>>54969925Yeeeah gonna walk that one back
>>54969912I meant that they have adaptational reasons for why they do certain things.
Whereas the part where I say "NOT ALL LORE is reflected" I conflated things their features are conducive to doing with the actual adaptional reason it has them
>Cubone as an individualCubone's storyline isn't inherent to an individual, a mother dying while protecting its young is something that could be seen happening a lot, as well as the adaptation of using bones
>>54969886>Cubone's design is built ENTIRELY on its storyline.It's not, the storyline is built on the design.
Literally anything can pick up bones and use them as weapons. Cubone has visible digits and graspers and no other visible defense mechanism so its logical that it would pick up some kind of item to fight. The dead mother just adds context and flavor, and the pokedex is canonically exaggerated(that means not everything it says is true)
>>54969925>its not integral to incineroar's design eitherOkay I actually change my opinion. It's conducive to coming out of Incineroar's belly button. The belt is a symbol of pride, a spirit is something that embodies the aspect of the individual. This is actually pretty clever. I guess its valid as a design choice, but it doesn't mix well with the wrestler theme. It gets overshadowed and doesn't add the appeal that you would get from an exploding belly chakra. Thematically, they fit together perfectly, but on the design, it just looks like a belt.
Cubone's mother isn't necessary for explaining its use of bones, but Incineroar's navel is necessary for explaining its use of fire.
So basically, an integral aspect of the design's explanation isn't conveyed WELL through its visuals because a viewer is unlikely to infer based on looking at the design.
I think maybe I am retarded I took a while to change my argument from "it isn't conveyed at all" to "it isn't conveyed WELL"
