Orwell

Orwell is Kimberly Bond's Crawdaunt, and the eighth Pokemon she acquired on her journey, as well as the third Pokemon she caught in the Galar region.

Personality

Orwell is, in a word, unusual- probably the most unusual Pokemon Kim has had on her team with the possible exception of Peechee. However, he doesn't go off on random tangents about things, or blurt out random words that don't make sense in regards to the conversation. Instead, his oddness comes from his speech patterns: he speaks almost entirely in Newspeak, the language from the novel 1984, with seemingly no explanation whatsoever. As a result of this, he can be rather difficult to understand for someone who has not read the appendix of 1984, which had a detailed explanation of how Newspeak works; only Elton can fully understand him, and as such the two of them have become fairly good friends. Orwell is generally very cheerful towards everyone he meets, despite his quirks, and seems to understand English fairly well; why he chooses to speak in full Newspeak is still unknown. Due to the fact that both of them are crustacean-like Pokemon that speak unusual variations of English that came from classic dystopian novels, Orwell gets along fairly well with Peechee, and the two of them have a sort of friendly rivalry while trying to understand each other's languages. In regards to battle, however, they are complete and utter foils: while Peechee relishes the opportunity to battle and is very violent in doing so, Orwell is much more reluctant- read; he's just as terrified of battling as Freddie is. During Ikoria, the thought of going into battle with a giant kaiju Luxray frightened him so much he went into a fetal position and proclaimed it to be torture, and when Kim found the den with the Dynamax Abamasnow, he practically begged to not be included in the "raidbatt." Time will tell if he learns to be more confident.

Kim's personality file on him reads as follows:

"NEW POKEMON CAUGHT: ORWELL THE CORPHISH. HE IS... SLIGHTLY ODD, BUT IN A GOOD WAY. ORWELL IS RATHER SMART AND INQUISITIVE, AND VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF NEWSPEAK— TO THE POINT WHERE HE SPEAKS IN IT PRACTICALLY ALL THE TIME. IT'S PRETTY FUN TO DECIPHER— THOUGH I HAVE A FEELING IT WILL FRUSTRATE REVER TO NO END. ELTON LOVES DECIPHERING HIS NEWSPEAK. LIKE ELTON, HE HAS A THICK BRITISH ACCENT— THOUGH NOT QUITE COCKNEY."

Details

• Met: The Wild Area
• Ability: Shell Armor
• Favorite Move: None
• Nature: Quirky
• Ball: Poke

Known Moves

Orwell has not used any moves as of yet.

Trivia

• Out of all of Kimberly Bond's Pokemon, Orwell is the first to not be named after a musician of any kind, instead being named after George Orwell, the author of 1984 (which is the book in which Newspeak originates).
• Orwell's chat handle is waterlobsterpoke, which doubles as his Newspeak word for "Corphish".
• Orwell's favorite musical artist is David Bowie, which was chosen by Goldenheart388 due to the fact that Bowie had planned a musical version of 1984, and even wrote a few songs for it, but the project ultimately fell through.
• According to Goldenheart388, Orwell's character theme is "1984" by David Bowie, his Broadway character theme is "I'm Calm" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and his headcanon voice is Sam Marin as Pops in Regular Show.