>>48527516Nothing in its lore indicates it's a zombie
>>48527517>it's just a normal little guy who died, simpleRegular Zorua is a Dark type, and effectively every ghost type usually comes from someone who died. Yamask comes from normal humans.
>normal type is used to describe very basic thingsNormal is used as a non-elemental, or wildcard typing. It is often paired with Flying because, in Pokemon lore, the type isn't standalone because nothing just flies.
Yes they abandoned this in Gen 8 because they don't care about these things anymore. If there's a Normal dual type that isn't flying, the design and lore should be significantly stand out and weird, to justify the typing. Pic related is a great example of this.