>>6013548I understood that reference.
>>6013562My original idea was just a loose daydream of a girl who wore a flumph on her head like a beret but the flumph was the controlling intelligence and the human girl appendage was just a case of Wasmannian mimicry. From there it evolved into an actual monster girl (pic related) in a regular JRPG fantasy setting of castles and dragons and such where the protagonist would be a sort of liaison between the monsters and the humanoids. The idea of a pokemon-type setting came fairly late but it seemed like a good fit once it came to mind.
>>6013567Yes, but like most things in the game it was made up on the spot while I was writing that post. Originally, Onlion was going to be Joe's mon, Plumtree was going to be a helpful background character, and the cutecaptor didn't exist. Once it became clear that the /e/ professor had created a prototype pokeball it seemed like a nice plot device to hang over the players' heads.