Mega Rayquaza?!?!??!

Now presenting, the best thing since sliced bread.
MEGA RAYQUAZA.

We all suspected it was coming in one way or another, but now that it's here there's so much to be said about this huge mega baby.
There are already plenty of great fan theories out there about what the ability delta stream might do and what the dragon ascent move might be like, but I'm going to be focusing on Rayquaza's design.

As the almighty triomaster of the weather trio, Rayquaza has obvious influence from the realm of the sky. Although, one would expect a more bird-like appearance from a ruler of the skies, but instead this ozone-huffing  loser looks a heck of a lot like a dragon-kite hybrid. Especially with all of our new strings attached, literally, to mega rayquaza, the resemblance to a kite is hard to miss. We've got rudders and strings and what looks like a hella sharp beak and oh my gosh kite fighting.

I recently finished reading The Kite Runner (highly recommended) and it has a lot of elements of kite fighting incorporated in its theme.
So what do the kites used in traditional kite fighting look like? Are they squat and rectangular western-like kites or what?

Well wonder no more

As we can see here they are totally all fluid and lengthy and perfect. I love it and it's just like Rayquaza!

But kite fighting isn't all that comes to mind when we think about Rayquaza,

What about Japanese dragon kites? The resemblance is uncanny and totally makes sense that Rayquaza would be based off of this.

So with our new Rayquaza I'm gonna go out on a limb from design alone and say that our bae with the aerodynamic looks is going to get super speed and with the attacking special move is going to get increased attack.


But mechanics are only half the battle. What kind of awesome story telling will be incorporated with Mega Rayquaza?
As time goes on we've seen a constant trend of Pokemon games focusing a bit and bit more on plot in their games. X and Y were the first main series pokemon game to make me feel emotionally moved and tear up a bit at the end (but for spin off games, nothing can surmount the sobbing that partook after Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of Time/Sky/Blue rescue team). With X and Y having such a great plot, we can only hope what ORAS might hold for us.
Will Rayquaza calm the battle with his super hella might and become a roaming pokemon?
Will Team Magma suck my ass?
Will Team Aqua <3 2 swim 4 eva?

Only time will tell, but we can be sure that whatever Game Freak has in hold for us will be something of true joy.