[His expression very obviously faults into something strange before he manages to correct it because no really, what fresh hell is this -

Let him just. Try to focus on the rest of that, good lord.]

The Pokémon are good for that sort of thing - both protection and companionship at the same time, I mean! It's fortunate for us that most of them are relatively docile; I can't imagine the chaos that would be ensuing for us otherwise...

[Well, whatever else it might be like, it would clearly be stealing-forty-cakes levels of terrible.]

As for...ah, what you said before, regarding family - can you really just ask people things like that?