Stipax

Stipax is Owen Edmundson's Galvantula, and the first Pokemon that he caught on his initial journey.

Appearance

In his mon form, Stipax appears as a regular Galvantula.

In his human form (prospective name Justin Patterson, seen below), Stipax appears as an approximately 11-year-old young boy with blond hair and blue eyes. He is usually seen wearing a purple undershirt with a bright yellow jacket over top of it, along with a pair of purple shorts, under which are long brown legging socks. He wears black shoes and purple goggles, and often times is seen carrying either a book or a shovel depending on what he is doing at the moment.

Details

• Met: Pewter City
• Birthday: November 23rd
• Ability: Compound Eyes
• Favorite Move: Lunge
• Nature: Naive
• Characteristic: Highly curious
• Likes: Finding out new things about the world, travelling the world, making new discoveries, digging up fossils and treasures, his family, his friends, playing games, sharing his knowledge with everyone, puzzles and riddles, the music of Five for Fighting and Shinedown, the movies History of the World, Part 1 and Jurassic Park, the TV game shows Gamecube, Jeopardy!, and Only Connect, educational TV shows and YouTube channels, nature documentaries, battling, cuddling Teryx, crime dramas
• Dislikes: Anyone who hurts his friends or Trainer, Team Lightning, getting an unsatisfying answer to a question he has, the state of the modern-day education system, seeing any of his friends sad or hurt, seeing Teryx sad, the disturbing nature of Anomalo's backstory
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: Stipax triangulifer, an extinct species of spider
• Hasslemon typing quirk: =D(Every) (sentence) (begins) (with) (a) (shovel) (that) (also) (resembles) (a) (smiley) (faCe,) (representing) (Stipax's) (optimistiC) (personality.) (All) (words) (are) (sUrroUnded) (by) (parenthesis) (to) (resemble) (holes) (in) (the) (groUnd,) (and) (all) (U's) (and) (C's) (are) (Capitalized,) (as) (they) (are) (the) (two) (letters) (that) (look) (the) (most) (like) (shovels.)

A prospective fullbody Stipax gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• : Lunge, Signal Beam, Leech Life, X-Scissor, Bug Buzz
• : Electroweb, Electro Ball
• : Giga Drain, Energy Ball
• : Gastro Acid
• : Bounce, Acrobatics

Trivia

• Stipax's name comes from the extinct spider species Stipax triangulifer. Originally, his name was going to be Gulliver- after both the species and from the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels- but the idea fell through when Stipax's general curiosity overtook his love of travel.
• According to Goldenheart388, Stipax's Hasslemon handle is jovialPaleontology (JP). Besides being a reference to both Stipax's joy and his love of paleontology and discovery, the handle's abbreviation is the same as that of the initials of the famous book-turned-movie Jurassic Park, which, according to Goldenheart388, is one of Stipax's favorite movies (his favorite movie period is History of the World, Part I).
• According to Goldenheart388, Stipax's English character theme is "The Riddle" by Five for Fighting. Originally, it was going to be "World" by the same artist, and both songs were in contention as a character theme for either Stipax or his Trainer Owen. However, "The Riddle" ultimately went to Stipax and "World" to Owen because, according to Goldenheart388, "Owen is mainly concerned with how the past and present can affect the future, and is more likely to ask questions such as 'How can we avoid making the same mistakes as we did in the past?', 'What can we do now to change the future?', and, indeed, 'What kind of world do we want to live in'? Stipax, meanwhile, is curious about things as they are, and is more likely to ask questions such as 'How does this work?', 'What does this do?', 'How did this happen?', 'Why are we here?', and 'What is the meaning of life?'". Lyrically, and similarly to that of Chasmo's theme "100 Years", Stipax's character theme details his backstory, with the roles of the father and son switched in order to make it work. Due to the song detailing Stipax's backstory, it also delves, by proxy, into his curiosity towards the world around him and his love of his family and, later on, his Trainer. His Japanese character theme, meanwhile, is "Chiisa no Bokura ni Ooki na Heart", the first opening to the Dinosaur King anime series, and his headcanon voice is that of Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Miles "Tails" Prower from the Sonic franchise.
• Stipax is the first member of Owen's team and one of three members of the Jura6 to have a Five for Fighting song as his English character theme (the other two are Chasmo and Teryx).
• Stipax's birthday, November 23rd, is shared with his author, Goldenheart388. The date also doubles as the world premiere date of Doctor Who (one of Stipax's favorite television shows) and 3 days after the release date of the original Jurassic Park book (November 20th, 1990).