>>58898459This is an issue I have with the whole "UBs are supposed to look alien!" headcanon that people use to try and justify them. They dont look THAT much weirder than what we've already seen with regular Pokemon, and then a good hand full of them are based directly on extremely terrestrial concepts to begin with.
Like, why does "waifu cockroach" seem so different than "little fairy girl lightning bug"? We've got fucking bizarre Pokemon like Sigilyph, Woboffet, Unown, Exeggutor, etc.. already, and yet "buff mosquito" is supposed to be so alien as to be un-Pokemon-like? Why is "Pokemon based on a Japanese myth" supposed to feel alien?
As far as I can tell, it just seems like the UBs were lame designs and got rejected for it, then repurposed as "rejects recontextualized" as a meta observation.
