I noticed that the Cub stage of certain bases have those dark rosette-like patterns on them.

Here is the Cream base on a cub without the lineart:


The patterns disappear in the Adolescent stage though:


Only certain common bases have this feature. Does anyone know why that is? I think this was due to an abandoned art choice that only shows up on the oldest bases on Lioden, but I am not sure if there is more to it.


^Chocolate, another Common base, does not show spots on cubs.

If the cub spots are an outdated aesthetic and not tied to other features (like the generation of actual Rosettes), I wonder how people feel about a suggestion to remove the marks from the cubs for consistency. The black-ish marks make the bases look kinda smudgy to me.