Never did a Fakemon before. This was really fun!
I went in wanting to do something pertaining to Greek Myth, because that's my standard fallback on things, and also because most of the good Japanese legends have been taken by GameFreak already. I settled on the concept of the Moirai, or the three fates, which are said to spin, measure, and cut the threads of life for mortals. This made the idea of a ghost Fakemon seem pretty cool (and also ghosts are fun to draw and purple is an awesome color), and I settled on Ghost/Bug because I didn't really know what other type is string-related. I based this on silkworm larvae and silkworm moths, if only because spiders are hard to keep track of all of the legs and because I wanted to incorporate the cloaky/wings aspect (the Moirai are depicted as a trio white-robed women). I liked the three-part evolution line because it fit the spinner/measurer/cutter aspect of the three fates, and here we all are.
I also wanted to subvert the typical first-route-weak-bug thing in games. As a kid, I always wanted to use my Caterpie/Butterfree because it was the first Pokemon I ever caught and we were awesome together, but statwise, the first-route bugs really start to fall behind. Here, the first evolution (Clovae, pure-Bug type, and its body is made up of dobbins but its hard to see in the sketch haha) is weak akin to its counterparts (ie Caterpie/Weedle/Wurmple), as is Lachrylis (pure-Bug), the second evolution. However, at a much higher-than-normal level, Lachrylis will evolve into Morimaga, a fairly-fast and heavy-hitting special attacker.
Morimaga is a portmanteau of "Mori" (derived from Moirai, the collective name for the three fates because Atrophly would've been great and fit with the naming scheme but not a moth as well as deriving from the Latin name of the silkworm, Bombyx mori) and "imago," the final stage of insect metamorphoses.
Also, imago is just a really fun word to say.
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