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Female Torkoal leaded her head closer to Weirda's Excadrill's paws as she saw woman is doing something, but she couldn't see this in detail.- what are you doing?
- sharpening my pencil on Furry's claws while he performs metal claw for sharp edge of his spikes that I can use as sharpener
Answered Wei with soft as usual voice.
- I thought you use brushes and paint for your...exercises? Do I remember right what you said about what you do?
Shelly was a bit confused about Weirda's passion she got to know lately
- yes I do, when I want to get certain effect in my painting. I use pencil most of time, mainly for making studies of Pokemon I can see closely.
- You paint landscapes and draw Pokemon too? You sure have talent to do so!
- Yes, I do, I still train a lot to improve.
Wei smiled, but rather out of habit. She always feels a bit embarassed when someone describes her talent as something pretty big,
because she's modest perfectionist that knows well other artists are more confident and draw better than her.
Furry as usual told his two cents knowing Wei needs to know she really HAS talent...!
- Yes she is talented! She draws everything so beautiful and alive, I couldn't do same even if all my claws could be pencils,
while Wei can draw amazing sketches with only one pencil!
Shelly got interested having in mind Weirda's some landscape watercolor paintings she did in Lavaridge Town.
- Can I see how you draw with pencil?
- Sure, but...it takes me a while before I start the right drawing, eheheh.
Just to say, don't expect I do magic with pencil like a wand, results are visible after longer time.
While she blown away leftovers from sharpening pencil, Furry again spoke with smile:
- I think your pencil is a magic wand. Everything you draw is so real!
- Maybe it is...!
Shelly giggled, Wei too, focused already on Torkoal's shell and scutes she's about to study.
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Nah, maybe nothing very amusing here, but what I can tell interesting here?
I can see Shelly would even ask Wei how it could be if she could be in water or even swim. THAT is something intriguing to her.
Weirda for sure would answer it's pretty funny that her ancestors came from water and she even knows turtle that can live in water
- Jay's Archie the Squirtortle! Shelly for sure will find it as totally new fact, because...there are no other turtle Pokemn species in whole Hoenn
and almost no one walks into hot spring with Blastoise as it can't swim in such small pond and water is too hot.
Mind you, we can sweat, reptiles cannot. Torterra wouldn't also feel well, because of its plants getting into too extremal for them temperature
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Do you believe I drew this exaclty 3 months ago from now?!
ALL RIGHT THE STATUS IS STILL W.I.P AS I THOUGHT I WILL GET BACK TO NAIL THE BACKGROUND, BUT SO FAR I PROCRASTINATE FROM TOO MANY PERSONAL THINGS.
YOU CAN TRY TO UNDERSTAND, YOU CAN IGNORE AND ENJOY WHAT I TRIED SO FAR. ONE OF FLAWS IS NO OUTLINE ON EXCADRILL AS IS STILL HAVE TOO MUCH TROUBLE WITH GETTING IT RIGHT IN MY STYLE.
*Wei has her Hoenn's hairstyle here.
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There's a lot about Shelly OC, because unlike others I don't feel a need to draw her reference that would only need a text.
I don't need reference drawings for her, because Shelly is based straightly on some tortoise species, so I can get easy acess to ref pics.
If you have in mind I love to give some fanart and appreciation to Pokemon that isn't seen a lot especially how I could see
it...you can understand me. AND POKE-SCIENCE. AND POKEMON WORLD BUILDING. I COULDN'T RESIST.
Let me start with funny thing and lame pun. I caught Torkoal in Fiery path not only for Pokedex, but to breed shiny one someday.
Yes really! I wonder if there are more than 10 people among all Pokemon players who got shiny Torkoal. Especially breeded one.
It's fun to think it's eastern Torkoal with narrow eyes(because it's yellow) and shell sparkling under magnolia or blooming cherry tree XD
with eastern stylized smoke outline MMMMMHHMMMM
It's poke-science based on wildlife thrivia time!
Since irl tortoise species that are in hot climate are less melanic than those which needs to be darker for better sunlight
absorbtion, I consider shiny Torkoal to be species living in the most hot and exposed to sunlight islands of Hoenn region.
Nice idea, isn't it?
I caught female luckily on first try...with sassy nature. Nicknamed her "Hot granny"
Some elders are kind and quiet, but some...can be grumpy and sassy. Yup.
That's how I see her, I even made background NPC-kinda OC in Lavaridge Town. You know, hot springs, hot grannies there...and oh,
maybe something less cheeky, PMD 2 Torkoal that happened to stay in my memory. Maybe because I was had an Aerodactyl there and
it was funny to think "we two relax, while he looks with grumpy face when Torkoal will finish and we all get out of there,
because he's the only one who doesn't enjoy this place at all LOL"
Do you want to know how lame I can be with puns and ideas at all?
Trying to hatch Shelly, I hatched 6IVs MALE Torkoal and nicknamed him...HOT ROD. Having in mind Snot Rod from Cars, suprisly
described as the fastest from his gang, bulky muscle car, but he's the fastest all thanks to his boost.
boom, phoom and then zoom!
...yes I'm so silly.
AND THE TALE OF TURTLE AND HARE RETURNS BY THE WAY.
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I see her Gijinka to be inspired on one of my friends who's chubby from disfunction of thyroid, but I'm sorry I don't remember it exactly.
I know there are fat or chubby people from overweight and not healthy lifestyle or diet, but some are just from genes like she is.
We both experience patology with parents, we both are calm introverts and can't get our moms complaining all the time with arrogant attitue,
but she definitely have always more and cooler things to say.
I'm glad to have her as my friend, especially that she's forgettable. I might be lazy with making amusing Pokemon OCs,
but it's just all for my fun. At last Shelly breaks the stereotype of Torkoal looking as old tortoise.(I guess...)
Ohh, one more thing: my friend have to wear glasses when have to read a lot and I consider Torkoal happens to be short-sighted,
because of where they live. If inside Fiery path, they get short-sighted: human nowadays are often short-sighted because of starring at screens
and books most of time, so I made an analogy to it if Torkoal spends most of time starring at rocks or rocky walls when in tunnel-like
cave. See, human ancestors lived in opened areas such as savannah, their eyes are adapted to such environment and still moving
sight around, but modern life, which is an INSTANT change in matter of evolution gives bad results towards many sight disfunction.
I see turtle/tortoise Pokemon having similar situation as they lived in ocean and when on land, it was usually a beach or other
opened area. Torkoal adapted to live in mountains, but after they moved inside to spend time in caves, they get the same situation
as human. Maybe not all, but most of them. Their eyes are still adapted to being exposed to strong sunlight having them well
protected and hard to open wide which strenghtens their poor sight(not enough of light goes into eye pupil).
They also don't truly need them, so evolution isn't moving fast with improvements, let's say.
Ready or not, or rather: curious or not, here it goes!
Shelly, female Torkoal
Calm nature, often lost in thought, takes plenty of siestas, strong willed, capable of taking hits, likes to fight
(not from liking adrenaline or domination or even to get rid off some emotions like some Pokemon do, but like my friend
she's inspired on, Shelly just likes to test herself, enjoy competition and most likely out of curious how things will go on)
Ability: Shell armor
Note: Torkoal with Shell armor release less smoke than these with standard, common ability. They have harder time to camouflage
in Fiery path, because they don't merge with surroundings, they also get affected by stat changes in battle and this obviously
affects their behaviour too. Torkoal with White smoke ability are commonly more bold and less hideous as they can release more
of smoke to blurry among steams in Fiery Path or at hot springs.
Hybrid with Numel
Note: a "clear" hybrid; there are no strong visible feathures from father's species in apperance, but it's her eruption move,
being social and smarter more like mammal.
Delicate circle around the eyes is definitely trait from Numel in apperance among some of her siblings, but Shelly haven't
inherited this. Later, when she will get into older age, I see her wearing such "glasses" x3
Shelly got easily noticeable orange markings on her shell's edge. Torkoal commonly have markings on their shell in red colors,
but Shelly have them mainly yellow and red, giving it a look of lava.
Artsist's note: They're inspired on Eastern box turtle's shell which is SIMPLY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS NATURE HAVE PAINTED.
I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT THEM NOW
Human age equivalent: over 22 years old; to be more precise, her human age equivalent would be the same as Weirda Mirrart's age.
Shelly was born like all wild Torkoal, in higher lands of Fiery path at the edge of Jagged pass. Same as Skarmory, those Pokemon use
geothermic heat to lay their eggs in nests that are natural incubators. They lay a lot of eggs, because mentioned birds can take
their nests or eat Torkoal's eggs. Such source of proteins is also seeked by fighting types that sometimes happen to go that far
for such worthy meal. Torkoal have good memory, so once they notice their nest from previous time got robbed or destroyed,
they change location. Rarely, some of them defend their nest if learn fire spin, but it's happening among young and bold ones
that doesn't know staying nearbly nest simply reveals location of their eggs. Skarmory quickly digs eggs up and flies away
with dinner and Machop line works in groups to trick Torkoal while they can steal eggs. Another risk is the smoke those
tortoises release. Even if under sand, the embryon in the egg breaths and Torkoal's smoke can simply poison them, because even small
portion of dioxygen is deadly for such small living.
Shelly's mother was a bit more social and not such conservative like her parents. Having even worse sight than most
of Torkoal, she noticed one male that she considered to be of her kind...while it was a Numel! She was also kind of scatterbrain,
too...Later, when she got to know that, she found it very funny and till today they both still can chuckle at this fact Shelly's mom
haven't knew at first her mate isn't a tortoise.
I should describe shortly the background around him as in modern times such situation is getting less popular.
People and Pokemon native to Hoenn living nearbly Jagged Pass often use unevolved Numel over Camerupt to transport food and other goods
in shortcut between Lavaridge and for example Fallarbor Town. Camerupts can be too big and too heavy at some narrow and dangerous
patchs, they also need more food to keep their energy. Additionaly, people can have bigger trouble with proper ---przywiązywać--- goods to transoprt
on such big bodies Camerupt have. It's tradition that starts to dissapear slowly, but families from Lavaridge still hang on
with their tradition thanks to need of everstones, minerals and evolutionary stones they still excavate from highlands of Jagged Pass
and some endemic herbs they add to well-known Lava cookies.
Shelly's dad is one of such Numel. Fully grown adult holding an everstone to prevent evolution, but he can work with great strenght
at places that Camerupt is too big and too heavy for. He even knows eruption move and can even blast away incoming rock slide!
An artist's note important to mention if you don't know: I have headcanon that Pokemon's evolution stages are separate
species, so there can be an adult first stage...it does explain they can breed, right?
Numel is based on camel, but because of Camerupt looking like Yak I consider them to have role to donkey irl.
Shelly's grandmother is bold and unfortunately an arrogant Torkoal that since over 40 years stays now in Lavaridge Town's hot springs.
Seeing how all modern lifestyle and fashion worked badly for Lavaridge Town's life and because of staying everyday there
rather than visiting this place seasonally at tourist's belowed months, short tempered old female is well-known by visitors
and those who live there as "hot granny" who is often grumpy and can complain a lot. Shelly's parents aren't happy to hear her
complaning AND criticism send to even her own daughter,
which even made few times Shelly's dad have an argue with the elder Torkoal. They prefer to stay away from parts of Lavaridge Town
that "Hot granny" is most likely to be met. They can stay at the edge of this town or even in nearbly caves, but they want their
youngs to be safe untill they will grow up and gain enough of experience. Shelly sees her parents pretty often, but sometimes she has
to wait even a week or so if they transport goods, so do their job. Albeit it doesn't mean this family isn't doing well, parents are just busy.
but still caring at their kids and always take attention to educate them or play together. Somehow, Shelly always felt uncomfortable
nearbly her grandma and dislikes her attitude and way of thinking. Even if she knows way more intimidating eruption move than
"hot granny", Shelly isn't eager to scare away wild Pokemon when they get too nearbly the Town or hot springs. She's definitely
more tolerant in matter of personal space and first thinks, then goes with any action. Unlike her grandma, this female Torkoal
is more level-headed. "Hot granny" also keeps remembering her about the danger outside the town, because she heard once from people
in Lavaridge who got interested in this tortoise's smoke production that makes Shelly more visible among other Torkoals in hot springs
background. Because of her personality and nature as well as smaller size from young age, Shelly often got attention and petting
from young visitors.
Once a pretty impish, rascal Houndoom visited hot springs and thought it will be funny to play with little Torkoal to amuse others.
Through the memorable situation where Shelly was had to defend herself using rapid spin to hit Houndoom's nose, she also smacked
its Houndoomite away moment earlier. Even if trainer looked for Mega stone later, without Houndoom that would knew where it might be, it got lost.
Because Shelly felt bad for hitting painfully dog that even made it nosebleed, she mistaked Wei's Demonica with it and wanted to
give a Houndoomite back. Monica felt confused because she indeed has a chain, but with Amulet coin, not for Mega stone!
Timid Houndoom's behave made Shelly think it still remembers painfull hit into the nose, so Torkoal was pretty conviced to give
Houndoomite to her. Soon as Wei saw Mega stone, she even asked if there was lately another Houndoom as migh someone lost it
and is looking for it, but one of people from Lavaridge told it was long time ago and if no one came back for it, Wei can take it without
such worry.
(artist's note: oh myyy....! I can't believe I've made finding Houndoomite so well-done! I feel secretly so proud of it )
Weirda Mirrart will come to hot springs in Lavaride town twice, inviting her Pokemon that stayed in Kalos to go there and visit
their trainer after long time of no-see: Zuzy the Scrafty and Demonica the Houndoom. Since Wei knew a bit this town and landscape
around already, she decided to walk a bit more further from the town, now with her sketchbook or special paper for watercolor
paint, because the view of rocks, mountains with the mystery steams or fog truly inspired her for some studies. She also wanted
to observe Slugma especially at night. Thanks to Zuzy and Monica which always made her feel safe at night, Wei spended more
free time to observe wild Pokemon as usual. Through few days of visit, Weirda obviously bought again a bunch
of Lava cookies shaped like Torkoal as they're must-have when she has her "coffee time" XD
she took her eyes on Torkoal there. That's how Shelly observed her a bit and decided to ask Weirda if can go with her.
Wei spended again the whole evening using her laptop to read about turtle Pokemon and to contact prof. Rowan again to gain information
that would help her understand and know Torkoal species. Luckily, prof. Rowan studied closely Turtwig line,
so Wei got reply the next day.
Suprisly, Shelly isn't sluggish and clumsy Pokemon, she's pretty energetic and lively!
She also has distance to herself, so won't mind jokes about her species.
There's stereotype Torkoal hear like elder people or they don't listen, but Wei will read and see in her interaction with Shelly
that they just don't hear sounds in the air same as human or more advanced in evolution land Pokemon. Albeit suprisly she got
stunning sense of noticing vibrations in the ground, so she can even tell Weirda if Furry is nearbly or even, if he is digging
around or taking short rest in small maze!
There's also another interesting thing: like woman tends to remember feelings and thoughts, while man how a woman looks,
Shelly like all turtle Pokemon remembers...the smell. It's also coming from experience living among human that even if they
change clothes and they tend to do that often, their characteric and individual smell remains the same, even after deodorant.
Maybe not with precision of a dog, she sees the World around her similar to Weirda's Houndoom.
Even Weirda haven't knew one important fact about turtle Pokemon untill she met Shelly: those Pokemon DO FEEL TOUCHING THEIR SHELL!
Maybe it wasn't that mind-blowing to Weirda as she found it as an adaptation in evolution to feel if the pressure on shell
isn't too dangerous, but sure it suprised her. Especially shallow hollows with vivid colors are sensitive to even gentle touch.
Weirda Mirrart use little help from Shelly when painting with watercolor: Torkoal's heat makes the water evaporate quicker
and Wei challenges herself to be more confident with painting and try to put more contrast. She can also dry her brushes faster
and so pack into backpack more quickly than she did in the past!
Furry, Wei's Excadrill also found Shelly can be helpful; in colder evenings when Weirda starts to shiver from cold and Amaterasu,
shiny Ninetales isn't around or is sleeping, he puts his claws on Shelly's back for while to warm them and then give very warm hug
his trainer. Also Rose the Drapion and Frank the Barbaracle will like to stay nearbly Shelly because of the heat she releases.
However, because of water evaporating and toxins Frank rather warms up and goes somewhere rather than stay at Shelly's side like
Rose does.
One night Wei was had to wake up in middle of night from too high amount of breathed harmful gases, because Shelly wanted to keep
her warm at cold night, but haven't knew her smoke and gases released from the shell will give such effect. Even Furry felt
something wrong and had an urge feel of eating clay the next day, but only Weirda experienced headache and sour taste in mouth
staying for long time even at the breakfast the next day. After that, Weirda have read that learning Pokemon poison type move
affects their level of toxins or dioxygen that circulance through the blood. Luckily she had TM sludge bomb, so soon learned
her Torkoal this move. Even if Shelly remembers to not be close to her trainer when Wei's sleeping or taking a nap, it's sure her
smoke isn't as harmful as it used to be.
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I DID EXPERIENCED GETTING ALMOST POISONED BY TOO HIGH AMOUNG OF HARMFUL GASES. If anyone that's watcher of mine
remembers I wasn't had electricity at home for a month or so...
We heated house with movable heater that works on gas.
It was winter and from too much cold I couldn't even sleep well. My dad decided to move heater to my room, I went to sleep with our cat.
I'll never forget that night when I was had not fully concious open door and ventilate- my room AND move that heavy heater.
It's life and work time, no complaining I'll lost the night and sleep!
UGH
I'll never forget how cat behaved then, how she also vommited nothing but almost saliva and coughed often, I knew it was from being
poisoned by gas. It's smaller living, same amount of harmul gases worked on her worse than on me. And that horrible sour taste
staying for DAYS.
Yes my poor life is reflected in my Pokemon stories concepts
I AM SO UNCREATIVE, AM I? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ahh, how much I wish to make one-shot comic with the concept of Furry giving a warm hug X3
...however, I have life and too many ideas to do
Not to mention one more idea of Weirda's Swampert almost mistaking Shelly with campfire...Torkoal wouldn't enjoy a suprise bath in the mud '^'
Some artwork/scene commentary:
Even with perfectionism mode off to draw Weirda's Excadrill, I am still not saissfied with final result
Maybe it's just I can't find enough of references to understand how their velvet and dense fur shine, especially that they
usually have black fur. Also Furry's longer fur is on purpose: I have headcanon there are subspecies of this Pokemon
that can live in colder climate and Furry's mom was one of this kind.
I hope one day I'll get the result I want.
You might imagine Torkoal having holes in shell and visible heat from inside of shell because of the neat concept of turtle's shell
being a heater furnace. But think about it for a second: WHERE IT HAS VITALS? You saw turtle's skeleton? It has curved spine, so...
I don't buy it for reaistic Pokemon, sorry.
I adooore how many things in nature makes mesmerazing play in our eyes. For example, some butterfly's wings, the ones that gains
vivid colors thans to their scales structure, not pigments! Or some beetles chitin shell sparkling with rainbow colors
That's why, my realistic Torkoal does have shallow holes, but it's still a shell. It have ornaments and colors inspired by
Eastern Box Turtle that like mentioned miracles of nature that are breathtaking, change a bit color depending on the view angle.
That's why people and Pokemon especially consider these to be real lava or fire right under the shell while it's just illusion
to intimidate. Same as "eyes" on butterfly wing, ha!
Talking about tortoise AND butterflies, I found lately interesting thrivia: one of common in Poland butterflies, Rusałka admirał which shall be
translated as nixie admiral literally is called in english...tortoise shell butterfly!
WOOOOW. *^*
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I see similarities between Weirda's Furry and Shelly. Both are even smaller Pokemon,
because they're a bit shorter than Pokedex's size, both gets underestimated at first in battles, many wild Pokemon just gets
SHOCKED to see what they can!
Furry is seen as an easy target and more of plushy toy boy that got raised to be Weirda's pet, while he still is
an Excadrill and well experienced to face even tough opponents! Torkoal is said in Bulbapedia to be based on giant tortoise,
many ppl consider that, but look at Pokedex size: LESS THAN ONE METER IN HEIGHT. Shelly's a bit more than 70 cm in height...
but after shell smash, she reacts rapidly, slides on plastron like a racket and if you won't watch out, she can release
FEARSOME eruption. BLAH, even lava plume after shell smash can knock out even big scary Pokemon away!
You might shake your head how small Pokemon can beat opponent times bigger than it...imaginate it: it's a trouble to hit
small moving target.
Ohh and little thrivia: both Pokemon can hold on breath for very long time as both mole and tortoise can stand better higher amount of dioxygen
in the blood. That explains how Torkoal lives with Koffings in Fiery path and Excadrill not getting poisoned even if it doesn't
look as stereotypical steel type.
Thrivia: and even more wall of text, no mercy!
Shelly...when I see this english word, it reminds me of words such as "kitty", "doggy", "baby" and some lil' forms to describe
something in more adorable way.
That's why in polish equivalent it would be small shell in short one-word form, "skorupka" that just sounds adorable for an insane
sweeper XD and reminds me of an egg, because egg's shell is also described with word "skorupka".
You know egg can stand a strong grisp if you try to smash it from up and down side, not by sides? erm, I'm bad with describing
with words, but why I mention this? It's because Shelly can be easily defeated with special suppper-effective attack such as power gem from Carbink
that don't have rather stunning special attack...,
but not with STAB EQ even after single shell smash or higher leveled Mega Metagross Giga impact...
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Excadrill and Torkoal as Pokemon belongs to Game Freak and Satoshi Tajiri,
Art, Furry, Shelly and Weirda Mirrart OCs belongs to me, Marta Kłeczek
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Comments: 85
You're for sure the first person who made Exandrill lovely and got it to make it really..appealing? I really like your characters they are so wonderful alife!
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thank you very,very much for those kind words~!
I'm happy to hear I managed my Excadrill to look like this- plus I always want to make my characters
and realistic Pokemon look alive- for me that's why I even started drawing- for me it's kind of magic
to make imagination "alive" through static image
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Look how beautiful they all are! I love how expressive everyone is in this, it really gives them life. Wonderful
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thank you so much for those words~!
I'm happy to hear such words~
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Wow, the Torkoal looks so amazing! Lovely job on this! 
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thank you so much!
I was inspired by the look on some turtle shells and Torkoal is one of forgotten Pokemon; that's why even if I gave up on finishing this, I decided to share what I've done and to give this Pokemon great fanart
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Very cool and cute!!! Torkoal is one of my favorites!!! (I like cats and turtles XD )
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thank you so much, I tried my best mainly to make a great fanart of Torkoal, which is underrated.
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He helped me to win the Pokemon league,
he is awesome just like your picture
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this is super cool i love how they all look in this picture
when i look at torcoal i think of my pet tortoise (adventurous little fellow)
that and the background is nice i straight up LOVE that sky in the background those clouds are amazing
well done
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ahh dziękuję Ci bardzo! Szczerze to zawsze zastanawiam się,czy wygląda DOŚĆ realistycznie, ale by ciągle trzymać się jego originalnego wyglądu
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Hahah 
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Tak, to zależy od sytuacji I charakteru Pokemona.
Furry jest przeciwieństwiem samotniczych, nieco gburnych i z typem "twardziela" Excadrillów- jest otawrty, dobroduszny i przyjazny, dlatego nie zamierzam mu naklejać twarzy z wyrazem "I am badass mole"
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Using Pokemon to sharpen a pencil. Pokemon should only be used for battling, NOT doing something a trainer is capable ad doing themself. 😟
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Only for battling? NONSENSE.
With their various amazing abilities and intelligence or wisdom of some such as an alakazam species, we should actually get a help from them in more than just battles as we can do weapons for our needs and greeds.
As for sharpening pencil....Furry just loves to be close to his owner and help even in such unecessary ways xD
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I always have and always will have a soft spot for the mighty Torkoal !
It's just too much adorable for a pokemon ! X3
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and SO underrated. Sure, competitively it's not a Garchomp or Mega Mawile, but it's not weak and looks cool too!
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Its very sasad to know many pokemon players aren't even know this guy !
Why a volcano turtle that can spits lava could be this much underrated ?!
Cool ? It's a fire turtle that can literally melt any mawile on its way
If course it's cool !
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Yes I know! That's why I decided to make a torkoal OC. Even two!
(plus Shelly's grandma with funny name "hot granny" XD) Maybe now I'm focused on Kalos story while the Hoenn adventure is set for future, but I'll for sure show some love to torkoal to give it enough attention x3 trust me, I can do a lot and make ppl even love Pokemon they haven't before, so I hope I'll do it with Shelly too in future!
You know....she got ERUPTION egg move. That's just something way too awesome when I'll use my drawing skills...!
I think it's first being pretty rare in wild and found in only one pace you wanna cross as fast as you can in game(CAVES...!) and it's defensive...fire type.
Blastoise and torterra has better sp.def and speed together with not too bad typing.
But why its design doesn't make it cool enough like Dunsparce for example...I don't know too
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Never enough torkoals; never !
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I definitely look more artworks of torkoal artworks from your gallery
And I really can say Torkoal; at least; got a decent design ! With a very unic shell
[( Some alligators with sunglasses might be jealous; you know them 
I only one time ever capture one in the game; they're or were quite rare; at least in my version. So of course I (luckily) caught it. Named him; Ancalagon
Good old times ! Good times :,)
(I lost the game when I moving to another place; I almost cried because of the lost of My Ancalagon)
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D'awww, Furry is just a treasure! And skorupka... that sounds just too good to be real XD . You remember I traded you my Mewtwo, and you asked why he was called Mira? It was from "miracle", but now I found out that Mira means Amazing in latin XD. Life, sometimes...
Really nice idea with the Houndoomite there! I just imagined someone stepping on it and cursing 'til he noticed what it was 
Wei's sure a master in brushing her hair, I'd die just trying to get something like that once, but every morning something like that...
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Why thank you! I'm glad the polish name sounds sweet to you too~
but Shelly still sounds nice ^^
oh wow, NOW that makes Mira being a great name for Mewtwo for real!
lol! I also can't resist Mega stones reminds on some playing balls...hope you know what I mean since I don't know how they're called!
....to be honest? I consider Pokemon World has a bit different physics on hair...
just look at some humans...or Shauna for example. There are some that made me think it's not that hard like irl...I know,weird.
Also, I see her Pokemon helping her in that, giving a helpful hand
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To me they look like marbles, I don't know what you mean with "playing balls" there....also don't know they're polish name ^^'
Shauna's hair ... That's something amazing...But yeah, they probably break every possible physic rule XD . 'Til now, the strangest hairstyle I've ever seen are the ones in YuGiOh, but generally anime hair are kinda crazy .
Pffft, she's lucky, Charizard on Y hates his trainer's long hairs and always tries to burn them while she sleeps XD
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yes, marbles! I just haven't knew the name of those pretty balls
do you mean someone from games or anime, or...any of your OCs?
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I had some as little, but since no one knew how to use them I never learnt how to play with them, so I just randomly threw them at walls or at my brother, like with other balls. They didn't last long XD
Sorry, I though that writing it without the nicks would have been less confusing, my fault Yes, the Charizard's an OC of mine, but I think I never told you about him...Arif, male, not too big, megaevolving with Y stone and a little darker than standard.
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You never told me D:<
especially that I LOVE mega Charizard Y!
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Lol I just never think about him 'cause he's part of my first team, that, logically, I'm leaving as last to define better XD. Also with that nick...I'm probably the only one that can misspell Fire backwards and decide that it still sounds awesome. And, of course, when his son will hatch, how will he be called? Rataw. I'm a genius
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maybe time to change naming habits?
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Naaah, I'm fine
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Shelly's expression looks so adorable! This is a pretty cute scene :3 And the idea of using Excadrill's claws as pencil sharpener is very clever.
Also, the holes on Torkoal's shell being actually an illusion? I never thought about that! Just like the patterns on Masquerain's wings look like eyes
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Thank you so much! I was waiting long time to show that idea with Weirda's Excadrill
Now only left one more with using his "helmet" as a handy mirror...
Yes, I was thinking of butterflies wings here having fake eyes on them or that their color can come from reflecting light OR pigments.
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His helmet as a mirror? Wow, it must be very clean then!
After this I can't help but think that Torkoal's shell is really pretty X3 Also, the story of how they got the Houndoomite is really clever
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It's coming from my belief their steel there got smooth surface, especially when it's young adult
If you wonder how does Weirda does it with Furry...she exhales warm breath and whipes his steel there to give it shine, because normally it has not enough shine.
It might not work like a real mirror, but it's somewhat like using phone's screen as mirror XD
yaaaay ty~ I feel so proud of it honestly. It would also make a reason why there was a Torkoal that decided to talk with Wei or her Pokemon actually.
I try to avoid cliche that it was waiting for any trainer or somewhat like this.
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Aah yes, I often use my phone screen as a mirror
You're welcome! Sometimes it's hard to avoid a cliché, but it only takes to have some imagination.
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Jay: Heather Heatmor can swim a little. I have to cap her tail so she doesn't inhale water. It's not natural to her kind but she looked past that to please Archie! Isn't that cute? She's even used her tail as a snorkel and explored the shallows underwater.
Windy: Mim!
Jay: Swim? We'll try you too one day, Winders. ^-^ *cuddle*
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XD lol I haven't knew more common meaning behing this....must keep in mind now!
Them puns you got my cookie.
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That's why I love English language. It's punsome.
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This is adorable!
Love design and the conversation at the start of the story, using Furry's claws as sharpener, nice idea! xD
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I was waiting for years to share this idea her Excadrill is used as sharpened, because she also loves his metal claw shine and spikes....the other idea left is using his "helmet" as a handy mirror x3
I'm glad the little dialogue was enjoyable
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If ias her, I would try ad get an autograph from Steven Stone (Are characters like him cannon in this pokeverse) also is that Torkoal wearing a shell bell
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(yes, canon characters exist and ARE known in my poke-universe. They're often busy, so that's why met mainly at those places we know from games; I even decided to borrow idea from one friend that Steven went on vacation to Kalos. Wei doesn't know him as she ain't into social life of trainers, so...lol wasted chance to get autograph)
yup, she's wearing shell bell, because of her name
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Would explain the Carbink he has. I despise battling Torkoals as their defenses are so high
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do you mean that you dislike long, strugglesome battles againist defensive pokemon?
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