ORNITHOR (a.k.a PLATYPUSSY), the Electroreceptor Pokegirl

ORNITHOR (a.k.a PLATYPUSSY), the Electroreceptor Pokegirl

Type: Near Human
Element: Electric/Water
Frequency: Uncommon
Diet: Human Range plus leaves
Role: Water reconnaissance, signalling, communications, scouting.
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Fire, Flying, Rock, Steel, Water
Weak Vs: Dragon, Ground, Ice, Plant, Rock
Attacks: Electric Blade, Lightning Body, Static Barrier, Concussive Blast, Rolling Waters, Water Barrier
Enhancements: Enhanced Agility (x5), Enhanced Endurance (x3), Enhanced Sight (x5), Enhanced Speed (x2) ANPPM, Blind Sight, Magnetics Control, Photokinesis, Sixth Sense (Electroreception), Underwater Vision
Evolves: None
Evolves From: None
Revised: July 2014

Despite the overall chimeric appearance of the breed, Ornithor are more or less based on one creature’s abilities, a bizarre thing called the platypus endemic to the Orange Islands. This pokegirl is armed with a powerful sixth sense that allows them to interpret electric and magnetic fields as sensory information. This ability was used during the Revenge War primarily to detect underwater munitions, submersible vehicles, and disarm underwater munitions, making the Ornithor breed a problematic enemy during those dark days. Later it was discovered that their talent for electroreception allowed them to intercept and interpret other sorts of electromagnetic information. Using their manipulation of magnetic and electric fields and recently discovered photokinesis, the breed can gather a wide area of electromagnetic sensory input and concentrate it onto their sensory organs which allows them to interpret fields originating from a distance which might otherwise render such signals indistinguishable from other sensory information. Although incapable of decrypting electromagnetic signals sent from computerized sources with their own biology alone, the Ornithor can use its photokinesis and magnetics control to focus appropriate signals upon equipment or pokegirls which can, even going so far as to act in stead of a telescope such as a radio telescope. Ornithor in the domestic environment are seen in a wide variety of roles, ranging from home defense, lifeguards, electrical engineering, astronomical observation, to of course the average tamer’s harem.

The Ornithor, from a distance, appears largely human, but like many near human breeds, it is unlikely that one would mistake them for human upclose. They typically possess streamlined frames suited for swimming, more often slender and lithe than not. Across their cheekbones and the bridge of their nose is a thick, rubber-like pad that is typically mud-brown in coloration regardless of the rest of the individual pokegirl’s coloration. This pad is very sensitive and is densely packed with numerous sensory cells, the vast majority of which are electroreceptors. Their hands and feet are more often humanoid than not but also possess a thick webbing between them. Their digits are capped with a long, keratinous, trowel-shaped claw which is suitable for digging through soil and sifting through riverbeds and other watery areas. Most domestics not adventuring with tamers, however, prefer to keep these claws trimmed down so that they can properly manipulate tools and equipment. Rarer are the Ornithor which have more animorphic traits such as fur insulating their body and long, flat tails used as a rudder while swimming and as a construction tool. Such straits are, again, rare, and most Ornithor lack such.

Most Ornithor possess an alert demeanor. This is attributed to the constant bombardment of sensory input they face. Most learn to tune it out to the background just as the average human does not become fascinated with every small visual detail they see. They often come across as manic when submerged in water and depressed outside of it. This is attributed to a latent instinctual impulse programmed into them genetically believed to be a survival instinct. As most owners handle them outside of thew water, they are typically viewed as an overall placid breed. Sometimes this makes them difficult to motivate in a typical work environment but also makes them much less stress reactive and easier to manage. Although, when not regularly accustomed to transitioning in and out of water, their emotional state can become confused and make them suddenly become difficult when they are exposed to water. Most choose to keep them away from bodies of water outside of the needs of hygiene as it distracts from their work, but many pokeologists and developmental psychologists claim that this interferes with their ability to learn to cope with the change in emotional state.

In combat, the Ornithor is deadliest in the water. In the water, the Ornithor’s electroreception picks up the bioelectrical activity within the muscles of others within the water, including impulses sent to involuntary movements, giving them impeccable ability to pinpoint opponents in relation to themselves underwater. When actively searching utilizing the collection of electromagnetic waves from a wide area, vision and electroreceptive senses are technically only limited by obstacles and the curvature of the earth, making evading them underwater a seemingly impossible task. Electrolysis of the water around them also allows them to create volatile gases, H2 and O2, for use with the Concussive Blast technique. These gasses have been known to combust with an electric jolt as more than enough oxygen is typically present for detonation, though such a combustion is generally short lived. Attacking an Ornithor underwater is simply ill advised, especially since most pokegirls suited for underwater combat are weak to electrical attacks. On land, they still are able to detect bioelectricity, but generally only within personal range. Still, their unusual combination of electric and water attacks tends to discomfit those not used to such combinations. On land, most Ornithor are known to simply flood an area and electrocute anything standing in the water.

During taming, the Ornithor is capable of reading their partner's bioelectrical signals and often uses signs of increased bio-rhythmic activity as cues. Most prefer of course to tame in the shower or bath so that the submerging in water will bring about their excited emotional state. However, most urologists agree that taming completely underwater renders the average male prone to infection and penile damage, so it is of course recommended that such be done in either shallow water or in a shower where such risk is reduced should the tamer wish to indulge the Ornithor. Without this exposure, they do tend to be a bit sluggish, not necessarily cold rather interested but lethargic.

Feral Ornithor are generally non-aggressive and stick to a near vegan diet in the wild; though they do scavenge arthropods and carrion that they happen across. They generally stay within a claim of water such as a lake, preferring to build a nest in an underwater grotto with fresh air, they do occassionally surface to scavenge for food or nesting materials should they find their underwater domain lacking. Sometimes they can be seen climbing trees to survey an area where they presumably use their photokinesis to gather a wide area of visual-spectrum photons onto their eyes to better observe their surroundings. They are, however, territorial about what waters they claim as theirs and will attempt to scare off intruders with a warning shot of lightning or a jet of water. If challenged, they will retreat to the water. It is strongly advised that they are not pursued. If a feral Ornithor is guarding an area and must be flushed out, it is advised that this is done with a ground or ice type, utilizing ground shaking and freezing techniques to flush the Ornithor out so that they can more easily be captured. Quick isolation and ensnarement is the best approach.

Threshold into an Ornithor is typically marked by the development of the rubbery faceplate where sensory cells grow and develop. This leads to the beginning of electroreceptive information being intercepted. As of yet, this information is largely bewildering and unintelligible. With training and instincts guiding them after threshold finishes, this information usually is as natural as any of the other many senses the body possesses. The last thing to develop are the webbed digits and claws, at this point, the threshold is complete. It is advised that threshold Ornithor are given training to properly utilize their electroreceptive senses to make up for their lack of exposure to it in their formative years.