>>50055596Alright hear me out bros, the war between nicknamefags and nonicknamefags is really simple to understand.
In the world of pokemon, pokemon names are in a grey line between being a PROPER NOUN and a COMMON NOUN. They are treated as both proper and common nouns in all the pokemon media. Being into nicknames simply derives from your brain seeing pokemon names as common nouns representing the entire species. However, 99% of NPC and characters in all pokemon media, do not nickname their pokemon, just calling them by their name: "there's my Pikachu and then there's wild Pikachu", because pokemon species are made up words and usually associated with a single design, it would be normal for your brain to identify them as proper nouns, what would make you individually call them by their species name too. This duality of perception from the pokemon names is what generates this disparity.
You may be inclined to like more those with a similar behaviour to you than those that are different, which may result into developing some sort of tribalistic sense of identity torwards nicknaming or not nicknaming pokemon, and consequentially end up in nickname vs no nickname flamewars.
