Crina

Crina is Owen Edmundson's Cradily, and the third Pokemon he caught on his initial journey, as well as the second he revived from a fossil.

Appearance

In her mon form, Crina appears as a regular Cradily... even if she doesn't think she's a regular Cradily.

In her human form (prospective name Dolly Oliver; seen below), Crina appears as a twentysomething year old girl with long green hair with pink tips. Her bangs fall over her eyes and she wears yellow goggles on her head, sometimes lowering them over her eyes due to her thinking said goggles are her real eyes. She also wears a long pink scarf, along with a green and yellow shirt, green pants, and green shoes. Crina is sometimes seen with her tongue sticking out of her mouth in her human form.

Personality and characteristics

Crina is, on the surface, the jokester of the Jura6. She enjoys playing harmless pranks on wild Pokemon she's never met before-- sometimes on other members of the Jura6 (mostly Stipax and Saura)-- and loves making witty puns and lightheartedly mocking the rest of the Jura6 (save for Teryx). Beyond that, though, she is ditzy, forgetful, prone to distraction, and very, very odd. As a Lileep in her former life, that oddness was shown by her thinking that she was an actual flower that needed photosynthesis in order to survive; as a Lileep and later a Cradily in her present life, that oddness is shown by her saying and thinking things about both herself and the state of the world that are completely detached from reality. Most notably, Crina is under the firm belief that the fake yellow eyes on her forehead are in fact her real eyes, and that her actual real eyes (the two yellow dots underneath them) are nubby yellow teeth. This belief was made immediately clear in her introductory scene with the rest of the Jura6 (save for Saura), and is the inspiration for her Hasslemon handle dentalOptics (DO). As a result, Crina eats food by putting her head in the ground. She also shares a number of other "beliefs" about the world around her, including that inanimate objects have feelings and can talk and that clouds are the spirits of dead Ditto. These beliefs either confuse or frustrate other members of the team, but she either doesn't seem to mind or adamantly sticks to her beliefs being real. In fact, ironically enough, it's Crina herself who is the most impatient and prone to frustration out of the entire Jura6, usually spurred on by either people insulting her or her friends (she snapped at a dancer in the Techspo for calling her a "garden weed") or anyone who insists that her beliefs about the world are not real. The only ones she won't snap at in the latter case are her Trainer and the rest of the members of the [=Jura6=].

Background

Prior to being caught and revived by Owen, Crina was the only member of the Jura6 to spend the vast majority of her life at the bottom of the sea. She was naturally born on April 1st-- a day which would much later be known as April Fools' Day-- but even before she knew what that day was, she was celebrating it every birthday. In fact, she practically celebrated it every day of her life, period. Her Cradily parents were mostly pranksters, too, and they would have tons of fun telling jokes, pulling pranks, and the like on each other. But it soon turned out that Crina was a bit more odd than her parents were... largely because, while her parents would kill and eat their prey with their tentacles by making them think they were flowers, Crina didn't want to kill and eat prey because she thought she was a flower. She looked like one, after all, and she was part Grass-type; why did she have to live at the bottom of the ocean and not use photosynthesis? Her parents were confused by this, and initially let it slide because their daughter wasn't necessarily trying to be a flower. But then she started daydreaming. As she got older, Crina began to imagine herself using photosynthesis to get food, being friends with her prey, pulling pranks on them rather than just killing them... and then she began trying to break off of the sea floor. The minute that this happened, her parents tried to pull her back down to earth-- literally. They told her flat-out that she could not go on land, and that while she could still pretend, she wasn't actually a flower even if she looked like one. This wasn't satisfactory for Crina, though. She wasn't a big fan of seriousness and reality-- she much preferred craziness, and so the moment her parents started lecturing her, she stopped paying attention. Frustrated, her parents ordered her to keep herself suctioned to the sea floor. Crina argued that since they were Grass-types, they needed photosynthesis, and they didn't have much sunlight under the water, so they had to go to the surface to get some. She was silly, and not a big fan of reality, but she could make logical arguments from time to time. Even so, though, her parents promptly countered that they had other ways of getting sunlight, and that going right to the surface would kill them. Crina found this odd... but she liked odd, so she decided to stay at the bottom of the ocean.

For the next few years, she tried her best to get sunlight from wherever she could, still believing herself to be a flower and not a sea lilly. She never once used her tentacles to snare prey and trick them-- she considered that too cruel of a prank for their tastes. Yet for some reason, despite all of the ways she tried to photosynthesize from the sea floor, she found herself getting hungry, and soon began to starve. Desperately, and while her parents weren't looking, on January 4th she pulled herself off of the surface of the ocean, swam as best she could, and eventually made it up onto nearby land. She was delighted-- not only by the fact that she could finally get (what she thought) was real food, but also by everything she was seeing on the surface: the trees, the animals, the incredible landmasses in front of her. It was an absolutely amazing place that she couldn't wait to explore further-- but first, food. She decided to bask in the sun and photosynthesize, and proceeded to stand there for hours on end, starving from not having actually eaten any real food. Eventually, she saw a blinding light hit her-- thinking it was the sun-- and then all of a sudden began to run out of breath. She assumed she just needed more sunlight, so she pointed her tentacles towards the sun again-- only for the reality to finally hit her that she wasn't actually getting any sunlight at all. In fact, she was getting too much sunlight just from staring directly into the sun for hours on end. It was at that moment that Crina realized that she wasn't a flower at all, but a sea lilly, and she collapsed on the floor and died a few minutes later. She died on January 4th, at the age of 24, having never evolved herself and having the midmost lifespan of the Jura6 fossilmons, ahead of Saura's mere 11 years on the Earth and Teryx's even merer 31 days.

Millions of years later, on September 30th, her Root Fossil was found and revived, along with the fossils of three other mons. Upon her revival, the first thing she noticed was that she was on land again, and not only was she on land again, but the sun wasn't draining her energy like it had last time. In fact, she seemed to be benefitting from it. She wasn't gaining food from it, so she still couldn't properly photosynthesize (and by this point was fully aware that she was not a flower), but she was gaining energy, and that was enough for her. Other than that, though, she seemed to be her usual jokey, mischievous self. She would pull pranks on Stipax, since he didn't seem to really mind the pranks as they were fully harmless. She still refused to eat her friends or use her tentacles for any nefarious purposes, with the sole exception being battle, during which she was extremely brutal and showed no mercy at all, and she absolutely refused to prank Teryx due to him being extremely sensitive to them. Despite this, Crina is currently still confused as to why exactly he fears electric-based pranks so much. And of course, she continued to space out and was prone to being just as ditzy and forgetful as ever. Owen soon caught Crina due to how silly and goofy she was, although he was somewhat confused by some of the things that she did.

Out of all of the Jura6 fossilmons, and despite having 4 weaknesses, Crina was actually used the most in the Kanto League. She was used against the first three gyms (Brock, Misty, and Lt. Surge), Sabrina, Blaine (due to taking normal damage from Fire attacks), Will, and Koga, and evolved herself into a Cradily via the pottery wheel molding process during the Sabrina battle. Almost immediately after she finished forming her new body, she developed the "my eyes are my teeth" belief about herself that she has to this day.

Details

• Met: Pewter City Museum
• Birthday: September 30th (revival day); April 1st (actual birthday prior to death)
• Ability: Suction Cups
• Favorite Move: Leech Seed
• Nature: Quirky
• Characteristic: Mischievous
• Likes: Pulling pranks on others, randomness, mocking people, telling jokes, making witty puns, being weird and saying weird things, daydreaming, imagining things, watching silly TV shows, Stipax, Saura, battling, using Leech Seed, the game shows Pointless and Whose Line is It Anyway?, watching variety shows
• Dislikes: Serious discussions, reality, being told that her fake eyes aren't her real ones, pranking Teryx, scaring Teryx, people not getting her jokes, being poisoned, forgetting things, following the status quo
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: From Crinodea, the class containing crinoids
• Hasslemon typing quirk: All OooO's are quadrupled, with twOooO OooOf them being capitalized and the OooOnes in the middle being in lOooOwercase. This is suppOooOsed tOooO represent the fake eyes and real eyes OooOf a Cradily, respectively, while alsOooO succeeding in making her style OooOf writing cOooOme acrOooOss as being very... OooOdd.

A prospective fullbody Crina gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• : Leech Seed, Ingrain, Giga Drain, Energy Ball
• : Wrap, Spit Up, Stockpile, Swallow, Tickle
• : Ancient Power
• : Brine
• : Sludge Bomb

Trivia

• Crina's name is derived from crinodea, the class containing crinoids and sea lillies. It could also serve as a corruption of the English name Karina.
• According to Goldenheart388, Crina's Hasslemon handle is dentalOptics (DO). The handle relates to Crina's long-held belief (based on a common misconception by many Pokemon fans even to this day) that the two false eyes on her head are her real eyes, whereas her actual real eyes are her teeth.
• According to Goldenheart388, Crina's English character theme is "Upside Down" by the A*Teens. The song, which was originally one of the songs in contention for the character theme of Ananpi, was ultimately given to Crina due to it serving as a representation of her crazy, ditzy, party-girl lifestyle, while also delving a bit into her mischievousness and penchant for jokes. Her Japanese character theme, meanwhile, is "Sugar Song to Bitter Step" by Unison Square Garden, best known as the ending theme for Kekkai Sensen.
• Crina's human name, "Dolly Oliver", shares its initials with that of her Hasslemon handle dentalOptics, with both of them abbreviating to DO; it also could possibly be a reference to the folk song "Sweet Polly Oliver", although according to Goldenheart388 this was a coincidence. This pattern applies to every member of Owen Edmundson's Pokemon team with the exception of Steggy.
• Crina's revival day, September 30th, is the day on which, in 1861, the first Archeopteryx fossil was discovered; she shares her revival day with Nautilu, Chasmo, and Teryx. Her actual birthday, April 1st, is April Fools' Day, as well as the day that the Pokemon anime first premiered in Japan, and she shares her birthday with Caboose and Ananpi.
• Crina's death date, January 4th, is her birthday reversed (4/1-1/4). She is the only fossilmon in the initial Jura6 to have a palindromic birth/death juxtaposition.