Nautilu

Nautilu is Owen Edmundson's Omastar, and the second Pokemon he caught on his initial journey, as well as the first he revived from a fossil.

Appearance

In his mon form, Nautilu appears as a mostly regular Omastar, save for a pair of black square glasses that he sometimes wears. They are not Choice Specs or Wise/Black Glasses, and have no effect in battle.

In his human form (prospective name Erik Ethan Lawrence; seen below); Nautilu appears as an approximately 30-year-old man with medium-length blue hair that goes in all directions. His black square glasses have now turned round, gold, and circular, and he wears a blue undershirt with a blue (sometimes blue and white) hoodie over top of it. He also wears blue jeans and blue socks and shoes, but arguably his most defining trait as a human is his backpack, which is beige in color and resembles an Omastar's shell, complete with spikes.

Personality

Nautilu, on the surface, appears to be rather intelligent, logical, calm, and composed. Among the rest of the Jura6- and indeed, among the rest of Owen's team- he serves in essence as a sort of teacher figure to them, always willing to teach them things about the world that they might not otherwise know. Offscreen, he did this to Stipax numerous of times, constantly teaching him about things that he learned in 13th-century medieval PokeDenmark; on-screen, meanwhile, there are two relatively major examples of Nautilu doing this. The first time was when he taught everybody in the Jura6-- including Teryx himself-- about PTSD, though Stipax had heard of it before-- and in the process, made Teryx aware of the full extent of what he was going through. The second time, meanwhile, was when he took Eurypedis and Anomalo on a tour of Owen's house and taught them about numerous technological advancements that had been made since the 1600s and prehistoric times, respectively (here he also served as Anomalo's seeing-eye Omastar due to Anomalo being totally blind). He is very patient with others for the most part, especially when teaching them about things they don't know, but does tend to have a very motor-mouthed way of doing so. He is an immense lover of speeches, a trait he carried over from his original life, and will often end up infodumping about things that he finds to be important. This was most notably seen on Hasslemon when introducing himself to Anomalo; he went on a full-fledged diatribe of his backstory and an explanation that while there were such things as scientists and mathematicians in the 1300s, there wasn't much, if any, broadly-known knowledge of them, hence him deciding to teach these subjects to the populace. Ironically enough, in his youth, he hated giving speeches, albiet said speeches happened to be about subjects he did not like or believe in-- such as Arcean cults. In addition to his love of speeches, science, math, and self-diagnosing, Nautilu tends to have a bit of a cynical, pragmatic view on life. He very famously does not believe at all in the concepts of "fate" or "destiny", nor does he believe in the power of any Legendary Pokemon. He is willing to acknowledge that they exist, and have a great handle on the Pokemon world and its creation; however, he does not believe that they are in charge of a mon's life or that they can revive the dead, heal the sick, and have other Biblical qualities. He believes instead that rather than being controlled by fate or destiny, everything has just always... existed, as it were. He doesn't enjoy science because some sort of cosmic power says he has to; he just likes science because. This point is greatly touched upon in his character theme, "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads, which repeatedly uses the phrase "same as it ever was" in its lyrics and is both structured after and based on (ironically enough) a sermon.

Despite his relative patience, however, and in keeping with his slightly snarky and cynical view on life, Nautilu does tend to get a bit annoyed by things, especially things that he does not find to be realistic. He very often will snark at and correct Crina whenever she goes into one of her flights of fancy, most often if she ever says at all that her markings are her eyes and her eyes are her teeth-- to the extent that him doing so was how he was introduced in the RP.

Background

Prior to being revived and captured by Owen, Nautilu's life was... somewhat odd, to say the least. For the most part, he had a relatively peaceful life, and while he didn't live for as long as Chasmo, he did live for 75 years, having the second-longest lifespan out of the Jura6 fossilmons. He was also the only member of the Jura6 to have lived during human times, namely during some point in the 13th century. His childhood, however, was far from peaceful, as Nautilu's Omastar parents were convinced that they were apostles of Arceus themselves and tried to indoctrinate young Nautilu into their "cult" filled with Arcean symbolism. Every day they would pray to Arceus and constantly ask Arceus for guidance and support as to how their son should live his life. This annoyed young Nautilu, who from birth was the same calm, collected, and mildly amused Pokemon that he would ultimately end up being. He didn't believe in concepts such as "fate" or "destiny", and tried his best to live his own life the way that he wanted to. For him, that life consisted of asking questions and finding out facts about the world around him. His parents, however, tried to get him to read only Arcean texts (written in Unown letters) and give speeches and sermons dedicated to singing Arceus' praises. While this did instill in him a love of speeches, he would usually speed through them as fast as possible just to get them over with, leading to his motormouthed speech patterns that he has today. After his mandatory sermons, he would secretly go off into the night and give speeches- to the same Pokemon that were there for the Arcean speeches- about novel concepts such as "history" and "physics", things that were genuinely intriguing to them. This happened for many, many years.

Slowly but surely, there started to be converts, and Nautilu's parents began to wonder what was going on. One day when Nautilu was approximately 12 years old, after an Arcean sermon, his parents followed Nautilu outside when he thought he wasn't looking and watched in horror as all of the Pokemon that had been there for religious sermons began to get genuinely intrigued by concepts such as history and physics. They confronted him about it, and Nautilu proceeded to explain to them that history and physics were things that he genuinely enjoyed researching. He told them, essentially, <you can practice whatever religion you want to, but you can't try to force people into joining said religion if they don't want to. Then it's not a religion anymore. It's a cult.> His parents were instantly shocked by this, and tried to get him to stop, but before their very eyes-- and the eyes of the Pokemon in question-- Nautilu proceeded to grab a nearby pottery wheel and evolve himself into an Omastar before leaving the scene and gaining his independence. For the rest of his life, he proceeded to learn more about the world around him, teach Pokemon things, and continued to want to discover more, all the while believing that fate and destiny were not predetermined and that nothing has ever existed for a predetermined reason. After 75 years of teaching, giving speeches, and learning all he could about the world, he ultimately died on August 12th, after being crushed underfoot by a human being in what is now Pewter City.

Many centuries later, his Helix Fossil was found and revived by Owen Edmundson, being the first of the four fossilmons revived on September 30th. Naturally, the very first thing that Nautilu did was find out literally everything he could about human history's advances since his initial death. He found out about the Internet, about Hasslemon, the changes that had been made to the region, the discovery of the Fairy type, etc. Even so, though, there were still some things he never got around to learning as well as things that he is still learning about today. Immediately, he made connections with Stipax and Chasmo, both of whom were stunned upon being told that Nautilu had lived through the 13th century, and asked him to teach them about all of the technology and historical events that had happened during that time. To that, Nautilu happily obliged, and taught them everything they needed to know about 13th century art, religion, history, etc. In return, Chasmo told Nautilu stories about his past life, allowing Nautilu to learn even more things about what life was like before his time. Owen was particularly intrigued by Nautilu, as due to him living in the 13th century, he figured that Nautilu was able to speak a bit of human language. He was, albeit only a little bit, and as such Nautilu is the only other member of the Jura6, besides Stipax, that Owen can at least somewhat understand. As such, Owen caught Nautilu fairly quickly, and shortly afterwards he began reading more books and learning more about history, physics, academia, etc.

Later on, he was used during the Kanto League, and was specifically used against Brock, Janine, Blaine, Karen, and Lance (the latter two of the Elite Four). During the battle against Blaine, he evolved once again via the pottery wheel method, and due to both the fact that he had gone through it when he was alive and due to him having tentacles, he was the quickest to form himself into his new body, to the point where even Stipax himself was surprised by how long it took.

Details

• Met: Pewter City Museum
• Birthday: September 30th (revival date); October 6th (initial birthday prior to death)
• Ability: Shell Armor
• Favorite Move: Protect
• Nature: Calm
• Characteristic: Very finicky
• Likes: His friends, his Trainer, logistics, academia, history, physics, watching CGPGrey videos, mathematics, answering Stipax's questions, doing research, talking to Chasmo, Stipax, Chasmo, reading books, trivia-based game shows, nomenclature, etymology
• Dislikes: Unanswered questions, making research errors, being told that people exist for a predetermined reason, anyone hurting his friends, anyone hurting his Trainer, battling (for the most part), non-indicative names, any and all scientific misconceptions, liars, cults
• Ball: Poke
• Nickname origin: Derives from "nautilus", the species that Omanyte and Omastar are based on
• Hasslemon typing quirk: ~Every text begins and ends with a tilde, which is meant to represent the tentacles that Omanyte and Omastar have. Ad^2itional^2y, al^2 double let^2ers are replaced by squares, and every text ends with a fo^2tnote.~

A prospective fullbody Nautilu gijinka, as done by Goldenheart388.

Known Moves

• : Withdraw, Brine, Bubble Beam
• : Rollout, Ancient Power, Rock Blast
• : Aurora Beam

Trivia

• Nautilu's name is derived from "nautilus", the species of mollusk that Omanyte and Omastar are based on. It could also be a reference to the fictional submarine of the same name from the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
• According to Goldenheart388, Nautilu's Hasslemon handle is extinctLogistics (EL). The handle serves as a reference to Nautilu's nature as a fossil Pokemon as well as his logical and pragmatic personality. He shares his handle abbreviation of EL with that of Elton.
• According to Goldenheart388, Nautilu's English character theme is "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads. According to Goldenheart388, "the song alludes to 3 things about Nautilu: his calm and level-headed personality, his love of speeches- the entire song was inspired by someone delivering a religious sermon- and his viewpoint on life and how, to him, the concepts of 'fate' and 'destiny' don't exist. Nothing exists for a reason to him, everything just... exists. 'Same as it ever was', indeed." His Japanese character theme, meanwhile, is "Cruel Angel's Thesis" by Yoko Takahashi, known as the theme to Neon Genesis Evangelion, and his headcanon voice is that of the well-known YouTuber CGPGrey, cited as one of three YouTubers (in fact, the main YouTuber) who served as an inspiration for Nautilu's character (the other two being Michael Stevens and Hank Green).
• Nautilu shares his Ability (Shell Armor) and favorite move (Protect) with Orwell.
• Nautilu's human name, "Ethan Lawrence", shares its initials with that of his Hasslemon handle extinctLogistics, with both of them abbreviating to EL. This pattern applies to every member of the Jura6.
• Nautilu's revival day, September 30th, is the day on which, in 1861, the first Archeopteryx fossil was discovered; he shares his revival day with Crina, Chasmo, and Teryx. His actual birthday, October 6th, is the day that CGPGrey's first video was uploaded to YouTube.
• Nautilu's death date, August 12th, is the day that CGPGrey's YouTube channel was launched.
• Nautilu is the only Jura6 fossilmon to have lived during historical human times, specifically during the 13th century AD.