Dandy

*"Ready when you are, friend!"*

Dandy is one of the pokemon NUTMaster catches in the NUTLocke. He was a machop who evolved around level 30 into a Machoke.

Dandy is an experienced mobile cafe business owner who makes excellent whipped-cream mocha. He earns a lot due to the high demand when it comes to his coffee shop. He is the only person able to create the ***Arch Whipped Cream Mocha.***

### Appearance

Dandy resembles a normal machop, although a little less well-built due to not having enough time to strength-train due to his job. He usually wears a green and brown apron.

His choice of wear and lack of build compared to others of the same species persists in his form as a Machoke,

### Personality

Dandy's a people pleaser, acting as a general rolemodel for the group. He speaks in a nicey approachable manner, and almost never raises his voice.

He's deathly afraid of fire.

### Relationships

#### Psay

An ex-coworker, Dandy was the one who convinced Psay to seek out a job as a sushi chef due to her always fantasizing about it on her free time. Seeing her on the same team as him was a very pleasant surprise.

#### Mitz

Dandy did not know who Mitz was prior to the run, and was relatively offputted upon their first meeting, considering he was some sort of robot. He was relatively untrusting of him, and objected slightly to him being the other fighting type on the team alongside Dandy.

However, after his outstanding performance and selfless actions during the Rock Gym, he disposed of his distrust and saw him as just as much as a teammate as the rest of the group.

### Tentacle

Dandy, despite being weirded out by Testicle, admired her since she was a veteran.

Shortly after her death against Bede, he reklessly sent himself out of the ball to finish off the dynamaxed hatterine.

#### BOO!

Dandy and BOO! didn't talk a lot, but he was well aware of her circumstances. He made it an effort to try and make sure she stayed safe throughout the fight against Leon, which he unfortunately failed at. In fact, the opposite happened.

### Spoilers

#### History

Dandy was born into a family with very high expectations of him. His dad was a strong wrestling champion who has won many tournaments and trophies in his career, while his mother was an intelligent scientist who investigated the strange phenomena of magneton biology. He got into a cafe job early on to pay for education, when he suddenly realized he took a grand liking to making coffees. His parents didn't see the point in this, and ridiculed him often about how it wouldn't be a wise choice overall. However, he persisted through his dream through many months, eventually getting several promotions and a following of his own. His signature whipped-cream arch mocha was beginning to draw in more and more people, and he became revered. His parents saw the potential then, and supported him by helping him establish a mobile cafe business of his own.

He eventually left his home of Unova to seek more customers in Galar, where he was eventually caught.

He went on to be a very integral part of the team, being present in many of the most important battles of Sterile's gym run. His actions earned himself a spot in the final 6 that would be present in the final fight against Leon.

In the fight, he was only sent in to deal with the last pokemon. In between that time, the Mahoke watched as each of his friends lived to kill one or two pokemon, before perishing in front of him. After dealing with the Mr. Rime, they realized that they had little moves left. The charizard had super effctive moves against every member of the team left. And, eventually, after BOO!'s sacrifice, he was the only one left to do the job. He was sent out for the fight of his life, and proceeded to tough out 12 air cutters, all the while healing, hoping that one would miss. However, none of them did. After his last potion, Dandy accepted his fate.

And then solar beam happened.

Noone knows why Leon's Charizard did this. Even if air cutter was out of juice, at least fire blast would keep consistent pressure. Not to mention its STAB. But, regardless, it used solar beam twice anyway. And, with the free extra turns, Dandy got a final double-crit, and the NUTLocke Season 1 came to a close.

Dandy was not seen after the fight. He left immediately after their victory, back to his cafe. He sat down at the counter, the room dead silent. His friends are dead now.

He wept.

### Trivia

* A very significant chunk of Dandy's lore is based off of Bayu from Team Gigavolt by Noivern.

### References

1. ↑ Noivern on DeviantArt is an artist who creates pokemon comics as well as art pertaining to the Rivals Gates universe, the one noted being Team Gigavolt.