>>36388092I mean, not really?
Popplio goes from a circus performer, to a Japanese pop star, to an opera singer. Brionne smoothly transitions the seal into being a singer- and also sets up the seal for being more feminine, with the line easily being describable as "trapseals" from Brionne onwards.
Rowlet, meanwhile, goes from a bowtie owl, to a fancy owl that throws leaves like knives and definitely is more expressive and human, to a very human-shaped bowman owl in a hoodie that shoots leaves like arrows. Dartrix definitely helps set up for Decidueye by setting up that the owl has a human element, and is a marksman that throws/shoots sharp leaves at things.
>>36388143Yeah, the squirtle line is "how not to set up for the final evolution".
