The Meowth Line

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Meowth
The Scratch Cat Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 52
Entry: A small, nocturnal, cat-like pokémon with an affinity for shiny, round objects. Ancient civilizations within the Orange and Sevii Islands worshipped meowth as a deity due to its association with cat-like god of the home, harvest, and wealth. This may seem curious unless one does further digging to the actual origins of the cat deity to find that it had originally been a god of the hunt, judgment, and executions, which is more in line with meowth’s carnivorous diet and vicious hunting methods. While the reason behind the switch is still a mystery to scholars, there are two noteworthy theories. First, the god was also the symbol of the Orange and Seviian royal bloodlines, which may have sought the god’s blessing when it came to siring new and prosperous heirs. Second and more likely, it’s more profitable to run a temple dedicated to childbearing and all the things that come before it than executions, and the pokémon that can understand human speech and use Pay Day when it’s pleased with your temple generally agrees.

Persian
The Classy Cat Pokémon
Type: Normal
Official Registration #: 53
Entry: The evolved form of meowth, by battle experience. Evolution graces this pokémon with an immense amount of sophisticated beauty, including silken, golden fur, a sleek body, and the agility of a panther. Unfortunately, evolution has also granted the persian species a streak of fickle meanness, a set of sharp claws, and the expectation that it will continue to be worshipped like a god. In light of all this, it becomes rather understandable that the ancient peoples of the Orange and Sevii Islands originally conceived of a persian-like god of execution and the throne.

Meowth (Alola form)
The Scratch Cat Pokémon
Type: Dark
Official Registration #: 52
Entry: This cat-like pokémon is by no means native to the region of Alola. Rather, it was brought in from Kanto as prized pets of and gifts from wealthy Kantonian merchants, and their cuteness and intelligence captured the hearts of Alolan natives instantly. Over the decades following, the breeders of Alola hand-picked the most popular and sought-after traits among Alola’s meowth enthusiast community in order to breed “custom” meowth until Alolan meowth formed an entirely new breed consisting of prideful, capricious, crafty, often violent, and yet still strangely adorable meowth. Or, in other words, the Alolans bred a cat.

Persian (Alola form)
The Classy Cat Pokémon
Type: Dark
Official Registration #: 53
Entry: The evolved form of Alolan meowth, as a result of a heightened sense of happiness. As a result of vigorous breeding, the Alolan variation of persian boasts fur as soft as velvet, a large and apparently exceedingly adorable head … and a vicious temper that’s focused on everything and anyone that it deems to be beneath it, which is to say everything and anyone. In other words, the Alolans bred a larger cat.