#pokemon classification

[everyday-pokemon-headcanons]

Serperior are not true snakes. Rather, they are a type of glass lizard, possessing both eyelids and external ear openings.

[pokemonunderdogtournament]

Best Underdog of Classification: Equidae 🏷️ 🐎

Round 2 - FINAL MATCH

Our Contestants:

This poll is part of an event that allows the early eliminees from the main tournament have more time in the spotlight!

[wolfietheangel]

deathwing? more like death wish!

[couriway-courier]

𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸! 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓛𝓾𝓶𝓲𝓸𝓼𝓮!

❛ ━━･❪ ❁ ❫ ･━━ ❜

*＊✿❀　My name is Professor Augustine Sycamore! I live and conduct research in Lumiose City. I have my three Kantonian starter Pokemon, and my Flabebe - Pyre, Eutrophic, and Oblivion for the starters (Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle), and Fleur for Flabebe.　❀✿＊*

*＊✿❀　I am not taken, although there is someone I have my eye on~　❀✿＊*

*＊✿❀　My research specializes in Fairy type Pokemon. Feel free to ask me anything about them.　❀✿＊*

❛ ━━･❪ ❁ ❫ ･━━ ❜

Hey! It's @davepetathemun back at it again!

This Sycamore was made as a bit and slowly grew into his own character. Have fun with it!

Magic Anons on, as well as everything else~

[spyres]

i love you seel and dewgong i will not make a comment about how stupid it is that the pokedex lists you as sea lion pokemon despite the fact that you're obviously not sea lions and your names are literally seal and dugong with different spellings and dewgong was even called manaty (manatee) in the red and blue beta you're literally everything besides a fucking sea lion at this point and yet the pokedex still classifies you as sea lions

[arkham-dossiers]

Patient File: Lysandre

It's the 4th of July.....so naturally I'm analyzing a Frenchman.

In public, Lysandre is the head of Lysandre Labs, a charitable philanthropist responsible for the Holocaster technology used across the Kalos region. In secret, Lysandre is the boss of Team Flare, a criminal group that wants to wipe out all life in Kalos, and then the world, save for a chosen few that will restore the environment to its original natural beauty and purge all perceived ugliness from life.

The difference between Lysandre's public perception and his true self is quite stark. What led a man of privilege like him to such extreme, misanthropic beliefs? And is there anything that can remedy it?

To start with, it must be noted that Lysandre is descended from ancient Kalosian royalty, being the brother of the infamous King who built and activated the Ultimate Weapon of legend. This status warped Lysandre's view of people early in his life. It made him believe that certain people are inherently better than others, that they are "chosen" for greatness. This belief also placed a great sense of burden upon him, as he made it his life's mission to live up to that greatness. He saw it as his duty to provide for his region, to give to those less fortunate, to help shape a brighter future for everyone.

But Lysandre's ideals ended up clashing with reality. For everything he provided, there were people who misused or squandered it. For all he gave to the poor, he couldn't single-handedly solve income inequality meaning there were always more poor people in need. And for as much as he tried to create a better future, he ended up seeing signs everywhere of a worse on. Some signs may have been legitimate, many likely just in his own paranoid mind, but whatever the case it left him devoid of satisfaction and fulfillment. Being a man whose emotions burn fiercely, Lysandre began to feel deep hatred. Hatred for people who didn't notice or care about how they were affecting society. Hatred for the poor whom he saw as "parasites" who didn't fight hard enough to advance themselves in favor of taking from those who worked for their fortune. And hatred for things like deforestation, pollution, crime, war, and general lack of decorum. Lysandre became a misanthrope, seeing fault in everyone but himself and "chosen ones" that he deemed respectable like himself.

While Lysandre does feel remorse for the lengths he is willing to go to in order to cleanse the world of all that he perceives to be ugly, knowing it to be morally wrong, he keeps himself on this path anyway because he feels it's the only solution and that as a chosen one it is his burden to bear - that he has come too far to turn back now. Despite this, Lysandre is pathologically hypocritical. He wishes to be someone who gives, and yet his ultimate plan is to take the lives of many. He hates selfish, greedy and frivolous people and yet many such people make up the ranks of Team Flare all because they had a lot of money which Lysandre automatically thinks makes them self-sufficient workers who benefit society. And he considers himself to be an idealist even though his view of everything and what must be done about it is so deeply cynical. It's to the point where he can manipulate and threaten and do unimaginably cruel things while still insisting it's other humans, including his victims, that are the problem. In one famous instance, he wept for the Pokémon of the world that he felt he had no choice but to kill, saying as long as they exist humans will be tempted to abuse them as tools, making them and others suffer. He says this while he is enacting a plan that is abusing Pokémon as tools, making them and others suffer! The depth of his delusion and utter lack of self-awareness is stunning to behold.

Diagnosis: Lysandre suffers from a triple whammy of Paranoid Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with sociopathic tendencies as well even if he lacks the criteria to be a full sociopath. Treatment will be exceedingly difficult, but one aspect of his warped psyche can be used to the advantage of this end: his respect for fellow "chosen ones". Lysandre is not narcissistic enough to believe that only he has value, as he takes the views of other chosen ones seriously even if he disagrees with them - a prime example being his friend Professor Sycamore. If such people keep working with Lysandre to show him better alternatives to the problems he sees than his genocidal aims, it is possible that he will calm down and adjust to a safer way. It will take a lot of time and effort, but it is recommended as the only way to save him. For if he isn't saved, then the likelihood of self-destruction is great, and unfortunately Lysandre is a man with the will and power to take many others down with him.

This patient is sometimes dangerous. It depends on whether or not he views you as among the "chosen" or not. If he does, you may engage with him intellectually. If he does not, avoid at all costs.

[saltycharacters]

GUYS I'VE HAD AN EPIPHANY. All Invertebrates that aren't Cephalopods (octopus, squid, natallus) or Cnidaria (jellyfish, sea anemone, etc) are bugs to me. Case closed

[subject-classified]

I assume you….study hybrids….as well. Are we a….divine threat? Or a threat….in general….to you?

— @pkmn-ken

We would never classify someone as a threat without reason! Unless you ever give us a reason there is no point in wasting storage on classifying you.

[moonlight-eternal]

...Huh, is it just me or did it look like that person was looking directly at the camera despite it being. Through a window

This is... disconcerting.

Just minutes ago, before I did watch the recording that I poſted here not long ago, I would have sworn there was only one person outside the window, directing both pokemon. How could I forget the other's entire presence, and so quickly?

In the video, they appeareth clearly. Yet in my mind's eye, there is only an empty space, as if they were erased leaving their surroundings intact. This is not a normal occurrence for me; I am a scholar and my memory is usually strong.

And thou art correct, they do look into mine eyes, or into the lens of the holocaſter I did mount upon my mask. Yet the device was rendered invisible before I descended there to watch...

[friendly-local-trash]

cosmic type. discuss

No new types ever unless you present 20+ years of data from multiple research academies proving unique and distinct traits that carry over from Pokemon to Pokemon in your new proposed type like they fucking did for fairy causing everyone to regret it for the rest of their lives because for the next 80 years or so we're going to be dealing with people honking on about adding new types.

I'm not even a researcher why is this happening to me I clean up your trash

[relicsongmel]

Okay was anyone going to tell me that the ferris wheel in Nimbasa City actually has a NAME (the Rondez-View Ferris Wheel) or was I just supposed to randomly learn this from Bulbapedia myself

[everyday-pokemon-headcanons]

Despite their similar appearance and evolutions, Feebas and Magikarp are not closely related. Magikarp are (unsurprisingly) in the carp family, while Feebas are closely related to eels.

[pokemonunderdogtournament]

Best Underdog of Classification: Lizard 🏷️ 🦎

Round 1 - Match 3

Our Contestants:

This poll is part of an event that allows the early eliminees from the main tournament have more time in the spotlight!

[infizero]

red disappears without a trace for a whole ass month and oak's only concern is that he's been slacking on the pokedex 😭

[pkmntrainersquid]

I thought up a class for pikagoo if you haven’t,

The False Mouse Pokémon

That's what I was thinking of classifying it as too, yeah.

[notable-phlyarologist]

i did an image search of 'larry pokemon' and am laughing my ass off imagining him finding out about all these people drawing reserved, tasteful art of him