[He waves off the apology, not trying to be rude, but there's other matters at hand.]

I don't know... If they're all the same Pokémon, just with different shapes, it'd make more sense if they were the same in every aspect except shape. They might just be letters come to life, the letters of a language that used to be spoken and written in this place before modern civilization.

[Of course this is just a theory.]