>>47790984what i'm attacking you for is conflating 'human' with 'human-like'. pokemon by both culture and instinct are subservient to humans.
What bothers me about your argument is that you don't seem to take your Gardevoir's feelings into account. As a more human-like pokemon it would most certainly be aware of social norms. How do you think she would feel if she was the only one of her expanded social group that was 'married' to her trainer, while the rest had a more defined trainer-trainee relationship. What if she doesn't want to be elevated to being your equal, given that she would be very aware of the daggers being stared into your back by other humans, and she would be seen as a deviant amongst her own kind.
Are you willing to burden your 'wife' with all that extra burden in order to alleviate your 'guilt' about her natural state being subservient to your own? And if, after awhile, she asked you to put her into a pokeball so she could be like other pokemon, would you accept responsibility for her life by taking control of it?
I think this scenario is more likely than not, as gardevoir are human-like, empathic and are still pokemon. She's already a deviant amongst her kind because she's attracted to humans. Would you capture her, and then take away the plausibility of it being her choice if it would make her 'fit in' with her social circle better, her circle consisting of human-like pokemon who are also owned by a trainer?
