Champion of the Seas

Dex Entries:

Trapster, the Trapped Pokémon. It was caught in a trap by fishermen and is desperate to get out. It builds its strength by thrashing about.

Lobstrong, the Mighty Lobster Pokémon; evolves from Trapster after learning Thrash (around Lv 30) and using it 20 times in battle. Upon evolving, Lobstrong weaves pieces of the trap that once restrained it around its waist as a champion's belt. Fishermen in Lyndom gather together every year to test the strength of the Lobstrong they catch.

Origins and Data:

Trapster and Lobstrong, as can be seen, are based on lobsters: the first form is caught in a lobster trap and it evolves into a herculean lobster who wears pieces of the trap like a wrestler's belt. I based the standard colors off of rare blue lobsters, while the shiny form is based on a cooked lobster and is red. Originally the normal and shiny colors were reversed, but I decided to make the Lobstrong line blue to better reflect its typing and to distinguish it more from similar red crustacean Pokémon like Crawdaunt and my own starter pokemon in the Carcinife line. As Lyndom is a New England-based region, I simply couldn't go without having a lobster Pokémon in the roster.

A shiny Lobstrong is owned by Bradford, the water-type gym leader in Junonia City. He is part of the famous Wormwood family, as is the region's very own professor and its governor, but he decided to live the life of a simple fisherman helping to supply his wife's seafood restaurant instead of live off of the family money. As such, his longtime companion Lobstrong reflects his breaking away from living under his family's shadow in order to strike out on his own.