#but we don't know if this is derived from historical knowledge of animals or a categorization of pokemon with similar traits

[a-girl-called-bob]

Could you imagine getting nudged the other way, though? Imagine someone from the world of Gen 9 suddenly finding themselves in a world where there are no more than 386 pokemon. Imagine if someone from Poke-France suddenly found themselves in Kanto because France doesn't exist yet in this world. Getting stopped on the street because you have a never-before-recorded Pokemon (and it looks like an ice cream cone).

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

[wanderingskylooker]

Their favourite drinks (Super 4: Canon)

I cheated a bit with the title, we don’t have enough info to guess which their favourite drink is, but we can guess through the stereotypes, a little background and historical knowledge, the regular diet they have.

Super 4

Probably the team has a mix of the regular diets from each world, a bit from the pirates, a bit from the knights and a bit from the fairies, sometimes some fruit from the lost world too; although not from the technopolians, because we don’t know what do they currently eat, but if they keep using pills, I don’t think the rest of the team is willing to chew milk.

(Ep: Baby Dragon)

I need to make a clarification, and it is that I think about the Super 4 as minors in the most widespread legal code, less than 18 years old, but if we think about their historical context, it wouldn't coincide. To sum up, to each one of their worlds: Gene is an adult, Twinkle is an adult, Ruby is a minor (I am not completely sure), Alex is a minor, and we don’t know about Alien, but we can presume he is seen as an adult too (already working on a post of their ages).

Technopolis

They eat, and probably drink too, pills. Maybe they are having an adaptation process to add normal eatables in their meals after getting rid of Computer Supreme, but they clearly keep using pills to substitute normal food.

I do not think Technopolis completely lacks regular animal or vegetable sources and that’s why they have to use pills, but they made pills because they are more efficient. In my opinion they have ultra advanced fields and farms somewhere else in Technopolis’s underground or something like that.

Fairies

They are vegetarian, I cannot say vegan because they use honey and eat pastries normally, and, as far as I know, being vegan is not only food, but also not using animal-derived stuff, like wool clothing.

(Ep: Some Like it Magical and The Silence of the Statues)

I don’t know if they are by choice, to be more linked to pureness and nature, or because they are a herbivore species. They are also very insect-like, so sap, honey and dew are very plausible options (they are constantly compared to mosquitos, so if someone wants a creepy idea, they may be able to drink blood too) to be some of their common drinks. I wouldn’t add pollen because it looks like it is weird even for them to eat directly from the flowers or some part of them.

(An alien replacing a fairy. A scene made to denote that fairies are strange.)

(Ep: Fairy Snatchers)

They would be able to drink alcohol, but I don’t think they do that. Maybe they would have a special magic variation of “ceremonial drink with strange effects”.

I imagine Twinkle in the middle of a Kingsland dinner like:

([WOY] Ep: The Family Reunion)

Pirates

They have a tavern, they are stereotypical pirates, long live to ron and whiskey.

Probably pirates have a steel stomach, as real pirates had to survive with horrible conditions for several months (the few sailors who came back alive from the first trip around the world ate even the leather of their clothes due to how hungry they were), and Playmobils seem to be much more resistant to any kind of damage than average humans. I know the popular headcanon is the idea of the characters being French, but the pirates and knights are based on English/British culture, so I’ll compare them to England’s pirates and knights (maybe also Scotland, Ireland and Celtics).

I think the corsairs are well known. The pirates don't have a crown to name them private pirates (yes, the pirates are a democracy (corrupted and sexist but they are). Real pirates are thought to be more democratic than it was originally believed too), and they don't seem mainly interested in being seen as gentlemen, but they enjoy some level of fanciness, such as Sharkbeard having a differentially better clothing, purple, which was an expensive colour, and the pirate games take into account acrobatic choreography or just like to brag about it. British culture doesn't seem unknown to them, but probably is one of those “too fancy” drinks they enjoy in private.

(Ep: Saving Pirate Sharkbeard)

Knights

Wine, lots of wine. They are medieval, they gave alcohol to children. Wine was more restricted to special occasions than for minors, but Kingsland has “special occasions” each two weeks, with tournaments and such, and Alex is a prince; he wouldn't have problems reaching for expensive drinks.

I don't joke about the wine, but probably it wasn't the only drink they had, nor the most common for minors. Likely, they had mead and some kind of mild beer, those widely more extended than wine.

Mysterios and Furios

Togetherness because I do not think their diets are extremely different.

I don't know about American pre-colonial cultures, so I am not sure on which they are based. South America is awfully big, with lots of tribes and cultures, therefore I cannot be as sure as I was with the rest on what their drinks are based on the real world, but I have some theories. Mainly, based on the food from the surrounding area of the show, bananas, coconuts, fruits we don't know which are… They look like some kind of pods, the Mysterios seem likely to make juices or fruit drinks. If I placed them in Central America, they could have corn, cocoa, cinnamon and sugar, as drinks derivatives of these.

(Ep: Super Rock)

I can't take out of my mind the idea of them being like Oompa Loompas and loving cocoa beans.

The Furios on the other hand, wanted to cook Gene and Rock Brock. If they didn't want to eat their meat, they could have been making a huge variation of a Mezcal (a Mexican alcoholic drink with a larva inside the liquid).