So, I just read an article on Bulbagarden’s Tumblr, explaining the speculation of two possible new types: the Love and Sound types. Their arguments include Xerneas-Yveltal = Artemis-Apollo (Greco-Roman mythology; right up your alley there!), Sylveon being released on Valentine’s Day, etc. If I could include the link here, I would :( Anywho, what do you make of it? I think it’s looking too much into things, but always love to hear your opinion!

Found it!

http://bulbagarden.tumblr.com/post/46036478839/yesterday-when-we-asked-on-twitter-and-facebook

I’m sorry to disappoint, but in general my opinion on these things is “it’s possible but I don’t think there’s sufficient evidence to decide either way.”  I honestly don’t understand why people get so invested in speculating about something we’re all going to find out in a few months anyway.  I agree with many of the points the authors make:

– Adding a new type with so many Pokémon in existence already would be difficult, but by no means impossible (if it were me doing this, I would want to make as many as half of the new Pokémon members of at least one of the new types).
– There are many existing Pokémon and moves that could become Love- or Sound-typed, mostly by stripping down Normal to a saner volume.
–  The choice of revealing Sylveon on Valentine’s day is interesting.

The reason I’m still not convinced is that the affirmative evidence basically comes down to “it’s not impossible and we don’t know what type Sylveon and Xerneas are.”  Also, speaking as a classicist, I think that linking Artemis, a goddess of chastity, with a hypothetical Love type is fundamentally absurd.  Furthermore, no actual evidence for the existence of a Sound type is presented here, let alone any evidence for identifying Yveltal as a member of it.

The authors are correct that Apollo is in one story associated with a satyr, Marsyas, in a music competition.  What they do not mention is that Apollo subsequently flayed him.