TENEBROUS (insert name here), the Sinister (insert title here) Pokégirl

TENEBROUS (insert name here), the Sinister (insert title here) Pokégirl

Type: as base type
Element: as base type plus Dark
Frequency: Extremely Rare
Diet: as base type
Role: combat obsessive, wielder of the Shadow Force
Libido: as base type
Strong Vs: as base type plus Dark, Ghost, Psychic
Weak Vs: as base type plus Bug, Fighting
Attacks: as base type plus Focus Energy, Blur, Tenebrous Strike, Shadow Shot, Shadow Shield, + base type's techniques
Enhancements: Host Enhancement (+3 to Speed and Agility; +5 to Strength), Sleepless, Enhanced Endurance, Poison Immunity, + base types enhancements
Evolves: as base type
Evolves From: base type

For some Fighting-type Pokégirls, no matter how good they get, it’s never enough. They keep pushing themselves harder, wanting to reach the next level of ability, to understand and further master the principle of chi, which empowers them. Some Pokégirls, someway, somehow, in their obsession to become better at what they do, stumble onto something that is like chi, but fundamentally different: the Shadow Force. These are the Tenebrous Pokégirls.

Only a Fighting-type Pokégirl can become a Tenebrous Pokégirl, since only they have the understanding and implicit use of chi that enables them to make the connection to the Shadow Force. Exactly what the Shadow Force is still unknown, since the only ones who understand it very well are those who use it, and they are very reluctant to speak of it. It is like chi, but somehow corruptive, taking the user to new and greater heights before leaving them burned out and broken when it’s consumed them totally.

A Tenebrous Pokégirl looks no different than she would from her base type. Her attitude is much different though. A Tenebrous Pokégirl is sullen and withdrawn, becoming taciturn and disdainful of almost everything around her. Those who can sense auras (such as most Psychic-types, some Magic-types, and a few Fighting-types with high chi control) can detect that something is fundamentally wrong with the Tenebrous Pokégirl, but not what. Tenebrous Pokégirls don’t get along well with their Tamer or other members of their Harem. They tend to spend their free time doing nothing but practicing or meditating, regarding all else, such as eating or sleeping (which they don’t need much of thanks to their Wakefulness enhancement), as a waste of time. Even during Taming they try to just finish it as quickly as possible, being mechanical and unaffectionate during the sex. Most Tamers would get rid of a Tenebrous Pokégirl rather fast except for one thing: they are powerhouses in combat.

In addition to the techniques and abilities of the Pokégirl type they evolved from, a Tenebrous is faster, stronger, and more alert than she was before. She is able to keep her energy up for longer periods of time thanks to her Endurance enhancement, and any sort of poison that gets into her system can be ignored for a short while, which is typically all she needs to end the fight, before it affects her. A Tenebrous Pokégirl can use the Focus Energy maneuver to power-up her attacks to a greater degree than she could before as well. She also gains a plethora of attacks from the Shadow Force. She is able to call upon its power to make her image shift and waver, making her harder to hit. She can literally grab any nearby shadow and pick it up, holding it before her to partially block incoming attacks. She can take the raw power of the Shadow Force and coat her hands and feet with it to do extra damage when striking her opponent. The signature move of her new status however is the ability to collect part of the Shadow Force in her hands and throw it at her opponent, much in the manner of a Chi Blast, except with dark energy.

While it may seem like the Shadow Force is superior to the chi that most Fighting-type Pokégirls normally use, in the long run it tends to drain its users. One clue to this is that a Tenebrous Pokégirl, unless her base type is one that is strong against Fighting-types, will be weak against other Fighting Pokégirls. This is a subtle indication that the Shadow Force is not a direct match for chi energy. Most Tenebrous Pokégirls try their best to compensate for this with their wide variety of stealthy combat maneuvers, and can overcome this weakness to a degree, but in the end using chi is still the more worthwhile path to follow. Presumably, any Pokégirl who realizes this can give up on using the Shadow Force and un-become a Tenebrous Pokégirl again, but to date, the few known Tenebrous Pokégirls have never done this. The only other way for a Pokégirl to stop using the Shadow Force is to lose the fighting edge that led her to it in the first place, which means to evolve to a form that doesn’t have the Fighting element. This makes the Pokégirl un-become a Tenebrous Pokégirl, and if she later becomes a Fighting-type, she may again seek out the Shadow Force at will.

A Feral Tenebrous Pokégirl has never been known, but the very idea of one is frightening to those who know of this kind of Pokégirl. They would most likely be uncontrolled engines of devastation that would be very difficult to bring down. No Threshold girl evolving to a Fighting-type has ever been known to become a Tenebrous Pokégirl, and expert Researchers maintain it is probably impossible. Still, even they admit they aren’t totally sure.