Saura

Saura is Owen Edmundson's Amaura, and the sixth Pokemon he caught on his initial journey, as well as the fifth he revived from a fossil and the last of the original Jura6.

Appearance

In her mon form, Saura resembles a regular Amaura, albiet one with a nigh-constant look of drowsiness on her face. Her eyes are often seen either closed or half-open, and she is sometimes seen carrying a Poke Doll to sleep with as though it's a stuffed animal.

In her human form (prospective name Destiny Bell; seen below), Saura appears as an approximately 10-year-old Black Galarian (see Trivia) girl, and aside from Stipax is the youngest and shortest member of the Jura6. She has long, mainly blue hair with pink at the tips, and wears a blue short-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and blue shoes with white socks. Befitting her nature, she is often seen wearing a comfy blue, pink, and yellow blanket around her neck similarly to a cape that she sleeps in. Like her mon form, she has a nigh-constant look of drowsiness on her face, and is frequently seen with her eyes shut.

Background

Prior to her revival and capture by Owen, Saura was quite the opposite of what she would later on become-- at least, in terms of her sleep habits. She lived a quiet and peaceful life with her Aurorus parents, and enjoyed watching the Northern Lights with them (naturally) as well as meditating near the lake near her home. She also enjoyed painting and writing, and was very often seen doing so in her spare time. Unfortunately, she did it almost all the time, since she loved it so much. Her parents urged her to get some sleep, but every time she tried to, she found that her mind was too caught up in her thoughts to focus on sleeping. As a result, she was chronically sleep-deprived, and often would stumble around her home in a tired stupor while claiming to her parents that she was fine. She continued to write and do art, but her chronic insomnia ended up leading directly to her early death, as she ended up catching an illness as a result of her lowered immune system. Her parents tried everything they could to help make her feel better. They gave her potions, read her stories, and the like, but eventually her illness caught up to her. She died from it, surrounded by her parents, stuffed toys, and thousands of artworks, on April 3rd, and her last words were her expressing her regret to her parents that she stayed awake so much. Her parents promptly buried her in the ground on that same day.

More than 65 million years later, her Sail Fossil was found and revived by Owen on March 18th, 2021, and the first thing she wanted to do upon her revival was make up for the mistake that led to her death. Unfortunately, though, she ended up going in the complete opposite direction that she had gone in when she was alive the first time. Rather than spend all of her days painting and writing like she had in the past, she instead decided to catch up on all the sleep that she had missed while she was alive-- by sleeping day and night, and even during battles. Her constant insomnia from her past turned into constant narcolepsy, leading to her Hasslemon handle (drowsyBorealis (DB)) and her typing quirk. She learned Rest and Snore so as to help her recharge herself, and only awoke on extremely rare occasions or whenever she deemed it necessary, such as after using Rest or at the start of a battle. Despite that, however, she proved herself to be very kind and wise, like she had been prior to her revival, and forged a friendship with Stipax so great that she would resort to cuddling him like a teddy bear at night. While other mons such as Crina got a bit annoyed by her constant narcolepsy, the rest of the team found it a bit charming and cute, especially Stipax, and it was part of the factor that led to Owen ultimately capturing her.

Thus far, Saura is the only member of the original fossil mons of Jura6 to not go through a molding evolution process, as well as the only one to have not seen one, as she was not used by Owen during the Kanto League and was revived long after Nautilu, Crina, Chasmo, and Teryx had evolved.

Details

• Met: Pewter City Museum
• Birthday: March 18th (revival day); January 13th (initial birthday prior to death)
• Ability: Refrigerate
• Favorite Move: Rest
• Nature: Docile
• Characteristic: Likes to relax
• Likes: Sleeping, resting, daydreaming, relaxing, giving her friends advice, talking about her crazy dreams, soft fluffy toys, cuddling with Stipax, battling, seeing the Northern Lights
• Dislikes: Anyone waking her up from her naps (purposefully), fighting (unless during battles or when absolutely necessary), anyone hurting her friends or Trainer, anyone hurting Stipax, most Fighting or Fire type Pokemon
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: From "-saurus", a common ending used for dinosaurs, and the English name Sara
• Hasslemon typing quirk: All instancezzzzzz of t[=]e letter H are replaced wit[=] a sleeping mask t[=]ingy and wordzzzzzzzz t[=]at end in a z sound are replaced wit[=] multiple Zs to represent snoring also t[=]ere izzzzzz no punctuation period

A prospective fullbody Saura gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• : Powder Snow, Icy Wind, Mist, Aurora Beam, Round (due to Refrigerate), Snore (due to Refrigerate)
• : Ancient Power
• : Rest

Trivia

• Saura's name is derived from the common -saurus ending prominent in most dinosaur names, as well as the term "sauropod". It could also be a corrupted version of the English name Sara.
• According to Goldenheart388, Saura's Hasslemon handle is drowsyBorealis (DB). The "drowsy" part references Saura's constant drowsiness and sleep patterns, while the "borealis" half is a reference to the Aurora Borealis (AKA the Northern Lights) that Amaura and Aurorus are partially based on.
• According to Goldenheart388, Saura's English character theme is "Fireflies" by Owl City, which is meant to be a musical representation of her sleep habits and especially her dreams while sleeping. Her Japanese character theme, meanwhile, was initially "Small world" by BUMP OF CHICKEN, but was later on changed to "Sudachi no Uta", the opening theme to Wonder Egg Priority. The Japanese character theme was specifically changed to that song due to it sounding akin to a lullaby that can put you to sleep. Her English headcanon voice, meanwhile, is Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter films.
• Saura is the only member of the Jura6, and the first member of Owen's team in general, to have an Owl City song as her English character theme.
• Saura's human name, "Destiny Bell", shares its initials with that of her Hasslemon handle drowsyBorealis, with both of them abbreviating to DB. This pattern applies to every member of the Jura6.
• Saura's revival day, March 18th, doubles as National Sleep Day for 2022; her actual birthday, January 13th, is the day of the release of Wonder Egg Priority in Japan. The former is also around the time that the Northern Lights can be seen.