Tobi

Tobi is Tommy Petersen's starter, a Spinarak with unusual coloration. Much like his trainer, he sometimes moonlights as a crime-fighter, Aranos the Untamed.

Features

Tobi is consistently described as an oddly colored spinarak. He is an almost typical example a rare and peculiar color morph that gives him the colors of a shiny ariados. Researchers do not know about the peculiarities of this specific color morph, which is even rarer than regular shinies and most known specimens have been determined to be caused by naturally occurring mutations.

As Aranos, he wears a pair of triangular sunglasses over his eyes. How this manages to stay on him is not really understood.

Personality

Tobi typically presents himself as polite and well-mannered and has shown himself to be very friendly toward humans and other pokémon, sharing Tommy's humble and self-effacing dorky nature. He is the most mentally mature of Tommy's pokémon and acts as the big brother of the group. He does have a soft-spot for pizza, a food he is not allowed to eat due to the fact that he and his species cannot digest lactose or starch. He is not above showcasing the extent of his protectiveness and aggression in his civilian identity and he is known to give a painful bite.

Aranos, meanwhile, is a bombast who, while obedient to Arachna-Guys commands, is usually quite ruthless to human opponents. He doesn't hesitate to bite his enemies when the opportunity presents himself, though he stops short of attempting to poison them. He gained the moniker from both the extreme pain caused by his biting and by sensationalism on Hank Harvey's part.

Biography

Tobi was raised in a Best Berry facility and was subject to extreme neglect and all manner of physical abuse. Although the records confiscated were unclear, what is known was that his DNA was the subject of tampering and intensive research. He was one of three or four spinaraks of his color morph in the facility, which ostensibly also dabbled in illegal and inhumane silk harvesting from the spinaraks. He caught the attention of a young Tommy Petersen, who pilfered him from the facility (but not before getting severely bitten). Tommy discovered the operation and reported it to the authorities; in the ensuing rescue Tobi officially became Tommy's charge.

In the ensuing years, Tobi would periodically help Tommy spy on and rescue other pokémon from smugglers and unethical traffickers, gaining a few rescues along the way. Eventually, in a crucial turning point in their lives, they decided to honor the memory of Tommy's late uncle Ken and take on the mantle of crime fighters.

Eventually, they would come to the employ of the Geographic Society.