While Thorton relies on rentals for his battles, he does have a small personal team reserved more for research than fighting.
TAMO - DITTO. Tamo is almost always out of its Poké Ball - even if you can’t see it. Instead of lugging around tons of wrenches and screwdrivers, Thorton simply uses a Ditto to replace his tools.
QUANTA - METAGROSS. While Quanta is a rental, Thorton checks this specific Metagross out often enough to the point where it spends more time in Thorton’s possession than in the Factory’s storage. He uses it to analyze large amounts of data and to debug code.
ION - ROTOM. Befriended when Thorton was young, Thorton puts Ion to use as a makeshift power source when he’s tinkering with inventions.
Finally sat down and filled out Gavner’s backstory. I wrote it into his bio page but I’ll put it under the cut as well. It’s missing a lot of details and is extremely simplified because, well, I’m cramming 9 books worth of lore into this thing and most of that lore isn’t going to be relevant once I start interactions with him, so it’s very simplified.
TL;DR - troubled teenager is blooded as a vampire, does vampire stuff for a century, gets murdered, goes to vampire-purgatory, then gets dragged to the pkmn world and given a second shot at life.
1890's, Gavner is an infant, and his cries go unanswered upon a ship at sea. Swaddled in a blanket in the arms of his mother, he's blissfully unaware of the massacre that he's lying in - surrounded by bloodshed at the hands of a frenzied vampire. One of few survivors, the infant was plucked from the arms of his mother's corpse by a killer who took pity on him. He has no memories of his birth parents, nor of the events of that day.
His earliest memories
are of his childhood being raised in
France
by adoptive parents. Gavner was close to his adoptive mother, but the man he saw as a father wanted nothing to do with him and only pushed Gavner away, before eventually leaving his family without any warning nor notice to Gavner.
Gavner's yearning for paternal affection made him easy pickings for those with malicious intent - and he was seventeen when he left home without a word. Taken under the wing of a man who gave him fatherly affection that he lacked, his loyalty prompted him to be taken advantage of. A vampire, he drenched Gavner in the customs and culture of his clan, before blooding the loyal youth to be one of his kind ; turning Gavner into a bodyguard to be at his beck and call.
He was a tool. The teenager was fed scraps of approval and in exchange he had no qualms placing his life on the line to protect his master.
( The subsequent death of Gavner's vampire master prompted him to spiral into aimlessness. )
Gavner returned to his mother's side in his 20's and into his 30's, before leaving to intermingle with others of his clan. He couldn't stay - he looked just as old as he did when he had first left home, it didn't feel right to stay. A decade passed - and when Gavner returned to her once more, he found that his mother had been murdered by a vampire from an opposing clan. He vowed to avenge her death, and much of the remainder of his life was dedicated to tracking down the individual who slaughtered her, rarely wavering from his goal.
2000's, Gavner is murdered. He succumbed to a knife driven into his side, at the hand of a traitor whose loyalties lied with the clan which had killed his adoptive mother. His body was dressed in burlap robes and burned upon a bed of hay and oak by his kin, his bones ground to ash and scattered within the nearest river. Gavner was destined to reach Paradise - afterlife, spoken of in vampire myths - yet he never made it.
As he turned away from the mortal plane, destiny wrapped a hand around Gavner's throat and pulled him from the Paradise he was promised. His soul was pulled into an abyssal lake - the 'Lake of Souls' - to drift aimlessly.
It was a place destined for liars, adulterers, traitors among his kin to wander - yet Gavner found himself dragged down with them. He knew he didn’t belong there - but there he was.
Within purgatory.
5 years ago,
a net is cast within a lake deep within the Crown Tundra.
It catches something
heavy,
and an unconscious soul is dragged from the water. He awakens hours later,
alone,
but alive. He's cold, confused, lost, but
alive.
He had died, he had watched his body burn and his bones be ground to dust, but he was
alive.
Soaked to the bone in a world entirely unfamiliar to him, dressed in the same robes he had been sent towards Paradise in,
it seemed that destiny had given him a second chance at life.
ON THE TOPIC OF FANON TAKES, most of my muses don’t really have a lot of fanon attached to them, so I’ve been mostly spared from bad takes...
Apart from Saturn. I am so tired of seeing UwU widdle baby catboy Saturn who did nothing wrong! UwU submissive little catboy nyaaa~ fanon takes. In all fairness, he was one of the Gen4 sexymen, so I suppose I should have expected that fanon.
If I had a dollar for every time I either saw this take or had this take pushed onto my muse on Discord, I would be able to buy a car.
GAVNER PURL. ( cirque du freak / saga of darren shan. manga based. )
I’m not turning this blog into a multifandom blog - I promise! I just enjoy this silly little vampire series enough to where I couldn’t resist adding this guy. He’s based in a PKMN verse by default.
Notes are under the cut, but for a quick TL;DR - I yoinked this funky vampire out of his source verse and threw him into the PKMN world - as if he was a faller - just so that I could retain lore from his source material while also avoiding adding weird implications to the Pokémon world.
NOTES.
I’ve dropped Gavner into a Pokémon verse - and that is going to be his default one. If you’re not familiar with his source, that is 100% fine, it more than likely won’t influence interactions.
IC-wise, he’s not from the Pokémon world ; he showed up with zero clue what on earth a Pokémon even is. Let’s just say he’s more or less a faller, kind of. He did retain his memory - but much of his knowledge has become obsolete.
He has adapted to the world, and is able to carry conversations through charisma and picking up context cues - even if he has zero clue what your muse is talking about.
Pretty much, treat him like you would any canon character.
Gavner is a ~ vampire ~. How ~ spooky ~! No, your muse probably doesn’t know about this fact.
I’ll go more in-depth on relevant lore and information in headcanon posts as time goes on! I just don’t want to infodump 12 books worth of lore right on his muse page.
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Standing in the doorway of his little office - where he had just left Dawn for no more than three minutes - stood Thorton, an exhausted look on his face. Three minutes ago he had left to grab some papers from the printer, and he returned paperless, though not empty-handed.
Instead of paper, he was holding an Ambipom. His thumbs were hooked under each arm, and the tails of the guilty party were dragging on the floor beneath them. He stopped in front of Dawn, his lips pulled into a tight line, then unceremoniously lowered the primate to the ground.
“This is the second time this week that I have caught this one in the Factory’s storage room.” He crossed his arms with a huff.
“You have no idea how expensive Babiri berries are...” Thorton’s shoulders slumped, and he flashed a pouty face across to Dawn, then pointed down to the accused. “...she ate three cases.”
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