Collected Headcanon Information

by TammyHybrid21

Just general information that I've picked up and collected for a general overview over most of my stories continuities and how most of them work in the grand scheme of things... Stuff for Pokéumans shall have it's own separate collection. Not required for understanding of my stories but is more of an information dump kind of cheat section for universe notes.

2. Just Something On Names

Just Something On Pokémon Names

Okay, I've already had several different people criticise me for using lower case letters when it comes to referring to a Pokémon as their species name, or even using the word pokémon itself with just lower case letters... the second one I'll admit might be justified... but not really... yeah I think that Pokémon itself needs the capital letter... kind of... I'm still trying to work that one out...

Anyway... what I'm trying to explain here is my justification for it... because in all honesty I actually do have a reason... and it's not as stupid as some might think that it is... or take it as. The simple answer is names!

Yeah, names... and probably a touch of narrative licence... but still names... since a fair amount of people in the anime and some of the comics don't ever nickname the Pokémon that they catch and many people don't bother with nicknames in their stories either... it can get a bit confusing when reading in the narrative and both Pokémon are the same species or something similar and each and every species of Pokémon gets their names capitalised when mentioned... Yeah I'll need an example to show you what I mean!

Charizard charged forwards towards the other Charizard who dodged via flying up into the air. The other Charizard dived back down and slammed Charizard into the ground before flying back into the sky and circling around. Charizard growled and pushed himself from the ground glaring up at the other Charizard.

Kind of confusing right? Now referring to them in the style that I tend to in my stories:

Charizard charged forwards towards the other charizard who dodged via flying up into the air. The other charizard dived back down and slammed Charizard into the ground before flying back into the sky and circling around. Charizard growled and pushed himself from the ground glaring up at the other charizard.

Simpler than trying to work out which one the narrative was following in the first little snippet huh? Think of them as animals if that helps... and each one is a different species of animal... you never refer to each and every animal via their species name in a narrative with capitals... it gets a little confusing and distracts from the narrative... with Pokémon it's the same thing... that's why this is what I usually try to do when writing my stories and everything...

Thanks for taking the time to read this and understand my point of view on the subject.

-Tammyhybrid21