What Will The Legendary Mascots of Pokemon Sword and Shield Look Like?

     This week we finally got a look at the next generation Pokemon game for the Switch, Pokemon Sword and Shield.

    In the trailer you see new places in the brand new Galar region which is either based on England? Scotland? or maybe it the U.K. We also got a chance to already look at the new starter pokemon, Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. With this being the first trailer we only got to see so much, but knowing Game Freak, the company who makes Pokemon games, there will be over a ton of information that will be revealed later on.
     I'm sure this has led a lot of pokefans to start speculating and making theories on what Game Freak has in store for us this time around. One of these is what will the legendary pokemon look like in the game, or more importantly what will Sword and Shield's legendary mascot pokemon will look like.
     If we want to find any clues, we may have to look no further than the logos for Sword and Shield. Game Freak often leaves indications on what the legendaries look like in the logos. A few examples are in Gold and Silver with Ho-oh and Lugia literally being gold and silver, X and Y where the legendaries Yveltal and Xerneas were X and Y shaped pokemon, and in Sun and Moon where not only were Solgaleo and Lunala were pokemon representing the sun and moon, but had their crests designed in the logo of their games as well. So, what clues are in Sword and Shield's logo?
   In both logos we see a wolf's head on top of a sword and shield. There is a chance that the legendaries can be wolf pokemon based how prominent wolves have been the staple in european mythology. In indo-european mythology, wolves are often associated with the warriors class with people who are said to transform into werewolves and the Celtic goddess Morrighan who sometime appear in the form of a wolf and represents sovereignty, along with being considered a goddess who guides and protects kings. It does make some kind of sense for the Galar region's key legendary pokemon to fit this since it is based on the U.K and there are a couple of castles in Galar's regional map one being in the center of the region and an old castle near the bottom near the lakes.
    Most legendaries have gotten a background story connected to their respected region for sometime now. Solgaleo and Lunala have been the pokemon to ward of ultra beasts in Sun and Moon as well as the Tapus being the pokemon who protect Alola. Groudon and Kyogre shaped Hoenn. How will the wolf legendaries' fit into Sword and Shield? We could get a similar story like Black in White where it's legendary pokemon, Zekrom and Reshiram where the two pokemon belonged to warring brothers. The only difference could be just like Morrighan, one of the wolf legendaries, or both, were responsible for the king of Galar to rule the region. There's a possibility of the legendary wolves to just be like Black and White's other dragon pokemon, Kyruem, and just be one pokemon and it having two forms, an attack form and a defense form, representing shield. This is of course all speculation and none of this is true. We will all have to see when we get further details about word and Shield. What are your thoughts?

Peachette: There's Something About Princess Peach

   

      The Toad. The citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. If you could describe toads you could call them little fungi people. Basically hobbit folk with mushroom hats. Cute and adorable people that sound like they constantly smoked cigarettes for the 30 plus years we've been introduced to them in the first Super Mario Bros. game in 1985. If mushrooms that make you grow and flowers that turn you into a firestarter haven't boggled your mind over the years, what is really weird is that these mushroom munchkins have been ruled for years now by a human girl, Princess Peach. Or is she?

      One of the greatest mysteries of video games was how the monarch of the Mushroom Kingdom inhabited by fungi-humanoid people came be ruled by a human. With the recent Nintendo direct, we may have an answer to this enigma.

      Nintendo introduced us to New Super Mario U deluxe which will be coming out soon this year. What's new is that Toadette will be a new playable character. Along with Toadette being playable there is a new item called a Super Crown which gives Toadette an interesting power-up. She becomes Peachette, a character that closely resembles Princess Peach and even has her floating abilities like in Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 3D World.

      For years we've speculated that Princess Peach was just purely human. Is she a more human version or more evolved toad?
     There may have been some hints to Peach's toad heritage. In Super Mario RPG, Peach's grandmother was a toad. Other than that little is known about her parents. The only glimpses we see of her father was in the comics which could be non-canon and an official strategy guide for Super Mario Bros where she too is depicted being toadlike sporting a mushroom hat as well as a crown. But we can't really go with that as her official artwork is vastly different (Bowser looks different too).

     This all, however, could all just be mere coincidence and the Super Crown could just transform Toadette into a copy of Peach just like how the hats worked for in Super Mario 64 DS which Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario could transform into each other. Also, there's the fact that when Toadette, I mean Peachette, will turn back into her Toadette form if hit by an enemy meanwhile in games where Peach has been playable, Peach is shown to revert to a mini version of herself when hit just like Mario and Luigi. But this could mean that her toad evolution is more permanent. There seems to be a huge mystery around Peach and Peachette and hopefully we can all figure it out soon.