>>45561275>The former is mostly just me researching how egg-laying species in the real world work and then slapping onto Poke-biologyInterestingly, that might actually not be the case, at least when it comes to the game canon. You might have seen this image floating around. The Japanese text comes from a specific official guidebook (I don't trust translations of the title because it seems to be different on every site but the ISBN is 4091028349) and is backed up by an in-game statement so I'm going to assume most Pokemon don't lay eggs and just give birth to premature young, sort of like marsupials in that way. Not saying that remains true in other canons though, the anime is notably different in a few other areas so I can't say for certain what's going on there.
>>45561303There's a top in Utopia, but don't let the word deceive you: it's all about what's down below. It requires dirt.
>>45561340>how Mega Evolution and Z-Power workMetaphysics in the Pokemon world can be weird, but I've formulated a general idea of how it works. I've mentioned "link theory" briefly months ago, but I could stand to go into more detail one of these days.
>"Therians" - humans who can transform to and from Pokemon forms and use their powers.That's just a probably dumber version of Burst. You do remember ReBurst, right? No? Just me?