Name: Joshua Tamashii
Age: 19
Appearance:


Minus the sword, obviously

Trainer Class: Ace Trainer/Gym Leader-in-training
Personality: Joshua can best be described as a lone-wolf or an anti-hero type of person. He is rude, cold, sarcastic, and slightly short-tempered when first meeting people, and that's if he even bothers to respond to you in the first place. He seems to enjoy his personal space (which apparently has a rather big radius) and would rather be alone with his Pokemon then with another human being, even if said human is just trying to be friendly.

This, however, is just an image he projects. Inside he's actually a bit of a softy, willing to talk with others and more then willing to give them a hand. He is downright loyal to those he considers friends and is always willing to put aside his own goals to help them, even if his current goal is something he has pursued for a very long time. He truly desires to have friends, but he just has a hard time communicating his feeling with others. With a little effort, you just might find one of the best friends you've ever had in him.

In battle Joshua is adaptable and ruthless, aiming for his opponents weaknesses and only using offensive moves, with little concern for defense and status-buffing moves. He aims to take his opponent down as quickly as possible. In his mind the best defense is a good offense, and his battling style reflects this.

Backstory: Joshua was born in Ecruteak Town in the Johto Region. His early childhood was very uneventful, only consisting of school, chores, playing with his older siblings, and whatever kids did at that age and time. When he finally reached the age of ten he set out on his pokemon journey, choosing Cyndaquil as his starter. Struggling at first, as most first-time trainers do, he eventually found his stride, and his battling style, and began winning badges from the Johto gym-leaders. The journey took Joshua a total of five years to complete, with him taking his time and not pushing himself too hard. While he managed to make it to the League, Joshua ultimately did not win but began the journey home with his head held high nonetheless.

On his way home, while traveling through Illex forest at night, Joshua received a glimpse of a pokemon he had never seen before. Completely black, vaguely humanoid, and with what appeared to be smoke with a single blue eye for a head, the pokemon attacked Joshua, who called out his best companions. Despite their best efforts, Joshua and his pokemon ultimately lost to the mysterious foe, but damaged it enough that it fled away, flying between the trees of the forest.

When Joshua finally made it back to Ecruteak Town, he threw himself into researching and finding out what pokemon had defeated him so easily. It didn't take him long to find out it was Darkrai, the legendary Dark-type pokemon of the Lunar Duo. Up until now, Joshua hadn't encountered many Dark-type pokemon and those he had didn't interest him at the time. How he found himself fascinated with them and studying them. Due to this he studied the regions of Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos, to find out what dark-types were there and their strengths and weaknesses.

This facination lead to Joshua eventually realizing he had a goal that didn't involve him being champion: he now wanted to open a gym that focused on dark-type pokemon, something he saw lacking in the other regions. When word reached his ears of a new region that didn't seem to have a league, or gym leaders. Seeing an oppurtunity, Joshua left the region and took the first flight to the new Saro region, where he would start anew and prove himself worthy of being a gym leader.

Favorite Pokemon Type: Dark-type pokemon or those that can evolve into Dark-types.

My favorite color... Black or blue. Not really sure which.

Other:

Name: Amelia Alison Averyonna
Age: 11
Appearance:


Minus the headphone, ribbon, and arm warmers.

Trainer Class: Lass I guess.

Personality: Having been sheltered most of her life Amelia is a shy, naive but curious and lively young girl who lacks in the self-confidence department. Having little to no social interaction with the outside world, Amelia tends to shy away from other people and avoid talking to them. When she does talk to someone she'll often look at the ground and speak in a quiet tone, making it hard for others to hear her.

When she is alone, or with her pokemon, she is a bit more lively and shows more energy. Having never seen the outside world she is easily filled with wanderlust and can be distracted by even the smallest of things. This can also lead to her being a bit overly curious as she tries to figure out whatever has her attention at the time.

Amelia is also a very artistically talented girl, who is able to sing and draw with skill well beyond what is normally capable of children her age. However she lacks confidence in her work and often tries to hide it from others, even if those people have seen and complimented on it before. As a result she often practices when she thinks she's alone and uses her talents as a means to calm herself down when she's upset.

When it comes to battling, Amelia prefers to avoid it. All she wants to do it enjoy her freedom and have fun times with her companions. As such, she'll avoid battles as much as she can. If she can't avoid it, she will battle others, but seeing as she has never been in a battle before, she doesn't have much experience to draw upon.

Backstory: Amelia is the heiress of the Averyonna family, a rich family from Johto. Her father is a business tycoon and current owner of the Goldenrod Department Store, while her mother is a world famous pokemon coordinator. Surprisingly, not much is known about the couple's only daughter. In fact, most of the world doesn't know that Amelia even exist.

From her early life, Amelia had always been a sheltered child. She was never allowed to leave her families estate and when she wanted something, one of the servants would go get it for her. While she was able to freely play in the large backyard, she was never allowed contact with anyone her age and as such, she never had any friends to speak of. When she turned six, her parents began sending instructors to see her and educate her on subjects most children usually learned in at school. Most of the instructors where strict and pushed the young girl hard, forcing her to learn at an accelerated pace. When the child didn't meet their standards she was often talked down upon and pushed even harder, making her miserable.

When she turned eight, Amelia began sneaking out of the estate to explorer a little of the outside world. The estate was located near Johto's daycare center, and as such, the child was often found there, playing with the various pokemon trainers dropped off. She found it easier to talk to the creatures then to humans and often made fast friends with them. She had so much fun there that she often snuch out when she was supposed to be having a lesson, something which didn't go unnoticed by her instructors and parents. When they found out where she was spending her time and how she got out of the estate, they quickly blocked her only exit and stopped her from going to the daycare.

After three more years of misery, some of the servants of the castle, who had grown sorry for her, helped Amelia escape from her prison. They smuggled her outside of the estate before presenting her with a bag of supplies and a ticket to the new Saro region. Thanking them and hoping they wouldn't get fired for helping her, Amelia quickly bourded the plane and set off to enjoy her new found freedom.

Favorite Pokemon Type: Pokemon that make her feel safe and happy. Mostly dog- and large cat-looking pokemon

Other:

My favorite color... black or blue. Not really sure which.

Name: Cyrille Dubois

Age: 16

Appearance:
With a relatively small stature, especially for an athlete, Cyrille's two proudest features are her toned legs and her almost nonexistent chest. She tends to wear boy's clothes in favor of ones for her own gender, and always keeps the majority of her hair hidden under her hat. Add some bandages to completely flatten whatever breasts she may or may not actually have, and Cyrille passes off as a pretty believable boy.

Trainer Class: Infielder

Personality: A sixteen-year-old gender-confused girl with a twenty-foot attitude, the only thing between her and all-out masculinity is the lack of a Y chromosome. She likes to do things often associated with boys; sports, doing things she knows is stupid but she does them anyway, and not being mistaken for a girl. Which is an odd statement when taken word-for-word, given that she is a girl. Cyrille also boasts a rash and rough, but altogether good-natured personality. She'll pick a fight or two for certain, but more often than not she has a reason. And of course, she hates being mistaken for a girl.

Though there's a little more than just a girl who wants to be a boy here. She keeps her hair long and keeps a diary with a sticker of assorted Fairy-types (not Mawile, though) on the cover and sketches of even more Fairies (still no Mawile) on the inside. Her favorite Pokemon, no matter how much she claims they're Fighting-type badasses, are the cutest pink Fairy-types the world has to offer. An observer of the psychological persuasion can easily tell that it may not be so much her being a girl who wants to be a boy, and that in its own crazy way may actually be the other way around. In reality, even though she's mentally male, it's that Cyrille wants to be a girl but has no clue how and is too scared to ask.

Backstory: Hailing from Kalos Region's Laverre City comes a grand psychological oddity. Cyrille Dubois was born a girl, but did her best to be a boy instead. Not an easy task when everybody already knows you're a girl. The person she admired most in childhood was another person who may or may not have identity problems. The local Gym Leader: Valerie. Maybe it was because of Valerie that Cyrille has some girlish tendencies, or maybe not. The point is that Valerlie was the one person with whom Cyrille felt comfortable over her gender. Sometimes she'd even ask for advice from the Gym Leader. Valerie actually had a great idea.

Become a foreign exchange student. Nobody in another region would know her gender, would they? It would be a blank slate with which she could establish her gender for herself instead of having everybody believe what her DNA said. She wound up going to Hoenn Region's Petalburg City, where Cyrille Dubois took advantage of her gender-neutral name to firmly establish the idea that she was in fact male. She'd considered trying to down Norman, the local Gym Leader, but he promptly turned her down because she A: had no Pokemon, and B: didn't have four Gym Badges. She was about to leave, until another challenger approached with said four badges. That challenger used Fighting-types. Cyrille was left in awe of their power. From that day on, Cyrille swore that if she ever became a Gym Leader, she'd use that type. Except that never happened, because she only caught one Pokemon ever. Ralts, who she only kept for about ten seconds before remembering he was Fairy-type.

The years passed pretty normally from there. When Cyrille received an invitation to this Saro Region, she saw a good chance to score some Pokemon, maybe more firmly establish herself as a boy, and return to Hoenn so she could show Norman what she would (hopefully) learn. She accepted without skipping a beat.

Favorite Pokemon Type: Cyrille's favorite type on the surface is Fighting-type. If a close friend asked her, she'd claim it's actually Psychic. The reality is that her favorite type is Fairy, though she'll often make an effort to appear to hate them. The sole exception to this rule is Mawile, "the resident badass of the Fairy dollhouse." In all fact, anecdotes cut, her favorite Pokemon of all is actually Cleffa, which she adores more than anything else on this planet. But since she sees it as a "middle ground" between Fighting and Fairy, Cyrille actually acts like her all-time favorite is Gallade.

Other: Suddenly, character theme!