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Ok fine i will try to address some things that I feel like I can give an answer. I'll preface this with the concept art that may clear up some things? Or not. Seems people are offput by the door's face, I was trying to draw inspriation from some classic mons like voltorb and gengar for the eyes/teeth, if that makes any sense. I know object mons aren't for everyone and I knew that going into this lol. If I didn't respond to your post then it just means I didn't have anything meaningful to add that I don't think can't be addresssed by the rest of this post. Not trying to single anyone out. More than what? It's a possessed antique door. That's just what it is. Sometimes things are simple by design to make them recognizable and get the idea accross effectively. The knocker is supposed to have both lion-ish and goblin-ish features from real life doorknockers, it's not purely animal. There's plenty of pokemon that have quite different facial features upon evolution. And you are correct, the door has the leftover "shell" of the original knocker on it, and it becomes very simplified. I don't think it's fair to claim that "no one will notice it" because, well, you did, and I've had other people notice it as well. I specifically made that detail the only thing that's the same color as a clue to what happened. I appreciate the ideas but I think you guys are focusing too much on the lion aspect. It's essentially a possessed hunk of metal. The green color is reminscent of a copper patina. I can't really comment any further on the colors if you don't say what exactly it is you don't like about it. What would you suggest to make it feel less generic? I did want to include some fleur de lis metal crossbars seen in the original concept but they ended up getting cut in the revision stage. I disgree that they're that widely unrelated. The knocker possesses the door it's attached to when it evolves.