>>43715916The finality is not if you like the Pokemon, it is if you end up with one. Would you be able to take care of one?
Your journey depends entirely of your partners, and in the end they chose you, as much as you chose them. If you see them as just plain tools, then you're the problem.
Now, if you catch a Ralths in your youth, and you share time, food, company, and even bed.
What could struck you on your puberty with a Pokemon so close to you, and with a close similarity with humans?