this sounds like a setup for a bit but joke's on you i put a modicum of effort into this
- ground
- Duneon
- poison
- Vitreon
- rock
- Cairneon
- flying
- Aereon
- normal
- Exubreon
- bug
- Chiteon
- ghost
- Spectreon
- fighting
- Rumbleon
- dragon
- Drakeon
- steel
- Chromeon
the trick is that the existing names tend to:
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stress the first two syllables, and thus be derived from a word whose first syllable is stressed
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share a consonant cluster at the end of the root word (JOL-TE-on) or truncate the root word at a vowel that can be replaced naturally with "eon" (ES-PE-on) or use a root word that is begging for an "e" after it in a way i cannot explain (vaporeon)
and the result is that the original word slurs enough to sound like a new word when said aloud, but it's still reminiscent enough of the original. which is a slightly tricky balancing act
so you can't just go, ho ho, bug-type eevee is "insecteon"! the rhythm doesn't match and it sounds too much like you're just saying a word funny, and then saying "eon".
i think i'm least happy with "Drakeon" (but for dragons there really are not too many words to work with; maybe there's a cool type of lizard i'm not thinking of) and "Chromeon" (chromium is, notably, not steel; Ferreon is better but sounds too much like Flareon). kind of a shame i started with Vitreon because that's clearly the best one
for bonus points tell me why i did them in that order
