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[icetypelicker]

out of curiosity...

what's your real-life degree of closeness to any legendary pokemon?

i own an instance of a legendary species

a friend owns an instance of a legendary species

i don't own one, but i'm in frequent wild contact (e.g., research)

i live in or near the known territory of one and have seen it

i live in or near the known territory of one but haven't seen it

i've seen one in real life

i've never seen one in real life :(

Voting ended onNov 5, 2025

(i'll count mythical pokemon in this also, that's an unofficial title whereas legendary is, and they're both largely based on rarity, lol)

as for my own answer - a friend owns an instance! an articuno.

yes, it's frowned upon to own most species of legendary, especially the legendary birds given that their populations are still recovering, but this is a special case.

y'see... articuno aren't the most dedicated parents sometimes. they're even worse about it than zapdos, if you remember the power plant debacle from a few years back. one ended up building a nest on the roof of a building here at base, laying a single egg, and then... abandoning it. we couldn't just leave the poor thing out to freeze, you know? it's been an honor to participate in the hand-rearing of such a brilliant creature over the past year.

[icetypelicker]

gonna dox a zubat

[icetypelicker]

nobody move we just had a trainer with one of those long-coat glameow come in

[icetypelicker]

ice type fun fact of the day: once we figured out that there used to be bergmite all over here in sinnoh, we really had no idea where they went. as it turns out, bergmite actually have a sort of migratory cycle that centers around the movements of drifting avalugg.

this was only a big deal for nerds like me, so i wouldn’t be surprised if you hadn’t heard, but a few years back, a drifting avalugg settled near the sinnohan coast. NSF017, or voyager as we’ve nicknamed her, is an absolutely massive female avalugg who, based on size alone, is likely over 400 years old!

given her size, she could easily harbor a hundred bergmite, and, well, she has! she deposited a mixed group of her own offspring and random hitchhikers on the coast and now we have a flourishing bergmite population.

[icetypelicker]

what they don't warn you about when you end up living in the migration path of wild articuno is that, in lieu of regular droppings, they gather the indigestible parts of what they eat and then hork up a giant ice pellet.

[icetypelicker]

HIS LEASH IS LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE'S USUALLY VERY WELL BEHAVED I PROMISE I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

[icetypelicker]

zubat trainer from last post apparently only trains zubat

[icetypelicker]

“i asked chatotgpt and it said-“ yeah well i asked an actual chatot and as it turns out its trainer has been teaching it homophobic slurs