Owen Edmundson
| Name: | Owen Edmundson |
| Nickname/Alias: | N/A |
| Gender: | Male |
| Sexuality: | Ace |
| Age: | 19 |
| Height: | 5'10" |
| Ethnicity: | Kantonian |
| Birthday: | 6/11/02 |
| Attribute: | N/A |
| Trainer ID: | 61193 |
| Home: | Pewter City |
| Pokéform: | N/A |
| Starter: | Stipax |
| Status: | Alive |
Appearance
Owen Edmundson is a 5'10", 19-year-old man with scraggly brown hair and hazel eyes. He is often seen wearing an off-white shirt with a tie on it and a brown coat over top of it, along with a belt, black socks and pants, and brown shoes. He wears a black fedora on top of his head, along with glasses, and is often seen carrying a shovel that he uses to dig up fossils with. Sometimes, he will carry a black backpack over his shoulder, which he carries his fossils, Poke Balls, TMs, and such in.
Biography
For most of his life, Owen Edmundson had no intention of becoming a Pokemon Trainer-- his prime concern was becoming a paleontogist/archeologist. However, he grew up with an immense curiosity about the world around him and studied both living and dead mons extensively in order to learn more about the past and help preserve the future. To him, Pokemon weren't friends or pets-- they were wild creatures that deserved to be placed in captivity and studied for the sake of knowledge. His attitude towards Pokemon began to change one day when he was 18 years old and serving as an intern at the Pewter Museum in his hometown. He had gotten an assignment to find a Helix Fossil, which he was very excited about; after a week of research the resulting Omanyte would be given to the museum and either released into the wild or kept by the museum executives. While outside searching for the fossil, he met a curious, naive Galvantula who had a similar wonder about the world-- and was able to dig up fossils despite not knowing the move. Owen asked the Galvantula for help, and he promptly obliged, resulting in a day's worth of fossil searching and coming up huge the next day. Not only had Owen found a Helix Fossil by the end of it all, but also a Root, Armor, and Plume Fossil. Ecstatic by his findings, he went to the curator and told him about the Galvantula that had helped him. The curator suggested that Owen capture the Galvantula, and after a moment of contemplation while the fossils were being revived, Owen realized he liked the Galvantula too much to let him go back into the wild. He caught the Galvantula, named him Stipax, and officially became a Pokemon Trainer in the process.
At the same time, the four Fossils were revived into a calm and level-headed Omanyte, a ditzy, goofy and mischievous Lileep, a gentle and hardworking Bastiodon, and a timid Archen. Over the next week, Owen found that he enjoyed hanging out with the mons and learning more about them. He learned a bit of Monese from the whole experience (though still came out of it unfluent), and eventually realized that he didn't want to let his new Fossil friends go. After the next week, Owen announced to the curator that he would be catching the four Fossil mons, much to their delight. They were named Nautilu, Crina, Chasmo, and Teryx, respectively, and a week after the captures Owen completed his internship and was offered a job working for the museum. However, he declined, deciding instead to become a Pokemon Trainer while retaining his desires to help preserve the future and learn more about the past. The curator wished him luck, and he promptly headed off to face the Kanto League. In the process of doing so, all of his Fossil mons evolved, and soon afterwards, he had beaten the Elite Four. Afterwards, Owen wasn't really sure of what to do, so he decided to search for more fossils, and eventually found a Sail Fossil that he took to the Pewter Museum. The Fossil was revived into a drowsy yet kindhearted female Amaura, which Owen named Saura. From there, he decided to head off to Sinnoh in order to search for more Fossils and catch more Pokemon, and is currently challenging the Sinnoh League.
Personality
Other Details
Debut: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370A74820100&page=23112#577791
Starter: Stipax, his Galvantula
Pokeform: TBD
Likes: His Pokemon, digging for fossils, finding fossils, discovering new things about the world, conserving species, finding out the evolutionary tree (i.e. Darwinian) of certain Pokemon species, his family, battling, playing with Stipax
Dislikes: Anyone who hurts him or his Pokemon, anyone who threatens Pokemon species, the thought of any species of Pokemon going extinct
Pokemon
The Jura6
Trivia
- According to Goldenheart388, Owen's character theme is "World" by Five for Fighting. Half of Owen's first 6 mons (Stipax, Chasmo, and Teryx) have Five for Fighting songs as their English character themes, and according to Goldenheart388, Five for Fighting is Owen's favorite artist, with his top three including the aforementioned one-man band, Jack Johnson, and Owl City.
- According to Goldenheart388, Owen's regular chat handle is PaleoExploration1822, and his Hasslemon handle, if he had one, would be the aforementioned handle minus the 1822. The 1822 in the handle is a reference to the year in which the first dinosaur fossils were discovered.
- Owen's birthday, June 11th, is the day that Jurassic Park was released, with his ID number, 61193, being the exact date (June 11th, 1993).
- The name "Jura6" is a pun on the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era, as well as the number 6.
- All of Owen's Pokemon have names that are derived from the scientific names of extinct animals or "living fossils" (in the cases of Nautilu and Crina).
