>>57673058You think that Ho oh and Lugia are some Yin-Yang duality, because pokemon started to have 2 opposing legendary beasts from Gen 3 onward, so you extrapolate that to Gen 2. And because there is no thematic opposite to rebirth, because it already implies life and death, you grasp at any possibility to make Lugia a thematic opposite to Hooh, and pretend that it's the center of its design.
Just because it's silver, does not make it the pokemon of silver.
Just because it sleeps a lot, does not make it the pokemon of sleeping.
And just because it caused death in one single event, does not make it the pokemon of death.
Gold was the only Gen2 game that was supposed to exist with Ho oh as its mascot. Gen2 was the """rebirth""" of the Pokemon IP.
The development, story, lore and in-world association of the game starts and ends with ho oh.
Lugia is nothing more than a cross promo from the movie, and the reason it's nowhere to be seen, is because all the towns were already finished when they retroactively decided to squeeze it in, to get movie-watchers to buy the games, and to make a second cartridge to sell more units, so they made up some shit as to why it's nowhere in the towns, why nobody talks about it, and why in every meaningful way, Lugia exists outside of the story, the world, and why nobody gives a fuck that Lugia even exists. They later expanded this, and made proper lore for Lugia.
But during the time of the Gen2 games GF employees that worked on the games said it themselves. It's the dead-all, official, from-the-top answer of Lugia's place in these games.
Ho-Oh is the Pokemon of Gen2. It is the Pokemon of Rebirth
Lugia is a marketing ploy. It is the Pokemon of being Nr.247 on the Pokedex.
Whatever more """writer's intent""" you put on top of that is YOUR headcanon.
