"So in many of these games our character is the one writing the Dex right?"

Started watching the Indigo anime and something occurred to me thinking about how the anime diverges from the games. In the anime the Dex already knows about most of the Pokemon for that region and that makes sense, given that Oak doesnt charge Ash with completing the Dex. And Ash doesn't have to catch a mon to have the Dex weigh in on it.But in the games, it doesnt work like that. Seeing a pokemon doesnt give you any data on it until you catch one, and this also makes sense given at least in the early games part of why you get a Dex is to complete it.But where do the entries come from? Wouldnt make sense if someone else wrote them, because then the Dex should already be completed, and it would be a bit convoluted if registering a new catch was communicating with someone who somehow is instantly sending you a random blurb relevant to the mon.While it could be argued that you arent actually charged with "writing" the Dex, but just completing it for your own education (which follows more of the anime logic where the Dex is a guide) I think thats more of a cop out and an insult to the intelligence of even the intended audience given how the games present the Dex itself and the Professors that want to complete the Dex.But what really clinches this idea for me is the sometimes outlandish Dex entries. Like the various ghost types that kidnap kids or Magcargo being hotter than the surface of the Sun. These entries makes sense as general info blurbs if you think of them as something written by a kid. I could see a kid running into a ghost pokemon and writing a blurb on it based on a scary story they heard once. Magcargo? Totally 18 bagillion degrees. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/3i9iBpx