Name:
Pip

Species:
Shinx

Gender:
Female

Ability:
Rivalry

Personality:
Very spunky, curious, and easy to excite. However, she has a bit of an ego.

Name:
Kite

Species:
Taillow

Gender:
Male

Ability:
Guts

Personality:
A little bit shy, serious, and hard-working. He's always seen on Cho's shoulder.

Name: Howler
Species: Poochyena
Gender: Male
Ability: Quick Feet
Personality: Howler has always been rather energetic and hyper. He's protective over Dante and those close to him. He's brave and doesn't know what it means to stand down from a fight. Howler also never enters PokeBalls since he was raised mostly as a pet.

Name: Spirit
Species: Gastly
Gender: Male
Ability: Levitate
Personality:Spirit has a fun and mischievous nature, but a flip seems to switch when it enters battle. It seems to feed on the darkness within Dante while also protecting him from himself. During the day it likes to stay in a ball since it hates the sun, but at night it likes to spread its gaseous legs. When it's out it's almost attached to Dante's hip.

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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.

Naoko Jin: The daughter of one of his dad's best friends. Seems to be kind of uneasy around Ace, but likes to play with Squegg. Both Nao and her father have promised to help find his father.

Other: He has a picture of his missing father on his pokégear. His dialogue color is 00aeef. He knows how to play the Saxophone.

Name: Shuckle
Species: Shuckle
Gender: Male
Ability: Sturdy
Personality: A slow and easygoing Pokemon, Shuckle is built toward working in the shop rather than battle. Nevertheless, Shuckle will obey its trainer's orders with unwavering loyalty.

Name: Tribute
Species: Delibird
Gender: Male
Ability: Vital Spirit
Personality: Tribute is a playful and lighthearted bird on the thinner side of its species. Barry met him while traveling through the Ice Path to discover more seeds for the shop. Tribute loves helping others and won't hesitate to share his food with anyone in need.

Name: Lily
Species: Sneasel
Gender: Female
Ability: Keen Eye
Personality: Mischievous, Hardheaded, Sassy. Lily and her master have pretty similar personalities - which makes for a love/love-harder relationship. They often clash, but those gritted teeth are accompanied by a wry smile that hides their mutual affection for one another.

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.

F A M I L Y

O T H E R

Name: Iris
Species: Oddish
Gender: Female
Ability: Run Away
Personality: Obedient, if a bit clumsy and at times nervous. Iris has a big heart and loves helping people after she gets to know them. The Oddish's relationship with Flynn is a strange and complex one.

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. Other than that he stands at 5'10 170lbs lean and broad shouldered from his chores with the livestock. You'll find him wearing denim jeans, boots and a light leather jacket most of the time, he's a fan of the burgundy garmet with its motorcycle buckles clinking like spurs.

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. He detests bullies having dealt with it for much of his youth and you can tell. Apart from his charming slow wit and gulliblity there is a very protective friend, looking for friends.

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. Kens birth was quick to follow, but the family relocated to New Bark Town after that. As much as Ken tried to learn more and adventure he was always shuffled aside with remarks of a 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. He's on his way out of town to at least try out the SafariZone as a trainer .

Pokemon:




Reason for Traveling with Main Group: Ken is tired of living a simple life and wishes to escape.He's been getting in far to much trouble around the countryside with vandalism. Roger, his father, demands he leave or tow the line, but perhaps his mothers fantasies about Unova spurred him on too. 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.

Family:
Roger Hardroot: Retired PokeArcheolgist, to be honest the odd legendary hunter or tourist would end up searching him out to pick his brain. Kenny finds the whole subject boring and stuffy. 
Tess Hardroot: Amateur Apothecary, if you need to know some nifty homeopathic cure, Tess is your hippe. Her superstitions really grew on Ken. 


Other:
Ken can sleep anywhere
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.

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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