[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

Wild Pokemon seldom have the same concept of "holding back" that a trainer has. That's a learned skill. To a wild Pokemon's mind, there's little difference between fainting a foe Pokemon and killing it. This probably leads to lots of conflicts between the mind of Ventus, Sociologist, and Ventus, adventurer.

Figured as much, really. And yes, that DOES lead to a lot of mental hiccups when he was/is doing research of all kinds, including Cheshire. Learned to work through it the most part...until he came to Cheshire and began that chapter of his life, that is. He didn't really adopt the Darwinistic/Ruthless approach to dealing with wild Pokémon until he first had his life further ruined by Fairies, and THEN got mauled by Skunktank for just accidently bumbling into its den. In the later case he even tried to talk it down and leave peacefully, but he still ended up clawed and in critical condition for his empathy. His field research days were also before he started to become an active trainer, instead of having Pokémon on loan for protection/research or having another trainer on hand to protect him, so now that he has actual being that care and rely on him for support, he's going to be even MORE defensive about threats, precieved or not.