The names are alright. Yveltal as a name looks and sounds interesting ("ee-vel-tal"), and Xerneas is alright.
What I don't understand is why Gamefreak is on this scraggly, techno tron look for much of its legends the past four generations. Surely if Yveltal is supposed to be a bird-like legend they could have made it look more like an actual bird? It looks rather grotesque in that picture. Even if it isn't supposed to be a "bird", or even an offshoot of any regular animal for that matter, the tron look is annoying. At least Xerneas looks something like a real world animal as an elk
I completely agree with you. The bird one looks horrible, Xerneas is a forest guardian from princess Monoke or was it nazika of the wind. It also made an appearance in the new 2012 snow white movie! It's not original at all; but i love it.
I just don't understand why they don't make another water(fish) legendary like kyorge. Whats with all the flying legendaries, we just got done with zekrom and and all the b/w flying legendaries.