>>56203355>>56203362It's based on this fuckin thing, it doesn't have a consistent look but the most common points are.
>"white beast">usually has the head of a human>horns, usually black>doesn't always have eyes all over it, but DOES practically always have a 3rd eye (referenced by Absol's forehead dot)>if it appears, disaster will follow soon after (in some legends it causes ruin, in some it warns people)The Bai Ze is a mountain creature and 80% of the time it's depicted as some cow thing, but sometimes it gets depicted as a large predatory mountain cat. That's what Absol is. Absol has a human-like face because the Bai Ze has one, it's not a Sphinx at all, literally nothing about Absol is sphinx inspired, they just coincidentally look similar.
