My headcannon is that this is just Dawn and/or whatever the guy version was named, he/she got hit by a truck and Arceus just send them to the paat because he is still a little livid about how they captured his childen and stuffed them in the pc
My headcannon is that this is just Dawn and/or whatever the guy version was named, he/she got hit by a truck and Arceus just send them to the paat because he is still a little livid about how they captured his childen and stuffed them in the pc
Do you even play the game? If Arceus never sent whoever protagonist you're choosing then the whole history of human coexisting with Pokemon would never happen as they would still fear Pokemon, just like us and the wild animals. You can catch them and tame them, but the majority of them would still attack human at first sight, and thus the history of Pokemon world would either progress into the a: humans hunted pokemon until near extinction or b: humanity got wiped out by Pokemon, because holy hell this game tells the other possibility of Pokemon where them killing humans are DAILY occurance.
Do you even play the game? If Arceus never sent whoever protagonist you're choosing then the whole history of human coexisting with Pokemon would never happen as they would still fear Pokemon, just like us and the wild animals.
In Sinnoh, maybe? But I'm sure there's plenty of sources from other regions saying people have been regularly using Pokemons for hundreds of years. I mean wasn't the war in Kalos like 3000 years old and they were very much all using Pokemon way back then?
In Sinnoh, maybe? But I'm sure there's plenty of sources from other regions saying people have been regularly using Pokemons for hundreds of years. I mean wasn't the war in Kalos like 3000 years old and they were very much all using Pokemon way back then?
Then it's even stranger why JUST one region of the Poke-Earth still fears Pokemon despite other regions already 'tamed' them, which can be explained by the game directly models ancient Jubilife from a very recent post-Black Ship era Japan. Given how the two Clans worship Pokemons as Arceus' attendants, this directly mirrors what Ainu people did with their Kamuys: a god that took mortal form to help people survive the harshness of the land, and only from the recent interaction with outside nations that has managed to tame Pokemon or has coexsited with Pokemons longer they learned the tech to make Pokeballs (which also brings question which people actually designed Pokeballs in first place, given we do see ancient pokeballs in the Anime very often, like that porcelain one with Ninetales inside).
To explain further, domesticating animals is very different from hunting animals. Remember, in Pokemon world Pokemons are the equivalent of our world's animal, meaning they are also food source for the population and likewise humans ALSO would be a possible food source for them. If you're going to hunt an animal which can breathe fire, summon thunder or drown you, would you even have the courage to steal it's young and try to tame it? More than likely you'll doom the entire village you're living on if you tried that, given its parent would be looking for it. Or would you kill the parents first, then nab the child? Tough luck, the kid haven't evolved yet, and evolving needs experience i.e you need to go out and let the animal battle other wild animals, not to mention in the past there's no badge tech yet, meaning if you somehow overlevel your Pokemon (it feels stronger and has more authority than you ) then you'd get mauled.
See? Taming pokemon is simply too risky without a lot of dedicated manpower and know-hows, which Jubilife doesn't have until the protag's arrival.
Also, IIRC Kalos-Galar war was waged using slaved Pokemon, no? Or I misremembered and mixed that from the Legend of Arceus movie.
Then it's even stranger why JUST one region of the Poke-Earth still fears Pokemon despite other regions already 'tamed' them, which can be explained by the game directly models ancient Jubilife from a very recent post-Black Ship era Japan. Given how the two Clans worship Pokemons as Arceus' attendants, this directly mirrors what Ainu people did with their Kamuys: a god that took mortal form to help people survive the harshness of the land, and only from the recent interaction with outside nations that has managed to tame Pokemon or has coexsited with Pokemons longer they learned the tech to make Pokeballs (which also brings question which people actually designed Pokeballs in first place, given we do see ancient pokeballs in the Anime very often, like that porcelain one with Ninetales inside).
To explain further, domesticating animals is very different from hunting animals. Remember, in Pokemon world Pokemons are the equivalent of our world's animal, meaning they are also food source for the population and likewise humans ALSO would be a possible food source for them. If you're going to hunt an animal which can breathe fire, summon thunder or drown you, would you even have the courage to steal it's young and try to tame it? More than likely you'll doom the entire village you're living on if you tried that, given its parent would be looking for it. Or would you kill the parents first, then nab the child? Tough luck, the kid haven't evolved yet, and evolving needs experience i.e you need to go out and let the animal battle other wild animals, not to mention in the past there's no badge tech yet, meaning if you somehow overlevel your Pokemon (it feels stronger and has more authority than you ) then you'd get mauled.
See? Taming pokemon is simply too risky without a lot of dedicated manpower and know-hows, which Jubilife doesn't have until the protag's arrival.
Also, IIRC Kalos-Galar war was waged using slaved Pokemon, no? Or I misremembered and mixed that from the Legend of Arceus movie.
I don't think it's that strange. If we consider this the long past, it is very possible that one specific region, or maybe even many, to fear or not be on par with another region on the idea of Pokemon. This happens the same in our world, where lots of culture still fear or are ignorant of certain technology, customs, and other norms and/or way of life, sometimes by the centuries. Their time I don't expect them to have telephones or long distance cross culture pollinations, save for maybe word of mouth hence why we get tidbits of people talking about Kanto and them having trainers which they speak as more wild tales than actual knowledgeable fact.
We can even consider the possibility that while Pokemon are part of the world as a whole, it doesn't mean that there might not be places where Pokemons might not have existed or at least Pokemon of such dramatic nature, and vice versa since there are islands and regions where there are no humans and just Pokemons. Animals are confirmed to exist in the their world (hence stuff like dogs, Indian elephants, mouse) and it is very possible that some people might be from regions where animals are more abundant than Pokemon thus never actually interacted with said dangerous creatures since as you said, why would you try to fight creatures with the ability to breathe fire when you can avoid them and just go for stuff like berries and other non-hostile more safer alternatives for survival? Think of for example, say if you had lived in long time ago in a tribe or village in Africa. Creatures like Lions and other fearsome predators exist but most of those said village would avoid them and those predators don't tend to interact with the people either.
And when the Pokemon does interact with humans in a negative way, we have events that might be what happen with the people moving to Hisui. We learn that the reason the people moved there was because the commander's previous village was destroyed and his family and friends were killed by wild Pokemons which explains the fear of these creatures and why "taming" is something of an absurdity. This is also for the clans who lived in Hisui who also don't understand the idea of "taming" or "capturing" Pokemon since to them, Pokemons and humans live in harmony with nature.
I also want to make a mention of the Humans of the Pokemon world that, if we base on the lore and myths, that Humans themselves are possibly Pokemons as well and that they are built different from our world's human, like the humans from Monster Hunter. The humans in the Pokemon world are much more durable, more resilient and possible does contain certain supernatural power like Psychokinetics and other abilities (Aura, how some are able to survive in the freezing cold and blazing volcanic heat). This also puts a point in what I said about about a land or place having just humans since if Humans are Pokemons, it is possible they are the only Pokemons there which is a high possibility as there are many places full of just a singular species of Pokemon. And if we want to go further into lore and myth, there was mention that humans are not completely helpless as there was a story of when human used weapons and killed Pokemons, which lead to the consequences of Pokemon vanishing.
Another I want to make a mention of said Kalos war that it is possible that each Pokemon game/story takes place in different universes, which we know is highly possible since SM and USUM confirmed existence of Ultra wormholes that leads to not only other worlds/universes but different time too both past and future, with many never having grasp the concept of capturing, taming and battling with Pokemon such as the Ultra Recon's world. There was talk of how the current games and their reason of why mega evolution no longer exist, outside of Gamefreaks just wanting to toss the concept out, was because the new BDSP world and LoA world is taking places in an universe where the events of AZ and his Mega weapon didn't happen. In otherwords, the Kalos world itself might be an alternative universe, or vice versa, along with the Remake of Hoenn and the SM/USUM if we want to be really specific, and the current universe is where none of what happened in Kalos past happened at all and that whole war with Pokemon might just not be a thing in the no-mega universe.