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>Cyndaquil aint a rat
Sup faggots who don't know shit about the country your games are based on
Cyndaquil fits the rat motif in the zodiac chart
Observe pic related. If you want to blatantly ignore 'Fire Mouse' like you don't know basic English then fine. Lets look at the Japanese.
Based on the tiny bit of Japanese I know, the thing reads 'Hinezumi'. In Japan, 'Nezumi' can mean mouse or rat and they probably use it for anything in that family, hence Chespin being called 'Harimaron' (Hari = 'needle')
Harinezumi = 'hedgehog'. the kanji combo is 'spiky' + 'rat'). Go to Japan and sperg out about hedgehogs not being rats if you want to.
TLDR: Hi + Nezumi = fire + rat. The shit is in a legend if you do some basic googling.
I don't give a shit about the zodiac thing, but enlighten yourselves and argue about Fennikin or something.