alteritynuzlocke:

In Alterity, it’s uuusually illegal to deliberately kill a Pokemon. It’s also illegal to deny your own Pokemon basic health care—if you can’t keep ‘em healthy, you can’t keep ‘em at all. But how do you define ‘basic health care’ for 500+ species? Experts can’t even agree on basic human health care needs. So the laws are vague and the authorities really only go after people whose Pokemon are wandering around with obvious untreated gashes and such. Add this to the fact that Pokemon have no legal rights of their own, plus the fact that most people assume Pokemon are too powerful and intelligent to put up with real abuse, and you end up with quite a few scary possibilities.

The biggest, strictest group of safety laws are the League battle regulations. They’re designed to keep Pokemon battles reasonably safe and humane by limiting the attacks, items, and powers allowed in battle. If the trainer disobeys League rules, they can be smacked with full legal responsibility for any battle damage/death and can have their Pokemon or license confiscated.

Confiscated Pokemon get taken to Relocation Centers, which are kind of like Pokemon Centers except focused on rehabilitation and adoption. They’re cared for and given to new trainers or released into the wild.