so this is a little convoluted BUT–weird headcanon i had about pokemon eggs and an excuse to draw realistic cute little babbies

no one knows why, but mammalian pokemon who breed in captivity or who are otherwise trained/domesticated produce PokeEggs (bird fish and reptile etc. pokemon obviously produce eggs regardless but more on that) while wild pokemon tend to have ‘realistic/natural’ born offspring the way typical animals in our world would!

the Eggs seem to act as an extended incubator–where, say, a persian would give live birth to a small litter of feeble, blind, squishy little kitten meowth, instead a single egg is sort of magically produced somehow where the newborn sits and develops at a heightened pace to hatch as a matured, fully grown (but still young) meowth! pokeresearchers theorize this is for protection utility, but dont know why or how it seems to really only be done outside of the wild and untamed

even pokemon who would normally lay eggs anyway seem to do a variation on this! wild golisopods will lay broods of eggs and nurture them tenderly until they hatch into infant wimpods the size of baseballs, whereas captive/tamed ones will again produce the single typical pokemon egg to have a fully matured wimpod hatch

also this is going off of the assumption there hasnt been any poke eggs shown in the wild before so i could be totally wrong and this all founded on jack shit! lmao this was just a headcanon, i love talking about pokemon meta like this its dope