alteritynuzlocke:

In Alterity ‘verse, Pokémon ‘types’ are just a bunch of made-up, extremely overgeneralized labels that the League invented to try and roughly categorize the huge number of Pokémon and attacks out there. So there’s no way to ‘discover’ a fairy type, because ‘types’ are created by committee. (Apparently a really weird and nonsensical committee, but whatever.)

If a bunch of trainers developed new Pokemon techniques that were for some reason really effective against physical fighters, dark types, and dragons, the League might invent a new ‘type’ and class those moves under it so everyone could use them in League battle. Same thing if they started encountering species who tended to be particularly weak to Poison and Steel moves and resistant to fire—there’s no way to explain that with existing types, so they’d create a new one so things made more sense.

(And of course they’d call it ‘fairy’ because aren’t those type matchups EXACTLY what comes to mind when you think of fairies? Hello, most nonsensical type ever.)