I uh, don’t even know the place to start out right here. Recreation Freak has been hacked and numerous recordsdata have been launched, which sadly embrace some private details about its workers. Nevertheless it additionally contains every part from unused idea artwork and scrapped lore tales from the universe, and one particularly has gone a bit viral. Greater than a bit.

That might be a story about Typhlosion, the Gold/Silver starter evolution which I positively picked rising up. I additionally picked Charizard earlier than that. I like hearth, what can I say. However now my recollections could be…tainted a bit.

Followers have found some form of misplaced lore story about Typhlosion which…effectively, right here’s a short excerpt:

“A very long time in the past, when the boundary between Pokémon and people was unclear…”

Okay nope I’m gonna cease proper there. Sure, that is going the place you assume it’s going, a relationship between a human and Pokemon. That form of relationship. Nevertheless it’s…even weirder than you would possibly assume.

A younger lady is tricked by a shape-shifting Bakufun (Typhlosion) into considering that he’s a human. Ultimately, she apparently has a toddler with him and he or she’s referred to as his spouse. Her father ultimately comes and kills the Bakfun and when she returns to the village she and her half-Pokémon youngster is teased by the lads within the village who at one level cowl it in fur skins. Then they run into the forest and are by no means seen once more. Right here’s a very nightmarish passage from when the daddy goes to seek out his daughter:

“You may have damaged the department. Your father can be right here quickly. Now I’m going to do one thing unhealthy to your father. Should you kill me, you may have my eyes, my voice, and my coronary heart. Then I need you to construct a hearth the place I used to be killed and let it burn. And I need you to sing this tune till it burns out.”

The lady stated, “Please cease. You’re going to kill my father. Please cease. Let your self be killed.”

“Goodbye. We’ll by no means meet once more.”

Many types of mythology, together with Japanese mythology, has animals remodeling into people or vice versa as a way to exhibit some type of trickery. Zeus did this rather a lot, for instance. Particularly, Typhlosion is meant to be based mostly of the Mujina, the Japanese Badger, the place in folklore it’s typically depicted to be a shape-shifting Yokai (demon/trickster/monster) so this isn’t fully pulled out of skinny air. However one thing like this making it into Pokémon paperwork at Recreation Freak is uh, one thing.

It’s unclear why this story was made or why it’s in these recordsdata. We do not know who wrote it or if it was anyplace shut to creating it right into a recreation (there are many actually darkish Pokémon lore tales, although none fairly this loopy). However the textual content has taken off on-line all the identical and now nobody will ever take a look at Typhlosion the identical manner once more. I definitely gained’t.

I’ve reached out to Recreation Freak for remark and can replace if I hear again.

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