Gen 2 Beta Ruins of Alph Theory

Well this is terrifying to think about and surprisingly dark for a pokémon, considering the 200,000+ deaths that happened in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

That makes a lot of sense.. gosh thats dark-

That being said wouldn't Ghost-typing make more sense for Unown then (Im pretty sure its still Psychic)

 

It would be, if they had simply died. Vaporization, with the nuclear shadows that remained being constantly bombarded by residual radiation, could start to have some weird effects, so Psychic makes sense to me.

 

Wow, that's...wow. It's dark, but somehow I kinda feel like it works for the Pokémon world. There are some surprisingly dark moments that happen or are implied in the Pokémon games.

 

Wait...... in the Pokémon world Unown are often portrayed in the movies and (sometimes) the games as being the building blocks for the Pokémon universe. Some even going so far as to say they are the "arms" Arceus used to create the universe.

That combined with the whole theory that the Pokémon games take place in a post-apocalyptic world.. oh my

 

Wow... this.... this is REALLY dark. And I thought lavender town was dark, but man. No wonder they changed the final product for the ruins. This could have offended international audiences and ended Pokémon...

 

I'm not sure if this is what you intended, but when you say "building blocks" I think atoms and molecules. With atoms' elements being represented by letters, and molecules comparatively being words (combined as needed to become totally different things with few traits of its components), then these Unown could be representative of more literal building blocks of the world: atoms themselves (looking at all the single-letters on a Periodic Table). And with the weapons causing this death being the atom bomb... whoa.

However, I have one part of this theory to break right here: Hiroshima in Japan is not in the same location as the Ruins of Alph in Johto (it's outside of the playable area, far northwest of Olivine); and for that matter neither is Nagasaki, which seems a lot more like Slateport in Hoenn. Not as much creepypasta there though. And I'm not trying to debunk this whole thing, just the part of "Alph = Hiroshima", compared to "Alph = monument, reference, other historical relevance to Hiroshima" which I think is still totally possible.

(There's a map of Japan with the first four regions outlined on Bulbapedia here, and two screencaps of Wikipedia maps attached to this post if you want to see for yourself.)