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******* Diesel Skarmory / male Diesel is a crazy bird. He’s loud, boisterous, chronically oblivious, loves a good fight, and thinks everything is a game. Nate picked up Diesel after they busted a cockfighting ring, and unlike most of the other violent and broken pokemon there, Diesel appeared unfazed, greeting the SWAT team with bouncy cheerfulness and trying to get Fielding to play tag. Diesel’s thick-headed obliviousness managed to spare him the trauma of the circumstances he was in. His steel hide and high defense meant he could take hits all day long, and the fact that the other guy was trying to *kill* him just never clicked. It was all a game. Nate agreed to take him, as the skarmory had decided that Fielding was his new best friend, and Diesel’s life took a turn for the better. He still doesn’t get the significance of his rescue, but he does know that Nate is *way* nicer than those other guys and that Fielding plays with him and he loves his new flock very, very much. Nate has to watch him though, cause he’ll run himself into the ground if a wiser head doesn’t tell him when to stop. ***** Marcus Machoke / male Marcus was born and raised in the criminal underworld, his mother a prized fighter, and eventually wound up sold to a racketeer working for a crime lord in Goldenrod. Marcus is quiet, loyal, and utterly professional, and while he did his job as the 800 pound gorilla in the room very well, he never went out of his way to be cruel. However, while people rarely told a man “no” when Marcus was standing behind him, additional ‘persuasion’ was sometimes needed, and it was while collecting protection money that Marcus and Nate crossed paths. Nate responded to a call that he thought was a simple domestic, and instead found himself confronting members of the leading crime syndicate shaking down a small business owner. While the details are known to very few outside the department, at the end of it all, Nate wound up with a crippling leg injury, and the racketeers and Marcus were all arrested. However, in a shocking move, Nate testified and negotiated for a lessening of Marcus’ sentence to the minimum of one year, and even offered to take responsibility as his parole officer. While Nate’s flagrant conflict of interest would normally have prohibited this, when Marcus made the even more surprising move of accepting the offered arrangement, the judge allowed it. Marcus then served his year, and has been a parolee under Nate’s supervision ever since. ***** McQueen Walrein / female McQueen is vain, cocky, and loves to show off. She loves a challenge and revels in competition as an opportunity to flex her muscles in the spotlight. She’s very consciously cultivated her self-image, keeping her beard styled in mutton chops and often painting her face to accentuate the whole skull imagery thing she’s got going. She insisted on participating in Nate’s decision making process when he got motorcycle, because no way was she letting him get something that wasn’t as stylish as it was functional (while Nate tended to focus on the latter). Nate got McQueen the same time as Val (who can be seen on Nate’s old app), because a water/ice type is useful to have around as an emergency cooling system or fire extinguisher when working around machinery. While she can be a braggart, she includes the team in her ego-bubble and brags about them as often as herself, and gets just as offended if anyone insults them (except maybe Fetch). ***** Fetch Zigzagoon / male Fetch was actually just a pest that settled in around the shop and made a general nuisance of himself. He has an irresistible compulsion to steal and horde all things shiny or otherwise interesting, and so he was perpetually making off with tools and small parts. Nate’s feelings towards the zigzagoon went through a lengthy evolution, from disinterested to annoyed to rather amused, with the little varmint throwing off his well ordered world, and the zigzagoon, while always darting away scared, never left the shop’s vicinity no matter how many wrenches were thrown at him. All in all, the steady stealing and recovery of items became a part of Nate’s daily rhythm. After a particularly eventful bout of chase with Nate desperately trying to retrieve a drill bit before the zigzagoon squirreled it away, a piece of equipment ended up falling on the small pokemon and injuring him. Nate realized just how much he cared about the little bugger and rushed him to the Pokecenter. All pretenses were dropped and Fetch became part of the team. ***** Philippa Gogoat / female Shortly before the Ohana incidents, Nate was looking for some additional income and took a temporary work transfer to Kalos on a large construction project. While there, he took a real shine to one of the company-provided skiddos, and when it came time to transfer back to Johto, he found he was quite sad to leave the little gal. So he contacted the Pokemon Resources head and asked if he could purchase Philippa from them. He had just cleared all the paper work when the disasters hit Ohana and he shipped out to the islands. The change in address caused a hitch in the adoption process, and the Y2 crisis halted it entirely. Everything got sorted afterwards though, and Philippa joined the team just in time for the second round of reconstruction. Philippa is an absolute people-pleaser, and a very hard worker. Her strength and sure-footedness allow her to traverse any terrain and climb just about any obstacle, making her an invaluable addition to the past years’ construction efforts. She was still quite young when she first came to Ohana, but has thrived on the islands, and evolved in her second year here. *************** Valentine Heatmor / male For those who remember Val, he’s still around, but was pushed into semi-retirement after a work accident. He’s been having to take things slow for the past year, and when not on light-duty on site, he spends most of his time back at the house.