Ditto.

0:00What if I told you...

0:06Ditto's Pokédex entries have been telling the same heartbreaking story since 2002, across THREE different generations?

0:11Pokémon Ruby, word for word: "Ditto rearranges its cell structure to transform itself into other shapes.

0:17However, if it tries to transform itself into something by relying on its memory, this Pokémon manages to get details wrong." That entry is from 2002.

0:22Now lets fast forward to 2019, where in Pokémon Sword, the pokedex entry reads: "It transforms into whatever it sees.

0:28If the thing it's transforming into isn't right in front of it, Ditto relies on its memory, so sometimes it fails." And finally in the most recent main series games, generation 9 back in 2022, the pokedex entry from Pokémon Scarlet, says: "While it can transform into anything, each Ditto apparently has its own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to transformations." Three games, two consoles, twenty years.

0:34Game Freak kept writing the same wound into the lore, in slightly different words.

0:39Ditto is fine when something is right in front of it.

0:45The whole system breaks when it has to do it from memory.

0:51From who it used to be.

0:56And honestly...

1:02this is the part of the lore that definitely hits you once you read it over a few times.

1:07Some of you already know how Ditto's wound goes.

1:13You spent so long shaping yourself around what was in front of you, you can't quite remember the original anymore.

1:19When somebody asks who you actually are, you go from memory.

1:24And sometimes the details come out wrong.

1:30That's not a character flaw, but, rather the cost of being a person who pays attention.

1:35If you've ever lost the details of yourself in the shape of someone else, Ditto's been telling that story since 1996.