Cubone might not be so lonely... · 2:13pm Nov 18th, 2014
Way too much is happening today for me to write my actual fic, so instead have this little fan theory I came up with.
We all know the Tragedy of the Saddest Thing in the World, the Lonely Pokemon Cubone.
Constantly in grief for the loss of its mother, it wears her skull as a helmet. Oftentimes the cry of a Cubone is said to easily break the hearts of trainers.
I have a more optimistic, if slightly melancholy, way to look at this story.
The Pokedex says this about every and all Cubone. This happens way too often to be a freak accident every time. This has to be a natural thing that occurs. So...
Point 1: Female Marowak die shortly after their egg hatches.
This has to be the case. It has to happen after the baby Cubone can learn to make an attachment but when they are still too young to understand what's going on. This is the only way that every Cubone in existence can pine over a lost parent.
Speaking of the pining, the way they choose to is rather odd. Wearing the Skull of the dead mother happens to often to be just the way all Cubone grieve. No two beings with distinct personalities (which I think we can agree most Pokemon have) pine for a loss in the same way. To assume that this is also a natural thing is, however, also out of the question. There is only one route left to take.
This is a cultural phenomenon.
Point 2: Wearing the mother's skull is a tribal rite of passage.
As I've said, the Cubone must be very young when the Mother Marowak passes. So after the year (this is where it gets sort of icky) it takes for the mother's body to decompose into skeletal remains, the Cubone is given it's mother's skull and thighbone to use as weapons as a ceremonial first step to adulthood. Then they can start defending the other Cubone by learning how to attack. Bone Club and the like.
That leaves Marowak. Marowak still seemingly wears the skull, even though it is clearly an adult. Why? Well...
Point 3: Marowak has the Skull chemically bonded to it's head during evolution
This also must be the case. There is no longer any separation between the bone and the eye. And this also can't be what Cubone look like naturally because you can see the absence of the coloration Cubone had around it's eyes. The Skull has become a PART of it now. Sort of like your mother always is and will be.
But what gets me is it's species name. "Bone Keeper"
What happened to Lonely?
Point 4: Cubone evolve into Marowak when they can finally move past their grief.
When a Cubone finally reaches the point where it will allow itself to evolve, it realizes that it has to move past it's grief. It will never truly lose it, but it can realize that there are good things beyond it. There are things he needs to do that require him to move pst his grief. Lie protecting the Cubone and Marowak in his colony.
Hence the title "Bone Keeper"
Just a little food for thought. What do you guys think?
I always thought that Cubone was a younger Kangaskan.
2602409 Satoshi has actively dismissed this theory. Also, Kanghaskahn's baby has a definite shape, and it ain't Cubone.
img.pokemondb.net/artwork/kangaskhan-mega.jpg
2602413 okay.
2602414 That being said, why can't I catch Kanghaschan (baby Khangaskhan) yet?! he's adorable.
I think there's no food involved at all.
2602418 Why can't you catch Baby Kangashkan? I might be able to help.
In pokemon Y, Mega Kangashkan has the baby out of its pouch, which allows it to attack twice.
Hope I helped,
NINJA-PON3's Brosalina/Unibro.
If every female Marowak died after having one egg, then every generation cuts in half (Two parents --> One child, either male or female). There can't be multiple eggs, because the Marowak has only one skull, and it's specifically the mother's skull.
Or does it? New theory: A Marowak female lays several eggs at once, then dies. Its body decomposes, and the baby Cubones takes the skull, which for some reason separates into several thin layers, each one worn by each Cubone. Each one bonds with the Cubone chemically, as stated above, then grows because the Cubone's bloodstream becomes connected to the skull, allowing a full thickness of the skull, while still allowing the Cubone-Marowak population to survive.
Wow, I thought too hard for this.
Huh. Clever...
Oh, have you encountered Pokemon fusion yet, Mr. Light?