I don't get how people complain about cold like our lives aren't spent going from one indoor air conditioned place, to a 30 second adventure outside to get in our car to drive to another indoor air conditioned place with another 30 second outdoor adventure inbetween.

My gut crackpot theory is that the energy that make up pokemon don't interact with humans the same way they they do with other pokemon. Humans dont have type weaknesses. Doesn't hit them the same as it does pokemon on pokemon, even if there is still sometimes more tangible, physical harm to be done.

The easy thing to point to is Mewtwo, but I actually think more to the Arceus movie. Maybe it gets to do whatever it wants because its god, but Arceus fully intends on killing the shit out of those people and almost does.

It's why two pokemon just sitting together in the same place can make an egg. Energies mixed. Its why the card game uses energy as its resource.

And no matter what source you pull from - games, anime, spinoff, pokemon do, in fact, pose as danger or potential death to humans.

Some of these holes are plugged by the idea of pokemon being energy constructs in the most direct sense. Its why they turn to glowing white blobs when evolving, its why there's a device that can force this formless state and cram them as data into a ball or computer.

well, in response:
(god I wanna play more commander)

As implied by the dialog, I'm playing Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor. Which, ironically, could duplicate the effect of my own Mindslaver.

As much as this can take on negative connotation, you are far from the only person who has a say in the value you hold, and people will keep loving you because of it.

Love and care are active decisions other people make for you, and at some point its out of your hands if you think you're worth it or not.

At a certain point, it gets beyond value judgment. A number of people find value in you and express that via spending time with you and showing affection. Each of them individually decided to do that regardless of inherent value.

There's already some of the mouth with like the frog mouth helm shape of the eye slats. Maybe you can lean into that by having an implied triangular shape to the bottom bit of the mask, dividing it in half along the middle

I think the simplest answer is make it a bit more angular. Maybe if you had a hard line of shapes from the 'muzzle' past the sides of the head to the ears. Kind of flatten it against the cheeks a little in the process. Making the brow look more defensive and pronounced might help make it feel beefy

Nightmare blunt rotation