Mienshao

Appearance

Mienshao is a greyish-white, bipedal long-bodied Pokémon resembling a weasel, with triangular ears, red eyes and a pink nose with a pair of long yellow-tipped whiskers with split ends. A large amount of fur fully drapes its arms and front paws with purple-tipped split ends. It has a long, skinny tail that, like its paw fur, is also tipped purple and split at its end. Mienshao additionally has several areas of purple fur around its body, including a spot on the top of its forehead (alongside a yellow one on its snout), a ring around its lower midsection and another at the bottom of its torso and thighs, slightly resembling pants. Its similarly purple-coloured lower paws (or "feet") terminate with three claws each at the end. In battle, Mienshao uses the fur on its arms like whips, lashing continuously and repeatedly at foes in a precise combination of attacks so quickly that they are difficult to see and impossible to stop when begun, storing up power from smaller hits for a powerful finishing blow.

Personality

Mienshao is unable to speak any human language, instead only being able to communicate using gestures and the syllables found in her name, or variation thereof. Upon spotting a new person on the route outside the inn, Mienshao will try to convince them to stay for as long as possible, and will likely construct reasons as to why the guest shouldn't leave just yet — however, the façade of hospitality often wavers as she struggles with her internal uncertainty, unwilling to be alone once more. Although significantly less temperamental than when she was a Mienfoo, Mienshao is still prone to lashing out if sufficiently angered, although only as much as is necessary to stop the annoyance, and letting out a distinctive, bizarre wailing sound before attacking.

Background

Mienshao has been managing a Kanto-style inn along Route 23 in the north of the Unova region in a one-'mon operation for the past couple of years ever since the mysterious disappearance of her Trainer a long while prior, whom she had known ever since she was a Mienfoo. With fewer and fewer people plying the route — meaning fewer guests for the inn — Mienshao has since fallen on hard times, exacerbated by the fact that she now has no one to interact or confide to. In an effort to cope with the situation, Mienshao has turned to maintaining a constant daily training regimen — similar to how she had done with her Trainer — to keep up her morale fighting prowess. This has had mixed success, as she cannot help but often turn her thoughts to what may have become of her Trainer: nevertheless, she sees little else but to continue training, while still imagining life without the oppressive solitude.