ghostytrainer | prank #48

[John seems somehow distracted when he turns on the video today. He's sitting at the kitchen table in his house, chin propped in his hand and eyes on a Pokéball he's rolling idly on the table in front of him.]

You ever wonder what it is that determines what happens to a Pokémon after its trainer goes back home? I mean, I've thought about it before but never really thought about it if that makes any sense? This is really the first time I've inherited one that wasn't from a friend so it just got me thinking.

Granted, it originally belonged to someone who was... [He pauses, seeming almost hesitant to finish that sentence. Or perhaps unsure of how he wants to end it.] ...a friend. At...one point in time... [He trails off, brow furrowing as he stops rolling the ball around.] So maybe it has less to do with Eridan and more to do with her.

[He leans his chair back on two legs, picking the ball up and passing it back and forth between his hands, finally looking at the camera.]

So yeah. Anybody have any good conspiracy theories on the matter? I'm curious.

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It may be simply chance meeting in many cases as the monsters wander to make their own way, or perhaps they seek out others that their trainer had a connection with.

Or perhaps there's a random distribution system set up to ensure that not all homeless monsters stay so.

Those who have left and returned have started with a new set of pokemon, so it is curious to see if they will run into their old ones at some point.

i think the latter is definitely true in some cases.
there have been times where, when a friend I have been traveling with has gone, their Pokémon have literally shown up on my doorstep. as opposed to showing up in my box the next day or something like that.
in those instances, i kind of...couldn't help but feel like they'd sort of picked me in a way?
though maybe it's not actually as poignant as that makes it sound.

[Maybe he was just the first familiar face they found.]

anyway, i know for a fact that that happens sometimes.
people finding their old pokemon, i mean.
i don't think it's a super common thing, but my friend maka has found some of her old 'mons from the last time she was here two years ago.
the ones that didn't find their way to her friends, that is.

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They're smarter than most people seem to give them credit for. They may well know where they will be most appreciated or cared for, if they come of their own volition.

[That's a bit more sentimental than he'd usually get, but there is a kernel of truth to it that he won't deny.]

How fascinating... I wonder how they know, or if they remember... or is that also just random chance of paths crossing? It's quite fascinating to think about...

i don't think they ever really forget the trainers they've been with. because, like you said, they're really smart!
so i would imagine they remember who she is, even if she doesn't remember them.
but as to how they found her, that part i can't answer.
maybe they just happened to find her or maybe they have some sort of sixth sense when it comes the presence of people they've formed bonds with.
if wouldn't surprise me with psychic types, at the very least.

It's quite possible. They rely on other senses above our own... scent and sound, to say the least. There are myriad ways of remembering one when the mind itself falters.

The bonds of the heart cannot be denied. If one has touched the heart of another, even if there is distance between them they will ever be connected.

[Trite, the sappy sentimentality of the lightbearers. Still an undeniable truth... one he's put to his own use.]

yeah!
that's a really great way to put it, i like it.
so maybe that's how they find their way back. maybe they're more in-tun with that bond than we are or maybe it's like...
i dunno, fate or something.
either way, it's a pretty amazing thing.

[Yeah there is absolutely no doubt John would be a lightbearer if he was a part of KH-verse. Like wow, damn.]

[no, John, no... light cooties nooo]

The more simple one is, the better they understand the desires of the heart. As humans we have made ourselves complex, and thus those whispers are often unheard. Animals, and even pokemon, have only the most basic needs and desires... I do not doubt that they are more in-tune with such things.

so...basically kinda like how kids are more in tune to that sort of thing too?
i can sorta see that, yeah.
though i don't know if i'd say it's because they're simple.
not really sure what i would say instead though so maybe you actually have hit the nail right on the head and i'm just worrying too much about wording.
they do have less to worry about, now that i think on it a little more...
simple just almost makes it sound like we're better than they are which i don't think is the case and maybe wasn't what you were implying at all.
wow sorry. went off on kind of a weird tangent there.

By 'simple' I mean that they are concerned with their natural needs. Food, shelter, to be cared for, to protect. Some perhaps require intellectual stimulation of sorts. But they do not fret about things that are not in those general categories of need. They do not worry about apparel, or money, or work, or other such things. They live a simpler existence because they can be more natural. To live like humanoids is to make one's life complex with needs and desires and ways of living.

ohhhh. ok, i got you now.
sorry just had kind of a dumb moment there. in retrospect, that should have been obvious.
heheh, we do kind of make things stupidly complicated for ourselves sometimes, don't we?

Do not worry about it. Perhaps I did not phrase it clearly enough initially.

We do, but there is little that can be done about that. For one to abandon everything and attempt to go back to the ways of our ancestors is a difficult prospect indeed. One could say that when we gained opposible thumbs we began to leave that simple life behind.

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