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Name: [First and last]

Nicknames:

Age: [18-25]

Gender:

Appearance: [Here you can write any added information about your character's appearance]

Personality:

Short Biography:

Pokemon: [Players must start with just 1-2 Pokemon]


Reason for Traveling with Main Group:

Relationships: [Includes both PCs and NPCs]

Other:

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Name: Judas Alto

Nicknames: None, currently.

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Appearance:Judas stands in around 6 feet exactly, and is 190 pounds, as he's gained some muscle doing field work with his father. He has several small nicks and cuts along his hands and feet, and bite marks on his feet and ankles. Most of these injuries are from field work with his father, and from his pokemon partners. Mostly His Trapinch, Squegg. Other than that, he wears waterproof leather boots, and fingerless gloves to avoid any more injuries than he already has. He can also often be seen in jeans, as they are a pretty durable choice.

Personality: Disarmingly optimistic, he does his best to stay happy and hopeful as his father raised him to be in his younger years, when he wasn't around as much.

Short Biography: Judas was Born and raised in the Orre region. His first home was in Phenac City, where he lived like most other children. He attended school, and made all sorts of friends. At the age of 12, with the help of his father, he even caught his first pokemon in the desert there. A Sandshrew, who put up quite the fight. In the end however, they released the sandshrew back into the wild.

At the age of 17, Judas' father told the family they'd be moving. All the way to the Hoenn region, to a place called Mauville City. After some minor protests, Judas eventually came along quietly. The shift from Desert city to tropical metropolis was a bit of a culture shock to him, but, as luck would have it, there was a desert just north of Mauville, and Judas would accompany his father whenever he went there. After a year or so of catch and release and playing with the family vulpix, Judas decided he wanted his own pokemon to keep. So he took the trip to the small desert in search of a partner.

In said desert, a Trapinch laid half-buried in the sand. Taking this opportunity to use his catching, Judas whipped out a Premier Ball (his favorite type) and hit it right in its big orange mouth. Judas knew he should probably have weakened it first, but the only pokemon he really had was the family vulpix, and if something happened to her, he'd never hear the end of it. Fortune, or perhaps fate, reared its head, and the Trapinch was captured without incident. Holding the limp body of his new friend, Judas thought it was dead, but its occasional blinking showed it was still alive, just really lazy.

Squegg got along just fine with everyone else, and spent most of his days lounging around and doing light training. Then, Judas' dad gave way to more unfortunate news: they'd be moving again. This time to a small town in Johto, called New Bark Town. Disappointed, but understanding, the family moved to New Bark Town.

Judas would spend the rest of his time until present day here. But he still accompanied his father on his trips to other towns. His favorite memory is when his father took him to the bug catching contest in Goldenrod for his 22nd birthday, where he got extremely lucky, and managed to win first place with a Scyther he had caught. He named the Scyther Ace, and began using him as his main training partner, rather than Squegg.

The rest of the year went by fast, but everything came to a grinding halt 3 weeks ago, when his father didn't return home after going out for some field work. He usually would only be gone a couple of days, and it wasn't uncommon for him to be a day or two late, but now he had been gone for a week. Two weeks. Three weeks. The police were alerted, and other scientists around the region were notified, but Judas had had enough. He told his mother he'd go out searching for him, and surprisingly, he had her full support. With a pack full of items, pokeballs, and rations, he took his two partners, and joined a group of others who also happened to be leaving. Safety in numbers and all that.

Pokemon:




Reason for Traveling with Main Group: He is looking for his father, who has recently gone missing. Considering all the dangers of traveling alone, he decided to travel with a group.

Relationships: Jason Alto: Judas' missing father.

Other: He has a picture of his missing father on his pokégear. His dialogue color is 00aeef.

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Name: Katalya Akiyama

Nickname(s): Kat.

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Appearance: Katalya is slightly above average in height, standing at 5’5”, and weighs about 175lbs. Her light gray hair falls to about her collarbone, being just long enough for her to keep it up in a ponytail or do other small cute things with it, if she wanted - though it is very rare that she does. Her eyes appear to be a dark, watery teal, and are often very watchful of small details. She general keeps a rather neutral expression, but her friends can quickly change that.

Her wardrobe usually consist of duller colors - but you never know what fashion piece she’ll add to her outfit next, being that she’s often looking for new designs - though she usually tests these on her friends before herself.

Personality: When it comes to personality, Katalya is a rather reserved person. She prefers to watch a situation rather than attribute to the chaos, and is generally rather good at coming up with plans while others are discussing out loud.

However, that demeanor totally changes when she’s engaged with her friends. To them, she’s a playful, sarcastic, fun-poking companion who loves to make them smile, cry, and blush - even if she’s rather susceptible to that last one herself.

She’s quite slow to trust others, which makes her bond with her friends all the more special.

Short Biography: Kat lived a pretty simple life throughout her younger years up until she was almost twenty. She lived with her mother in a modest home in New Bark Town for all her life, making a few friends along the way. Her father was never around - in fact, she’s only seen him a handful of times. Something she still doesn’t understand and kinda resents.

In the later years of her teen life, misfortune fell upon the household when her mother began to fall ill. Katalya did her best to take care of her mother in any way possible, but her efforts were proven fruitless when she eventually became completely bedridden. Soon after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Yet, still her father did not come to visit. He sent money - but what good was that?? They needed him.

For almost a year Kat stayed by her mother’s bedside, fetching whatever she wanted even at the tiniest signs of discomfort. She often tried to comfort her by smothering her in her fashion creations - little costumes she made her Pokémon wear, specially-made scarfs, and other things. However, after a time, her mother beckoned her over to the bed. She wanted her daughter to leave her side. But why?

Of course, Kat refused - but her mother was persistent. She implored her daughter to travel the region - to follow her own desires and dreams. She knew how badly little Kat had always wanted to travel and discover new Pokémon to study and tailor her creations after.

After weeks of discourse, Kat reluctantly agreed to follow her mother’s wishes - which she said would make her very happy. But, she promised to have a letter for her every time her mother’s Bisharp came to visit. She didn’t like leaving her mother’s side, but if it would make her happy...she could understand that.

Pokemon:


Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Katalya travels the region with her friends in order to see new Pokémon - hoping to study and perhaps catch some, in order to gain new inspirations for her various fashion creations. Whether they be for people, Pokémon, or something other - she’s always intrigued when it comes to fun, cool, and cutesy designs.

Relationships:

• Yua Akiyama [Mother]: Katalya has a deep appreciation and respect for her mother. She thinks about her every night and every morning, and sends her letters through her mother’s Bisharp whenever possible.
• Eiji Akiyama [Father]: Katalya has an ingrained resentment for her father. He was never there for her and her mother - only sending money and never love. She can’t forgive him.

Other:

• Katalya’s speech color is C1CDCD.
• Her Sneasel, Lily, was not caught by Katalya, but was instead caught by her mother and gifted to her when she was 16.

N A M E

Zola Amari

N I C K N A M E S

N/A

A G E

Eighteen

G E N D E R

Female

A P P E A R A N C E

A tall figure bundled up in too many layers of shawls and cardigans, Zola dresses as if she is either ninety years old or perpetually suffering from the flu, and her slouch isn't helping either angle. She is often seen with both a large hiking backpack and a fannypack which contain all the supplies a travelling trainer might need (and everything else her mother thought she could carry). Most of her gear is home-made or second-hand, scratched up or singed – much like herself, bearing the scrapes and bruises and burns that come with rehabilitating poorly-treated Pokemon.

P E R S O N A L I T Y

Zola is a softly-spoken, calming presence who carries with her a dose of tooth-rotting idealism. Politeness is the name of her game, and she believes that if she treats everyone and everything as equals deserving of respect, she will earn their trust – something she applies in interactions with both Pokemon and people, even if sometimes it can come across as silly or even irritating to those who do not share her simplistic worldview. Though she is slow to anger, she has a dislike of certain types of trainer that borders on the obsessive, and she struggles to believe that people can change their ways.

Direct confrontation is not her way, and she uses an excellent 'customer service' persona as a shield of good manners to hide her malicious compliance. There's no need to cause a stink when you can get your revenge in a thousand other little ways, up to and including some misappropriation of one's belongings. Practical methods and a flexible sense of morality get results, or so she says. Other things she might say include 'laws are threats' and 'the police only exist to enforce the status-quo', but her Ditto would never spill the beans.

B I O G R A P H Y

Zola was born in New Bark Town – her father's hometown, where he relocated his wife when they were newlyweds – and for a long time, she believed that she would stay in New Bark Town for the rest of her life. With her expertise as a retired gym leader in Hoenn, her mother ran a daycare and later a rehabilitation centre out of their home, barely able to keep up with the demand from the nearby cities even with grants and charitable donations from local government. Zola naturally assumed the role of part-time worker from a young age, reading nursery rhymes to drooping dittos and trying to explain to her teachers that a houndour really did eat her homework.

As a teenager, Zola did not take a Pokemon from the local professor but rather was given the difficult task of helping a young Cacnea with abandonment issues, her Mr. Spike. Although together they worked through a majority of the anger and frustration with healthy outlets rather than deadly needles aimed at her face, there came a plateau he did not seem to grow out of: a lack of independence that she could not fix while they were both in the comfort zone of the centre.

A recent influx of Pokemon affirmed her decision to leave. Another handful of Dittos anonymously dumped on her doorstep – all numbered rather than named – was in equal parts disheartening and infuriating. Bonding with one of them, whom she affectionally dubbed Duo, strengthened her resolve to see the world outside for its sake. It has an insatiable curiosity for the outside world, and so does Zola. (Mr. Spike not so much, but it will be good for him, she swears.)

P O K E M O N

M O T I V A T I O N S

Zola is distantly aware that some Pokemon are in the possession of criminals who do not treat them as kindly as they should. Worse still, she knows that some normal, law-abiding families do not appreciate their furry friends either, and she's not sure which is worse. She wants to train her skills at handling "problem" Pokemon outside of the controlled environment of her mother's rescue centre, and maybe she'll liberate some along the way. Who can say? All she knows is that there is safety in numbers, and she was taught to never go into tall grass alone.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

O T H E R

Name: Kenneth Hardroot

Nicknames: Kenny

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Appearance:Ken has green eyes under spiky hair he's always saying needs to be cut. Those eyes are hard but sit on a grinning expressive smirk most of the time with cheery wrinkles squinting his vision when he laughs. Other than that he stands at 5'10 170 lean and broad shouldered from his chores with the livestock.

Personality: Very brash but honest, and never one to hold his tongue. He's often gotten in trouble for his rebellious and loud ways. Ken prefers a goofy aloofness with a meanstreak should there be arguments or scuffles.

Short Biography: Ken was actually born in Unova outside of Nimbasa City to an archaeologist and a hippie, otherwise known as Mr. and Mrs. Hardroot. His mother Tess wanted a simple slower life after having spent her whole childhood under the hustle and bustle of the city. As luck would have it during one of her many weekend cross country vacations she found her two new life partners, a man named Roger and a Maractus she dubbed Shimmy. Ken was quick to follow, but the family relocated to New Bark Town quickly after that. As much as ken tried to learn more he was always shuffled aside with rem arks of as simple life. A life Ken frankly had grown tired of.

The simple life to the Hardroots was apparently to become self sustaining farmers. They and a trio of Ponyta(two adults and an offspring that took to Kenny named Cassy), a whimsical Maractus, and the occasional stray pokemon the Mrs. takes in are all that they have humbly aspired to it seems. Ken is itching for adventure since the Safari has refused his application for the third time now.

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Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Ken is tired of living a simple boring life and wishes to escape. Perhaps his mothers fantasies about Unova spurred him on but with restlessness comes trouble. As he'll admit in saying "dad always said, faster alone farther together." he's openly pondered his escape to his community for the past week seeing if anyone would bite.

Relationships:
Roger Hardroot: Retired PokeArcheolgist
Tess Hardroot: Amateur Apothecary

Other: Ken can sleep anywhere and carries a few potions from his mothers stash on his person. He is also incredibly superstitious(ghost pokemon have given him panic attacks) from his mother's habit in an only household, and gullible to boot if properly agitated.

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Name: Bartholomew Mulkaper

Nicknames: Barry

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Appearance: Barry has a lanky 6'1" build, cloaked in his local winter robes from Blackthorn. Despite his height, his smooth complexion sometimes results in him being mistaken for younger than he really is. In all weather conditions, Barry is always seen wearing his trusty sandals.

Personality: Barry is a relaxed and steady-as-a-Golem countrysider, raised in a large family of agriculturalists. He has a fixed loyalty to those around him—cultivated by his family during his upbringing—but has never had to face the world without their guidance and support.

Short Biography: Barry spent his childhood in New Bark, aiding his parents in their apricot and berry pharmacy in his free time. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Blackthorn to cultivate Ice Berries and open up a new store, Apotheberry. With the help of their team of Shuckle, they sold medicine to the locals and shipped their products across Johto. However, last winter a terrible blizzard swept away their year's crop—along with half of their Shuckle—and while the Ice Berry seeds they had planted could sustain frigid temperatures indefinitely, their next harvest wouldn't be for another nine months. Barry had long-since heard the rumors of a mysterious blue Shuckle that could make higher quality medicine than any of its counterparts, and realized that he would have to find and catch it if he wanted to save his family from debt. Armed with one of the family Shuckle and his trusty partner Pokemon, the winter guardian Delibird, he set out to New Bark to meet up with old friends about to embark on an adventure of their own.

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Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Barry wants to travel with a team exploring the region to search for the rumored blue Shuckle. To Barry, who better to travel with than childhood friends?

Relationships: Parents, extended family

Other: Barry picked up a knack for medicine while working for the family pharmacy and can identify both useful and dangerous plants.

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Name:

Age:

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Reason for Traveling with Main Group:

Relationships:

• Franklin Arata
  • Father, passed away when Flynn was fifteen. Loved him very much.
• Kikyo Arata
  • Mother, a very passive person, not that close with Flynn.
• Aika Arata
  • Grandmother, controlling but genuinely loves Flynn. Can't say the feeling is mutual.

Other:

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Name: Dante DiAngelo

Nicknames: N/A

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Appearance: Dante stands at exactly 6'0 and curses the Pokemon gods for stopping it there. If anyone looked at him they'd assume that he was just skin and bones, but he has a toned body from the years that he's played sports. He has crystal blue eyes and sky blue hair to match. The men in his family have a genetic mutation where the roots of their blue hair turn black once they hit puberty. His favorite thing to wear is a v-cut turtleneck and he would rarely be seen without one. Another item that never leaves his side is his younger brother's black hat with a white back and red under rim. On his back you'll find the standard trainer backpack where he keeps all his essentials in this apparent blackhole of a bag.

Personality: Growing up Dante was always seen as a jokester. Someone that could always make the people around him smile. He never had a problem making friends and could never tell if he was drawn to them or if it had been the other way around. If you asked him he'd tell you that he was never the ambitious type, but that wasn't true. After the death of his brother there was an obvious change in him. He kept up the facade of the Dante they all knew, but there was a darkness growing him.

Short Biography: Dante was born and raised in New Bark Town and for a time he thought it would be all he'd ever know. Like any kid in this world Dante had a love of Pokemon and secretly wished to be the greatest trainer in the world or at least the region. He wanted to be realistic at least. His father was a Pokemon trainer and taught Dante everything he knows. His dream was within reach and all he had to do was take it. But for some reason he couldn't. When the day came for him to see the Professor and receive his first Pokemon his fear overtook him. He had been preparing and training for this moment, but he couldn't get the thought of failing on his journey out of his head. He never left his room that day.

His father never said it, but Dante knew he was disappointed in him. He never yelled at him or tried to force him to see the Professor, but that made him worse. He felt like his father had given up on him. His brother, Tai, was born two years later and Dante had finally put the dreams of his past behind him. He looked forward to the future with his growing family even if he didn't know what his role in life would be. Three years later their father walked out on them and never returned. His mother would never tell him why or what happened and after a while he stopped bugging her about it.

A month or two after his dad left, his mother got him and his brother a silver-furred Poochyena pup. It was so small, but it had heart. It howled as soon as it saw them and his brother affectionately named him Howler. Of course he could barely pronounce it at the time so it came out as Hower. But it was during that moment that Dante saw the same spark he used to have in his brother's eyes. He realized it was his brother, not him that was meant to be a great trainer. From that moment on he decided to teach his brother the same things his brother taught him. As the years passed his brother surpassed his expectations. It was as if he fully understood the true nature of Pokemon training despite being so young. When Tai turned 8 years old he caught the attention of the Professor and was chosen to join the ten year olds in selecting their Pokemon.

Little did he know that would be the last time he'd see his little brother alive. A month into his journey he was engaged by a gang and was killed while protecting his friends. Dante's world was shattered and his mother's heart was broken. His mother sent word to their father so that he could at least return for the funeral, but they never got a response. Dante hated him even more for it. The night after the funeral he returned to the cemetery to talk to his brother, but as he did so a Gastly appeared from the ground beside him and just hovered there watching him. He wasn't foolish enough to believe the Gastly was his brother returned to him, but a part of him hoped he was.

When Dante started walking home he noticed the Gastly was following him and even tried to hide every time he turned to look at it. He realized he probably wasn't going to get rid of it and named it Spirit. When he returned home he was met by Howler with Tai's hat in his mouth. He took it out and stared at it for a moment before looking at the two Pokemon in front of him. "You two in the mood for a journey?"

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Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Dante wants to overcome his initial fear and pursue his younger brother's dream of being the Pokemon Champion. He also wants to find the truth behind these gangs and put an end to them. And if he finds his father along the way he's punching him in the face.

Relationships:

• Cassandra DiAngelo: Dante's mother who deserves the world. He hopes to be able to give it to her after this journey.

• Nicola DiAngelo: A bastard and Dante's number #2 enemy behind whoever murdered his brother. Dante grew up idolizing him but those feelings disappeared once he abandoned his family.

• Tai DiAngelo: Dante's younger brother whose life and future was stolen from him. An angel on Earth.
  
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Other:
Color Code is #15f2fd
He uses his brother's PokeDex and when it's not being used he keeps it in his backpack along with 20 PokeBalls, a few potions, and one elixir.

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Name:Sam Quinn

Nicknames:Sammy Quick, Sam the Man, The Rainmaker, Sam the Closer, Sammy Silverfingers, Sam Money, Sammy Quintuple-your-money (it bears mentioning all of these are nicknames he coined for himself. He's hoping they catch on)

Age: 23

Gender:Male

Appearance: Sam's shorter than average at 5'8", made even worse by his tendency to slouch. He likes to dress flashy, likes bold colors and patterns, but is always keeping an eye on fashion trends. Sam prefers to wear coats even when the weather doesn't call for them, as he needs as many pockets as he can get. Whenever he goes out he always has his sunglasses and a cigarette. Sometimes he doesn't even light the cigarette when he pulls one out, just using to gesticulate he's talking or bite down on when he's thinking intensely.

Personality:Sam's always active, always thinking, quickly, but not necessarily thoroughly. He's the kind of person that's always looking for angle, a leg up on the rest of the world, and is fine with bending the rules a little. He doesn't believe in outright theft or violence, but if he ends up better off because he could think of a better scheme than anyone else, that money is as honest as any other in his book. Money is something he thinks about a lot, not really because he's addicted to spending it (though he will throw some around to make a point), but because it's how he measures himself, how he sees if he's finally amounted to something worthwhile. He's a natural deal maker and superficial charmer, but in terms of actual relationships he prefers to have a few close and loyal ones; he'll always back up someone if they are part of his bunch. For outsiders he's more willing to burn bridges; customer satisfaction ain't money, only money is money. In his personal time he's restless, trying to stay active and disdaining intellectual pursuits, his time at university has left him seeing it as something for people who don't value their money.

Short Biography:Sam's parents were highschool sweethearts, married shortly after graduating from school in New Bark Town. They had a shared love of art and painting, but art wasn't a way to pay the bills. His father got a job at the local aluminum smelting plant helping out with machinery maintenence, while his mother worked odd jobs and sold the occasional painting. Sam didn't have much growing up, but he was happy enough, finding his own ways to have fun and explore the town. When Sam was in elementary school the smelting plant closed and his father was laid off; money became tight and his parents began to quarrel. To this day he can't process it all, but it ended with his parents divorcing and his mother re-marrying.

Mr. Kiyosaki, Sam's new stepfather, was a bigshot in the local real estate scene, not very present in his life but always willing to throw around some money in an attempt to buy some goodwill. With his parents splitting custody, Sam grew frustrated with his Father's poverty and started seeing him as something a model of what not to do. Eventually Sam went off to college, changing majors several times as his interests and ideas changed. While he was away at college, Mr. Kiyosaki divorced his mother and moved on to another wife (his third by now), but he at least had the courtesy to leave some money for Sam to complete his studies. Well, it may have been a courtesy enforced by the divorce judgment, but Sam was grateful for it. After one too many semesters of poor grades (Sam insists his time was better spent "networking" than studying), the university politely asked that he take a semester off to reconsider his commitement. Finding himself back in New Bark Town, Sam wasn't interested in hearing about his biological parents patching things up or his father's new line of work as a wind turbine repairman; he was going to use his new freedom to go out into the world and be somebody. He didn't need any piece of paper to tell he was ready, he knew he was ready now.

Pokemon:


Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Every business is a relationship business. No one makes money without having connections, and there's no better way to get connections than trying to do something big with together a group of driven and people.

Relationships:
David Quinn: Father. Quiet, keeps to himself. Gets a lot of painting ideas from his work repairing wind turbines.

Mari Tamura: Mother. Living on her own, works part time with a local pokemon breeder. A social butterfly, well-liked among the town.

Toru Kiyosaki: Stepfather. Responsible for a lot of real estate and construction around New Bark Town. Everyone around has an opinion of him, either positive or negative. Without his donations to local public works projects it would probably be overwhelmingly negative. Stern, not much contact with Sam these days.

Akio Kiyosaki: Stepbrother. Toru's son with his first wife, and always Toru's favorite child and choice to inherit his business. More intellectual in his interests than his father or Sam, but has an condescending air about him. Can be kind to the people he counts as true friends and equals, but that is a very small set.

Kyoko Kiyosaki: Half-sister. Younger than Sam, a bundle of energy and warmth. Sort of directionless at the moment, but always looked up to Sam for his passion.

Other: Nothing for the moment