Mount Rushdown
Mount Rushdown evolves from Mad Mountain when fused with Starry Spangles.
Okay so I’ve been on hiatus because I’ve got something I’ve been wanting to show, but it’s taking a while. So instead of waiting on this I’ve gotten another fun one from the bank.
I want to play around with as many Yo-kai Watch gimmicks as possible, so here’s one take for a Merican counterpart. I decided on Mad Mountain because he appears a lot in the background of scenes, but never actually got an episode of his own, probably due to a lack of a proper Inspirit. So he’s significant enough to always be around, even though he’s never in focus.
In the original Japanese, Mad Mountain and Lava Lord are meant to be specific mountains, just given form. Mad Mountain is Mt. Fuji, which you could probably tell, while Lava Lord is Sakurajima, a volcano in Kyushu. So when making a third, American member, I had to make him a specific famous mountain. And considering these guys are mountains with faces, I had to pick the famous American mountain with faces.
The further puns, like being named “Mount Rushdown” or being a “face wrestler” sealed the deal. Dropping Peak isn’t based on any wrestling thing, it’s a reference to the rave reviews my guys get on the Yo-kai Craft server.
One fun thing about my work that you can see a bit of now is that Japanese humans and places use their Japanese names, while American humans and names use their dub names. This is also why Mount Rushdown has a pun name while the other two’s Japanese names are just the names of their mountains. He’s Merican, and working on dub rules!
I’m a bit trepidatious of using Mount Rushmore because of how controversial the mountain is in real life.
