>>56625930>>56627036>>56627095>>56627969>>56628473>>56628785Genetic contributions from Pokemon are probably just endemic in contemporary Pokemon-world humans.
What I mean by that is I don't think (most) modern people have 'fresh' Pokemon DNA in them from a direct Pokemon-relative, but during Neolithic caveman-type people were probably fucking and building communities a long side Pokemon for like 275,000 years or something. To the point where the modern person could have something like a 30-45% genetic contribution from Pokemon - like how modern people still have quite a lot of Neanderthal or Denisovan in them.
Something I noticed with the Psychic Trainer Class is that some of them seem to be wearing something resembling hospital or medical research 'uniform', some of them wear something more like a 'Gi', and a handful of them are paired with Fighting Class Trainers. It makes me think about how there might have been a 'discrepant' period in human history where modernity separated humans from Pokémon in such a way that they began to see psychics as dangerous freaks to be studied or imprisoned, and only 'relatively recently' are those qualities being seen in a more natural/positive light.
It's interesting to think about how you see constantly bits and pieces of the Pokemon world where in the past people truly did live with the gods, witnessed miracles, and it was all paved over by modernity. People alienated themselves from Pokemon, from God, and aggressively 'rationalizing' everything. Lavender Tower doesn't connect us to the spirits of the dead- ghosts are just gaseous pokemon and I have a device that can detect them. Bellsprout tower wasn't *actually* built to enshrine the body of a 100ft Bellsprout demigod you idiot - it's wood.
