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And just like for Serperior, here's a Blaziken as a normal rooster before being bred to be a fighting rooster. Fire/Flying.
#art#fakemon#fanart#pokemon#pokemon legends#legends#pokemon direct#legends z#pokemon z#z-a#pokemon z-a#legends z-a#blaziken#starter#fire
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Not sure if anyone pointed this out from the Pokemon Presents but thought it was cool
That's such good trolling. The Unowns spell out SOE YUE. The letter order symbolizes the gens, so if you move letters 2,5, and 6 so that 6 is second and then 5 and 6 swap, it spells out SEE YOU. everyone was expecting gen 2 or 5 but we got gen 6 first instead!
#pokemon day#legends za#z-a#nintendo#videogame#pokemon presents#zygarde#kalos#unown#unova#johto#troll#gamefreak
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Xerneas and Yveltal are Fungi: Let Me Explain...
Source: Bulbapedia, Wikipedia, Bulbapedia, Enchanted Nature
Xerneas and Yveltal are my favorite legendary designs. There's something weirdly alien about these bio-luminescent approximations of fauna, like they're trying to look like animals and failing. I've always thought they looked a little bit...fungal.
Xerneas and Yveltal are like batteries. They're life energy brokers; Xerneas distributes life, while Yveltal drains it. Supporting and draining life is one of the main characteristics of fungi. In fact, it's like their whole thing.
Some fungi have a mutualistic relationship with their hosts, where they actually benefit their health. And in general, fungi are essential to supporting the ecosystem. Then there's fungi that are simply parasitic.
Fungi can also go dormant, as well as their spores. Staying still is their thing, just chilling in dark places. Xerneas and Yveltal's dormant forms are especially weird, showing just how anomalous these creatures are.
Now allow me to lichen fauna to fungi.
Sources: Bulbapedia, New Forest Pics, Wikipedia, Mushroom Diary Blog
This is xylaria hypoxylon, also known as Stag's Horn fungus. (Not to be confused with Yellow Staghorn.) It reminds me a lot of the dormant form of Xerneas, or the "deactivated" form it takes in the PC.
Stag's Horn is also bio-luminscent, which means the tips of the fungus faintly glow - much like the tips of Xerneas's antlers.
Speaking of the first legendary Fairy Pokemon, mushrooms are often associated with fairies. Fairy Rings are circles of mushrooms that are connected by mycelium underneath. (I'll get into mycelium in just a second.) There are too many myths about Fairy Rings to get into here, so for now I'll just point out the Fairy Ring around Valerie's Gym in Laverre City.
Sources: Bulbapedia, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Enchanted Nature, UK Wildlife
I'm not sure whether Bulbapedia or Dr. King on Pokemon Amino first likened Yveltal to Devil's Fingers, but the similarities are uncanny. Like Yveltal emerges from its cocoon, Devil's Fingers emerge from what is called their "egg stage". I tried to find the least unsettling picture of this that I could. Enjoy...?
I mean, what kind of bird turns into a cocoon, anyway? Honestly though, fungus isn't supposed to hatch from an egg either, so this is all mixed up.
Okay, so Xerneas and Yveltal are based on different aspects of Yggdrasil. But if you were going to design Pokemon based on Yggdrasil, the World Tree that connects the universe, wouldn't you base it on fungi rather than an actual tree? Mycelium can actually partner with the roots of plants and other fungus to create a widespread beneficial mycorrhizal network, a truly interconnected ecosystem of organisms.
Source: BBC News - How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other
And that's why Xerneas and Yveltal are fungi. Or it could be part of their inspiration, at least. They're not necessarily inspired by these specific fungi, but I think the concept may be part of their design. Either way, Gen VI is especially fun to research!
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Check out my posts about Pokemon Legends: Z-A:
Poll: What Does the Λ in Legends Z-A Symbolize?
Pokemon Legends Z-A: What Is the Λ?
Is Z-A Just Zygarde-A? (%1000 Zygarde and the Fragments of the Tree of Life)
Aaah, it's an A! Is the A in Z-A the Tree of Life?
How much longer am I going to have to wait for a freakin' Unova remake?!
#Pokemon Y#Pokemon X#cw: fungus#Yveltal#Xerneas#Pokemon Legends: Z-A#Pokemon Legends Z A#Pokemon games#Pokemon#Kalos#gaming#Pokemon XY#Generation 6#Generation VI#Generation VI Pokemon#Video games#Z-A#Devil's Fingers#Octopus Stinkhorn#fungi#wild fungi#fungus#Stag's Horn#Candlesnuff#mycelial network#mycelium
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If you see me making absurd comments of Pokémon Z-A reblogs, I promise I'm joking
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So, the funny electric rat made an announcement...
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WE'RE SO BACK 🥺🥺🥺
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the prospect of getting to run around a big hub city like lumiose again is very fun, i am hoping it's not as empty as recent cities like mesagoza, wyndon, and jubilife village
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Ever since I was a little girl ive always wanted to open the emergency exit door
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Ohhh my God, the current VA for Foghorn Leghorn actually dubbed it.
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Congrats?
#this is the first pokemon presents where everyone is excited and no one is complaining which is the most unexpected part of all this#pokemon#pokemon z#pokemon x and y#pokemon black and white#pokemon gold and silver#pokemon heart gold and soul silver#serena pokemon#hilda pokemon#lyra pokemon#kalos#johto#unova
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The Eternal Flower Files: Sacred Geometry
Eternal Flower Floette is the mysterious, special Floette that AZ inherited from his late mother. It wields a strange, ancient red flower that holds terrifying power:
"Terrifying energy is concealed within its ominous flower, but Floette still swings it about innocently." (UltraMoon)
So. What is the Eternal Flower?
We associate flowers with the cycle of life in general - they bloom, they wilt, and then the plant grows again. When it comes to the symbolism around Eternal Flower, we see this theme of "life, death, and rebirth" over and over, likely referring to Floette's resurrection.
Flowers are a prominent symbol in Sacred Geometry. In some New Age beliefs, the ancient Flower of Life pattern symbolizes life, death, and rebirth, as well as the interconnected universe. The pattern maps onto the Eternal Flower pretty well.
Eternal Flower model from The Models Resource.
Certainly Eternal Flower Floette is powerful and significant in the lore, but this connection might suggest that the Eternal Flower itself has broader powers than just destroying things.
Many flower symbols are drawn with overlapping circles, which represent a continuous, eternal cycle. When writing about the Flower of Life, people often compare the progression of each phase of the pattern to cell division. What Pokemon do we know that represents cells?
Source: Flower of Life Construction, image by Tomruen
Another major flower symbol is the triquetra, an ancient trinity symbol that comes from three overlapping circles. (Shown in the third phase of the Flower of Life diagram.) The Eternal Flower is made up of three triquetrae, really emphasizing the number three:
In many Christian denominations, the triquetra symbolizes the Holy Trinity. In Celtic tradition, the triquetra, or the trinity knot, can, again symbolize the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. There is also a stylized triquetra on either side of AZ's Ultimate Weapon:
My approximation of the Ultimate Weapon symbol.
This is yet another connection between the Eternal Flower and the Ultimate Weapon - besides the fact that it blooms into a giant version of the Eternal Flower. Did AZ use the power of the Eternal Flower to build the Ultimate Weapon?
The Flower of Life pattern also seems to point to a strong relationship between Eternal Flower Floette and Zygarde. It's actually an effective symbol for Zygarde, considering how people compare the phases of the Flower of Life to cell division. Also, each individual bloom in the of the Flower of Life pattern is hexagonal.
Zygarde pic from Bulbapedia.
Every inch of Zygarde is a hexagon. Imagine, each of them as a continuing Flower of Life pattern the same way a palace wall is covered with it.
If Xerneas and Yveltal symbolize life and death, then Zygarde fittingly represents rebirth, as a collection of cells that can take a number of forms. This also fits the title "Z-A" which many fans have taken to mean "the end, and a new beginning". That begs the question: what is beginning? What is being reborn?
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Check out my theory that Zygarde used to be the Tree of Life, as well as my other posts about Pokemon Legends: Z-A here:
Xerneas and Yveltal are Fungi: Let Me Explain
Poll: What Does the Λ in Legends Z-A Symbolize?
Pokemon Legends Z-A: What Is the Λ?
Aaah, it's an A! Is the A in Z-A the Tree of Life?
How much longer am I going to have to wait for a freakin' Unova remake?!
#Eternal Flower Files#Eternal Flower Floette#Pokemon Legends: Z-A#Pokemon Legends Z-A#Pokemon Legends Zygarde#Pokemon Legends ZA#Pokemon Legends Z#Pokemon Z-A#Z-A#Zygarde#Pokemon#Pokemon Symbolism#Sacred Geometry#Pokemon games#gaming#Kalos#Pokemon XY#Pokemon Z#Pokemon XYZ#Gen 6#Generation 6#Floette#Gen VI#Gen VI Pokemon#Zygarde Pokemon#Video games#AZ#Z-A theories#Pokemon theories
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Annabeth: I, a child, had to earn Thalia’s love, that’s how the world works! I have to earn my moms love. Love is transactional, you gotta be worthy of it first silly :)
Percy, listening to this on the train
#STOP TRAUMATIZING THIS CHILD PLEASE#this is what it’s like when you were raised in a loving home and you find out your friend wasn’t#but they don’t know they weren’t#so you’re like um hey that’s fucked up and sometimes a crime?#you tell them parents are supposed to love you as is without earning it and they don’t believe you#you can hear the therapy bill racking up#annabeth chase#Percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo#pjo series#pjo tv show#mine#adding on to my tags because some people are debating if that’s how love works#love is meant to be a mutual exchange and something that grows over time between two people as their bond grows#whereas how Annabeth says it#in my opinion at least#she had to do XY and Z to be worthy of thalias love before receiving it#like with her mother#she has to be amazing before Athena is proud of her#vs Athena being proud of her just for being her daughter#that being said I’m not hating on a traumatized child having potentially negative and toxic patterns#more pointing out the comedy of the scene from Percy’s perspective who has a good grasp on healthy vs unhealthy relationships
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