What are your game headcanons?

[R1ke]

I have a few relating to Bede:
- His family’s from unova, since he initially uses unovan pokemon only besides the hattena he was given. Also his theme has the PWT theme embedded into it.
- The mawile he uses is directly passed down from Opal. Since he had no fairy types initially, she gave him one of her own to help him transition.
- On a side note, I love how he immediately catches another dual psychic/fairy type and ends up keeping half of his original team. My headcanon here is he actually trained and fully evolved all his original team in secret, and still has them, but can only use his fairy mons in gym battles. Him having a pure fairy type in sylveon shows him fully embracing the fairy type as well, along with his new identity in a way.
- His family was actually rich before he got orphaned. He tries to dress rich in an effort to relive his old lifestyle. Someone pointed this out on YouTube, but his hair resembles a powdered wig and the colour purple has strong ties to the theme of royalty.
- He uses psychic types for multiple reasons. They have a strong motif of being ‘special’ and ‘extraordinary’ and I think Bede himself wants to be seen in a similar manner. That’s why he loves flaunting his connection to rose, and dresses up like royalty and all, because it feeds into this narrative. Psychic types were also OP back in the day, the ‘kings’ of gen 1 you could say.The type was also given with ‘royal’ and legendary status, which is why Lugia is part psychic iirc. Lastly, seeing how much popularity and attention gym leaders (people specialising in one type) are in Galar, he figures that by emulating some of these traits, he can replicate some of their successes and fame. He’s a very lonely character, and attention/validation is all he really wants deep down.

Edit: Which is why ending up with Opal has changed him for the better. By dropping the psychic type, he’s symbolically moved past his obsession with royalty and power, becoming a better person in the process.

 

[Shib]

Spoiler: Crown Tundra returning Pokémon

All the fossil Pokémon found wandering around the Crown Tundra are the result of trainers breeding and releasing Pokémon (like those breeding for shinies or IVs)

I just found it so weird seeing so many wild fossil Pokémon that I had to head cannon an explanation

 

[Esserise]

Spoiler: Crown Tundra returning Pokémon

All the fossil Pokémon found wandering around the Crown Tundra are the result of trainers breeding and releasing Pokémon (like those breeding for shinies or IVs)

I just found it so weird seeing so many wild fossil Pokémon that I had to head cannon an explanation

Spoiler

Well, you're backed up by Omanyte's new entry in Sword: "Because some Omanyte manage to escape after being restored or are released into the wild by people, this species is becoming a problem."

What's more wild is the Gen 8 Fossilmons now showing up in the Tundra's Max Raids.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

Moves have subcategories that help Pokemon Centers treat pokemon accordingly. For example, a Weezing’s gaseous Toxic will require different treatment than a Muk’s gelatinous one, and a Skuntank’s Flamethrower originated from combusting fumes will work slightly differently from a fire type’s.

 

[Eeveely]

On pokestagram, champions have big fandoms and those fans like to argue more about which champion is the hottest rather than who's the strongest

*This is a comment of imagination. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the BMGf user's imagination or used in a fictional manner. Any resemblance to actual social media posts, deleted or not, or actual reality of our world is purely coincidental.

 

[Esserise]

Moves have subcategories that help Pokemon Centers treat pokemon accordingly. For example, a Weezing’s gaseous Toxic will require different treatment than a Muk’s gelatinous one, and a Skuntank’s Flamethrower originated from combusting fumes will work slightly differently from a fire type’s.

It really is interesting to consider the staggering amount of practitional diversity that must be involved in Pokémon medical care. Treating animal- and plant-based Pokémon is pretty easy to comprehend, as well as machine-based Pokémon, but what do you do for the likes of Porygon? Give it a virus scan? What about Ghost-type Pokémon? Is there a branch of medicine that concerns spiritual cleansing, because what does it even mean for, say, a Spiritomb to suffer an injury, when it's a gestalt of 108 spirits? Do Pokémon Centers also keep Mediums on staff for such cases? What about when someone strolls in with a wounded ancient deity that no human has laid eyes on for thousands of years? And I'd be particular concerned if I were an Ultra Beast... (Although perhaps the Aether Foundation has, in conjunction with the Ultra Recon Squad's knowledge, disseminated some helpful information about their biology.)

 

[Daren]

It really is interesting to consider the staggering amount of practitional diversity that must be involved in Pokémon medical care. Treating animal- and plant-based Pokémon is pretty easy to comprehend, as well as machine-based Pokémon, but what do you do for the likes of Porygon? Give it a virus scan? What about Ghost-type Pokémon? Is there a branch of medicine that concerns spiritual cleansing, because what does it even mean for, say, a Spiritomb to suffer an injury, when it's a gestalt of 108 spirits? Do Pokémon Centers also keep Mediums on staff for such cases? What about when someone strolls in with a wounded ancient deity that no human has laid eyes on for thousands of years? And I'd be particular concerned if I were an Ultra Beast... (Although perhaps the Aether Foundation has, in conjunction with the Ultra Recon Squad's knowledge, disseminated some helpful information about their biology.)

This is true, though to be honest I still have an easier time buying it than a more typical RPG where a good night's sleep fixes being stabbed twenty times and having a comet dropped on your head.
Of course there are few "take a nap" full heals in Pokémon, too...

 

[Nitro Indigo]

I've entertained the idea of writing a fanfic set in a realistic-ish Pokémon Center.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

It really is interesting to consider the staggering amount of practitional diversity that must be involved in Pokémon medical care. Treating animal- and plant-based Pokémon is pretty easy to comprehend, as well as machine-based Pokémon, but what do you do for the likes of Porygon? Give it a virus scan? What about Ghost-type Pokémon? Is there a branch of medicine that concerns spiritual cleansing, because what does it even mean for, say, a Spiritomb to suffer an injury, when it's a gestalt of 108 spirits? Do Pokémon Centers also keep Mediums on staff for such cases? What about when someone strolls in with a wounded ancient deity that no human has laid eyes on for thousands of years? And I'd be particular concerned if I were an Ultra Beast... (Although perhaps the Aether Foundation has, in conjunction with the Ultra Recon Squad's knowledge, disseminated some helpful information about their biology.)

I reckon there are different specialization courses to some more complicated types. The amount of data overlap and forgetful accidents would be insane otherwise.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

For simplicity's sake, I like to imagine that all Pokemon have a set of analogous (I think that's accurate? Not good with biology terms) organs that function for their stats, moves, and abilities. I feel like this helps explain a lot of oddities that just naturally come up from gameplay.

• Q: How is it that all Rare Candies, Vitamins, Ability Capsules, etc. all work the same on all Pokemon, even newly discovered species like Ultra Beasts or those hidden away for years like the ZWolves?
  • A: Their similar organs mean they all respond to it the same way!
• Q: Okay, really? This virus was hit with a cosmic ray and gained sentience, but you think it's a Pokemon just like my cat?
  • A: Strange but true! A "Pokemon" is any creature with this set of organs! (And either a natural property makes it a common development in species or Arceus just gives it to whatever looks cool, whatever I decide is easier lol)
• Q: If Alakazam is such a genius, why can't it learn more than four moves?
  • A: It's not about smarts! It's just that Alakazam only has four organs to store moves in, same as any other Pokemon!
• Q: How can one machine immediately heal almost a thousand different creatures? If we have Pokemon Centers, why do humans still get sick or have any medical conditions at all?
  • A: HP organs! Recovering from fainting just requires replenishing the HP generated by it, and there's no Pokemon yet that doesn't have one! Humans, unfortunately, don't have HP, so they can't make use of a machine like that, and actual bodily harm (for humans and Pokemon) has to be treated through other means.
• Q: How is it that a weird dance can make a Pokemon stronger to the exact same amount that it would if it howled loudly twice?
  • A: The stat organs can expand/shrink during combat by proportionate amounts! It's a gland released (or something similar I'm mostly making this up lol) that changes the size, and depending on the attack, the body might release one portion, two, etc.
• Q: What is PP? How can abilities and items affect it? If my Pokemon can still battle, why can't they use a move with depleted PP?
  • A: PP is the amount of nutrients stored in a move organ that lets the Pokemon use the attack!

But man, studies of medicine for not only a variety of organic beings but also just bizarre messes of whatever material that still somehow function as an organism is so delightful I'm tempted to just discard this entirely for my personal headcanon in favor of the charm of a PMC with a vet, a botanist, a computer programmer, a geologist, and a spirit medium.

 

[Esserise]

Real talk, I always took "forgetting" moves rather loosely. I like to think that they don't literally forget how to use the move; it's just a representation of your character teaching your Pokémon to become proficient with a new coordinated strategy that doesn't involve the old move, and if there's any sort of "limit" on moves, it's an artificial stipulation by the League. Maybe your Pokémon gets a bit rusty with the old move and needs to brush up on it again when it "relearns" it, but it never forgot how to use it, it just stopped using it for a while at your behest.

But I also like the overall idea of having discrete "organs" that dictate the uniform functional specifications that all Pokémon share. I'm really not sure I know what my true preference is between interpreting the Pokémon world literally (as faithful to the game mechanics as I deem reasonable) or liberally (where much of what we see is just a technical veneer that exists to foster cohesive gameplay in a world that is actually extremely disorderly and realistically heterogenous). Both can be fun ways to think about the setting.

 

[prog rocker]

But man, studies of medicine for not only a variety of organic beings but also just bizarre messes of whatever material that still somehow function as an organism is so delightful I'm tempted to just discard this entirely for my personal headcanon in favor of the charm of a PMC with a vet, a botanist, a computer programmer, a geologist, and a spirit medium.

Sincerely, I would read a fanfic like this.

 

[Greninjaman]

Here's mine: Ghost type Pokemon are not literally ghosts. They are creatures that have GHOST-LIKE qualities.

 

[SinnohEevee]

Here's mine: Ghost Pokemon are not literally ghosts. They are creatures that have GHOST-LIKE qualities.

Some are actual ghosts, like Yamask.

 

[Greninjaman]

Some are actual ghosts, like Yamask.

Right. forgot about that...
I will still say that the rest are simply creatures that have Ghost-like qualities.

 

[Glitchipedia]

Here's an obvious one: Grand Oak is Samuel's father, and the son of Masara (Pallet?) Oak from Pocket Monsters: The Animation. "Grand" is also certainly not his real name, but a nickname referring to either his age or his status within the scientific community.

 

[Puddle]

I consider Green and Leaf to be the same character, and I always refer to her as Green. They look identical apart from the way they dress, and Green actually wore Leaf's outfit in the FRLG chapter of the manga. I've never understood why they're considered to be two separate characters. It's been made even more confusing recently by the fact that she's referred to as Green in Let's Go, and Leaf in Pokemon Masters.

I would have also been tempted to consider Kris and Lyra to be be the same character (with Lyra existing in an alternate universe in which Mom talked her out of dying her hair) were it not for the fact that they have separate counterparts in the anime and Pokemon Masters.

 

[RK9]

I would have also been tempted to consider Kris and Lyra to be be the same character (with Lyra existing in an alternate universe in which Mom talked her out of dying her hair) were it not for the fact that they have separate counterparts in the anime and Pokemon Masters.

And then there's Adventures essentially making them one and the same.

 

[prog rocker]

I also consider Green and Leaf to be same person. Like I mentioned elsewhere, the only big difference is the clothes, so unless they are twins or something, I don't see how they can be different people.

 

[RK9]

I also consider Green and Leaf to be same person. Like I mentioned elsewhere, the only big difference is the clothes, so unless they are twins or something, I don't see how they can be different people.

Imagine if Let's Go Red, Blue and Green are twins of the FRLG Red, Blue and Leaf...

Which Blue has always been obsessed with which Red!? I need answers!