I...probably assign more intelligence to the Pokemon than I should: I used to play a lot of PMD characters and Legendaries and sometimes forget that a lot of Pokemon are supposed to have animal-level intelligence.
....On the other hand, they can understand language for the most part, so...yeah I don't really know. Hard to figure.
Playing Ondorus does mean that I get to play with the idea of Pokemon status relative to humans - Ondorus is a JRPG monster, and is more inclined to treat his team as equals (or as children if he's raised them from eggs). I've tried to cover a few different results of that in his team - Olivia being inclined to address other humans directly and count herself as a member of a group involving humans, for example, and the Sandslash's dissatisfaction at expecting a human trainer that would push her to be stronger and getting something that she did not sign up for.
I think I'll be running with this theme for the time being. It's an interesting one.
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I...probably assign more intelligence to the Pokemon than I should: I used to play a lot of PMD characters and Legendaries and sometimes forget that a lot of Pokemon are supposed to have animal-level intelligence.
....On the other hand, they can understand language for the most part, so...yeah I don't really know. Hard to figure.
Playing Ondorus does mean that I get to play with the idea of Pokemon status relative to humans - Ondorus is a JRPG monster, and is more inclined to treat his team as equals (or as children if he's raised them from eggs).
I've tried to cover a few different results of that in his team - Olivia being inclined to address other humans directly and count herself as a member of a group involving humans, for example, and the Sandslash's dissatisfaction at expecting a human trainer that would push her to be stronger and getting something that she did not sign up for.
I think I'll be running with this theme for the time being. It's an interesting one.