>>56986331In the overly indulgent fapfic I keep not working on, I have the same problem. Just speaking words feels like it takes some of the "fun" away from the dynamic, but just saying their names is, obviously, pretty dumb. I try to split the difference, turning the sounds into less obviously memetic name saying. Something more like the games. Short, animal-like vocalizations derived from the name, even the name in other languages. Body language. Have trainers be able to very clearly interpret all of this as if they communicated it with words (but try to avoid the trainer just spelling out what they "said.) Shit like that.
>>56986347I feel like Pokemon already has the answer for this: the child is the same species as the mother/non-ditto partner. They may have some traits of the father, but it's all within the bounds of the species of the mother.
