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This is Uzumako, the evolution of Scuppierce.

It’s based on the bizarre prehistoric shark Helicoprion. Screw Megalodon, that thing is who we should be paying attention to. Sharks, like everything else in the Permian period (the time period just before the dinosaurs took over) decided they were just gonna become really freaking weird, resulting in (among others) a shark that looks like it had a buzzsaw in its mouth. If you look it up you can find some hilarious reconstructions of this thing, because paleontologists have been looking at this for over 100 years and having no idea what to do with it.

Because of the amount of confusing Uzumako’s inspiration and its weird mouth have caused, this pokemon has a brand new ability: Baffling Jaw. Any biting moves inflicted by this pokemon have a chance of making its opponent confused, because seriously, what is going on there??

Name inspiration: Uzumaki (Japanese for spiral) + mako (a species of shark)

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Maybe if we keep making fake mega evolutions, game freak will bring them back

This one’s design process was a bit of a journey. Initially I wanted to base it on Edestus, another prehistoric shark that I once described as “Helicoprion but worse”. I also wanted to incorporate elements of epaulette sharks (my favourite shark species), whose main claim to fame is being able to walk on land for short periods of time. Originally I was gonna give mega Uzumako little flipper feet instead of proper legs to reflect that, but that, along with the Edestus elements, didn’t really work out. So I basically had ended up with a shark w/ legs. Not exactly the most creative design.

Fortunately, my brain went off on a tangent (as it is wont to do): shark with legs, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, Gyo.

For those who don’t know, Gyo is a horror manga by the renowned Junji Ito, with the main monsters being fish carried around on mechanical legs, most notably a great white shark. The concept of ‘’shark with legs’’ has been said to be what inspired the entire manga. And considering the only reason I know the word uzumaki (the word that makes up half of this fakemon’s name) is because of another Junji Ito manga, taking inspiration from Gyo’s walking shark actually seemed like a pretty good next step. This is also what got me thinking about making it poison type (since those fish stank), which then lead to the rusted teeth.

So I basically had ended up with a shark w/ legs, but now it’s a horror homage and also a rusty buzz saw that can give you tetanus. Much better.

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Fcuuuuuuucckkk

I love going to bed only to be awoken by the fact that I remembered a really good uzu x mako pic from a while back and have no idea where to find it, this is great,, fan tasti c

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