#pokemon headcaons

[everyday-pokemon-headcanons]

Luxray do not live in prides like Pyroar. However, a mated pair will often stay with one or two of their offspring for a year or longer.

[earthpkmnheadcanons]

You've mentioned that the Azurill line can be found in the Gulf of Mexico; what other Pokemon can be found on the Gulf Coast, namely Mississippi?

Along the Gulf Coast it’s mostly possible to find water-type Pokemon. Mississippi’s beaches are home to Krabby, Corsola, and Staryu, while just off the shore Carvanha, Remoraid, and even Wailmer can be spotted or fished up. Mississippi’s second-largest city, Gulfport, is home to a water-type gym located on the beach. Challengers must navigate their way past sunbathing gym trainers to face off against the gym leader’s Kingler. 

[indepthpokemonheadcanons]

Gastly, Haunter and Gengar Headcanons

(I’m sure somebody asked for these ages ago, but I can’t remember who. I hope you enjoy, anyway!)

Mountaineers in the Japanese regions must always be wary of wild gengars, who hunt during sunset and throughout the night. If a gengar enters your shadow, the first line of defence is to move wildly and unpredictably, crouching and contorting to change the shape of your shadow; this can disorientate it and shake it off. Given that gengars rapidly steal body heat, however, this can be difficult to do in practice. Better to not go up into the mountains at all - especially in the northern parts of Kanto, where the ranges are rife with them. 

When gastly are found wild, they are very rarely found alone. As their bodies are gaseous, they are highly susceptible to strong winds, so banding together makes them more robust. It also makes hunting easier. In rural Johto, hoards of gastly have been known to descend on entire flocks of mareep, devastating them in minutes.

Taking any member of the gastly line to the vet can be an ordeal. They can and will hide in walls if they don’t want to go somewhere. 

In the Japanese regions, to ‘shake hands with a haunter’ is to naively trust someone who means you harm. Unova has the related idiom ‘to let a haunter lick your boots’, which is similar but not identical, as it suggests arrogance as well as foolishness on the subject’s part.

Haunters and gengars are incredibly receptive to emotional changes. In the wild, this ability allows them to target listless, melancholy prey. In captivity, it makes them remarkably sensitive to their trainer’s emotional state. Many trainers with mood disorders note that their gengars seem to notice the onset of depressive episodes even before they themselves do. 

The sweet, sharp smell of gastly is often emulated in women’s perfumes, but the scent is divisive.  

There exists an old Sinnohan folktale about gengar which states that the first of them was once a human man, who offered his soul to a spirit in exchange for the chance to marry the woman he loved. Allegedly, the spirit corrupted him seconds after he was wed, while a smile still brightened his face. This is why gengar always grins so.   

[mossdeepmedium]

Ever since I chose to begin practicing martial arts my blaziken has been Rather excited about finally being able to have a spar partner. Is it safe for me to train with my Blaziken? Or Should I bust her bubble? Maybe I can take her to the dojo with me?

You are going to need to become familiar with the art before sparing with your Blaziken. Not only that but Blaziken will need to become adept at control so that she will not injure you if you two spar. It would be very wise to bring her to your dojo so you two can get better together, and eventually you will be able to spar each other! 

[everyday-pokemon-headcanons]

There's a popular, Power Ranger-esque show featuring heroes with Entei, Raikou, and Suicune.

The villain, based on an Umbreon, is cooler.

[indepthpokemonheadcanons]

Nidoqueen Line Headcanons

(For @an0le - thank you for your incredible patience).

Female nidoran tend to evolve directly after giving birth. Their life as nidorinas typically only spans a few months; most of that time is spent foraging for food, which is brought back to the burrow for their young. Once their offspring grows old enough to venture above ground, nidorinas evolve again, as nidoqueens are far more adept at protecting their young on an open field. Should they fail to evolve, the mortality rate of their offspring triples. 

It is not strictly true that nidoran are the only member of the nidoqueen line than can breed. Nidorinas are perfectly fertile and have been known to reproduce, though it is relatively uncommon for them to do so, given that their evolutionary stages are closely aligned with their young’s development. Nidoqueens, in any case, cannot breed successfully, at least not without veterinary intervention. This is largely due to their skeletal structure - being bipedal, their pelvis differs from their evolutionary predecessors and the birth canal is far narrower, which can cause serious complications. There do exist other, quadruped variants of nidoqueens which can reproduce without issue.

Unlike nidoking, a nidoqueen’s horn is not venomous, and it doesn’t utilise it much in combat. Its bite is crushing, however - while nidoking has larger fangs, the power behind a nidoqueen’s bite is unrivalled, strong enough to shatter a femur. 

Diluted nidoran venom can be used as a makeshift weedkiller. 

While the poisonous barbs in a nidoran’s fur deter most predators, arbok and ekans remain significant threats. Given their typing, they can stomach the poison better than most. Even so, they typically hunt newborn nidoran whose barbs are undeveloped; while the poison may do them little harm, the barbs are sharp, perfectly able to shred them from the inside.  

While nidorinos and nidokings very rarely have any role in child-rearing, nidoqueens have been known to pair up or group together to protect one another’s offspring.   

Triggering evolution in a nidoran outside of pregnancy is difficult. While many nidoran do evolve into nidorinas given enough time, irrespective of whether they have offspring, their transformation into nidoqueens is almost exclusively for the purposes of defending young. For a long time, the only way to attain a nidoqueen was to allow the nidoran to breed - until people discovered the effects of moon stones. Specialists are stumped as to why moon stones trigger this final transition. It’s assumed that they impact a nidorina’s body chemistry in a manner that emulates the changes after childbirth, but research into the specifics is ongoing.

[indepthpokemonheadcanons]

While ghost pokémon often appear to pass through walls with no resistance, there is evidence to suggest that 'phasing' through a material actually weakens its internal structure and, in the case of walls, makes it more prone to collapse. Unfortunately, phasing is a difficult behaviour to train out of a ghost. When its impact was first discovered, it led to heated discussion about the high number of ghost types inhabiting the Burned Tower in Johto. Some preservationists argued the ghosts should be driven out, lest they weaken the remains of the structure to the point of collapse. Others argued that it would cause more disruption to remove them - and that the tower had withstood worse than a few ghosts in its time, anyway.

[mossdeepmedium]

While kartana can use offensive moves, their primary strategy is to just let enemies physically hit their sharp edges while floating casually.

It is more effective than you would think