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[tearsofademon]

You know, there's this thing that's been bugging me for a while.

[Ryner's sitting at a desk, an open notebook and a couple of open books in front of him. Looks like someone's been doing something other than sleeping.]

In the Pokedex, it lists each kind of Pokemon and gives it a species classification, right? Like how Clefairy is the Fairy Pokemon, or Absol is the Disaster Pokemon, or Joltik is the Attaching Pokemon. And I mean, most of them are fine.

But then you've got Noctowl, the Owl Pokemon. And, well, I know what an Owl is, but they don't exist in this world, right? There aren't any normal animals here, only Pokemon and people. So why would they classify it as an Owl if they shouldn't know what an Owl is?

And okay, sure, owl is in Noctowl's name, but something like Buneary, the Rabbit Pokemon, or Cyndaquil, the Fire Mouse Pokemon. How do you explain those?


[Also, in the background, a Buneary might be seen rummaging through Ryner's bag while a shiny Togetic and a Munna look on, but that's probably not important...]

Comments

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[majorcrotchgrab]

I noticed that myself... I'm beginning to think this place really isn't meant to make any sort of sense.

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[tearsofademon]

Right? Just when you think you've found a reason for one thing, five hundred discrepancies pop up. It's a pain in the ass.

[heartdive]

I... Try not to think too hard on it.

[majorcrotchgrab]

It wouldn't be so bad if there just wasn't as much to take in.

[tearsofademon]

Wouldn't that be easy. Unfortunately, I've got a slavedriver forcing me to do as much research as I can, so it's hard not to.

[...okay that's an exaggeration]

[tearsofademon]

Yeah. You get used to a lot of it after a while, but then there are things like this.

[majorcrotchgrab]

It certainly keeps you on your toes...

[tearsofademon]

That it does.

How long've you been around?

[majorcrotchgrab]

I arrived back in April so.. almost 3 months now? It doesn't feel that long...

[tearsofademon]

Ahh, so you haven't even been around for a lot of the crazy stuff... Sorry to say, it just gets worse.

Especially in October, I've noticed.

[majorcrotchgrab]

I heard about it from Captain Ash. That is not something I'm looking forward to experiencing.

[tearsofademon]

Believe me, you don't want to.

[majorcrotchgrab]

I have a bad feeling I'll have no choice.

[tearsofademon]

Mmm, if you hide in your room for a while when the network starts asking what's going on, you have a chance of weathering it, maybe anyway.

[majorcrotchgrab]

[Hide in the bathroom. Best plan ever! Really, it is.]

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

[tearsofademon]

[It's a better place than alone on the way to the store to make sure the ghosts don't find you! ...Not that Ryner has any experience with that, no, never.]

No problem.

[video]

[paladinlost]

...Perhaps this world had normal owls before Pokémon became so widespread.

[Which becomes terrifying if he thinks too hard about it.]

[voice]

[pianosongs]

...That's a very valid question. I hadn't even given that much thought.

I wonder if they had those animals long ago.

[heartdive]

Why are you doing research?

[tearsofademon]

To find out as much as we can about this world we're in.

[and maybe with the eventual goal of finding legendaries, but that's unlikely to actually happen...]

[video]

[tearsofademon]

Maybe, but then the question becomes, what happened to them? You'd think they'd have records of them somewhere, or at least stories.

[voice]

[tearsofademon]

That's possible, I guess. Doesn't say where they would have went, in that case, but it's one explanation.

[video]

[paladinlost]

There must have been. But how long would it have taken before someone saw a text mention owls, thought of it as a mistake and changed it to Noctowls instead?

[video]

[tearsofademon]

I guess that's possible.

[video]

[paladinlost]

...There is also the possibility that any preexisting reference to normal animals was deliberately suppressed, though I cannot see why that would be the case.