Pokemon Fans, We Shouldn't Have Stolen Those Fossils From Mt. Moon

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For the past two months, I have been replaying Pokemon Blue and describing my journey across Kanto as if I were a tourist, trying to soak up every pixel of a setting I returned to time and again as a child, and a place that I feel has never quite gotten the respect it deserves, despite the status of Gen 1 within the Pokemon fanbase. I'm currently up to Mt. Moon, and there I have found the first part of the game I want to dwell on and write about in more depth. Namely, the fossils, and why we have absolutely no right to take them.

I expected the excitement of discovering these fossils to be my main takeaway from the Mt. Moon portion of my journey, especially as Kabutops is one of my favourite of all the fossil Pokemon across every region. Instead, I ended up dwelling on the presence of Team Rocket, and how the way they surround and envelop you, even with weakened teams, was the first real sign of the evil gang's dominance in the region. I had taken them for granted at the time, knowing them from the anime, brushing them aside easily, seeing them as irritating roadblocks. This new perspective is deepening my appreciation for the worldbuilding, but with the fossils, that all came crashing down. I did not write about my excitement at the discovery because I did not discover them at all. Somebody else did, and then I beat him up and took them from him.

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There's a strange juxtaposition in Mt. Moon being used to set up Team Rocket as the bad guys because they want to steal your Pokemon, then having you end your journey through the cave by stealing someone's Pokemon. It can be a little pointless to get too ethical when it comes to Pokemon, since it's basically virtual