>>37298691Rabbits are eternally correlated to sex. Eggs have renewed visibility due to PoGO and a motherly Eastermon would be great. Diet-Pagan folklore represented tastefully and tactfully.
Making the rabbit not the waifu would be a mistake. Also a fire type ram is an easy yet convincing edgemon, lightly playing off satanic/pagan folkloric undertones simply by being fire and ram. With the success of Lopunny I think if they passed on a nature/fertility themed rabbit design they would be shooting themselves in the foot.
They like to reinvent the wheel too much sometimes, as a personal challenge but some animals just have a cultural association behind them that sticks better and feels less imposed or artificial. A part of me laughed uneasily at
>>37298635 which is saddening...
Rabbits and rams have immense symbolic value in Europe so they would be very fitting starters and would make the scenic fan art god-tier, almost porn like in quality and visual appeal.