Galarian ponyta · 6:26pm Oct 11th, 2019
Y'know how words can cause associations that completely defy the intent of the creators of something?
Take Galarian ponyta. Cute, princess Celestia colored pokemon, right? Seems harmless enough.
Here's the thing. There was a game back in 1999 called Galarians, which was a survival horror game where you played a psychokinetic kid that used drugs to amplify his powers, but risked overdosing/overloading his brain if he used them too much, that was trying to stop a rogue A.I. from annihilating humanity using its own genetically engineered psions. It was pretty horrific, and had some very dark themes, even for a 90's survival horror game.
Now whenever I look at the Galarian ponyta, I can't get the image out of my head that its trainer is injecting it with Red or Nalcon to give it psychic powers, and that all of the Galarian pokemon are on a mission from some sort of mad creator to wipe out humanity.
Word reuse is fun…
