>>51567419Illumise is not a nature spirit. It's just a cute bug. Togepi and its evolutions are nature spirits, embodying a kind of spirit of happiness. Galarian Weezing is a nature spirit that evolved in response to human environmental damage. This is why it absorbs pollution and lets out clean air. Mr. Mime is a crafter of illusions and its humanoid appearance corresponds with historical ideas of fairies. Once again, you're pretending to misunderstand a coherent concept by being pedantic. I bring up Shakespeare because it's evidence of your double standard. Are you going to attack Puck for not being feminine enough, or perhaps being too feminine, not being enough of a hobgoblin or boggart? It's absurd. These are conditions that exist on a spectrum and are completely comprehensible. Pretending not to understand a holistic concept only makes you look illiterate. The definition is broad because fairies are a complex category with deep historical and literary roots. But your argument amounts to saying that it makes no sense to use the word 'religion' when it can be coherently and creditably applied to Christianity, Buddhism, and Scientology.
Conversely, the Psychic type is Esper in Japanese, so your Greek is irrelevant. Psychic is not an exact approximation of Esper, and it's conspicuous by its exclusion of Pokémon that have magical powers—like a number of Fairy types, actually. In the context of Gen I logic, Exeggutor and Starmie have no more reason to be Psychic than Clefairy—Clefairy even has the space connection, like Starmie—and it's probably accident of fate that the latter was grouped with a bunch of Normal type pink blobmons. Clefairy's new Fairy typing actually accounts well for this: it draws its powers from the moon, from nature, rather than its own will. Others, like Deoxys, are Psychic types by a thematic association of Espers with space that makes much less sense on the face of it than an anthropomorphic pink dog being classified as a nature sprite.
