Luca strode down the city festivities, taking in the sights. After about half an hour of walking around, he noticed a large building with every flamboyant decoration that precedes a gym. In front of the obnoxiously yellow and orange entrance, there were a couple of kids wearing the same hat, one of them with a Pichu on his head, and the other with a Pikachu.
"Charger is so cool! Remember when his pikachu--when she--just jumped on the Snorlax and, and, and…" "Yeah, yeah, yeah! She did Charger’s signature move, THE ELBOW DRIVER and knocked it out so hard! I think it went like… 500 meters in the air!" "HE’S SO COOL!"
A growl escaped from under Luca’s hat, drawing the attention of the two wrestling fans. "Hah! That’s a lame Pikachu hat!" The younger kid with the Pichu said, laughing. "Haha! Lame! What, did your mommy make it for you?" The kids’ pokemon joined in on the mocking. A small whimpering could be heard from under the cloth, changing Luca’s visage. He glared at the kids, accentuating his relatively imposing build, towering over the children. ”Laugh it up, brats,” he sneered. The kids turned pale and quiet. Luca’s demeanor lightened up once again as he made his way toward the gym. ”Don’t mind them, Mimi,” he said. ”Since we have some time to kill, we could see if we can knock their hero down a peg.” He slid and pushed his way through the crowd and into the building.
Just as the long day had just started with the sun rising over the hills, the S.S. Anne II approached the Vermillion port. Luca leaned against the rails of the deck with a poorly crafted handmade pikachu hat on his head. ”Finally here,” he said in a sigh of relief. His hat suddenly started to shuffle around until a pair of glowing eyes appeared at under the pitchblack void inside, just on top of his hair. The little critter under the cloth let out a gleeful cry, quickly followed by another, much higher pitched cry. A Floette with blue and red patterns appeared from inside his bag and quickly flew a few rounds around him. The pokemon on his head growled at the Floette as she landed on top of the hat.
The ship settled in and the walkway was dropped down to the docks. ”You shouldn’t be in the open too much, Rosy,” he said, gesturing to his bag. After a moment of pouting, Rosy flew back into the bag, trying to close the zipper from the inside. He walked down to land with his luggage in tow. He shuffled his feet inside his shoes in celebration of their arrival on land. He looked around to see the denizens of the quaint city up and about. ”We have half a day to ourselves, so what shall we do?”
Previously: “Shady Organization” Admin/Researcher || Current Job: Pokemon Researcher
Likes:
-Encountering and documenting different pokémon -Doing puzzles -Camping -Writing programs for Rotom to use in his pokedex
Dislikes:
-Pikachus, for making Mimi self-conscious -Police -Pomeg berries (not for humans, apparently…)
Talents:
-Jean-Luc’s thinking is very well adjusted to processing data in his head -He’s a skilled traceur (parkour) -Talented in computer programming, and well educated in AI writing -Specializes in the biology of pokemon evolution
Personality:
At first, Jean-Luc would appear as any other mild-mannered trainer. However, the kinds of work he’s done in his life has left him with a very different set of manners. He’s a generally kind person, but he is rarely bothered by a lot of illicit activities, particularly theft. Still, he has enough a moral compass that he’s not impervious to being bothered by the actions of others. These days, he’s a lot more agreeable in this sense, since having left his previous job.
Background:
The Guillaume household was often empty save for little Jean-Luc and his friend, Mimi. He lived in a run-down neighbourhood in central Lumiose. His parents came home from time to time, bringing along with them a lot of money or expensive looking pokeballs at certain times, and with nothing on others. During the days they didn’t come at all, Jean-Luc’s friend Mimi would appear with food at times, wearing her usual tiny yellow cloak, hiding her pitch black ghostly body. Around the time he turned 6, his parents left once again. While they normally came back home once every two days, for the next week, Jean-Luc found himself eating only the berries Mimi would scrounge together.
After the week’s end, he decided to leave to gather some supplies, but found most shops weren’t particularly fond of penniless children. After their second day out, Jean-Luc and Mimi took a different approach. As Jean-Luc distracted the shopkeep, Mimi would steal supplies and food. They marked some shops to steal from, and some shops to buy from with the money they stole to keep their food coming without alienating every supplier. After a couple of months on their own, they caught some other kids trying to take their haul. Unsure what to do with the smaller children, they ended up moving in after nothing being done about them. Over the next three years, their group (soon known as the notorious “Team Mimic”) began to grow with more and more street rats, and even a couple of pokemon.
Before long, Team Mimic caught the attention of some nice businessman who wanted to help some children down on their luck. A young woman approached Jean-Luc with a proposition. The children would stop stealing at random, and start listening in on conversations when asked to, or steal specific items from certain people when asked to, in return for significantly greater food and supplies. For a few years, Team Mimic grew both in size and ability. Around the time he turned 14, the same woman brought him and Mimi to work for the same people she did with the help of his talents. They helped him get a proper education and took well care of him. Soon he started helping them with software, network security, and better research methods, primarily with the pokedex. He worked with them for quite a few years, both as a battler and researcher at times, fending off anyone who might try to get in the organization’s way in order to repay them for their help to him and his friends. Around the time he turned 21, he was promoted to an admin station, giving him more access to the organization’s research.
One particular subject, and what they did to it, caught his attention. A strange Floette, found an odd decade ago. He read up on the data gathered on the subject, and the methods used to gather the data. After two more weeks, he disappeared along with the Floette, leaving the chief researchers concerned with Floette in a catatonic state for several months, and her incubation room blown apart.
He currently works as a field researcher for Professor Yew of the Unova Institute, under the name Luca Galliard. In Kanto, he’s set to meet a professor from the Oak Institute to turn in a package from professor Yew.
Previously: “Shady Organization” Admin/Researcher || Current Job: Pokemon Researcher
Likes:
-Encountering and documenting different pokémon -Doing puzzles -Camping -Writing programs for Rotom to use in his pokedex
Dislikes:
-Pikachus, for making Mimi self-conscious -Police -Pomeg berries (not for humans, apparently…)
Talents:
-Jean-Luc’s thinking is very well adjusted to processing data in his head -He’s a skilled traceur (parkour) -Talented in computer programming, and well educated in AI writing -Specializes in the biology of pokemon evolution
Personality:
At first, Jean-Luc would appear as any other mild-mannered trainer. However, the kinds of work he’s done in his life has left him with a very different set of manners. He’s a generally kind person, but he is rarely bothered by a lot of illicit activities, particularly theft. Still, he has enough a moral compass that he’s not impervious to being bothered by the actions of others. These days, he’s a lot more agreeable in this sense, since having left his previous job.
Background:
The Guillaume household was often empty save for little Jean-Luc and his friend, Mimi. He lived in a run-down neighbourhood in central Lumiose. His parents came home from time to time, bringing along with them a lot of money or expensive looking pokeballs at certain times, and with nothing on others. During the days they didn’t come at all, Jean-Luc’s friend Mimi would appear with food at times, wearing her usual tiny yellow cloak, hiding her pitch black ghostly body. Around the time he turned 6, his parents left once again. While they normally came back home once every two days, for the next week, Jean-Luc found himself eating only the berries Mimi would scrounge together.
After the week’s end, he decided to leave to gather some supplies, but found most shops weren’t particularly fond of penniless children. After their second day out, Jean-Luc and Mimi took a different approach. As Jean-Luc distracted the shopkeep, Mimi would steal supplies and food. They marked some shops to steal from, and some shops to buy from with the money they stole to keep their food coming without alienating every supplier. After a couple of months on their own, they caught some other kids trying to take their haul. Unsure what to do with the smaller children, they ended up moving in after nothing being done about them. Over the next three years, their group (soon known as the notorious “Team Mimic”) began to grow with more and more street rats, and even a couple of pokemon.
Before long, Team Mimic caught the attention of some nice businessman who wanted to help some children down on their luck. A young woman approached Jean-Luc with a proposition. The children would stop stealing at random, and start listening in on conversations when asked to, or steal specific items from certain people when asked to, in return for significantly greater food and supplies. For a few years, Team Mimic grew both in size and ability. Around the time he turned 14, the same woman brought him and Mimi to work for the same people she did with the help of his talents. They helped him get a proper education and took well care of him. Soon he started helping them with software, network security, and better research methods, primarily with the pokedex. He worked with them for quite a few years, both as a battler and researcher at times, fending off anyone who might try to get in the organization’s way in order to repay them for their help to him and his friends. Around the time he turned 21, he was promoted to an admin station, giving him more access to the organization’s research.
One particular subject, and what they did to it, caught his attention. A strange Floette, found an odd decade ago. He read up on the data gathered on the subject, and the methods used to gather the data. After two more weeks, he disappeared along with the Floette, leaving the chief researchers concerned with Floette in a catatonic state for several months, and her incubation room blown apart.
He currently works as a field researcher for Professor Yew of the Unova Institute, under the name Luca Galliard. In Kanto, he’s set to meet a professor from the Oak Institute to turn in a package from professor Yew.