Gulpin
Poison
1 male/1 female
Swalot
Poison
1 male/1 female
Independently mobile digestive systems.
Description
Gulpin is a small green blob, similar in appearance to a stress ball or balloon filled with jello. It has tiny pseudopods on its lower front. The eyes are extremely primitive and can only track motion. A yellow antenna on its head provides it with hearing and smell strong enough to navigate. Swalot is as tall as an adult human and looks like a squishy blob-slug thing. Its skin is a slimy purple with black patterns. It has yellow whiskers arranged similar to a moustache that refine its senses of hearing and smell.
Those that come from more humid and damp environments produce a Liquid Ooze that hurts anything that tries to parasite off of them, even draining moves in battle. Slightly drier environments produce ones that have a Sticky Hold on things thanks to the thicker mucus. In even drier environments, they cannot produce much slime and need to practice Gluttony to maintain their moisture levels.
Battle Characteristics
Swalot has very good Constitution. Strength and Power are identically moderate. Toughness and Resistance are moderate-high. Speed is midling at best.
Swalot has a lot of Poison and Normal moves on its list. It can learn both Belch and Gunk Shot, two of the strongest Poison moves.
Legends/Folklore
Some species manage to fit a niche well enough to survive for very long times without undergoing much adaptation from natural selection. Gulpin and Swalot are like that. They do not leave fossils, but frozen examples in glacial caves have been found dating back millions of years.
In the wild, predators need the vitamins and minerals from plants. They cannot effectively digest plants. This causes them to enjoy the digestive system of prey as a high concentration of those vitamins already half-digested for them. Gulpin, being fairly weak and mostly digestive system, is actually easy and nutritious prey. Seeing a predator holding one under flowing water or being scoured in sand to make a palatable meal is common.
Life Cycle/Evolution Conditions
Gulpin start hunting, scavenging, foraging, and generally getting on with life in minutes after hatching. They evolve in the wild at around twenty-six years old, not that they usually live that long. Swalot do not show signs of age beyond getting bigger. Age upon death varies.
Diet
They eat anything organic. While metals and rocks are digestible, they prefer organic things. Even rubber and plastic are fine. They can usually swallow anything their own size in one go. However, living prey can and have fought their way out of the Gulpin/Swalot belly.
Swalot gets bigger with age. With bigger size comes bigger dietary needs. Eventually, it will not be able to find adequate food and starve.
Breeding
Amorphous Group. Every two seasons, they mate and produce a few hundred small eggs. Most of the hatchlings die young. Eggs sell for a measly 5,000P.
Wild Behavior/Threat Level
Gulpin and Swalot do not put much thought into their hunting and scavenging. They wander around, eat when hungry, and sleep wherever they find a bit of shelter. They can be driven back by the simple method of a Pokémon throwing or kicking them away and then jogging in the other direction.
They are not highly intelligent and will not be orchestrating elaborate plans.
Bonding and Care
Gulpin trainers report that they consistently enjoy berry puree as a treat and a reward.
Human/Pokémon Relations
They are fairly primitive and mostly end up seeing humans as things too dangerous to hunt.
With Family
Not a family pet. Even if trained to not eat anything that moves, they still eat random things like toys, pans, bottles of antifreeze, etc.
Team Compatibility
They can be kept in line easily enough by many Pokémon that have higher intelligence.
Warning
They eat anything.
Summary
Squishy blobs of digestive juices and poisons.