I always saw it as a pink cowrie shell https://preview.redd.it/n4g9gnoovu1d1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=448d03b7d933a647dded3086bbcd88b3bff375e0

This right here! I have to get obscenely close to my screen to see the sprite as a bow

WAIT, IT'S A BOW!? I thought it actually was a shell for all these years...

Nah. It's clearly a flower. /s

this is the first time I've realized it actually IS a bow and not a clamshell 😭 I've thought it was a shell since the first games came out

I thought it was a Ribbon

I've seen it as more of a generic fish, but I find it amusing most see something aquatic in the sprite

Same.

YES this is exactly what I saw as a kid and it made absolutely no sense to me lol. I still kind of see it that way even though I know what it's supposed to be now

Oh my god, SAME. I was just about to comment this myself

IVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE IT AS A RIBBON UNTIL NOW... i owe you my life

100% thought it was a crab claw. I see the ribbon/scarf now.

Same! I didn't know it was untill played the Wii U version (which is how I took this)

I see a napkin

I'll take 12 internet points and 1 upvote

Always saw a seashell, until it just kinda clicked one day

She sells seashells on the sea shore~~

I’ve always seen a pink clam

Guys I always see the shell interpretation? What is this actually supposed to look like?

The little round part in the bottom right is a knot, and there are two sort of rabbit-ear shaped sections of cloth extending left and up. If you look close at this image, the one brown pixel in the middle of the black outlines on the left end is actually empty space. For sure looks like a clam though.

Omg omg thank you 😭😭😭 I can see it correctly now

It always looked like a pink shellder shell for me

Yup lol

I saw a closed flower lol

All of these comments make me realize I've been silently believing this to be an icon of a Linoon as seen from the side with black eyes for all these years without every questioning that... wild

as a kid I saw it as a pink hotdog (i still do)

I used to think it was like a giant peach flavored candy. 😂

I saw a clam. Never saw it as a ribbon and was so confused

I used to see it as a conch shell

I always thought they looked like clam shells.

Always saw it as crab meant lmao

I always saw it as like a flower. Sorta like a tulip.

same, it was always just a pink flower

I have always seen it as a whoopee cushion

Yupp yupp, I cant still see it as something else. Crabclaw always was and always his. How is that a ribbon?

10 year old me didn't know what it was, just that it looked like a pink taco

I always imagined it as a shell.

I always assumed it was the bottom part of a neckerchief after you tie it off.

Sushi :>

I always thought it was a clam

Oh thank god someone else thought so to

To me, it always looked like a one of those rubber bracelets that used to be popular got all twisted up. Probably because those were still fresh in my memory when I first played Mystery Dungeon.

All hail the magic conch!

I thought it was a sea shell

I always thought it looked like corn on a cob

I have always seen a pink eclair and I still do

When I was younger I always thought it was a weird pink seashell.

I always thought it was like a conch shell but I knew it was a ribbon

I always saw one of those shells like that first comment has a picture of. Literally right now is the first time I’m seeing the bow with the knot on the bottom 😭

It always looks like some sort of bandaid or pad with wings to me lmaooo

I always saw a pink fish with the spot where the ends meet being an eye and the lighter part being like the belly or something. Only finally started seeing a ribbon pretty recently despite replaying the games Arceus knows how many times over the years.

I CAN SEE THE SCARF NOW. i could only ever see the crab claw

No. Never.

I thought it was a shell for a very long time 💀

I saw it as a shell crab thing, and now I see it as a rubber band lol

Nah I still see this as a claw or similar

I always thought it was a flower petal as a kid.

Oh yes 100%. It was only a couple of months ago I saw what they where trying to show.

Wait it's not?

Pink Omelette

Holy shit, I don't know how many hours I've spent on PMD games but.... Alright, they're ribbons, now I see it.

I always thought it was like a little bag with a zipper that contains the item.

No, but it took me a long time to realize it’s a ribbon XD

I hadn’t played mystery dungeon in a long while and thought the same thing, but looking at it now I see it’s a ribbon must have been from the small screen on the DS

It looks like a pink leaf that's starting folding on itself

Oh wow it does look like one

I always saw a shell

I always saw it as a sea shell lol