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.

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, she pulled herself off of the surface of the ocean, swam as best she could, and eventually made it up onto nearby land.

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 the Jura6.
• 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.