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Dr. Doug
He/Him
20 (40)
March 3
Viridian City, Kanto
It just works
Lt. Colonel, Medical Corps
AQUA Initiative
Playing hard to get
With a time traveler
5' 11" (181 cm) / 180 lbs (82 kg) height
5' 11" (181 cm) / 180 lbs (82 kg) height
You're being healed. Please do not resist.
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John Sullivan
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POSTED ON Feb 16, 2021 19:07:12 GMT
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  • Can rattle trivia and uselessly specific information on Insects on command.
  • Knows how to make Straw hats. Want one?
  • Flirts as a form of self-amusement; Sexuality? Maybe God knows, cause Doug sure as hell doesn't.
  • Viridian County, born and raised. Basically West Virginia- probably had the Pokémon world version of Country Roads dedicated to it.
  • The son of a farmer and primary school music teacher, and the grandson of a Bluegrass quartet member. The accent is there to stay, s'what m'sayin'.
  • His nickname 'Doug' was coined by his group of bugcatcher friends years ago, Why? Between the four of them, their names were John Alfie, John Bobby, John Cassey and John Douglas.
  • The straw hat he wears was made by his mother. After so many patchworks however, he often wonders if there's anything of the original left.
  • He learned to drive his father's truck and tractor by the time he was 10. It was at about that time that he was taught how to handle a hunting rifle as well, to deal with vermin and help gather food for winter.
  • He learned the piano from his mother, the mandolin from his grandfather, and self-taught himself the fiddle. He's 'pretty okay' at all three.
  • Legally, his first pokémon was his Scyther, Kama. The first pokémon he captured however, were a Caterpie and a Weedle; Irys and Sphectra respectively.
  • A big fan of vintage Kaiju films, if his pokémon's nicknames didn't make it obvious.
  • The scar on his cheek came from his first meeting with the aforementioned Kama. She narrowly missed lopping his head off. He's never let her live it down.
  • The scar on his chest? Ask him about it. He'll let you know after a cold sweat.
  • Completed the Kanto Gym Challenge and the Johto Gym Challenge between ages 10-11 and 11-12, respectively. Never participated in the Conferences nor challenged the Elite 4s.
  • After much effort, finally got expelled from Public School in Slateport. Much appreciated, !
  • Ended up having to take a High-school Equivalency Exam anyway due to the Military.
  • After a childhood spent chasing after bugs with his friends in the forest, he dreamed of becoming an entomologist.
  • Dreams die. Currently studying for an Associate's Degree in Military Science under one of the Military's Educational programs.
  • A Low ranked Officer with very few duties, his only job is technically staying fit for combat. His daily routine is being put into the ground by his Drill Sergeant and then having pick him back up and whip him like wet laundry against the rocks at the gym.

    Having been promoted to a Captain within the military due to his assignment as Gym Leader, he was granted a relatively small, decommissioned military base for use as Gym, as well as a litany of new duties. Luckily, he knows how to delegate and trust his soldiers. Still, between his morning training, studies, supervising, pokemon training, etc... he can hardly finds time for his friends these days.
  • Trauma and PTSD regarding the rocket takeover, the slateport invasion and the Megalopolan War has made him unable to handle the very concept of Death. He cannot pull the trigger on a living being despite being a soldier, and he death relatively poorly.
  • Favourite Coping Mechanisms (FCM™️ ): Denial and Self-repression. He's been trying angry outbursts recently. Keeping things fresh, you know?

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plank
she/her
seventeen
march 19th
pacifidlog town
homosexual
rocket grunt
grunt
what's wrong? does nobody here love you? do you feel alone? need somebody to hold you?
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1. Was pulled out of school by her father at about the age most kids start their trainer journey. The education she missed out on was not supplemented with anything. Her reading level is a little lower than average and her general knowledge of math, science, and history are all pretty rudimentary.

2. This extends to pokemon as well. Having never attended any form of trainer school, her understanding of pokemon care and battling are limited. The former isn't much of an issue (she feeds, bathes, etc her pokemon when she does herself) but in battle she's a one trick pony -- that trick being ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!

3. That being said, time spent with her father and on the sea have taught her a lot about boats and the ocean. These are two subjects she's actually probably ahead of her peers in.

4. Her Carvanha, Baby, was hatched from an egg that was originally meant for sale. After the buyer reneged on their deal her father gifted it to her.

5. Her Chatot, Jack, and her Vaporeon, Mama, both previously belonged to her father. As a result they're both much better trained than the pokemon she's raised herself.

6. Plank knows how to make eggs, grilled cheese, and burnt steaks. That's it. Otherwise she feeds herself with instant meals.

7. Her favorite food is cup noodles.

8. While she's lived in Hoenn for as long as she can remember, she was actually born in Johto.

9. Night terrors both make Plank reluctant to sleep and often interrupt what sleep she does get. She's learned to make up for this by napping in short bursts and trying to avoid falling into REM. It's a routine held together just barely with the help of lots of caffeine.

10. The nickname "Plank" was initially given to her by her mother. At least that's what her father always said.




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Hideo
he/him
14
October 18th
slateport
undecided
Gym Leader
Ace Trainer
smol height
smol height
i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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  • Is completely blind, due to an optic nerve malformation. Keeps his eyes closed.
  • Is the youngest of 5 siblings. They’re each separated by between 2-3 years, though it seems to stop with Hideo.
  • He received his first Pokemon, a Rockruff, for his 6th birthday. He named it Rocky, and it eventually evolved into a Lycanroc Dusk.
  • Received an Aipom and Elgyem on his 8th birthday, which he named Pom and Elga respectively.
  • Very quickly found his knack for training Pokemon - in part because of how restrictive his parents were towards him meaning he didn’t have much else to do.
  • After enough badgering, got his trainer license when he was 11. However, his parents wouldn’t let him do the gym circuit.
  • Got enrolled in a mentorship program for young trainers. Most of his mentors sucked until he met .
  • Ran away from home to do the gym circuit on his own. Having pretty good luck living alone on route 116.
  • Has had no contact with his parents since he ran away.
  • Deliberately trains his Pokemon to be able to make decisions without his input, due to his limited awareness during intense situations.
  • Always wears stripes of some kind. It’s not always intentional, but fate finds a way.
  • Gets seasick easily. However, doesn’t get airsick.
  • Very good at singing. However, doesn’t want to become a singer due to his parents trying to push him into that career.
  • Has a very odd taste in music; he knows stuff from pretty much every genre you can think of.
  • Likes reading poetry. His tastes are similar to his taste in music.
  • Knows some ballroom dancing from his lessons with .
  • Decent cook. However, very good at making curry.
  • Favored coping mechanism: just get away from what’s causing the problem.

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Lisa Bortiforte
She/Her
31
August 30
Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
Bioterrorist
Underboss
Unattached
Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
Bury me in the roses and rot; I'll come back thorned.
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POSTED ON Apr 1, 2022 0:00:24 GMT
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  • Elisabeth grew up in a countryside household that did not value technology. She's massively out of the loop on pop culture references, and also has the tech skills of an old lady.
  • Her father owned a winery in Camphrier Town, Kalos. Her mother was a talented watercolour painter. Both came from noble houses, but the wealth of both was beginning to face the first sign of decline.
  • She spent most of her childhood outside, or curled up with a good book. She loved to climb trees!
  • Shy nerdy Elisabeth loved Bug-type Pokemon, to the horror of all other noble girls she tried and failed to befriend.
  • Her first Pokemon was a Wurmple she rescued from her parents' garden, which evolved eventually into a Beautifly. That Beautiful is now dead, and she doesn't want to talk about it.
  • She was very sincere and earnest to a fault in her youth, making her gullible and painfully easy to tease.
  • She's a decent singer and dancer, due to childhood lessons. Impeccable etiquette, too.
  • Never learned how to drive, though. Still has no idea how to drive. Isn't this what drivers are for?
  • Married young, at nineteen. Was an idealist, actually loved him. Her parents were not on board but wanted to be supportive.
  • Met her husband, Lord Bortiforte, at a Kalosian debutante ball. He was ten years her senior, been infamously jilted at the altar by his last fiancée, and was considered all around an ill-tempered brute. Elisabeth chose to approach him, because 'there is good in everyone.'
  • Update on that, almost ten years later: some men are, in fact, just evil. The honeymoon period ended faster than Elisabeth had anticipated, leaving her with a jealous and paranoid man convinced of infidelity everywhere he looked.
  • Early on in their marriage, she was initially mousy and people-pleasing, desperate to win her now-cold husband's favor. Eventually she realised this was impossible, and her heart began to harden in kind. If he expected infidelity, fine. She'd give it to him.
  • Most of Elisabeth's life in her husband's manor was recorded in some manner using his company's security system technology. She had virtually no privacy, except when outside in her garden. It has resulted in her indifference towards technology being replaced with an active disdain.
  • Elisabeth, at her breaking point, asked her husband for a divorce. As they never signed a pre-nup, having initially married for love, this conversation did not go well.
  • She befriended her Misdreavus when the Ghost-type Pokemon heard her crying by herself and decided to haunt her bedroom. This footage of Elisabeth supposedly talking to herself was used to help smear her reputation by declaring her 'unwell,' explaining her continued absence from public life.
  • Her mother-in-law's Salazzle is ultimately the reason that Elisabeth got into poisons. Long story. Elisabeth probably has more in common with that woman than she will ever admit, to herself or aloud.
  • All Elisabeth's poisoner knowledge is self-taught and cobbled together from books. Because of this, she's a piss poor scientist, and probably does not have sterile working conditions, or use even the most efficient methods. But she sure gets points in creativity!
  • When her parents died, her husband spitefully refused to let her attend their funerals. This prompted her to try to escape with the use of her Gloom, Misdreavus, and Roselia. She failed in this, and the severe burn from his Emboars patrolling the manor taught her not to try again.
  • Elisabeth, by the way, is now terrified of Emboars. One of her husband's escaped in Kalos, and she's pretty sure it wants her dead for killing his master. AROMATHERAPY calms her down from those panic attacks.
  • Related: she absolutely murdered her late husband. However, she has openly admitted this to almost no one.
  • Bortiforte was a successful CEO of a security & asset management technology company. When he died, Elisabeth inherited his shares and could have kept the company running. This would have ultimately been more profitable, but Elisabeth instead spitefully broke it into a thousand tiny pieces, sold those pieces to his competitors, and then set his manor on fire. As you do.
  • Every single one of Elisabeth's intimate romantic relationships in Kalos has been toxic in some manner, none morseo than that with her late husband. It's hit the point where the idea of actual healthy intimacy is more frightening. Who needs a man when you have plants?
  • Hilariously, Elisabeth is a phenomenal baker and chef despite being a poisoner. Let her cook you dinner. Really!
  • Came to Hoenn without a friend to her name. Did not really expect to make any.
  • Joined Rocket because she still doesn't feel like she belongs with ordinary good people. And because there's a part of her that actively relished in causing her husband's death, and she doesn't know what to do with that feeling.
  • Very sensitive about being touched. Does not take unanticipated physical contact well.
  • Struggles with intense insomnia.
  • Tends to laugh at her own stupid jokes.
  • The ring she wears is her mother's wedding band, a Fiorelli heirloom. Elisabeth has adjusted it so that it serves as an agent for releasing poison with a prick of its golden thorns.
  • Based her cottage on a watercolour painting by her mother, Georgiana Fiorelli, entitled 'Sanctuary.' It sits above her bed. Only knows this.
  • Her fatal, defining character flaw is curiosity.


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twenty two
october fifth
hammerlocke
homosexual
operative
cadet
single
17 height
17 height
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  • Mòrag is a very physically active person, and enjoys parkour and martial arts both. Despite this, she isn't the outdoorsy type, and isn't accustomed to going out in the wild, much more used to concrete jungles.
  • She also has rather girly hobbies, such as dancing, singing, and fashion, and is a proponent of self-expression. She is somewhat embarrassed of these, however.
  • Mòrag has inhuman pain and alcohol tolerance.
  • Mòrag has a huge sweet tooth, and hates bitter foods.
  • Despite being well-educated, she fled home at 15 and thus never finished high school.
  • If a psychic pokémon were to gaze into her mind, they would find the equivalent of a shattered wine glass that has been built back and barely held together by strings.
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rosie
she / her
14
October 14
Vermilion City, Kanto
unknown
demolition expert
Civilian
But I still believe, someday this lie will set me free
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☆ actually wanted blue eyes instead of red since she was young, doesn't even know who she inherited the trait from
☆ would go on and on about her favourite fairytales and legends if anyone gave her the opportunity to
☆ wonders what space rocks taste like, would probably lick one if she ever found one (probably a trait she got from )
☆ has a penchant for trying to fight wild pokemon barehanded, has gotten her ass whooped one too many times
☆ tends not to give complete orders through her whistles - one pokemon receives a proper command and the other is taught to follow-up in whatever way they deem appropriate for the situation
☆ genuinely likes playing the piano and hopes to learn a few more instruments
☆ copes by running away from stressful situations
☆ further copes by d i s s o c i a t i o n and letting her guide their actions - there are often gaps in her memories after extremely stressful events
☆ would probably scream or punch any person who touched her if not for a) Reiner's presence or b) her innate instincts that tell her that she probably wouldn't survive a fight against said person
☆ extreme anxiety and confidence issues - her smiles and jokes cracked are her own way of apologising for how much space she takes up
☆ would probably hug and give anyone a cookie if they seemed like they needed the company
☆ was actually really relieved when she realised that another kid, was willing to talk to her. she half expected him to make fun of her or try to push her, without ever realising that he was blind to begin with
☆ has loved science since young and is decently capable of working with numbers where needed, but will actually cry if asked to solve a math question - a total of 2 people have made her cry over math problems on this site
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