@AThousandCurses It would be interesting if you could have it that Pastille has a gym elsewhere, and because of that Hestia and Pastille have an intense rivalry?
It would depend. If I read correctly, Hestia, Henrietta, and Pastille conflict for leadership of the Circhester Gym. Henrietta less so than Hestia and Pastille because which gym she occupies is more vague.
Pastille's background is that he battled for leadership for the Circhester Gym while Hestia started a fire type gym in Circhester. Depending on context such as two gyms existing in one town or there can only be one gym, I would most likely have to change my background.
APPEARANCE: Pastille is 5’8 ft in terms of height and has an average figure despite how many ice creams he consumes a day.
Whenever he’s at gym work he wears a typical ice cream clerk uniform along with an ice cream pin attached to it.
When not at work he wears a pink, ice cream patterned jacket along with a brown short-sleeve shirt underneath. He wears vanilla-colored long pants and black shoes.
PERSONALITY: Pastille at first glance is an incredibly cold person, pun unattended, when it comes to first impressions. He holds a rather aloof presence with a disinterest expression and would leave a conversation if he thought it was a waste of time. This holds true to any interaction as Pastille’s attention seems to be elsewhere, or at least in a formal interaction fit for business. This includes his pokemon, except for his Vanilluxe, to the point that they got used to their trainer’s behavior. At the very least he’s respectful, when it comes to his close peers or elders, that he’d pay attention to whatever they have to say.
This image is completely shattered once people know Pastille’s obsession. As stated before Pastille is an incredibly cold person… except when it comes to ice cream. Pastille’s personality does a full 180 turning from a disinterested, cold person to an eccentric, nerd that’s sole focus is ice cream. It has taken such a deep hold in Pastille that he completely changed a town's economy to have ice cream be a huge part of it. Though he would put his obsession for ice cream for the sake of the town when needed.
BIOGRAPHY: Pastille was born in Circhester Town and never moved from there. Ever since he was a young boy, he had a love for ice cream. Whenever he had a meal, there would always be ice cream at the end of it. It was cute until the love turned into obsession. It was in his teen years when everyone made fun of his ice cream obsession. Everywhere he went he had either a popsicle or ice cream in his hand and if he didn’t have one you’d better bet he was going to pull another ice cream cone out of nowhere. The fact that he could pull an ice cream cone out of nowhere was rather creepy, which caused him to get bullied over it.
Pastille didn’t mind it… until they made him, drop his ice cream. From sheer spite alone he vowed to become gym leader and prove them the greatness of ice cream. Embarking on a quest to spread ice cream awareness, Pastille ventured out to achieve his dream.
When Pastille came back, he was stronger than ever. Challenging the gym leader for leadership of the Circhester Gym that was until it was already occupied by a new gym leader, whose typing greatly differentiated from the natural theme of Circhester which was ice. This greatly angered the ice cream loving man to the point of abandoning Circhester Town. It's former glory now lost to a "hot head," that had no taste in ice nor ice cream.
Eventually once the blizzard died down, Pastille had a plan. He was going to plan a revolution against all the gym leaders in Galar. After challenging a gym leader for ownership and obtaining the gym he slowly began his plan. Turning the town into a town known for its ice cream, making new ice cream flavors, and governing the town, Pastille will make the entirety of Galar realize the importance of Ice cream!
RELATIONSHIPS: [Relationships with other gym leaders]
Pastille holds indifference and respect to his fellow gym leaders. While he doesn't like their uncultured tongues, he does respect them as fellow co-workers. Though to those who insult his ideology of ice cream then he straight up ignores them and any respect that was there has completely vanished.