Tapu Koko
Tapu koko is one of the most well known of the Tapus, as he’s quite social, and known for his love of battling, and apparently chocolate, the latter of which I discovered when I was attempting to take my lunch break and he stole my chocolate bar, and later stole a half of one of my peanut butter and nutella sandwiches. Meyu found this, and my food agressive reaction of snarling when he came back near my food to be hilarious, as did Poltergheist and Tapu Koko. I did not find it hilarious. Meyu and Koko got along pretty well, practically staring me down until I huffed and let them battle. It was a pretty fun battle, both of them as strong as they were, though there was still quite the gap in natural strength, made up for by Koko’s experience, something Meyu lacked, as I haven’t been able to battle with him all too often considering the fact that he’s well, a Mewtwo. After the battle, which Tapu Koko lost, he allowed me to heal him begrudgingly, after I said it was because I wanted to thank him for such a challenging and fun battle, which gave me an opportunity to get a close look at him. His actual shell was smooth and solid, and his muscles were of the much leaner variety I think, as he was less bulky and more fast. I had explained earlier that I wanted to be able to fully describe his majesty for others to hear, something that made him much more willing to deal with my observation, as apparently he has a bit of an ego. Don’t tell him I said that. He seems to have a sweet tooth, preferring sweeter berries, and eating sweeter meats if they’re available. Meyu wasn’t as appreciative of me fawning over Koko, but he allowed it as he knew my reasoning for doing so. Tapu koko’s skin is covered by a layer of fine feathers, which are almost like a thin layer of down, with the feathers on his head being larger, and being what forms the crest on his head, something he seems to be very proud of. The feathers below his waist are long, and more flexible. I also asked various questions, Meyu rolling his eyes multiple times. Koko is a little fickle, but he claims that he just sometimes doesn’t like certian people. He’s one of the more active Tapu, preferring to crack down more harshly every now and then as a warning, but keeping the punishments based on how bad the crime was, and how many times he’s punished them in the past for the most part. He dislikes unprovoked attacks on wild pokemon, but he’s more understanding if it was to prevent a particularly dangerous pokemon from attacking first, so long as it doesn’t happen very often. Stealing is something he punishes more based on what was stolen, with stealing pokemon being the worst thing and something he cracks down on quickly and harshly, and stealing other things being something he might overlook if there’s not a big fuss raised over it. Another thing he’ll be quick to punish is murdering, though he takes into account the motive. If it’s self defense, he’ll let you off, giving a warning if it was a pokemon murdered, and for other reasons, aside from insanity he cracks down, often roughing up the person before tossing them over to the authorities, though he may kill someone who has murdered multiple people, killed pokemon for reasons other than self defense or defense of another, or killed children. Tapu Koko says that he’s much more leanient with children as often they might not know they were doing something wrong or might not have meant to do something, sometimes leaving the parent with a warning. He’s not very toleratant of child abuse if he’s aware of it, but he did admit that sometimes it’s not that he doesn’t want to help, it’s that he isn’t sure how to do so exactly, as him trying to interefere might make things worse, and depending on the type of abuse he might not know how to punish the parents. Meyu brought up a good point about if he had to punish pokemon. Tapu Koko was a bit surprised at this, but he mentioned that for the most part, he didn’t have to worry as much about that, and that most Tapu didn’t, but that sometimes he did have to settle disputes, or set up a count system for predators. He also said that Ratta and Yungoos were the pokemon he recieved complaints about the most, but that the fear of the Tapu wrath was usually enough to keep all of them in line for the most part. Tapu Koko was much more tolerant of my questions and observations than I had expected, though he said that Bulu might be hard to get interested enough to answer, and Fini might take some work convincing, but that he’d try to put in a nice word for me, and suggested I try talking to Tapu Lele, as she’s known to be more docile, if a little overbearing.