so i work at target and two kids ran outside shouting at their clearly exasperated mother that there’s a squirtle outside and it took everything in me not to follow them out until my fucking manager went “A SQUIRTLE?!” and ran outside to catch it
and i can’t get over it because that sounds like a clearly fake text post but it happened because EVERYTHING coming from this game sounds fake like if someone told me they caught a dragonite and the whole bus rose in a standing ovation i would fucking believe it because that’s the kind of shit that happens with pokemon go
like clearly 2016 is a fake year but finally we’re getting something unreal that’s actually good
I don’t know if this has already been posted but a fan asked the official character designer of Pokemon Go about Blanche’s gender and he answered that “everyone can interpret it the way they want to”!
you have these two ethereal blue snake-like dragons
and then some chunky stuffed-animal looking puff the magic dragon
i dont understand. what happened nintendo.
this has been around for years now but there’s so many people that haven’t seen it but the common theory is that there was a last minute decision to change around evolutionary lines without changing actual pokemon designs that much to match it better
like this:
colors and body styles line up much better here, although my personal belief is that dragonite was supposed to be a standalone legendary but he didn’t fit in with the legendary bird trio so he was cut to just be a powerful dragon type, and then the dratini/dragonaire line was handed over to him. that left gyarados without an evolutionary line though, so i think that’s when magikarp was added in to create a sort of amusing and surprising evolution for players that didn’t expect a powerful pokemon to come out of a useless one
I mean, gyarados is pretty clearly based on the koi dragon story about the koi fish that spent a hundred years trying to climb a waterfall while demons mocked it and raised the height of the falls until it finally reached the top and the gods rewarded it by transforming it into a dragon, so I doubt Magikarp -> Gyarados family is a mistake.
Dragonite’s line is based on Korean Dragons and Imugi! Imugi are lesser dragons that look like giant serpents and live in the ocean. If an Imugi can catch a Yeouiju (like a big bead, the kind that Dragonair has!) that falls from heaven, they can become a TRUE dragon like Dragonite.
I pulled this image from wikipedia’s article on Korean Dragons, note that the dragon is holding the big yeouiju.
