Saura

Saura is Owen Edmundson's Aurorus, 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 Aurorus, 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. However, after her evolution into an Aurorus, her penchant for staying awake more often means that she is subsequently seen with her eyes fully open more and more often.

In her human form as an Amaura, 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. Like in her mon form, she retains a stuffed animal-- that being an orange teddy bear.

In her current human form, as an Aurorus (prospective name Destiny Bell, see below), Saura appears as an approximately 24-year-old Black Galarian, having moved up significantly in the age range and now being the fourth youngest of the Jura6 after Crina, Teryx, and Stipax in that order. Her hair is now either mostly pink with yellow at the tips or mostly yellow with pink at the tips, and is styled in twintails. Her outfit consists of a light blue short-sleeved undershirt with a much darker jacket over top of it, as well as a dark blue skirt that varies in length, dark blue leggings or jeans, and dark blue boots. Her outfit is decorated with white colored shoulder pads, kneepads, and elbow pads. She often has a snowflake barette in her hair, but will sometimes have another barrette in it, and she no longer has a nigh-constant look of drowsiness. She keeps her fluffy orange teddy bear from her Amaura stage.

Personality and characteristics

Previously the youngest member of the Jura6 and the final member of said group to be caught by Owen, Saura is nothing if not a constant narcoleptic-- at least, on the surface. Most, if not all of her time on-screen is spent sleeping, as well as much of her time offscreen. In fact, in the original Jura6 conversation on Hasslemon, Saura was the only one to not be introduced, as she was too busy sleeping in her PokeBall. As an Amaura, she was known to sleep through battles, through important conversations (such as the arrival of Team Lightning), and the like without a care in the world, and only awoke if she felt rested enough or if she felt as though it was absolutely necessary to do so (or if something startled her, which is what happened at the Devon Corp presentation shortly after Team Lightning made their presence known). While on the surface this makes her seem like nothing more than a lazy bum, in actuality she is the most kindhearted and sane members of the entire team alongside Chasmo-- a trait that she did keep from her time back when she was initially alive. Whenever she is awake, she is always willing to do things such as give sage advice to a team member or comfort Teryx whenever he is panicking about something. In fact, the first time we see her awake, it's so that she can comfort Teryx about what he thinks is a cruel experiment about to happen by matter-of-factly pointing out that it's in fact just a stage. Later on, and following her evolution, she continues to give advice to her fellow team members, especially Teryx. She seemed to be particularly saddened by his release from the team as a result of him attacking Tyrie and Rhamphor, though unlike Stipax and Chasmo- who actually wished Teryx luck- Saura's response was instead a sad hum of acceptance. That being said, however, she immediately agreed to come along with the rest of the Jura5 once Stipax announced his plan to them over Hasslemon. Later on, upon meeting Teryx again, Saura was just as shocked as the rest of the group was upon hearing Teryx's backstory, and was able to deduce him having PTSD relatively easily after Nautilu's explanation. Even besides Teryx, however, Saura serves as an advisor of sorts to the rest of the team, with Stipax arguably being the one she interacts with the most. She was the member of the team who advised Stipax to not leave his makeshift umbrella behind on their way to finding Teryx, citing the fact that Route 115 has constant rain. Saura is also among the most relaxed team members- not letting battles faze her all that much due to her being able to tank a lot of hits and also due to her Rest and Sleep Talk strategies- and generally is a relatively chill-natured individual (no pun intended). She is also very much well aware of the futility of life, and while her constant sleeping seems like laziness, it's actually the exact opposite: it's her working as hard as she can to catch up on all the sleep she missed while she was alive (see "Background" for more on this). As a result, when she is awake, Saura reveals herself to be a fairly hard worker... albeit one who seems to have no stresses whatsoever. She not only does her absolute best to try and win battles for Owen- as was seen in particular during her battle against Maylene's Breloom in Veilstone, when she tanked all of Breloom's hits despite every move of hers being supereffective against Saura- but she also uses that time when awake to get full clarity of a situation in front of her-- it was only after she was awake, for example, that she was able to fully grasp the extent of the damage Team Lightning was doing.

As an Amaura, and as a result of her being the youngest member of the Jura6, Saura was also slightly naive, albiet she didn't show it as much as the then-second-youngest member of the team, Stipax. She often didn't fully comprehend what was happening in front of her (in particular, she didn't seem to recognize there was anything wrong at first with Team Lightning, and practically refused to wake up from her naps), and while it has yet to be stated outright onscreen, she firmly believed that sleeping so much was a good thing due to the circumstances surrounding her death. She also was the weakest member of the group in terms of general battle prowess, as she doesn't really like conflict that much and only battles if she deems it to be necessary. Upon her evolution into an Aurorus after Veilstone, however, while much of Saura's personality has stayed the same, a lot of it has changed, most notably her constant narcolepsy. Saura is now far more willing to stay awake often, something that shocked the rest of the Jura5 upon them realizing it; Stipax directly questioned it and Crina, naturally, assumed immediately that there was a bug in Saura's brain that was preventing her from sleeping for hours on end as per the usual. In actuality, however, and as Saura herself explained, this is in part due to her gaining a larger form and in part due to her actively achieving evolution-- something that she never got to go through in her past life prior to being revived by Owen. Once she evolved into an Aurorus, Saura felt as though the sleep she had missed out on in the past was now far easier for her to make up, and as such stopped sleeping nigh-constantly. Due to this, she is now able to better showcase other sides of her personality. Aside from being a sage advisor to the rest of the group, she now also is able to further pursue her two biggest interests (see below), as well as a much better skill in the heat of battle and even a bit of a playful side from time to time. That being said, though, her Hasslemon handle remains drowsyBorealis (DB) for a reason, as she still very much has a tendency to sleep outside of battle and decidedly sleeps far more hours at night than the rest of the Jura6 do. Due to her nigh-constant sleep patterns, Saura often daydreams as well, and most of her daydreams that she ends up having are absolutely bizarre. She will often tell other members of the team about a crazy daydream she had upon waking up from one of her many, many naps, and while she's not as ditzy or silly as Crina is, Saura can still sometimes have her head in the clouds as a result. Ironically enough, Crina herself often gets annoyed by Saura's constant napping and daydreaming, and will sometimes call her daydreams too bizarre even for her, but she and the rest of the team still respect Saura as a thoughtful and kindhearted individual.

That doesn't mean that Saura isn't prone to annoyance, though-- it just takes a long time for her fuse to go off. She stated as such in her first post-evo battle against Crasher Wake's Kingdra, even though Owen couldn't understand her, and it took a while for her to use her only Dragon-type move, Outrage, as a result, making her among the more patient members of the Jura6 alongside Stipax and Chasmo. That being said, though, if Saura ever does get angry, the results are brutal, as Crasher Wake's Kingdra learned the hard way upon finding himself on the receiving end of a Sleep Talk-induced Outrage. She's never lost her cool yet on screen with either her friends or her Trainer, though, so it remains to be seen if her use of Outrage still applies here. However, you can rest assured that one of the ways you can absolutely be sure to make her angry is if you hurt her friends in any regard, in which case she will more or less completely annihilate you. Additionally, Saura has kept her main two interests from back when she was initially alive-- writing and painting. As an Amaura, due to her newly-enduced narcolepsy, she never truly found time to do those things anymore, as she never felt fully rested enough due to her deep regrets about the circumstances surrounding her death. However, after her evolution, it's been implied that she's been able to engage in her biggest interests again. Teryx, in particular, knew enough about this to give Saura a drawing kit for Christmas, a present that Saura greatly appreciated. Speaking of the circumstances regarding Saura's death, she's only ever talked about them once thus far, which was in the Hasslemon chat shortly after Eurypedis, Anomalo, and Cephalo joined the team. All of them were shocked and saddened by it, and she related her regret about it to the rest of the group, as well as the reasoning behind her constant narcolepsy (which no one commented on). Due to all of the above, Saura's naturally been viewed as a bit odd by some of the members of the team, most notably Nautilu, Chasmo, and any new members that join the group (Cephalo in particular noted how odd it was when he first met Saura on Hasslemon). Despite this, however, and in true Saura fashion, she doesn't let this get to her at all. In battle, Saura has slowly grown into her own as a competent fighter on the team. However, true to her nature, she mainly relies on her defenses to get things done in battle, particularly using her narcolepsy to her advantage: she knows Rest, which she uses to fully heal her HP and put her to sleep whenever she's in a pinch, and Snore, which due to her Ability Refrigerate is now an Ice-type move and can be used while she's asleep in order to attack the opponent and catch them completely off-guard. She also is able to use Sleep Talk in order to use other moves during battle that could end up catching the opponent off-guard as a result. If she's not dozing off due to Rest or her desire to catch up on all the sleep she missed while alive, though, her main strategy is to use Powder Snow and Icy Wind to deliver as much Ice type damage as she possibly can. Upon her evolution into an Aurorus, this strategy of hers has expanded to include other Ice-type moves, as well as inflicting status conditions onto Pokemon (mainly freezing and paralysis). The second strategy was used in particular to help take down Wake's Kingdra, via the use of a paralysis inducing Body Slam.

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.

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, painting, writing, watching The Wheel
• 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, seeing Teryx upset or having PTSD attacks, most Fighting or Fire type Pokemon, the regrets of her past, anyone that tries to underestimate or take advantage of her
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: From "-saurus", a common ending used for dinosaurs, and the English name Sara
• Evolves in: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370A74820100&page=23228#comment-580699
• 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.

Relationships

• Owen Edmundson: Owen Edmundson is Saura's Trainer, and as a result someone who she trusts a lot. Despite the fact that Owen can't understand her, she still is willing to (mostly) obey and follow the wills of her Trainer, and owes him a debt of gratitude after he revived her from her Sail Fossil. Saura evidently trusts her Trainer a lot, most notably in regards to his uses of Rest and his rather unconventional battle strategies. That being said, though, if the release of Teryx and its aftermath is any indication, she's also willing to go against certain things that she finds to be too extreme for Owen, even if she won't state them outright.

• Stipax: Stipax is the member of the Jura6 that Saura gets along the most with. As Stipax was the first mon that Saura ever met, she and Stipax have an extremely close relationship with one another. Saura is willing to lend Stipax her teddy bear stuffie to sleep with at night, and is usually willing to provide Stipax with advice about how to handle life. In return, Stipax is willing to ask Saura about all of her daydreams, and is notably one of the few mons on Owen's team that doesn't find her at least a bit strange or unusual. In the RP, their bond was shown multiple times, but most notably when Stipax cheered on Saura-- and then congratulated her-- in the midst of her pottery wheel evolution in the Veilstone City Gym.

• Nautilu: Nautilu and Saura get along fairly well due to their pretty similar personalities. Saura, who had never even heard of anything related to human life in the midst of her revival, was excited to learn about 13th century medieval life from someone who had actually experienced it. Nautilu and Saura proceeded to enjoy finding out more about how human culture worked, especially in the modern day; both of them ended up serving as advisors towards each other and towards other members of the team.

• Crina: Saura and Crina are for the most part completely different in terms of general personality-- the former being calm, methodical, and stoic, yet still a daydreamer with a bit of a cloudcuckoolander side, and the latter being an extremely silly prankster with a hint of brutality-- and yet at the same time they're also surprisingly similar. They both have a tendency to say strange and bizarre things from time to time, and Crina herself can actually get somewhat put off by Saura's constant napping. Despite this, however, Crina very evidently cares a lot about Saura, and is still willing to appreciate her quirks, to such an extent that she flat out believed that Saura, after her evolution, had a bug in her brain that was causing her to forget to sleep.

• Chasmo: In a similar regard to Nautilu, Saura and Chasmo also get along very well due to their similar personalities, as well as their similar roles as the group's main voices of reason. However, Saura-- as an Amaura in particular-- often tended to look up to Chasmo for advice, with Chasmo in turn not really minding her sleeping the day and night away and often preferring to communicate with her via Hasslemon.

• Teryx:

• Anomalo:

Known Moves

• : Powder Snow, Icy Wind, Mist, Aurora Beam, Round (due to Refrigerate), Snore (due to Refrigerate), Sleep Talk (due to Refrigerate), Nature Power (due to Refrigerate), Freeze-Dry, Ice Beam, Hail, Blizzard
• : Ancient Power
• : Rest, Light Screen
• : Thunder Wave

Trivia

• Saura's name is derived from the common -saurus ending prominent in most dinosaur names, as well as the term "sauropod", a direct reference to the species of mon that Aurorus is based on. It could also be a corrupted version of the English name Sara. Originally, her name was planned to be Amarga, from Amargasaurus (the type of sauropod dinosaur that the Amaura line is based on), but Goldenheart388 didn't think it worked as well of a name as Saura did and thus the name was changed.
• 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. Despite Saura losing her constant sleep patterns after her evolution into an Aurorus, her handle and typing quirk remain.
• 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 ("Small world" was later on given to Bitey instead). Her English headcanon voice, meanwhile, is Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter films (this remained unchanged after her evolution into an Aurorus).
• 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 Owen's team save for Steggy.
• 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.
• Saura was the first Pokemon in WAAPT to evolve via the pottery wheel method onscreen- while other mons such as Joel, D'Autry, Nautilu, Crina, Chasmo and Teryx also evolved via said method, they all evolved offscreen, and in the case of D'Autry, wasn't even seen by his Trainer.
• Saura is the only fossilmon that Owen Edmundson owns to have initially died from a contracted illness. In order of capture, the other fossilmons died, respectively, from: being crushed underfoot by a human, dehydration and starvation, old age, an Aerodactyl attack, being hit with a mace, a Tyrantrum attack, falling while performing a cliff-jumping stunt, old age (again), being crushed to death by stalactites, and being crushed to death by a rock in a heroic sacrifice.