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At Anon5; lol pedophilia(or if your referring to keeping it as a Ralts, maybe Nepiophilia…?)
If you’ve followed me long enough, you might expect me to tear into today’s pokemon line, but truth is, my feelings about the Ralts family are pretty mixed, and more positive than negative.
Ralts itself is a strange little psychic type, more recently upgraded to both a psychic and type, and I really dig its style. I have no idea what the green and red parts of these pokemon are supposed to be – if they’re skin or keratin or chitin or what – but I like that we usually can’t see this one’s eyes. It’s a shy, shuffling ghost-with a dorky bowl cut. It feels fairly suitable for a creature that apparently senses the emotions of other beings and tries to avoid confrontation.
The name, which is the same in both Japanese and English, seems to come from “Waltz,” though in a few other countries, it’s called , which also refers to a bone, but here it’s probably meant to be an anagram of
If Ralts (and even its final evolution) have any particular visual inspiration, it’s more than likely a , which, if you’re not familiar, is a small ghost-like doll traditionally said to ward off rainy days. “Teru” is basically the verb for sunshine, and the name can sort of be translated as “sunny sunny monk.” The third generation seemed to have an obsession with these things, probably because this was the generation that introduced weather mechanics to Pokemon, so there’s actually entirely different, entirely unrelated pokemon lines in Ruby/Sapphire that seem to draw some inspiration from sunshine monks.
Oh, yeah, and then they gave Gallade a mega with a cape or whatever.
If you like Gallade, cool, I can see people liking it, but it’s a painfully predictable, arbitrarily limited split evolution that doesn’t add anything worth adding to the Ralts line. Maybe I would like it if it instead wound up being Gardevoir’s mega form, but as it stands, Gallade feels like unnecessary pokedex filler pandering to Gardevoir’s explosive fandom.
Every list of the “laziest” pokemon concepts fails utterly if it does not include Gallade, but we already knew they failed utterly when so many of them included precious angels like Voltorb and Trubbish.
The Ralts Family
