So I've been looking over the new Fairy types, and I think I have some ideas about the physical characteristics that distinguish Fairy types, and why researchers in the Pokemon universe would have given the type the name "fairy".First, the name. One of the Pokemon to change to Fairy type was the Clefairy line. Here's what I think happened. Let's say you have some researchers who are looking at and defining the DNA sequence of various Pokemon lines. Not unusual, right?
Well, I say that when they were examining DNA from the Clefairy line, they realized that it contained a set of genes that they'd never seen before. Previously Clefairy had been presumed to be a Normal type because it didn't seem to fit with any other type. What they ended up finding was the sequence of genes for an entirely new type. Examinations of other discovered Pokemon, and examinations of several Pokemon of the Kalos region, revealed that there was indeed a new type of Pokemon.
And they decided to name it the "Fairy type" because it was discovered via the Clefairy line, which is the one Fairy type to resemble the traditional image of a fairy.
Now the rest of this I am writing up in the spirit of things like TV Tropes's Fanon Pokedex.
Based on data from the Fairy Egg Group, I can say that Fairy types are typically smaller than other lines, and may typically be a head with arms and legs as far as body shape. Pink seems to be a dominant color.
Fairy types are similar to Dark types in that they use tricks to defend themselves, status effect moves. But they also employ a lot of defensive moves. And their tricks are used to pacify or confuse attackers, but not necessarily to hurt them.
So Fairy types seem to me to be on average of a more passive temperament, and not predatory. They don't want to fight, and most of their particular abilities reflect that. Dark types on the other hand focus on hurtful status effects. Fairy types may also not be very durable, so tactics like this are probably used to keep them from getting hurt, similar what I have theorized on here about Dark types.
Their advantage over Fighting types could be explained as this: Their attacks usually manage to stop a Fighting type before it can make contact, similar to how I think Dark types work, and how Psychic types work. Of course this means their resistance doesn't apply if an attack actually hits them.
I theorized that Dark types have a higher than average intelligence, and Fairy types may be like that too. Their advantage over Dark types may be because they can match or outmatch the Dark types at status effect tricks.
And that's all I have. What do you all think? I'd really like feedback.
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