#Pokemon Death

[pokemonshelterstories]

My partner keeps a small collection of the pokemon who pass away under his care (mostly fish pokemon preserved in alcohol, all of which passed due to health complications or age) and it got me thinking about if people do this kind of thing with larger pokemon? I've seen taxidermy that people get done of their personal hunting kills like with Sawsbuck head mounts and those old Pyroar centerpieces from back when hunting them was a thing, but never really seen any of something like a family Houndour or a prized racing Zebstrika. Is it just not a thing that most people do?

i think there are two major reasons for this. one is that not everybody is comfortable with the idea of preserving their pokemon's body instead of burying or cremating it, which i understand. death is something people can be sensitive towards. the other is that large mounts are expensive to do, especially if the pokemon has some unusual features.

to be honest, there are a lot of pokemon where preserving them as they were in life would be really hard, anyway. like, yeah, you can stuff a ponyta's body, but you can't do much to preserve the flames that burn along its back. a lot of grass types lose their colors or can't really be taxidermied because of their plantlike structures. for pokemon whose cells have particular compositions, like vaporeon, they get kind of...melty, for lack of a better word.

there are sometimes other ways to preserve pokemon- my brother in law has some incredible floette preserved in resin! but large pokemon are pretty much always harder to preserve in these ways.

[a-horde-of-mews]

Well King i don't think having ugly black fur is normal too

Seymour: How'd you get behind the voices?

@wormholewandering

[aelirus]

For those who've only had their Pokemon stolen or lost, you should be so fortunate.

A great many facing us did not realise how dire the stakes would be in opposing Team Galactic.

[bravo-ingo]

[Bravo-Ingo reblogged a photo from Opelucid News Official. The caption is from them.]

While officers and volunteers are still searching through the wreckage, we believe all human victims of Plasma's attack have been found and identified, except for one boy who remains missing. As for pokémon, the numbers continue to rise, but these are the ones we know of so far. We ask that you extend kindness and support to all families affected by this tragedy.

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

Were there any fairytales you liked as a kid? What were they about? Can you retell it from memory?

Idk if I can retell any from MEMORY but there are these old stories from Johtan fishermen, like the FIRST Johtan immigrants, about these beautiful woman on the rocks around our islands that would sing these beautiful songs to them their songs would just fucking fill their boats with water and sink them and then they’d get like eaten alive by these beautiful half fish half women. Basically those are Primarina LMAO. They were probably mimicking Lapras too because they can do that. They sometimes hunt with Lapras yknow. There are so many Lapras in Alola now it’s fucking crazy. Commercial fisherman hunted them so fucking much that they became a protected species in like 2020 (which btw they only became protected in Unova in fucking 2025) and then it took until like 2028 before they were able to revoke that for Alolan natives but you still need a license to hunt Lapras. Which is like, that’s a thing Alolans’ve done since forever. Which means the fish populations are still kinda fucked from how many Lapras there are but at least the Lapras hunters are back with their licenses. You can’t get a license until you’re 18 but if you’re under 18 you can legally hunt Lapras with a licensed adult. I forgot where I was going with this

Oh did you know there’s a deep sea Lapras that only lives near the Sootopolis crater and the kujirahige trench??

[pokeblr-confessions]

Hello! I am a reasearcher from Orre. I keep dogtags on all of my pokemons collars. I myself keep 2 dogtags. One for me. One of an eevee. His name was Nerium.

I am completely enamoured with poison types. I thought I could possibly be the one to find a new poison eeveelution. I was not.

I am forever haunted by what I have done.

Confession #452

[shilo-sumac]

What's the craziest, most off-the-wall thing that's ever happened at your rehabilitation center?

ohhhhh...hmmmmm, probably that like. Evil Hole.

so like, this was a bit ago, around when i first started posting n stuff. i liveblogged it but like, it was old and not a lotta people followed me so idk how many people even saw it, so i dont mind giving a summary since its probably hard to find

sooooo it all started, like most good stories do, with the protagonist (me) being an idiot. i accidentally used pokenip instead of loose tea leaves to brew some tea. im not even a big tea drinker!!!! its just fun to sometimes!!!!!

anyways i get kinda loopy and decide to go on an adventure. which basically means i blindly wandered around in the uncharted parts of the island for a few hours. eventually, i found this bigass creepy hole in the ground in a spot i swore i already passed before. me, being the same person who a few hours prior injested a psychoactive substance on mistake, decided to jump in!

uhhm.. i think i passed out after that? someone used pelipper mail to give me some peanut butter at some point so at least i wasnt hungry, but i of course dont know how to fly and there were no footholds to climb back up. by this time i had sobered up and realized ah, shit, huh, this isnt right now is it?

buuut the only way out was forward.

at this point i check if i have any pokeballs on me. luckily i had one. my gliscor had decided to playfully chomp on my nose earlier in the day so i balled him to calm him down, and now he was my only companion here. guess its a good thing hes a bit of an idiot. like pokemon like trainer, nyahaha.

uh, anyways, we kinda just. walk in the only available direction. and this cave system is like, way bigger than I thought. lotsa passages, lotsa dead ends and drops to unknown depths. but we eventually find a pokemon! but, like, its weird. its a carbink but it isnt right. its crystals are orange, its eyes are empty. it leads us to somd sort of.... colony? mostly consisting of more carbink and some sableye. none of them were right, man. in the center of their... village(?) was a giant version of the crystal thst grew out of the carbink and sableye. a sickly orange hue... like a sunset but Evil.

they were pretty hospitable things considered.... but not much for conversation. barely responded when i asked things. the sableye were... eerily still. if you know anything about that species you know they never stand still. everything moved like clockwork, like, like a hivemind. every day at around the same time theyd all gather and stare at the center crystal and just.... chant. droning on for who knows how long.

they let me walk about freely enough, but one area was off limits. i had a sinking feeling that, maybe that was the exit. or maybe there was something there that i needed to see. so i waited for their chanting session and snuck behind them all. Bane took out the only sentry they had for me carefully and quietly descending from the roof of the cave. felt like a secret stealth mission. woulda been fun if... yknow.. what happened next hadnt happened.

behind where they didnt want me to see was my poor charizard. he was not in good shape at the time. he... i knew he wasnt around a day or two but... plenty of my roaming pokemon liked doing their own thing. i didnt know he was in trouble. i didnt know. it was my fault. he was covered in those crystals, they were *eating* him.

i remember hearing an alarm and the crystalized pokemon gathering behind us. i remember bane trying to get my attention. i remember staring blankly and i remember screaming how they hurt him and... then i dont remember anything else.

alistair, my roommate and occasional pain in the ass, found me after he claimed he heard an "explosion. the cave system had completely collapsed." bane, char and i were fine, but all unconcious. i.. i dont know what happened exactly but. i think i did something. i think i may have hurt those pokemon. it wasnt their fault i think those cystals were controlling them and i killed them and i dont even remember doing it i dont even know what exactly happened

ive been on the lookout for those weird rock cystal things again. for a while some stuck on my hands but eventually they fell off, guess my hands didnt have room for more weird stuff on them, kihihi. my pokemon all have a buddy system now and have to report nightly to be sure theyre all alright if they roam

we all survived at least. char cant fly anymore though. its my fault.

[rottenice]

The colder seasons are approaching. Time for your reminder that you really should not be releasing Pokémon anywhere they aren't found. But especially giant frozen mountains.

Your Pikachu isn't going to live in a winter wonderland. They will freeze to death. And I will find the Pikacicle, defrost it, and put it's skull on my shelf.

[dynamitoriel]

Wait a second, this is not Pokepasta Prediction I played

[vullabies-and-skeledirges]

(roleplay blog pretending pokemon are real. this blog deals with themes of death; please don't hesitate to block this blog and/or the tag "bones tw" if that makes you uncomfortable.)

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All our bones are scavenged ethically from Pokémon who died of natural causes. Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions about our process, or just about Pokémon bones in general!

Message me here if you want to buy some bones, or visit our [Website] or [Banettsy store]!

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Cassie, the human running this business! She/her/it/its, 24. My day job is working with fossil bones in the collections at the Nacrene City Museum; by night, me and my Pokémon partners collect, clean, and ship modern bones.

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Luna the Umbreon♀, my workshop buddy!

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OOC INFO:

-lowkey a self-insert hehe. i like bones -mod blog is @oncillaphoenix; likes and follows come from there. -name is Oncilla, she/her, over 18 but has no problem w minors. I also run @lovenpeace-pkmn -I am afflicted with the Curse (long covid) and have chronic brain fog and fatigue because of it. I may be slow to respond to things due to this. -only doing low stakes rp on this blog, may occasionally comment on higher-stakes events but will not get directly involved. -will engage with: sapient pokemon, including legendaries and mythicals; fallers and crossover blogs; eebydeebies; etc etc -will not engage with: events involving extreme pokemon harm or character death (canon character death or deaths in backstories are fine, as is obviously mentioning of past death--i just don't do so good with the high-tension high-stakes roleplay) -this character has no idea what's going on on Rotomblr ever. she also knows very little about like. evil teams or legendary Pokémon or any of that. please go ahead and throw that at her if you want. she will react like Just Some Guy who has not been paying attention -please no nsfw asks!

[pokemonshelterstories]

So I recently was..blessed...with an applin with a ..unique condition ...Bicephaly... and I love the little fellas but I'm worried for them? I can't find much info on this happening in the aplin line but I do know one evolutionary path has multiple heads? Is there anything I should keep a look out for

how interesting...reptilian pokemon have been known to survive with bicephaly longer than, say, bird or mammal pokemon- but to be quite honest, you need to prepare yourself for the likelihood that this applin will not survive long. bicephaly is an extensive malformation, and it comes with a variety of potential complications. this applin is also going to need to change apples frequently. applin aren't designed to fit multiple heads into a single apple, and they're possibly going to crowd each other out.

as for evolution...while hydrapple has multiple heads, it also has multiple bodies. each of its syrpents is a separate individual. chances are, your applin is unable to evolve at all, because a pokemon's body will shut down evolution if there are significant complications to the process. but even if it were able to evolve, i would recommend against trying. you don't know how its already aberrant body will mutate further under the influence of evolution, and evolution carries a significant risk of fatality in this scenario.

good luck with this little guy. you'll need to get a specialist veterinarian appointment asap to determine what its internal organs look like, because that's where the highest possibility of a fatal malformation is going to be. the vet can also tell you more about how to give it the best shot at long term survival, or let you know if humane euthanasia would be the kindest option.

[bleeding-crescent]

Like... just snap it out of the air or...?

affirmative.

she looked up. target…lock! stuck out her neck…and snapped!

[aelirus]

Team Galactic was always intended to be more overtly evil, you still see a lot of it in the manga adaptations... I mean, when your end goal is to destroy the world and remake it, why would you care how many people and Pokémon you hurt? Or the environment?

But I'm playing platinum right now and I went to the funeral tower outside solaceon and totally forgot about this one guy in there...

first of all, his name's kirby. definitely not a coincidence.

Secondly, he talks about how he's there because Team Galactic took his Pokemon, and ever since then he's "never forgiven their faces"

If you think about it, it's clear that he's implying they killed his Pokemon, and all he was left with was one Cleffa...

After the battle, he cries and says something about how fighting won't honour them like he wants to. It was really touching to me, honestly.

I'm willing to bet that Team Galactic could've just stolen his Pokemon, but he probably refused to give them up without fighting, and as a result Galactic killed his Pokemon. The thought process led me to thinking about how Galactic might've cornered other groups of people to take their Pokemon, and if anyone gave them trouble, they'd risk their pokemon's lives.

[lovelylovelyartist]

Lovelylocke LeafGreen Part 6

LT Surge, easy peasy lemon squeezy with my boy Zero on the scene! 3 badges down, 5 to go!

New Route, New...... >:( SPEAROW!! Welcome to the team, Bastard.

New Route, found a Ball! welcome, Vincent!

Rock tunnel.... and a Mankey! Welcome to the team, Kevin! (forgot to screencap him lol whoops)

Lavender town! Surely wont be a depressing sad time :)

...... yeah... I forgot how fuckin dark the first gen of pokemon was. cubone was such a sad storyline

Well since I can't do anything in Lavender town until I have the Silph Scope, onwards to Celadon in the meantime. no catch on route 8 because it's all duplicates, but it is a great place to train up because of all the trainers.

*uncomfortable laughing*

OK, in preparation for Erika, I should probably train up Bastard. it's good to have another flying type, especially since I'll need him for flying later.

Hooray! Bastard evolved!

Made it to Celadon! Met a new friend, welcome to the team Alex!

..... I Might have a small issue with the gaming corner

I did use my coins wisely though and bought a Dratini, because it evolves into my favorite pokemon :) Welcome to the team, Celeste!

OK. Erika battle. Almost went real bad. Arson held his own, but we almost ended in tragedy. but we did it! Badge 4 attained!

Rocket Hideout underneath the Game Corner.... tragedy struck.

While battling Giovanni and his Kangaskhan, Peach was felled. she was revived with a Moon Stone, but despite her new, powerful form, she is no longer able to fight. Enjoy a peaceful retirement, Princess Peach ;_;

Peach the Nidoqueen

Level 6 - Level 26

The next update will have Lavender town, all that fun stuff. buckle up yall

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

Hey, uhh… I want to know how I can defend myself against a Lapras attack. I don’t have any Pokemon and I live in an area where they are not only abundent, but also highly aggressive. Like, tearing apart pets that try to ride them levels of aggression (I learned that the hard way, RIP Nidoran.)

IF YOU’RE BEING ATTACKED BY A LAPRAS YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING VERY VERY WRONG????

Also why are you asking ME??? HUH????

[pokeblr-confessions]

ate a dead weedle my friends found on the side of the road back in 6th grade on a dare. second most embarassing time i was hospitalized (first was getting my ankle broken by a luvdisc)

Confession #519