Would the Tinkaton line be good Fae or bad Fae? I wanna ask that question since I like your characters and I love Tinkaton : )
"Oh Arceus, have I even met a tinkaton?!"
"There's one who I see aroind every so often, but I don't think they live in Wish Town. They probably come in from the Crossing."
"Well, anyway... there's no actual real "good" or "bad" Fairies, but tinkaton are also what you'd probably call a "bad" Fairy."
"Apparently, back before Fairies were considered Pokémon, and most people had only ever seen one of us once or twice in their lives, we'd sort of just... do things, without understanding concepts like private property or laws?"
"People didn't really understand why these weird Pokémon-like things were messing with their crops or houses or rivers or whatever, so... they started treating us like spirits that could be helpful or malicious, depending on what we were likely to do to your land or possessions."
"Well, what tinkaton were most likely to do was completely wreck your stuff. Like they'd tear apart old plows and train tracks and things like that. Most people didn't like that, so tinkaton became one of those Fairies that people sell "protective charms" or hang spicy berries for, to try and drive away."
"Mawile are uh, something like that, too. We were mainly just considered uncanny, deceitful, and aggressive. Which, I guess wasn't the most unreasonable assesment for the time, but nowadays it definitely gets thrown around the grapevine way more than it ought to be."