It's NOT quite Spooky Month anymore, but I stand by that the spooky season does not end with Halloween, we still have till the Winter Solstice as days grow ever shorter and darker and the Wild Hunt howls through the sky on dark and winds nights. Last year I did a bunch of classic horror story characters as pokemon: Count Dracula, Victor Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, etc...

I decided I wanted to do something like that again this year but with a little twist. First of all, instead of horror I decided to go a different direction capturing another side of Halloween: Fun (with some scariness mixed in)
This year the theme is Fairytales.

I had an idea I wanted to explore:
These pokemon are NOT meant to be taken as the characters from their respective fairy tales, these are kids who are wearing costumes that allow them to embody the story for which they are dressed as and gain abilities associated with their character/story, so a character might not just be the character who they resemble but a culmination of the entire story, and stories can be very powerful!

Casimir embodies the spirit of The Boogieman with some inspiration from The King in Yellow.
The Boogieman is a ubiquitous embodiment of fear with variants across almost every culture in the world because everybody fears the unknown, thing that go bump in the night, the inevitability of death, etc...and when you don't know what's out there, anything can look like a monster lurking in the dark. Boogiemen have no specific appearance but the Boogie in Boogieman comes from an old British word meaning: Ghost or Goblin. They are often used as a warning from an authority figure to enforce good behavior in misbehaving children, telling them that there is a monster that lurks in every strange shadow looking to punish kids who step out of line.

The King in Yellow is a series of Short stories often attributed to the Lovecraftian mythos but was not written by Lovecraft himself and the titular King in Yellow does not actually appear as a character in the book. The stories all surround strange events around people who have read the fictional play "The King in Yellow" and have been driven mad through exposure to the story.

Casimir is the enemy to all other Fairytale Embodiments. He is an edgy teen troll and bully who was well taken care of as a Shuppet. The Pokedex talks about how Banettes are vengeful toys abandoned by their owners, Casimir however has no such tragedy in his past. He had a loving home and family that took care of him, and it made him sick cause he didn't care about about any of that. Casimir just craves power and notoriety, and he wasn't going to get that by being a friendly Shuppet. He wanted to be the most feared and powerful Banette. He delights in terrorizing children, corrupting other stories and driving people to madness so all they think about is him.