Post by Xatch on Apr 3, 2008 6:24:41 GMT 10
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Name: None.
Age: Two months
Gender: Female
Species: Shellos
Personality: Shellos is a rather easily-frightened pokemon, compared to some. She can fend for herself, and may be capable of fighting, but she doesn't particularly enjoy it, and prefers to run away if she is threatened by another pokemon. She has gotten into two fights in her two months of life. The first was against a gligar who was trying to attack her for food, while the second was against a rattata who was trying to steal her food. She does have some confidence in herself, but still prefers to remain non-violent.
Shellos likes comfort. Oh sure, she enjoys living outside too, being able to explore the trees and climb over rocks, but she really loves creature comforts, which are few and far between in the wild. Still, she has managed to secret away a small towel that she took after it fell from a human clothesline, and she drags it everywhere with her when she travels, making a bed out of it when she wants to sleep. She enjoys swimming as well, but greatly prefers warm water to cold, and loves sweets such as candy. She will sit outside a human home around dinnertime, simply inhaling the scent of cooking food. Shellos herself usually eats leaves, but occasionally she is lucky enough to find a berry bush with sweet berries on it.
She likes toys, as well. Stuffed animals, anything that makes chiming noises, and other toys like that tend to be her favorites, although she has only seen a couple and never actually played with them. Shellos actually does have a good deal of energy, although she tends not to move as though she was in any particular hurry, and if offered a chance to play a game of some sort like tag, she would probably take part gladly.
Physical Appearance: Shellos is quite small in size, being only about eight inches at the very top of her head. She will grow a little larger by the time she grows to be an adult, but no more than five inches or so maximum. She is small for her species anyway, so she probably will not grow more than three inches by the time she reaches adulthood. She is surprisingly strong for her size, however (not more powerful than a human, but moreso than one might assume).
Her skin is a little rubbery-feeling, but smooth and soft. She may seem delicate at times, but actually has quite a resilient body. Shellos can survive just about any fall, because there are no bones in her body, and she quite literally bounces when dropped from a height. She can squeeze through just about any size hole as well, even under a door if she tries hard enough (although she might outgrow that very soon).
Shellos's skin is a light pink color, with a yellow ring between where her belly and back begin. Her belly and the four little lumps that make up her "legs" are a pure white color, which is rarely clean. Usually, thanks to her outdoor life, she is smeared with mud or grass-stains, and if she can find a berry-bush, there will certainly be berry-stains around her mouth and even down the front of her neck and chest (or what seems to be her chest, anyway). On the top of her head, she has a pair of hornlike protuberances that bend backwards over her neck. These are pink, but they end in white tips (which are not sharp). She also has a pair of odd, wing-like formations on either side of her back, which are thin membranes of skin and muscle tipped with yellow. These help her swim.
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Attacks:
- Mud-Slap (may lower enemy's accuracy)
- Mud Sport (reduces electricity's power)
- Harden (raises user's defence)
Allegiance: Neutral
History: Shellos was hatched only two months ago, having been left as an egg by her mother and father. Both of her parents were gastrodons, and both of them were captured by trainers before their egg could hatch. Thus, Shellos came into the world alone, and had to fend for herself from the very beginning. She was always small for her species, even despite her young age, and was always a little too curious about humans. She would crawl close to human homes just to inhale the strangely comforting smells, and still does this (although not as often as she used to).
Shellos has been in two fights in her short lifetime, both of which were rather unavoidable. Other opportunities for battle have come, of course, but she prefers to run away from a fight than actually do battle. She doesn't like to hurt others, and she doesn't like to be hurt. The first time she got in a fight, she was being attacked by a gligar. It swooped down and tried to catch her in its claws, intending to eat her. She tried to run away, but couldn't get away from the batlike pokemon. She threw mud in the gligar's face to get it to go away, and it ended up flying into a tree and knocking itself unconscious while it was trying to get the dirt out of its eyes.
The second fight she was in was about three weeks ago. Food was scarce then, and she had managed to find a berry bush. She hadn't eaten a lot, but had taken two berries away with her, carrying them on her back to save for later. A rattata leapt out from a bush and tried to take them from her, but shellos fought back. She used harden to deflect the first attack, and then threw mud at the rat-pokemon until it fled. After that, shellos gained a little more confidence in herself. She also found a small towel that fell from a clothesline in a human's backyard, and although it is dirty and muddy now, she still drags it around with her to use as a security blanket, and can be found at night curled up inside it.