>>44802936>Huge PowerThe Japanese name, ちからもち, or Chikaramochi, is a pun. It is supposed to mean "Muscleman," hinting that a Pokemon has muscles strong enough to double their physical attack power. But it can also mean Chikara = Power, and Mochi, sweet rice cakes made out of starch, sugar, and water. There is a legend originating from China about a goddess named Change'e, Chango, or Heng'e, who is the Chinese goddess of the moon with associations with immorality (the elixir of life), her banishment to the moon for stealing the elixir from her husband, and her companion, a moon rabbit. The rabbit in Chinese folklore uses a mortar and pestle on the Moon repeatedly to pound down the ingredients to make the elixir of life (hence where that Press A to Pound reference comes from) for Change'e. In Japanese and Korean legend, the rabbit instead creates mochi. Fairy-type Pokemon originally came from the moon, according to the original beta concepts of XY. (The Fairy-type specialists also came from the moon, and are aliens.) That's why every Pokemon that has Huge Power is a rabbit; even Mawile can be a rabbit if you call its two jaws its ears.
The Azurill line was given its Fairy-typing out of a callback to the moon rabbit regend; they are the moon rabbits. Every Fairy-type Pokemon in the past given that typing, as well as the new ones, are all callbacks to certain fairies, spirits, elves, gnomes, pixies, etc. The XY timeline is an alternate timeline where deities have awakened the latent potential of Pokemon that originated from the moon and gave them their Fairy-typing back.
