Dr. Kyorito

Dr. Kyorito is a major character of Paper Mario: They Crystal Griffin, serving as a permanent Chapter 1 partner. She seeks to travel with Mario after the events of Chapter 1 where she believes that her travels across Crescent Island will help assist Mario in finding his way across the vast island.

Personality
Dr. Kyorito is an extremely passionate archaeologist, palaeontologist, historian, and scientist who has extensive knowledge over the lands she has traversed across. She has always enjoyed traversing off the main road of a pathway and instead going into other directions, potentially being able to find things she has never found before. She has since dedicated all of the knowledge she had learned and discovered into educating her classes in Vanilla Dome University, and hasn't gone out travelling Crescent Island for a while now.

She is well known for her motherly-like and very friendly personality, and is generally very well liked and respected amongst her students and professors. She loves a good joke or two (especially a couple of bad puns), and is often called over by students to join in on academic discussions as she is very open-minded, loves hearing about different opinions, especially when hers may be challenged in some way, and loves talking about subjects she has professional knowledge on.

She likes believing in the best out of everyone and is rather reluctant to believe otherwise when the situation calls for it, and can come off as rather soft which has been exploited by certain students in the past. When it comes to weird happenings, she is usually very sceptical about any potential suspects for the happenings (especially during the story where the Crystal Griffin is involved), and is usually one to think on logic before emotions. However, if it involves someone that she has known and grown to like, she may think on emotions before logic and forget about the potential causes, only focusing on the effects.

Throughout her journey with Mario and the other partners, she learns that sometimes its good to be a little sceptical and a bit more strict sometimes, and that it's alright to question people when it comes to suspicious matters instead of letting it slide.

Base Ability: Tattle (General)
A trait of all partners is the tattle ability. However, unlike other partners who have more generalised tattles when in areas that aren't where they originated from, Dr. Kyorito is able to talk about the surroundings of both the place where she originated from (Rockshore Cliff), and other town locations within the game. Her tattles include a generalised description of the town area she's in, as well as either a brief history of the area's past or her personal experiences with being in the area during her prior travels.

Base Ability: Navigate
A unique trait exclusive to Dr. Kyorito. When in an open field area that isn't a town, tattling with her will allow her to tell Mario the most optimal pathway in order to get to the next destination. However, she will also throw in hints too about secret locations that she has not yet traversed, or she may give a little history about the open area's past or her experiences with the place.

Hidden Ability: Discover
A hidden trait exclusive to Dr. Kyorito which is discovered if Mario interacts with a ancient inscription of some sort with Dr. Kyorito as the active partner. She will read out the inscription at hand (or describe it if it is a drawing). Sometimes, an item may pop out as a given reward for discovering the area.

Moveset
Below is a prototype of Dr. Kyorito's moveset:


 * Research: Locks onto the enemy and tries to identify them through memory. If successful, she will recall the enemy's name, a small description of them, their stats, and her opinion on them. If unsuccessful, she will say that she can't seem to remember exactly what the enemy is.
 * ATK: 0
 * Fireball: Basic attack, spits a fireball at the enemy and deals damage
 * ATK: 2/2/3
 * (Super Rank) Lecture: Pulls out a book and begins to lecture the enemies and Mario, potentially putting them to sleep for 2 turns. For every enemy asleep, her ATK goes up by 1 and wears off after the next turn. If Mario ends up falling asleep, then her ATK will go up by 2. The sleep percentage is rather low.
 * (Ultra Rank) Dino Stomp: Stomps on the ground and deals shockwave damage to the first enemy in line. Deals knockback to the second in line.
 * ATK: 4 (3 for the enemy in the back)
 * (Secret Skill) Fireball Frenzy: Unlocked after using her in 30 battles. Spits multiple fireballs which falls on enemies at random. Has a chance to burn for 3 turns.

Trivia

 * Goomstin was initially going to be the Chapter 1 partner. However that was changed to Dr. Kyorito in 2016, and Goomstin has now been relegated to a prized student of Vanilla Dome University.
 * Kyorito is a combination of "Kyoryu" (恐竜), Japanese for Dinosaur, and Kritosaurus.
 * Additionally, Dr. Kyorito was initially named "Dr. Kyoryu", but changed to her current name in early 2020.
 * In the 2019 draft script, Dr. Kyorito was initially terrified of exploring but desperately wished to do so. This was changed in later 2020 renditions of the script.