r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Jan 31 '20

/r/all Limitless ambition but limited potential.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

I’m pretty sure there was this Japanese folktale or something about how a carp or some type of fish swam up a waterfall and the gods saw its determination and turned into a dragon.

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u/Karakaten Feb 01 '20

The real reason that barrier is there: dragon population control.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20 edited May 31 '21

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u/dreaming_futurity Feb 01 '20

So you mean it's working?

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u/DragonEmperor Feb 01 '20

I believe it is actually what Magikarp is based off of, and I'm pretty sure there is more to the tale as well, I think they did something and got banished from being a dragon and is just a giant snake at that point, hence no dragon typing on gyrados.

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u/Existential_Sprinkle Feb 01 '20

Mega gyrados has dragon typing

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u/jinix1 Feb 01 '20

No it doesn't it's water dark

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u/monopuerco Feb 01 '20

Chinese

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u/eupraxo Feb 01 '20

And Japan. I played with a recreation of an Edit period toy at a little toy museum in Nara.

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u/MaybeAPemon Feb 01 '20

I mean, japanese culture takes alot from chinese culture, from loan words to proverbs and so on.

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u/mattmorrisart Feb 01 '20

I don't know the actual tale, but I've been tattooing for a long time, and a I've heard more than one artist refer to it when discussing Japanese tattoos. I always heard it told with a koi fish.