Gender: Male
Age: 19
Personality: Matt has always been the quiet type; a little bit shy and with a calm demeanour, he’s the type who doesn’t really stand out in a crowd and also the type who doesn’t do well in large groups of people. He has trouble asserting himself, whether that be adding his opinions to a discussion or standing up for what he wants; as such he finds that his voice is easily drowned out by others in a group and his non-confrontational nature means that he often finds himself being dragged along by the whims of others. If something is making him uncomfortable or if he is upset about something he will rarely voice this, instead keeping it to himself and waiting for it to pass or hoping someone else with notice his discomfort so he doesn’t have to say anything.

History: Growing up in Lumiose city, Matt was never particularly interested in Pokémon as a child. His parents owned and ran a small café in the city and they lived in the equally small apartment above it whose lease did not allow pets so owning a Pokémon was never an option for them; as such, he thought they were cool but never gave them or becoming a trainer much thought. He was a shy child, someone who never meshed well with his peers and lacked friends as a result and Matt would spend most of his time alone reading or playing by himself; this continued until elementary school, when Matt was approached by and became friends with a much more extroverted group of friends who worked to bring him out of his shell a little.

When he was thirteen, the person who first made friends with him moved away to became a movie star and not long after that Matt moved as well, losing touch with most of his friends along the way. His parents moved him to Coumarine city in order to be closer to the rest of their family, opening another café in the city. Matt made a few new friends at his new school, but mostly just regressed into his old shy self; in all the years since he has never made friends who he was quite as close as the friends he had back in Lumiose.

In Coumarine it was common to see people taking photos of the sights or of themselves in front of those sights due to its popularity as a tourist destination; common enough that he never paid much attention to them. One day while walking home from school Matt saw someone taking photos by themselves; actually he saw a lot of people taking by themselves, but this person stood out for the fact that they were pointing their camera in the opposite direction from everyone else. Where everyone else was taking photos of the main attractions, or of their friends or of themselves, this person was taking photos of everything else; the store fronts, the people, the sea, the Pokémon flying in the sky above the port. They were taking a lot of photos, shooting the same shot over and over, sometimes changing angles slightly, sometimes adjusting something on their oversized camera. Matt approached them curiously to ask what they were doing and found out that this person was a professional photographer and that they were taking photos for their work. They showed Matt the photos they had been taking, photos that would soon end up appearing in a travel magazine or a tourist brochure for Coumarine city.

This encounter left Matt with an interest in photography, leading to him reading up on the subject and doing research online; he even began to consider it as a career option. On his fifteenth birthday his parents got him his own camera so that he could start taking his own photos around the city; he started his own blog so that he would have a place to post his photos to. Once he graduated from school, he was planning on studying photography at college, but a surprise message from an old friend changed those plans and now he finds himself heading towards Vaniville to reunite with people from his past.

Other: Has brought his camera with him on his journey. Intends on spending more time taking photographs than battling, but things might not work out as he expects.

Pokémon:
Nickname: Tobias, but most of the time just Tobi
Species: Fletchling
Gender: Male
Personality: Inquisitive and friendly. Not afraid to approach people or things he has never seen before and get to know them.
History: A gift given to Matt on his eighteenth birthday by his parents. Though at that point he had not yet received the message from Andre and decided to become a trainer, his parents wanted him to have a Pokémon with him when he went to college; both for company and potentially for his own safety.
Other:Tail feathers slightly longer than normal