Pokemon X&Y: The Unsolved Espurr Files
With each Gen, we have our creepy Pokemon with their freaky-deaky Pokedex entries and designs to give off that super creepy or weird vibe. But with Gen 6, we got Espurr....the adorable little psychic kitten with the dead fish eyes. Now, I can see how those inexpressive, wide eyes that seem to stare straight into your soul could give some people the willies and have them claiming that Espurr has some secret psycho side and will kill us all, but is Espurr really all that creepy, or simply a horribly misunderstood that's been put in a bad light?
It's Pokedex entry in X states that: "The organ that emits its intense psychic power is sheltered by its ears to keep power from leaking out"
In Y, it says: "It has enough psychic energy to blast everything within 300 feet of itself, but it has no control over its power"
So for starters, I'll call it like I see it and say that the many, many people who are making poor Espurr out to be a secret psycho serial killer are simply judging it by its appearance and letting those unblinking eyes mess with their heads. It's no more a Pokemon made out for mass genocide than Magikarp- with the nearly the same kind of eyes- is.
That is...if you're basing its affinity to kill on its eyes, alone.
Back to its Pokedex entry, anyone can clearly see that it does have the ability to destroy with its psychic powers; anything within 300 feet of it; thanks to the organ in its ears- which it keeps covered by having its ears folded. Espurr is also known as the "restraint pokemon", because it doesn't have the ability to control its own psychic powers.
Frankly, I feel that this just makes Espurr all the more adorable; like how Plusle and Minun also can't control their own powers and sometimes end up shocking themselves. And while there is some sad element to Espurr's Pokedex entry, learning that it can't control its own powers and destroys everything around it to such an extent, if it doesn't practice that restraint; not only that, but assuming that its Espurr trying so hard to restrain itself and its powers, knowing the devistating it'd be causing, that they shy away from expressing emotion entirely; (as with cats, you can tell, for the most part, how they're feeling through body language), which could cause the organ in their ears to become uncovered, and their power to obliterate us all; it's not at all creepy, like people make it out to be. It's just plain sad, thinking how tortured all those poor Espurr must be; under that kind of pressure; under that kind of insane restraint and being so misunderstood just because of their poker face.
So what are everyone else's thoughts on Espurr?
