Beyond the surface of the wondrous namesake creatures and the interactions that occur among them and related people, Pokémon also has (or may have) associations to certain illustrative situations involving their inspirations. A case in point involves the three entities as mentioned in the title of this post - leeks, ducks, and horses - and some interrelationships that exist among them. From their sounds, it seems some of those interrelationships might already be evident - yet they deserve to be explained to a certain length, which becomes the purpose of this post.
The first two of these obviously refer to Farfetch'd and its related forms and species. As briefly explained in a Shorts video on YouTube, their associations go beyond merely the latter (duck) holding the former (leek, see also the separate treatise), which taken together in fact makes up the Japanese name of the species - Kamonegi, literally "duck-leek". Serving up duck and leek together is a common oriental tradition, but if the duck swoops in while bearing a leek - such is the statement of a Japanese proverb - then it would be ridiculous, out of this world... hence "far-fetched" and the species' English name, an obvious nod. Its Galarian form evolves to Sirfetch'd, a knightly duck - yet it's the leek that is knightly, if the Japanese species name (Negiganaito) would have one believe; taking the name another way, the leek becomes the essential component, which makes sense given its evolutionary process (moreover as illustrated in the World saga for Ash). So, there is a complex intertwining of associations here, aside from them being equally delicious foodstuffs making up the name of one enigmatic Pokémon.
Speaking of Galar, the region-specific forms as above were also discovered (OOC: debuted) concurrently with those for the Ponyta species family - a family of horses with a mystical aura - whose appearances are primarily in a certain mystical forest, seemingly mostly confined to that location. With all the knightly (and not-so-knightly) ducks roaming around brandishing their leek weapons, those horses may not want to have anything to do with them, and for a good reason: leeks (and basically any other member of the onion family) are toxic to horses, as has been attested in real life. This fact could hold up somewhat true even for those horses, and that would explain some of the confinement for them. Even without confinement, it's just a plain red flag.
Much can evidently be discerned for these three entities, in the sense of their real, figurative, as well as in-universe associations, which leads to their interrelationships and a sense of them existing. Still, that does speak for the great amount of inspiration that Pokémon takes from all sorts of facets or aspects, which makes all the things in the world more believable - and certainly wondrous in that regard.
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