name Simon
gender male
level five
ability sturdy
defect none
moves
sticky web
withdraw
constrict
bide
rollout
encore
personality
Shuckle was born in a “research lab” on a small island region with next to no pokemon cruelty laws in place, or any laws for that matter. For the first part of his life, up until about six months ago, every day was torture at the hands of sadistic humans who told themselves what they were doing to the pokemon in their care was for the good of science. They groomed the pokemon to believe they were helping others of their species by being forced to do the experiments that they were. If you were to get close enough to Shuckle to get a look inside his shell you would see scarring from how many times various tools were used to scrape and poke and prod inside for testing. He’s still scared of water from being thrown into pools one too many times to see if he would sink or float. He’s also retained a prominent stutter from neurological damage caused in the lab from being thrown at a concrete wall.

He was rescued when an electrode was sent in undercover to blow the place up. Pokemon were pulled in the dead of night and the facility was destroyed. Unfortunately so were all records and the lab set up all over again with no consequences for the atrocities they’d committed. Fortunately for Shuckle he was sent to Inset to rehabilitate and has spent the last six months working through his PTSD and with a speech therapist as well. They discovered his stutter disappeared when he sang, and for the first time in his life he felt happy and nice when he would sing. He finally had something he was good at! But he was still so painfully shy from years of no positive social interaction that he couldn’t bring himself to even use a more melodic or sing-song voice to communicate - so the stammer stayed for most interactions with people. He’s worried if he sings to talk that will just lead to questions about why he’s doing it - and he really doesn’t like to think about what happened to him.

He could be a real Cinderella story on the stage, with the right agent or coordinator to sell his background history and get his confidence levels up enough to actually perform. But that “right” person will also need to be incredibly patient and comforting and be his cheerleader all the way.