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Now a lot of people say that the Pokémon not belonging to Ash have very little personality; of course I disagree, I’d say since most people don’t pay as much attention as me to recognize most of the things I have before and have not applied knowledge of the social sciences, either because they have no clue as regards to the subject or they have never had any reason to study anime characters in my manner of absurdity, to properly understand them. Pokémon like {{Bp|Misty’s Goldeen}} and {{Bp|Misty’s Horsea|Horsea}}, however much they seem bland and as if they have never shown consistent defining features of their personality, they have, and yes will have their own columns’. None of this applies however, to the subject of this column; comic relief character and fan favourite, Psyduck.  

Now as easy as you’d expect it to be for me to write about a comic relief character, it’s not. Notice that in all of my previous instalments; a lot of what I wrote was about the Pokémon’s introductory episode but if you remember {{Bp|EP027|Psyduck’s}}, he hardly featured. So I have to work with his other appearances, luckily he had a lot of focus.

Now if I was going to analysis Psyduck’s behavior in his debut, I’d say the way Psyduck investigated Misty’s dropped Poké Ball, which subsequently led to his capture, was the first we see of Psyduck’s obvious curiosity. Curiosity is a trait innate to all humans (Innate meaning 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 is indeed abnormal. If I was going to choose a definition of abnormality, best suited to Psyduck’s; 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.