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/vp/ would you like more the "ugly duckling" and "beauty transformation" theme from Feebas to Milotic or a mythical one of Clamerl evolving into Milotic because of:
"Venus embodies sex, love, beauty, enticement, seduction, and persuasive female charm among the community of immortal gods; in Latin orthography, her name is indistinguishable from the Latin noun venus ("sexual love" and "sexual desire"), from which it derives"
"In myth, Venus-Aphrodite was born of sea-foam. Roman theology presents Venus as the yielding, watery female principle, essential to the generation and balance of life. Her male counterparts in the Roman pantheon, Vulcan and Mars, are active and fiery. Venus absorbs and tempers the male essence, uniting the opposites of male and female in mutual affection. She is essentially assimilative and benign, and embraces several otherwise quite disparate functions. She can give military victory, sexual success, good fortune and prosperity. In one context, she is a goddess of prostitutes; in another, she turns the hearts of men and women from sexual vice to virtue."
(note Milotic is not exclusively female but it's pretty much the opposite of Gyarados that has affinities with Mars except for the common shitmon fish pre evolution, Pokemon counterpart to Vulcan / Hephaestus is clearly Heatran which isn't related to the two in Pokemon, also regarding the battles / wars, Moxie and Competitive are pretty obvious counterpart duo and Milotic learning Recover may be a reference to her healing attributes)
