#//i don't. think this covers anything too overtly culty. but i can add that if people think it's warranted

[lovenpeace-pkmn]

It’d be interesting to hear about the differences in iconography etc between Plasma’s Draconism vs more traditional forms of Draconism…

Well, the basic symbols of Draconism are quite common throughout Unova...fire and lightning, the juxtapositions of black and white or orange and cyan. Team Plasma tended more towards lightning imagery than fire, although it is far from the only group to do so so don't go accusing anyone of things based on that alone.

Most of the Plasma-specific symbols were things that Ghetsis introduced from a sense of overblown theatrics, which were then given symbolic significance by Zinzolin (who saw anything vaguely mythological as a kind of game) or by Giallo and the grunts attributing meaning to them over time.

There was, ah...have you noticed Ghetsis' eye motif? Connie believes it had some personal significance to him, but it was popularly seen as symbolizing his wisdom and foresight in bringing together the sages to herald the coming of the king.

The sages all had individual motifs as well, normally based around the colors they were named after but also things such as Zinzolin's association with the Ice type. That actually predated Opelucid.

Concordia and I were associated with Pokémon with folkloric ties to our deific roles--most often togekiss, arboliva, or tranquill for her and luvdisc, woobat, and toucannon for me.

I...have sort of lost track of where I was going with this.