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The Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar evolutionary line of Pokemon are, like all other ghost-types, human- and Pokemon-aggressive, preying on both in the wild and in captivity. The species at large and all of its variants are illegal to own and breed across many regions unless special licenses have been provided.
The species has a surprisingly passionate and steadfast breeder and trainer community. Advocates for the species and ghost types overall attempt to spread awareness of these Pokemon to encourage safe handling and proper protocol for what to do if encountering these highly predatory Pokemon in the wild.
To have a ghost Pokemon be accepted into the League is considered a badge of honor in the ghost type advocate community.
The most readily recognised breed of Gengar as well as the most numerous is the Urban Haunt. Urban Haunt Gengar and its stages take up residence in abandoned buildings and shut off / ignored rooms of occupied homes.
The species has a surprisingly passionate and steadfast breeder and trainer community. Advocates for the species and ghost types overall attempt to spread awareness of these Pokemon to encourage safe handling and proper protocol for what to do if encountering these highly predatory Pokemon in the wild.
To have a ghost Pokemon be accepted into the League is considered a badge of honor in the ghost type advocate community.
The most readily recognised breed of Gengar as well as the most numerous is the Urban Haunt. Urban Haunt Gengar and its stages take up residence in abandoned buildings and shut off / ignored rooms of occupied homes.
Raising and training a Gastly, Haunter, or Gengar Pokemon is oft described as a "trial" by advocates and enthusiasts. Training from the Haunter or Gengar stage is not recommended and often heavily discouraged due to the Pokemon's "rancid" attitude as a predatory species. If a trainer wishes to forge a strong bond of trust and respect, it is best done at the Gastly stage, ideally as young as possible to help curb behavioural issues that will develop as the Pokemon ages and matures into its adult stages.
Haunter are considered "extremely difficult" to train when caught from the wild, possessing heavily baked-in prey drive and very high aggression. Breaking the behaviour of preying on any available human or Pokemon targets and building a bond of trust and respect requires immense emotional and physical investment on behalf of the trainer. Habilitating a wild-caught Haunter into a domestic, trainer-lead lifestyle has an approximate failure rate ranging between 45 - 66% depending on the subspecies or breed. A fully "domesticated" wild-caught Haunter is considered an immense accomplishment in the ghost-type training community. Trainers that have managed to succeed swear by experience that fully trained wild-caught Haunter are among the most fiercely loyal and attentive Pokemon they have ever possessed.
Wild Gengar are considered across the community to be utterly impossible to train or domesticate, as by this point the Pokemon's behaviours are all but completely impossible to break or reverse. A wild-caught Gengar is a danger to their trainer and remaining Pokemon team. A wild-caught Gengar snapping and turning on its companions is not a question of "if", but "when", with very real documentation to prove it.
Trainers new to raising ghost-types are recommended to come to grips by raising a Drifloon or Phantump, or a guaranteed small-size Pumpkaboo. Gastly, despite their widespread distribution, are not recommended to trainers with no experience with ghost-types due to their already high prey drive and aggression, which only rises as they age and develop into adulthood as Haunter.
Haunter are considered "extremely difficult" to train when caught from the wild, possessing heavily baked-in prey drive and very high aggression. Breaking the behaviour of preying on any available human or Pokemon targets and building a bond of trust and respect requires immense emotional and physical investment on behalf of the trainer. Habilitating a wild-caught Haunter into a domestic, trainer-lead lifestyle has an approximate failure rate ranging between 45 - 66% depending on the subspecies or breed. A fully "domesticated" wild-caught Haunter is considered an immense accomplishment in the ghost-type training community. Trainers that have managed to succeed swear by experience that fully trained wild-caught Haunter are among the most fiercely loyal and attentive Pokemon they have ever possessed.
Wild Gengar are considered across the community to be utterly impossible to train or domesticate, as by this point the Pokemon's behaviours are all but completely impossible to break or reverse. A wild-caught Gengar is a danger to their trainer and remaining Pokemon team. A wild-caught Gengar snapping and turning on its companions is not a question of "if", but "when", with very real documentation to prove it.
Trainers new to raising ghost-types are recommended to come to grips by raising a Drifloon or Phantump, or a guaranteed small-size Pumpkaboo. Gastly, despite their widespread distribution, are not recommended to trainers with no experience with ghost-types due to their already high prey drive and aggression, which only rises as they age and develop into adulthood as Haunter.
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i love how you draw teeth and jaws. they look so horrifying, but the worldbuilding tidbits speak to a kind of... ugly, fierce charm to the species, for the people who appreciate that kind of personality in their partners. the designs and lore reflect each other so well tone-wise.