And here's my second character. She's a bit simpler.

[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Keeper 2nd Class Maxima "Max" Muroda
[u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 25
[b][u]History:[/u][/b] "Hiya, I'm Keeper Max! [i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0&channel=willterminus]bzzztcrkkakakshhhhPING[/url][/i] And that's, um, that's Staog! How can we... help?"
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Even in a region as seemingly natural as Hoenn, modernity reigns, and computers are everywhere. All of the major players of the region, from the corporations to the Pokemon League have extensive computer systems, and where there are systems... there are vulnerabilities. Enter Maxima Muroda, at 21 years old: an ambitious self-taught hacker with a chip on her shoulder and a grudge against the Fairfax family. With the aid of her imported virtual-reality Pokemon, "Staog" (PorygonZ), Maxima quickly made a name for herself in criminal circles. If you wanted data you weren't supposed to have, she and her little collective were the ones to hire... and Jonton Fairfax was quite the reliable employer.

She wasn't always so unethical, though. As a teenager Maxima was a bright computer science student studying information distribution systems. She wanted to find a way to link Gauntlets across regions, allowing specialized Pokemon and items to be easily distributed and traded in digital form. After a few years of work on this pet project, she and her professors neared a major theoretical breakthrough. All they needed was access to a massive supercomputer in order to put the theories into practice. When Fairfax caught wind of the project and offered their own company computers, Maxima was overjoyed. Now not only were they going to revolutionize item materialization, she was going to work with the Fairfax Association! Surely they'd be so impressed with her code that they'd offer her a job, right?

Well, turns out the contract they signed for the use of the supercomputer came a bit of fine print. Fairfax researchers had been working on a similar project, but had gotten stuck half-way through. When they got access to Maxima's code, they were ordered by someone higher-up to quietly appropriate it and claim that it introduced a malignant program into the supercomputers. By doing so, they forced her into an investigation of criminal wrongdoing. By the time the investigation blew over and Maxima was acquitted, the Fairfax team conveniently announced that they were developing a nearly identical program. Even though she had been acquitted, Maxima's young reputation had been ruined by the accusation from a major corporation. Her protestations were not heard.

Expelled from her school for academic misconduct, with nothing but stolen Institute computers and a glitchy Porygon, she began her hacking career just to spite the corporate stooges who ripped her off. As far as the world of underground hacking goes, she was doing pretty well for herself for a while. Fat contracts from Jonton, living large with her friends, taking on "the man"... But it couldn't last forever. Two years ago, a job went bad. It turned out the Air Rangers had been onto her collective for a while, and they set up a sting involving the Fairfax Association. Maxima couldn't resist the low-hanging fruit, and she got her whole team busted.

After several long discussions with the Rangers involving her contracts with Jonton Fairfax, as well as the extent of her programming knowledge and her reasons for forming her collective, she was offered a plea bargain: go through Ranger training and become a white hat, and in return her sentence would be suspended. She cut her hair, got some Ranger tattoos, and started calling herself "Max", in order to separate herself from her criminal reputation. Newly christened, Max was a favorite at the Ranger Academy, passed with flying colors, and joined the Air Rangers' computer intelligence division. After its "upgrade", Staog was never too much use, but she still chose it as her partner, as [i]technically[/i] it could fly, if she could convince it to do so.

Right now, she's assigned to a broad-spectrum prevention detail, looking for signs of fraud, hacking and other cybercrimes, as well as occasionally flying to other cities for "real" Ranger work.
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[u][b]Ranger Partner:[/b][/u]
"Staog 2.42.1.01.z (unstable)", PorygonZ (Genderless, Originally licensed as Porygon 1.0)
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Poor Staog has never had much of a personality. As a blocky Porygon 1.0, it was a dutiful programming assistant and stalwart, if dull companion. Though Maxima was never great with Pokemon, Staog was in tune with her interests, and it was always there to help, so she quickly grew fond of it. Once she was accepted into her Institute, she discovered that Silph Co. had years before released a stable second iteration of the Porygon program. Initially leery of the upgrade, thinking it might damage Staog's memory of their time together, she did a lot of research and determined that it would probably be a lot happier as a Porygon2.

So upgraded, Staog 2.0 was her best assistant while she was working on her ill-fated materialization network project, and could often be seen rushing around the Institute gathering research and various computer components. It had some small capacity for battle, so occasionally she would spar with a few of Trainers who also attended the Institute, but neither Staog nor Maxima were ever particularly enthusiastic about it. 

After her reputation soured and her grudge with Fairfax began, Staog was basically her only friend. During the trial, a shady former Silph employee noticed her Porygon2 and offered (for a nominal fee) a brand-new, bleeding edge upgrade that hadn't hit the market yet: the Z-Disc! It seemed a little dubious, but she was vectoring for any advantage she could find in the trial, so she bought the disc and "upgraded" Staog that night. It did not go well.

Since then, Staog 2.42.1.01.z has been a glitchy mess. Fantastic help when it decides to work, complete hindrance when it decides to bug out. It flies around shouting binary at people, randomly shifts from small to big to icy cold to shockingly electric, and only sometimes completes programming tasks Max assigns it. Staog's new crazy outlook on the world [i]has[/i] led to some innovative hacking methods and (more recently) stress testing for Ranger systems, but her superiors' patience runs thin whenever she relies on Staog for a job, so it's relegated to transportation duty more than it would like.

[b]Classification[/b]
[i]Size[/i] - Various, from around 3' to around 6'
[i]Descriptor[/i] - Virtual Pokemon
[i]Type[/i] - Various, default Normal
[i]Ability[/i] - Glitchy: Staog changes its Type and grows stronger or weaker at random. Its size also fluctuates, and like all PorygonZ, it tends to act erratically.

[b]Moves[/b]
[i][u]Field Moves[/u][/i]
Fly | Conversion | Conversion 2 | Recover | Magnet Rise | Sharpen | Lock On | Flash | Disable | Growth | Minimize
[i][u]Battle Moves[/u][/i]
Metronome | Copycat | Tri Attack | Uproar | Screech | Supersonic | Substitute | Explosion | Random move relating to its current Type
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