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I remember when /vp/ lost its shit over the reveal of Fairy-type. I remember the confusion and the hype.
Now we are 2 generations into having this new type, and I still can't wrap my head around what exactly its theme is meant to be.
The joke is that it's "pink, round, cute things," but Fairy-type includes a wider range than just that.
For every Clefairy, Jigglypuff or Flabebe, the Fairy-type also includes Pokemon like Mawile, Xerneas, and the Tapus.
Marrill and Dedene are Fairy, but not Plusle, Pachirisu, or even Pikachu.
The Ralts line became part Fairy, except for Gallade. Yet their designs are all pretty similar regardless.
Jigglypuff's line got the honor of becoming Normal/Fairy (while Clefairy changed to pure Fairy), but the Chansey line stayed Normal. Aren't they all pretty similar designs?
And while Pokemon like Cutiefly, Comfey, Whimsicott and Magearna are part Fairy, others like Vivillon, Bellossom, Lilligant, and Meloetta are not.
Pretty much every other type seems to match a clear theme. A lot of the "elemental" Pokemon are tied to that element (it runs on electricity, it lives in water, its on fire...). Ghost-types are clearly all meant to be spirits with some mythological ties, Bugs are all insectoid, Fighting types are hardened brawlers... Even Dragon and Steel, with some of their odder family members such as M-Ampharos, A-Exeggutor, and Lucario? All of those Pokemon are that type because of either an in-joke or "variation" of the type's theme ("Denryu" has "dragon" in the name, Hawaii has "dragon" trees, Lucario has a "steel heart"...).
So are Fairy-type Pokemon all meant to be fairy tale creatures? Mythical beings? Cute Pokemon? It's the only type I can think of where the members are completely all over the place. And so many Pokemon could, arguably, fit as "Fairy-types." I was as shocked as anyone that the list of retyped Pokemon in Gen VI wasn't larger (and seemingly random).
So, /vp/... What the hell is a Fairy-type?
