#523: Zebstrika

(Artist wishes to remain anonymous)

Blitzle do not have the capacity to create electricity for a while after birth, unless they are raised by Zebstrika. At one point it was thought that it was simply a matter of learning. That Zebstrika taught their offspring how to use electricity. However, this theory was abandoned when it was found that Blitzle who were clearly documented using electrical attacks would, if removed from the care of their parents, lose that ability. It was then suggested that perhaps the stress of being separated from others of their own family would suppress a Blitzle’s natural abilities, but that hypothesis failed to gain traction, because other forms of stress did not result in the same loss of ability.

Finally, a team of researchers realized that the phenomena had a physical explanation. Zebstrika milk is rich in charged particles. The milk of the left teat is rich in anions (negatively charged ions) and the milk of the right teat is rich in cations (positively charged ions). How Zebstrika’s bodies are able to create and maintain such a charge in their milk is unknown, as is how a Blitzle is able to metabolize that charge such that it is not lost in the digestive process.

However, more confusing yet is that drinking a Zebstrika’s milk passes off this same effect to other Pokemon as well, granting them the ability to use some electrical moves for a short time. The effect is much less pronounced than it is for Blitzle. Even humans may make use of this ability, gaining some ability to hold and manipulate a charge safely for a time after drinking Zebstrika milk. However, in all cases, the milk must be consumed directly from the teat, or it loses its charge.

Finally, and most perplexingly, their milk is not the only fluid with this capacity. Their sweat of both males and females contains this functionality, and they will sometimes make use of this in battle, evaporating it with their electricity to spread it around an area, in a move referred to by trainers as Ion Deluge. According to reports of humans who have performed cunnilingus on Zebstrika, their vaginal fluids contain this capacity as well, and the effect may be stronger from the consumption of these fluids than even from their milk itself (even for the much smaller volume that can be ingested).

For Future Research: The purpose of the charge capacity of both Zebstrika milk and sweat is clearly understood, but there is currently no understanding of why vaginal fluids also exhibit the effect so strongly. Is it an evolutionary accident? A byproduct of the other charges? Or possibly to encourage the performance of cunnilingus? But what purpose would that serve?