#zeed

physically it's about four months old, but mentally it's pretty much like a six-year-old human!

but basically, it's baby

Yeah, it's disappointing but I think I also understand why it happens.

A few reasons:

Most people aren't going to get all the Zeed evolutions in SH to be able to identify them

Even fewer people are going to play the PSP Devil Summoner (I sure haven't) or understand the context behind them

The chain collar shared between them is a clue these aren't normal demons, but you don’t know where they’re from, you wouldn’t notice

Almost everyone is just going to see them listed on the wiki or from discussions where the wiki is the source

Here's the thing though, I think most fans are savvy enough at this point that they know there's significance to the names assigned to demons and therefore would take these seriously; however, they may be less savvy about why game-specific designs like Zeed's would not be legitimately reused for another entity

To that end, the real culprit is their recycling in PSP SMT: DS in the first place, a pretty lazy decision

These really are the most Final Fantasy-ish "in name only" demons in the series barring games like Last Bible. A couple of them do still follow a kind of logic for their respective Human-Angel-Beast-Dragon types, though: Skoll is a wolf-like creature, Enoch angel-like. Leviathan is an exception, a sea serpent of which the Latter Dragon Type 2 Zeed doesn’t resemble too closely.

David is maybe worse because, presumably, the PSP name is meant to evoke the biblical king David (which is kind of ridiculous given the design); on the wiki, it currently shares a page with our Fiend violinist David, even though the names are different: ダビデ (King and Zeed reuse) vs. デイビット (Fiend). They should probably be split.