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Your guide to helping understand your newly acquired monster friends

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The Drag scene in Sinnoh and Hoenn are closely tied to contests- 

Even Pokemon dress up, and the queens lip synch while battling! The LGBT+ scene in Hearthome is one of the most active, in fact. Pride is very popular there.

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Hi Professor! I've been hunting for a Mimikyu lately, but I just realized I don't even know what they eat! What's a Mimikyu's diet like?

Mimikyu are funny little creatures, aren’t they?

While they’ll eat berries like most pokemon, they also have a tendency to eat... Buttons of all things.

During my apprenticeship with Willow, I studied mimikyu, and noticed that sewing supplies seem to be appetizing to them.

Strange eating habits, but whatever makes them happy, right?

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Howdy there professor! Do ya got any advice on dealing with a territorial pokemon? My ponytas been getting awfully mean to my new vulpix like is she just jealous or is it competition among fire types please help me out here!

Fire types are very much like how certain pets react to each other at first, just with more... scorch marks. 

I imagine she thinks she needs to show who’s the boss, it happens. 

Try leaving some of vulpix’s items out for her to familiarize herself with their smell, and maybe try to keep vulpix in a room by itself for a while- it works with cats.

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my old pal liz the charizard has been puffing out smoke instead of roaring fires that he used to make. i'm not sure what's wrong; other than that he doesn't seem to be under the weather. any help, or some tips? sincerely, a worried trainer.

Ah, fire types tend to have trouble kicking up their fire in later years... 

I’d suggest giving her some cheri berries or peppers to help give it a kick- and report back with an update?

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Welcome... to our world of pokemon

Thanks to the advancements in technology, our world has changed greatly since we’ve been able to see little monsters all around us.

I’m professor mia Apple, and yes I’m well aware of my tree name, and I’m here to answer any questions you may have to helping your newly acquired friends adjust.

So by all means, ask away!