That's mostly because I gave him a regular gyarados to starts (had a blue armor pic and all), but decided to change it to red because it's a running gag that I have at least one character with a shiny in all the Pokémon RPs I've done on here. Also, shiny Gyarados is such a classic how could I not?

Was gonna give him a Blastoise, but I figured that would have been too on the nose.