Pelipper Mail! Its an odd looking feather. It's quite long, with a distinct olive hue that fades to yellow at the ends. It is unlike anything seen before! There's even a note with the feather. "Perhaps you might be able to figure out what this came from." It appears to have come from someone named Ryusuki.
... Normally I would get annoyed at random requests to figure something like this out. I am not some Pokémon professor you can just pester with queries about random objects you find on the floor, I am a Team Flare scientist with an actual job and actual deadlines.
And I cannot find a single match.
It is not a fake feather. It is not artificial, this is 100% a real feather, despite its surprising flexibility. It looks like an odd Squawkabilly feather, which is what I assumed at first, but it isn't. It doesn't seem like it's from a Normal/Flying type Pokémon; it seems resistant to fire (don't ask how I found that out. Lab accidents happen when you have grunts messing with Bunsen burners). Unless it is a regional variant of Squawkabilly that I have no knowledge of, which is of course possible, but even then I should be able to find something in the databases about that, right?
Even a dna test revealed nothing. I will say, I am not an expert in those, but I asked a colleague who is and they told me it is a "jumbled, borderline unreadable mess" and "like somebody turned it into a soup and miraculously made it functionally produce a living being"
Genuinely, what is this? Where did you get this??