#seashoreshenanigans

The gourgeist swiped against the screen of the tablet until a hologram of an image of certain species of ghosts appeared with the tagline Ghost Types that Cannot be the Souls of the Dead.

“I think the best place to start is what ghost types souls don’t become. Contrary to popular believe not all ghost types are really…spirits of the dead trapped in this mortal coil.” The scientist gave the Mr.Mime a glance to make sure they were still on board. “Some are spectral beings that either have the body consistency of ghosts or have properties such as being able phase through most solid matter.”

“These mons are gastly, haunter, duskull, dusclops, shuppet, shedinja, the frillish line, the misdreavus line, the golurk line, sableye, rotom, litwick and froslass. You may have noticed how I did not mention Banette, dusknoir, gengar, lampent and chandelure when I mentioned their pre-evolved forms. There is a good reason for that.”

The image that appeared on the next hologram showed the tagline Distortion World Ghosts. “When a living soul dies in the distortion world it tends to be horribly warped, losing the ability to pass on and becomes certain ghost types. Since dusknoirs, lampents, drifloons, drifblims and chandelures are often the common pokemon that ferry souls to after life, they tend to come back as that and are often coerced into collecting souls to bring them to the afterlife. Their reasons  for doing this job tends to vary.”

She swiped her finger again to bring up the hologram of the Tagline Emotion Based Ghosts.

“Some creatures come back as particular ghosts due to a strong emotional feeling. Banette come back if a grudge towards someone or somethingwas so great that they possess an object close to the thing they had a grudge on, or just take the appearance of the standard Banette. Gengars come from feelings of malice, mischief or a desire to cause any degree of trouble, or if the victim feels that they were the source of trouble, pain ect. The honedge line are souls that died heroic deaths, or died feeling a certain duty was not completed. Often times they are found in old medieval ruins or locations where swords are frequent.”

The next hologram to pop up was Ghosts Based off Location.

“There are ghosts that come back due to specific location where they died. The phantump and gourgeist line come back if they die in a forest location with a lot of living and dead trees, and even some normal grass types in some cases. The cofagrigus line tend to come back in either urban, or desert setting, where metal or dry soil is located. Drifloon can also come if someone dies in a location that has high elevation, namely mountains, planes exploding in mid-air and reeeeeeealy tall buildings.” She hoped she did not have to explain what an airplane was, or how one can explode in mid-air. “It is common for flying types or ones that fly really high to come back as these mons.”

“So does that answer your question?” The amount of time that it took Mercy to explain this to the poor mon never even crossed her mind. She did tend to go over every nook and cranny of certain details.