Name: Raiziel Alexander Kurin

Age: 22

Appearance:
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http://m.imgur.com/a/kAteH
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History: 
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A native born resident of the Johto region, Rai grew up on the Olivine coast with his mother and little sister, Samantha. Mischievous and active from a young age, Rai was often in trouble for winding up in places he had no business being, and had little aptitude for the world of academia. Skipping school to climb to the top of the Lighthouse, running out along the sea breakers and returning home soaked through with sea water, Rai constantly looked for new ways to push the boundaries (and his mother’s sanity) to their breaking point. His mother, a General of the Land Rangers, often found her son standing sheepishly before her desk with a well-worn excuse of “Not wanting the Pokémon to leave him behind”.

With the exception of his little sister, Rai enjoyed the company of Pokémon far more than he did other people. It was a common sight around town for Rai to have a veritable crowd of Pokémon around him, some clamoring for a bite of his lunch he’d come to share with them, some just looking for a good scratch he was always happy to give out. He often drew in Pokémon simply for the delight of his younger sister. But though Rai loved the company he enjoyed around the wild Pokémon of Olivine, it wasn’t until his mother brought home an abandoned charmander, did Rai truly bond with a Pokémon.

Blind in one eye, thanks to an injury, the Rangers could only speculate the newly hatched Pokémon had been abandoned by a thoughtless trainer. Rai, on the other hand, couldn’t have been more enamored with the young fire-type. Instantly dubbed, “Kye”, Rai nursed the charmander back to health and the two became utterly inseparable. Rai didn’t treat his companion so much as a Pokémon, but a little brother. From sleeping in Rai’s bed, to his own chair at the dinner table, Kye became as much a part of the family as his human counterparts.

Though it took him more than a few tries to finally earn his trainer’s license, Rai and Kye eventually bid home farewell and set out to explore the Johto region. Occasionally venturing into towns for battles and rest stops at the Pokémon Centers, Rai preferred the lesser traveled roads of Johto where he caught a number of Pokémon to accompany him and Kye on their journey. For two years, Rai lived an uncomplicated life of a trainer, until returning to a pokémon center where a Ranger waited for him.

His mother had been a part of a sting operation to put an end to one of the illegal fighting rings where both Pokémon AND trainers would participate in all-out brawls, called Pit fights. Her cover had been compromised, and by the time Rai arrived back in Olivine, his childhood home had been burned to the ground; his mother dead and sister missing. Investigation turned up nothing when days became weeks, and weeks turned into months. Though the Rangers knew the culprits originated from within the dredges of the Team Fuse organization, they were unable to find enough evidence to bring any kind of justice to his mother and his sister, now presumed dead.

It wasn’t a good enough for Rai.

Abandoning his life as a trainer altogether, Rai released all of his pokémon, save for Kye. It took months for him to track down the Pit fighting ring his mother had been working to bring down, but he finally located it in an old warehouse in Goldenrod that was nestled deep in Fuse territory. He immersed himself in the lifestyle, posing as a would-be grunt to gain entrance into the gang-run fights. Though he kept his ear to the ground for any hint of information about his family, Rai quickly found himself utterly tangled in the violent world of Pit fighting and before long, her and Kye became common participant themselves, and their original purpose slipped further and further into the background.

Years of fighting eventually earned Rai a reputation, both within the gang and with the local police. Though he started with no real fighting experience, he and Kye learned quickly to defend, and eventually dominate their opponents if they wanted to walk out in once piece. What started as a mission to find out the fate of their family, became survival. Both of them gathered scars, while his peers were out in the world gathering pokémon. Through it all, Rai and Kye worked as a savage team, leaving more and more opponents in their wake, despite Kye’s obvious disadvantage.

It took almost a decade, before Rai finally caught the scent of his family’s fate again; an upper ranking grunt drunkenly bragging about the house in Olivine he’d burned to the ground and the “spoink of a cop” he’d kept locked inside, while his partners made off with the girl.

Rai saw red.

Almost 10 years of life in the Pits took over. Whether or not Rai managed to beat the grunt to death, he wasn’t sure, but it was Kye who finally managed to ignite the warehouse around them to save Rai from the gang descending on them. The two ran for it, even as sirens screeched in the background and smoke poured into the sky.

Hopping from region to region to avoid being tracked, Rai finally managed to pick up the train of the old Fuse members that took off with his little sister, residing somewhere in the Hoenn Region.[/hider]


 

Team:

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Name: Kye

Species: Charmeleon

Gender: Male

Kye is Rai’s ONLY pokémon. Rai thinks of Kye as more of a person than pokemon, and Kye has taken it as his personal duty to protect his hard-headed trainer. The last time he saw the inside of a pokéball is now a distant memory, and is a constant companion at the side of his trainer.

Despite his poor start in life, Kye is a better judge of character than his trainer. Though vicious inside of the fighting rings, Kye has a rather laid-back disposition and enjoys the brief moments in life where time harkens back to the easier days when he and Rai traveled through Johto. Cautious of other people and pokémon, Kye is hesitant around strange people and pokémon, but still trusts them far more than his trainer.

Since he is blind in his left eye from an injury in the early days of his life, Kye relies on Rai to fill in the gaps in his abilities, allowing the two to work in tandem with a synchrony normal trainers and their pokémon lack.

 

Move list:

Thanks to the nature of Pit fights, Rai rarely calls on Kye to use a particular move. This has lead to a split set of moves with ones Kye will use without being told in the heat of a fight, and ones he’ll draw on when directly ordered by his trainer.

Main set:

Crunch|Flamethrower|Dragon Claw|Counter|Protect|Smokescreen

Special Set:

Flare Blitz|Hone Claws|Fire Punch|Endure|Dragon Dance
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