Hey Red! Do you know what makes a shiny Pokémon..well, shiny?
You already have Silver (your Pikachu, very cute btw), so you definitely know they exist
Do you know how they work? And how the shiny charm may affect them? :0
silver confirmed cute by the people 🎉(you guys should ask me how i got it, it's a weird story)
pokemon are very consistent creatures. two pokemon from the same species look very similar to one another. even in the most extreme cases of domestic vs. wild pokemon, the differences aren't very big.
a "shiny" pokemon is just a way to refer to a pokemon with a different coloration from its standard, and even in this way, pokemon remain consistent. every pokemon has a "standard" shiny coloration.
sometimes they'll even break off from these, too, though. shinies are just caused by a mutation in the pigments of the pokemon. standard shiny charizards are all melanistic (an overabundance of dark pigment), while silver here is axanthic (affecting production of yellow pigment) and because pikachu are... all yellow, basically, silver hatched as, well, silver and grey.
as for the shiny charm, it doesn't 'affect' pokemon in the way people might think? i mean, it doesn't 'create' shiny pokemon out of thin air. i see some people who breed for shinies keep shiny charms near the eggs for good luck. i don't know exactly how they work, but they're made such that the charm 'calls to'/attracts wild shiny pokemon. i received one as a gift, but i don't shiny hunt, so it's kind of just silver's favorite toy ever.
(the mark charm works the same way in that i don't know how it works, it just attracts marked pokemon somehow in how it's made.)
