Grant (Arcanine)

Grant is Sakura's Arcanine and her starter, thus being with her for far more time than any other member of the team.

Appearance

His appearance is that of a regular Arcanine, if a bit bigger, his fur is really smooth, probably because Sakura gives him lots of poffins.

As a human, he looks like a young adult and wears a orange jacket with stripes similar to the ones he had as a Pokémon, he wears a cream colored shirt under it and orange pants with the same stripes as before, he has a somewhat long and a bit messy hair of the same creamy color as his fur was as an Arcanine, his eyes are black and he was wears sneakers of the same style and color as the jacket and also black leather gloves.

Details

• Age: 10
• Birthday: July 30
• Nature: Gentle
• Ability: Flash Fire
• Met: Floaroma (as a Growlithe)
• Ball: Poké Ball
• Favorite Move: Flare Blitz
• Likes: Sleeping, being petted, running really fast, bitter food.
• Dislikes: Overly lazy people, Shade's attitude, sour food, anyone that harms his species.

Personality

Grant is friendly and pretty calm, he's also very protective of Sakura and harming her is one of the few things that would get him really mad, he's quite relaxed and loves to sleep in the grass and he tends to have to take care of the entire team. In battle he gets way more serious and pays attention to every single word that Sakura's says, following her orders without complaining.

Battle Strategy

Grant likes to go on a full physical offensive, but he can make good use of long range attacks too, if he just to cover a bigger area of effect, neverthless he does anything Sakura says him to. He also can take a lot of punishment before giving up.

Known Moves:

• - Flare Blitz, Heat Wave, Fire Blast, Sunny Day
• - Crunch
• - Outrage
• - Wild Charge, Thunder Fang.
• - Bulldoze
• - Hidden Power
• - Morning Sun, Safeguard

History

Grant was given to Sakura as an egg when she was five and since then he was her loyal partner, and the subject of the sister's first big fight. After the accident that separated the sisters and killed their's parents, he always stood by Sakura's side and comforted her, always protecting her before and after Hikari found them. He mostly accompanied Sakura everywhere, being her main way of travelling since he could go very fast thanks to Extremespeed and also being her strongest mon and, as such, being her main mon in battle. He most often just engaged in friendly conversation with Sakura and her friends, and also his team, he also became Dylan's babysiter once he hatched , but other than that he didn't do much.

A while after finding Sakura's missing sister, Lyuri, Sakura decided to go back to Johto and get the gym badges, in a day in Goldenrod when Grant was taking a bath, he was surprised by a little Growlithe that suddenly came to the terrace of Rawst's House as Lyuri and Hikari were giving Seth a bath, Grant chatted with him for a bit and learned that he was Des's Growlithe and that he currently wasn't very fond of his current trainer, having known Des for a while, Grant wanted to help improve the situation by trying to convince Sparkers that he wasn't as bad as he thought, despite being a former criminal, it didn't do much however and after a while Des dropped by to take Sparkers with him.

All the way to Olivine later, Grant had a small problem with Deluge, but fortunately nothing bad happened other than Dylan getting a small fear of Feraligatr, later on Des made Poncho attack Lake out of some grudge he had against him right in front of Sakura, forcing her to make Seth intervene and, surprisingly, Sakura got really angry for the first time ever and stormed away to the Pokémon Center, Grant unfortunately couldn't do anything to help her, but Hikari did it for him and things soon went back to normal. After things had been cleared out, Des and Sakura had a small firnedly battle and Grant had to fight Poncho, thanks to the advantage, Grant won.

Back in Ecruteak, Sparkers came to him asking him to teach "the Arcanine ways", which left him quite confused, Sparkers ended up challenging him to a battle which was very one-sided on Grant's favor, understanding that Sparkers wanted to protect his friend, he reminded the Growlithe that he souldn't try to do everything alone, Grant also was present when he evolved shortly before him and Des left and they haven't seen each other since.

Once again being in Goldenrod, Sakura eventually had to leave to PEFE just to see how Lyuri was doing in there, promising to come back in the same day she left, however, she started to take a long time to come back, worrying Grant to no end, he tried to calm himself down by taking it easy at the National Park, when he was suddenly approached by another Growlithe as he was sleeping, this one however, got scared once he woke up and after talking with him, he learned that he was just lonely out in the wild after his trainer was forced to release him and upon seeing Grant he thought that maybe he would be able to help him out, Grant decided to look after the kid, despite knowing that Sakura may not like that idea too much.

Meeting with Straw back in Goldenrod after his amnesia problem was solved, Grant asked about his P -> H armband and asked if he could use it for a while, Straw accepted and he became a human, after talking with both Straw and Rawst about his problem, he decided to become Conan's parent and trainer and would try to reason things with Sakura later, he currently is adapting to life as a human and trying to be a good parent and trainer to Conan as he waits for Sakura to come back, as he unfortunately couldn't go to PEFE on his own due to not knowing where it is.

Relationships

Grant is fiercily loyal to Sakura and even thinks of her as some kind of younger sister that he feels like he should protect no matter what.

Grant is good friends with everybody on the team, even Shade, he frequently helps Dusty with his low-self esteem and is always there to comfort him. He never takes part on Lily and Stella's plots, and often scolds them for that, together with Serenity.

He gets along pretty well with Seth, and likes to play with Dylan, and babysits him when Sakura isn't around. He also got a small fan in Sparkers much to his surprise and the two got along almost immediatelly, Sparkers admiration for him made him quite proud of himself.

Most of Sakura's friends are also Grant's, but he likes Hikari in special and silently ships Sakura and Rawst

Trivia

• Contrary to what one would think of a Fire type, he likes to take a bath.
• He didn't lose a single battle at the moment, the only battles Sakura lost didn't have him involved in it.
• He was involved in all of Sakura's gym battles, except Pryce's, where only Dylan and Seth participated.