Number one hundred and fifty is a sacred number, a titan: the number of the first generation of Pokémon, not counting Mew, which is weird, but canonical. It is strange and mind-bending to have Mewtwo come before Mew, the hybrid before the prime, but there is no way out of it. It's like how you are free to not exist, but not free to have not existed. Numbers and language and the seeming contradictions between what they describe and seeming reality and the truly real are just the rules of the game.
Nothing can ever be truly real, but everything that is not real is contained within reality, is just as real as anything else. Unreal things are just as independent of how many people believe in them or what they believe about them as real things. Their reality, their having-been-in-the-world, is unaffected, despite relying on belief to have come into existence in the first place.
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Reality has this tendency towards getting realer all the time. The realer it gets, the harder it is to believe in it.
--JL
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