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There was a theory that popped up on the internet recently about Unown being an ultra beast
and after reading it through a few times, I found it to be pretty convincing so I thought
I would share it with you guys.
Theories are fun but this one actually packs quite a bit of supporting evidence and even
if coincidental, it's still pretty amazing.
So for those of you who are newer to the series, you may not have heard of or seen the pokemon
Unown yet which is originally from generation 2.
Unown is a psychic pokemon that has 28 differently shaped variants that are based on the latin
alphabet including the question mark and the exclamation mark.
Unown is said to resemble ancient writing and hieroglyphs and an unknown power emerges
from Unowns when more than one of them come together.
In the anime it is capable of reading thoughts of other life forms and great numbers of unowns
can distort reality to the suit the dreams and wishes of whoever is in control of the
unown.
Unown is a pokemon that lives in its own dimension and rarely does he venture outside.
Now this is where the theory begins.
For those of you who haven't watched the third pokemon movie or otherwise known as Spell
of the Unown : Entei, here's a quick refresher, but fair warning here, there might be spoilers
to the movie ahead so approach with CAUTION, you have been warned.
So the story goes something like this.
Professor Hale who's a resident of the town Greenfield with his assistant Skyler discovers
a ruin site and hale is sucked into the dimension of the Unown.
His disappearance causes his young daughter Molly to be alone as her mother also disappeared
a long time ago due to unknown (haha) reasons.
Molly then finds a box that ends up summoning Unowns they start messing up reality.
So the first clue that Unowns could possibly be an Ultra Beast is this.
This is pretty much the same way ultra beasts move about between dimensions.
And look at this one when Molly summons the unowns accidentally.
If that's not a wormhole, I don't know what that is.
Next up is the difference between when Hale touched the tiles versus when Molly touched
it.
When Hale touched the tiles, a portal zapped open immediately and attracted Unowns similar
to the way Fallers attract the attention of ultra beasts.
Whoever has been in the ultra beast dimension is called a faller as going through the wormhole
leaves them covered in its energy and attracts creatures from the other dimension.
For this theory to work, Hale must've been a faller himself.
First of all, in the opening sequence, Hale mentions that he's been researching unowns
ever since, then stops.
I assume that he's either talking about the disappearance of his wife or that he's actually
forgotten due to amnesia.
Fallers are known to get amnesia of some sort just like Anabel has, once they've gone through
the wormhole to the other dimension.
After Hale comes back from the portal, he wakes up completely unconscious of the event
which aligns perfectly with how fallers get amnesia after going through the portal.
Which again is why when he touched the tiles the unowns appeared immediately.
Some of that energy may have rubbed off of Molly which is probably it took a bit longer
for the Unown tiles to react to her.
So after all that, you're probably thinking, this was gen 2 made over ten years ago.
There's no way they could've planned this far.
But what if gen 7 took inspiration from this movie instead?
And if we take a closer look at the book that Hale was reading to his Daughter that was
supposed to be about Unowns there's actually a few interesting pages.
The first one is the picture with a sun looking over a field of flowers.
The sun suspiciously has a mark on its forehead similar to Solgaleo which is the legendary
in Pokemon Sun.
As mentioned in the movie by Hale, these are artist's imaginings and not exact representations
of whatever they're supposed to be.
The next interesting page is this one, looks like something spiky with a dark body.
Kinda reminds you of xurkitree doesn't it?
So to recap.
Here's why Unown is most likely an ultra beast or at least from the ultra beast world.
Unowns open wormholes to another dimension in the same way ultra beasts do.
Those wormholes have the same effects on humans as demonstrated by the amnesia of Professor
Hale which leads us to believe he's a faller like Anabel.
Unowns are attracted to Professor Hale very much like ultra beasts are attracted to Anabel
as they have both gone through the wormhole.
And finally, those gen 7 references to Solgaleo and Xurkitree in the book about Unowns.
And to cap it off, as a fun fact, both solgaleo and lunala are names that directly combine
latin words together.
And if you've been paying attention, Unowns are made of the latin alphabet!
Okay, there are other pokemon that have latin name inspirations but not that many that have
direct combinations of latin words.
So there you have.
Unown is probably an ultra beast.
The link is the description below to the original post if you guys want to check that out.
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