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[color=#ff0000]"Reassurance isn't motivation. You need to keep moving. I'll drag you by your hair if I have to."[/color][/center]
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[color=#ff0000][b]Name:[/b][/color] Keala Melia

[color=#ff0000][b]Age:[/b][/color] 16

[color=#ff0000][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female

[color=#ff0000][b]Birthplace:[/b][/color] Po Town, Alola (mixed upbringing in Po Town and Malie City)

[color=#ff0000][b]Pokemon:[/b][/color] 1 (Dhelmise)

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[b]Height:[/b] 5'10"
[b]Weight:[/b] 157 pounds[/hider]

[hider=Personality]The most vital thing to know about Keala is that she doesn't like quitters or "wallow in my misery" types. She's the type that believes people need to keep moving in life, so giving up or crying about how awful anything is serves no real purpose to her. Which isn't to say she'll leave others behind on a whim, of course. Rather, she refuses to let others leave themselves behind. Instead of letting someone cry on her shoulder in the rain, Keala is the type of motivator who would drag someone through the mud until they start walking by themselves again. After all, while the world isn't a bad place, it's by no means a gentle one, and thinking otherwise is nothing short of denial. If asked why she takes this sort of tough love approach with others, Keala might say something like "You only have one life, so there's no point wasting with with rainbows and unicorns."

Indeed, people only get a single life, and Keala for one intends to live hers fully. Where new experiences await, she'll eagerly dive in to make the book of her life have just that little extra to it. Although she doesn't live at a rapid pace, it's hard to deny she's passionate about whatever it is she does once she's into it, and fully confident in her choices, even when she knows they aren't smart ones. She likes to try new things, laugh at her mistakes, get up, then perhaps get something to eat with some friends. That's the kind of life she strives for, and anyone aiming to get between it and her will have quite the obstacle to overcome.

Because of her mindset on life, of course, Keala has a special sour spot for people who negatively impact the lives of others for their own gain, or are too busy admiring what they are to look at what they can become. Yes, it's inevitable, but that doesn't make it any more okay to her. In addition to pulling people out of ruts, Keala feels almost obliged to knock people who regard themselves too highly down a peg, and to right wrongs that she comes across. Considering she's just as stubborn as she is willful, getting Keala to turn her attention away from such a task may not be the easiest task.

Perhaps try using food to coax her. Keala loves to eat pretty much anything edible that's put in front of her.[/hider]

[hider=Biography]Although her parents never married, and split up during her mother's pregnancy, Keala grew up with an unofficial agreement of shared custody. Her father found success in Malie City as a motivational speaker, while her mother's gambling addiction saw her living in the downtrodden Po Town by contrast. Although neither of them were perfect people by any means, Hinata loved both of her parents Her father's "tough love" attitude plus her mother's tough locale made Keala one thing above all others: Tough. It wasn't rare for other kids her age to pick fights while she was in Po Town, and in Malie City, the family approach to getting out of a rut wasn't to just wallow in the pits so much as to figuratively claw your way out until you were back in shape. The result was a girl with impressive physical and mental fortitude, but there was one problem.

While Keala absolutely had the willpower to get her goals done, she didn't really have one in mind. Nothing really clicked with her. Not until she thought up the idea of police work, anyway. The issue there being one had to be a trainer to be a cop, and a trainer Keala was not. She was used to encountering wild pokemon, but never really took to capturing and using them. There was no time to worry about thoughts like "but what if I'm not good enough?" in the Melia family though. Instead, Keala started looking for opportunities for new trainers. And lo, she found a cruise ran by one Professor Fern, geared toward new trainers. It was not only a chance to become a trainer, but also to see the world. Talk about two birds with one stone!

Needless to say, Keala wasn't going to let this opportunity just pass her by.[/hider]