So first of all, I just want to say it's really weird that assuming the first four regions are the same size as their real world counterpart, each of this regions is about the size of my entire country (they're actually slightly smaller, except for Sinnoh) Which is really weird, cause I've travelled up and down my country from north to south and east to west and that's all only a matter of couple of hours by train or car. So yeah, that feels kinda weird (now are the Netherlands really flat, unlike those regions, even Kanto) But still, with some help from maps I figured I could travel from one side of my country to the other by foot in max two weeks. Which really puts things into perspective, cause that's really not all that long and it feels kinda weird. So even considering the less than flat surfaces of the regions, you could prolly travel by foot from one side of the region to the other in, what, 3 or 4 weeks for sure, in Kanto and Johto. Hoenn and Sinnoh might take a bit longer than that, as they're more 'wild'. It just kinda puts things in perspective XD

I saw someone mentions that a lot of people go about their daily lives without any pokémon involvement, or even thinking about them, and though I partly agree, I also think the entire society is still very connection with pokémon as a whole. I mean, consider for example pokémon like the machop and timburr lines. They're great helps in construction, who knows, maybe they were even used to aid in the building of absolutely ancient constructions. That's just an example, and I think there are many more ways pokémon influence peoples life in an indirect way. So, even if you're just an office worker or something, you'd probably still have to do with pokémon indirectly. Or even directly, considering some mon's abilities. For example weather changing abilities. What if a herd of Abomasnow decides to move their territory? Snowstorms are gonna come right with em. And there are countless other examples, so I think even if you're not a trainer, pokémon would still be able to quite strongly influence your life

As for the 'villainous teams would pull at their guns afterwards'... though I don't doubt that's an option, we're also dealing with beings made of plants and magma and rock and living steel and whatever else you want. Even if they're pure flesh and blood, they still can do psychic stuff, other nasty things or even just plain use protect or explode in your face. I think guns really wouldn't be all that effective and the moment you'd pull one out, you could very well be dead meat.

As for the notion of violent war, I def think wars fought with pokémon have the potential to be far more devastating, so people really also would be more careful (at least in modern day)

Aside from that, considering legendaries and all, most of whom really don't have a lot of patience for fighting and conflict and mostly seem to prefer some sort of harmony, iI think constantly fighting would also cause a lot of issues. And we've also seen most pokémon are pretty in tune with nature and legendaries, so I'd imagine they'd not assist humans if they'd think it would harm them. And I don't necessarily think all pokémon have human intelligence (which might be a weird term to use anyway, cause human intelligence is just so much related to how we perceive the world) but nearly all of em (save magikarp) seem to posses some kind of intelligence

Eh, that last bit was a bit rambly, but I can't really get it better structured atm and i'll leave it in as is

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