>>45883552iirc nekomata’s started off as regular cats whose tail began to split, so the younger ones start off with forked tails and then grow up to eventually have two tails.
Espeon is meant to be a younger version of the nekomata (USUM dex states it originally had no powers at all, so imagine a world with Espeon’s with a normal cat tail) hence the forked tail, and Meowstic is meant to be an older nekomata (two tails).
