>>31581298I want this now. Poison/normal type could be neat for it. As for the other "obligitory x"s:
I guess a kookaburra could work as Australian pikipek? Maybe dark/flying or even psychic/flying could be cool.
A nice, freaky bug/ground trapdoor spider might be neat for the regional bug.
A bilby would make a cool pika clone.
Is a crocodile turning into a sort of croc/bunyip hybrid thing too vanilla to be a pseudo? I'm thinking water/grass type swamp monster type stuff.
Box legends could be anything. I mean, they used (arguably) Norse stuff for a French region, and Medieval European stuff for a Hawaiian region, so I'll guess a set of Mesoamerican god-based legends. A Tezcatlipoca inspired dark/ghost jaguar and a Quetzalcoatl inspired flying/fairy type feathered serpent sound like something gf would do.
Fossils are easy. Poison/rock megalania, and either a dark/rock marsupial lion or a dark/rock Tasmanian tiger. Either way, give em strong jaw and a new rock fang move.
As for the starters...a fire snake fits way too well (both in terms of "muh zodiac," "muh cool/feminine/muscular triangle" [in the cool section] and "muh Australia"), but I'm not sure about the others. A koala would've been a good grass starter, but that's been taken. What about a shingleback skink crossed with a pine cone for the grass starter? They are called "pinecone lizards" down here. The water starter is tricky, and if we follow the whole "has to be a semiaquatic animal" meme, that unfortunately rules out sharks and blue ringed octopi. A blue penguin or freshwater crocodile seem fitting, but everyone would moan about piplup and totodile. A platypus seems like a perfect fit here.
Fuck, now I want all this even more.
