[hider=Niji Aksha (Ho-Oh)]
[b]Name:[/b] Niji Aksha
[b]Age:[/b] 19
[b]Appearance:[/b]
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Niji is a light olive skinned girl with long, dark brown hair. Her facial features are slim, complimenting her oval head shape. Niji has short, dark eyebrows and thick lashes that frame her gray eyes. She is dressed in increasingly complex robes and jewellery that somehow make her look too young to be wearing them. Niji is 165cm tall (5'4") and her voice has a very clear sound to it.

[b]Legendary:[/b] [hider=Ho-Oh]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/nD9NHjiEsYE[/youtube]
[/hider] Legendary Moves: Ancient Power, Whirlwind, Weather Ball, Sunny Day
[b]Legendary Powers:[/b]
- Regenerator: Niji has the passive power of making people and pokemon around her feel more lively, almost like just seeing her is enough to bring life back to tattered souls.
- Niji has peculiar dreams in which she is flying through the air, looking over the world. In her nightmares she is burning, being reborn from her own ashes. Sometimes she sees visions of reviving other pokemon from their ashes. Fire and the sky, they always seem to be present in her visions and dreams.
- Whenever it rains somewhere Niji is, a rainbow will follow. Sometimes when she is happy, a rainbow can be seen forming on a clear, cloudless sky.
- If Niji is upset or angered, the close vicinity around might burst up in Sacred Flames. She cannot control this enough to use in battle, but the flames seem to be attached to her emotional state. The flames will burn almost anything into fine, almost sparkling ash.

[b]Biography:[/b] Niji was born to a couple living in Johto region's Azalea Town. The day she was born, a mysterious rainbow appeared in the sky even though it hadn't been raining previously. This is what her name came from: A rainbow blessing. Niji had quite an ordinary childhood for the first years of her life, but then her unusual powers were discovered. Niji's parents were very young when they had her, so they weren't at all experienced on how to be good parents. So when it came out that Niji was unusual, a reicarnation of the legendary rainbow pokemon, Ho-Oh, Niji's parent's were clueless. They took her to Ecruteak City, where the Sages of the Bell Tower claimed her as Ho-Oh's reincarnation and wanted her to stay there.

Most of Niji's memories are of her spending her youth inside the four walls of the Bell Tower, where it is said the legendary Ho-Oh resided before the disappearance of all the legendaries. The Sages made Niji take the place of Ho-Oh as the being they protected and worshiped, believing Niji to possess the same power to grant eternal happiness to whoever saw her. This is why she spent her life mostly locked up inside the Bell Tower - protected, as the Sages put it - only to meet the selected few and grant them "her blessing". Growing up being viewed as some sort of deity definitely shaped Niji's worldview and self-image. Aside from not really experiencing life outside of the Sages and the Bell Tower, Niji really just lived her life doing whatever she was told to do. So when the invite to the Reincarnation tournament arrived, the Sages emphasized that it was her duty to attend and show the pokemon world the true might of Ho-Oh. Since the sense of duty runs very deep in Niji's bones, she felt like she had to do what she was told, and so she began her quest to become the mightiest Reincarnation, no matter how she really felt.

[b]Original region:[/b] Johto

[b]Other:[/b] Niji isn't really that into pokemon or battling, but she is acting out of sense of duty for her legacy and the Sages who worship her. Because she was always told what to do, she never really developed a personality or a will of her own. She really doesn't know what [i]she[/i] wants, only what is wanted and expected [i]of[/i] her. However, leaving Ecruteak City and the Sages behind for this new journey has opened the opportunity for Niji to realise that there is more to her than what she has been taught her whole life; perhaps her true interests and motives don't even align with the people who she was brought up by.
In short, this journey isn't just about being the best for Niji, it is about finding yourself for the first time in the truest meaning of the word.

[b]Pokémon team:[/b]
[hider=Volcarona]
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	Pokémon species: Volcarona (Female)
	Pokémon nickname: N/A
	Pokémon moves: Gust, Fire Spin
	Pokémon ability: Flame Body
	Pokémon held item: N/A
	Pokémon other: Volcarona was gifted to Niji by the Sages of Bell Tower when she turned 18. She was fully evolved when Niji recieved her, but she doesn't seem to be a very experienced pokemon yet. It doesn't help that Niji and the Volcarona don't really have a natural connection or a bond a trainer and their pokemon usually have.
[/hider][hider=Natu]
[img]https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sm/icon/177.png[/img]
	Pokémon species: Natu (Female)
	Pokémon nickname: (Optional)
	Pokémon moves: Peck, Night Shade, Lucky Chant, Teleport
	Pokémon ability: Early Bird
	Pokémon held item: N/A 
	Pokémon other: Natu was the first actual pokemon Niji caught herself. While this was done under a constructed environment and she had little to no say in the matter, the fact that she caught the pokemon herself helped Niji feel more connected to the Natu.
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