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at age 26, samson klein is the oldest, and last of the elite four. sim
ilar to the ghost types he specializes in, the tall, taciturn individua
l is quiet and seemingly unapproachable, preferring the company o
f his spectral acquaintances over other people. unexpectedly, he is
particularly expressive and sensitive, reserving the warmest of smi
les for his pokemon. his keystone is embedded in the black tie he
always wears around his neck, stark against his usual formal attire.
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female / calm / snow cloak / sturdy body [ blizzard, doub
le team, ominous wind, draining kiss, hail, aurora veil ]
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male / adamant / aftermath / often dozes off [ payback,
phantom force, explosion, fly, disable, giga impact ]
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male / bold / levitate / mischievous [ power gem, psywav
e, nasty plot, protect, thunderbolt, perish song ]
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female / timid / cursed body / impetuous and silly [ wate
r spout, toxic, dazzling gleam, sludge wave, blizzard ]
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male / serious / mummy / strongly defiant [ infestation,
psychic, shadow ball, nightmare, energy ball, haze ]
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male / naughty / prankster / alert to sounds [ shadow sne
ak, phantom force, feint attack, psych up, screech, taunt ]
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samson befriended his froslass as a snorunt when he was a small boy. chance encounter led to the two meeting outside his home in icir
rus city, and samson began feeding it scraps every night. the two formed a close bond, and when samson decided to become a pokemon
trainer, instead of choosing one of three unova starters provided by the professor, he opted to bringing snorunt along instead. elegant a
nd composed as froslass, his partner pokemon is constantly by his side, a silent white spectre.
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on his adventures around unova, samson happened upon a town pestered by a rogue drifloon separated from its float. capturing the gho
st type to leave the townspeople in peace, the rougish pokemon grew attached to him, springing out of pokeballs to bestow lavish hugs
to his head. eventually, after saving him from falling to his death, a young samson accepted the clingy critter. drifloon evolved after a t
raining match between it and samson's snorunt, being the first of the two to change forms.
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having developed some sort of reputation as a "ghostbuster" after his escapades in the town where he'd caught drifloon, samson happe
ned upon a haunted basement underneath a shopping mall in nimbasa city. he found the haunting misdreavus to be unique and powerf
ul, and decided upon catching it. misdreavus defeated both his pokemon in consecutive battles, though samson did not relent, and eve
ntually succeeded in catching the other after developing one of his first strategies, where he had previously battled without any plan.
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in driftveil city, samson was trying his hand at fishing (he was miserable at it, really) when an electric current ran up his pole and kn
ocked him into the water. beneath the waves, with his worried pokemon hovering above the water, samson was face to face with a f
emale frillish, tentacles wrapped around his leg, appearing as trying to drown him. due to advantage of size, samson was able to res
urface and climb back onto the dock, chilled and a bit dazed. the frillish, angry at having been cheated out of a meal, attacked him
with a water pulse, though was taught a lesson from an arbitrary thunderbolt from misdreavus, now mismagius. unwilling to pass up
a chance at a new pokemon, samson caught frillish, who hated him at first but grew to be fond of him as well.
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by now, samson had decided that he wanted to raise ghost types. intending to fill his team with phantoms, he headed to unova's underg
round catacombs in search of a haunter, though was unpleasantly surprised by a vengeful yamask hell-bent on destroying all who entere
d the caves. in efforts to save a frightened girl separated from her parents, samson battled the spirit, surprisingly strong given its evolu
tion, and catching it when he realized that its thirst for vengeance could only be trained away. the girl ended up leaving safely with him
alongside an espurr that she caught a fancy to. cofagrigus is still hateful and violent, though protective of samson.
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banette was samson's first pokemon that he caught having evolved already. the pokemon ambushed him while he was distributing lunch
among his current party members (at this point, cofagrigus had not joined him yet), and ended up injuring froslass, who jumped in front
of samson to keep him safe. primarily concerned with the health of his partner, samson and his party ran straight to a pokemon center i
nstead of seeking revenge, with mismagius guarding his back. the banette followed, an evident bully, and eventually samson whirled ar
ound and fought back with jellicent and mismagius, catching it to correct its vindictive tendencies.
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