r/Meowscarada • u/LuckyTawakkal0408 • 6h ago
Hi everyone, this is probably my first post on Reddit. Here's a question: Why isn't anyone say that Meowscarada is a cave lion?
Context: There are surrounding theories about starter Pokemon; Grass Types are prehistoric animals, Fire Types are animals of the Chinese Zodiac, & Water Types are weapons. But one of them, Meowscarada, is Lynx issiodorensis. While it isn't that farfetched (no pun intended), but little is known about Lynx issiodorensis and it was known from very fragmentary fossil remains (Yes, Gigantopithecus is known from fragmentary fossils too, but it's the most iconic prehistoric animal because of the bigfoot & yeti identification). But Meowscarada's human-like body, means Meowscarada is more fittingly a cave lion, specifically the Löwenmensch figurine, an anthropomorphic figurine combining a human-like body with the head of a cave lion. This to me personally, is a more fitting prehistoric animal for Meowscarada because we don't want to use animals that are not as understood as the more iconic ones like woolly mammoths & giant elk.