Role: Support; Increases the duration and strength of all support effects, such as reflect, protect morning sun, removal of status effects.
Region: Kalos
Trainer Class: Elite Four Champion - Kalos Region “Status Master”
Appearance:
“So you have made it this far. This isn’t an easy test nor an easy challenge, let’s see how you face what’s in front of you or really, not in front of you.”
As the lights turned on it revealed a grand cathedral with an arena in the center of the room. Everything was higher up here than it had been in the other room. And there he sat, really, in the middle of the room no support seemingly floating over a drop below your feet. He just smiled and you stared enamored by the pale skinned, sharp eyed man in front of you.
He gave you the impression of someone very frail, despite the grand scope of the environment he was in. But he sat with a perfect calm and never broke his smile. It was polite, respectful, maybe a bit daring. Daring you to take your first step. To face him. To face his challenge, but what was the challenge? As you stared at the drop below.
You were staring at him a black cloak with silver embroidery in a swirling designed, draped over a blue chair that matched the blue aesthetic of the room. Underneath his clothes were knee high boots, with steel toes, and black breeches.
A glimpse of a red coat underneath it all. A three piece suit that made him look like some ancient world noble. Perhaps he was. You have heard the Trixie name goes far back. And he certainly was handsome to look at.
Albeit frail looking, his almond shaped eyes were sharp and alert. His turquoise irises were like staring into the depth of frozen crystals, and his chestnut colored hair was perfectly brushed and neatly groomed. Sitting beside his chair was a forearm crutch, but he remained with his legs crossed and hadn’t stood up until you reached the arena.
“You’ve made it past this far, your Pokemon must feel safe and trust your decision making. I have seen many cross the path without their aid before, some have nearly dropped below, nearly disqualified. But now the real challenge begins, facing me, let’s see how well your Pokemon trust your thoughts,”
His voice was soft, almost breathy, like someone who had trouble catching their breath, but it was elegant with an English accent, and well mannered. He chose his words carefully and they were with depth of thought when uttered, you can tell in the way his sentenced his words. While he had a tranquil aura about him, something about his battle sense tipped you off that he was not to be taken lightly.
Standing at 5’5”, 165 cms, weighing 110 pounds, 49kgs, he gave the impression someone delicate, one push and they could easily break. But the stance and sharpness in his cunning expression dared you to try and break him and his resolve.
Personality:
By far the misconception is that Sinis would not be one to want to talk to other trainers, but he does enjoy an exchange of words. And often he likes to hear other trainers and their experiences. He loves the exchange of information and is open minded about all sorts of training methods.
He says the best methods will always show both the trainers experience and their love for their Pokemon. He says any method that shows a Pokemon trust you is the best method. He has a disdain for any method that would otherwise traumatize or harm a Pokemon in anyway.
Pokemon and the relationship between their trainer is a sacred bond that should never be broken. Break that trust and it shows how you would treat another human being.
Generally off the field Sinis is polite, carefully choosing his words, some would say he can come off too formal sometimes. But he enjoys to have a good laugh and likes to see the good in everyone. Sometimes a dangerously naive point of view, but he sees no need to be suspicious of other people. He says it walls up another individual to the point they cannot trust another person.
He’s compassionate and kind, and very respectful. Which is quite the opposite someone would get from his upbringing. Considering there is quite some money behind the Trixie name. A very wealthy and expensive name you would think that he would be the type of person to rub it into other people’s faces. But he says he has faced enough adversity in his life to know that is no way to treat other people.
On the battlefield Sinis is a completely different beast, he is skilled in able to throwing skills and abilities together. Being dubbed the Status Master in his Elite Four role. He focuses on conditions and ailments, debuffs, and buffs in order to gain the advantage and victory.
He can be crafty and cunning in battle, but overall doesn’t push his Pokemon beyond their means. No need to expand their energy for selfish reasons.
Mostly a gentle and easy going soul. It can be his downfall because he so easily trust people, who can so easily in turn betray him or manipulate him. A naive position he is aware of, but not one he is willing to change.
Motto: “The difference between a strong trainer and a good trainer, is the difference between taking on a challenge they know is impossible or not,”
Trainer Stats:
Bond - 4 Technique - 8 Style - 2 Offense - 2 Defense - 3 Communication - 5 Special - 6
Skills:
Influential -
-nervous sweat drop-
I am not going to lie, I have the backing of a family name and I can get you anything in the Pokemarts for a steep discount. Since my family owns a factory at least two other regions than the Kalos region. All I need to do is drop my name and you’ll watch the price go down to dirt cheap or for nothing at all. But please don’t take that as any sign that I am better than anyone. I am just….luckier than some to have grown up in a wealthy situation.
Persuasion -
Is a little different than bargaining. One is for money and the other is to make people do the things they don’t necessarily want against their prior motivations. Being the way it is growing up in the family estate has allowed him to learn how to talk and pick up the cues of a socialite one of them being to persuade other people to do things they don’t necessarily want to do against their better judgment or current motivations. Not a skill he is proud to have, but at least it is useful.
Cooking -
While I may not be able to set up a camp very well -nervously looks away- I had to learn on my Pokejourney how to cook. I had always known how to make Pokemon Pastries, my grandfather taught me in the family kitchen. I hate to admit that when I was small I never really cooked for myself. I had circumstances of course, but it’s not an excuse again not trying to rub I am better in anyone’s face. But when I got out in the wilderness I learned to cook more. For Pokemon and people. It taste decent, edible, hasn’t killed anyone yet, but I am still learning and practicing new recipes with ingredients we find along the way. I am not sure how well shadow foliage will taste though.
Studious -
Since he hasn’t always had the ability to go out and journey Sinis has always been very studious. He has read countless of textbooks and learned most of his first training experiences through the textbooks he begged his parents for. But because of this Sinis has a very studious personality and if there’s anyone who might try to do research to find the source of this mysterious energy, he would definitely suggest starting somewhere to read.
Equipment:
Forearm crutch - I admit sometimes I have a tendency for poor coordination. A residual lingering effect of my illness I am afraid. I am sorry if I am going to slow anyone down, if I need to take a break I am sure Grim and Pixy will keep me safe till I am ready to move again.
x2 Potions
x3 Hyperpotions
x1 Full Restore
Bio:
This video has been sponsored by Trixie’s Treats for Pokemon.
A midnight blue Gengar has decided to help itself to a box of Trixie’s Treats for Pokemon, sticking its short stubby hands in the box and making a rather large mess on the floor. Licking its face with its long tongue, it turns over the box as crumbs begin to fall out of the box. Gengar looks at the box with disappointment.
“Cut,” the director says.
“Hmm, what?” Sinis ask.
“Why is he eating the product?” the Director asked.
Sinis just laughs.
“They are his favorite, he use to sneak into the cabinets in our home and eat them too,” Sinis smiles. The director looks less than amused.
“Can you hurry up and get in the shot, and can someone get another box, and stop him from eating the product,” the director tells him.
Sinis just gives another chuckle, as the Gengar floats over to him, tears in its eyes as it shows him the empty box.
“Rarrar,” Gengar chuffs at him.
“Oh yeah, well that’s what you get when you scarf it down,” Sinis says touching the top of Gengar’s spikes, “Tell you what. If you can hold off eating this next box. I’ll get you something much nummier.”
This compromise seems to please Grim as it smiles at him. Sinis claps his hands together, “Okay everybody it’s time to get into the picture.”
“Aaaaa,” the director screams as she sees the set with a couch, and wallpaper walls meant to look like a bedroom filled to the brim with Ghost. A gastly sat above the makeshift chandelier, a phantump has taken resident in a pot, a pumpkaboo has decided to residence on an arm of the chair, a Mimikyu shyly shaking next to a pillow, and a Gardevoir has simply floated over. While Sinis walked slowly to the couch where the Mimikyu immediately took its place on his lap.
“What in the world?” the director asked.
“Well when they heard about the video, they all wanted to be a part of it,” Sinis told her, “So I told them they could. And they showed up.”
“How long they have been here?” the director asked.
“For a while, I am surprised it took you so long to notice,” Sinis said, while the Gastly laughs and Gengar sticks it tongue out at the phantump.
The Director nervously looks at the Camerman who has turned ghost white.
“Just start rolling,”
Lighting rolled on the screen and you could hear laughter in the background. As glowing Ghost stared at the lens with grins on their faces. Sinis the Elite Four member sat on a couch with a shaking Mimikyu hiding in his arms, he stroked it for comfort without really noticing he was.
Sinis just smiles, “You all already know who I am most likely. There’s really nothing I could say about myself that would be important.” He just pauses for a second, “So I thought today we do something a little different, we could meet some of my friends.”
Sinis pauses, “Right quotes.” He pauses, “Ghost Pokemon are so cute aren’t they?” Gardevoir, Pixy, looks at him, “And of course they love playing with their favorite friend Gardevoir.”
“Sha sha,” Gardevoir says leaning her head back in a moe pose.
“I am Sinis Trixie, Elite Four Trainer, and these are the friends I have made,” Sinis says. A Gengar appears on the lens of the camera, seeming holding onto it. You can hear in the background the camera man saying, get off that. Gengar licks the camera lens, fades and does a backflip landing on the stage.
Sinis giggles.
“That’s Grim,” Sinis says, “As you can see he’s quite the showman.” The sound of the box of treats being ripped open can be heard and Sinis continues to smile, but looks embarrassed, “And also a complete and total glutton, apparently.”
Sinis looks at Grim who has just decided to stick its head in the box of treats at this point ignoring its original purpose being here.
Sinis bends his head down to the Mimikyu shaking and shivering shyly in his arms, burying its “face” in his chest.
“Do you want to say hi?” Sinis asked, as the Mimikyu turned its “head” to the camera, “This is Salem.”
“Bee wee woo,” it cried before burying its head back into his arm. Sinis laughs.
“He’s a little shy, but he is a great companion to have,” Sinis said, “He loves new friends and playdates.” You can still hear Gengar crunching away in the background, Sinis continues to smile.
Sinis looks at Gardevoir, “And finally-”
Gardevoir pushes past him and immediately stands in front of the camera. She does a little curtsy bow and does a twirl.
“Ooo roo,” Gardevoir calls out, “Sha sha.”
She gleams with psychic energy. And bounces in the air excitedly. Before floating back over to Grim and takes the box off his head.
“Ooo shaaa,” Gardevoir said.
“Reheheh, ra ra,” Grim said trying to hand her the empty box of treats.
“Sha,” Gardevoir looks confused.
“Apparently she wanted her own introduction,” Sinis said, “That’s Pixy. I don’t need to say any more. She said it all herself.”
Grim doesn’t mind a hat here and there, but it often makes its own choices of wardrobe. Sinis has no control over that. A natural prankster and also a natural showman, it’s likes to come in unique dress at times without Sinis knowledge. It has appeared in a bowler hat, a top hat, a bow tie, and a necktie. Grim is midnight blue and proudly adores his colors, often rubbing it in another Gengar’s and Gastly faces its own unique special colors.
Personality:
Grim is a result of a five year old not really knowing how to train a Pokemon. They were friends before they were partners, so Grim doesn’t always show off the best of manor. Grim loves soaking up the spotlight, maybe it had something to do with the fact it was kicked out of its group of ghostly pals back in the manner because of its color.
Grim wasn’t raised with strict rules or obedience and it sort of does what it wants. But will always have Sinis back. Grim would never abandoned Sinis and always will be there for him, because Sinis was always there for him.
Grim’s a glutton and a show off, it’s boastful. Likes to pull childish pranks on other Pokemon, but has some self discipline. As Sinis has matured Grim knows when he has crossed the line in his antics and all it needs to be said is often a look Sinis gives Grim.
Sinis would never harm his Pokemon, he never yells at them, but they somehow know when enough is enough and Sinis has had enough of them doing something they really shouldn’t.
How You Met:
Sinis was born a very sick child, he was bedridden most of his early life and that’s where he met a wandering Gastly. It seemed a group of ghost had taken residence in the family basement no longer used by the family, long forgotten by great great great grandchildren. Grim was shooed out of his clan of other Gastly’s because of his color and Sinis unable to play with other children due to physical exertion and sickness ended up being entertained by Grim.
They would play games together, Grim often being able to manipulate toys around the room helped Sinis cope with illness and not being able to play with a lot of other kids. Sinis would read the Gastly lots of books, some of his favorite bedtime stories and the pair would often sleep together. When Sinis condition worsened and didn’t get any better the pair was separated when his parents shooed Grim out of their home.
Sinis condition never really improved, and his health was failing him at a very young age. Sometime when he was nine and left alone for a few hours, wandering the house when he shouldn’t have to get to the family library he fainted near the steps and nearly went sailing down them, to his surprise Grim came to his rescue.
The friendship they had created over the three four years they knew each other had Grim sense he was in danger, Happy to be reunited with its friend Grim turned into a Haunter and helped Sinis back to his room carrying him to safely. Grim from then was able to stay and would later go on Sinis’ journey to become a strong trainer. Despite his parents best wishes.
Pixy is a beacon of radiant beauty that no other Gardevoir can match. Or she likes to think so. She likes to prom her hair properly, and make sure that she stays extra shiny and beautiful for when it is her turn o the spotlight. She walks with a grace and an elegant sass about her, and can be honestly jealous of any other female Pokemon that may challenge her on her beauty. Pixy doesn’t allow any other products on her than a floral scented perform she adores.
Personality:
Pixy adores the spotlight, she will get any chance she can to being in the spotlight. More so than Grim. She poses adorably, she shines when she has to, she dances and floats in the air to garner any attention. She is overprotective of Sinis, not just strongly bonded to him, but overtly protective and doesn’t let anyone get near or touch him sometimes he has to tell her it’s all okay.
She’s actually afraid of other men beside Sinis, and doesn’t like when they are near her. She often will levitate them away from her if they draw too near. Pixy spends every wake minute making sure that she is well groomed. If she is not in a battle then you will definitely see her working on her looks, her poses, and her stances.
She’s not all that bad, she is very nurturing and mothering to baby Pokemon and will help them out with a kind and compassionate side to her. She also doesn’t mind other female Pokemon asking her for beauty tips. She’s always looking for her next little sister.
She is also very grateful and works well with Grim for the things he has done for her. She can be humble when she wants to be. But Sinis thinks she is seeking something that Grim seeks as well to be adored when they weren’t wanted and weren’t adored, and that’s why they get along so well.
How You Met:
Pixy was not actually originally his Pokemon and he met Pixy when she was a Kirila. He has no stories of her upbringing and him coming together, but Pixy was rescued by Grim, and then him later on. Pixy was originally a well known Pokemon, a Ralts/Kirlia with a Pokemon Coordinator Stacy Bloom. Kirilia was often side by by Miss. Bloom on stage.
And it was said that both the Coordinator and Kirilia could go far. No one ever mentions what happened backstage though because no one was witness to it. Stacy use to heavily criticize Kirilia, hurting her feelings and being mean spirited by telling her that she had to be better and get better. That she failed at her step work. Or she wasn’t even as pretty as her rival competitors Ninetail.
Kirilia was very sad by these hurtful comments, all she ever wanted to do was make Stacy happy. Kirilia desperately worked to be better and better and better per Stacy’s requirements. But she felt like she were too ugly or not good enough for her trainer. Who seemed to only yell at her. Kirilia wanted to be pretty like all the rest of the Pokemon on the stage and would wear herself out practicing to make Stacy love her.
It is said she would dance to her feet bled, and were worn out, and she could no longer walk back to Stacy’s home. And that’s how she met Sinis and Grim. A Haunter at the time they saw the limping Kirilia and immediately came to its rescue. Healing it’s feet Sinis smiled so wonderfully at Kirilia in a way Stacy never smiled at her.
His heart was so warm, she had never experienced such compassion before. Kirilia became infatuated with the odd trio of Pokemon. But alas she had to go back to her real Trainer, head hung low. Sinis offered to go with her. Stacy wasn’t too happy Kirilia showed up late and with another trainer. Sinis told her of the story of her poor little Pokemons’ feet and Stacy just scoffed.
“What do you know what it is like to be a coordinator, why don’t you go play in a gym where you belong,” she snuffed at him.
Sinis and Grim left Kirilia, and told her it would be okay. When they left, Stacy only berated her more. Frustrated, hurt and no longer wanting to be with Stacy she ran away to find the kind trainer who smiled at her and rescued her from her tormented heart. When she found him, she begged him to take her. She wanted him to understand.
Sinis did in his own way. Confronting Stacy about Kirilia running away, Stacy only glared, “because she’s too pathetic of a Pokemon, have her if you want.”
Sinis took that as a release of Kirilia to him. While Grim snuck off to pull a spooky and scary prank for Stacy because to Grim it deserve her right.
Salem’s rag seems always clean, it has allowed Sinis to clean its rag as long as it has something else to hide in. That being a blanket or something. It is shown that Salem’s rag is well taken care of treated with special care to make sure that it continues to look as new as possible. Even sewn up where it rips and the colors are always renewed. Salem appreciates this, another Mimikyu might not, but Salem adores the attention that Sinis gives it. And is glad that Sinis respects its desire not to be seen. This one seems very particular of not being seen.
Personality:
Salem is very shy and prefers to hide behind Sinis whenever it can, or sometimes inside his cloak under its rag. Sinis doesn’t mind and often treats it more tenderly than his other Pokemon. Not to say Sinis treats his Pokemon without kindness, but he tends to treat Salem like it’s a small child because that’s exactly what it can be sometimes.
Easily frightened and timid it uses Grim and Pixy as shields to protect itself from new encounters that might frighten it. Pixy and Grim in that sense are sometimes more often like a big brother and sister that must protect it. Despite Salem being extremely strong itself.
Salem does though enjoy making new friends, and enjoys playdates with its new friends. But has a tendency of scaring them off when they do something it doesn’t like. Usually like not sharing a toy or food that it wants. But it plays innocent afterward even if it instigated the terror.
Salem doesn’t really like to share its toys with other Pokemon, but will share if it wants to. You just have to learn when to take when it gives and not steal when it hasn’t. Salem has a habit of collecting dolls for some reason unbeknownst to even Sinis. They are often ugly looking, ragged, cloth dolls, that are more creepy to play with then they are cut. But Salem likes them.
How You Met:
The first time Salem and Sinis met would not have been something Sinis would have remembered. He was but a very small baby at the time and had accidentally had a glimpse of it when it was not covered. Which would be the origins of the mysterious illness that plagued him as a child and has residual lingering effects.
Salem us to be, though not captured or owned, his aunts playmate. It had been hiding in the family basement for years, until it stumbled upon a young girl with her Pikachu. Jealous of the attention the girl gave her Pikachu, it dressed in its rag to gain her affection over the Pikachu.
She use to play with Salem, but didn’t really view it as a friend. Instead they had tea parties, but it evidently was plotting against Pikachu. His aunt eventually, years ago, left on her Pokemon journey leaving Salem alone in the house with a family of other ghost Pokemon in the basement.
It eventually sought a new friend, but Sinis’ sister didn’t want to play with it, considering it creepy rather than cute, and his brother definitely didn’t want to play with it. When Sinis was a baby and brought home, Salem originally intentions was to be friends with this baby. Grabbing for its rag, Sinis actually glanced at it without its rag.
Afraid that this new child would hate him, it hid for awhile. Feeling bad that it had indeed made the boy very sick. But also very sad that the boy accepted and made friends with the Gastly.
Eventually it decided that it come out of the shadows before the boy went on its journey. If it proved it was a good Pokemon, surely it would be forgiven for making the boy very sick and feeble.
Role: Legendary - Have a greater chance of bonding with more Pokemon at once than other trainers. Support Pokemon have the power of your Partner Pokemon
Trainer Class: Psychic Gym Leader
Region: Johto
Appearance:
Kamon has always had his looks handed down to him by both parents. Sharing Sabrina’s eyes and Lt. Surge’s hair color, albeit a bit more darker than his father’s. He never took on his father’s impressive height. Standing at 5’6”, 167cms, and weighing 119 pounds, 53kgs, he’s smaller in comparison to his father though that’s never really deterred Kamon.
Kamon probably be more popular and more handsome with the ladies, if he didn’t wear a permanent scowl on his face. He always seems to have a look of annoyance that tells people to steer clear of him and his impressive aura doesn’t really help that. When you’re outside the norm of human capability people tend to shy away.
His hair is often unkempt and shaggy, though groomed. And he doesn’t really fuss about clothing style. Often seen wearing all styles and manners of clothing. Though often he appears in unkempt, baggy clothing as well. A wrinkled button down shirt, with a barely tied tie, and cargo pants give the impression of someone not willing to sit still for too long.
His eyes have always been a great stir of controversy. As they tend to be two different colors at once. Often a pink, blue marbling iris, that has irregular spikes of energy that flow when he activates his psychic capabilities.
Kamon often speaks in a very quiet, but husky and smoky voice, that again would mean he’d make a great ladies man. That is if he didn’t scare people away with a brash and abrasive attitude.
Personality:
He’s definitely grown over the years, when Kamon first started training as a trainer no one could approach him at all. He was guarded and very defensive and would not let anyone in his walls. Over the years this has mellowed and Kamon will listen to people, albeit he keeps his distance from them and doesn’t get any closer.
He can often be described as very prickly on the surface, but inside he is warm, compassionate, and a very kind individual. Even if he doesn’t express it very often. Kamon will not act warm and fuzzy even with people who do earn the loyalty of being his friend.
You’ll simply know you are Kamon’s friend if he does something to protect you or does something that would otherwise suggest that he likes you. Like giving you a blanket to sleep with. Kamon speaks in his actions not his words.
Cutting, abrasive, and blunt Kamon doesn’t really make people like him either. He says what is on his mind and you either take what he has to say or you don’t. Eitherway most don’t like Kamon upon their first meeting with him.
But when you begin to realize that he isn’t all that bad, when he is with his Pokemon or Pokemon in general. It’s probably the only time anyone will see Kamon genuinely smile or laugh is when he is with Pokemon or his Pokemon.
He’s loyal. Honest and trustworthy. Just not very open and abrasive. He doesn’t really care for his time to be wasted and because of his gifts he sometimes comes off with a superiority complex about fixing problems with or without help. Not always a team player, Kamon can open up to people. It just takes time and effort.
Motto: “If you plan to waste my time, then I really suggest you reconsider your tactic.”
Trainer Stats:
Bond - 4
Technique - 1
Style - 1
Offense - 0
Defense - 2
Communication - 3
Special - 5
Unique - 9
Skills:
Survivalist - Kamon has dared to venture in places other people wouldn’t. Over the years of his experience and travels Kamon has learned how to tough out the most extreme of environments. Though his least favorite was probably every snowy mountain cap ever. Typhlosion didn’t appreciate it much either.
Camping - Kamon knows how to set a fire, and set up a tent. He knows the how to and basics of camping. Where to camp. What time to set up camp and when it should be ready.
Powerful Psychic - Kamon took over his mom in this department, to his father’s disappointment, he is quite a powerful psychic. More so then those third rate hacks you find on the road. You can lift a few Pokeballs in the air with your mind and you think that’s psychic. Sit back and watch real power at the snap of a finger.
Kamon has shown in the past;
Kinesis - the ability to lift objects up with his own mind, from pokeballs, to much larger objects though it causes a bit of mental exertion to do so.
Telepathy - more empathic than reading your direct mind, he can sense others emotions and Pokemon’s emotions as well.
PokeSpeech - Kamon can hear Pokemon speak as if two humans were sitting down having a chat. Problem is then no one knows what Kamon is saying to Pokemon.
Bonding Link - Kamon has the ability to link with his own Pokemon who hold strong bonds with him and share his power with them to increase their power.
Mild Deflection - And Kamon has shown in the past to create small shields that deflect or reflect abilities. But they are often weak and shatter upon large impact.
But with great power comes great limitations. Kamon likes to think he’s invincible, but he’s prone to mental strain and overexerting himself. The more exertion Kamon wills the greater the consequences later. From aggravating migraines and mild vertigo, to blacking out, and the inability to focus well on a given situation. It can leave him wide open and even break the contact he has with his Pokemon, till he gain his bearings.
Equipment: Beside some Pokefood, Potions, a Pokedex that he doesn’t even use, and some Pokeballs that he also doesn’t use Kamon doesn’t really carry anything
Bio:
“This is a pointless waste of time, I am leaving.”
-watches Kamon walk off stage-
“What do we do now?” the cameraman stares at the director with disappointment. The Director glasses shine, and she flips her hair.
“We are in show business, the point is the show must go one,” she said, “Use stock footage. If you have to get me a cardboard cutout of Kamon. Hurry it up we have half ‘n hour to shoot this film and then release it to the world.”
I’m Kamon. I’m the son of Sabrina and Lt. Surge. Both my parents are powerful gym leaders in the Kanto region. I have beaten the Victory Road and Elite Four to become the Kanto Region Champion, but refused it because I am humble modest guy.
Because when you’re the strongest trainer with the strongest powers and strongest Pokemon you have to be so humble like me.
I have amazing Pokemon. Like my Typhlosion who’s name is…..
-whispering in the background- “what’s he call his Typhlosion,”
“Blaze”
-clears throat-
“Blaze”
“Blaze is the strongest Typhlosion out there and he burns so hot he can evaporate lakes. Water pokemon has nothing on my Typhlosion.”
“HA-HA-HA!”
“If you think you’re the strongest trainer there is, then you should come down to my gym in the Johto League. You won’t beat me,”
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Reviews:
This video sucks that’s not Kamon. That’s a cardboard cutout.
Try to get Blaze into anything and see what happens. See his fur. It’s naturally that soft and warm to the touch. Such grace. Such finesse needs nothing. See those flames, they burn hot from our strong bond. There’s nothing more Blaze needs other than good love and care. That’s why he is so majestic. That’s why he is the best Typhlosion there is out there. Because he doesn’t just burn, he glows red hot.
Personality:
For the most part Typhlosion is nearly as brash as its trainer. It has a tendency to show off and knows when he has done something noteworthy. Typhlosion has been known to pose in several different poses upon victory as to celebrate its glorious winning ability.
Typhlosion is tough minded and stubborn, but no other trainer could deal with that in the way Kamon and Typhlosion do. Blaze isn’t just a Pokemon, he is Kamon’s friend.
The only friend. Both would do anything for the other. While Blaze may be brash, stubborn, and full of itself. It is honorable, loyal, and protects its friends and Kamons friends. It is an extremely honorable creature. That would no longer follow its trainer if he weren’t as honorable as he were.
How You Met: Sabrina worried for her son in the earlier days of his life. So she sent him to live with one of his aunts in the Johto region. Though it didn’t improve his situation with other kids, whom he thought all kids didn’t use their hands to grab objects or use their hands to move objects around. Most kids were terrified of Kamon in those days. One day he ran away from the schoolyard, after being bullied by a bunch of kids in his school.
Scared and alone Kamon began to wander in the grassland, where he met a rare sight. A Cyndaquil lost in the grass, just as alone and scared. Cyndaquil crying, looking for it’s family. Kamon promised to help the Cyndaquil and did so. But by then the Cyndaquil couldn’t get enough, and visited Kamon everyday until it decided it wanted to join him on his adventure.
A white Espeon? Now that’s not something you see everyday. Wish is an unusual Espeon with a blue gem instead of pink one and white silky fur instead of purple. Wish prefers to keep his fur as clean as possible and gets upset when someone has made his fur dirty in any fashion. It is not crippling fear of being dirty because it blast you to the moon and back if you dirty it, it gets violent and aggressive. It understand the occasional dirt from battle, but spill anything on it, and it will demand a bath or get a blast of psybeam.
Personality:
Wish can be the complete opposite of Typhlosion and Kamon. Often seen relaxing in the sun to bathe and soak up the glorious rays, it seems far more docile than the both of them combine. Why this Pokemon with such an easy going nature would chose someone like Kamon as trainer is beyond anyone. But isn’t beyond Wish.
Wish is a kind and compassionate Pokemon for the most part. It absolutely dislikes being soiled and will not hesitate to retaliate. Wish is often known for lifting object with liquids in it away from it just so it won’t get it on itself.
Though Wish values a generous and kind soul. That which Kamon is. Despite what others see in Kamon Pokemon know the truth about an individual, especially one it is attached to. Wish values great acts of generosity. It will heal anyone as long as they are kind and have not hurt it in some way.
Despite Wish being docile, it doesn’t mean it cannot be a tough pokemon to beat when it has to. Wish won’t let its friends it cares for get hurt. Much like Blaze. And that’s how Blaze and Wish get along is their great desire to protect those it loves.
How You Met: Wish probably wouldn’t have made it without Kamons’ help. When it was a small Eevee it was abandoned by its trainer who didn’t think it was strong enough. Its trainer decided to abandon it and replace it for another Pokemon threw Wish out to the wild.
The young Eevee didn’t know how to survive in the wild, it had lived most of its life in the care of its owner, in a comfortable shelter. It was comfortable indoors and beside its trainer. Lost, hungry, alone, and not knowing how to survive like a wild Pokemon Wish could have died.
If not for Kamon who found the sick Wish and nursed him back to health. There it met Blaze a Quilava at the time and they made Wish feel welcomed in their embrace. Wish is very grateful for Kamon’s love. And knows that anyone who doesn’t see Kamon’s love is not worth his time.
Nickname: Alpha
Bond: Max
Gender: Male
Role: Support
Alpha’s Stats
Hp - 20
Attk - 6
Def - 8
Sp. Attk - 20
Sp. Def - 20
Speed - 6
Appearance:
I am capable of my own thought and free will. I appreciate my own natural good looks and do not need further assistance in keeping up with any daily pampering. I can groom my own whiskers to keep them looking shapely the way they do. I don’t think there is anything special about my appearance compared to other Alakazam and that’s why I chose these colored spoons I hold.
Personality:
Alakazam is very wise and sagely. Out of Kamon’s team Alpha is probably the most down to earth. He goes at his own pace and doesn’t seem to behave like a typical Pokemon. He cannot quite talk, but he does show enough range of emotion that other humans know how he is feeling, what he is feeling, and what he thinks about a given scenario.
He has also been intelligent enough to choose his own spoon set that distinguish him from other Alakazam because he didn’t want to be like the rest of them. Alpha is well mannered, and just like Kamon’s Pokemon is capable of love and expressing compassion. It honors merciful actions and would not follow someone who did not know the act of mercy.
A humble creature, it doesn’t mean Alpha cannot get riled up. Alpha can just as easily get fired up in battle and deliver massive amounts of punishment. Alpha and Kamon’s bond comes from the fact Kamon respects Alpha’s individuality and Alpha is grateful for that.
He would do anything for Kamon, just as Kamon would for him.
How You Met: An Abra got itself in a predicament, trying to hide from a group of people it decided to stash itself in a pipe. It couldn’t get its head out of said pipe afterward and couldn’t teleport out. Struggling for a solution it began to panic in the tube. Legs flailing. Alpha didn’t know how long he would have been in that pipe if someone hadn’t called him an idiot and pulled him out with ease.
Alpha found this gesture so worthy of greatness it began to follow Kamon. It didn’t take long for Kamon to accept it into the fold and it became part of the group since then. Now Alpha is older, wiser, but still very grateful for the things Kamon has done in the past, what he plans to do in the present, and surely what is in store in the future.
Mewtwo is an extremely honorable Pokemon, years of genetic splicing and experiment had once left it heartless. Now it lays motionless watching over the Pokemon that once had the same fate to it. An extremely honorable and loyal creature Mewtwo has been stirred awake by the disturbance of energy surrounding the Pokeworld.
Bound by altruistic motivations, and a care for all Pokemon kind Mewtwo doesn’t strike out to being a cruel malicious creature. In fact it is a very caring and kind individual, who only has compassion for the world it has sworn to protect.
Self disciplined and with no greater desire than to protect all Pokemon from forces of evil, it will do anything to do so. Throwing itself in harm’s way for another if it has to. Mewtwo is protective and respectful, doesn’t say much, but will not be treated like some toy to be commanded by some general.
Intelligent, all he ask is that you respect it’s free will and independence and you have earned half its trust. The next is proving that you are worthy, and selfless individual and you have already won Mewtwos affections.
Mewtwo respects those that are honorable, who would throw everything away for others. It doesn’t respect cruelty and cruel individuals. And will most likely ignore you if your heart is wound with darkness.
Though despite its good traits, Mewtwo can come off arrogant and disinterested with others at times. And prefers to spend most it time in suspended animation.
How You Met:
The relationship between Kamon and Mewtwo goes farther back than this event. They are not bonded, bonded is for a Pokemon that is willing to give itself up to another. But they are friends because they can relate on some of the same struggles. Mewtwo may have been reasoned with by a powerful trainer in the past, but it was Kamon, Mewtwo could relate to.
Mewtwo who had vowed to in peace inside Mountain Quena for Pokemon in similar circumstances as him. One day disturbed from his rest when an unknown human presence stumbled upon him and his clones. A thirteen year old who got lost on his travels, carrying a Quilava in his arms. Both the boy and Quilava had injuries, bite marks, and bruises.
The human boy only seemed lost and pleaded with Mewtwo, “I don’t care about myself. But please help Blaze. Help him.”
Mewtwo felt for the boy, sensing great power from him looked at the boy. The love for this Blaze showed “You are not suppose to be here human, how did you find it?”
The boy frantically just thrust Quilava in his hands, “I just sensed it….please….” but the boy passed out before he could finish his sentence. Mewtwo held the Quilava for a moment, the boy had wrapped it in a coat. He sensed no danger from this boy and decided to help the both of them because of the generosity the boy had shown.
When the boy came around Mewtwo asked for the boys explanation, “Now that you are awake, why did you come here and where did these injuries come from?”
“Another trainer angered a Rhyhorn,” the boy paused, “And it attacked. I tried to plead with it. It wasn’t doing anyone any harm. But it just ignored me and tried to hurt me. Blaze…” the boy scowled, “got in the way to protect me and he got hurt. Then I...Rhyhorn was going to hurt him so I jumped in the way so he wouldn’t get hurt. It was stupid. If that trainer had just….” the boy looked away, “...he didn’t understand how Rhyhorn felt.”
Mewtwo looked at the thirteen boy, there was something about this kid. An aura? An aura other humans didn’t always possess, “Your name?”
“Kamon,” he replied, “Blaze! Is Blaze okay?”
“Your Blaze is fine,” Mewtwo said, “I am…”
“I know who you are,” Kamon told him, “I sensed it. I was on top of the mountain. To hide I went inside. I am not strong enough to protect my Pokemon yet. If I was...Blaze wouldn’t have been hurt so badly.”
“You are different from other humans,” Mewtwo said, “You are then, psychic?”
Kamon stared at Mewtwo, “Sure am. Like my mother. But I need to be stronger. I need to fight for my Pokemon. With them. I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want to...my Pokemon are my friends. I do not own them. I want to protect them.”
Mewtwo gave a small, hmm into consideration with what the boy had said. Kamon meant what he said. He wanted to be a protector of Pokemon outside of this mountain. A tall order, but Mewtwo understood the resolve.
“I understand,” Mewtwo told him, “That is why we are here. I will...I feel I can trust you. I will not erase your memory of this place because if you sensed it this time, you’ll more than likely sense it again in your journeys. But I need you to swear you’ll tell no one of this place.”
Kamon stared at Mewtwo, the boy's eyes were so strong and fired up, “I’d never put another Pokemon in danger. You have my word your secret is safe because I owe you. You helped Blaze and I. So I’ll help you and them.”
Help him? He was the strongest Pokemon to be created and a thirteen year old boy who got beat up by a Rhyhorn swore to help him? Mewtwo gave a slight chuckle.
“Very well, I believe you,” Mewtwo told him.
**
Mewtwo spent most his time reserving energy in Mount Quena. Protecting the other clones from harm's way and erasing the memories of humans who stumbled across his sanctuary. Though a new and disturbing development has occurred on the service of the region. This being an dark energy turning the world black. He was disturbed by the first storm and worried when he saw the destruction the Abyssal Energy has caused. Afraid that this energy would somehow pollute his sanctuary Mewtwo sought to find the source and stop this madness.
Roaming on his own, it seemed he wasn’t the only one to have this idea. As he sensed the presence of a very familiar individual.
“Kamon,” Mewtwo greeted the young individual.
“Oh hey,” Kamon said nonchalantly petting a Pokemon who had been affected by the shadows a minute ago, “Seems you came out of hiding.”
“This darkness is worrisome,” Mewtwo said with a nod of his head, seeing Blaze stare at him, “You have grown.”
“Raawwr, [Of course],” Blaze says with a fist in the air.
“Can’t tell if you’re calling him fat,” Kamon gives Mewtwo a side eye, while Blaze looks worringly at himself.
Mewtwo gives a small, hmm, “The last I saw him he was young and hadn’t evolved.”
Kamon looks at Blaze, “Get over yourself, you’re not fat. But you eat like a damn truck.” Kamon turns to Mewtwo, “Figure you want to tag along?”
Appearance: Hair - Blonde with blue tips, long, twin tail style Skin - Pale Eyes - Light Blue Height - Average Weight - Average
Personality: The first thing you should note about Olivia is that she is a sadist, enjoying the pain of others a great deal. Now, you might be thinking: ‘Oh great, a murderer’, but she’s never actually killed people, only leaving them in pain. Her view on pokemon is a bit similar, she doesn’t mind hurting them, and will tell her pokemon to go all out in a battle, though once they’re unable to continue, she does show mercy moving onto the trainer. She’s not without humanity though, showing concern for those she might call ‘friends’, including her own pokemon.
Motto: “Tell me if this hurts, I want to fully enjoy it.”
Trainer Stats:
Bond - 6
Technique - 3
Style - 1
Offense - 8
Defense - 3
Communication- 3
Special - 1
Unique - 0
Skills: Torture - This skill comes with the territory of being a sadist, over time you learn from your experiences what causes the most pain, with the least amount of lethality, such as how long you can suffocate someone for, where the best places to stab a person are, etc.
First Aid - You can inflict more pain upon a person if you heal them mid-torture. So, in Olivia’s mind at least, it was only natural for her to learn this important skill. She isn’t likely to be performing advanced medical procedures, but she can for the most part treat small wounds on both humans and pokemons.
Combat - She knows how to use her weapon effectively, both for her sadistic tendencies, but actual combat as well, of course it would be odd for her to possess a weapon and be unable to use it effectively.
Pokemon Riding - What? You thought she was limited to being creepy? Well, she’s not. She can ride Ponytas, Rapidashs, and even Rhyhorns, as her family owned a farm where they taught local kids to do so. As a result, this is a skill Olivia learned at a young age.
Ballroom+Ballet - Two skills she learned as a child, as her parents tried to get her to engage in more normal activities. Of course not skills she puts to use often, she’s certainly not going to prance around in a tutu, but regardless of whether it’s something she often does or not, it’s a skill she possesses.
Equipment: Glittering Thread - Her weapon appears to be two arrowheads tied on opposite ends of a long string(which is white, not black), providing a medium-to-close ranged weapon. The string is made from the silk of a Spinarak, making it nearly unbreakable. The blades(or arrowheads as some might call them), are made of a sturdy magnetic material, each holding an opposite charge so the weapon can be wrapped around one’s waist to be worn as a belt until needed.
5 potions, 2 full heals, first aid kit(for peoples)
Bio:
The first thing that could be seen when the screen flickered to life was Olivia, handcuffed to a bench in a seemingly bland room. “Do I have to be in here?” A shaky voice came from behind the camera. “Only if you want paid, we’re here for an interview. She’s bound to the bench, she can’t hurt you.” The directors statement probably didn’t help much, given the look Olivia was giving in the direction of the camera, and by relation the man operating it. Again the director could be heard, this time directed towards Olivia and not the cameraman. “So, for our viewers, can we ask for your name, and maybe some info about yourself?” Her voice sounded rather sweet and innocent, not like what you would have expected from her expression, which she tried to make as normal as possible for her introduction. “My name, it’s Olivia Wynter. My parents own a ranch, that you’ve surely heard of, where they teach youngins to ride pokemon. My hobbies include battling, and-” she stopped talking, and instead just gave a smirk towards the cameraman. Which resulted in the camera shaking, and what sounded like a crash not far behind the camera. Olivia, laughing at the result, it was a little hard to determine if the laugh was cute or creepy, but the most likely conclusion that it was both. “Can I get out of here now?” The cameraman asked. “We’re not done with the video yet, we still have to meet her partners.” The director stated, a whine from the cameraman suggested he was unhappy with the decision. Moments later three pokemon were led into the room. With a police Machamp standing closeby as a guard. “Can you introduce us to your friends Olivia?” Came the director's voice. “Oh I’d love to. The Absol, her name is Abby. She’s not fond of people, in fact, how about you come in here and greet her personally?” The director made a slightly shocked sound, and the cameraman made a highly audible squeak of terror. “Next up here we have Sheila, she’s great at following orders. I wonder what she would do if I told her to-” The machamp cut her off, resulting in an annoyed huff on her part. “Fine fine, spoil sport. Next up is Vanilla here, she’s really pretty isn’t she? Wanna come pet her? It’s been awhile since I’ve seen her use Dark Pulse.” And that was when it was decided. “We have enough footage now.” Came the director's voice, followed shortly be a hurried scurrying from behind the camera, and a “Go back and get the camera you idiot.” shortly after, the screen flicking back off.
Pokemon Name: Absol
Nickname: Abby
Bond: Max
Gender: Female
Role: Partner
Appearance: Abby looks like most other Absols, though she is a bit smaller. Olivia doesn’t put much stock in her pokemons appearances, but Abby does groom herself occasionally.
Personality: Abby is playful when around other pokemon, but dislikes most people. Her dislike of people doesn’t come out in a shy way, but rather one through violence, making her an excellent partner for Olivia.
Stats:
Hp 10 Attk 50 Def 5 Sp.Atk 15 Sp.Def 15 Speed 5
How You Met: Olivia met Abby while the latter was being chased by a farmer with a rifle. Abby had tried to warn the farmer of an earthquake she sensed, and after it occurred he blamed her. Olivia stepped in to help the Absol, though that really wasn’t her intention as she was just bored, and by the time she had finished with him, he started crawling back towards the town for help. Abby had followed her around for a few days after, before officially becoming her partner.
Pokemon Name: Weavile
Nickname: Sheila
Bond: Average
Gender: Female
Role: Support
Appearance: Sheila looks like every other Weavile, with nothing especially abnormal about her. She, like Abby, will occasionally groom herself as Olivia has no interest in doing so.
Personality: Sheila is first and foremost, obedient. It’s honestly hard to pinpoint if she does what she’s told because she likes it, or if she’s just trying to make Olivia happy, but she follows most orders without hesitation. When not in battle, she can be found swiping food, especially berries, from any poor sap not guarding it well enough.
Stats:
Hp 10 Attk 20 Def 10 Sp.Atk 5 Sp.Def 15 Speed 20
How You Met: Some might say the bond between Sheila is a special one, as she was Olivia’s first pokemon. Her parents had gotten the Sneasel as a ‘please stop being creepy’ gift. Though it didn’t work as intended, and simply made it worse, giving her an outlet for her sadistic tendencies.
Pokemon Name: Umbreon
Nickname: Vanilla
Bond: Average
Gender: Female
Role: Support
Appearance: Vanilla is a special Umbreon, in that it isn’t shiny, but it isn’t normal. Instead of the usual yellow or blue markings, Vanilla has white ones. She grooms herself once a day, making sure to keep her fur coat in a state of near perfection.
Personality: Vanilla seems like an odd addition to Olivia’s roster, seemingly being unhostile, and even hesitating if told to move on from the pokemon it was battling to a trainer. However, spill anything messy on her and you’ll learn that she can be very hostile, usually in the form of a point blank range dark pulse.
Stats:
Hp 10 Attk 10 Def 10 Sp.Atk 10 Sp.Def 10 Speed 10
How You Met: Olivia first met Vanilla during one of her ‘fits’. The pokemon having been a wild one that was well known in a little off the grid village, people often shared food with it when they saw it, and during one such occurrence a small kid tried to share some ice cream, and it fell on her. She was unhappy with the development, and attempted to use Dark Pulse, but the parent seeing the umbreon was about to do so, got in the way. Vanilla was then exiled from the village, Olivia having met up with it and offering to take it with her on her travels.
Name: Pastel Rivas. Whether Pastel is her real name or a self chosen one is a mystery, as anytime she, or her parents are asked, the subject is changed. For example; "Your name is seriously pastel?" "ooh what a cute beautifly!" "Yes, but what about your name?" "Oh look a butterfree too!"
Age: 14(shhh, you permitted it :p)
Gender: Female
Role: Prodigy
Region: Kalos
Trainer Class: Top Coordinator/Kalos Queen(performer)
Appearance: Pastel is shorter than others her age by half a foot, but that doesn't make her any less noticeable in a crowd. With bright pink hair, blue eyes, and pale doll-like skin it would be rather hard not to spot her. Her fashion certainly doesn't help her become any less visible either, wearing three different barrettes in her hair at a time, a skull, musical note, and a bow, not to mention the actual bow she uses to hold her long hair into a side ponytail. Her bow is is purple, with white polka dots, sounding normal, but it also has a little extra, being the two jester like plastic points, topped with a plastic pink skull. Moving down from there, you'll likely notice that she has a marking on her face, of a pink skull, which while sounding like it would be a bit creepy, actually makes her look even more adorable. The outfit she wears can vary, usually buying a brand new one every time she visits a place, but she always wears the same for performances. That outfit matching her bow, starting with a basic description: A pastel jester styled dress. For those who require more textual visualization, it starts at the top with a white jester fashioned collar, moving to a purple latex-like material with an open V shape around the breasts, revealing some skin but not enough to be inappropriate. At the top of this opening, directly under the collar, is another bow much like the one in her hair, though it's a lighter shade of purple, and lacking the jester points, having only the pink skull to top it. Halfway down the dress, in the middle of the stomach are four pink jewels, further down the top part of the dress ends in a jester like fashion, having four points one in front, one in back, and one on each side. The bottom of the dress almost gives the dress an appearance of being a separated outfit, appearing to be a short frilly skirt that starts out as a light shade of purple, two frills down getting a bit darker, with the fourth frill being a shade of pink, and the last frill becoming a lighter shade of pink. For those who might be curious what she's wearing under the dress, her panties are colored a light pastel pink, with the legendary pokemon Mew depicted on the front. Continuing on to the less lewd articles of clothing, on her wrists are two short light purple wrist sleeves, both having four jester-like points. On her legs she wears knee-high stockings with a light pink coloring. Her shoes are ankle booties, of a light purple coloring matching in the jester design of other parts of her outfit with four jester points on each one, folded over to point towards the ground, the zippers being in the back so as not to seem out of place on the design.
Personality: If you were to classify her as any of the common '-dere' archetypes, she would fall into a mixture of Deredere, Yandere, and just a sprinkle of Himedere. On one end, she's abundantly full of energy, and is generally a very kind person who most would assume wouldn't hurt anyone. However, while that's true in a sense, she's very protective over pokemon, especially her own. She won't hesitate to put herself in danger to protect her pokemon partners, and because of this she tends to bond easily with them. Even when 'serious' she holds a feminine presence, and isn't known to be threatening in even the slightest bit, which is as much disadvantageous as it is advantageous.
Motto: "Keep up with me here, things are gonna get fun!"
Trainer Stats:
Bond - 3
Technique - 1
Style - 7
Offense - 3
Defense - 2
Communication- 2
Special - 2
Unique - Does being uniquely adorable count? No? Well then I suppose this area is to be left blank. :p
Skills: Fan Combat - Pastel doesn't seem like she would be skilled in any form of combat at first glance, and most might assume that the only problem they would have would be her pokemon. That however would be a grave mistake, as she is skilled in the graceful combat style of war fans. She trains with Sharps using these, honing both her own skills as well as his.
Fans - While her previous skill was in relation to a weapon, this one is in relation to her success in contests and performances. Being both a top coordinator in multiple regions and Kalos queen has garnered a lot of attention, and with that comes a horrifying creature known to many celebrities as a 'fan'. While not as often an occurrence in the smaller towns as it is in the big cities, Pastel is often approached by complete strangers who have really high pitched screams. They are known to bring gifts, usually boxes of chocolates and flowers from the males who also request a date along with the gift, or treats for her pokemon partners. Many would debate whether this is a skill or an annoyance, but we're just gonna say it's a skill for fun. :p
Dance - Most performers and their pokemon partners perform dances, so it's not unusual for her to possess the skill to do such. Given her combat style it's a universal skill for her, being able to assist in both combat and performances.
Lyrical - This is actually a skill she doesn't make use of in her performances, or in front of people too often. Pastel has been known to sing or hum to herself when alone and bored, and those who have heard her tell her she has a wonderful voice.
Equipment: Twin War Fans - Simple war fans, gifted to her by her first mentor. She makes use of them in her performances with her partners, as well as effectively using them in combat when necessary. Standard equipment - Every good trainer knows there are certain things you never go without. For Pastel, she has around 5 standard potions, one max revive, pokefood, grooming supplies, and money to pay for lodging and food in towns. Bedding - You're probably thinking that 'bedding' is maybe just a sleeping bag, and you would be wrong. Pastel will refuse to sleep on the ground if she has any say in the matter, and just in case she can't have a nice warm room in an inn, she has a basic, two person tent that doubles as a bed, it is pink. Beside that, she has two pillows, one pink, one purple, a comforter, and a thinner blanket. Beings as it is a two person tent, she would not be adverse to sharing, so long as whoever she was sharing with would not mind her snuggling up to them, otherwise Sylla and Riley would sleep with her(Sharps is too heavy, and not a comfortable cuddler).
Bio:
The background chosen for the promotional video of Pastel was very much reminiscent of a 'candy land', with bright colors and pink clouds that very much resembled cotton candy. For a moment a dark ball passed onto the screen, followed by a yellow streak striking it causing it to burst, and then a what appeared to be a frosty wind swept over, freezing the event, causing a beautiful mist of crystallized dark energy. When it cleared, Pastel could be seen standing in the middle striking a pose only befitting of an idol. Beside her stood her best performance partners. A Manaphy, an Alolan Ninetails, a shiny Pachirisu, a Sylveon, an Umbreon, an Alolan Raichu, a shiny Lopunny, and lastly a Bisharp. "Hello my lovely fans! Many of you have asked me to do a promotional video showcasing my best performers, and here they are!" she finishes off waving her arm in indication towards her pokemon. The camera then zooms in on the Manaphy. "This is Bubbles, Many of my rivals have said it's unfair to use such a rare pokemon, but really they're just jealous. Bubbles is very friendly, and loves to show off for you all." The camera then moves onto the Ninetails. "This is Frost. She's not much of a people person, and to the breeder that tried to introduce another ninetails at our last performance, I'm so sorry, and I hope you aren't mad at her." The camera shifts again, to the Pachirisu, or at least tries to as it is running around wildly and the camera can't move fast enough. At one point Pastel can be seen running past the camera trying to catch it. Thirty seconds later, the camera focuses onto Pastel, now holding a sleeping Pachirisu. "This is Risu, and she's very hyper as you saw. She doesn't like holding still, but she's great at helping me bake, if you ever stop by our home in Alola we'll make you and your partners some Pokepuffs!" Next up are the Sylveon and Umbreon. "I'm sure you all know these two, being featured in many of my performances. Their names are Sylla and Shade, and as you might have guessed by their close proximity they're lovers. They make the cutest couple!" The camera is then seen looking around, with worried whispering in the background. "It's fine, I'm sure she just went outside." Pastel could be heard telling the director, as the camera just focuses on her instead. "I'm sorry, Riley isn't much fond of attention, we're still getting her used to training, but you'll be seeing her in my performances in the near future!" A crash can be heard, and the camera is zoomed back out, giving a larger perspective of the Lopunny and Bisharp fighting. "I told you two to be good! Lilah, Sharps, stop it!" A stray Metal Burst from Sharps hit's the camera, cutting the video short.
Pokemon Name: Sylveon
Nickname: Sylla
Bond: Max
Gender: Female
Role: Partner
Appearance: "Corrupt Sylla's perfect beauty with items? Surely not." "Because she won't let me. ;.;" Sylla will not let anyone put any items on her, be it a barrette or a bow, though she is more than happy to demand a brushing twice a day to make sure her fur stays perfect.
Personality: Vanity is a word that fit's Synna's personality rather well. She hates the mud, refusing to battle on a muddy field, and even refusing to make physical contact with Grimer, Muk, and Trubbish. Beyond that, it is clear that she holds a certain amount of respect, and even an unbreakable bond of friendship with Pastel, having once gotten over herself long enough to fend off a wild Muk, though still avoiding mud in the process.
Stats:
Hp 15 Attk 25 Def 10 Sp.Atk 25 Sp.Def 10 Speed 15
How You Met: Pastel met Sylla when she was but a wee little Eevee. She wasn't her first pokemon, but she was the first pokemon that Pastel caught in the wild, if you can call it that. The Eevee was found outside near her home on a cold winter night, she could hear it's cries, and went to investigate. She brought it in to warm by the fire, and they became fast friends.
Pokemon Name: Bisharp
Nickname: Sharps
Bond: Average
Gender: Male
Role: Support
Appearance: Sharps is not one of her performance pokemon, and so beyond the usual grooming one would perform for a steel pokemon, there is not much upkeep to this Bisharp's appearance.
Personality: Sharps is honorable, choosing his battles carefully. If his opponents stand no chance, he will not fight, instead leaving the battlefield. If he see's someone picking on the weak, he will defend them. While at first he was adverse to Pastel, he has became one of her most loyal partners, and will gladly fight either for her, or by her side.
Stats:
Hp 10 Attk 25 Def 25 Sp.Atk 5 Sp.Def 5 Speed 10
How You Met: Sharps was her very first pokemon, a gift from her father. Though, as he was already evolved by then, he did not feel she was worthy of him. It wasn't until three months later that she proved herself worthy when he saw her place herself in the middle of a battle between a newbie trainer with a poliwag, and a team rocket grunt using an electabuzz. This was the first time she battled with Sharps, and while he's never been in a performance with her, he hasn't left her side since.
Pokemon Name: Raichu (alolan form)
Nickname: Riley
Bond: Low
Gender: Female
Role: Support
Appearance: Riley can be seen occasionally wearing a small pink ribbon fashioned into a bow on it's tail, with one on it's right ear as well. Grooming habits involve being brushed once a day.
Personality: Riley is a very curious and energetic pokemon that has been known to wander off to investigate things seemingly at random. In battle, Riley is focused, and seems almost like a completely different pokemon. Oddly, battling makes Riley hungry, and usually any food nearby after a battle isn't around long. Riley isn't fond of people.
Stats:
Hp 5 Attk 10 Def 5 Sp.Atk 10 Sp.Def 5 Speed 25
How You Met: Pastel met Riley while on her journey to becoming a top coordinator. Riley having originally belonged to one of her rivals. Her rival lost, Pastel claiming the prize, and he blamed it on Riley. He went to hit his pokemon partner, and Pastel having seen placed herself in the path. Sharps scared off the rival coordinator with a well placed suckerpunch, and Riley has since been traveling with Pastel.
Role: Technician - All electric moves are at 100% accuracy, also has greater usage out of machinery than other roles
Trainer Class: Tech Maniac Proprietor
Region: Kanto
Appearance:
He gives the impression of a fairly unkempt young man on first appearance. Actually on every encounter with him. When the sickly pale young man comes out of the warehouse, it’s clear he hasn’t seen any daylight in what may seem like weeks.
His frail thin body is near in competition with Kalos’ very own Elite Four member in a competition of who looks the most sickly and frail. Though Noah’s condition isn’t due to some childhood illness, just underfed, and lack of sunlight on a given few occasions. Okay almost all of the occasions. He’d probably be best described as the region's only neet. Though that might be fairly unlikely, there may be others who knows.
His hair tends to be an unkempt, uncombed, uncut mess, often fairly long and flowing just about in every direction it can give someone the impression of a rat's nest. Bags under his eyes suggest long working nights with little to no sleep and his clothes suggest someone on a budget. With a simple white t-shirt, a pair of cargo pants, and combat like boots poorly laced, then the strings loosely tied into the tongue of the boot sticking out.
The only thing of consideration that might have been a highly valuable jacket at one point, is his long trench coat, with fur around the rim of his hood. That or he might have stolen it off of someone, who knows.
Looking at him terrified you slightly. His clothes hung off of him and didn’t really fit him. His body was like that of the bones of a bird, lean, with very little left to the imagination. The slight showing of his ribs or the way his collarbone stuck out. He had brown irises, and jet black hair. But a very gaunt and narrow looking face that made him look only half human. He didn’t at this point look like a handsome young man, but instead a broken empty individual.
-claps- “Success. You have found me or really you have contacted me because you need my services. Unless this is a prank call, and if so those are really outdated.”
His voice is hoarse and gives the impression of someone who has forgotten how to speak, and even when it warms up it is gravelly and very rough to the ears, but his pronunciation is clear and concise to get the message across.
He has a rather relaxed, but rough presence about him, like he doesn’t really care about what is going on and can be evident in the way some of his mannerisms come off. They either come off like zero fucks were given or very deliberate acts of delinquency. It just depends on the given nature of the situation.
He stands at 5’8”, 172cms and is underweight at 117 pounds, 53kg.
Personality:
Noah is an extremely cunning player when it comes to living in the Pokemon world. He tends to use his brain more often than brute force, that’s what Bruiser is for. Noah has always been a survival first type of guy and has done anything, and everything he can to make it in isolation. Now he’s not about to abuse his Pokemon, nor is he really cruel to Pokemon, but Noah tries to live a life where he’s not drowning below so to speak.
Noah is not a cruel individual, but he is cold, calculative and analytical. Everything is about the numbers in his life. And because of this everything is about cold calculations. Noah doesn’t really think about the moral and ethical implications involved in it. In fact most of the time he thinks about how much money something would make or how much something would hurt.
As a trainer he goes for a lighting quick fight and one that leaves the most damage. Not because he is some kind of sadist. Simply put the more damage he’s done and the faster he has done it, the more approximate capability he has slipping out of a situation and not having the same person who challenged seek to find him again.
Noah likes his privacy, probably the reason at least to his clients he has created several different identities. He doesn’t really care too much for someone sticking in the noise of his current business. And doesn’t really see himself as a criminal. He is somehow able to justify it by separating himself from his clients. Someone else is doing the actions, he’s only ever really overseeing it.
Noah doesn’t like showy displays and he certainly is not a hot headed. Actually the amount of fucks he gives is often very low. But Noah is not lazy. He’s prone to sleepless nights getting caught in a project of his. Or prone to overworking himself that he forgets things like needing to eat. He’s sort of crazy married to his job usually.
Trainer Stats
Bond - 2
Technique - 5
Style - 2
Offense - 6
Defense - 4
Communication - 6
Special - 5
Motto: “Wow, so you’re a real hot shot, huh? Let me put out those flames for yah,”
Skills:
Computer Savvy - If it’s got a modem and some binary code it’s more than likely he can crack into it. He’s always had a gift for computers, something Giovani recognized early on when he got into their hands. He can do the general stuff, crack a code, create corrupted data. Guess this all falls under hacking, but he’ll stick to call it computer savvy skills. He can create his own software, create proxy server, mask sales and purchases. And he may or may not have stolen some of that very fancy transferring equipment the Pokecenter and Pokelabs use.
Engineering - If it's got some wiring, some gears, and some mechanics it’s most likely he can engineer it or at least take it apart. He cannot make anything fancy he only has the basic skills, but pulling something apart and then putting it back together into something else is his specialty.
Weapons training - He’s not going to lie, working with Team Rocket had given him the ability to use an array of different specialized weapons. At least with the basic understanding how to use them effectively. Nets, guns, knives, you name it, he probably knows how to hurt you with it, if Bruiser doesn’t get to you first.
Self defense Martial Combat - It’s not all fun with the pew pew and the shoot shoot. Sometimes you have to use your hands and he at least knows how to defend himself in a fist fight as well.
Connected - It’s not the same thing as pretty Sinis who has a fancy name and can get you pretty discounts. He probably knows more about the criminal underground than most, mainly because he works in those areas and they know him. Of course not by his name. If you need something you shouldn’t have, if it is illegal, or if it is not distributed among public markets, he can likely get it to you.
Trapping - Again useful things you learn in the Rocket trainer. Noah can set up a number different traps to either slow something down or well trap it is more the goal. It’s near the same kind of mechanic as tying two wires that don’t belong together,together and making it work. Ropes work just like wires, kind of. And so does a pit trap, well okay that has nothing to do with computers, but hey it’s a pit trap.
Perfect Instant Ramen - If someone can’t cook, I can at least whip you up a quick cup of ramen and it always comes out perfect. The noodles aren’t too undercooked, but they aren’t fucking soggy either.
Equipment:
I have an array of gizmo and gadgets. They tend to be a handy lifeline.
Gizmo’s Bolt - Look at this beauty. You know what’s better than a gun? A gun with an amplifier that allows your electric pokemon to store electric energy into and then shooo, you shoot it out into one rail of lighting right at someone’s face or wherever you aim a railgun at really. Perfect for blacking out cities, or putting something to sleep with a lot of voltage. But it takes a decade to recharge or the thing overheats like crazy if I try to use it too often. Okay I am exaggerating when I say a decade, exactly it takes 15 minutes for it to cool down and be able to take juice again.
Zap Stick - If you like my railgun, then you’ll really like my hit stick. It functions nearly the same as the railgun, but the amplifier stores juice in it, press the button and you got yourself a shocky stick. Perfect for when things turn up close and personal and doesn’t have the ridiculous charge time. It just stores in the hilt, ready to be used up and then recharges near Gizmo.
Xed Goggles - These. There’s nothing special about these, they are just fashionable, aren’t they. In reality these sunglasses allow the user to read the stats and date information of others. So he can effectively communicate the opponent's weakest side, weakest strengths, so his Pokemon can exploit those.
2Z Backup - This. This is also nothing. Fashionable huh. In reality this is the backup computer he wears as a wrist watch. It has an ability to plug into most machines, uploads information from the goggles to store into his computer, and saves most of his files as a backup.
x4 Full Restore
x4 Antidote
x1 Berry
x4 Lemonade
x3 Cup of Ramen
Bio:
“Hi I am Sapphire,” a girl with blue hair waved at the camera with both hands, “I’m looking to become a very famous idol!” She said, “But you see my friends and I need a little help.”
A cherrim opened up in front of the camera, a chikorita jumped into her arms, and pachirisu lept up in the air.
“See we’re have little to no money,” she pauses, “My friends are real cute, and they would look so amazing in the Kalos region. Imagine me Sapphire and these guys on the stage.” She spins around, Cherim throws some blossoms in the air, Chikorita spins them with its vines, and Pachirisu finishes it off with a sweet scent in the tornado of colors that surrounded Sapphire.
“Best coordination!” Sapphire says hive fiving Chikorita’s vines, “You don’t need to send us any money. All you need to do is watch this video and support me-”
Sapphire gasp, the camera man makes a muffled noise as the camera goes sideways. There’s a little red tail that passes the camera, and a Sandshrew is scene fixing the camera to sit up straight. Sapphire screams and climbs on top of the couch that was behind her.
An Ampharos in a leather jacket and a scarf is standing in front of the camera. It seems to be holding some kind of index cards. A Sandshrew in a metal helmet grabs one of the cards.
“Do you need services!” Sandshrew holds up.
It grabs another cue card.
“Then come meet us, on the northern side of town!
It throws it on the ground.
It grabs another cue card.
“This is your only chance to perhaps see if the legends are true!”
It throws it on the ground.
“If Z2 is real or not!”
It throws it on the ground and Ampharos looks at its empty hands. It nods it head and gives a mild, “Baah!” It says as it turns around, you see Gizmo stitched on the back of its jacket and it begins to walk off with the Sandshrew closely following behind. The swipe of a purple tail passes the camera and a Nidoking is seen standing before Sapphire and her Pokemon. He sizes them up, puffing out his chest, and “Hrrrr.” is all it says before walking off.
Gizmo is tough and Gizmo is strong. It isn’t that Gizmo cares about his appearance, it’s that Gizmo wants all other Pokemon to know that it owns these mean streets. Its trainer is strong and therefore its strong. It wears a scarf around its neck and has a leather jacket made for it, with its name sewn on its back. Gizmo isn’t just some Ampharos to cuddle, Gizmo is to be feared.
Personality:
Gizmo certainly has a naughty streak about it. It can be at times a mischievous little bully that likes to think it’s big and tough. But that’s what Bruiser taught him, that he is big and tough. He is a big tough Ampharos and no one can mess with him because he’s not like other Ampharos who get groomed and hugged and made into dolls, the horror.
Gizmo is strong because his trainer is strong and follows Noah in battle because Noah is tough, just like Gizmo. Everybody runs away when they enter rooms, that is certainly fear. That is certainly the sign of his owners strength.
It’s not about love or affection like all those other pampered Pokemon. It’s about surviving these harsh streets. It’s about making sure never to get beat. It’s about trust. And Gizmo trust Noah’s judgment. It listens because it’s trainer has kept it alive.
Their life might be hard, but because Noah is so smart, he will always keep Gizmo and his allies safe.
How You Met:
When Gizmo was small, it was surrounded by a lot of loud monsters that made a lot of roaring sounds. This was Gizmo’s great comfort. His mother was a very tall lady with blonde hair and she wore a leather jacket. She use to have long shoes with a pointy end. She had a picture of a very pretty Ampharos on her jacket, with long white fluffy hair that as a Mareep knew it must obtain one day.
When it was small, she gave it a scarf. And that made Gizmo happy. The lady had a boy with her, with black hair. And always said the boy looked like their father. He had black hair too, but she always seemed sad when she shared the picture with them.
He use to play with this boy a lot, that boy was Noah. They watched their mother fight powerful trainers, and she was really strong. With a really strong Jolteon. They use to sit and admired her battles. She was a very strong lady.
Then one day she looked really sadly at Mareep and Noah and told them to sit at a bus stop. She told them she had to go because she had to do something really dangerous. If they stayed at this bus stop someone would come and get them, someone she knew and they would be safe, and happier in a better life.
When she left Noah and Gizmo waited a long time for someone to get them. When no one came Noah grabbed Gizmo and they decided they would live together and be strong like that strong lady.
Bruiser is big. Bruiser is strong. Because that’s all he needs.
Personality:
Bruiser always been meant for the intimidation factor. He’s usually the biggest and certainly think he is in charge of the situation. Despite following orders from Gizmo, because Gizmo the one with the coat and Bruiser doesn’t have a coat. That’s fine Bruiser doesn’t need one. Because everyone is afraid when Bruiser enters the room. It must mean they can see his shining strength.
Bruiser tends to be less mischievous than Gizmo and instead is simply an antagonizer. He likes to start fights and weigh in his two cents where it is needed. He likes to intimidate smaller Pokemon than him because he is strong and they are not. Noah has kept him alive up to this point and people really respect Noah, so that must count for something.
Much like Gizmo doesn’t care too much about friendship, he sees Noah and the team as his allies. His allies who are strong and have his back. He has Noah’s trust, he doesn’t need his friendship. He trust Noah to know what he is doing because Noah always knows what he is doing. They survive and sometimes they struggle, but Bruiser knows they will make it okay.
Bruiser’s favorite moment is when a Pokemon looks at him right before battle and looks cared. It makes Bruiser very happy.
He also likes lemonade.
How You Met:
A little fluffy thing and a human came to sleep with a group of nidoran male and female. Their parents didn’t seem to mind. Then these humans came and threw nets at them and took the whole litter of them including the human and fluffy thing.
The humans who took them called themselves Team Rocket and they distributed his brother and sisters among a bunch of humans. Team Rocket were mean to their Pokemon, Bruiser heard the way they yelled at his brothers and sisters and other Pokemon.
Noah wasn’t like that. He talked to him. But you wouldn’t say it was a loving relationship. They bonded more on a physical level than a mental one. Noah complimenting Bruiser’s strength and Bruiser reciprocating that as affection.
After a while they stopped fighting lots of people for Team Rocket and instead Noah was on the computers a lot. Bruiser didn’t mind because he was given permission by Noah to be mean to any human who tried to disturb his work.
Bruiser liked that part a lot. When he was small he use to bite them. When he got big he got to headbutt them. And when he was bigger before they had to run away ,when Red came to break up Team Rocket, he got to push them.
Zap would like to wear a scarf. He is inspired by Gizmo’s scarf. Alas every time it tries to wear a scarf it falls off. So Zap must remain like he is.
Personality:
Zap is confused by this question. Zap is just Zap. It is neither brave nor strong like Gizmo or Bruiser. But one day it wishes to have big muscles like Bruiser. When it hides in cyberspace, sometimes it likes to setup the binary code like tall buildings and crash through it. Because it wants to be big and scary. It dreams and at least believes it will.
Sometimes it can be seen trying on different clothes. Zap tried to wear a scarf, but it fell to the floor. Such strange mechanics this world has. Then Zap wanted a coat. But it didn’t fit because it didn’t have a way of putting it on and was uncomfortable to float in. So then Zap tried a hat. And it stayed on for about a few seconds then fell off.
But Zap is useful. Zap can fend off viruses. And clean up Noah’s computer. Noah appreciates it. At least it think he does because he compliments it, trust it, and it seems to trust his knowledge to. His Pokemon seem happy despite him not really being an affectionate trainer. So Zap think that is good enough.
But it would really like to find something that it could wear. If someone can help Zap find this, then Zap would be most grateful.
How You Met:
Zap fell out of the computer. Which startled the human and had the human spill something called noodles on the floor. Zap tried to apologize, but he just waved him off with a “it’s fine”. Zap found this an acceptable response and decided it wanted to be with this human. He liked computers. Zap liked computers. The human accepted him. And in time he trusted the human. He was really powerful. Reading through his conversations, other humans were really scared of him. So Zap knew it found a strong human who would protect it.
Name: Roger Moore Age: 20 Gender: Male Role: Lucky Trainer Class: Backpacker Region: Johto
Appearance:
Personality: Roger's a professional traveller (some might say bum). His ID says "Trainer", but he hasn't even been in a Gym in years and only battles when wild pokemon bother him. For him, it's truly the journey that matters; the destination only exists so he can scrape together some cash so his team and him can eat. He possesses an industrious sort of laziness. If he's really gotta, he will, and he'll plow through it until it's done. That said, if the world isn't ending, it's hard to motivate him to get up in the morning. Perhaps because of his lackadaisical approach to life, Roger is a friendly guy who rarely takes offense, even if you're trying.
Motto: "I'm broke, hungry, and my shoes are worn through. Just another day in the life."
Skills: Camping - When living on the road, you learn how to sleep outside. Roger's used to starting fires, catching food, and even doing basic cooking with minimal equipment. Sewing - When you're broke, the best solution to rips in clothes and bags is to fix the hole. Roger's no tailor, but his patch jobs aren't especially noticable and they hold. Navigation - Who needs road signs? Roger has an excellent sense of direction and knows how to use the stars to figure out where he's going. Bargaining - It's said that any idiot can make money, but you gotta be clever to be broke. Roger rarely has much cash on hand, but he's got a knack for talking people down from their asking price. Lucky - Roger and his Pokemon have an unnaturally Lucky streak.
Equipment: A multitool, his pocket watch, a small sewing kit, collapsible fishing rod, and a pair of knuckle dusters.
Bio:
On a couch, slouches Roger, his pokemon arrayed around him. "What's up? Name's Roger. I like being where I haven't and sleeping late. I'll work for food, but feed my friends first, if it's all the same to you," he averts his eyes and scratches his head, "Quotes, right, uh, 'Why do today what you can put off 'till tomorrow?' That's always good, yeah?" He lazily waves vaguely toward the pokemon gathered around him. "These are my friends. They put up with me, and I keep them company. It's a good system." "He," he nods to the Noctowl perched on the back of the couch, "is Darwin, he and I have been together since we first left home. He's almost as bad as I am about getting up in the morning." He motions toward the Sableye peeking over the couch, "That's Maria, the resident troublemaker. If it's shiny, she'll steal it and probably eat it if it's metal or something." "Lastly, not that he minds," he nudges the sleeping Slowpoke on the floor with his foot, "is Earl. He doesn't do much, but, then again, neither do I. Mutual understanding and all that." He lets out a sigh and gets a faraway look in his eyes, "We were never meant to be be the best, you know? But we never really wanted to. It's been a good ride, and I hope whatever's been going on doesn't ruin it."
The Team
Pokemon Name: Noctowl Nickname: Darwin Bond: Max Gender: Male Role: Partner Region: Johto
How You Met: When Roger was five, he wandered off into the woods and got thoroughly lost. As night fell, he started getting scared and likely would have broken down entirely if not for a Hoothoot that landed right in front of him. Once it saw that he was looking, it fluttered over to a tree and hooted excitedly. As he approached it, the Owl pokemon moved to a tree a little ways off and hooted again. Getting the idea, Roger followed the Hoothoot out of the woods and made his way back to his house. From then on, the two would often meet up in the woods and play hide-and-seek, and, when he was old enough to become a trainer, the two naturally set off together.
Pokemon Name: Sableye Nickname: Maria Bond: Strong Gender: Female Role: Support Region: Hoenn
How You Met: When Roger visited Hoenn, one of the first places he wound up in was Dewford Town and the most interesting thing around there was Granite Cave. Naturally, he couldn't help checking it out. For hours after entering the cave, he couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. As he sat on a rock to rest his feet, he felt tug on his belt. A lone Sableye had taken a fancy to his pocket watch and would have made off with it if not for the chain securing it. Seeing that it was caught, the Sableye smiled widely and promptly vanished into the darkness. As Roger approached the mouth of the cave, the Sableye reappeared hanging from a stalagmite. It frowned and proffered a shiny rock, as if in apology. Darwin, now a Noctowl, hooted threateningly, but Roger waved him off, seeing no reason to start a fight where there wasn't one. He accepted the rock, and the Sableye took this as a sign of friendship. Since then, Maria has cheerfully followed Roger around, stealing whatever takes her fancy, eating what looks good, and stashing a share for Roger in his backpack.
Pokemon Name: Slowpoke Nickname: Earl Bond: average Gender: Male Role: Support Region: Kanto
How You Met: When between towns, Roger usually fishes to feed himself and Darwin. Maria prefers to go digging for tasty rocks. One night, while fishing along a lake near Celadon City, there was a weak tug on his pole. At first, he mistook it for getting caught on a rock, but eventually it started to move away from him. Not about to let what felt like the biggest fish of his life to get away and leave him hungry, he pulled. After an hour of nearly breaking his rod from the weight it was expected to fight, suddenly the weight stopped fighting him. As Roger reeled it in, a pink head emerged from the water. A Slowpoke had been strolling along the lakebed, stumbled upon the bait on his hook, tried to make off with it, and apparently gotten bored with trying to escape with its prize. Darwin was disappointed with the lack of food, but Maria found the whole affair hilarious and let out a sort of stuttering hiss that Roger had since figured out was her form of laughter. For whatever reason, Earl has followed Roger around since that meeting. Whenever he's released from his ball, he's almost sure to be sleeping, and usually only wakes up after he would have been useful.