but it's still debatable whether that would 'justify' some of the events in the Typhlosion story. Symbolic or not, the woman ...
Now, with a bit of digging from @Rotlas01, there are some new details and further context ... not necessarily the literal Pokémon Typhlosion, but that is the basis of the concept of that character.
A Pokemon fan artist devises a new evolution for Remoraid, a Water-type creature introduced in the second ... A few months ...