Are you a Gym Leader, Trainer, Pokemon Champion, Professor, or Team Rocket Grunt or Mom/Dad?

There's no animals in Pokemon but you always see them eating meat in the cartoon. I would go on a quest to eat all the Pokemon. At least the original 151.

Gotta eat 'em all.

I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what I would be, but this is probably it. Food is probably the biggest part of my personality.
- You'd be, like, one of those sailors feasting on harty fare in Olivine or whatevr came before it
  
  [Not the actual guy, too obscure lol]
There are actually non-pokemon animals in Pokemon, both the games and in the anime.See this Bulbapedia article. Although Takeshi Shudō has claimed that animals have gone extinct by the time the anime takes place. Also it seems humans do eat some Pokemon.
- Thank you so much for this! I love the granularity of people's knowledge here and this was a super provocative notion for me that I failed to interrogate further absent your piping up :)
  
  Thanks again
It does have a weird relationship with Magicarps, altho I appreciate they obfuscate this fact for the time. Same with Milkow

I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!

This was going to be my answer. I wear shorts all the time!
So Trainer, right?

As an aside, totally, shorts are for everyone, not just for the Youth trainers. I find pants make me overheat, same with socks ☀️

I'd be one of those forgettable NPCs who has one or two Pokemon who help me with chores and then we hang out in our small house. Squirtle would be my helpful, friendly bro. But I'd also like one of the dog ones to pet and snuggle with. Maybe Growlithe. Water and fire moves would be super handy in everyday life. They'd be occasional Flintstone appliances, but mostly something between pets and children. I would love them so much.

And then you assholes would walk into my house uninvited and be annoyed that I wasted your time by not giving you anything. Like bitch, you're lucky you didn't catch a Flamethrower from my boy Growlithe over here for breaking and entering. Don't look in my trash can, you nosey fuck. Damn Pokemon gym brings riffraff into this town. The shit I put up with for free healthcare...

I am a filthy casual player, so I suppose I'd be a clueless tourist collecting endangered Pokemon who should be left alone, and stumbling into dangerous situations.

Still mad that they made the 3 team leaders so dorky looking in the last update of their clothing but Team Rocket so suave and cool in their outfits.

They got the important part right, otherwise how do I evn take them cereal?

I'm the mom/dad.
I'm so proud of my kid!
(I have no clue what they're doing, I just know at age 10, every child has to leave home).

Pull their weight ;)
I like the EarthBound parentz
K, I love this answer! Like my fave, not only does this sound exactly like Ash's mom (who I adore), but its so pure and wholesome. You actually are a parent right? Doesnt matter honestly but I just love this so much

Probably some other NPC that does some highly specific thing. Like the name rater, or whatever.

Not important in the grand scheme of things, but people all over the world come for that one weird task I can do, and that's enough for me.

Might you say

everybody NEEDS this 1 SPECIFIC NPC

;) ?

Also 2me4irl

Gym Leader towards the middle of the game with a really annoying gimmick

Grr, that was my very close second, but I would hate to have to constantly "defend" my title and be open to getting fired or superseded bureaucratically.

Definitely gotta have the hubristic Jessie laugh ("hahaha" one word) before battle to be damn cocky

Edit: who are you referencing btw? There's so many of 'em
- I've actually played very little Pokemon, and was just gesturing vaguely at something that presumably exists 😅
You have to do the Jessie laugh with three syllables too whilst doing it. Like "HawhawHaw!", super freaking arrogant too

I wanna be Youngster Ben, so I can talk about how comfy shorts are.

Is this a meme/thing?

Edit: I'd be wayyy further ahead if I had listened and this also just resolved a small family dilemma lol for me
- Nah just Youngster Ben is the most iconic character in the series imo. Plus he's got a sick outfit in battle.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/t8wzfp/youngster_ben_appreciation_post/?rdt=38127

I'm a pokemon breeder. You never get to fight me because I'm always telling you whether there's an egg or not, but if you got to see my perfect IV, perfect EV, perfect nature team, every single one is shiny.

And a side effect of all that needless effort is that I'm frickin loaded.

My appearance is the Alolan girls' (braids, cowboy hat, overalls).

Need a better, less kinky name for me though.

I dub thee:

PokéMadame
- 10/10 name! Are you a Name Rater?

If I ended up in the Pokemon universe, I'd be fighting for Pokemon rights. Clearly, these creatures are fully sentient. They fluently understand human language, and even one (Meowth) can speak. We have no right to capture and force them to fight. Also, I would fight to help teach them human languages or unlock the secrets to their "language", so we may better communicate.

We don't "force" them to do it. This is repeatedly established to be something they enjoy doing. BW even has this as a plot point: N, a young man who is somehow able to understand Pokémon, is initially of the same point of view as you. To his astonishment, most Pokémon outright refuse to abandon their trainers. At first he chalks this up to some form of brainwashing, but over the course of the game he comes to realize that their desires to train and become stronger are in fact genuine. He ultimately decides it isn't right for him to decide what they want for them, and spends the sequel targeting abusive trainers exclusively as opposed to tearing down the institution of Pokémon training in it's entirety. >!There's also some stuff about a bigger big bad grooming him to be the face of Team Plasma while he controls the group from the shadows, complete with strongly implied child abuse. Oh, and the reason the bigger bad wants to "liberate" Pokémon to begin with is so that no trainer can oppose his own team when he goes for world domination. You know, typical RPG stuff!<

I'm one of those girls that are obsessed with ghost types.

I don't particularly care for ghost pokemon, but it's important to have goals

Why do you think you tend towards that type particularly?

Mine were psychic but I always loved ghost (particularly Gengar -> fucking bad ass) and Dragon(ite). I do really feel a strong affinity to Fairy (no jokes please) because they seem to resonate with me as joy and antifragillity embodied.

It low-key viscerally hurts me every time a Fairy-type Pokémon gets poisoned/burnt/paralyzed/KO'd. I feel like they represent ourselves as we were and could return to being in the face of the fact we're all poisoned and hurt by the world in various twisted ways.

Nonetheless, I genuinely believe that the goodness inherent to our essence is conserved and made latent rather than corrupted per se.

I would be a Snorlax.

...does that count as a valid answer?

Hey?! That is...valid aha. Rest eazy

I'd be some bloke telling everyone the same boring bullshit about some glass bottle or other, hanging about in a pokemon center dong absolutely fucking nothing. Seems to be a viable career option in the Pokemon universe given how many ppl pursue this line of work.

Are there actually bottles in Pokémon, I literally can't remember or if everything is just á la carte/one time use...

Edit: I love the PokéCenters and Store folks in Pokémom and Earthbound

Ghost gym leader, which would be kind of ironic given how easily scared I am, but ghost types are so cool. And everyone loves horror/reaction content, so I could make a whole game and stream out of a haunted house.

I guess that means I'd have to have some responsibility over the town my gym is in, but I guess I can live with that.

I love the ghosts cuz they're such clowns and pranksters. They see both sides of issues and simply screw around in the face of the playful absurdity of existence
- Drifloon: steals and murders child
  
  Drifloon: "it's just a prank bro!"
A gym leader terrified of their own Pokemon would be hilarious!

When I was a younger I made up a dark type gym leader OC who's thing is he acts like an edgelord when he's on the clock but is otherwise pretty chill when he punches out. I always thought it was a pretty funny concept that I'd love to see in a game. So that's me.

Were you ok otherwise, I'm curious about the whole edge-lord schtick as a lifestyle even while recognizing that we all get fed-up sometimes and spout some bullshit lol. Nobody is innocent or at least I know I sure as hell am not but I hopefully get downvoted if I have no articulable basis and its just as well
- Yeah, I was fine. Mostly. Probably. I just thought it would be a funny concept to have a character like that who's dark and brooding exclusively when he's on the job, and is friendly to just about everyone the rest of the time.

I would be a Pokemon trainer of the Cool Beauty trainer class wielding a togepi, unown, shedinja, phione, keldeo, and porygon-z and wait by a landslide area that causes the trainer to fall once they beat me so they'd have to go up the slope a second time to get to their destination.

Delightfully specific and on brand ;) We gonna get along just fine 🦄

That slope bit is also endearingly petty. If you don't mind me saying, that you thought of that and articulably threw that out there is beyond a green flag for me lol

Like, I would literally caveat with something like that IRL to reinforce my negotiating position and also on a precedential level to deter someone from f-ing with me not only at the time but also secretly hope it spreads so my reputation for clever pettiness does all the work for me going forward ;)

It really is a beautiful thing and we are beautiful people for intuiting it, while still hopefully retaining our goodness and a sense of grace

I've always thought of myself as a gym leader. I've been doing martial arts since I was 10, I love Fighting types and Blaziken has been my absolute favorite Starter since forever.

I also really like the idea that gym leaders have a bunch of Pokemon ready to take challengers and different levels. Taking on some kid just starting out with Riolu while my Machamp and Bewear wrestle in the background sounds awesome.

Chuck?

You missed an option:

Elite 4.

I'd be in the elite 4 as a total wildcard using metronome & OHKO's as my only attacks with all of my Pokemon.

I'm a speed runner's nightmare

Thats sort of a Gym Leader in a way or at least in line with Champion I guess. Like your sort of the Champion of that type or whatever the schtick is hehe

Rock/Ground/Steel gym leader. There are a lot of chonky lizard bois and I am going to love them all, even as a 12 yr old destroys my shit with a monotype starter.

I have no idea what any of those tings are. So… I’m none of them.

No, this is Patrick!

Pokémon trainer aspiring to be a gym leader but I have too balanced of a team to pick one gym.

What types?
- My last team was dark, grass, fire and ghost.

I don't feel like I'm to the level of Pokémon professor, but I do feel like I would be something along the lines of a Pokémon teacher or maybe the gym guy.

Luv the @gym_guys aha. Every-a-body likes to feel useful

Probably none of those. I'd probably be the big bad. For whatever reason when I was a kid and picked up blue I thought "friends? no I taught these monsters to be strong, they ain't no friends." When the friend secret mechanics came in I realized I hadn't done anything but instilled Stockholm syndrome in them.

I allter them with drugs, use machines on them to force them to learn things. If they end up useless they stay in a box forever.

Pokemon are how I get rich, pokemon are how I get power, pokemon are how I enact control.

A powerful pokemon is a good pokemon.

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Just s trainer, probably good enough to make money off it (considering i only play the good games; fan games with real difficulty) but I'm not down with all that responsibility.

I definitely joined the Ranger Corps. Ranged the shit out of some parks.

I always 'member the forgettables the most 🤪