>>51201870the notion of security. if you don't keep your wife gardevoir in a pokeball it would be very easy to kidnap/capture her. thus, as the keeper of her pokeball, you are responsible for her safety. as you can't effectively protect someone you can't control, there has to be a difference in 'rank' so to speak.
>gardevoir protecting its trainer being part of its MOsuicidally so, as its probably the one thing the entire gardevoir fanbase can agree upon, giving her an air of nobility and love that humans don't typically have. and before you say that you would take a bullet for your voir, she would stop you from doing it if she had any control over the situation. so effectively speaking, she would die for you, and she wouldn't let you die for her. this could be argued to be a hierarchy of control. either you think that she is in control of you because she decides who dies, or if you think you're in control because she sees her life as lesser to yours.
there's also pokeballs, which are your way to protect her from other humans trying to steal her away. even if you capture her once and then just shelf the ball for the rest of her life, she had to submit to you and as such, the power dynamic is there.
i feel i've established my argument that a power dynamic exists between human and garde-wife, no matter what flavor it takes on.
because that power dynamic exists, therefore, coercion exists. even if you have the best of intentions, and and even if she's completely okay with it, she will always be your lesser because of the aforementioned dynamic. pokeballs probably aren't little mind control devices, but the fact that you have had her in one at one point means you have taken responsibility for her. and as such, are in control of her.
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