>>22821180>no personality gets hand picked by a professor to complete his lifelong dream of completing the pokedex a pokemon encyclopedia / database?
(which the Manga illustrates further as a dream that is very important to oak, so much so that he upsets Agatha of the elite four and abandons their shared research project)
pokemon is kind of like LoZ, no dialogue is implied in game but surely you wouldn't be invited into people's homes traversing the region like some sort of silent freak
