>>43679221In addition to all the things other Anons have said in this thread, a further reason why Malamar works well as a concept is because real squids and cuttlefish just as often swim upside-down as not.
We as land animals just kinda of collectively portray these guys as having legs on the bottom, but really squids and cuttlefish have no upper side and lower side. They swim in every direction and are perfectly capable of operating at any orientation. A squid with the tentacles on top isn't that strange.