>>35399723Thank you for your thoughts and constructive criticisms. Parashade is based on Kage no Mushi which translates to "Shadow Bug/Parasite". Kage no Mushi is one of the rejected beta designs of Gold and Silver that used to be pictured on Bulbapedia's beta Pokemon page but was removed. I don't know exactly why, but I had heard some people had contested if Kage no Mushi was real or fake when the first beta designs for Gold and Silver were first leaked/shown off back in '99. But really it is unknown what happened. This was the artwork of Kage no Mushi that was used:
