i know i only mentioned it yesterday but augh ive already caved im gonna ramble about deerling and sawsbuck!!!
deerling and sawsbuck are incredibly food motivated pkmn! especially deerling! deerling can be a lot more skittish than their evolution but once youve provided them food enough times then theyll warm up to you rather quickly!
most of sawsbuck and deerlings predators tend to be dog mon packs! lycanrocs, houndoom, mightyena, etc etc. its dangerous for a lone predator to go after these prey pkmn by themselves because the lead sawsbuck of the herd along with its followers can severely mess up a lone predator! so its best to hunt these prey pkmn in packs!
sawsbuck and deerling can be menaces to farmers though! walking all over their fields and eating their crops which is why a lot of farmers here in paldea keep lycanrocs as a way to deter the large herbivores.
sawsbuck and deerling have been know to eat meat before. thats it ive got nothing to add tot hat i just think its neat.
deerling do have antlers!! theyre just little numbs hidden underneath their flower so if you lift up the petals you will see them!!
sawsbuck antlers can come in all kinds of shapes and barks, my own sawsbucks antlers are specifically that of birch!
a sawsbuck and deerlings form doesnt always depend on the season! it can depend on the environment in which they live which is most noticeable by the sawsbuck and deerling of paldea! where year round you can find winter forms and summer forms at the same time! though when they leave these areas their forma do change, if a spring sawsbuck is taken to glaseado mountain then it will eventually become a winter form if there long enough!
a sawsbuck/deerling can also be artificially kept in a specific form! this is typically done for health reasons! my sawsbuck, bucky, suffers from overheating incredibly easily so he wears a medical version of a never-melt ice that chills his body which as a result keeps him as a winter form sawsbuck! and even with the extra fluff he still manages to stay cool enough due to the ice!
there are also cases of deerling/sawsbuck simply being stuck in a specific form and unable to change which can be due to a number of things! a mental block, trauma, lacking some sort of biological component, etc.
sawsbuck antlers, while being branches, also are bone at the base! the further up the antlers you go the less bone there is as the bone only goes on for a couple inches!
speaking of antlers, when a sawsbuck dies their antlers swiftly sprout flowers and then fall off like dead branches, dropping the flowers into the surrounding area which then cause more to sprout and creating “burial spot” for the sawsbuck! its a similar case for deerling but its just their head flower that falls off and begins the process of creating a small meadow!
so if you find a flower field and are where sawsbuck and deerling live then you may be able to find a skeleton among the flowers!
its a common practice among trainers to keep one of the flowers that came from the sawsbucks antlers as a way to remember them as the dying flower of a sawsbuck can live for an incredibly long time
