Well that's fucking horrifying.

for Bag of Crafting*

*age 27 (Was having trouble finding where Hlev mentioned his age)

It just gives them contrast to all the humanoid characters that treats them more like scientific creatures, since the Pikmin fully exist to them.

Plus there's stuff like the wraiths which are heavily based on the umibouzu yo-kai. So it technically would still be in theme for them to be more supernatural beings.

I remember those things! Me and my sister used to each have one I think, they both made sexy whistle noises for some reason.