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untitledducklett · 2 years ago

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why does your absol eat metal?

Good question!

He's a Vanitian Absol, a critically endangered variant of Absol native to the Vanitas region (it disbanded about 2k years ago when it merged with greater Kalos through a political marriage). Vanitas was entirely locked in by mountains and was poor in just about everything except metal. The original population of Absol somehow got trapped there around 100,000 years ago (likely a cave-in blocking off the only way back to main Kalos) and had to adapt to the new conditions. As with most Vanitian Pokemon they developed the ability to consume metal to supplement their diet.

One can squeak by for a short amount of time on iron-rich foods, but in order for your Vanitian Pokemon to thrive they do require regular amounts of ore. Regular metal can also work since ore is hard to get and expensive these days if you don't know where to get it.

#I think I may have infodumped too much #whoops #I'm just really passionate about Vanitian pokemon since there's so few left #There used to be more but a bunch of factors including habitat loss have decimated a lot of the population #Especially the absol populations #we're working on getting their remaining habitat to be labelled as protected but it's not going well #Absols already have a bad rep and these ones have no issues fighting with people #Which if people came into your home and tried to cull your family because they were inconvenient #you'd probably be hostile too #I remember when these Absol were seen as good things #they're called the Vanguard Pokemon for a reason #They were a big part of the Vanitian guard to the point where your final trial would be to find your partner absol #If you didn't come back with one you weren't considered ready yet #It's really sad for me to see how absol on the whole are treated #Anyway I'm rambling too much in the tags #don't mind me #high stakes pokeblogging #pkmn irl

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