okay so not only is there like sex stuff in those pokemon leaks but also like, slicing off parts of pokemon and killing them? wtf?
this has gotta be something similar to the spongebob "behind closed doors" thing, where the artists and writers were making absolutely unhinged spongebob stuff on sticky notes and such.
i don't think any of this was actually meant to make it into the games or lore or anything like that. sure, there are things in the games that allude to pokemon "relations" in some way or another but nothing like this. you certainly never hear about pokemon actually getting like, straight up tortured.
it's more likely that it was just writers dicking around and making some insane lore pieces just to blow off steam. i can't imagine that working for game freak is the greatest job in the world, considering how low quality their products end up being.
if you don't know what i'm talking about with the spongebob thing, here's a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo1xHGhgjZQ
@tomie I guess there is shit like alakazam hypnotizing and kidnapping children too...
@beardalaxy I don't even think all of it is super farfetched for the Pokemon world, if you think about it like a dork, it kind of all fits in with the setting. I think it is a bit different than employees blowing off steam, it looks like person who wrote all these was really super artistically into their duty of crafting the setting. Also since a lot of the sex stuff looks like it was probably written around Gen 2 and 3, definitely was an exploratory phase for where the series was going. I can totally envision a timeline, especially with Colosseum and XD (even though they were different devs IIRC), where Pokemon was a bit edgier. I'm kind of more surprised that these fanfic-tier documents were still in existence at all since they looked like so much more of an afterthought, you'd think they would've just been left on a super old workstation in the documents folder rather than on the modern computer of the GF employee that was phished.
@arc I guess we'll never really know, but they still strike me as a dev just writing crazy shit down knowing it wouldn't be part of the game. Even if Pokémon got more edgy, I'd only imagine it going as far as like Palworld max, not H-DOOM or something lol.
@beardalaxy well, the part about slowpokes being hunted for their delicious tails did make it to the games, so even if it was not meant to be in-game material, this could still be used for worldbuilding