what follows is probably not cohesive rambling because it's late at night and i'm not good with figuring out what words i should use to make the thoughts in my head clearer
i've been really thinking on how to say this without it feeling like "fork found in kitchen" thing. but. i'm just gonna try my best to keep it interesting. consider this an analysis of sorts!.???????
you guys know how darkrai wasn't supposed to go up to prism tower? how it absorbing this much mega power, causing hyperspace lumiose, and mega evolving, really shouldn't've happened and was most likely an accident of sorts? like. mega darkrai just shouldn't exist, right? because that is true and it seems to go so much deeper than just "darkrai accidentally absorbing a ton of mega power after taking a nap in prism tower" and i've like never seen anyone go deeper. maybe i just haven't seen it yet but. i still wanna talk about it anyhow so whatever listen to me ramble
ok so. kalos's entire thing is about balance and order and stuff. and then every big story in kalos is "humanity has in some way shape or form (probably stemming from AZ's mistakes) messed up the balance and made one side far too powerful, and now humans need to rebalance the mistake by making the too powerful side go back to being normal power." this idea very much translates well into mega dimension's story, where one half of the dream scale (darkrai), because of ange tower's mega power thing, gets way more powerful than the other side (cresselia who ISN'T EVEN THERE???), and then team mz and co. need to step in and save darkrai + put an end to the whole disaster. this wasn't supposed to happen, things would've been fine and normal, but. AZ's actions (domino effect-ish) ended up toppling over the scales, leading to this. mega darkrai really isn't supposed to happen because it's a product of the natural order of things being tampered with, which shouldn't happen. maybe i'm just repeating myself at this point so i'll try to move on
now when i look at mega darkrai. i don't exactly see anything that enhances or builds upon base darkrai. darkrai has a few notable features, like being akin to a scarecrow, being the new moon/moonless night - but in the mega evo, the former is essentially nowhere, and the latter is kind of referenced in either the second half of the boss fight or the dex entry. nothing of "true darkrai" is there, and i think that's because it's all been forcibly overtaken by mega power. that's not normal at all, so obviously darkrai's not gonna have any of its normalcy in such a form. it's just kind of. suffering. that's it. this isn't really much but. agian i just feel like theres something there i kind of just cant find the words half the time.
also cresselia really doesn't have one. none at all. like if this was possibly somehow supposed to happen and was just dormant then went out of control with darkrai. surely its just-as-important counterpart cresselia would also have a dormant mega evolution that she could use to help bring darkrai's mega evolution under control. but she's literally not there, and there's no hints of her also having a mega, so. yeah. based on logic, if cresselia doesn't have one darkrai's not gonna have one either. this is the obligatory cresselia mention to fuel my lunar duo fangirling
tldr mega darkrai is very not darkrai in any regard and is just another product of order in kalos getting messed up over and over. i think that's what all i've been saying leads to
anyways im ending this by saying that im currently manifesting the idea of lunar duo getting something special from a future gen's special gimmick, and THIS time the darkrai stuff will actually fit what we see of regular darkrai and expand upon it. and also give cresselia something cool that also fits what she is as of now and expand on the ideas in her design and lore (competitive players will hate to see her coming back into the mix). meow
maybe i made up these thoughts because i subconsciously wanted to explain why mega darkrai was like that to people who didn't exactly understand why mega darkrai was like that. not necessarily defend because i don't think there's a point in that. lore wise no one should be liking the physical iteration of a poor lil mon's suffering and im not gonna blame anyone who doesn't like mega darkrai because. yeah the points are incredibly valid i think. i'm just trying to say that those points were the point i guess. don't hurt me pls