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Name: Brantron
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Characters Played: Jinxie Tenma
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Squid Girl
Character Canon: Shinryaku! Ika Musume
History:
Here is a wiki link. In case that's not quite enough, here's a few paragraphs I wrote up as well. None of it is all that detailed, considering her canon is pretty silly story of the week, slice of life type fare.
There isn’t really a whole lot of detailed background to give. Squid Girl is, as her name suggests, a squid girl. Which is to say, she is an anthropomorphic, walking, talking girl with all of the amazing powers of a squid. She’s lived in the ocean her entire life doing squid things – swimming around, eating shrimp, escaping from orca whales and sharks, and just generally having a good time in the water.
One day, however, she decides that she’s had it up to here with the way the surface-dwelling humans are treating the ocean, and how they’ve taken its gifts for granted. She’s tired of all the offshore oil rigs and garbage that ends up in her home, and decides that the best thing to do is come ashore and teach humanity a lesson by invading and conquering them.
Unfortunately, this plan doesn’t really work out all that well, for a number of reasons. First off, the entire plan is pretty much just that. Second, she’s incredibly stupid and doesn’t realize how many humans she’d have to conquer, or even what a military is, let alone the fact that she’d have to fight all of them. And third, she’s got all of the amazing attention span of a ten year old girl too and keeps getting distracted by things.
So while her stated goal is to conquer humanity, she really spends just about all of her time hanging out at a beachside café named “Lemon” with two high school girls named Eiko and Chizuru, their little brother Takeru, and a revolving cast of other characters that live near or hang out on the beach. Having accidentally put a hole through the side of the café with her tentacles early on, she now works there trying to earn enough money to pay them back.
Invading is difficult.
AU History:
Squid Girl's in-game history isn't actually all that different from her canon history. She started life as an Inkay living in the oceans near the city of Union, and for reasons unknown gained the ability to assume human form - most likely as an extreme emotional reaction to encountering some trash that had been discarded in the water by some thoughtless human from the city. Coming ashore and making her way to the only obvious bastion of civilization around, she immediately blustered her way straight into Union and began making loud proclamations about how she was going to reconquer their society and teach them all a lesson for disrespecting the oceans. Her initial outburst was actually genuinely noticed and legitimately frightened some people, considering the history of this world, and she was briefly detained by the City Guard for making threats until they quickly discovered that she was a powerless idiot and let her go. Since then, she's basically just moved into Union and lives with a family that felt bad for her and took her in. They give her a small allowance in exchange for helping them out around the house and in a small restaurant they run. She still talks about invading sometimes, but she's pretty distractible, and tends to forget what her original goal was for long spans of time.
Canon Personality:
Most of Squid Girl’s personality can be inferred from the fact that she is, as previously mentioned, an anthropomorphic squid person. The strongest character traits she exhibits are all based on this. She loves the sea above all else, as it’s been her home for the indistinct span of time that encompasses her life, and she would do just about anything to protect it. Having only recently come out of the water for the first time, many things about the surface world confuse her, and she fails to react in what would be a normal way to a lot of other things. For example, she has no idea what a military is when Eiko warns her about the dangers of invading. Also, when she hears what ghosts are, she decides they can’t be scary at all, because why would you be afraid of something you can’t see and that can’t touch you? Clearly sharks and orca whales are a lot more frightening – after all, they’re her natural predators!
The second major thing to keep in mind about Squid Girl’s personality is that she is incredibly stupid and easy to fool. This may be a side effect of having lived in the ocean forever, but it’s a pretty fair bet that she also just doesn’t have a whole lot going on upstairs. She is easily taken in by Takeru’s squid person costume consisting only of a hastily made paper hat with blue streamers on it crafted to look like tentacles, and spends an entire episode dragging him around as if he’s one of her comrades from the sea. Then, when the hat blows off, instead of getting mad at him for disguising himself, she assumes her precious friend is dead and gives the hat a burial at sea.
Squid Girl is also capable of some pretty hardcore paranoia, due to some ridiculous misguided persecution complex about humanity’s reaction to her being an invader. It’s almost never actually true, of course, but she lets her imagination run away with her on an almost constant basis. She tends to feel that Eiko and Chizuru are always secretly plotting against her, and has even organized a few preemptive strikes on occasion, none of which ever turn out well. It’s a pretty fair bet that if she hears people whispering nearby, though, that her first assumption is going to be that they’re discussing what a delicious meal she would make or how they’re going to kill her in horrible ways. Because of this, she has a bit of a hard time making real friends that she can trust. She’ll still hang out with people, but there’s usually an undercurrent feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Above all, nothing makes Squid Girl happier than knowing she is respected and feared. Unfortunately, this happens so very infrequently that she just sort of has to deal with what she can get. If there’s someone nearby getting more attention or affection than she is, she’ll throw a fit and demand to be treated in the same way because she clearly deserves it. This leads to at least one ridiculous misunderstanding in which she is jealous of a dog and ends up collared and leashed literally seconds later. On another occasion, she sees a child having a birthday, and decides that today will be her birthday as well because she wants to blow out the candles. Eventually a girl named Nagisa shows up to work at Lemon, and is immediately terrified of Squid Girl because she sees her tentacles waving around. She has since become Squid Girl’s favorite person, because she’s having what she sees as the appropriate reaction to a mighty invader from the sea such as herself. She’s always really happy around Nagisa, claiming that she’s probably the only person in the whole world who really understands her.
AU Deviation:
Considering Squid Girl wasn't pressed into service in Union the way she was in her original canon, she's even less focused on her original stated goal of invading humanity and conquering it for oceankind, considering there's less for her to feel resentful about. And considering she's not in debt to her host family but instead was taken in out of a sense of pity, she has a bit more experience with human society and is slightly less naive about the world in general. She's also more self-confident since there's no one actively limiting her activities around the city, and also because in this world she was actually taken seriously for a few days instead of being blown off immediately by the people around her. Because of this, the persecution complex mentioned in her personality section above isn't really a factor in her behavior at all. She's still fiercely protective of Water Pokemon and their natural habitats, feeling an obvious kinship with them, but she tends to jump to conclusions about peoples' intentions toward them much less often. She still goes on sometimes about invading when she's frustrated or angry, but is generally more self-aware about it and seems to recognize that she'll never actually try because the humans have been pretty nice to her on the whole and the Pokemon gods clearly think they're all right. As a result, the whole invasion thing has kind of become a big joke that she's in on too.
Canon Abilities:
Squid Girl’s abilities are all based on the fact that she is a squid. This includes the following:
Spitting Ink – Squid Girl can produce ink and spit it out as a form of defense. It’s also apparently delicious as a topping for spaghetti.
Tentacle Hair – Squid Girl’s blue ‘hair’ is actually ten tentacles that are capable of some rather amazing feats of their own. They’re very strong, can extend to great lengths very quickly, and allow her to manipulate many more things at a time than she has hands to carry otherwise.
Bioluminescence – Like a firefly squid, Squid Girl can glow with a soft blue light to find her way when it’s dark outside. She can also modulate the level of light, making it brighter or dimmer at will or even turning it off and on quickly to create a flashing effect.
Variable Weight - The bands Squid Girl wears on her wrists allow her to adjust her weight from anywhere between 0.0005kg to 20,000kg in an instant, enabling her to either plant herself into the ground to the point of nigh immovability, or to glide along with the breeze at her lightest.
Enlightened Abilities:
As a Shifter type Enlightened that started life as an Inkay, Squid Girl has the Dark and Psychic types. To mimic her canon abilities, she will be starting with the moves Constrict, Flash, Octazooka, and Tickle if permissible. Octazooka and Tickle are not normally moves that an Inkay can learn, but I have them here to simulate her ink spitting ability and the fact that she also often uses her tentacles for non-combat purposes.
As Squid Girl gains levels, she will learn the normal attacks that an Inkay would have.
As for an Enhanced Item, I'd like if she could retain an item that works like her bracelets as described above, allowing her to change her weight by physically adjusting the bands themselves.
Starter Pokémon: Tympole
Notes/Special Considerations: Just what I detailed above - if she could start with Octazooka and Tickle as two of her attacks, that's really all.
SAMPLES
First-Person: This post from Mayfield should have plenty of comments.
Third-Person: Answering some questions in lieu of a third-person sample!
-What would you say the most important occupation is within Union? Fishermen, definitely. Who else would catch all those delicious Clauncher and Corphish for me to eat?
-What does the story of the Savior mean to you? It means the Pokemon should always be ready to rise up and invade again in case the humans start acting like they own the whole planet again.
-What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond? If they're Water types, then they're fine with me! Unless they want to eat me.
-The gods of old have returned. How would you be judged if you were chosen as a representative of humanity? Why would I be a representative of humanity? I'm an Inkay. If the gods come back to judge the humans, I'll just go back to the ocean and live there!
-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend? I help the Pokemon, of course! The human gets a face full of ink, at the very least. And if they don't stop, then I punish them with my tentacles! Humans need to learn how to respect nature, but some of them never learn unless you beat the lesson into them.
-You are alone and bereft of your Pokémon allies, upon what strengths do you rely on to see yourself safely home? Huhuhu... I rely on all the amazing powers of an Inkay, of course! Ten mighty tentacles, that can stretch the width of whole city streets and lift even the heaviest rocks! Lighting my body up so I can see where I'm going in the dark! Spitting ink into the faces of my enemies so I can beat them up or run away! Uhm... these fin things on my head! Look, I can wiggle them back and forth! ...Shut up, they're awesome, okay!
-What would you say is your greatest duty, and why? To defend the ocean and all the Pokemon living there from overfishing, pollution, and other abuses by the human population of the world. Most Water types can't take human form like I can, so I need to make sure to fight for all of them.
-You plunge into the depths of the Old City. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom? I dunno. Something that would be fun to play with, I guess. It gets pretty boring in Union sometimes.
-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why? Bonding with it! It's important to have lots of loyal followers, after all. You never know when you'll run into a Sharpedo or something that wants to eat you. Imagine how surprised it would be to run into something that's big enough to eat it instead!
-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity? Me? I don't have to do anything. I was never a human to begin with. If the gods get angry, I'll just go back to the ocean and live there. That's someone else's problem to deal with.
-In your eyes, what is absolutely unforgivable? Disrespecting the ocean and the Pokemon that live there. How far do you think humans would have gotten if they didn't have a big source of clean water? Not very far at all! I don't know why anyone would want to throw trash in the ocean or mess with the Pokemon that have lived there for years and years.
Name: Brantron
Contact Information:
Time Zone: EST
Characters Played: Jinxie Tenma
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Squid Girl
Character Canon: Shinryaku! Ika Musume
History:
Here is a wiki link. In case that's not quite enough, here's a few paragraphs I wrote up as well. None of it is all that detailed, considering her canon is pretty silly story of the week, slice of life type fare.
There isn’t really a whole lot of detailed background to give. Squid Girl is, as her name suggests, a squid girl. Which is to say, she is an anthropomorphic, walking, talking girl with all of the amazing powers of a squid. She’s lived in the ocean her entire life doing squid things – swimming around, eating shrimp, escaping from orca whales and sharks, and just generally having a good time in the water.
One day, however, she decides that she’s had it up to here with the way the surface-dwelling humans are treating the ocean, and how they’ve taken its gifts for granted. She’s tired of all the offshore oil rigs and garbage that ends up in her home, and decides that the best thing to do is come ashore and teach humanity a lesson by invading and conquering them.
Unfortunately, this plan doesn’t really work out all that well, for a number of reasons. First off, the entire plan is pretty much just that. Second, she’s incredibly stupid and doesn’t realize how many humans she’d have to conquer, or even what a military is, let alone the fact that she’d have to fight all of them. And third, she’s got all of the amazing attention span of a ten year old girl too and keeps getting distracted by things.
So while her stated goal is to conquer humanity, she really spends just about all of her time hanging out at a beachside café named “Lemon” with two high school girls named Eiko and Chizuru, their little brother Takeru, and a revolving cast of other characters that live near or hang out on the beach. Having accidentally put a hole through the side of the café with her tentacles early on, she now works there trying to earn enough money to pay them back.
Invading is difficult.
AU History:
Squid Girl's in-game history isn't actually all that different from her canon history. She started life as an Inkay living in the oceans near the city of Union, and for reasons unknown gained the ability to assume human form - most likely as an extreme emotional reaction to encountering some trash that had been discarded in the water by some thoughtless human from the city. Coming ashore and making her way to the only obvious bastion of civilization around, she immediately blustered her way straight into Union and began making loud proclamations about how she was going to reconquer their society and teach them all a lesson for disrespecting the oceans. Her initial outburst was actually genuinely noticed and legitimately frightened some people, considering the history of this world, and she was briefly detained by the City Guard for making threats until they quickly discovered that she was a powerless idiot and let her go. Since then, she's basically just moved into Union and lives with a family that felt bad for her and took her in. They give her a small allowance in exchange for helping them out around the house and in a small restaurant they run. She still talks about invading sometimes, but she's pretty distractible, and tends to forget what her original goal was for long spans of time.
Canon Personality:
Most of Squid Girl’s personality can be inferred from the fact that she is, as previously mentioned, an anthropomorphic squid person. The strongest character traits she exhibits are all based on this. She loves the sea above all else, as it’s been her home for the indistinct span of time that encompasses her life, and she would do just about anything to protect it. Having only recently come out of the water for the first time, many things about the surface world confuse her, and she fails to react in what would be a normal way to a lot of other things. For example, she has no idea what a military is when Eiko warns her about the dangers of invading. Also, when she hears what ghosts are, she decides they can’t be scary at all, because why would you be afraid of something you can’t see and that can’t touch you? Clearly sharks and orca whales are a lot more frightening – after all, they’re her natural predators!
The second major thing to keep in mind about Squid Girl’s personality is that she is incredibly stupid and easy to fool. This may be a side effect of having lived in the ocean forever, but it’s a pretty fair bet that she also just doesn’t have a whole lot going on upstairs. She is easily taken in by Takeru’s squid person costume consisting only of a hastily made paper hat with blue streamers on it crafted to look like tentacles, and spends an entire episode dragging him around as if he’s one of her comrades from the sea. Then, when the hat blows off, instead of getting mad at him for disguising himself, she assumes her precious friend is dead and gives the hat a burial at sea.
Squid Girl is also capable of some pretty hardcore paranoia, due to some ridiculous misguided persecution complex about humanity’s reaction to her being an invader. It’s almost never actually true, of course, but she lets her imagination run away with her on an almost constant basis. She tends to feel that Eiko and Chizuru are always secretly plotting against her, and has even organized a few preemptive strikes on occasion, none of which ever turn out well. It’s a pretty fair bet that if she hears people whispering nearby, though, that her first assumption is going to be that they’re discussing what a delicious meal she would make or how they’re going to kill her in horrible ways. Because of this, she has a bit of a hard time making real friends that she can trust. She’ll still hang out with people, but there’s usually an undercurrent feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Above all, nothing makes Squid Girl happier than knowing she is respected and feared. Unfortunately, this happens so very infrequently that she just sort of has to deal with what she can get. If there’s someone nearby getting more attention or affection than she is, she’ll throw a fit and demand to be treated in the same way because she clearly deserves it. This leads to at least one ridiculous misunderstanding in which she is jealous of a dog and ends up collared and leashed literally seconds later. On another occasion, she sees a child having a birthday, and decides that today will be her birthday as well because she wants to blow out the candles. Eventually a girl named Nagisa shows up to work at Lemon, and is immediately terrified of Squid Girl because she sees her tentacles waving around. She has since become Squid Girl’s favorite person, because she’s having what she sees as the appropriate reaction to a mighty invader from the sea such as herself. She’s always really happy around Nagisa, claiming that she’s probably the only person in the whole world who really understands her.
AU Deviation:
Considering Squid Girl wasn't pressed into service in Union the way she was in her original canon, she's even less focused on her original stated goal of invading humanity and conquering it for oceankind, considering there's less for her to feel resentful about. And considering she's not in debt to her host family but instead was taken in out of a sense of pity, she has a bit more experience with human society and is slightly less naive about the world in general. She's also more self-confident since there's no one actively limiting her activities around the city, and also because in this world she was actually taken seriously for a few days instead of being blown off immediately by the people around her. Because of this, the persecution complex mentioned in her personality section above isn't really a factor in her behavior at all. She's still fiercely protective of Water Pokemon and their natural habitats, feeling an obvious kinship with them, but she tends to jump to conclusions about peoples' intentions toward them much less often. She still goes on sometimes about invading when she's frustrated or angry, but is generally more self-aware about it and seems to recognize that she'll never actually try because the humans have been pretty nice to her on the whole and the Pokemon gods clearly think they're all right. As a result, the whole invasion thing has kind of become a big joke that she's in on too.
Canon Abilities:
Squid Girl’s abilities are all based on the fact that she is a squid. This includes the following:
Spitting Ink – Squid Girl can produce ink and spit it out as a form of defense. It’s also apparently delicious as a topping for spaghetti.
Tentacle Hair – Squid Girl’s blue ‘hair’ is actually ten tentacles that are capable of some rather amazing feats of their own. They’re very strong, can extend to great lengths very quickly, and allow her to manipulate many more things at a time than she has hands to carry otherwise.
Bioluminescence – Like a firefly squid, Squid Girl can glow with a soft blue light to find her way when it’s dark outside. She can also modulate the level of light, making it brighter or dimmer at will or even turning it off and on quickly to create a flashing effect.
Variable Weight - The bands Squid Girl wears on her wrists allow her to adjust her weight from anywhere between 0.0005kg to 20,000kg in an instant, enabling her to either plant herself into the ground to the point of nigh immovability, or to glide along with the breeze at her lightest.
Enlightened Abilities:
As a Shifter type Enlightened that started life as an Inkay, Squid Girl has the Dark and Psychic types. To mimic her canon abilities, she will be starting with the moves Constrict, Flash, Octazooka, and Tickle if permissible. Octazooka and Tickle are not normally moves that an Inkay can learn, but I have them here to simulate her ink spitting ability and the fact that she also often uses her tentacles for non-combat purposes.
As Squid Girl gains levels, she will learn the normal attacks that an Inkay would have.
As for an Enhanced Item, I'd like if she could retain an item that works like her bracelets as described above, allowing her to change her weight by physically adjusting the bands themselves.
Starter Pokémon: Tympole
Notes/Special Considerations: Just what I detailed above - if she could start with Octazooka and Tickle as two of her attacks, that's really all.
SAMPLES
First-Person: This post from Mayfield should have plenty of comments.
Third-Person: Answering some questions in lieu of a third-person sample!
-What would you say the most important occupation is within Union? Fishermen, definitely. Who else would catch all those delicious Clauncher and Corphish for me to eat?
-What does the story of the Savior mean to you? It means the Pokemon should always be ready to rise up and invade again in case the humans start acting like they own the whole planet again.
-What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond? If they're Water types, then they're fine with me! Unless they want to eat me.
-The gods of old have returned. How would you be judged if you were chosen as a representative of humanity? Why would I be a representative of humanity? I'm an Inkay. If the gods come back to judge the humans, I'll just go back to the ocean and live there!
-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend? I help the Pokemon, of course! The human gets a face full of ink, at the very least. And if they don't stop, then I punish them with my tentacles! Humans need to learn how to respect nature, but some of them never learn unless you beat the lesson into them.
-You are alone and bereft of your Pokémon allies, upon what strengths do you rely on to see yourself safely home? Huhuhu... I rely on all the amazing powers of an Inkay, of course! Ten mighty tentacles, that can stretch the width of whole city streets and lift even the heaviest rocks! Lighting my body up so I can see where I'm going in the dark! Spitting ink into the faces of my enemies so I can beat them up or run away! Uhm... these fin things on my head! Look, I can wiggle them back and forth! ...Shut up, they're awesome, okay!
-What would you say is your greatest duty, and why? To defend the ocean and all the Pokemon living there from overfishing, pollution, and other abuses by the human population of the world. Most Water types can't take human form like I can, so I need to make sure to fight for all of them.
-You plunge into the depths of the Old City. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom? I dunno. Something that would be fun to play with, I guess. It gets pretty boring in Union sometimes.
-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why? Bonding with it! It's important to have lots of loyal followers, after all. You never know when you'll run into a Sharpedo or something that wants to eat you. Imagine how surprised it would be to run into something that's big enough to eat it instead!
-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity? Me? I don't have to do anything. I was never a human to begin with. If the gods get angry, I'll just go back to the ocean and live there. That's someone else's problem to deal with.
-In your eyes, what is absolutely unforgivable? Disrespecting the ocean and the Pokemon that live there. How far do you think humans would have gotten if they didn't have a big source of clean water? Not very far at all! I don't know why anyone would want to throw trash in the ocean or mess with the Pokemon that have lived there for years and years.