User:VeniaSilente/Headcanon

Since headcanon docs are becoming a thing, I'm writing mine here. There will (eventually) be a Spanish translation at this page.

Legend

⚑	Borrowed from WAAPT. Player name may be cited.
⚑	Borrowed from PEFE. Article may be cited.
⚑	Borrowed from a fic. Author / name may be cited.

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Biology

• From a biodiversity standpoint, Humans Are Aliens. They were brought from somewhere else in the universe, as were some Pokémon species. The humans we see are descendants of a Generation Ship that crash-landed on the planet (or on its moon) way long ago.
  • My fave cross-franchise interpretation is that it was probably the SDF-3, that was rescued from the Neutron-S black hole by Arceus.
• As for Pokémon who are aliens, the Clefable line are intra-solar system adventurers and traders. Lunatone and Solrock are intra-solar system too. Elgyem line are obviously aliens with a much wider reach. Deoxys is a virus originated from somewhere that migrates from mon-world to mon-world, probably a variant on the concept of JENOVA. The Latii were also originally aliens but have adapted to living in this planet.
• Arachnids, arthropods, molluscs and fishes from our reality are more or less a thing that exists. Plankton as well, and of course various kinds of vegetation.
• ⚑ Nidorina can breed perfectly and do that a lot, thanks. Nidoking is (mostly, in the wild) infertile instead.
• Espeon and Umbreon are considered "feline" mons.
• Leafeon and Glaceon are considered "canine" mons.
• Due to the heavily skewed gender ratio in the wild, female Ninetales actively compete looking for mates, and in case of a dispute longlived females with a lot of stored mystical power usually solve it by what amounts to witchcraft duels to the death.
• The "head" in a Girafarig's tail is pseudo-sapient (it has enough sensitive capability for the individual to "fake" it being aware).
• During solstices and equinoxes, Solrock and Lunatone sometimes become comatose or inert for unknown reasons, and wild ones tend to disappear or fly high to the atmosphere.
• "Breeding moves" are actually a mixture of two concepts -- moves for which genetic disposition is passed down (such as developing a omnisac with better fire handling from a Fire-type's genes) and communal tutoring in areas where Pokémon of different species live together.
• ⚑ [Tagg / Pikaninja] Urnagrigus.
• ⚑ Pokémon tend to not mate outside their species, and even in the rare case where they do, they usually stay within their egg group (obviously) and body shape. So, no HSOWA.
• The Hidden Power type a Pokémon is born with is not exactly random; among others, Latii can predict the HP a Mon will be born with.
• There are likely only a fixed amount of Golett / Gollurk in existence, with the original procedure to create them lost to time and efforts to produce them artificially ongoing. It is also rumored that a device exists that can control all Golett and Gollurk at a time.

Society

• Alongside their starter, kids starting their Trainer Leave from school tend to receive as well a TM disc as a gift, with all students from the same class getting the same technique (depending on movepool availability for their Starters). Return happens to be the default / easy choice.
• A region's E4 fulfill functions similar to that of Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell, except they also have a (far) more public facet.
• The Pokémon verse has more or less a common language, which is probably something constructed and regular like Esperanto, or even better Ido. However for most if not all spoken forms, regional languages are preferred.
• ⚑ [Tracer] Blitzball, the sport from FFX, is a mostly mon-driven sport in the Pokéverse.
• Under certain conditions, trained Pokémon can earn their own wage and acquire goods, by contract of law. Most of those conditions involve service to other Pokémon living in its immediate society / environment, such as housing stray mons or assisting in a Pokémon Center.
  • Psychic Pokémon serving with the police can not scan a subject's mind by themselves - they can only do so under supervision by either another Psychic Pokémon serving to the subject's defendant lawyer, or by a Psychic agent approved by law.
  • Some human-shape or high-thought Pokémon lines such as Abra and Riolu are allowed to own land in a joint contract.
• The predominant means of medium-mass transportation are train (land), yatches (sea) and zeppelins (air), because trains are nostalgia d'awww and zeppelins make a setting awesome by default; yatches because people tend to stay at ports for long periods at a time.
• ⚑ [partially] There's no Dark-type Gym. Anywhere. Probably there hasn't been any for a long time. All potential candidates who attempt to launch an official Gym (anime says unofficial Gyms are a thing) suffer various misadventures that prevent such Gyms from becoming functional. The reason behind this is that someone, probably Annoski, put the concept of Dark-Type Gyms under a curse.
• ⚑ The Gold Conference is a tournament between the four regions of the Kanjoh-Hoenn-Sinnoh political ring that takes place once every two years. In fic!verse the last winner before the events of the story was Agatha.
• Of all the starters, Piplup is the mon that wins the most polls for mass adoption events. Despite this, of the first 4 generations, Totodile and Chimchar are the most common ones in active status.
• Hoenn was among the first regions to launch campaigns denouncing the discrimination towards male Kirlia. Kanto followed against

discrimination against female Machoke.

• Trainers who beat their own regional Conference receive a one-year-valid invitation to face the corresponding Elite Four and the Champion in a rearranged event. If the Trainer is of at least age 16, has a record of exemplary service to the community and the police, and manages to beat the Champion, he / she is offered the position of Regional Joint Champion.
  • Red is the only known exception to that rule, having been offered the position at age 12.

History

• In ancient times, before Humans were brought into the world, Groudon and Kyogre periodically waged wars where they rallied marine and land mons against each other, with results that relatively often led to the extinction of one species or two per war.
• ⚑ Umbramatic's Alakagross Civilization was a thing, long ago; though they met their demise by a different (still related) chain of events.
• Stantler and Manectric were among the first species to be actively domesticated by humans; whereas Growlithe and Glameow came along pretty much on their own accord.
• There was a recent time where Aggron was the most common cause of human deceases in the age range of 12-15.
• Up until their adoption as starters in some regions, pyrosacs from the Cyndaquil line were considered a delicacy.
• At the time of the events in Generation I the calendar is rolling around Year 3720. What event marked Year 0 is [REDACTED] however.
• Oak was the Kanjoh Champion at some point, being the second or third person to hold the position before Red. Hence why he was available as a battle in Gen 1 by hacking.
• No, Silver, Mars and Roark are not siblings, and most likely not cousins either. The imagery is cute enough though~.
• Humans have reached the Moon exactly three times. Half the other attempts have been cut to avoid being shot down by Rayquaza, and the other remaining half have resulted in the establishment of a small, but semipermanent, low-orbit population.
• ⚑ PEFE as a thing. Its fic!verse incarnation is not as MegaCorp / Portal -ish as in WAAPT though.
• ⚑ PEFE was founded by Tangent, Tagg and Tracer (the "three Ts"). Silent, Anom and Jane were among the first wave of researchers to join.
• Due to internal disputes over who gets to pet study Espeons, the Eevee article has not been released for 3 years.
• Cilan and the other C-brothers are actually not only members of the Shadow Triad, but they reached that position by "suiciding" the former holders of those roles.
• ⚑ [Tangent / Rex] Giovanni is not dead. He took a graceful swan dive from Tohjo Falls that earned him a 8.8 from a random wild mon (who was consequently mauled by Nino, his Nidoking).
• Kanto was the first region to revivify a Omanyte. Hoenn was the first region to revivify a Anorith. Unova was the first region to revivify an Archen.

Technology

• CDs (or DVDs) are used for distribution of TM techniques as tutorials or... something. For personal / persistent information storage, "infinitapes" using the same concept of the Pokéballs are a thing. Because tapes are awesome.
• Porygon was a joint development between Silph, an important Kanto university and three other worlwide institutions. The original purpose of the project was to create a easily adaptable, packageable Pokémon entity that could assist in higher-orbit space exploration. Silph owns the copyrights and trademarks though.
• Linux distributions are the dominant thing. They tend to have Ubuntu-like names. The following ones are canon in my fic-in-development:
  • Florencian Fraxure.
  • Iridescent Infernape.
  • Solipsist Sandshrew.
  • Uniformed Ursaring.
• Despite the advanced state of SCIENCE and stuff, predictive models and speculation on areas such as meteorology and economics are as bad, if not worse, as in our real verse. Widespread adoption of Weather moves as TMs doesn't really help matters…

Unsorted

• The regions of the first four generations comprise a political ring / confederation. There are various such region-rings across the world, not necessarily comprised of regions sharing borders, and they act more or less like the concept of "friend" / "brother countries". Unova is part of another ring with other three regions, one of which might be the Angela Region.
• Splash does do something. And it would do damage. You just don't get hit with it because you see it usually being used on land.
• Teleportation tiles do not make you do the swirly dance, it's just an optical illusion due to the way they work, as they warp light in various directions and velocities until finding a "dimension-hole" path to the destination. You'll probably still feel nauseaous afterwards anyway.
• ⚑ [Dagzar's Mentor] Oak and Agatha were an item, and it is rumored they had a child.
• Steven is the actual Champion of the Hoenn League, but Wallace is officially running the position because Steven is too busy running special-ops, with a combat ability that is borderline Jack Bauer.
• The reason there are no (notable) firearms, no apparent city-leveling weaponry, and that conflicts are solved with card games Pokémon Battles first and foremost (even when it's a Rocket grunt trying to take your mons) is that some traits were removed from the human mindset by the Legendaries when mankind was allowed to roam free across the planet.
  • The net effect is that mankind in the Pokémon planet lacks some neuronal paths such as the "Lowest Common Denominator" / "do only the minimum effort" / "why don't you just shoot him" ones.
  • The myth of the "man of sword" is a tale of how these traits of human thought were removed; the Sword symbolizes the humans's greed and desire to secure their own welfare violently, as well as the knowledge of very advanced weaponry. The mon who appeared before the human and took the Sword away is Giratina, and it was for this reason that it was punished by Arceus.
• Various armies do have operational plans in case for example Dialga decides to assist them during a crisis.
• On Legendaries: Legendaries are classified into tiers on various axis. Not all of them are divine or have "otherworldly" powers in a Pokémon sense, and not all of them are revered as deities (I'm looking at you, Mewtwo), though all of them do have local followings for various reasons (yes, even Heatran). The difference in the power scale between tiers is abysmal when watched from a human scale, but Legendaries themselves have little opportunity or motivation to exert that level of power anyway, which is why you can, if extremely lucky, catch one in a Pokéball for a week or two as a sort of vacation.
  • Legendaries as deities are not exactly good or evil, they just fulfill a role beyond the scope of human lifetimes. For example, Regigigas sometimes has to move an entire continent, which could cause mass destruction and the end of entire civilizations, but has to be done in order to eg.: release pressure from within the planet core.
  • In what regards to power levels, yeah, Arceus is way wicked. If he didn't create the universe, he does still have power in a scale that would be considered divine even after humans's expansion of knowledge. Probably enough power to create a small galaxy or something. So no, he's not going to die from a space pebble to the knee, or from a cup of silverwater / asphalt.
  • Rayquaza. Low-orbit Atmosphere. Solar Beam. PILLAR OF LIGHT DEATH FROM THE HEAVENS!
  • The equivalent of the Tunguska event in the Pokémon verse was Rayquaza trying his Solar Beam during a solar flare.
  • While Articuno is the most powerful of the three birds (Sheer Cold among other things), Zapdos is the one that wins most of their skirmishes, since unlike its counterparts it doesn't need to actually turn and aim at another Bird.
  • Mew can theoretically use any attack at any time, but they intentionally scope their power into one attack of each type, so each Mew preferently uses one attack of each type (in a "putting constraints makes spells stronger" fashion); in order to access other attacks at full power, they need to Transform into an adequate Pokémon.
  • There is only one Celebi. Any sightings of multiple Celebi are actually the same Celebi travelling from various other timecoordinates.
• There is an actual effect where, if you stay within a small determined area for an extended period of time (in the order of weeks at a time), you actually start ageing slower until you leave. It might be related to NPC-ness.
• There are clear spots in cities and towns marked for usage as flying / teleporting hubs, in a similar way how in Golden Sun you can only teleport from / to specially marked locations.
• ⚑ Among some Pokémon that no Trainer under the age of 13 is allowed to have unless by a special permit are: Fossil Mons, Scyther, Pinsir, Porygon-2 and Porygon-Z, Flygon, Dusknoir, Absol, Drapion, Golett and Volcarona.
• Killing a wild one of some rare Pokémon such as Ninetales (in particular if male) is a criminal offense that in some regions defaults to imprisonment for life, with nothing short of a Gym Leader's intervention being able to change the veredict.
• Purple Eyes is one of four figures in the verse for whom the International Police have used both the "kill on sight" and "flee at all costs" operational codes.
• Three Legendaries of the same Trio can summon all their power and unleash it against another whole Trio, which results in an "Arceus Exhalation".
• For each soul or consciousness that exists or can exist, there is a corresponding Unown. Killing a Unown (in itself an incredibly hard task) kills the linked consciousness, turning its wearer into essentially a mere animal.
• Legendary Genders:
  • The Legendary Birds all identify as "female".
  • Dialga and Palkia "are", in a way, female and male respectively.
  • ⚑ [An-chan & others @ Poké-community] Giratina "is", in the same way, "female" respectively.
  • Mew overall identify themselves as "male".
• ⚑ [Bulbasaur] Bulbasaur usually find employment / usage for theather effects.
• ⚑ Stowaway Entei!
• The "player characters" of the events depicted in the games are: Red (starter: Bulbasaur), Jimmy (from Legend of Thunder) (starter:Cyndaquil), Brendan (closer to his manga portrayal) (starter: Mudkip), Dawn (starter: Chimchar) and ????/undecided (starter: Oshawott).
• ⚑ Teams of WAAPT characters in fic!verse:
  • Umbra: to be defined.
  • Tracer: to be defined.
  • Mezzo: to be defined.
• ⚑ Various in-popular-culture references in PEFE are also canon in fic!verse.