Seeing as you love Greek mythology, imagine for a moment that you create 1 Pokemon based around a character/monster/god/goddess in Greek mythology. Who or what do you pick?

This is actually really hard.

‘cause, like, it’d be easy to just write up a mythological monster as a Pokémon, or a whole bunch of them for that matter.  It’s not actually creative, and for a lot of players it’s not introducing them to anything they haven’t already seen interpreted in all kinds of modern fiction, but it’s also really tempting because there’s so much low-hanging fruit that makes you think things like “yeah, it’d be really cool to catch and train a minotaur.”  I think that’s probably why Game Freak stays away from classical mythology.

I actually did wind up thinking through a lotus fruit Pokémon in response to an unrelated question a couple of weeks ago, and you could have a look at that, but you asked me to pick something, so I should come up with something different.  Hmmm… what if we tried to do something with the Graiai?  You know, the three old blind chicks that Perseus is a total dick to?  ’cause then you can do something with the one eye and the one tooth that the three of them have to share, you see – you can have one Pokémon, a humanoid Dark/Psychic-type or similar, that possesses terrible psychic powers but is also nearly helpless on its own because it’s blind and physically weak, then you can have a second Pokémon, maybe a Ghost-type or a Fairy-type or something, which is the eye, and it floats or hovers or something and maybe it has a major support focus, because it can’t fight very well on its own but it can see in total darkness and in all directions at once, and then you have a third one, which is the tooth, and it’s probably a Rock-type so you wind up with a sort of vaguely Bergmite-looking thing, and it’s blind too but it’s also big and tough and stupid and can crush up anything and eat it, so it doesn’t actually care.  And all three of them have this weird-ass symbiotic relationship where they go around together and protect each other (I think they must live in caves or ravines or other dark places, since two of them are completely blind), and the main one, the humanoid, has two different evolutions that are triggered by having one of the other two in your party, like how Remoraid helps Mantyke to evolve, where it takes on the characteristics of the Pokémon that’s accompanying it, becoming either all-seeing, calculating and strategic or powerful, blunt and aggressive.  Yeah.  Yeah, let’s do something like that.