>>51223818At the same time there's interactions of Pokémon barking, chewing on shoes and grass, randomly eating things off the ground and desperately trying to spit out. For God's sake one of those is rubbing against one's leg. When properly contextualized one realizes that these are the actions of a pet, not a lover.
Even with your froslass example in legends of arkeos the froslass lacks agency in that quest, the wording is vague and your interactions with that Pokémon don't change. It won't talk to you nor appear to you as a woman. I'll attack you if you stray into if den, I will be put on a farm to graze like livestock and the only way you interact with it is as a pet, not a yokai.
Why are you people so obsessed with these inane ideas to the point that you demand the series satisfy your inanity? Please, stick to /trash/ and stop projecting your mirages into these sweet and innocent critters constructed for children.