Dec 28, 2023
I'm of the opinion that the Ice Face ability could have been given to a fox pokemon. It's cute and makes sense!
seen from Romania
seen from India
seen from China
seen from Portugal
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Portugal
seen from Singapore
seen from South Africa
seen from Türkiye
seen from Morocco
seen from China
seen from Philippines
seen from Indonesia
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from Romania
I'm of the opinion that the Ice Face ability could have been given to a fox pokemon. It's cute and makes sense!
POKEFOXES: WHAT FOX THEY ARE? PT5
Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark
Fox: Once again they are based on kitsunes/nogitsunes (red foxes: Hokkaido fox and the Japanese red fox)
At Normal/Ghost they use one of the characteristics Pokémon hadn't incorporated before from kitsunes. They are spirits, Yōkai*.
Kitsunes vex their targets by creating phantom sounds and sights, stealing from them, or otherwise humiliating them publicly.
The off-white and red accents is a common coloration asigned to yokai, see Ōkami (video game) and of course, the traditional kitusne masks.
Vengeful spirits:
Summary of Zorua and Zoroark entries
Zoruas migrated to the Hisui region after being driven from other lands by humans, who shunned them for manifesting uncanny illusions.
But the Zoruas perished, unable to survive Hisui.
Their lingering souls were reborn in this Ghost-type form through the power of their malice toward humans and Pokémon.
If Hisuian Zorua spot a lone person or Pokémon, they appear before them in a guise mimicking the target’s appearance.
These ghostly mimicries are created using spiteful power emitted from the long fur on their head, around its neck, and on its tail.
And the illusions that Baneful Fox Pokémon projects have expressions of such utter malice toward every last thing upon this world that those who see them are said to be driven mad by the terror.
It appears that Hisuian Zorua absorb and draw strength from the terror of those who witness their illusions.
It appears to have a compassionate streak for those it considers close or like family
Unlike common Zorua who takes the trickster persona of kitsunes, the Hisuian variant takes their vengeful side.
A Onryō “vengeful spirit” refers to a ghost capable of causing harm in the world of the living, injuring or killing, to exact vengeance against those who wronged them.
*Nogitsunes or Yakos, low ranking and even more mischievous kitsunes; who enjoy stealing and scaring people, making noises at night.
For foxes with a darker reputation that may have inspired some aspects we have the Kumihos, the Korean equivalent, described as a bloodthirsty half-fox, half-human creatures that wandered cemeteries at night, digging human hearts out from graves or tricking people to eat theirs.
And “China's huli jing and Japan's kitsune are often depicted with ambiguous moral compasses, possibly good or bad, the kumiho is almost always treated as a malignant figure who feasts on human flesh”
(Art credit by @toyoll link)
The skrunkly
Matching icons for you and the person you want to give chocolate to !
A transparent nickit that I was gonna make a sticker but then it got taken down whoops
In the pokeverse there's a Fox village like the one in Japan
Everything would be pretty much the same : Some pokefoxes beg for food with their cute lil faces. Some laze around, basking in the sun. Some run after others, playfully. And Nickits CONSTANTLY TRY TO STEAL THE VISITORS' STUFF AND QUICKLY BURRY THEM IN A HOLE.
The other piece I did for @thelostdex ! It's a fox design with no name that we ended up calling Wispyr! It's Fire/Dark
Fox pokémon! Sorta