Isn’t it weird how Pokemon Eggs aren’t actually eggs (like, irl eggs), and this info is relegated to two minor NPCs and is never brought up outside of that?
I feel like this is almost never brought up, so I imagine many just don’t know about it. We have eight different Pokemon families confirmed/implied to reproduce through non-Egg means (two of them, Rabsca and Blissey, even have non-Egg eggs), and we can put regular eggs on sandwiches and in curry. Meanwhile, according to this, Eggs– the white and green ones– are “cradles”-- and this has been the intent since the beginning! In a 1999 strategy guide for Gold and Silver, there was a section with an explanation of Eggs by Professor Elm, they’re called plant-based cradles! (unfortunately no scans of this exist online, and I’m going off a Japanese blog post about the book…)
The implications of this are weird. Where do Eggs come from actually? Why can almost any Pokemon produce them? I dunno! There’s a lot of discussion to be had about this! (Eggs aren’t exclusive to the Day Care, either– the Larvesta Egg in Black and White was found in the Relic Castle!)
