainers to have their education on the go and learn at their own pace. 

Colleges would be accepting of all trainers and everyone basically though major colleges are in major cities. It's not the same of say testing into these colleges. You can just send in applications including what you have done in your travels. The cherry on top is if you won any sort of competition or have a background in any self-taught things like breeding and grooming skills. 

Though schools for occupations like medical and law, then you must have qualifications and that includes credits and passing their tests with flying colors. Those are far more difficult to get in though if someone would still want to be a nurse and work at a Pokemon center at best, you could attend schools dedicated to teaching Pokemon nurses and still have enough experience for humans to pass and work competently at a Pokemon Center. Especially when Jessie's teacher didn't make a fuss and the poster was at Jessie's university. 

Trainers who don't go and travel usually stay at regular schools. Those kinds of schools are just registering in unlike applying into colleges. Though applications into colleges are still the same. Testing into colleges is not a thing, likely because of the different skill sets and experiences trainers go through because journeys are a huge part. 

Trainer schools are different since, unlike traveling trainers, they study to become trainers at home. They can have field trips. Most beginners and younger would come to know. Sometimes, some schools would allow them to participate in Leagues lest they can compete against reasonably powerful trainers. It's open for traveling trainers too if they wish to enroll no matter how long. 

Because of how Pokemon interacts with human society, it's somewhat easier to apply for those jobs or intern if you are already a trainer. Unfortunately, for every new player character (seriously, even in SWSH showcase this, Leon and Victor/Gloria are the most powerful trainers on Galar and the game makes no effort they became Champion at a very young age), there's always a Youngster Joey. That means the trainers who can make a living out of being trainers have to be the best.

Though about the money part, I always have a headcanon that it's a split of prize money and the League giving debt-free monthly payments. Some families might be able to give money to them as they travel too. That doesn't mean trainers won't always know where to go since lost trainers might lose their way and fall into bad circles like the evil Teams excluding Team Flare (since these guys are elitist as fuck). That doesn't mean poor people don't exist, especially when they fall through the cracks and ended up in said bad circles. Jessie, in particular, was so poor that she have to eat snow just to survive and not the way Xiao would do. So yeah, while a trainer's lifestyle could be difficult, especially when you're mediocre, at least you're getting some amount of cash. And that's on top of other methods like treasure hunting and gambling albeit one with restrictions. 

And it does help that Pokejobs exist too so it could be a beneficial source for trainers who need the money. 

That money would stop pouring in if you took a job though. Then capitalism would decide your fate. Trainers in college would still have the money pouring in until they find a job. Interning would still be given some cash until these guys officially got jobs. 

I always thought the jobs in Pokemon are far more well-paying, enough to earn a living at the 25.00 per hour kind of deal because Pokemon is such a huge part of the world as well as journeying so everyone has a decent salary to earn a living. At least, those registered because falling through the cracks of society means losing access even though you could still qualify for most things. I mean we saw Jessie apply for the nursing school for Chanseys. 

And my headcanon for the Team Rocket trio (quartet when we're counting Wobbuffet) after choosing to let go of the whole Team Rocket thing was registering. Though this is after Jessebelle and James' parents are long gone, they could do what they do best. James with opening a Pokemon breeding house at his mansion, Jessie and Meowth opening a scam business though the businesses they do end up well are the ones they are the best at like cooking. Hey, their bread and donuts were hits in Alola. Even in the beginning, they took odd jobs like food kiosks. 

Tech

Camping is such an intrinsic part of the Pokemon journey that apart from the Pokeball Transfer Machine and Storage System (which is more transferring to a place you can trust), tech has to have grown.

Have you seen Brock’s backpack or Cilan’s or Clemont’s or Serena’s? Sometimes, these guys bring entire picnic tables and chairs out. I know this is anime but a table shouldn’t be that foldable and it shows that Serena loves to bake on the road meaning there has to be a portable oven. We can have a portable stove or stoves or even make a fire to cook it over a fire. Did you see that stew pot? That’s hefty and I saw hefty camping tools that having that big of a stove pot would mean bigger or additional baggage but Brock is only carrying his backpack that could carry some pans but not that pot. 

The tech to carry a portable oven that can bake anything you can think of at home on the road would have to be made. The bags to carry these stuff have to be limitless that you can put freaking tables in there. 

Storage in these backpacks is wide as they can store bikes. To carry more clothing, an invention such as a storage capsule holding up to weeks' worth of clothing was made though expensive. 

Given how fast the tech world moved that Rotoms became part of the Dex, I think smartphones with apps and the Internet would be available. Just look at Galar that has some kind of Instagram or Twitter. It would take the least space in the backpack. 

However, still camping is a necessity. Kids before the age of 10 must attend camps if they even want to journey at all because having these basic life skills in the wild is imperative. Unless they want to take the shortcut and take the route of Pokemon Schools dedicated for trainers. 

The tech is already more advanced than we are with machines to travel in time and into different dimensions including parallels; communicators that transcend space; energy transfer and automatic teleportation to reliable sources for Pokemon safekeeping; cloning; antigravity machines; Dream Projector to see dreams; Pokemon Speaker to allow communication with Pokemon; Pokemon Transformator that turns humans into Pokemon; and Pokeballs. 

Pokeballs would immediately register the Pokemon as their trainers only. It can still be fixed if broken.

The Pokeballs are harmless and humane. It took work for the modern standardized Pokemon to be actually accepted as Apricorn balls are at the very least comfortable. It took reworking to make the balls comfortable. Unless the Pokemon prefer to be outside although the ball must immediately register the Pokemon for the trainer. According to Alder in the games, the modern Pokeball is only made some 70 years ago when we know that the Apricorn Balls have been made longer than that. 

The Pokeball Transfer Machine that can act as a good trade machine is usually restricted to Professor Labs, Daycares, and Pokemon Centers. 

Speaking of Pokemon Centers, they have machines invented by Silph for medical purposes such as a Heal Pulse Machine, a machine in which they recreated artificial healing rays of certain Pokemon moves and berry extracts. Those are also available in hospitals and the miniaturized versions are found at clinics and Daycares. 

Pokemon would be used as a clean source for power because it's convenient and better to employ those methods than destroy the world through human means. Not that humans won't try. 

Cars, ships, and planes are not good for the environment and there isn't much Pokemon can do about that. However, I think those are mostly stationed in populous cities. While small towns would have cars, their preferred method would be bikes. Trains are far more efficient in cities, especially powered by Electric Pokemon and handled by humans because advanced machinery or not, mechanics can still break down. On a brief note about public transit, they are clean and free. The public transit works are after all paid handsomely by the company. 

And even then, variations like airships, blimps, hot air balloons, jetpacks, and mechas are somehow not powered by oil but by some antigravity mechanics. There are even flying cars and motorbikes in the manga. Hovering antigravity machinery that somehow coexists with trainers who use their Pokemon for flying purposes. Heck, I doubt the Galar Taxi service even uses gas as Corviknight just flying around with the cabbie on the back. 

However, I think they need a license to even pilot those aforementioned aircraft just like airplane pilots. Because they need a license, trainers and normal people don't use those and are usually traveling on other methods unless invited in. And it's not a lot for it to be made when people need a license to pilot these things. 

What I could guess is that it's patented including robotics. When we got mecha going around, there had to be patented or at least scientists building them for the smaller scale. Kanto and Johto as adjacent regions and surely they can travel by ferry/boat. In the regions, the trainers are perfectly fine flying on their flying Pokemon or the ones who can learn Fly to travel. Though Poke-rides or the Galar Taxi are set in place that trainers don't need to go that length. Walking and biking are preferable methods in regions. 

With the involvement of magic and pseudoscience, there would have to be Magitech. There has to be some kind of explanation for the more fantastical technology like the Dream Projector and that Arceus phone that is more Arceus-made than manmade. 

I'm sure because Pokemon is such a huge part of the world, green clean methods are devised so more trash and grimy Pokemon don't come into more existence. Yes, I'm talking about the Grimer/Muk and the Trubbish/Garbodor line. Heck, even Koffing/Weezing is just as much of a product of waste while the Galarian regional form is far more green. 

Or cause regional forms to develop such as Galarian Corsola and Cursola. Look, I love Corsola and its regional forms because it's just unique to see regional forms. 

Now, of course, trans surgeries would go far, even having that breakthrough of giving trans women uteruses and a fully reproductive system and all. It makes sense when we got a Black Belt guy operated into a Beauty lady in XY. 

Sports

I'm talking about the sports we know and Pokemon sports equivalents that are not battling/contests/performing. 

This is all done by the Pokemon Sports Committee as well as just Sports Committees in general. Both are still related to each other and will have to make deals with singers and other committees to make use of stadiums. Especially Pokemon League because they oversee everything Pokemon battling. 

Pokemon Contests have a little better since they take place in either stadium or indoor arenas that are still large enough to have one battlefield. Though the Pokemon Contests also share establishments with other contests and smaller sports like ping pong and recreations as well as stage theaters. Sometimes, sports committees would find it easier to hold it in arenas unless it's particularly big events like tournaments and it would be held in official arenas and stadiums that would be shared with the Pokemon League. Hey, when our stadiums and arenas are shared by concerts and sports, I'm sure they're going to make it work for everyone. 

Because of Pokemon Contests, these indoor arenas could be easily converted for use of stage theater so it should be manageable. Like those are big enough and unlike battles, it's not as dangerous given how much softer the attacks ended up being. 

Though repairs must be worse since in battles, there would be damage. 

Alolan wrestling rings aka Battle Royal can be used for regular pro wrestling uses as well as Pokemon wrestling. Wrestling does take place in regular arenas and stadiums too so they too would need help with other 

We know the sports we know would still be there. Else there wouldn't be trainer classes for athletes in the games. Heck in the anime, we know about baseball players. 

Perhaps those sports as well as Pokemon battles would play on the same field. In Galar, the stadiums would still have to act as a field for soccer/football, tennis, and so forth. In the goddamn off-season for battling, there should be other sports that have been popular. Even though Pokemon battling is the most popular sport ever in the Pokemon world, other sports shouldn't be shunted to the side and left to rot. Because as little as I know about sports seasons, I know that each country does things differently so I thought it make sense. Don't come to know about sports seasons for Pokemon Battling that I think take place for a year for beginner trainers. Any Pokemon sports, as well as Battling/Contests/Performing, are open for one year from beginning to end. This is the same for big artists as I do think smaller arenas made for sports too are also popular for singers. 

So, think the sports played over the world would have different seasons in mind with what is popular in that country. These regions might have different seasons though. Though because the Pokemon sports take place all year while Pokemon sports that aren't those three would designate several months at a time at least. Honestly, some regions would have separate stadiums just for those sports alone since Kanto and Unova in the anime and games show this. In Galar, unless the Pokemon League managed to strike a good deal with sports committees, then the sports players, no matter how popular Pokemon Battling is there, would be resentful. 

Kanto, Johto, and Unova got baseball. Baseball is popular in Japan so it would make sense for people would play it, even in England where football is far more popular than baseball even though English teams are terrible. Hey, that's the truth, the football teams in England are terrible and they got losses enough for an Italian to mark every failure into a stone. I'm sure in Sinnoh and Hoenn, baseball is very popular just as much as Kanto and Johto are Japanese prefectures. 

We know there are Pokemon equivalents of human sports; for example, the Pokeathlon, a track and field event but with Pokemon. Pokeathlon got its own stadium in Goldenrod City so I think it shares with track and fielders. It's easy to imagine other Pokemon doing the events. In the anime, there's even Pokemon boxing for fighting Pokemon open for trainers. 

I imagine there are two events, one for trainers and one for pros. To enter the pros, the trainers must be dedicated to their craft enough that battling could be a side thing and do all the stuff to become a pro. In the games, we do see sports players battle albeit that is a video game thing where we battle trainers every time we turn around. For the trainers, they must train their Pokemon but aren't the professional athletes like the other side of the game are. Sometimes, there are even events that athletes and their Pokemon would participate in together. However, that's gotta be hard when we know how athletes today are trained, and imagining training athletes and Pokemon in the same discipline in a team event gotta be hard. 

Just as we have actors/actresses, we have Pokemon actors/actresses. Diantha, Brycen, and that Jacqueline actress work alongside their Pokémon in acting jobs. I don’t see anything different. These Pokémon actors would have trainers as we have seen with Luke’s Zorua and Karpy’s manager maybe. There is no way Karpy is wild because that fish doesn’t mind acting unless he wanted to evolve which the fish wanted to do. However, that is just an explanation while I'm gonna go on that more hopefully.

Anyway, getting back to sports, I imagine an Olympics called Pokelympics. Just imagine the variety of sports we could see and it would double or triple the already known Olympics event time. Unless they can squish everything in over two weeks, then I guess it’s fine. With Pokémon, it’s gonna be huge. There's a huge turnout for Pokeathlon so it makes sense there are crowds for other sports. 

Pokelympics would have a section dedicated to trainers who wanted to have their trained Pokemon go up against other trained Pokemon. Just like the athletes of both human and Pokemon kind, they are the top of the best no matter what they place. I think it would be a great compromise for trainers who wanted their Pokemon for these kinds of sports and not the Pokemon Battling sort even though they can still battle.

Take, for example, Baseball. 

There would be humans playing Baseball; humans and Pokemon playing Pokemon Base; Pokemon playing Baseball under the supervision of their Trainer(s). Now the last two disciplines could be both for trainers and for pros. 

Think ping pong too if it helps. One for humans playing ping pong; Pokemon playing ping pong; and humans and Pokemon playing ping pong together. Think the latter two are for both trainers and pros just like baseball before it. 

Listing those events just makes the Pokelympics and the entire sports industry much larger, isn't it? 

Pokelympics won't have a Pokemon Battling section. Those are for the Pokemon League Committee to do, not the sports committees. Though much like the Pokemon Leagues, the very top one, has the Flame of Moltres/Ho-oh, it has the same flame because Moltres and Ho-oh are key parts of the Pokemon World, and the sports world in the Pokemon world would still include the flame. That means that flame would need to be kept well safe. If they could share the Flame of Moltres/Ho-oh, that would be great though the alternative could be Volcarona. 

Like in Pokemon Battling, there are other competitions to win prize money. Just like normal pro sports! 

Now, we know there are teams in the Pokemon world named after the Pokemon of their choice. Hey, it's better than having Native Americans as mascots. At least, they are animals. 

What makes it confusing would be the names of these teams. For example, we know there are the Electabuzz, Starmie, and Magikarp baseball teams. Oluolu is primarily a Pokemon Base player of the Magikarp team of the Alola region since we see him mostly in Alola. This makes me think there are teams that share these grounds in the same manner as Galar's sports teams sharing with the Gym Challenge. That these different disciplines that share the same names which are not unlikely as with a quick Google search, it's possible.