Cobalt Priston

Personality
Cobalt is naturally curious and has a great passion in learning and sharing knowledge, a characteristic she inherited from her father, Torvald Priston. Due to this, she can easily barrage strangers with an endless stream of questions, which is exacerbated by her lack of knowledge on most mundane things and social norms, caused by her secluded life. If she learns someone needs help, she'll go her way to help them the best way she can, using her vast scientific knowledge to do so. Usually, when things are going well, she can be enthusiastic and upbeat, looking for some new project to work on or something to reverse engineer. Though when something goes wrong, Cobalt will have a big tendency of blaming herself for not seeing things turning out the way they did, overfocusing on the problem and entering a looping state of mind.

Appearance
She's a regular Noivern, having a smaller than average height and thinner build, but nothing outside what one would expect from a Noivern. She is usually seen carrying a messenger back filled with an assortment of tools and wearing her trusty leather goggles. She also carries an oversized pink glowing gun holstered around her hip.

Torvald Priston
Her father. They were very close and tight knit until he went out to a trip and never came back. He rose and taught all she knows by himself since she was an egg, Cobalt's mother dying while she still was an egg. Their and they did everything together: from building things in their own house, to studying and playing with her, and she deeply cares about him and so does he, as it can be seen in the multiple instances (her house being filled with pictures of them together and how Torvald fondly talks about their memories together on the letters he sent to her).

H (deceased)
Her former mate. They began traveling together shortly before her departure of Olivine City and they created a strong bond quickly. They supported each other to overcome their fears and difficulties. H had a deep admiration of her talents and her selflessness while she had a fond admiration of how supportive he was. Over the course of months and the situations they went through together, their friendship grew to love and they became mates, but it was extremely short-lived as he died during an attack from Black Pearl Industries robots while protecting her.

Trember
Her friend and magic teacher. The two met after she received a mysterious package when she arrived at Forina that directed her to Trember. Trember is an old friend of Torvald, who was asked to teach her magic. Cobalt had great admiration for his magic skills and great gratitude for him teaching her. Trember had great care of her, treating her almost like his own child due to how close Torvald and Trember were. The two parted ways after she left Forina.

Inventions
Here is a list of notable inventions or tweaks she has done or built.



The Stun Gun
Using the schematics of the Hypnotoxic Laser provided by DeBUG #168. It was created while Cobalt was in Forina, in an attempt to create a device to protect her and her friends without actually hurting them. For that, Cobalt has managed to create a device with similar functionality, but applying different effects. Instead of Poisoning and potentially putting the target to sleep as the Hypnotoxic Laser usually does, The Stun Gun instead Paralyzes and Confuses the opponent.More specifically, the person hit by a laser shot of it has their arms, legs and other movement muscles nerve signals jammed and messed around, making moving nearly impossible. It also overloads the sensory systems of the target, making light brighter for the eyes, everything louder for the ears, the scent of everything around greatly increased, the sense of balance go haywire, and so on. It does affect Ground pokémon, as it is not an electric move. Electric pokémon can overcome the Paralysis portion by focusing on normalizing the electricity flux in their bodies, but it can be considered challenging due to the sensory overload the Stun Gun causes. Pokémon with the Own Tempo ability are immune to the sensory overload part due to the Confusion immunity, but are still affected by the Paralysis portion of the Stun Gun. When used on electronics or robots, it jams the target's electrical grids until it either discharges the excess of electricity or is shut down.

Also, the Stun Gun does not deal any physical damage and the effects are short and temporary, having its full effect lasting ten minutes, with its major effects gone in an hour at max. The target may experience heightened senses and a small difficulties to move properly up to 24 hours after being shot if they do not consume healing items. Those affected by The Stun Gun crackle purple sparks, similar to the characteristic yellow cracks from regular Paralysis. Each effect (Paralysis and Confusion) are treated separately, meaning the consumption of a Persim Berry only cures Confusion and a Cheri Berry only cures Paralysis. Lum Berries, Full Restores and similar items will cure all the Stun Gun's effects.

The Item Magnet
It is a tweaked version of an Item Finder she bought in Olivine City. It works similarly to regular Item Finders, but it also has the function to pull the objects it finds. She tweaked it in order to make money, investing the money Gem gave her in order to buy some materials she needed to proceed in her journey.

Goggles
A leather goggles she built alongside her father, it was coated with a special substance that protects it against chemicals and increases its durability dramatically as well as preserving the leather's integrity against wear. It contains special lenses that protects it against an assortment of radiation waves, making a perfect multi-purpose protection gear for her eyewear. Aditionally, it contains a set of amplifying lenses she can flip in, allowing her to do precision work with much more ease. Finally, it is also considered, for all effects and purposes, a Safety Goggles, protecting her against weather and powder moves, should the last not be directly applied on her.

Claw Pencil Grip
A pencil grip she designed in order to improve Gem's grip in his pencil and, consequently, his handwriting. She designed it, built it and gifted it to him during her stay in Forina.

Past
The only daughter of Tahlia Priston and Torvald Priston, the couple had moved to Johto after meeting in Kalos due to the nature of Torvald's career. After a few years, the two had an egg, but Tahlia died before it could hatch. Torvald kept it and from it, Cobalt was born under his care. Soon after she hatched, they moved to the forests north of Johto and built his own house and equipments to work on his own while taking close care of her, teaching her all he knew. One day, he went out of the shop in one of his usual supply trips, but never came back. She waited for his return for several years, until one day she received a cryptic letter from him.

Black Pearl Industries
Being the daughter of Torvald Priston, she became a high profile target to the company due to their knowledge of Torvald's scientific breakthroughs.