Uh hey. It looks like I'm gonna be here for a while, so does anyone know where I can get my hands on a van? I'm gonna need somewhere to live once the weather gets better. I can't just crash on people's couches forever.
Proper vehicles are hard to find around here, though I think a few people managed to buy boats. They're not very practical on most routes, either. You might want to look for either cheap hotels or a long-term appartment instead.
I mean, if you'd rather camp in a fancy all-equipped tent or build a wagon that could be pulled by a Pokémon and live in that, this is probably the best world possible for it. Except when a Legendary decides to screw with the weather, but that doesn't happen too often. It's getting an actual car that's tricky. Anything on wheels that uses gas, really.
[Ash, on the other hand, sounds resigned. He may not like it, but he's gotten used to the lack of motorbikes and mobile suits.]
A wagon might not be too bad, actually, if it's the covered kind. Enough to keep the rain and snow off, you know? With room enough for me and Rose to sleep and maybe Steven, if he wants to travel with us.
A Mareep, you mean? Maybe not at first, but it should become strong enough once it reaches the Ampharos stage, and I doubt becoming bipedal would be a problem.
It doesn't take nearly as long as that. A few second, a bright flash of light, and bam! You have a new Pokémon species in your team. Though a few of the Bug-types do have a cocoon-like stage, which counts as its own thing.
[Almost dying what. He has no idea what a Gem means in this context, but he's definitely worried for their safety now.]
No! Certainly not! Sure, most of the time it involves battling to get experience, but for some species just shoving special rocks at them is enough. And if your Pokémon get badly injured, you're doing somthing wrong.
I mean, that's how it works for Gems! That's how it worked for Rose! I mean, I guess, sort of, it's more that her light body was destroyed and her real body, her Gem, stayed fine and then she made it all over again into the one she's in now, or anyway that's how I think it happened, it was thousands of years ago and I wasn't around yet and I never went inside Pearl's pearl to see like Steven did and--
[Deep breaths, Greg. Deep breaths.]
Um. Anyway. That's all the context I've got for someone changing their entire form all at once.
[...That was a long, strange and complicated explanation, but Ash thinks he kinda understand the gist of it. As much as anyone with absolutely no other context can, that is.]
Ah. In that case, still no. Pokémon only have one physical body that actively changes, even the ones like Magneton that look like they've split or cloned themselves. It's more like... instantaneous puberty, with a few species that just decide to completely change their style along the way. Or like those scrawny civilians that magically become muscle-bound superheroes in movies, except they don't change back.
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[His voice sounds dubious. It's been a long time since he lived long-term in an actual building. He doesn't know how he feels about this.]
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[Ash, on the other hand, sounds resigned. He may not like it, but he's gotten used to the lack of motorbikes and mobile suits.]
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A wagon might not be too bad, actually, if it's the covered kind. Enough to keep the rain and snow off, you know? With room enough for me and Rose to sleep and maybe Steven, if he wants to travel with us.
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[Friends, family? Whichever option is correct, that does sound nice.]
And with a Fire and an Ice-type, you could probably rig a heating and cooling system to deal with the weather.
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[It's actually a Wooloo but sshhh, Greg doesn't know that.]
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At first, yes. But that line has three stages in total, so don't get too used to the name.
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[That's very weird.]
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[BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH GEMS.]
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[Almost dying what. He has no idea what a Gem means in this context, but he's definitely worried for their safety now.]
No! Certainly not! Sure, most of the time it involves battling to get experience, but for some species just shoving special rocks at them is enough. And if your Pokémon get badly injured, you're doing somthing wrong.
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[Deep breaths, Greg. Deep breaths.]
Um. Anyway. That's all the context I've got for someone changing their entire form all at once.
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Ah. In that case, still no. Pokémon only have one physical body that actively changes, even the ones like Magneton that look like they've split or cloned themselves. It's more like... instantaneous puberty, with a few species that just decide to completely change their style along the way. Or like those scrawny civilians that magically become muscle-bound superheroes in movies, except they don't change back.
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So... not actually that much like Gems. Got it.