From Philosophical Research
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[cr. 2025-05-24T00:17:16Z]
so let me get this straight, Pineco and Forretress are supposed to be like a tree shooting cannonballs? just because pine cones fall out of trees?
that sounds more like an SCP report than a Pokémon. but it could actually work in the South Vechheim Pokédex.
imagine a Pokémon episode that was like, welcome to east germany, when people were considering deforestation in the other half of germany the trees fought back. in that setting you really could have an SCP-report-sounding episode or dex entry.
so, okay. you have pineco, then you have forretress, then you have a regional evolution.
this new Pokémon is kind of like this commander or control tower for all the pineco. this pokémon turns trees into armed bases that join together a bunch of Pokémon so that the tree functions like one big Pokémon.
"tree functions like one big Pokémon" has happened before with that early tree of life plot and then with its reboot into Zygarde, but this would be like a kind of microcosm of that. a "zygarde-let".
pineco evolves into a greenish moth. the moth embeds itself into a tree. the tree gets these hexagonal veins over it. the moth is able to command all the Pineco and Forretress to drop off the tree and attack loggers. there can be more than one moth.
green-moth, tree-guard... oh man that's totally its name. KIGARDE in Japanese. Treegarde in English.
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[cr. 2025-05-24T00:27:25Z]
I am so possessed to just create this ironic parody of The Lorax in that there is literally some woodcutter guy these moths defeat.
