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[colour=gray][u][b]Name:[/b][/u][/colour]
Mattie Linder

[colour=gray][u][b]Age:[/b][/u][/colour] 
16

[colour=gray][u][b]Gender:[/b][/u][/colour]
Female

[colour=gray][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u][/colour]
[img]http://orig10.deviantart.net/ef33/f/2015/236/3/d/unnamed_pokemon_trainer_by_fellsing-d96z5xe.png[/img]

Mattie is quite short, about 5'1", and very, [i]very[/i] scrawny. Her skin is very pale, though it's not rare to see a faint blush across her cheeks when she's feeling shy or embarrassed, which is often. Her complexion is contrasted by her short, scruffy red hair, which she rarely brushes or cares for. Her fringe flops over her blue eyes, which is good for her because it means she can easily avoid making eye contact with people.

Clothing-wise, she doesn't really care as long as it's comfortable. She doesn't like wearing skirts or anything that reveals too much skin. She often wears worn out jeans, hoodies, t-shirt and boots, preferring to keep to things that are practical rather fashionable.

Due to her lack of femininity, she is often mistaken for a young boy. She doesn't seem to mind this.

[colour=gray][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u][/colour]
Mattie is something of a stoic. She doesn't express much emotion, either through her facial expressions or her voice, and has a tendency to come across as 'cold' and/or 'rude' at best, and down right creepy at worst. In reality, she's just really, [i]really[/i] shy, even to the point of being anthropophobic, and her lack of expressiveness is her way of hiding it. One of the ways to get her to become more open and expressive is by talking to her about a subject she loves like, for example, the occult. Bring up anything supernatural or creepy: she won't. Stop. Talking. This also adds to people being put off by her presence.

Mattie also lacks self-awareness and has a tendency to miss social cues, such as when people want her to be quiet, or politeness, or how close you should be to someone when talking to them. She'll either end up being too far away or too close. There is no happy medium. She also seems a bit intimidated by displays of affection, such as hugging or compliments, and sometimes will come off as rudely dismissing them merely because she would probably freak out if she paid too much attention to them.

Finally, while Mattie may be blind to what others think about her, she does notice other details some people might miss, such as traits about people. What they like, what they dislike, their relationships with others, how they handle situations, and catalogues them away in her mind for later analysis. She's actually naturally curious about people, but because she's afraid to ask questions, she instead takes to observing them, the way some researchers may observe Pokemon. However, this also has furthered her emotional distance from people, and Mattie often has difficulty relating to problems she has not experienced herself. When she does encounter a problem, however: she finds it difficult to handle, and tends to choose escapist methods rather than facing her problems head-on.

[colour=gray][u][b]History:[/b][/u][/colour]
Mattie's comes from a long line of Psychics who live in Ecruteak City. Every woman in her family along her mother's line has been a psychic. Her mum is a psychic, her aunts are psychics, her grandmother was a psychic, and so on. When Mattie's mother was pregnant, she predicted her child would be a girl, and would continue the family tradition. She was... half-right. Mattie did turn out to be a girl. However, despite constant attempts to awaken young Mattie's powers, the girl never showed any signs of having psychic abilities herself. In fact, psychic Pokemon seemed uncomfortable in the girl's presence, preferring to keep a good amount of distance away from her. Her mother Sylvia was mortified and kept her distance from her child at first, as if Mattie had been born without all her limbs or something equally horrifying, yet Mattie seemed like a perfectly normal, non-psychic child. A little shy and fearful, but normal. Eventually, Sylvia warmed to her daughter, and actually became overly protective and almost smothering of her. Her father Edgar, however, was actually pleased his daughter had no powers. Since marrying Sylvia, he had felt overwhelmed with this psychic household and was happy to have someone 'normal' to talk to.

However, it was soon discovered that Mattie was perhaps not entirely normal as they had once thought. Over the years, the Linder household started attracting a large amount of ghost Pokemon. Sylvia, her sisters and her mother tried to scare them away, but they kept coming back in full force. At first they had no idea what was wrong... until they discovered that Mattie's school had also recieved unexpected visits from ghost Pokemon. It was then they realised that ghost Pokemon were seemingly attracted to Mattie, the way bug Pokemon were attracted to flowers, and they would follow her wherever she went. Mattie didn't seem to mind. In fact, she seemed fairly friendly towards the ghosts. Unfortunately, this had some depressing side-effects on Mattie's social life. The ghosts would either scare away any potentional friends, or Mattie would look crazy when kids saw her talking to thin air. She actually got ignored and even bullied at school, and eventually, her mother decided it was best she was homeschooled instead. She was much happier there, and got to spend more time with her ghost friends.

Unfortunately, as wild Pokemon became more and more violent, many of the ghosts at Mattie's household began to disappear or stop visiting. A couple stayed, but most of them left, and Mattie started to feel lonelier without them. Now, she's old enough to be a Pokemon trainer, and she's going on a journey. Her goal? Find out what happened to all her ghost friends.

[colour=gray][u][b]Quirks/Habits/Other:[/b][/u][/colour]
- Due to people reporting her tendency to stare, Mattie dislikes making eye contact with people.
- Has a vast knowledge of the occult, supernatural and myths. She also incredibly supersticious when it comes to luck and charms.
- Attracts ghosts to her and is able to see them, even when normal people cannot. However, she's seen less and less ghosts following her since pokemon became more violent.
- A little sensitive to sunlight.
- She's not scared of ghosts or the dark. However, she is scared of being alone, as in truly alone. When she had her ghosts with her, she was never alone. Now she's much lonelier now msot of them have gone.
- Her theme song would be this:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUH1LABhJgw[/youtube]

[colour=gray][u][b]Inventory:[/b][/u][/colour]
- A large, leather-bound grimoire
- Scented candles x6
- An assortment of paper talismans
- A piece of chalk
- Pokeball x5
- Extra clothes, plus pyjamas
- Camping equiptment
- A Pokegear
- Her housekeys
- Cards with conversation openers, provided by her dad. The hand writing is difficult to read.

[colour=gray][u][b]Pokemon:[/b][/u][/colour]
N/A
 
[colour=gray][u][b]TL;DR:[/b][/u][/colour]
A creepily shy girl who tends to attract ghosts and has a love of the occult, on a quest to find her lost ghost friends.

I will be using [colour=gray]grey[/colour] for her font colour.
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