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Sinnohan Luxray & Kantonian Persian, behavioral & biological stuff
Luxray are big cats with lynx-like/bobcat-like, cougar-esque and pantherine traits. Their vocalizations are like deeper Canadian lynxes, which, if you know what those sound like…are kind of horrifying. They do not roar so much as shriek like a cougar.
Their electricity is exclusively utilized for aggression displays and-or actual fighting/self-defense (they are not cutesy with their Typing like say, pikachu, a species known for friendly greetings via smallish shocks. However, shinx do create flashes of light to communicate a need for help with others of their evo-line).
They live in "packs" that are led by an "alpha" male, usually the oldest one with the most life experience—this does not have to be a luxray, though it usually is, because evolution requires being experienced. Rarely has it ever been a pre-evo in documented history, normally in times of low-numbered local populations, thus leaving the packs no choice.
It is in fact like a lion pride, but it also seems a bit like a coyote pack; the male is the only one allowed to breed with the unrelated females, and all the offspring are his. Once the male shinx evolve into luxio, no matter what age they are, they are immediately considered a budding threat and are chased off by the alpha male.
The hunting is not done in groups precisely, pack members usually go off to hunt alone, obtaining small to medium prey, or sometimes in pairs which can on occasion result in larger catches. Whatever is caught for food is brought back to the rest of the pack.
The cubs are raised communally. Adulthood is reached most often as a luxio, but occasionally, shinx get past adolescence without evolving. Cubs are killed by the new alpha if the current one is ousted and thus replaced, to send the females into estrus sooner.
Females that are daughters of the alpha typically break off from the pack if they end up evolving into luxray at any point, looking to join another foreign pack with an established alpha, or teaming up with a single, strong luxray male (and perhaps other stranger females who like him, too) looking to start his own pack. The kicked out male luxio aim to become impressive enough to females like these once evolving into luxray themselves, often living together in rogue bands of two to five. So, these bands are a mixture of male luxio and luxray.
They sleep for extended periods of time, up to 16 hours straight, to recharge their powerful vision (akin to X-rays) which requires much personal electricity to use. With that vision, they can see through anything, using it for hunting, searching for lost pack members, or scouting for danger.
They are crepuscular but can be active at night while resting during daylight hours.
All three species of this evo-line are very social. They are incredibly loyal to each other when wild, and this can be extended towards humans and other species of pokémon, logically.
Male and female luxray are the same height on average, 2’07” (78.74 cm) at the shoulder (same height ranges as the African leopard), but they are sexually dimorphic in mane and butt-/shoulder-tuft size—females have slightly smaller ones than males. Female luxio and shinx also have smaller manes/head-tufts, respectively, but the shinx females have blue hindfeet as shinx (male shinx have entirely black hindfeet) that become just blue “paws/ankles” as luxio, whereas a male luxio’s blue hindfeet does not extend to their ankles.
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Kantonian persian aren’t inherently fickle, haughty, and mean-tempered as they’re famed to be, not when cared for correctly and respected properly. Their possession of bad attitudes by default is a harmful myth. In the past, they were regarded as status symbols for the rich to own, and this was how they gained their ill reputation due to those wealthy folk not understanding how to maintain them well. Starting in the 1970s, they began being increasingly seen as “a dime a dozen” just like their pre-evo meowth unfortunately are (meowth were also painted as classy creatures long ago, hence why they were gifted to the old Alolan royalty, but they lost this privilege in Kantonian cultural views sooner than persian did). Despite this decrease in perceived nobility, poachers still target feral and wild persian alike for their forehead stones, mistakenly believed to have medicinal properties by some, while others simply want them for their organic beauty. It has been reported in the news before when someone’s pet persian was taken down so its stone could be harvested by one of these illegal hunters. It rarely happens, but it has and could happen to this day.
Persian (and even meowth, to a lesser extent) are cuddly with and protective of their human(s), usually only one more-so than any others they may live with, namely the individual who’s invested the most time and effort into them. Their high intelligence levels and elegant demeanors, anthropomorphized by humanity as pridefulness, are major causes for their popularity in modern-day. They are simply independent by nature and should be listened to, researched, and paid attention to dutifully like any pokémon species owned by a human, who should be open to learning from trial and error. Ignorant, impatient, and neglectful trainers/owners always end up paying the price with this evo-line, one way or another, often in the form of scratch wounds and angry frustration. People overdramatize this reaction from persian despite how it can happen with any other pokémon if its needs are unmet.
Meowth (which can walk either on all fours or on their hindlegs with no issue) tend to pick up and carry whatever they find along their travels that interests them, either in their forepaws or in their maws. Meowth lose the instinct to defensively hoard shiny and-or round objects like coins (which they’d sleep beside or upon like snoring IRL dragons), gems (real or fake) and marbles upon evolving into persian. The shock upon any pokémon of the physical and psychological changes brought on by evolution can lead to unusual behavior while they adjust to their new state of being, and meowth-into-persian is no different. Persian are often observed to sniff and bat at their old object collection curiously for a day or two, as if wondering why and how they ever had such intense interest in the stuff, before abandoning it altogether for the last time. Some humans choose to keep these suddenly useless collections stored away in boxes post-evolution out of sentimental nostalgia. These collections are also where a meowth gets its ammo for its own “signature” (most well-known) move, Pay Day. Using meowth as a “get rich quick scheme” is an outdated, negatively foolish scam; they cannot generate real money out of nowhere.
Like IRL spoiled housecats that’ve never needed to hunt to sustain themselves, both meowth and persian can play mercilessly with their prey without devouring it. Feral ones that do require hunting (both the pre-evo and final evo are ambushers) to feed themselves, however, do not make a habit of wasting their catches. Stray meowth and persian that never learned to hunt tend to starve to death unless they’re lucky enough to be fed by kind strangers or pick up on rummaging through garbage for scraps.
Both meowth and persian are nocturnal, but this doesn’t mean they can’t do things at other times of the day, just that nighttime is their biologically preferred active hours. They can collaborate with their human’s schedule as needed; their natural internal clock is simply the opposite of ours.
They’re also more sociable than most people stereotype them as. While their personalities do of course vary, they aren’t loners by choice. It does take a while to truly earn the full trust of a meowth not conditioned from an early age for human interaction, and even longer with a persian; you must be gently consistent for weeks to possibly months. When feral or wild, they congregate in “clowders” or “colonies,” mixtures of both evo-stages. The younger meowth defer to the older individuals more than not, especially their mothers, regardless of which evo-stage their mother or elders are. Female persian and meowth who’ve born clutches of eggs within the same group territory instinctively raise their clutches together, protecting their offspring from all manners of danger, stronger in numbers. Males of either evolutionary stage do not participate in the raising of babies.
Neither persian nor meowth are sexually dimorphic.
All meowth are about the size of IRL domestic cats, which can vary some between individuals, while persian are a little over 2-feet tall at the shoulders (24.00 cm) averagely, which is a big kitty! But not as gigantic as the canon pokédex entries say (if that were true here, they’d be about the size of an African lioness, which doesn’t strike me as accurate). It’s the same height range of the North American cougar.
The vocalizations of meowth are the same as domestic cats, but persian are noticeably different. They retain the ability to purr, more like a motorboat than before, but their other sounds aren’t small any longer, though they can still be soft at times. They can chirp like cheetahs, and are ghastly to listen to when they caterwaul, akin to snow leopards.
Both stages of this evo-line are generally clean, maintaining their personal hygiene practically obsessively. They have rasping sandpapery tongues they use for combing their own fur, and allogrooming is a form of socializing for them (licking humans or other pokémon they’re on friendly terms with is a sign of affection). It’s a sign of extreme illness and-or loneliness if they appear unkempt. They can be easily trained for litterboxes, as the sand in them appeals to their ingrained instincts.
It’s recommended to always keep your meowth and-or persian indoors their whole lives to make sure they and the surrounding ecosystem are safe. If you want to provide extra enrichment, you could let them outside on scheduled walks while leashed; these leashes are attached to harnesses designed for their kind to not be able to wiggle their way out of (even if the outdoor place you’re walking them in is just the backyard, if you have one), or within specifically built “catios,” a confined outdoor space for them to lounge, their own patio area. Letting them roam freely around the neighborhood is irresponsible and careless, because it could result in sickness, injury, and ruining the local population of smaller pokémon they’d see as prey or as living toys.
Their electricity is exclusively utilized for aggression displays and-or actual fighting/self-defense (they are not cutesy with their Typing like say, pikachu, a species known for friendly greetings via smallish shocks. However, shinx do create flashes of light to communicate a need for help with others of their evo-line).
They live in "packs" that are led by an "alpha" male, usually the oldest one with the most life experience—this does not have to be a luxray, though it usually is, because evolution requires being experienced. Rarely has it ever been a pre-evo in documented history, normally in times of low-numbered local populations, thus leaving the packs no choice.
It is in fact like a lion pride, but it also seems a bit like a coyote pack; the male is the only one allowed to breed with the unrelated females, and all the offspring are his. Once the male shinx evolve into luxio, no matter what age they are, they are immediately considered a budding threat and are chased off by the alpha male.
The hunting is not done in groups precisely, pack members usually go off to hunt alone, obtaining small to medium prey, or sometimes in pairs which can on occasion result in larger catches. Whatever is caught for food is brought back to the rest of the pack.
The cubs are raised communally. Adulthood is reached most often as a luxio, but occasionally, shinx get past adolescence without evolving. Cubs are killed by the new alpha if the current one is ousted and thus replaced, to send the females into estrus sooner.
Females that are daughters of the alpha typically break off from the pack if they end up evolving into luxray at any point, looking to join another foreign pack with an established alpha, or teaming up with a single, strong luxray male (and perhaps other stranger females who like him, too) looking to start his own pack. The kicked out male luxio aim to become impressive enough to females like these once evolving into luxray themselves, often living together in rogue bands of two to five. So, these bands are a mixture of male luxio and luxray.
They sleep for extended periods of time, up to 16 hours straight, to recharge their powerful vision (akin to X-rays) which requires much personal electricity to use. With that vision, they can see through anything, using it for hunting, searching for lost pack members, or scouting for danger.
They are crepuscular but can be active at night while resting during daylight hours.
All three species of this evo-line are very social. They are incredibly loyal to each other when wild, and this can be extended towards humans and other species of pokémon, logically.
Male and female luxray are the same height on average, 2’07” (78.74 cm) at the shoulder (same height ranges as the African leopard), but they are sexually dimorphic in mane and butt-/shoulder-tuft size—females have slightly smaller ones than males. Female luxio and shinx also have smaller manes/head-tufts, respectively, but the shinx females have blue hindfeet as shinx (male shinx have entirely black hindfeet) that become just blue “paws/ankles” as luxio, whereas a male luxio’s blue hindfeet does not extend to their ankles.
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Kantonian persian aren’t inherently fickle, haughty, and mean-tempered as they’re famed to be, not when cared for correctly and respected properly. Their possession of bad attitudes by default is a harmful myth. In the past, they were regarded as status symbols for the rich to own, and this was how they gained their ill reputation due to those wealthy folk not understanding how to maintain them well. Starting in the 1970s, they began being increasingly seen as “a dime a dozen” just like their pre-evo meowth unfortunately are (meowth were also painted as classy creatures long ago, hence why they were gifted to the old Alolan royalty, but they lost this privilege in Kantonian cultural views sooner than persian did). Despite this decrease in perceived nobility, poachers still target feral and wild persian alike for their forehead stones, mistakenly believed to have medicinal properties by some, while others simply want them for their organic beauty. It has been reported in the news before when someone’s pet persian was taken down so its stone could be harvested by one of these illegal hunters. It rarely happens, but it has and could happen to this day.
Persian (and even meowth, to a lesser extent) are cuddly with and protective of their human(s), usually only one more-so than any others they may live with, namely the individual who’s invested the most time and effort into them. Their high intelligence levels and elegant demeanors, anthropomorphized by humanity as pridefulness, are major causes for their popularity in modern-day. They are simply independent by nature and should be listened to, researched, and paid attention to dutifully like any pokémon species owned by a human, who should be open to learning from trial and error. Ignorant, impatient, and neglectful trainers/owners always end up paying the price with this evo-line, one way or another, often in the form of scratch wounds and angry frustration. People overdramatize this reaction from persian despite how it can happen with any other pokémon if its needs are unmet.
Meowth (which can walk either on all fours or on their hindlegs with no issue) tend to pick up and carry whatever they find along their travels that interests them, either in their forepaws or in their maws. Meowth lose the instinct to defensively hoard shiny and-or round objects like coins (which they’d sleep beside or upon like snoring IRL dragons), gems (real or fake) and marbles upon evolving into persian. The shock upon any pokémon of the physical and psychological changes brought on by evolution can lead to unusual behavior while they adjust to their new state of being, and meowth-into-persian is no different. Persian are often observed to sniff and bat at their old object collection curiously for a day or two, as if wondering why and how they ever had such intense interest in the stuff, before abandoning it altogether for the last time. Some humans choose to keep these suddenly useless collections stored away in boxes post-evolution out of sentimental nostalgia. These collections are also where a meowth gets its ammo for its own “signature” (most well-known) move, Pay Day. Using meowth as a “get rich quick scheme” is an outdated, negatively foolish scam; they cannot generate real money out of nowhere.
Like IRL spoiled housecats that’ve never needed to hunt to sustain themselves, both meowth and persian can play mercilessly with their prey without devouring it. Feral ones that do require hunting (both the pre-evo and final evo are ambushers) to feed themselves, however, do not make a habit of wasting their catches. Stray meowth and persian that never learned to hunt tend to starve to death unless they’re lucky enough to be fed by kind strangers or pick up on rummaging through garbage for scraps.
Both meowth and persian are nocturnal, but this doesn’t mean they can’t do things at other times of the day, just that nighttime is their biologically preferred active hours. They can collaborate with their human’s schedule as needed; their natural internal clock is simply the opposite of ours.
They’re also more sociable than most people stereotype them as. While their personalities do of course vary, they aren’t loners by choice. It does take a while to truly earn the full trust of a meowth not conditioned from an early age for human interaction, and even longer with a persian; you must be gently consistent for weeks to possibly months. When feral or wild, they congregate in “clowders” or “colonies,” mixtures of both evo-stages. The younger meowth defer to the older individuals more than not, especially their mothers, regardless of which evo-stage their mother or elders are. Female persian and meowth who’ve born clutches of eggs within the same group territory instinctively raise their clutches together, protecting their offspring from all manners of danger, stronger in numbers. Males of either evolutionary stage do not participate in the raising of babies.
Neither persian nor meowth are sexually dimorphic.
All meowth are about the size of IRL domestic cats, which can vary some between individuals, while persian are a little over 2-feet tall at the shoulders (24.00 cm) averagely, which is a big kitty! But not as gigantic as the canon pokédex entries say (if that were true here, they’d be about the size of an African lioness, which doesn’t strike me as accurate). It’s the same height range of the North American cougar.
The vocalizations of meowth are the same as domestic cats, but persian are noticeably different. They retain the ability to purr, more like a motorboat than before, but their other sounds aren’t small any longer, though they can still be soft at times. They can chirp like cheetahs, and are ghastly to listen to when they caterwaul, akin to snow leopards.
Both stages of this evo-line are generally clean, maintaining their personal hygiene practically obsessively. They have rasping sandpapery tongues they use for combing their own fur, and allogrooming is a form of socializing for them (licking humans or other pokémon they’re on friendly terms with is a sign of affection). It’s a sign of extreme illness and-or loneliness if they appear unkempt. They can be easily trained for litterboxes, as the sand in them appeals to their ingrained instincts.
It’s recommended to always keep your meowth and-or persian indoors their whole lives to make sure they and the surrounding ecosystem are safe. If you want to provide extra enrichment, you could let them outside on scheduled walks while leashed; these leashes are attached to harnesses designed for their kind to not be able to wiggle their way out of (even if the outdoor place you’re walking them in is just the backyard, if you have one), or within specifically built “catios,” a confined outdoor space for them to lounge, their own patio area. Letting them roam freely around the neighborhood is irresponsible and careless, because it could result in sickness, injury, and ruining the local population of smaller pokémon they’d see as prey or as living toys.