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so ive been thinking about this a lot since last year and im nowhere close to having an answer for it so im outsourcing the legwork
consider this an informal survey fellow pokeresidents
(not to be confused with pokecitizens since there doesnt seem to be any naturalization process on the books)

when
would you say people become adults?
because i gotta say ive been an ex minor for a month and a half already and im not noticing any measurable difference
not on the inside anyway
i guess im taller
probably
but i think im still growing
and i heard human brain structures dont stop developing until were twenty five
watching my pokemon grow up doesnt help any because they all mature at different rates and in every case WAY faster than we do
and it makes me wonder like
some of these guys that hatched from eggs
do they see me as a parent???
because thatd be fucked up
but then i have to ask myself why exactly is that fucked up and is it because im a child or because i dont want to be a dad or because im not fuckin parent material or something else?
and since when does adulthood have to go frond in frond with parenthood??
anyway let me know your thoughts or your homeworlds societys hiveminds thoughts its open season on this question i just decided right now

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Well, of course there's a lot of different answers depending on the definition of adulthood you're going by, but assuming you mean by a maturity standpoint and not legal or biological (you're right about the brain thing, by the way! It's not until around 25 that we start thinking with the rational prefrontal cortex)...well, heck if I know. I had to grow up kind of fast, so my perception is a bit skewed, and I also live with a bunch of teenagers that are way older than me. But I think when you start asking questions like that is probably about when you're at least making the transition.

As for the parenthood thing...uh. Yeah, the two don't have to go together, but it is definitely weird raising Pokemon. They're too smart for me to really think of them as animals, but they're not really human-level intelligence. Most of them, anyway. And then toss in all those re-incarnated human origin Ghost-types and it gets even weirder. Part of me is really glad that some of the older ones are responsible enough to keep an eye on the younger ones, but then I start wondering if I'm a bad 'parent' for leaving even part of that to them, you know?

yeah you get me about the weirdness of bringing up pokebabies
also like
i dunno
just because something doesnt have humanLIKE intelligence doesnt mean they dont have human LEVEL intelligence
you feel??
like wart thinks like a human but hes also vaguely human shaped and also psychic and likely absorbed a lot of my thought processes by osmosis and observation
but i dont think my other pokemon are stupid either even if their brains dont work the same way
well except turkey leg
hes just dumb

Yeah, definitely. It's almost like having a bunch of toddlers with superpowers, but even that isn't quite accurate. They're definitely all capable of reason and some form of logic, it just doesn't always match up with ours. I'm pretty sure half of the problems that I deal with they don't get why it's a problem, but then Eddie goes and gets annoyed because someone else in the house is sitting somewhere he doesn't like and spends a week trying to trip them out of spite. (Which is utterly ridiculous, by the way, considering how big he is.)

how big is eddie

He's a lion that comes up to my waist at the shoulder. And he honestly thinks he's still small enough to fit into my lap when I'm trying to read.

hes totally right
optimum cuddle size
use him as a bookstand and everybody wins

Ha ha! I like being able to feel my legs, but you've got a point. One point in favor of this world: cuddling types of animals I never expected I could without losing an arm.

youd think youd hear more of those kind of incidents here
florida man righteously maimed by firebreathing gator
neighbors note the dumbass had it coming what with owning a firebreathing gator in the first place

I think it says something about me that my first thought was to wonder whether or not there are any fire-type alligators. It is a miracle you don't hear about more horrific deaths from poorly-aimed Pokemon moves, though. You'd think statistics would be on Darwin's side, and yet...

im not convinced death is programmed properly into this universe
i mean you hear about people becoming ghost pokemon in the dex but is that shit actually peer reviewed science

It is pretty suspect, considering they hatch out of eggs. Which doesn't make any sense in the first place, but...whatever. You could argue that reincarnation takes a while, but the population numbers just don't add up properly.

Though on the flip side, one of my housemates has a Yamask that does remember his human life, so it's not completely without basis. If I had to guess it's more likely that only some ghost pokemon are reincarnated humans, and it got an inflated reputation within culture.

fair
but i mean
has anyone here SEEN anyone die since we got here???
i mean i know we supposedly come back to life if we bite it but what about the npcs
do they age??
is time even real for that matter

I...honestly, I have no clue? I sure don't remember reading anything in the obituaries, and I haven't been here long enough to really be able to tell if the natives age normally. I'm not sure if it would make sense or be terrifying that they're in some weird stasis while we still change around them. And with how we can come and go without any regard for how long it's been on either side of the reality line...ugh. This world gives me a headache when I think about how it works too much.

well that last part makes sense
a universe is made out of time and space
its own time
its own space
of course time here doesnt have any bearing on time anywhere else
it makes less sense for the passage of time to affect us and not them but if we see it not as a time thing but as a video game thing i guess its acceptable
though it makes me wonder where times leaking in from to work its timey goodness on us
or if it isnt really time at all and we just grow because we think we should???
but that gives our consciousnesses way too much power im stumped
maybe npcs grow but whitney for example says the same thing every time someone beats her so im thinking not
maybe the world isnt real while the universe is
if that makes any sense

Kind of? Maybe it's just part of us being outsiders here, and we dragged time in with us. If the natives here don't have anything 'built in' that the passage of time would change, then time coming in with us wouldn't affect them, in theory. Like how you can pause or turn off a game, and the data doesn't know any time has passed.

exactly

man thats pretty convoluted though
and i thought time was weird where i come from

You're telling me. All I had to deal with before was two parallel worlds, and they at least seem to have timelines that progress at the same pace.

huh really
that seems kind of weird but i guess maybe not that much if theyre parallel
i dont have much experience with that particular setup

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