RE: The Two Legendary Pokemon
Water Pokémon Master said:
What do you guys think about the two? I feel like the elk is a design Pokemon should have done a while ago. I've seen a lot of fanart over the years for an elk-like Legendary Pokemon, many of which I think are inspired by the
Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke. So I'm glad they finally brought that kind of design over to the Pokemon world now since an elk always seems to be one of the great animals of the forest. ..
..So what do you guys think? What do you think the Pokemon are based on? What do you think their designs mean to the story? I'm not sure what the bird Pokemon is supposed to be, but the elk Pokemon seems to have some sort of mysterious power going on with its rainbow-colored antlers. They sort of remind me of DNA, which the games might even be themed after.
I so agree D:
As for what the theme is here, its freaking awesome.
XY - chromosomes
DNA-strand-detail in japanese title logo
If you still haven't figured out the colorful antlers. Try looking at this:
Heck even the colors are usually similar to the 4 lights of the 4 branches: yellow, red, purple, cyan (colors for the bases vary with literature as seen above)
The life, forest, Yggdrasil/tree of life, thing is pretty obvious.
But anyone wondering why the opposite to a forest deer god would be some shady flying thing... VULTURE.
And since I mentioned Yggdrasil...
This is Nidhoggr a boss from Ragnarok Online
Perhaps Y is inspired by it or another norse mythology creature.
If that's not the case, Nidhoggr is a great candidate for the left legendary (third/sequel whatever).
It also looks like a giant claw from below. Maybe Im missing some virus clue or similar here.
Besides all that, I wonder if they'll have genders like Latias/Latios
The masculine/feminine theme and similar is also in these two like with Reshiram/Zekrom.
One is so threatening and rough, the other so majestic and elegant.
As for the types, Y is IMO way too obvious this time.
It screams Dark type. And Flying is just common sense.
Dark / Flying
Since the other one is nature, life and dna building blocks themselves.. along with the fact that its standing in front of a huge tree and a forest, I'm confident it will be Grass either primary or secondary.
The mysterious part is what the other type is. Some people would jump to the cliche Psychic type...but I think Steel might be more appropriate here.
Grass / Steel or even
Steel / Grass
What I cannot figure out is what the meaning behind the 5 claws on each wing/tail of Y is.
