Teryx

Teryx is Owen Edmundson's Archeops, and the fifth Pokemon he caught on his initial journey, as well as the fourth he revived from a fossil.

As of November 7th, 2022, he has been released and exiled from the team.

Appearance

In his mon form, Teryx resembles a regular Archeops.

In his human form (prospective name Dawson Douglas; seen below), Teryx appears as an approximately 13-14 year old boy, the third youngest member of the team behind Stipax and Saura. He has red hair and wears a green bandana on his head, along with a yellow scarf, undershirt, and either a yellow or a yellow-and-blue jacket. He also wears a pair of yellow sweatpants and red shoes, along with bright green socks. In his gijinka'd form, he is also seen with his familiar yellow-and-blue Archeops wings, even if he can't use them to fly.

Personality and characteristics

Every member of the Jura6 team is accepting of the concept of death and wants to live their new lives to the fullest as much as possible, and while Teryx is aware of the futility of life... he's not necessarily willing to accept his incoming second death. At least, not yet. On the surface, he is the exact opposite of characters such as Saura, Nautilu, and especially Chasmo, being a frantic, pessimistic defeatist (pun intended) terrified of just about everything under the sun that he thinks could kill him or his friends. In that regard, he is very much akin to Freddie in terms of personality-- but while Freddie was terrified of everything (including the thought of being caught by his Trainer initially) due to him being naturally timid and an ectrodactylc, Teryx's fears are much more specific and for a much more personal reason. Due to him seeing his family die in front of him and his initial death later on, Teryx is terrified of most Electric-type Pokemon, with the exception of Stipax. Upon meeting Tricky for the first time at the Jubilife Expo, he immediately cowered, and didn't seem to register Tricky's words upon her telling him off, only registering Travis' response that he seemed to be the scariest Pokemon there. Later on, upon seeing Team Lightning for the first time, Teryx was the first one to go back into his PokeBall. Teryx also has a fear of any Pokemon that he perceives as dangerous, as well as most loud noises, as they either remind him of his own death or (at least, to him) an omen of one of his friends' imminent deaths. He especially fears Tyrantrum and Aerodactyl for reasons related directly to his death- said reasons ultimately led to him attacking Tyrie and Rhamphor in a fit of PTSD-induced fear towards them and rage towards his Trainer for bothering to put a Tyrunt and Aerodactyl in front of him without thinking of the consequences first (and also in an effort of supposed protection towards his friends). Regarding his childhood circumstances (see "Background" for more), Teryx specifically seems to have a major case of PTSD-- he goes into frantic panic attacks upon seeing an Electric-type that isn't Stipax, and seems to not want to talk about the circumstances of his initial death to anyone else on the team. He canonically has nightmares and flashbacks to his parents' deaths as well as his own, and while Stipax and Saura have tried to get him to sleep, it hasn't worked thus far, as Teryx is so terrified of what could happen to him or to any of his friends whenever he is alone in the dark. Additionally, he is terrified of any cruel experiments, as seen when the group went to the Devon Expo for the first time. Upon seeing the stage, Teryx's immediate first thought was that it was being used for an experiment of some kind. While not as bad as Scramble, Teryx is also a bit of a pessimist, often willing to see the worst outcome in a situation, and has a great deal of shame towards the events surrounding both his and his parents' deaths, believing both of them to have been directly his fault. Even now, as a member of the Jura6 with a full team, he still sees himself as a bit of a burden, and has a desire to avenge himself for his supposed mistakes in the past.

Despite his fears and his PTSD, however, Teryx's initial death also instilled in him an extremely cautious and protective nature towards the rest of the Jura6. He is willing to try to overcome his fears in order to save his friends, and is very much against the thought of seeing any of them die in the same horrific manner that his parents did. Even if he tries to be brave, though, Teryx still does not have that much faith in his battling capabilities. When Tricky told him that he had a ton of powerful moves, Teryx seemed to not even pay attention to that line, and instead cowered upon hearing Tricky say that he was probably among the scariest members of the team. Most of the time, he will run away whenever danger presents itself to him in order to avoid dying-- the exception is when that danger is directly affecting his friends. Even then, though, the most Teryx will do is a U-Turn and maybe a Pluck or Ancient Power depending on the opponent. However, if he's thrown into a particular amount of rage, he will lose himself completely, with all signs of his normally timid personality ceasing to exist as he attacks the opponent and faints them beyond all recognition. Thus far, this has been shown only once in WAAPT-- it's the moment wherein Teryx attacks Tyrie and Rhamphor, and- later, when he grabs Teryx from behind- his own Trainer. Said attack also proved that, when he gets riled up enough, he is wholly capable of being among the strongest battlers on the team, aside from Stipax, Chasmo, and Gwana. Beyond that, though, Teryx is not the biggest fan of battling. He can't fly, as his parents never got the chance to teach him how-- all he can do is run around. That being said, though, he was eager and willing to take flying lessons from Pyra, and upon getting airborne for the first time was genuinely excited about it. However, he soon returned to his generally pessimistic personality after he promptly fell to the ground afterwards. Despite his lack of flight skills, though, Teryx is able to run extremely fast-- the RP showed that he was able to get from Solaceon Cave to Oreburgh City in the span of 5 seconds and beat both Mark and Travis there in the process.

Barring the attack mentioned above, Teryx is very much the kind of Pokemon to not get himself involved in conflict, preferring instead to avoid it at all costs. Even if he does end up flying into a rage as he did with Tyrie and Rhamphor, these kinds of attacks are extremely rare. Chasmo and Stipax both noted upon seeing the attack that something had to be very wrong with Teryx in order for him to attack them as he did, and even Owen noted that he'd never seen Teryx act even close to anything like this before. His usual timidity towards battling is most likely as a result of his Defeatist ability lowering his stats, along with his generally pessimistic nature towards many things. When he's not panicking over things that he perceives as dangerous, though, Teryx is awkward, shy, and sensitive. He naturally desires safety and security more than anything else, and is (for the most part) extremely accepting of new friends joining the team. He is great friends in particular with Stipax, Nautilu, and Chasmo, as all three have served to comfort him at some point. Stipax in particular is a major source of comfort for Teryx, and he will often cling to Stipax whenever he feels scared of things. Chasmo and Nautilu, meanwhile, serve as level-headed voices of reason for him, and according to Goldenheart388, the latter guided Teryx through his "pottery wheel" evolution process. Teryx also has an immense amount of love towards his Trainer, Owen, and would do just about anything to help protect him, including putting in safety measures to ensure that nothing happens to his Trainer. He only snapped out of his fit of rage when he saw that he had attacked Owen specifically, and was immediately horrified and apologized profusely to his Trainer. After his release, he was so remorseful about accidentally attacking his Trainer that he flat-out referred to himself as a Vow Breaker for it. Notably, however, he didn't seem to care about Tyrie and Rhamphor, his first two attack victims, bringing up another major flaw of Teryx's that is a result of both his PTSD and his general timid and pessimistic nature. Namely, he has a very hard time recognizing when something is not a threat, and can get extremely angry if he believes that anything he perceives as a threat is hurting his friends in any regard. Tyrie and Rhamphor were merely talking to the rest of the Jura6, and in terms of personality are a naive, innocent and slightly cowardly leader-in-training and a happy-go-lucky big (vegetarian) eater with a great deal of love and appreciation for his friends, respectively. Ergo, they are far from threats, however Teryx's PTSD and his previous encounters with said species led him to believe that they were, and nothing would stop him from thinking as such. Even after his release, it's shown from his thoughts that Teryx doesn't understand why Owen got so angry at him for attacking Tyrie and Rhamphor, as Owen also doesn't know them yet, and that whatever he knew, they could still be threats.

Aside from his timidity and shy personality, Teryx is also extremely cautious, always looking for some way to prevent any bad scenario before it even happens. Additionally, while far from the most intelligent member of the Jura6 (that honor goes to Nautilu), he is among the most intelligent members of the team, though he doesn't really show it all that much aside from brief uses of slightly long words. That being said, however, he is smart enough to know what a Vow Breaker is, as he declared himself one in the aftermath of his release, and also advised Cephalo against jumping off of any cliffs upon finding out he died in a cliff-jumping stunt (Cephalo, of course, paid no mind to this). He also adores comfy and soft plush toys, as they give him comfort, and Saura has routinely shared her teddy bear with him at night. Teryx is also a bit of an introvert, and prefers to spend time in his PokeBall and over Hasslemon if he can in order to avoid danger. He enjoys watching Marvel and Harry Potter movies in his spare time, as they have people in it that Teryx is able to relate to and look up to, and also enjoys watching game shows, both in his spare time and with the other members of the Jura6. According to Goldenheart388, prior to his release, he was an avid fan of British game shows in particular, and enjoyed watching Only Connect, Gamecube, and especially The Wheel, the last of which essentially served as his favorite game show of all time. Like Ananpi and Only Connect, Teryx was so good at The Wheel that he often would beat contestants on the show and was known to get crazy streaks of right answers, something that he was praised for by his fellow mons (much to his slight embarrassment). Now that Teryx is no longer a member of the team (and without a PokeBall, for that matter), it's unknown as to what he will do for recreation now, though it's not out of the question for him to find a TV screen playing "The Wheel" or another similar game show. Teryx has not in used at all in battle thus far in WAAPT, but as already mentioned, he doesn't really do well in the heat of battle, most often tending to use U-Turn before any other move. He does, however, have a tendency to rely on his impressive speed stats to avoid any attacks that could hit him and cause him to drop below half health, thus activating his Ability.

His favorite musical artist, according to Goldenheart388, is Five for Fighting, and his favorite Gamecube game is Haunted House Party.

Background

Prior to his revival and capture by Owen, Teryx was only slightly more optimistic than what he would end up becoming later on. He was born on September 11th, a date which, millions of years later, he would come to fear and disassociate himself with for obvious reasons. From the very beginning, he had very little faith in his battling abilities, in no large part due to his Defeatist ability. He also was incapable of flight, a trait which he retained past his revival and even post-evolution. His Archeops parents had faith in him and wanted him to be a strong battler, but understood that his Ability naturally made it hard for him. As a result of this, poor Teryx grew up feeling like a burden and a letdown to his own parents, yet he loved them a lot and genuinely wanted to be a strong battler for their sake.

However, merely a month after he was born, he witnessed something extremely traumatic. He and his parents were out practicing Teryx's skills in battle, and were going to teach Teryx how to fly for real, when a massive Tyrantrum suddenly appeared. Frantically, his parents tried to fly away, and motioned for Teryx to do the same, but unfortunately Teryx couldn't, so his parents never got as far as they could have. While Teryx did his best to battle the Tyrantrum off, his moves were too weak, and eventually, right in front of his very eyes, the Tyrantrum ate his parents alive, killing them right in front of him. Horrified and thinking he was to blame, the Archen did the only thing he could at the time-- ran from the Tyrantrum as far as he could and took shelter in a nearby cave. This incident ultimately served as the first impetus for Teryx's fears, sparking his fear of dangerous Pokemon and serving as the catalyst for his later desires to protect his friends from anything that might kill them. The second impetus came just a few days later. By that time, Teryx had taken shelter in a nearby cave, refusing to come out of it for fear of danger from the outside world. Unfortunately for him, though, there were dangers in the cave as well, in the forms of two Aerodactyl that were sleeping there. Upon them waking up and seeing him, they taunted him about the fact that he couldn't fly. While Teryx ran away and tried his best to defend himself, the two Aerodactyl kept teasing him and calling him a weakling, before taking him back into the cave, holding him in their jaws, and proceeding to use Thunderbolt after Thunderbolt until he had been electrocuted. After they had killed him, they left Teryx there. His initial death, on October 13th, gave Teryx the shortest initial lifespan of the Jura6 fossilmons.

Millions of years later, long after said cave had collapsed into the underground, Teryx's Plume Fossil was found and uncovered by Owen Edmundson, along with the fossils of three other mons. All four were revived on the same day- September 30th. Much like Saura later on, the first thing that Teryx wanted to do upon his revival was make up for the mistakes that resulted in both his death and the deaths of his parents. As such, he became very clingy towards the rest of the Jura6, not wanting any of them to die, and did his absolute best to try and fight for them. Unfortunately, the PTSD from his childhood combined with his Ability made him absolutely terrified of a lot more things than he had been in his previous life. He now had a crippling fear of Aerodactyl, Tyrantrum, and Electric-types, and Stipax was the only Electric-type Pokemon he could stand to be around due to the fact that he was a cuddly cute Galvantula. Any loud noises, experimentation, battling, dangerous Pokemon, and other Electric types brought him into a panic attack, and made him desire safety and security more than anything else. As such, he gained a massive love of plush toys and cuddly things. It also caused him to have even less faith in his battling abilities, since due to his parents' early death he was never taught how to fly. Everyone, including and especially Owen and Stipax, wanted to protect him and see him become braver, which ultimately led to Teryx's capture.

He wasn't used much during the Kanto League, obviously, but whenever he was used, he fought as hard as he could. His most used move by far was U-Turn, since it allowed him to run away from any battle. He was used during the battles against Erika, Sabrina and Bruno, and evolved himself during the Sabrina battle via the pottery wheel molding process.

History

In a similar regard to Stipax, Teryx made his debut on Hasslemon, where he nervously greeted everyone there before expressing concern about where Saura was. Unaware that she was still asleep, he assumed that she was somehow going to get hurt in Jubilife, and expressed concern that he was going to die there. Chasmo promptly told him that Saura was sleeping, which relieved him a bit, but Teryx still was concerned that he was going to die again. Stipax, in return, promptly reassured him that there was nothing to worry about, and that there was no way that he was going to die; Teryx promptly admitted that it may have been a bit too conclusive of him to automatically assume that going to a new area equalled death being just around the corner. After the intial Hasslemon conversation, Teryx wasn't seen again until after Owen and Stipax decided to go to the Techspo; it was there that he made his first onscreen appearance in WAAPT. He was brought out for the sake of being introduced to Mark and Travis' mons and, later, Minerva's mons, and immediately expressed fear towards Chopper due to Chopper being a Fighting-type Pokemon (Fighting beats Rock, after all). He then expressed that same fear towards Fiore, Minerva's Beedrill, and begged for said Beedrill to not touch him.

Details

• Met: Pewter City Museum
• Birthday: September 30th (revival date); September 11th (initial birthday prior to death)
• Ability: Defeatist
• Favorite Move: U-Turn
• Nature: Bashful
• Characteristic: Quick to flee
• Likes: His Trainer, his friends, Stipax, Nautilu, Chasmo, stuffed animals, cute cuddly things, feeling safe and secure, not getting involved with battles, watching Marvel movies, watching Harry Potter movies, watching game shows, cuddling Stipax, the music of Five for Fighting, the game show The Wheel
• Dislikes: Being reminded of the circumstances surrounding his death, the thought of him dying again, the thought of any of his friends or his Trainer dying, anything that he thinks could kill him or people he loves, seeing his friends and Trainer get hurt, battling, cruel experiments, flying, loud noises, dangerous Pokemon (or what he perceives to be dangerous Pokemon), Electric-types (barring Stipax and other Galvantula), Tyrantrum and Aerodactyl, the thought of him accidentally scaring his friends at all, Tricky, the actions that led up to his release from the team
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: From Archeopteryx
• Hasslemon typing quirk: eovoerything is in lowercase lettering and all "qu"'s are replaced with "qw"'s, barring the caovoeat that the next letter ovoer is removoed (so, for example, the word "quick" would become "qwck" and the word "quiet" would become "qwet"), additionally all words containing a v in them haovoe the v become "ovo" to resemble a bird face (i.e. "covoer", "abovoe") except when the letter v starts a word, this rule also applies to wheneovoer a "v" is surrounded by the same vowel on either side, finally, all periods are replaced by commas a la taovoros to represent teryx's general nerovousness,

A prospective fullbody Teryx gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• : Dragon Breath, Dragon Pulse, Dragon Claw, Outrage
• : Ancient Power, Rock Slide, Stone Edge
• : Pluck, Tailwind, Air Slash
• : U-Turn

Trivia

• Teryx's name is derived from a shortening of Archeopteryx.
• According to Goldenheart388, Teryx's Hasslemon handle is diffidentDefeatist (DD). "Diffident" is a synonym for bashful or timid, referencing Teryx's shyness and panicky behavior in battle, whereas "defeatist" references both Teryx's pessimistic nature and his ability Defeatist.
• According to Goldenheart388, Teryx's English character theme is "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five for Fighting. The song serves as a reference to Teryx's willingness to, according to Goldenheart388, "not be seen as a burden, to be braver in the face of adversity, and the fact that, due to his ability Defeatist, it makes life for him all the harder". His Japanese character theme, meanwhile, is "Sign" by FLOW, the 6th opening to Naruto Shippudden, and his headcanon voice is that of Samuel Vincent as Edd (AKA "Double D") in the TV series Ed, Edd, n' Eddy.
• Teryx is the third and final member of the Jura6, after Stipax and Chasmo, to have a Five for Fighting song as his character theme, as well as the third team member overall.
• Originally, Teryx's "v= ovo" part of his typing quirk only applied to words containing "ov" in that order, such as "cover", "remove", and "above". Later on, however, it was expanded to include words containing "vo" (if the "vo" doesn't start a word), and then further expanded to affect all instances of the letter, primarily because it looked cuter to Goldenheart388 and partly so that the typing quirk would be able to show up more prominently if the lyrics of "Superman (It's Not Easy)" were written in it (i.e. "eovoen heroes haovoe the right to dream").
• Teryx's human name, "Dawson Douglas", shares its initials with that of his Hasslemon handle diffidentDefeatist, with both of them abbreviating to DD. This pattern applies to every member of the Jura6.
• Teryx's revival day, September 30th, is the day on which, in 1861, the first Archeopteryx fossil was discovered; his actual birthday, September 11th, is obvious. He is the only member of the Jura6 to have both of his birthdays (initial and revival) occur in the same month.
• Teryx shares his Characteristic, "Quick to flee", with Freddie.
• Teryx has the shortest initial lifespan of all of the fossilmons in the Jura6, being born on September 11th and dying one month and 2 days later. His death date was on a Friday the 13th. This is the explanation behind a lyric in his Broadway character theme, "30/90", being changed from "Turn 30, 1990" to "one month past 9/11", since it was one month past that date that his parents died, and one month and two days later that he died.
• Teryx is the first Pokemon that Goldenheart388 has written for to have been released onscreen.