Runerigus is one of those Pokémon that's always really fascinated me.
Cuz like, if the Pokedex is right: Yamask is literally just the ghost of a Human being and in the case of the Galarian variant, it's the ghost of a Human being who also picked up a piece of a cursed fragment.
And Galarian Yamask's evolution is triggered by you reducing it's Health to 1, bringing it to the verge of fainting and then walking through a stone archway while it's health is like that.
So it goes from this adorable thing:
To this:
So, seemingly the tablet that it had been carrying a piece of is restored in full and Yamask is taken over by the curse. But you can obviously see the image of a red serpent painted on it.
Like, it never actually occured to me what the serpent in that image actually was until a thought literally popped into my head one morning as I was literally being pulled from the depths of sleep
Because that's when most of my thinking happens nowadays apparently.
But the thought was "wait, what if it's a representation of Eternatus?"
Because on a surface level, it made sense: Eternatus was a monstrous draconic being that had terrorized Galar in the old days before it was defeated by the two dogs, surely there'd be some record of it beyond just the legend of the Dark Day.
Aaand if you look at Runerigus's body shape, it seemingly lends credence to that idea: it's a red serpent with arms like Runerigus basically is.
But there's one problem: namely what the tablet looks like when assembled properly:
The serpent in the painting has no limbs whatsoever it turns out. So, there is now a distinct possibility it is not a representation of Eternatus.
Which then begs the question: what is it a representation of if it's not supposed to be the kaiju making eldritch skeleton dragon buried beneath the land?
Am I just overthinking things?
