Bingo @ Lock: Wow, you look so cool, like some kind of magical island guardian! Is that your job? Do you even HAVE a job?
This is where the lapras would omit details of her work. Some details would be better kept vague to a child like this one. A level of mystique is required for such a self ordained role.
āThere are many who wish to disrupt the peace on this island. Human and Pokemon alike have both tried to exploit what it can offer. Many have come close.ā
Lock could regale the story of the many humans who tried to poach on the islands for its rare PokƩmon. Or she could recall the opportunistic pokemon trying to either capture their own, or trying to plunder the islands of valuables.
She will not this time. There will be no mention of the storms she would create in order to disway any from arriving on the island. The attempt to drive seafarers made with her telepathy. Especially not involving the false information she would provide any would-be invaders to lead them āastrayā. Where they wound up was never at her discretion, but as the saying goes āSeaās are dangerous, but the islands are where the real peril is.ā
āIām grateful I am not the only guardian. There is one for each island. So I am not alone.ā
[this ask got answered by the clever Sol @askbohemiancompany !! Thank you so much for this fun trade :D]