[Hider="Claire Hawk]Name: Claire Hawk

Age: 11

Gender: Female

Hometown: Cinnabar Island

Appearance: Claire stands four-foot-and-eight inches (142cm) tall. She has a thin child-like physique and bobbed platinum blonde hair that stands out against her medium dark brown skin. While traveling, Claire wears a simple, loose-fitting electric-yellow shirt; a pair of off-white shorts that fit tightly just above her knees; and a pair of yellow-and-white sneakers. She packs a swimsuit: a blue one-piece suit with a ruffled skirt that stops at the mid-thigh, both of which are bordered with white. On her wrist is a pink-bordered Xtransceiver

Claire opts for a white trainer’s backpack with light blue trim. Here she stows her poke balls, medicines, and all the other essentials of a pokemon trainer - this pack is particularly light and is often carried in-hand by the strap on the top of the bag - as well as being the bag that she carries into battles. While traveling, however, she also carries a black duffle bag where she hides her personal effects.


Personality: Claire has the spirit of adventure and doesn’t think twice before jumping at the opportunity to explore caves, fly to the top of the mountains or ride across seas. This is the primary driving force between joining this group of young trainers - to explore the Pokemon world. She’s eager and ready to see new sights and meet new people and new pokemon. Claire wants to do any - and every - thing there is to do. From taking on the Indigo League, to competing in Pokemon Contests, she has no specific ambitions, just the drive to do it all - often times throwing herself head-first into harm’s way.

Claire loves meeting new people and is an extremely outgoing youth. Though some would simply call it naive, Claire tries to find the good in everybody and holds very few grudges towards anyone. Change comes naturally to her, in part to her moving back and forth between Pallet Town and Cinnabar Town and her upbringing on the ever-moving surface of the ocean. This fluidity gives her the insight to adapt to the forever-changing face of battle, she prefers to improvise rather than practice outside of battle, preferring to fill her free time with activities like swimming or tree-climbing.

Profession: Trainer

Talents: Fishing and swimming. 

Inventory[list]
[*]$15
[*]5x Pokeball
[*]5x Potion
[*]1x Xtransceiver
[*]1x Good Rod
[*]1x Trainer Backpack
[*]1x Thin Sleeping Bag
[*]3x Spare Set of Clothes
[*]1x Swimsuit
[*]1x Assorted Toiletries[/list]

Starter Pokemon: Chichi (Lv 5 [url=http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Chinchou_(Pok%C3%A9mon)]Chinchou[/url]) [color=#6390F0]Water[/color]/[color=#F7D02C]Electric[/color]

Biography: Claire was born on the legendary Cinnabar Island; once the home of the Cinnabar Gym and the Volcano Badge, Cinnabar was a common stop for many trainers in Kanto. However, a few years after her birth the entirety of Cinnabar Town lay submerged in lava as the town’s trademark volcano sprung to life. Luckily, the Hawks managed to escape the lava flow on the back of Claire’s father’s Gyarados by way of Route 21, which ends in Pallet Town to the north. There, in Pallet Town, the family settled in with relatives and made an honest living fishing for Kingler in the 21.

Three years after the destruction of Cinnabar Town, part of the volcano gave way and the ocean swept in to silence the volcano forever. Former residents were eager to repopulate the island, including the Hawk family. Still keeping with the fishing trade, Mr. Hawk taught his daughter everything he knew about fishing and the two fished side-by-side for hours on end. As if by fate, fishing would become Claire’s gateway to pokemon training.

One evening, on a small fishing boat off the coast of Cinnabar, Claire and her father had cast their lines and waiting anxiously for the Kingler to take a bite. Mr Hawk’s line tensed and was pulled quickly down to the ocean’s floor. However, this was no Kingler. Mr Hawk pulled back on the line and reeled in, the pokemon grew closer and closer to the surface,

“Claire, grab Gyarados from my bag.”

Claire nodded and fumbled around her father’s bag for the small poke ball that he kept around, she pulled it out and handed it out to her father. Mr Hawk took the ball and it expanded in his hand and with a grunt, he tossed the ball high into the air and in a burst of red lightning, a mighty Gyarados materialized above the dinghy.

“Gyarados, bite it!”

Gyarados roared and plunged down into the water, snaking down outside of view. The waters grew increasingly unsteady until finally the line loosened. The atrocious pokemon again broke the surface of the water and snaked its way around in the air above the boat.

“Thanks, Gyarados,” Mr Hawk said with a grin, tossing a poke ball back into the air, it collided with Gyarados and in a flash of red lightning he was gone as soon as he came. The ball fell into the bottom of the boat and Mr Hawk reeled in the catch - a chinchou. He pulled the weakened pokemon up onto the boat and looked it over. The chinchou wormed around in the bottom of the boat in a vain attempt to return to the depths of the ocean.

“What will we do with it?” Claire asked as she looked down at the creature. Mr Hawk dug around his bag and pulled out a blue-and-white net ball, he held it out to Claire.

“Here,” he said, “Capture her.”

Claire took the poke ball and it expanded in her hand. She gasped and dropped the ball onto the chinchou, the ball opened and its iconic red lightning engulfed the angler pokemon. The ball stood still for a brief moment and shook once, the button on the front glowed a bright red color and it made a drawn-out beep. It did it again. And again. Then it stopped. Claire stared at it and up to her father. He nodded, “Go on, take it.”

Claire reached out and picked up the poke ball and held it in her hands.

“What’re you going to name her?”

Claire looked at the poke ball and back up to her father, “How about Chichi?"

Mr Hawke chuckled, “A great name. Alright then, let’s get Chichi back to the pokemon center, she deserves a rest.” He took hold of the oars on the row boat and captained the boat back to the shore.

Since that day, Claire and Chichi have been nearly inseparable - from the moment that Claire came back to pick her up from the pokemon center, the two would almost always be seen with each other. Now that Claire’s become eleven, she’s finally prepared to begin her first Pokemon adventure - tackling the eight gym leaders of Kanto - with Chichi at her side, she made her way to Pallet Town to meet up with fellow trainers, to become the very best.

Notes/Other: Claire has a natural affinity for water-type pokemon and will spring at the chance to get more.[/hider]