Name: Gertrude Blackbourne (Although she goes by Trudy more often)
Age: 16
Starting Location: Central City
Rank: Beginner
Organization: None
Occupation: (As of now) Freelancing Scientific Aide, usually doing rudimentary field work
Appearance: Bright red hair, adorned with small ribbons to make two pigtails. Thick black glasses over her green eyes, and while her teeth shine rather brightly, they're also adorned by some rather gaudy braces. Her shoes don't really matter much, she mostly just wears slippers, maybe boots if she wants to look experienced or "ready". She's also usually wearing some sort of vest, and a white shirt under it, although the colors tend to vary, of course. As for bottoms, she tends to default to either a short skirt, or a slightly-longer skirt. She's not a very varied girl. Just a very tad bit pudgy. Just a bit. Super self conscious about this though.
Biography: A young, gifted girl, Gertrude was raised under a rather well-off family, with a loving mother and father, and a younger sister who, while had a few irritating traits, was far from the worst possible child. Although, there might've been just a small bit of favoritism to Trudy, but it wasn't anything, right?
Trudy's lifestyle was... dubiously healthy, however. She didn't have too many friends, and instead chose to isolate herself, to enamor herself in whatever subject she was interested in; usually either math or science. It sort of led to her becoming a bit socially stunted, but more on that later. Eventually, one of her longtime friends tried to convince her to come out for once, enjoy the outdoors, a good camping trip will do her good.
The trip, for all intent purposes, went poorly. After an incident with a number of contradicting claims from those around her, Gertrude was left paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life. For a few months, this devastated the young girl, leaving her in a state of despair and shock. However, eventually, she came to realize: this wasn't even remotely close to a setback, more like a minor annoyance to her. She wouldn't let this get her down, not for an instant! With a new vigor, and a new spirit, Trudy knew what she had to do: Set out across the world, explore every inch of it, make notes that'll blow every scientist's mind, become this generation's Einstein! With a heartfelt farewell to her parents, and a... rather awkward one with her sister, Gertrude set out on her new quest, her self-dubbed "Scientific Journey".
Personality: A vibrant, upbeat, and headstrong girl, almost to a fault. No, really, she's honestly sort of annoying about it. Thankfully, she's friendly enough, she just finds making friends difficult, tends to hog the conversation if she can, talks in long rambles, with a rather hefty vocabulary. She tries to be fearless, the best she can, but once her actual life's threatened, she starts to sweat JUST a bit. It oftentimes seems impossible to sour her mood, although it's very possible. Trudy also fashions herself as a genius, and indeed, there's a rather strong argument for this; her grades are excellent, and she has a keen intuitive. If there's one thing that might define her, it's her near-obsessive love for science, chemistry in particular, although she's rather keen on biology, as well. Although, those aren't her only interests. She's got a strong fondness for ANIME and MANGA, as well as various stage-plays, almost always of the typical feelgood, almost diabetes-inflicting style, stuff like Mary Poppins and such. Lastly, she's also rather interested in tabletop RPG's, DnD and Pathfinder and such. Overall, Trudy is a jolly, intelligent, and friendly girl, eager to further her career.
... of course, the apple ain't so shiny on the other side. Behind all of this, even if it's just a small bit, is doubt. Doubt, loathing, hate. She knows her injury is going to limit her for the rest of her life. She knows she's almost friendless. Her sister hates her, she knows this. Trudy's the perfect daughter, the genius, the one to change the future, not her! She knows she can't fix this, and perhaps this is why she left, ultimately, even if she doesn't know it, to get away from her failure as a sister. Even with her feelings towards herself, she knows she can't stand others. People who have no patience for her endeavors, her breakthroughs! Mindless idiots, all of them! She knows what they think, she's crazy, she probably has a torture chamber for her experiments, even though all she's doing is, at worst, watching something happen! She could never hurt a living thing, she's a pacifist! By God, she could never DREAM of such a thing! But no, they hate her. Hate her motor mouth, hate her looks, hate her for her fake vigor, hate her for her weakness.
But she won't let that stop her. Losing her legs hardly did, after all.
EXTRA INFO
-Bisexual. Not sure if that'll ever turn up, but there you go.
-Is a total goldarn nerd, if you couldn't tell
-Talks rapidly, to the point she sometimes has to spend a minute to catch her breath
-Is rather pacifistic, although she's not averse to a battle, though she prefers that someone forfeit before a Pokemon's made to faint.
-Isn't actually too torn up about her injury, able to talk about it, it's a part of her life after all, why get upset about it?
-Horrible horrible chef. Doesn't realize how cooking is different from chemistry. (Hint, one of them has to taste good.)
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