Anorith

Anorith labeled the Fossil Mind is a member of the Victini Venturers.
== Database ==
Full Name: Unknown
LV: 99
Age: 25 years old according to him, 25 millions ago at least according to the scientist that labeled his fossil datation
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Swift Swimmer
Birthplace: Route 132, Hoenn (underwater)
Particular Signs: carries a Deep Sea Tooth behind the shell in the memory of the last predator he narrowly escaped from before getting fossilized.
Fears: human kidz.
==Personality==
Judging by his aspect Anorith seems a cute strange pokèmon you'd like to pet at your home if you could but he's instead tough as nails, if not rude. Anorith has a rough temper being still used to think as he did in the past age he lived before being imprisoned in a claw fossil from he has just woken up, and finds hard to habit to the new times. He learned how to survive in every circumstance with determination, sharpness and oportunism. Why not?
Anorith has an high consideration of himself and his skills, he gets easily grumpy when something goes wrong but rarely gives up unless necessary: this bold makes relatively easy for the anomalocaris to get in trouble either because he provokes people or belittle the enemies, often inflating his own qualities only to be forced to retire cowardly in the shell soon after, just to prevent from more damages.
Apart from his roughness and sassy personality Anorith is still considered a cute pokèmon that all the females would like to cuddle (despite he hates to be treated like a girlish pet toy) and infact he's never considered a serious threat in generally...but if cuteness can be a curse, it also can be his best weapon to foil the others or stop the enemy to attack him...in some situations at least. A little, okay, a bit annoying but generally pretty loyal, Anorith takes every single challenge very seriously and has actually a great resistance and resiliance in front of the several misfortunes (he's infact a pain-magnet) he gets into constantly. He joins to the S3 alliance forced by Seviper which traps him in the vent and forces him to become her ally, in exchange she will help him rid off his main rival.
Anorith has immediately a crush for Gorebyss and this is why he clashes immediately with Vanillite: he has a kind of primitive approach to the love business..being stuck in the Cambrian Age when things, stating by his words, were simpler.
Behind his rudeness, harsh ways to approach when talking, unsufferable mannerism and overrated ego, there's a far more lighthearthed and complex anomalocaris that follows an invisible personal code of honor with attitude, had the temper to face always the life in front, prefers to say things bluntly instead to mellow the truth or keep all inside, and he's not over teaching his tricks of experience to people, and last but not least important he's always the first in charge when there's need. Anorith actually despises all the contestants like Seviper that prefer to scheme over gain a victory with their own contribute. That doesn't mean he's above scheming, but he does it only if he cannot really do anything else with his own skills.
SPOILER ALERT: By the half of the series Anorith will become more sensible and caring towards feelings in an opposite parallel development of his "friend" Dunsparce, especially about a certain situation regarding a mission given to him by the leader of the alliance...
His biggest fears are museums and human kids because they tortured him since his fossil was exhibited to the public with their loud voices and innocently insensitive comments on his "oddly derpy look". By results, Anorith was traumatized forever.
It is revealed in episode 13 that he has "fish sight" meaning that he cannot see objects and pokèmon frontally, only on the sides but can see in two different directions at contemporary having separated eyes, like a dab. (sogliola) According to Lester, this is the reason why Anorith is never afraid to go face to face with Seviper and other most threatening contestants, however whether this is truth or invention, Anorith denied it cathegorically.
==Moveset & Skills==
Anorith is one of the few contestants of the series with a good handliness that is surprising considering he uses pinches and not paws. He's particulary able with works that require high manovrability like crafting, sculpturing, building, dismantling and assembling gears. He has also a talent in retrieving and unbury fossils and rare materials secundary only to Aurorus. Anorith has a moveset associated with his fiery claws and temper, and a backlot of sneakiness: X-Scissors, Stealth Rock, Swagger, and Cross Poison (this one never used so far).
== Tropes (watch out from spoilers!) ==
AccentuateTheNegative : he's only second to Lucario when it comes to accentuate the negativity of a situation, and he does that in such a blunt harsh way that often irks his teammates. He's never afraid to speak out truth and facts, at least from his own point of view, venting about anything going wrong for him or the team, sometimes even complaining between and to himself at his own misery!
Accidental Innuendo : the hilarious exchange he has with Squirtle in °.H2Ott.° (S1, episode 14) leads to him addressing that he used to use the sea for bathroom, while not realizing he's currently sitting on the toilet like a female. Cut to Squirtle's amazing reinterpretation:
"You're telling me you used to poop in the Corsolas? Ahahahahah!"
And then asking Anorith why he's using the female toilet, much for his chagrin.
Accidental Kidnapping : (MAJOR SPOILER) it was Dunsparce and Seviper that kidnapped Aurorus's egg with Anorith only discovering it later on. While he never agreed about this, however, he decides to keep taking care of the 'hostage' instead of giving it back to the legit mother as he should do.
AccuseTheWitness : in the guinness world record long prologue of Solid, Liquid, Lester. he was called out by Lester for being a fake witness during the Trial I, having stated to have been the last one to have layed hand on the Giratina's orb and thus should be given the victory for Victini Venturers. In reality, Anorith either blatantly lied or his 'fish sight' miopia led him to make a false assumption, nonetheless he ended up going from witness to main culprit of the whole crime scene. 
AcheyScars : after a couple of curbstomp battles against Lucario, Anorith gained a permanent cracked shell that aches whenever he sees his grumpy counterpart fearing to get beaten to a pulp furthermore.
AcquiredPoisonImmunity : as a Rock/Bug type he was already resilient to Poison moves, but all the time spent with Seviper made him so used to poison that he has no qualms entering that dungeon of acid cave that it's her stomach more than once. Ironically enough, the egg he took care of, has also developed this immunity.
ActionDad : when the egg is lost in the bottom of the ocean, and immediately after, eaten from a random Huntail, he goes any length possible to take it back even against Seviper's order to forget about it since they don't need the egg anymore for real to submit Aurorus to her will. Anorith doesn't even listen to her at this point, and goes on his personal underwater odyssey to save it, beating the s**t outta of Huntail in the process.
ADayInTheLimelight: while having always been a prominent character, Anorith lacked an episode focused primarily on him until °.H2Ott.° came to existence. 
ADogNamedDog: an Anorith named Anorith. It makes sense coming from a prehistoric age where humans didn't exist to give nicknames nor creatures communicates between each others to need a name to distinguish.
AdoptTheDog: (MAJOR SPOILER) the main keyplot of his character evolution: choosing to take care of the egg in a serious manner is what saves him from falling into Seviper's influence and villainous side like happened to Dunsparce and, to an extent, Aurorus. This decision kind of healed his bad karma, too.
AdorableAbomination: being based on an anomalocaris makes him one of the most horrifying being born on Earth and, at contemporary, packing all the cute-critter look of a goggly puppy eye crab-like shrimp thingy. Anomalocaris were also apex predators of Cambrian Age that used to maim their victims using the rotating mouth.
AdorablyPrecociousChild: according to himself, the moment he was born from his egg he was immediately forced to stand for himself abandoned and alone, using the only weapon he had at that age, cuteness, to survive predators and lure preys. 
Adorkable: mostly because of the dissonance between his innocent aspect and tough-as-nail personality that makes him costantly looking like a tough cookie hard to be taken any serious.
AgeGapRomance: with Gorebyss. She's likely about 25 while he's actually 525.000.000 years old.
AgeIsRelative: stated to be 525.000.000 years old, and acts like an old grump most of the time, yet he looks as young as the rest of the cast and his body is fully capable to move and fight!
AirVentPassageway: the Vent was the place where the original trio founded the infamous S3 alliance. Anorith takes it even further by actually living most of the time of VVT inside the vents, sleeping and taking care of the egg in the secret flits.
ALighterShadeOfGrey: when fighting for Gorebyss's heart with Vanillite. While both are far from sympathetic, Anorith's motivations are meant to make the audience actually side for him over the counterpart: Vanillite is an obsessive freak that keeps Gorebyss trapped in her golden cage forever to prevent 'her beauty to get stained', Anorith starts off as a stalker and pervert but deep down cares for Gorebyss and believes she should be allowed to enjoy the world outside her tank.
AllForNothing: all the genuinely heart struggles he went through in order to help Gorebyss "evolve" to a better person and protect her from Seviper's wrath usually taking the blame for her actions, are completely wasted away when Gorebyss reveals her true colors and tries to sexually lure Dunsparce on her side stating that Anorith is just an old joke of nature that she doesn't need of anymore. Anorith is utterly distraught when he listens to her from the flits of the vents and realizes that he went through all of this for nothing.
AllWomenAreLustful: his infamous assumption "Also relationships were simplier in the past: you found the first pluricellular girl available (trust me, the choice was infinite), flirted, dated and layed an egg, clack." kind of implies this point of view.
AlwaysSomeoneBetter: his MAIN TROPE, full stop. It doesn't matter how many times he tries, how many struggles he goes through, how much stubborness and willpower shows, Anorith is always outmatched by someone else, failing to score a single victory for his team, and, usually, it is a very close call. He gets so ridiculosuly close to victory that at a certain point Victini has just enough of him slightly threatening to finish off his experience in the reality before nominations provide to: 
"You're only scraping the podium with those pincers so far, and I'm tired to polish it everytime after."
AmusingInjuries: as the canonical pain magnet of season one, he gets splatted, squashed, stomped and flattened to a disc on a regular basis. 
AndIMustScream: trapped in a fossil for over 200.000.000 millions of years while being exposed in a museum only to getting laughed at for his aspect by the audience certainly left a dent on Anorith's mind forever. His worst nightmare is in fact being turned back into a fossil again, unable to move but fully capable to understand what's going on all the time.
AnimalEyes: according to Lester's theory, he may have 'fish sight' that makes him to look always sideways and never frontally like irl fishes. 
AnimalMotifs: crab. He often relies on his claws as pincers to attack and grab objects, he's fully capable to swim and move backward, and retreats arms and eyes inside the shell when things go dangerous.
AnOddPlacetoSleep: he often falls asleep in the vents of the VVT airplane, bunking inside the flits of the AC conditioning system.
AntiHero: becomes this in the second half of Victini Victory Tour.
AntiVillain: in the first half of Victini Victory Tour playing the role of the most annoying of Seviper's mooks, but never really harming anyone.
AnythingThatMoves: he used to date a lot of fellow fossil pokèmon in the distant past.
ApplianceDefenestration: is at the receiving end of this when he manages to piss off every single female character of the cast with his sexist statements during the radio interview, and, out of everyone, it's Seviper that throws him out of the window!
ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: all the three main members of the infamous S3 but while Dunsparce and Seviper committed lethal felonies like betrayal and blackmailing, Anorith's main crime was stealing the film from Vanillite's canon thus costing the victory to his team in the second episode. Since then, he never really comitted anything criminal than siding with Seviper the whole time.
AscendedExtra: never meant to be an important character but completing Seviper's stable. The more the series progressed, the more Anorith's character revelead to be much worthy to be used ascending to get his own plots with and without S3.
AssholeVictim: used to fall in this trope in the very first episodes of VVT. Whatever karmic punishment he got, was fully deserved. Subverted from episode 9 onward.
AssistCharacter: created to give Seviper a real "evil" mook than Dunsparce appearing more like a misguided apprehendist for her. He shares the most dialogues with Seviper than any other character.
ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: (MAJOR SPOILER) after all the abusive treatment and humiliation congas suffered under Seviper's lead, he takes the opportunity to torture her through more and more humiliating tasks and suggestions when she asks him help for the issues she's having since Aurorus's Egg is being hosted in her stomach: Anorith gleefully makes her swallow a series of dumb objects including even the AC implant of the airplane! All in order to "cool her body" which should prevent the egg from hatching a little longer.
AtrociousArthropods: shown off as such at the Oceanographic Museum much for the horror of the human ladies and the mocking of their annoying children.
AttackItsWeakPoint: attempts to do this on Squirtle in the first episode snatching his sunglasses and threatening to break them. It doesn't really end well for him.
AutopsySnackTime : subverted. He's falsely assumed to be necrophage and saprophage as his real life relatives species like isopods and shrimps are, but this is not his case.
AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: the first time he shakes Lucario from his couldn't care less routine while juggling with a precious fossil found nearby, he gets almost killed off for real if it's not for Chimecho blocking Lucario's second attack.
BabysittingEpisode: more than one, but most prominent being °.H2Ott.°
BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: after the hundreds of times he lost a challenge at the very last minute, he finds solace in the egg's company. 
BackingAwaySlowly: when Lucario goes on a Mega Lucario rampage in Windmills have eyes he slowly retires all his body parts inside his shell despite not being even, for once, the reason of Lucario's anger. Anorith just does that out of sheer paranoid.
BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: votes out Gorebyss once she reveals even worse than Seviper in a certain way.
BadassFingersnap: the "klack" sound he does snapping a claw like a crab, usually at the end of a badass sentence.
BadassNormal: to the point that when he enters the Distortion World he suffers no changes at all because he's just average at all. Even his moveset, ability, and typing are average at best. What makes the badass part is the way Anorith manages to use his average skills for hundreds of different situations. Not to mention the fact he's the only pokèmon with full handling in a team with mostly limbless or stumpy armed pokèmon like Venturers are.
BathtubScene: a non-sexually example in episode 14.
BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: after having caused Vanillite's elimination in order to get Gorebyss all for himself, Anorith ends up doing the exact same services his rival did for her becoming her next butler. This comes from the same guy that blamed Vanillite the whole time for not making her to do anything by herself like eating and moving, and the day after Vanillite's demise he's already feeding her at bed.
BerserkButton: calling him useless or loser is a good way to trigger his short-temper.
BewareTheSillyOnes: he may look too dumb to live sometimes but underestimate Anorith would be a mistake: what he lacks in terms of cleverness and power it's compensated by cheap tricks and an arsenal of determination, pride, and sneakiness. 
BewareWhatYouWishFor: he wishes to replace Vanillite in Gorebyss's life and he gets exactly what he asked being treated nothing more than a ReplacingGoldfish by her. 
BigEyesLittleEyes: all his cuteness relishes on the goggly glossy big eyes he has.
BigSleep: he's able to sleep inside the Vents despite being used as confessional where all the other contestants regularly "vent" their feelings.
BioAugmentation: subverted. In episode 9 he believes he has developed his wings for flight finally but in truth it's just magnetic field making him levitating.
BizarreAlienBiology: technically not an alien, but a fossil, still animalocaris is one of the strangest creatures ever seen on Earth being a crossbreed between a shrimp, an arachnid, a scorpion and a crab all combined with insect wings. 
BizarreTasteInFood: he's the one that eats all the stale macarones advanced from the Voltorb of Victimization's sessions.
BlackmailBackfire: he stole Vanillite's shootings on Gorebyss in order to blackmail him to vote himself out...Anorith ends up being blackmailed and forced by Seviper to join her alliance under the terms to not tell everyone his plan.
BodyHorror: paralyzed and turned forever into stone in his worst nightmares.
BookDumb: he was revived from a fossil just a day before joining the reality show. That means he was literally launched into a complete different world than it used to be for him and thus Anorith doesn't know or understand many things regarding modern age: doesn't know what is a videogame, he's genuinely unaware of the use of a toilet, and never listened to music.
BornAsAnAdult: see AdorablyPrecociousChild above. 
BornInTheWrongCentury: more like revived in the wrong century, and how.
BreakoutCharacter: one of the last adds to the original cast introduced along with Piplup without a definite characterization at the beginning. Like Piplup, he became soon a supporting character for major ones and, as the series progressed, got his own plots and personality traits. Currently a major character for the 2nd half of Season 1.
ButtMonkey: the in-universe detentor of the title for Season 1. He suffered the highest number of injuries, humiliations, defeats, mocks, and disappointments of all the whole Victini series so far. Yet, he's still alive and always bounced back as IronButtMonkey.
CantBelieveISaidThat: when Beheeyem takes the temporary leadership of the Venturers from episodes 12-15 Anorith says that he's missing Seviper. SEVIPER. This is how much screwed is the situation at that point.
CantGetAwayWithNuthin: sometimes you may think that his LaserGuidedKarma must have an aimbot equipped: whenever Anorith does or says anything wrong, he gets wrecked immediately after.
CaptainObvious: for Seviper. She often remarks how painfully obvious are his statements and opinions, with sssarcasm.
CartoonCreature: has one of the most flexible, rubberish biology because of all the abusement he endures during the series.
ChallengeSeeker: he's bold and never afraid to challenge someone one by one, at least until he has enough confidence to score a victory...The otucome is usually filled with regrets. He openly challenged Squirtle, Lucario, Lester and EVEN Giratina in a circumstance...and got trashed almost every time.
CharacterTics: snapping his claws at the end of a speech.
ChekhovsGunman: the character was introduced as a last minute filler and he suddenly plays a massive role in the whole Aurorus's egg plot of the season 1.
ChildHater: hates human children after having spent many years being laughed at by the kids visiting the Oceanographic Museum.
CombatPragmatist: he recurs to any trick up his sleeves to win a match, whether it's sheer strength or dirty strats. He doesn't think too much about it, too.
ComicallyMissingThePoint: when Vanillite offers him an ice cream with poison powder spread on the top, he fails to get the reason behind until Vanillite states that "it's for his girlfriend" referring to Seviper. Anorith's reaction is priceless.
ComicalOverreacting: actually part of his characterization is how his impulsiveness often makes him overreact at people while also screwing things for himself soooo bad. When Lucario refuses to give him the fossil he shakes the rock he's standing on cue to Lucario jumping onto him for a curbstomp battle, and when Squirtle makes fun of him using the female toilet he's prompt to give him a lesson but accidentally flushes down the egg in the process. And these are just two examples.
CrackOhMyBack: courtesy of 250.000.000 years trapped on a rock and a little bit too much of Lucario's treatment.
CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: usually grumpy like an old man, regularly treated as a chew toy by Seviper and the other Venturers, and likely hated by the goddess of luck as by the spirit of victory itself (Victini). Multiple times stated to not having a single remarkable trait than average at best, comically taken with no seriousness by anyone of the cast, and in-master universe to make himself a living joke. It's all of this and even more, yet he's also the last man standing for his team in more than an episode, struggles the most all over the challenges (heck, in the very first episode he runs for 3 laps replacing certain teammates each time) , and his loss happens always at the finish line. Anorith is nothing but being a badass enduring all of this while still remaining in one piece.
CurbStompBattle: he's absolutely trashed by Lucario in the sixth episode.
CuteBruiser: Anorith is cute outside, and blunt inside.
CutenessOverload: Anorith's secret weapon. He successfully uses it on Piplup during the first challenge, and he unwillingly uses it again in episode 8 to lure the audience into adoration.
DarkAndTroubledPast: partially subverted. He never had a fair time in the Cambrian Age but was proud of being an apex predator while also having to escape predators bigger than him. The darkness came all of sudden when he turned into a fossil, and when he was found and put on a museum expoition he developed his phobia for kids and museums. 
DecompositeCharacter: of DJ's Anorith "Rith" captured in the TDPKT franchise. Said "Rith" used to be a scaredy cat pokémon which DJ's curse could but actually never have affected as all his previous pokèmons. While VVT Anorith inherited the same species it was Dunsparce that took Rith's 'personality'. 
DejaVu: by current episode 16 of VVT Anorith is so used to the always someone better trope that he just reacts as it's a dejavù at this point.
DeletedScene: he should have had a scene featuring Minun where the two are drinking their morning cups at the airplane bar while exchanging their respective miseries with Lester and Seviper. This came from an original idea of TheNotSoHappyUser but will never air at this point.
Determinator: there are few pokémon in the cast with the same amount of determination he has, and given how many times he failed to score a single one for his team, his determination is what makes Anorith STILL ALIVE.
DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: jumps on Giratina's head when the legendary says that all rules are screwed as he entered the scene.
"That pesky fossil bug sure has rockballs." Lucario crossed arms thoughtful. "I still remember when he dared to take a rock from ME."
EasterEgg: Anorith's inability to evolve is a reference to the very first Anorith ever caught by the writer on Sapphire. The writer loved Anorith's cuteness too much to make it evolve and then brought it to the Elite 4 unevolved, and still remained as such after.
EatenAlive: three times. By entering Seviper's stomach, getting swallowed by Giratina, and forcing himself inside an Huntail's mouth to retrieve his egg.
EpicFail: (MAJOR SPOILER)see episodes 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 of Victini Victory Tour.
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