[Ondorus is very quiet for a moment, closing his eyes and breathing in.]
We're all guilty parties in it. I doubt most people even think of it that way. But even if you do think of it, still this world demands that you accept Pokemon as...commodities. Devices in the lives of humans. That's the price of being part of society here.
[This is the first time he's ever spoken so frankly about it. His voice is conspiratorially low, and his eyes hidden behind his glasses.]
Not that it excuses anything, but I'm no stranger to that kind of dissonance. [How many decades had he spent keeping quiet for Kuruna's peace of mind?] But...in my defense, I have never once acted as a "master" over the Pokemon that this world would say I owned.
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We're all guilty parties in it. I doubt most people even think of it that way. But even if you do think of it, still this world demands that you accept Pokemon as...commodities. Devices in the lives of humans. That's the price of being part of society here.
[This is the first time he's ever spoken so frankly about it. His voice is conspiratorially low, and his eyes hidden behind his glasses.]
Not that it excuses anything, but I'm no stranger to that kind of dissonance. [How many decades had he spent keeping quiet for Kuruna's peace of mind?] But...in my defense, I have never once acted as a "master" over the Pokemon that this world would say I owned.