ASTRAL (insert name here), the Spectral (insert title here) Pokégirl
Type: as per base type
Element: Ghost/base type
Frequency: Very Rare
Diet: life energy
Role: as per base type, if applicable
Libido: as per base type
Strong Vs: Bug, Fighting, Ghost, Poison, Psychic, Rock, plus base type “Strong Vs”
Weak Vs: Dark, plus base type “Weak Vs”
Attacks: Night Shade, Energy Drain, plus base type’s attacks
Enhancements: Incorporeal, Invisibility, Sleeplessness, plus base type’s enhancements
Evolves: None
Evolves From: base type

An Astral (insert name here) Pokégirl is one who refused to let go of this life, even after dying.

While in rare instances, a Pokégirl who dies can evolve into a Spectra, an Astral Pokégirl is one who has died but had enough emotional distress to keep on existing after death, but without the requisites (whatever they may be) to become a Spectra. Any Pokégirl may become an Astral Pokégirl after dying if they were emotionally distressed enough, save for Ghost-types, who cannot become something else after death.

An Astral Pokégirl appears exactly as she did in life. Her dying wounds do not show, nor do other disfigurements. It is still apparent she is dead however, because Astral Pokégirls are naturally incorporeal. They may become corporeal with concentration, which allows them to be Tamed still, but once they cease concentrating, they fade back to being incorporeal. Astral Pokégirls are in, in their natural state, visible but transparent, when they become corporeal, they become solid, and can usually pass for living Pokégirls as long as a Pokédex or another Pokégirl able to detect types doesn’t give them away. When in their normal incorporeal state, an Astral Pokégirl may pass through solid objects, but still naturally doesn’t sink through the ground unless they deliberately try to; they can interact with solid objects only by becoming solid themselves. Astral Pokégirls cannot fly unless they could in life. If an Astral Pokégirl sinks through the ground and wishes to rise back up, she must solidify herself and climb back up; doing this works even when she is underground in solid earth since Astral Pokégirls are composed of ether instead of flesh (living creatures who somehow solidify themselves in another object become permanently grafted to that object are bound to it unless they can somehow phase out of it). An Astral Pokégirl may make herself invisible at will, but this takes just as much concentration as making herself solid. An Astral Pokégirl cannot become both invisible and solid at the same time. Astral Pokégirls do not need to (and cannot) sleep, but they can still be exhausted from becoming solid or invisible too long and/or too often. Exhaustion is cured by a new infusion of life energy.

In addition to needing to be Tamed as much as they did in life, an Astral Pokégirl also needs to absorb life energy from another sentient creature. If she doesn’t do this at least once every ten days, she can no longer sustain her own existence, and fades into death. She can also use the energy she has to unleash the powerful Nightshade attack. Beyond that, her attacks, strategies, and enhancements remain the same as they did in life.

Astral Pokégirls obviously can never bear children, since they are not alive. Astral Pokégirls are also forever locked into their current form; they can never evolve (nor devolve if that is ever an issue) nor have any other status changes. Despite no longer suffering the rigors of age, Astral Pokégirls do have something of a “lifespan.” Eventually, they feel less and less attached to this life. It may take decades, but eventually, as the companions she knew split up and succumb to old age, ennui sets in, and the strength of personality that let her defy death to begin with begins to erode. The Astral Pokégirl begins wanting her next infusion of life energy less and less, until she quietly lets herself fade away.

There have been no known Feral Astral Pokégirls ever. It is suspected that an Astral Pokégirl who goes Feral loses the force of will necessary to sustain her own existence, and fades very quickly. Threshold girls never become an Astral Pokégirl directly, though they have as much chance of becoming one after death as any other Pokégirl if they are distressed enough at their time of death.