Just read this and then make your decision on whether or not it sucks.
As most of you are already aware, when you leave two Pokemon in the daycare to themselves, the female will ultimately end up laying an egg. And herein lies the kicker.
All Pokemon, regardless of size, color, or even "biological taxa" if you can call it that, always lay 1 egg, and it's always the same size, pretty much, no matter if it's Diglett or Onix. Yet, if most Pokemon are based on things from the real world, would that even make sense?
For example. In the season 1 anime episode Bye Bye Butterfree (for those of you that remember), it mentions Butterfree migrating off somewhere with a mate to lay its eggs. This is a prime example of how Pokemon can be very close to the real world - many species of real-life butterflies do exactly this. And since many Pokemon are mammalian in nature (or at least, the more popular ones), you would expect Pokemon such as Delcatty or Arcanine to not lay eggs, but instead give birth to live young.
(While writing this, I did not think of any theory for the reproduction of genderless Pokemon species. I'm not quite that far yet in my thinking process.)
Yet in the video games, most likely for ease of coding, they always lay one egg at a time.
So, under the assumption that Pokemon is capable of coming close to real-world animals, and we aren't under the confines of the Daycare game code, do you think it's reasonable that all Pokemon should lay eggs, or that different forms of giving birth should theoretically exist in the Pokemon world (viviparous vs. oviparous vs. ovoviviparous)? I'd like to hear your ideas.
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...and on a totally unrelated note (inb4plat), sometimes the daycare man will say that your Pokemon "prefer to play with other Pokemon rather than each other". Where do these other Pokemon come from and where are all the eggs they might be laying?
(If you want, you can ignore this completely.)
As most of you are already aware, when you leave two Pokemon in the daycare to themselves, the female will ultimately end up laying an egg. And herein lies the kicker.
All Pokemon, regardless of size, color, or even "biological taxa" if you can call it that, always lay 1 egg, and it's always the same size, pretty much, no matter if it's Diglett or Onix. Yet, if most Pokemon are based on things from the real world, would that even make sense?
For example. In the season 1 anime episode Bye Bye Butterfree (for those of you that remember), it mentions Butterfree migrating off somewhere with a mate to lay its eggs. This is a prime example of how Pokemon can be very close to the real world - many species of real-life butterflies do exactly this. And since many Pokemon are mammalian in nature (or at least, the more popular ones), you would expect Pokemon such as Delcatty or Arcanine to not lay eggs, but instead give birth to live young.
(While writing this, I did not think of any theory for the reproduction of genderless Pokemon species. I'm not quite that far yet in my thinking process.)
Yet in the video games, most likely for ease of coding, they always lay one egg at a time.
So, under the assumption that Pokemon is capable of coming close to real-world animals, and we aren't under the confines of the Daycare game code, do you think it's reasonable that all Pokemon should lay eggs, or that different forms of giving birth should theoretically exist in the Pokemon world (viviparous vs. oviparous vs. ovoviviparous)? I'd like to hear your ideas.
~~~
...and on a totally unrelated note (inb4plat), sometimes the daycare man will say that your Pokemon "prefer to play with other Pokemon rather than each other". Where do these other Pokemon come from and where are all the eggs they might be laying?
(If you want, you can ignore this completely.)
