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[Image Description: A woman with medium-brown skin, brown hair in a tight bun, and brown eyes. She is wearing a green headband, a teal t-shirt, light blue pants, a brown metalworking apron held on by beige strings, brown gloves, and brown steel-toed boots. She is holding a set of of metalworking tongs, with her free hand on her hip. Behind her is a fan-made Pokemon resembling a red and orange minotaur with red eyes, long golden horns, dark blue mohawk-styled hair on its head, a pale muzzle with a golden nose ring, two golden spikes on each shoulder, golden spikes on its hands resembling brass knuckles, dark cloven hooves, and a long orange tail with a tuft of hair resembling a large flame. The background is a pixelated abstraction vaguely resembling a sheet of reflective steel. End ID.]

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"Welcome to the Cantessy League! Hah, I remember seeing you back in Sterbonne! Seems like you got through that Gym well enough. Well, of course you did, we wouldn't be meeting here otherwise! Just keep in mind, those eight Gym Leaders were just a warm-up. The Elite Four is like a forge for Trainers, after all, and every battle strikes you and your team against the proverbial anvil. Will you come out of this stronger than ever, or will you crumble under the pressure?"

And here's our final type specialist :D Regardless of what version you're playing, one of your opponents in Cantessy's Elite Four will be the steel-type specialist Penny. Having an interest and instruction in blacksmithing since she was very young, Penny started off her Pokemon journey by forging her own Pokeballs using books written by world-renowned craftsman Kurt as reference. Obviously it wasn't feasible for her to obtain all the materials necessary to keep doing this for too long, but one of her hand-crafted balls still houses her first Pokemon to this day. Nowadays she mostly makes decorative ironwork, like the kind of stuff you find on fancy fences and whatnot, though she may still make the occasional Pokeball if she has enough usable material on hand. She's currently working on a much smaller project, something meant for her romantic partner Cypress ;3

You've probably had some strong counters to steel-types on hand for quite some time, especially if you're playing Circuit Version and had to deal with Team Wires. In your initial battle with Penny, she'll have a Steelix at level 53, a Scizor at level 54, a Klinklang at level 55, a Magnezone at level 57, and a Minosteel at level 59 who she'll join in with for a Union Battle. When you take the Elite Four on again in rematches after post-game, her whole team will be boosted by ten levels and she'll add a level 63 Chromeon.

Now the only important Trainer left for the main game section is the Champion. I hope you're looking forward to finally meeting her :3c

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[Image Description: Three fan-made Pokemon resembling red-orange cows with flaming tails, the largest one being a minotaur.

The first Pokemon is a red calf with brown hooves, a brown tuft of hair on its head, dark red eyes, tan muzzle and belly, tiny beige horns, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It has one hoof slightly off the ground and appears surprised. Orange text outlined in tan to its right reads “Calflame”.

The second Pokemon is a reddish-brown bipedal cow with dark purple mohawk-like hair on its head and matching neck fluff, bright red eyes, tan muzzle, blue hooves, silvery horns and matching shoulder spikes, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It has one hand-hoof on its hips and one held up as though raising a fist, its expression showing off its confidence. Orange text outlined in tan to its right reads "Kinedle".

The third Pokemon is a red and orange minotaur-like creature with a tan muzzle, bright red eyes, a gold ring passing through its nostrils, golden horns and shoulder spikes, dark blue mohawk-like hair, dark purple hooves, grey plates on its knuckles with golden spike protrusions, and yellow and orange hair on the tip of its tail. It is standing in a powerful-looking position and glaring off to the side. Orange text outlined in silver to its right reads "Minosteel".

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Calflame - Small Calf Pokemon - fire Curious in nature, Calflame have a tendency to wander if not kept under careful watch. Thankfully they also tend to snort out small embers, so it is fairly easy to track a runaway by the lightly scorched trail they leave behind. / Their tendency to snort out small embers can become quite troublesome if housed in a flammable environment. Experienced farmers that keep Calflame in large groups always make sure barns and other shelters have adequate fireproofing.

Kinedle - Young Cow Pokemon - fire Having grown a bit haughty after evolving from Calflame, they often engage in more risky behavior due to thinking that they already know best. Human parents often joke that Kinedle act much like rowdy teenagers. / Individuals in the same herd tend to butt heads and lock horns with one another, both as a play activity and to establish some sort of dominance. Trainers should be advised to watch out for this behavior, especially when combined with spurts of flame.

Minosteel - Protective Pokemon - fire/steel Despite their fearsome appearance, Minosteel are gentle to small creatures and have a very protective nature. They will not hesitate to come to the aid of injured Pokemon and children. / Due to misunderstanding of intent, farmers used to live in fear of their Moofer calves being abducted by roaming Minosteel. It is now common for Minosteel to be seen as a welcome farm assistant, prepared to aid in rearing abandoned calves and to guard the entire herd.

All right, we get to look at the full evolution line for Cantessy's fire starter Calflame, now with its evolved forms Kinedle and Minosteel! Hope everyone who liked Calflame in that survey from a while back is happy with how their cow friend turns out! :D

I wanted to go with the perceived theme of fire starters being based on the Chinese zodiac, so with only four options available on that front I went with an animal that's quite prominent around here. Yup, we got Cows. Cows and cows and cows. Like I can look down my street when it's daytime and there's a good chance I'll see a cow just Out And About in their humans' pasture. We've also got a pretty strong manufacturing industry, so with that in mind I eventually turned our little fire calf into a metal minotaur. And yes, I'm sorry if this disappointed anyone, but I just immediately stood Kinedle up at the first opportunity hehe.

In terms of gameplay if this were an actual game, the Calflame family is gonna be more attack-focused with some strong defenses and solid HP, to fit in with Minosteel's lore of being a fierce protector. They'll obviously learn a good amount of fire and steel moves that take advantage of this along with some other strong physical attacks, and when Minosteel has evolved they'll learn the move Red Hot Pierce, which acts similarly to Flying Press in that it works as both a fire and steel type move in terms of super-effectiveness (and by that I mean it does double damage to the things that are weak to steel as well as those that are weak to fire, but does normal fire damage on things that are neutral to or resist steel). Is that broken? It might be broken, but at least the other starters get something like it so maybe that balances it out? I'unno, I'm a character designer, not a game balancer hehe. I mainly just get the visual for how it'd look, and I can imagine a Minosteel using this move to heat their horns before ducking down and ramming into their foe.

Also if anyone wants to suggest other moves for these guys to learn and some physical stats (ie. height and weight, I only have a height for the base form starters atm and no weights XD ), feel free to throw 'em at me :3 Links to their info pages will be provided in the replies!

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Pokemon and related concepts © Nintendo/GameFreak Calflame, Kinedle, Minosteel, the Cantessy region, and artwork © PuppyLuver Studios