>>49742654To offer a genwunner perspective, I've always been a fan of the idea of Pokemon being ayy lmaos. The way I imagine it in the early Pokemon days (when Pokemon was more x-files sci fi as opposed to fantasy), Mews are the progenitor breed that (somehow) travel through space and (somehow) found their way to Earth. These mew are extremely good at hiding themselves like mirages, but overtime begin to adapt and assume roles in Earth's world as an entirely new lifeform not through natural evolution but a more psionic bullshit form of adaptation, starting in the early days as Pokemon like Omanyte and Kabutops. They seem to disappear here after the death of the dinosaurs, but slowly return to the world, appearing in older cultures as gods, monsters, and so on, though still very rare. Slowly into the modern era they become more prominent, more diverse, and more understood as not being monsters, but Pokemon.
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>How Mew can be the progenitors and have "all the DNA", since they're the source and slowly adapt to the world>How Pokemon could coexist with animals and plants>How Pokemon can take in the appearance of things that shouldn't evolve naturally (they adapt to the world around them not through natural selection, but the mew bullshit, so they can become things like mimes, magnets, etc)>How Pokemon can be both ancient and a modern phenomena 