>>45071695>>45071797not every single ultra beast has to be associated with a particular character, though. the stark similarities between lillie and nihilego, lusamine and pheromosa (their official designs are literally mirrors of each other), and guzma and xurkitree leads me to believe that their original vision might have included something about UBs/pokemon turning into humans or humans turning into UBs/pokemon. they dropped this idea by the time the script was finished, but the similarities between nihilego and lillie were too strong to ignore so they just went with a "lol lusamine dresses her up as nihilego" excuse.
you can call this fanfiction, sure, but history has shown that pokemon is a series rife with scrapped ideas. unused dialogue shows that hilbert and hilda were supposed to appear in bw2, for example.
