Cute, villainous Pokémon Pecharunt dabbles in mind control
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet’s Hidden Treasure of Area Zero epilogue ties together all the different game and DLC stories — and it’s all centered around a devious little Pokémon called Pecharunt.
What looks like a cute stuffed peach toy is actually an evil little guy with a complicated backstory: Pecharunt. The Pokémon Company has, once again, introduced a Pokémon with a dark, heartbreaking backstory — a Pokémon that, at times, is a true villain. You see, one of Pecharunt’s abilities is called Binding Mochi, which it makes from its own secretions and then feeds to people. The mochi brings out “the deepest desires and powers of those who eat it,” The Pokémon Company wrote in a news release. The poison from the mochi also puts people under Pecharunt’s control, “chained to its will,” according to its PokéDex entry.
Pecharunt is a villain of sorts in the Scarlet and Violet epilogue, but its backstory is even more tragic and weird. The Mythical creature’s story is told in a folktale published in a five-minute video. Pecharunt, as it’s told, was adopted and loved by an old couple with no children. But Pecharunt wanted more love, so it fed its poison mochi to the couple to bind and control them.
Signboards depicting one of Kitakami’s oldest folktales are scattered throughout the land—yet none of them make mention of Pecharunt.
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The mochi made the couple greedy and ask Pecharunt to bring them gifts, like the masks from Scarlet and Violet’s DLC. I won’t spoil the details for you, but things don’t end well for Pecharunt or its Pokémon friends, the Loyal Three. Here’s how The Pokémon Company describes it in the news release:
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