>>47393411Kinda disappointed nobody ITT has adequately explained why Dark Type fits Absol completely perfectly, considering the reason behind it is not so hard to understand. But fine, I'll do it.
We all know by now that Dark is Evil, a behavioral Type that is largely defined by a villainous fighting style. Deceit, intimidation, cruelty and malevolence all seem to more or less define what the Type is. Absol aside from being an edgyboi doesn't seem to fit this whatsoever, in fact being explicitly noble and heroic.
This subversion of expectations is of course, the point. Nothing showcases this better than the fact Absol's head is deliberately made to look like a yin-yang symbol. You have to ask yourself what the intention was behind this motif. It is trying to communicate that within Absol's evil appearance and shady personality is a spark of uncorruptable good. It is saying that the world is NOT in black and white—not in ABSOLutes.
The point of this Pokémon is to offer commentary about the interconnected nature of good and evil, and of dichotomy. You can in fact be a so-called Evil Type and still choose to use your "evil" powers exclusively to help or even save people. Who is better equipped to save people from insidious forces? The hero? Someone who is too morally innocent to understand how a villain's mind truly works? Or someone who DOES understand precisely how their mind works, because they have flirted with dark forces before, and knows exactly how to use those very same formidable underhanded tactics AGAINST the villain to aid the side of good? You're meant to ask these questions.
Nevermind all that tho, because there are more direct, non-subversive reasons why Absol fits Dark Type perfectly. See, you really don't need to BE evil to be Dark Type, that's just the most obvious and common route to go with it.
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