>>30479790It's not only similar in color, but in shape too, and you're ignoring the ability they gave it.
You posted a cherrypicked version where carbuncle is most different from Espeon, I provided a google search depicting multiple versions of carbuncle where half of them are very similar to it.
Espeon is certainly not based on FF's carbuncle, but there's no mistake that they took the chance to make a very obvious reference.
>That's like arguing that Ninetales is a Naruto reference.Really bad analogy. They're unrelated but similar because they're both based on the same mythological creature.
>cat with a forked tailThe eevee line is a bunch of fennec foxes. 
