>>54961800Oh, thanks! I've been so much praise I'm starting to run our of polite ways to respond.
As for how I write pokemon, it's very important to me that pokemon are portrayed as animals. Not wild animals, but pets. They can have human-like characteristics, just like our pets do, but they'll never be human and they shouldn't be.
Animals and humans are just way too different, and the relationship people have with animals and humans are so different. And the people who like animals are so different from those who like people. Trying to make pokemon into colored humans would throw off the whole balance, it'd also completely change the idea of a trainer or a champion or anything else.
This is why I'll never have a pokemon speak, in any way. The most important aspect of animals is the lack of direct communication. Even the smartest trainers and pokemon shouldn't perfectly understand each other. That's both the unfortunate reality but also the lucky break of any interspecies relationship.
I think this is a good thing, by the way. Just like how salt makes the cake sweeter, so does the impossibility of direct connection make the friendship matter. We can't directly connect with others either, but that's why it means so much when we still find success. Pokemon and trainers just add another level of difficulty.
I also write the pokemon as what I call "Clear" characters. They're meant to be clear, simple, and easy to understand. Not deep like the humans. They're archetypes, their vibrancy (not showcased much, the chapters were getting long already) is what makes them easy to like and suits them for comedy. Like Koraidon fucking dying after he ate ice cream or Fuecoco not knowing whether he hates or wants it. They'll still have character growth and relationships and wants, but they're not "complex" characters like the humans.
That's just how I write them, though. Also, I'm rambling. Whoops.
