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ouch! glad that you recovered from that!

Concerning your suggestion, I have to be perfectly honest, but as you have described it it is far too horrifying and eldritch to fit in with regular Pokemon. I don't know if you explained this to us before, but it would help if you could give some inkling as to what inspired its current appearance (or if it was just a random product of your dreams/nightmares). That said, I took a shine to this suggestion way back when you submitted it, convinced that I was that it could be made charmingly endearing instead of begetting fear and terror. A baby stage would, I think, go a long way towards making that happen.

EDIT: I believe I should voice my opinions on the name of this creature before I forget them: Bekenastro strikes me as the sort of name that is made when the suggestor is desperate to make something that they think sounds cool, but is also desperate to give it some meaning. In this case, you have combined words from three different languages (one with a totally different alphabet at that) that together mean what you want it to. This is a classic "barrel-scraping" procedure that helps nobody and only induces confusion. Sure, people reading this entry would gain an understanding of what you were trying to achieve, but say that this was apporved and got archived, what then? "Bekenastro" would strike everybody who saw it as complete nonsense. This is not good naming pracitce.
I suggest, therefore, that you try to come up with some different names for this suggestion, but sticking to one language, preferably one with concrete english transliteration, unlike cyrillic.

You don't have to sign your posts man

Also thank you for the explanation regarding the name, since you were able to give one I am now fine with it.  I mean I still think it's very tenuous, but at least it was chosen for a palpable reason.

Now I suppose I should explain myself further. Abject fear and distrust are not things that the Pokemon franchise should have any business in dealing with. your reasons for begetting this suggestion do not gel with the outlook the Pokemon games have, which are entirely about mutual trust and co-operation. Of course your mode of "origin" for bekenastro is novel if you consider that this atmosphere of trust is the result of repressed distrust, but the resultant spawn would, in my opinion, be a creature of blackest malice.
What I'm getting at is that there is nothing that I believe to be within the concept of Bekenastro that allows for anything put pure antagonism. Any attempt to befriend this beast, or lighten its mood, would be a miserable failure in my eyes. Indeed, within the parameters that you have set yourself I see the only way to have any modicum of control over it would be to remove its free will, like Cipher did with their Shadow Pokemon in Colosseum and XD, and slavery of that sort is, to put it lightly, evil in the extreme.

There are a lot of parallels between Bekenastro and Shadow Pokemon, and with that comes parallels between Bek and our Resident Villain-mon, Exodus, creator of the Shadow Pokemon in our (admittedly defunct) Mystery Dungeon roleplay. The key differences are that Exodus is only allowed to be as evil as he is because he is a Legendary Pokemon, and that he does not (to my knowledge) appear in any roleplays where he can be captured. Another example, our RSE legend Iwraith, who is a horribly mutated ghost Pokemon that wanders the world, and appears (much to my chagrin) as an amorphous mass of eyes and teeth straight out of a Geiger painting.
As a member suggestion, Bekenastro cannot be a Legendary, despite his origin (and to be frank having multiples of this critter capering about the land is a frightening prospect) or his powers (not to imply that you yourself were considering that he be legendary at all). Any regular Pokemon that can be considered "dark" have a mollifying trait of some form. Pokemon that are inspired by horror films (like our own Ohatari) or folk legends really only scare people for fun, rather than be dangerous about it. Yamask, who are canonically the spirits of dead humans from ages past, are positively adorable.

So, it pays to bear these facts in mind with Bekenastro. There is nothing, objectively, to suggest that it can't be capable of niceness, but on the other hand there is nothing to suggest that can, because you have not said so. It is entirely at your discretion whether or not this Pokemon is capable of the necessary emotional range to be your stalwart ally against the schemes of Bombur's oddly-numerous villains. Even if you change nothing about it, and it gets accepted, you should be aware that it cannot, for the reasons given above, look as scary as you possibly want it to be.

And don't worry sir, you are being a very eloquent and engaging discussion participant, there is no danger of prickery from you. Me however, well...


(now why can't I write this much for my university reports)