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[neverfinishanyth]

Hello again! I am in need of some advice. I recently caught a Hoothoot, a decently sized round owl, and she seems to have trouble sleeping unless she is kept in a pokeball, staying up at all hours of the day. Is this common for such creatures? Are there perhaps better methods to assist with sleeping?

Oh, and another thing, I almost forgot! The egg I purchased at the fair hatched a few days ago. Are there any strategies for speeding this process up? I tried wrapping the egg in a warm towel, but I am not sure if it had any measurable effect.

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[neverfinishanyth]

I see! I am not planning on any breeding experiments myself, or at least at the moment I'm not, but my traveling companion is, so I will pass along your advice to her when I am given the chance.

It's good to know that pokemon can assist with the process. I'd heard pokemon came from eggs from the index, of course, but it is different seeing such a thing in person, and especially when a small dog walks out of the shell instead of a bird.

[schachmeister]

No matter what kind of pokemon you breed, owning a pokemon with flame body/magma armor/steam engine and a Ditto is highly recommended to all breeders. Of course, there are those who say that is cheapening the experience, but I don't see a good reason not to take advantage of things like this.

It's a bit of a shock, yes. Though I'd argue pokemon eggs aren't *really* eggs. At least, not in the way bird eggs are.

[neverfinishanyth]

I wonder what makes them different from the eggs of a bird, aside from their size. Is it the coloration? The way that they hatch or how they are formed?

Such fascinating creatures, these pokemon.

[schachmeister]

[aww yeah, let's talk Egg Lore. Or more like Egg Hypotheses.]

A bird's egg can never contain a creature bigger than the egg itself, but pokemon eggs do so very frequently. Same with weight; a newly hatched bird will weigh the same as it did inside the egg, but pokemon eggs all weigh the same, while a new hatchling could weigh many times more than the egg itself. And, in fact, no matter the size of the parent species, all pokemon eggs are always the same size, regardless whether they were laid by a Cutiefly or an Onix.

None of this would make sense if they were like bird eggs.

Instead, I believe pokemon 'eggs' are more like a pre-evolutionary state shared by all pokemon.

It seems that new pokemon are created through their parents combining their energy (which is why even pokemon with enormous size differences can still create an egg together and physical copulation has never been observed), probably the same sort of energy that also allows pokemon to evolve. I believe that while the new energy form develops, it presents itself in the egg shape we see. But there is no real developing creature inside the 'shell' like you'd have with a bird. And the hatching isn't really hatching either. It's a type of transformation much like evolution. And as we all know, the transformation that happens when evolution takes place has very few limits in place in terms of size or weight, which is why the egg stage can give rise to pokemon many times bigger and heavier than the 'egg'.

[It's just text, but know that Armin typed all of this with extreme enthusiasm. If they had been talking about this in person, there would've been gestures and bright shining eyes.]

[neverfinishanyth]

[It's all just text, but please know that Leonardo read this entire post with equally great enthusiasm.]

Perhaps there is a way to measure the energy that is released upon the egg hatching? Or it could be some unknown aspect of their reproductive system that causes these eggs to... well, act as you suggest they do. After all, if these pokemon can shrink in size to fit inside a rather tiny ball, then perhaps their size is somewhat easy to change depending on how much energy they have at the moment? And perhaps levelling up, as the index calls it, allows the pokemon to access greater stores of this energy.

[schachmeister]

All of this is just my theory, of course. Well, Mr Pines and mine. We don't really have any evidence for it yet beyond following the facts we do have to its logical conclusion. It would be great if we could gather some evidence, but I think Mr Pines would be a better judge of what is possible in that area. He's really skilled when it comes to technology. And he's travelled to a lot of different worlds even before he came to this one. If there is anyone here who could figure out a way to measure energy in pokemon and see if it plays a role in their reproductive system, it is him.

[neverfinishanyth]

Until such a time, we will have to rely on our own observations as opposed to direct experimentation. But those observations can be powerful on their own, even if not followed to their conclusion.