[h3]Ioane "Io" Alani[/h3]

[b]Gender[/b]: Male
[b]Age[/b]: 18

[b]Appearance[/b]: Growing up in Alola with his parents and ancestry being native to the islands, Ioane has been given the sun-kissed skin. He is tall, dark, and handsome. He has a head full of messy chocolate hair with a pair of piercing copper-colored eyes. He has a very chiseled face with a protruding chin. His physique is lengthy, lean, and full of muscle having spent most of his childhood swimming and running around the beaches and oceans of the tropical islands.

Often told he has an overall attractiveness but a grim and unsmiling face, he tries his best to be more open and appealing to others.
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[b]Personality[/b]: Io is a very quiet and reserved person who doesn't have very much to say unless asked. He is keen and intelligent, coming from a very big family on research. His specific area of study is that of the regional variations found throughout the world. The young researcher can often be seen as somber and distant as he is always lost in his own train of thought and day dreaming about the world around him.

Io has been told he has a very cold aura around him even though he is from the Alola Region. He tries his best to showcase a friendly and personable attitude but often comes off as extremely awkward creepy.

[b]Hometown/Region[/b]: Hau'oli City, Alola

[b]History[/b]: Ioane was born and raised in Alola. His parents raised him in Hau'oli City alongside his four siblings, with Ioane being directly in the middle. Both his mother and father are researchers in various subjects as are his siblings. His mother studies Oceanography where his father studies the Pokemon deep within it. Io's older brother and sister study prehistoric or fossil Pokemon and Fairy types respectively. His two younger siblings, two sisters, are budding researchers in the areas of the stars and space. With his family being so focused on Pokemon research, Io spent a lot of his time with Samson Oak as his area of expertise was on regional variations. That is where the boy inherited his peaking interest in the differences Pokemon cousins had from one another from different regions.

Io studied with Samson until he was ten, then was given the opportunity of a lifetime to research a different region with another professor in the Orange Island who was also studying regional variations. The professor in question was none other than the well respected and admired, Professor Philena Ivy. During his time in the Orange Island he was able to research and collect and immense amount of information and data on the differences between the Pokemon in the Orange Islands and their cousins in the similarly, tropical Alola Region.

It has been eight years since the last time he was back home in the Alola Region and Io is happy to be back to show his family what he has learned.

[b]Pokemon Team[/b]
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[b]Pokemon Nickname[/b]: King Augustus Tales, better known as Auggie
[b]Pokemon Species[/b]: Aipom
[b]Gender[/b]: ♂

[b]Ability[/b]: Skill Link
[b]Moveset[/b]:
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[*]Fury Swipes
[*]Tail Whip
[*]Tickle
[*]Power-Up Punch
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[b]Trivia[/b]:
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[*]The Alani is a native plant to Hawaii.
[*]His mom's name is Paia and his father is Kimo.
[*]His siblings are: Danny, Leilani, Kai, and Kona.
[*]Io has spent four months in Johto studying their regions specific Pokemon's gender variants and differences.
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