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[schachmeister]

[The video opens on a nice little beach towards the sunset hours. A large red Gyarados is laying with his head in the surf, enjoying some good rubs to his crest from Armin, who addresses the camera without taking his eyes off the big lug on the sand.]

I spent a lot of time reading the Pokedex when I first arrived here, but the longer I am here and the more research I do, the more I realise there are a lot of falsehoods in the Pokedex as well. Or at least, a lot of uncorroborated information. Which, unfortunately, seems to lead to some pokemon having a very undeserved reputation.

Take Gyarados, for example.

[He gestures with his arm to the Gyarados laying on the sand, who lets out a low rumble of enjoyment.]

All the Pokedex talks about is how vicious and destructive they are, and how they go on constant rampages.

Now, I won't deny that they can be dangerous and territorial in the wild, but I don't think it is right to portray them as mindless rampaging monsters either. They behave that way for a reason and each has their own personality. They can make perfectly fine pokemon, as long as they are handled by an experienced trainer.

[In fact, Armin got some theories about how their bad reputation really is the result of being handled by a few too many inexperienced trainers.]

I'm not sure how to go about submitting corrections to the Pokedex, but until I figure that out, I wanted to ask: are there any pokemon you care about that you feel have a very undeserved reputation? Or any other false information in the Pokedex that you know about?

[Armin can't research every pokemon as much as he'd like. But perhaps other people can help him correct any misconceptions he might have.]

Comments

[fortuna_tenax]

[ And that gets full-on laughter from her- everything about this is delightful! ]

D-Did you ever find out why it took it? Ohmygod this is amazing-

[schachmeister]

Not really. But it did like the tea I send it when it was injured so I have considered that maybe it just really wanted some tea.

[Who hasn't considered theft when you've got a real craving for something?]

[fortuna_tenax]

Oh, that makes perfect sense.

[ I- Jinx. Jinx, no. We've been over this. You can't just take things because you want them. (She's getting better, kinda.) ]

I can't believe I hadn't heard of anything like this from the locals before- you'd think it'd be brought up in something, but no!

[schachmeister]

Maybe you didn't meet the right people. There are some locals who are crazy about this stuff. They even have a club you can join.

[fortuna_tenax]

Mmm... maybe? I did tend to be mostly business back in Cherrygrove, and then once I settled here in Violet for the winter I immediately got sick. Yaaaay.

[ She's not going to acknowledge the club. She's a high schooler, even if it was for villains. Clubs for certain things got weird. ]

Oh- uh. You said something about other books too?

[schachmeister]

[In all fairness, even to a nerd like Armin, the Mystery Seekers are Super Weird.]

Right. I have some on legendary pokemon in general, though they aren't very in depth. A good introduction though. And, ah, some general ocean mysteries, but most of those aren't pokemon related.

[Ghost ships, lost vessels, that sort of thing.]

[fortuna_tenax]

[ Yeah you know weird high school clubs in anime? Take that but make it weirder because it's a school for supervillains, in a city for metahuman teenagers. ... Yeah. Yeah. The Mystery Seekers could probably match that and Jinx isn't about to find out. ]

Those sound great! Thank you. Back home there's an underwater city, populated by a humanoid aquatic race- I wish I had more information for you though. They weren't really... big on other people until recently.