#YAY MORE WISH QUESTIONS i forgot how much i loved this lil bby

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Did you have a backstory on why Wish was pretending in the first place? Like was it a case of them having amnesia and going idk what's happening so I'm going to just blend in and hope for the best, or was it something else? Did Laventon know they weren't human, since he's the one who found them? I have so many questions, this concept is very cool

so this was my first and almost entirely blind playthrough (as in, i didn't know anything abt the game going in besides the stuff had been officially published ahead of time) so there wasn't like a super clear idea at the start of wish's situation since i. literally didn't know enough about the game world to make it super involved. but the idea was always that due to Circumstances, including getting abandoned by/cast out of their pack, they couldn't survive in the wild, and had decided to hide in jubilife as a human instead. when laventon found them, they were already in disguise, so he had no idea.

going back now though i think maybe the thing i would make it is that they got trapped in a space-time distortion, like one of the little ones you find ingame, and that's how they got yoinked to prelude beach, where they just panic disguised as a human to avoid getting immediately attacked. that, OR, since prelude beach is sort of famous in jubilife for being very safe and pokemon-free, they ended up in the fieldlands via distortion but then ran to the beach to hide from other pokemon. and they always lived in one of the coldest and most remote places in the icelands, so they really had no idea how to navigate the rest of hisui, in addition to knowing only the very haziest basics about the humans of the region, or sinnoh, or the rift, etc etc. i think they were already sort of on their own before that tho, bc like i said earlier, abandonment issues.

tho laventon didn't know exactly that they were a zorua, wish was always regarded as being very weird. they had white hair and gold eyes, basically never took off their mask, and were also mute and mostly communicated via nods/headshakes (zorua illusions are never very good at speaking, and wish doesn't really know how.) plus being very shy around new people, and weirdly good with and fearless of pokemon (being able to communicate with them, and having a team for backup in case of negotiations going south helps with a lot with confidence.) so it is maybe not surprising they garnered some suspicion.