Although humans have long sought to emulate the gods, or to appropriate their many powers for themselves, they have only twice had the hubris to attempt to create one of their own. There was no greater heretical motivation in the creation of Mewtwo; Team Rocket simply saw in its versatile and resilient DNA a perfect base for its genetic experiments, and never quite grasped what they had. The same can not be said, however, of the creation of Type: Null – for the Aether Foundation not only sought to create a new species of pokemon, but modeled it after the creator of all the world's living things.

There are those who say Type: Null was made to protect the world from the Ultra Beasts, but one need not possess a god's power to see through such an obvious lie. My ability to change types with the sacred Plates may help me conquer many a living pokemon, but it is virtually impossible to effectively use against the so-called Ultra Beasts, whose typing rarely coheres with Earthlings' first impressions.

What the Aether Foundation attempted was to create life itself, to build a god in my image, from what they imagined to be the best parts of all kinds of living things. What they created were misshapen, suffering, and angry chimeras, most of whom they euthanized, and they forced masks onto their "best" survivors to hide the shameful facsimiles of faces they created.

Although there are many – priests, activists, even former Aether Foundation members making cynical excuses – who claim otherwise, know this, mortals: I cast no curse on Type: Null, nor did I need to. Humans are to blame for its sad fate!