>>50414533>>50417495The thing that gets these two funny is that the first
write.as covers them both.
As it pertains to further writing concepts, one note is that animals adopting other species is *generally* done by relatively old childless females, seemingly being the natural world's version of "crazy cat ladies".
But then with Pokemon's fuzzy breeding pools and them being sapient and mutually intelligible, this very much functions as a form of adoption likely causing many cases of far-afield breeding due to being one of the few cases for being *fully* socialized as a member of a different-kind group.
In the *other* meaning of surrogate mother, I've actually had the thought of the Team Rocket cloning project using a relatively powerful Dark type as shielding from any passive Psychic dangers of a developing Mew. Zoroark has non-zero basis for dealing with the shapeshifting, while Absol *seems* to be the best bet for project safety.
