Name: Cyrille Dubois
Age: 16
Appearance: With a relatively small stature, especially for an athlete, Cyrille's two proudest features are her toned legs and her almost nonexistent chest. She tends to wear boy's clothes in favor of ones for her own gender, and always keeps the majority of her hair hidden under her hat. Add some bandages to completely flatten whatever breasts she may or may not actually have, and Cyrille passes off as a pretty believable boy.
Trainer Class: Infielder
Personality: A sixteen-year-old gender-confused girl with a twenty-foot attitude, the only thing between her and all-out masculinity is the lack of a Y chromosome. She likes to do things often associated with boys; sports, doing things she knows is stupid but she does them anyway, and not being mistaken for a girl. Which is an odd statement when taken word-for-word, given that she
is a girl. Cyrille also boasts a rash and rough, but altogether good-natured personality. She'll pick a fight or two for certain, but more often than not she has a reason. And of course, she hates being mistaken for a girl.
Though there's a little more than just a girl who wants to be a boy here. She keeps her hair long and keeps a diary with a sticker of assorted Fairy-types (not Mawile, though) on the cover and sketches of even
more Fairies (still no Mawile) on the inside. Her favorite Pokemon, no matter how much she claims they're Fighting-type badasses, are the cutest pink Fairy-types the world has to offer. An observer of the psychological persuasion can easily tell that it may not be so much her being a girl who wants to be a boy, and that in its own crazy way may actually be the other way around. In reality, even though she's mentally male, it's that Cyrille wants to be a girl but has no clue how and is too scared to ask.
Backstory: Hailing from Kalos Region's Laverre City comes a grand psychological oddity. Cyrille Dubois was born a girl, but did her best to be a boy instead. Not an easy task when everybody already knows you're a girl. The person she admired most in childhood was another person who may or may not have identity problems. The local Gym Leader: Valerie. Maybe it was because of Valerie that Cyrille has some girlish tendencies, or maybe not. The point is that Valerlie was the one person with whom Cyrille felt comfortable over her gender. Sometimes she'd even ask for advice from the Gym Leader. Valerie actually had a great idea.
Become a foreign exchange student. Nobody in another region would know her gender, would they? It would be a blank slate with which she could establish her gender for herself instead of having everybody believe what her DNA said. She wound up going to Hoenn Region's Petalburg City, where Cyrille Dubois took advantage of her gender-neutral name to firmly establish the idea that she was in fact male. She'd considered trying to down Norman, the local Gym Leader, but he promptly turned her down because she A: had no Pokemon, and B: didn't have four Gym Badges. She was about to leave, until another challenger approached with said four badges. That challenger used Fighting-types. Cyrille was left in awe of their power. From that day on, Cyrille swore that if she ever became a Gym Leader, she'd use that type. Except that never happened, because she only caught one Pokemon ever. Ralts, who she only kept for about ten seconds before remembering he was Fairy-type.
The years passed pretty normally from there. When Cyrille received an invitation to this Saro Region, she saw a good chance to score some Pokemon, maybe more firmly establish herself as a boy, and return to Hoenn so she could show Norman what she would (hopefully) learn. She accepted without skipping a beat.
Favorite Pokemon Type: Cyrille's favorite type on the surface is Fighting-type. If a close friend asked her, she'd claim it's actually Psychic. The reality is that her favorite type is Fairy, though she'll often make an effort to appear to hate them. The sole exception to this rule is Mawile, "the resident badass of the Fairy dollhouse." In all fact, anecdotes cut, her favorite Pokemon of all is actually Cleffa, which she adores more than anything else on this planet. But since she sees it as a "middle ground" between Fighting and Fairy, Cyrille actually acts like her all-time favorite is Gallade.
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