History Characters / PokemonGenerationIXFamilies

** How much control Pecharunt has over them vs how willingly they are working for it is up for debate. The backstory of the Loyal Three praying for things they were granted eventually, implies they made a willing deal with Pecharunt for what they desired in exchange for serving it, and they are actively malicious towards the player and Ogerpon while Pecharunt is dormant.

** However, The Treasures of Ruin are AmbiguouslyEvil[=/=]ObliviouslyEvil animals playing around with their immense powers that are akin to natural disasters, apparently unaware just how destructive they are to the empire they ransacked. The four of them also don't even seem to acknowledge one another's presence. Meanwhile, The Loyal Three are sapient and ObviouslyEvil bandits who scammed and attacked humans and Pokémon, and while Pecharunt can cause something like a ZombieApocalypse, they are nowhere near as catastrophically destructive. The Loyal Three and Pecharunt are also essentially a family, if an evil one.

** However, The Treasures of Ruin are AmbiguouslyEvil[=/=]ObliviouslyEvil animals playing around with their immense powers that are akin to natural disasters, apparently unaware just how destructive they are to the empire they ransacked. The four of them also don't even seem to acknowledge one another's presence. Meanwhile, The Loyal Three are sapient and ObviouslyEvil bandits who scammed and attacked humans and Pokémon, and while Pecharunt can cause something akin to ZombieApocalypse, the scope of the damage they cause aren't quite as catastrophic. The Loyal Three are also close with one another while also serving Pecharunt.

* GreaterScopeVillain: It was Pecharunt that mutated the Loyal Three into what they are today using its poison, and it was at its behest that the Loyal Three attacked Ogerpon's companion to steal her masks. Pecharunt essentially serves as this trope during the entirety of Teal Mask because it's actions directly lead to the events of the DLC due to it's attempted theft of the mask causing Ogerpon to be the isolated Pokemon it is in Teal Mask. And to a lesser extent, it's also this to Indigo Disk, due to the aforementioned events in Indigo Disk.

* GreaterScopeVillain: It was Pecharunt that mutated the Loyal Three into what they are today using its poison, and it was at its behest that the Loyal Three attacked Ogerpon's companion to steal her masks.

* DirtyCoward: Pecharunt rarely, if ever, actually fights on its own, instead using its mochi and toxic chains to enslave people and Pokémon such as the Loyal Three and the people of Mossui Town to do its bidding, having them do the dirty work while it keeps itself hidden. It only battles the player in the Mochi Mayhem epilogue once its plan of using the people of Mossui to beat the player fails, as a final resort. Seeing as how it's relatively small and largely implied to be not particularly powerful in battle, its resort to controlling others using its poison seems to be its biggest strength as a Pokémon. In the past it didn't even try to fight back against Ogerpon, instead withdrawing into its shell and going dormant to save its own life. Indeed, it also corrupted the Loyal Three specifically because it wanted to enhance their abilities to make it feel safe. This is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration further reflected]] by the fact that its nature is locked as "Timid".

* CycleOfRevenge: Pecharunt enslaves an entire town of people to turn them against the player, seemingly out of revenge for having its servants' names tarnished.

* HeelFaceTurn: Just like its subordinates, the Loyal Three, it's loyal to the player once it's captured and there are no ill effects when you put it together with its former lackeys and Ogerpon.

* ObliviouslyEvil: An odd mix of this and ObviouslyEvil. Its lore video reveals that from Pecharunt's perspective, it merely went on an adventure to get gifts to please what were essentially its adoptive parents, only for everything to fall apart and nearly lead to its death from an enraged Ogerpon. It wasn't even aware that there was an altercation between the Loyal Three and Ogerpon's partner, as the three had snuck into Ogerpon's cave when it was empty, only for the man to return before they could leave, all while Pecharunt had stayed behind in hiding oblivious to it all.

* RestingRecovery: If mortally wounded, it can hide within its shell to enter a deep sleep. This is how it survived Ogerpon's attack in the past until the present day. It's dormant state was so deep that when someone in Kitakami discovered it, they couldn't even tell it was a Pokémon, instead becoming known to locals as the Never-Rotting Peach and being used as a simple decoration in the shop Peachy's.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: If Kieran's number of 'greats' his ancestry back to the original craftsman of Ogerpon's masks isn't an exaggeration (about 6 generations) then Ogerpon is possibly around more than a century old.

* EdibleAmmunition: It launches the mochi it creates at Arven and Penny, putting them under its control as it enters their mouths. The "ammunition" aspect of this trope is downplayed however, as while Kieran is hit in the head by the mochi, it doesn't injure him, though he nevertheless reacts as though he just got hit with a pebble.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Pecharunt stole Ogerpon's masks because it wanted to please the couple that adopted it. However, the couple only wanted the masks because they were corrupted by Pecharunt's mochi, something Pecharunt either was or wasn't aware of.

* TastesLikeFriendship: A twisted example. It gained the love of the elderly couple and the companionship from the Loyal Three by feeding them its poisoned mochi that brought them under its thrall.

* EdibleAmmunition: It launches the mochi it creates at Arven and Penny, putting them under its control as it enters their mouths. The "ammunition" aspect of this trope is downplayed however, as while Kieran is hit in the head by the mochi, it doesn't injure him, though he nevertheless reacts as though he just got hit by a pebble.

* EdibleAmmunition: It launches the mochi it creates at Arven and Penny, putting them under its control as it enters their mouths. The "ammunition" aspect of this trope is downplayed however, as while Kieran is hit in the head by the mochi, it doesn't injure him.

* {{Jerkass}}: The three's true natures are anything but heroic, and they're revealed to be a bunch of assholes who robbed the innocent Ogerpon and its human companion because Pecharunt ordered them to.

* TheCorrupter: Is responsible for corrupting the Loyal Three into becoming the absolute jerks they are today, and is equally responsible for corrupting all of Mossui Town (as well as Penny, Arven, and Nemona) into serving as its puppets.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Played with, while the old couple did send Pecharunt on the mission to steal the masks, it was only because they were influenced by Pecharunt's mochi which enslaved them to its will and drew out their greed. Pecharunt itself could be seen as this, due to the aforementioned mochi corrupting the couple.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: A very twisted example, as all of Pecharunt's actions were motivated by its desire to receive love from the couple that adopted it. However, Pecharunt did so by feeding them mochi that it knew was corrupting them with greed.

* {{Foil}}: It and Ogerpon have contrasting backstories. While Ogerpon and its companion were feared, shunned, and had little to their name, they were still happy and content with what they had; by contrast, Pecharunt had loving carers and a good home, but was never satisfied with and craved more, to the point of enslaving said carers with it's mochi to gain more affection. Ogerpon has no trouble fighting enemies head-on with her own strength, while Pecharunt prefers to control others and let them fight on its behalf. Ogerpon is reviled as the villain of the local legends in Kitakami, while Pecharunt is portrayed as the hero of it's own story in the lore video despite it's legend being unknown to the rest of the world in-universe.

* BigBad: After serving as the GreaterScopeVillain of ''The Teal Mask'', it's finally confronted directly as the main antagonist of the ''Mochi Mayhem'' arc with its actions brainwashing everyone heavily implied to be its way of getting revenge on the player for stopping the "Loyal" Three from taking Ogrepon's masks.

* {{Foil}}: It and Ogerpon have contrasting backstories. While Ogerpon and its companion were feared, shunned, and had little to their name, they were still happy and content with what they had; by contrast, Pecharunt had loving carers and a good home, but was never satisfied with and craved more, to the point of enslaving said carers with it's mochi to gain more affection. Ogerpon has no trouble fighting enemies head-on with her own strength, while Pecharunt prefers to control others and let them fight on its behalf. Ogrepon is reviled as the villain of the local legends in Kitakami, while Pecharunt is portrayed as the hero of it's own story in the lore video despite it's legend being unknown to the rest of the world in-uivorse.

** The victims to its poisonous mochi have amplified greed, as it had happened to the old couple who became notably greedier, asking it for many things. It's also implied that other sins like lust and such are applified in different people, such as when Nemona's BloodKnight tendency slips through her speech and how she suddenly has fully-leveled Kitakami Pokémon when fought, and how Penny's adoration for her Eevee becomes a strange VerbalTic in saying the word "mochi" (she says "mochee", the last syllable vaguely resembling her AffectionateNickname for her Eevee (Veevees)).

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Played with, while the old couple did send Pecharunt on the mission to steal the masks, it was only because they were influenced by Pecharunt's mochi which enslaved them to it's will and drew out their greed. Pecharunt itself could be seen as this, due to the aforementioned mochi corrupting the couple.

* {{Foil}}: It and Ogerpon have contrasting backstories. While Ogerpon and its companion were feared, shunned, and had little to their name, they were still happy and content with what they had; by contrast, Pecharunt had loving carers and a good home, but nothing was ever enough for it, so it did what it could to get more and more love until it led to its ultimate downfall. Additionally, Ogerpon has no trouble fighting enemies head-on with her own strength, while Pecharunt prefers to control others and let them fight on its behalf.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The old couple that raised it asked one day for it to get them fancy Kitakami masks, which indirectly led to it creating the Loyal Three and ruining Ogerpon's life.

* {{Foil}}: It and Ogerpon have contrasting backstories; while Ogerpon and its companion were feared, shunned, and had little to their name, they were still happy and content with what they had. By contrast, Pecharunt had loving carers and a good home, but nothing was ever enough for it, so it did what it could to get more and more love until it lead to its ultimate downfall. Additionally, Ogerpon has no trouble fighting enemies head-on with her own strength, while Pecharunt prefers to control others and let them fight on its behalf.

* ScissorsCutsRock: Ogerpon, a Grass-type, managed to kill the Loyal Three, despite them all being Poison-types and outnumbering her 3-to-1.

** It's a CorruptedCharacterCopy of the RidiculouslyCuteCritter types like Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, as while it ''looks'' cute, it's anything but.

* RestingRecovery: If mortally wounded, it can hide within its shell to enter a deep sleep. This is how it survived Ogerpon's attack in the past until the present day.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ogerpon is an incredibly sweet, good-natured Pokémon. She also ''killed'' the Loyal Three (and allegedly their leader) after they stole her masks and attacked her companion out of greed. Her [[BerserkButton furious reaction upon seeing Pecharunt]] also implies she'd absolutely love to give it another sound thrashing. This is the reason she's a HeroWithBadPublicity -- people saw her more vicious side and weren't aware of what drove her to that or that she's normally a sweetheart.

* CoolMask: Often hides her face with a Teal mask. When Terastalizing, her mask seems to have grown bigger and sports horns and vines. The same goes with her three other masks, except one sports fiery tendrils (Hearthflame), one sports watery tendrils (Wellspring), and one sports stoney tendrils (Cornerstone).

* TheUnfought: Normal Form Terapagos has its own stats, but it cannot be battled through any legitimate means, as it will always transform into its Terastal Form at the start of a battle, and ability-suppressing moves & abilities won't work on its Tera Shell ability.