Oryx
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Breeding: An Analysis
So let's take a close look at the concept of breeding in Pokémon. In the anime, they focus on the raising of Pokémon as what being a "breeder" is, and this is partially true, even in real life. From my family breeding cats for a few years, there is a great deal of breeding that involves the raising and taking care of animals in real life, but there is also the actual breeding concept. Often, in Pokémon, people laugh at the concept of breeding - Wailord and Skitty breeding, etc. But when you think about it, all the signs point to that being unimportant to breeding.
Most people liken Pokémon breeding to animal breeding in real life, all that crude stuff that you wouldn't get into in mixed company. However, when you think of the way the Pokémon breed, you would realize that there are far too many similarities. Every Pokémon has an egg. Every egg hatches into a Pokémon that seems to not need anything from their mother, at least in the games. I believe it's different in the anime, but not by much because it's not like they mentioned nursing or anything like that. Togepi didn't die because it couldn't nurse from a mom, etc. This implies that no matter the egg group, every Pokémon breeds the same way. This goes from an ancient Relicanth to a Chansey to a Cherrim to a Reuniclus. But what in the world does every Pokémon share?
Their energy.
I know it sounds a little strange, but think of it. Even the most basic Rattata can learn moves like Thunder and Shadow Ball. The only reason they can learn that is because all Pokémon have a basic energy, a life-force that's not quite like humans or like normal animals. In the end, every single Pokémon has the most basic energy of a Pokémon, and while others have more energy (to use special moves such as Psychic), even a Pokémon that can't learn a single Psychic move still has this energy. When you think about it, it makes literally no sense to think that Pokémon breed like animals; there's nothing backing up that theory, and Pokémon usually are nothing like you would expect from animals.
This also explains the eggs. Normally mammalian Pokémon, like mammalian animals, would be expected to have babies not in eggs. However, cat and dog Pokémon still come out of eggs. This leads me to believe that the egg doesn't actually come out of the Pokémon at all; it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that it was created by the Pokémon's energy mixing.
What this doesn't explain, however, is why legendaries can't breed. In-game, the reason is obvious - the game doesn't want you to pump out legendaries. But could there be some reasonable theoretical explanation, based on my theory that eggs are created by energy? Certainly legendaries would have this most basic energy, that even a Rattata has, right?
This leads to the belief that a legendary has an energy similar to a noble gas, that only very, very rarely reacts with another. Obviously legendaries can breed canonically, there have been eggs of multiple legendaries. But it's so rare and under such particular conditions that a daycare with a mini pool and a fence isn't enough to convince a legendary to breed. They are the pandas of the Pokémon world; they know that their species is important, revered, and will be attacked, especially a nearly defenseless infant, for capture. Therefore, they need private, comfort, knowledge that the child will be defended, etc. for breeding purposes.
So...let's hear it. Tell me the flaws in my theory, or if it convinced you, because I'm sure convinced of this. :3;
