Pokemon's Recent Leaks May Not Have Ruined Typhlosion After All

Summary

Pokemondeveloper Game Freak’s recent mega-leak has thrown up some pretty wild insights into the studio’s development process and plans,potentially revealing details about Gen 10andPokemon Legends: Z-A. Sorting through it all has been an ordeal, but the most bizarre part of the entire fiasco were several stories allegedly written by team members at Game Freak thathad humans giving birth to Pokemon children.

One particular story about Typhlosion went viral more than others, and seemingly involved a Typhlosion kidnapping a young girl, wiping her memories of her family and friends, and then having a child with her. That story has made sure that every Typhlosion fan out there will never look at their favorite Pokemon ever again, but new details have recently come to light that seem to clear the Fire starter of any wrongdoing.

Earlier this week,a Twitter user called Roltas01claimed that the story about Typhlosion that went viral featured an alarming number of inaccuracies due to the fact that it was machine-translated. With the help of several other Twitter users, they claim to have seen the original story and translated it themselves, giving us a much more accurate version of the same events.

Pokemon’s Recent Leaks May Not Have Ruined Typhlosion After All

Instead, the story apparently tells the tale of a Typhlosion that disguised itself as a hermit and saved a young woman lost in the woods at night by bringing her back to its home. Roltas01 claims that many parts of the story share similarities with Japanese folklore, and women usually depcited in these stories range from between 16 and 20. It’s still pretty seedy, but a far cry better than most people assuming this woman was underage, and Roltas01 even mentions that the story isn’t too dissimilar to something like Beauty and the Beast.

Roltas01 then goes on to explain that the Typhlosion in this story is probably a stand-in for a Mujina, which is a large, shapeshifting Yokai whose original form is a badger. They also claim that this explains the part of the story that has Typhlosion wiping the girl’s memory, as humans losing ther memory when coming into contact with Yokai is a common trope in Japanese folklore.

We then get onto the issue of the girl having Typhlosion’s child, and Roltas01 also believes that this is more of a metaphor than something to be taken literally. They explain that Japanese mythology often uses childbirth as a metaphor for new life, and that the marriage is most likely “an allegory for two souls to be linked”. Therefore, the whole marriage and childbirth is simply a metaphorical way of saying that this woman now has a new life because she’s spiritually linked to a Yokai.

Roltas01 goes a little bit more in-depth about the rest of the story, but those are the comments that clear Typhlosion of serious wrongdoing. From the rest of the stories that leaked over the past week, along with how they’re written, it does seem likely that they were originally tales inspired by folklore, rather than someone at Game Freak having their weird fan-fic leak. With that in mind, all you Typhlosion fans can go back to enjoying your boy once again.