Friendships Like Pokémon

I've found that it may be possible to characterize the relationships that people might have as friends by describing them in Pokémon terms. Specifically, those relationships may be made into analogies involving certain Pokémon and how friendships are reflected in those relationships. The Pokémon involved also incidentally are all of the second generation, which may or may not mean a thing. But they do mean something for the relationships that are involved.

Good friends can be likened to or with the Pokémon of Bellossom. Bellossom has small flowers on its head that are likely to produce pleasant scents, especially when the Pokémon itself is pleasant. It's also a good dancer in some respects, which may invite people and Pokémon alike to dance alongside it. Even if they can't, the smell from the flowers are likely to rub off on those who are involved. Like the smell from the Pokémon, good friends persist and reflect a particularly pleasant nature from and with them.

Not-so-good friends, meanwhile, are likened to or with the Pokémon of Magcargo. The rocky quality of the bits left behind by the Pokémon are likely to burn someone should that someone make contact with the bits. And if one doesn't get burned, one is likely to feel the intense heat that the Pokémon leaves behind. It doesn't mean that Magcargo is a not-so-good Pokémon, of course; it just means that one ought not to behave in the same way as the bits left behind by the Pokémon... and one knows what to expect when dealing with the Pokémon.

The best kind of friends, however, are those that are like Lugia as one of the Legendary Pokémon of this generation. They would be the ones that if needed and at all possible would whisk one to different places, as it does in come cases. They also would be representative of friends who understand what the other wants to do, as the Pokémon can do exactly that very well, as well as who knows one's bounds, as the Pokémon can reputedly cause damage if it doesn't restrict itself in some cases.

These Pokémon are not necessarily the only Pokémon that can represent the relations of friendships, but they do encapsulate many of these relations fairly well. Certainly, for one to be friends with another person, neither don't have to be fans of Pokémon, but given these characteristic analogies with Pokémon - and if either one or both are Pokémon fans - it's still possible to describe the relations in a way that fans (and perhaps non-fans as well) could understand.

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