Personality & Development: Misty's Psyduck: Difference between revisions

[[File:Tyra Cloyster.png|thumb|left|Classic Psyduck comedy]]

Now if I was going to analyse Psyduck’s behavior in his debut, I’d say that the way Psyduck investigated Misty’s dropped Poké Ball, which subsequently led to his capture, was the first time we recognized Psyduck’s obvious curiosity. Curiosity is a trait innate to all humans (innate means natural and common) and Pokémon often have personalities similar to humans, so it is not strange that Psyduck was interested in the Poké Ball. So his curiosity gives no indication of how Psyduck was growing up, but it proves he is normal or at least more normal than we all thought. The fact he has that innate emotional drive to want to learn and discover, makes him quite credible. The fact he allowed himself to be captured was the comic relief.  

Although I’ve tried to portray Psyduck as normal, I cannot deny the fact that he has some abnormal traits as well. If I was going to choose a definition of abnormality best suited to Psyduck; I’d say "''Deviation from social norms''", "''Deviation from mental health''" and "''Failure to function adequately''", yes all of them and I’ll tell you why in three well-written paragraphs.  

Like most Psyduck, our favorite three haired duck bill has a constant headache, meaning the headache cannot be classed as mental health. However, the intensity of Psyduck’s headaches appears to me as some sort of mental condition. Especially when you consider that Psyduck cannot use any of its Psychic powers until its headache is so monumentally painful it blasts out of him, sometimes uncontrollably. The strain that is put on Psyduck should at least gain him some understanding when he forgets how to treat others and as I’ve often pointed out at the compassion the others show, it does.  

Finally, the way in which Psyduck fails to function adequately is his inability to swim. Seen as other Psyduck have been shown swimming in the series, including newly hatched Psyduck proving that swimming is innate for them, one can conclude Psyduck was perhaps depraved as a child. Depraved in the sense that he may have had little, maybe no, experiences with the water. When an innate skill is not performed during an earlier period of life, it can be forgotten and that’s how I’d explain Psyduck not knowing how to swim. Of course it could also be explained by a million physical illnesses, but I don’t know much about that.