I wanted to share some Spark headcanons because tumblr sees him as this soft cinnamon roll who only catches Pidgys and wheedles and isn’t much of a Pokemon trainer. And yeah you can have a sense of humor and be a memechild, but this guy is the leader of a team of thousands and other very capable trainers so he can’t be a complete doof.
Spark’s Pokemon have a wildness to them. He doesn’t train his Pokemon so much as he lets them grow up naturally. In battles half the time his Pokemon are doing their own thing, and it makes them extremely unpredictable.
Spark is a person who Willow sends Pokemon. Wild caught Persians and Ursaring that can’t be released and are too dangerous to be trained. He is that guy who starts a Pokemon sanctuary. He understands these are too dangerous to interact with so he keeps them in enclosures and only interacts with them through the fence. It’s not their fault they don’t interact well with humans, they’re only doing what comes naturally to them and he loves them dearly despite it.
Spark teaches the members of his team the dangers of taking Pokemon out of the wild. He encourages instead they breed Pokemon for competition, and rather than train them intensely and try to shape them into something a trainer wants, to support them and work around the strengths of the Pokemon.
The majority of his Pokemon were either bred in captivity or rescued and for that his Pokemon are fiercely loyal to him, more so than Candela’s or Blanche. They won’t listen to anyone but him. Yeah they tend to disobey him and do their own thing, but they wont ever leave him and don’t you dare lay a hand on him.
Many people consider his technique of keeping Pokemon relatively untamed to be dangerous. People who think you need to break a Pokemon completely to get the most from it. But he has a deep respect for what nature has made and believes nature can do a far better job training pokemon than any human can.
Nature has made a beautiful thing and sometimes the best strategy is to let a Pokemon follow its natural INSTINCT.
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