New Pokémon #3

Eulophant

Height: 6’7”

Weight:
Transcendent Form: 270lbs
Spectral Form: 355 lbs

Type: Ghost / Psychic

Abilities:
Transcendent Form: Scripture - If an opponent’s Pokémon switches out while Eulophant is in play, it will take on the opposing Pokémon’s ability.
Spectral Form: Eulogy - If a Pokémon faints while Eulophant is in play, it will take on the opposing Pokémon’s ability
Hidden Ability: Phantasmic - When this Pokémon faints, the opposing Pokémon will take half the amount of damage it caused.

Strengths: Ghost, Psychic, Fighting, Poison

Weaknesses: Bug, Dark, Ghost

Gender: 100% Female

Description: Eulophant, also known as the Limbo Pokémon, is a reserved elephant-like Pokémon with two separate forms. Eulophant changes from its Transcendent to its Spectral form upon being met with a ghost-type Pokémon on an opposing team or after causing a Pokémon to faint. When in its Transcendent form, it lives with the utmost respect for the people and Pokémon near it. A calming pink aura emanates from its body causing euphoric sensations in order to stave off the grief that it knows so well in its Spectral Form, while also increasing its defense. When in this form, it has a pale purple body with a pink stripe on its back, gilded tusks protruding from a leathery purple trunk with large draping ears that it can cover its body with. When threatened, it may spread its large ears to appear immovable. Its eyes remain shut, as it feels more strongly than it sees, sensing and hearing others around it instead. Peeking out from above its head is a ghostly image of a brain, like a hologram being emitted from the jewel on its head, beckoning others to seek it out for its knowledge. Both forms have a pink jewel at the center of their foreheads with blue jewels above and below it. Each form wears colorful and lively jewelry from its deceased friends to remind them that those lives were meaningful, bringing joy and remembrance when it can instead of sorrow. When in its Spectral Form, Eulophant becomes heavier, as it carries the weight of the souls it encounters and bonds with. In this form, Eulophant’s body consists of an elephant’s rib cage, rotated upside-down in order to carry the spectral essence of lost souls within it. These souls weigh down on Eulophant, but it carries them in its ribs in order to keep the souls closest to its heart. The bones of Eulophant’s spectral form are bits and pieces from those it has lost as well, adding and discarding bones in its grief or when it decides to move on. Occasionally, these bones may also be taken to honor those that have passed. Unlike in its Transcendent form, its Spectral form has no ears, as it does not need to hear; it feels the thoughts of the souls in its midst instead. This form has an elephant skull for a head with a gap in the shape of a heart for its eyes. A white line cuts through this dark heart shape emulating a broken heart, with purple glowing souls floating past its eyes on occasion. The souls, too, make up its trunk, and their ghostly essence flows into a trunk-like shape. This Pokémon floats just above the ground, not wishing to burden the Earth with its broken souls and anguish within.

Story: Eulophant (derived from Eulogy + Elephant) is based upon the belief that Elephants are able to remember anything. Playing with this concept of memory, this Pokémon is meant to bridge life and death through its intense ability to remember, carrying the thoughts and feelings of people and Pokémon surrounding it. Since elephants never forget, it promotes the concept that no one is forgotten, even in death. Its Spectral form must literally carry the souls of all it cares for, so its Transcendent form wishes to provide comfort for others, as it is the form more connected to the living, wishing to meditative and heal itself and others before its memories weigh too heavily on it. It can be found reflecting and daydreaming quietly quite often, and it most often has a timid nature, avoidant of too many new interfering thoughts, which it can sense if one is close. When a person or Pokémon touches its trunk, they will be reminded of what they’ve forgotten, memory being strengthened. When in its Spectral form, Eulophant can become quite depressed, becoming more closed off and unwilling to get closer to others in fear they will become attached and have to carry yet another soul when it inevitably lives longer than them. Eulophant, by nature, is a very loving Pokémon, as it’s embraced the concept of life’s fleeting nature in full, and knows there is nothing more to do than to make the most of it. But still, existing weighs on this Pokémon. Trainers have a harder time increasing their friendship level with it in its Spectral form until it reverts back to its Transcendent form.

Legend has it that Eulophant is the optimal vehicle for souls to ensure their legacy is carried on, providing protection for its souls, keeping them close to its heart enclosed in its fittingly open chest. Eulophant often feels as if its in a constant state of dying of a broken heart, hearing the thoughts of its carried souls constantly, often feeling their anguish and having to carry on with them, but they also can feel hope and gratification if they help a soul fulfill its wishes, or let the soul feel more at ease until it is ready to pass on. Even when the souls pass on though, Eulophant keeps them in memory, holding onto details when it shifts back to its living form, able to recite elegies and eulogies telepathically to the dead’s loved ones if it so chooses, whispering a bit of life back into them through memory. Eulophant reside in mountainous terrain, and often being drawn to isolation after suffering a particularly difficult loss, trainers are known to make long, treacherous journeys in order  to see them in the hopes of speaking to a soul. True and dedicated believers in Eulophents’ power will even trek up the mountains when suffering from a terminal illness in order to make a bond and die in its presence. Eulophant is said to often take pity on those souls, hearing their last moments out to comfort the suffering being, but they do not wish to bring their souls into limbo, but are unable to communicate the fact that their journey has been misguided. Instead, Eulophant simply wishes to emit enough happiness for the being to allow for peaceful or joyous last moments before one’s passing, but yet again, Eulophant is saddened each time. Sometimes, to make the trek not seem so in vain, Eulophant’s Spectral Form will use the bones of those passed travelers to aid its defense and mobility, repurposing the faded life in honor of the loss.