Feather 12 [Video]

[usedfeatherdance]

[ Not that January 1st was actually Joshua's birthday instead of just being a handy date to roll up his age one more year, but Joshua couldn't help the feeling that somehow Johto had hatched his shiny new egg into a... well, shiny new male fox, of all things, this day on purpose.

It probably could only have been more on the mark if the thing had been some combination of grey, blue, and/or purple. ]

Since this isn't exactly the first time it seems everyone spontaneously obtained an egg all at once, I'm going to ask a different question. Do we have any idea what determines which Pokemon we each receive?

[ And if anyone happens to be in Cianwood, Joshua can be found towards the outskirts of the city, sitting sideways on an Absol, Espeon on shoulder and a newly hatched golden Vulpix on his lap, all four of them watching as a Luxray happily bounds about on the sand and knocks out any Pokemon it scares up with its antics. ]

Comments

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

Exactly. And even though it normally takes two Pokemon to make eggs, one of which matches the species, we've certainly seen eggs that appear to be some of the more rare species. So that separates it into two questions, really. How are the eggs created, and how do they get to us? I suppose some all-powerful being could manage both, but that seems a little too naive to be reasonable.

[usedfeatherdance]

... Did you not like your first Pokemon?

[friendyousohard]

... Fair enough.

Maybe there just... isn't anything to document. Maybe that particular one hasn't ever done anything since.

[video]

[syochan]

Haah?

I'm human! Hyuuga-sensei saved me once, so he's like a hero to me, and I look up to him! I want to be like him and protect the people I care about.

[ and, because he was confused by the question -- ]

...Did something about me seem -- unhuman?

[Voice]

[moveslikestrider]

With practice you can. [Which he has. Plus he doesn’t discount the smarts of his buddies.] They’re smarter than they look you know.

[video]

[darkenedgales]

Maybe not in your world.

[He sincerely wishes so; it's bad enough he's found out Nazca Lines do exist in some worlds other than his own, but he'd rather it didn't apply to all of them.]

[licentious]

Oh, I view upon mine quite favorably. I've witnessed many others that haven't, sad as it is. [ Her voice indicates it's not really sad. ]

[usedfeatherdance]

Even still, why only one book? Surely it would be the sort of thing more people would like to know about. Even if it only did one thing, wouldn't you find the same story in multiple places?

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

You seem so eager to insist on heroes that I had to wonder, that's all.

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

So what does it look like?

[Voice]

[usedfeatherdance]

Yes, but sometimes smarts can only get you so far. I was just curious, anyway. I've seen some very creative ways of commanding Pokemon, and it's fascinating to hear what people can come up with.

[usedfeatherdance]

And how has that gone for them?

[video]

[darkenedgales]

... Ever heard of the Nazca Lines?

[friendyousohard]

That I can't answer. Then again, the text I found was so old... maybe there were other ones once, and that's just the only surviving one, at least in any of the Johto libraries I've seen.

[video]

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, given that this place occasionally does operate on logic I'd consider naive under normal circumstances, it's entirely possible the same entity is responsible for both... but it's still difficult to say. Researching the legends of regions other than Kanto and Johto have proven fairly tedious, though I've seen some evidence to indicate that some sort of creator deity may exist in the legends of one region or another. Of course, whether it matches up to the legends or not is difficult to say without more information.

To be honest, I'm not even sure if Pokemon breed the same way as animals that you and I would be familiar with, given that there are apparently some breeding pairs that would be outright impossible biologically if that were the case.

[usedfeatherdance]

Have you found any conflicting stories? Any other creation myths?

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

[ ... ]

Not even once.

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

No, but presumably they follow somewhat predictable patterns if people are assigned positions dedicated to breeding. I've only dealt with eggs from my Pokemon once myself, but they all took after their mother.

[friendyousohard]

Not a single one. None of the other legends I've seen are really on that level. Impressive, yes, but not creation myths.

[video]

[darkenedgales]

[Crow shakes his head with a relieved smile.]

Good for you, then!

[Voice]

[moveslikestrider]

You’re right, smarts will only get you so far. Because on its own it’s meaningless. You have to temper it with other things like spending every waking hour together or at least knowing enough about that person or pokemon to know how to help them get better.

What ways have you heard of?

[licentious]

Just how do you think? Misery can only lead to more misery.

[video]

[enjoymyatelier]

Oh, of course there are specific patterns that it follows, and it obviously requires two Pokemon of opposite sexes-but beyond that, I don't think we know much about it at all, and it's possible that there may be something unusual about it that explains where these 'gift' eggs are coming from.

[usedfeatherdance]

...

Don't you find it strange that those are absent? People are always searching for an explanation of why things are the way they are, and how they got to be that way. If they can't discover it, they usually invent an explanation themselves...

[video]

[usedfeatherdance]

So what are they?