>>50687940>"The males were originally called feng and the females huang but SUCH A DISTINCTION OF GENDER IS NO LONGER MADE and they are blurred into A SINGLE FEMININE ENTITY so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which is traditionally deemed maleNot sure what you were trying to prove with that, but male fenghuang aren't a thing anymore, dude, and haven't been since long before you were even born. Regardless, the Fenghuang statue on top of the real-life Kinkaju-ji temple, which Ho-oh is literally supposed to represent, depicts the female variant. So she is - and always was - a female legendary; her being the female is the reason why Lugia, who was also originally intended to be female, was changed to male in the movie - they wanted one legendary of each sex, and Ho-oh was the female by default. 'Cuz, you know, it's a Fenghuang.
