one of the funniest things about Pokemon and knowing it was made by an autistic man is that in the Pokemon universe, making eye contact with someone is literally canonically saying “you wanna fight”
this is just one of many examples of trainers saying similar things like this
i met this guy in the smoking area of a house party in hackney wick and he literally said the words “im not like other guys you know” and now he’s booty calling me with french new wave cinema