Humans, like other apex predators, have devised a number of ways to mark their territory – ways which most pokemon, over the generations, have learned the hard way to accept. Yet Nickit long found food by raiding the stashes of Greedent or the food stockpiles kept in Corviknight nests, in between scavenging the leftovers of Bewear or Beartic's meals. And they have proven even less respectful of human property, for their poor eyesight and humanity's preference for visual over olfactory markers have led Nickit to often fail to even notice human claims – not that they would care much if they did!
Modern people speak solemnly of the need for humans and pokemon to live together in peace, but their ancestors thought nothing of extirpating pests. Many wonder how these thieving foxes survived to the present day, through eras when human thieves could be hanged or exiled for their crimes. Galarian aristocrats, in truth, were no less contemptuous of Nickit thieves, and thought that they, too, ought to be punished; the problem lay in tracking them down!
The Nickit hunts originated as a simple hue and cry from Galar's great knights, a demonstration that even the littlest orchard robber could not escape the King's justice. Yet many peasants sympathized with the Nickit, and having one around could prove a valuable scapegoat for one's own "liberation" of their lord's produce. Helped only by their trusty Boltund, racing across bridges as their targets simply jumped across creeks, scanning the grass for the peek of a dark tail, Galar's aristocrats found chasing Nickit far more entertaining than getting revenge on them; at times, they even pardoned their "crimes" to preserve these fox pokemon's numbers.
After all, generations agree, there is nothing in this world more fun than traveling across the land to capture a pokemon!
