I was going to have my character be from Canalave at first, but then I noticed everyone else was already from there.

I'll fancy my CS up a bit later on; it's late and I wanted to get this up today.

[hider=Tobias White][center][img] https://i.pinimg.com/564x/39/7a/44/397a442affe4f43393e47e5b0c5911f1.jpg[/img]
[color=#FFFFFF][i]"Observe, analyse, solve. Every problem has a solution and every situation is a problem from the right perspective."[/i][/color][/center]
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[color=#FFFFFF][b]Name:[/b][/color] Tobias White

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Nicknames:[/b][/color] N/A

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Age[/b][/color]: 17

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Origin:[/b][/color] Sunyshore City

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] 6’ 1” | 131lbs

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Meticulous and careful in everything he does, Tobias is someone who likes to take his time with things and think through a course of action. He doesn’t like to even make a start at something unless he has all of the steps thought out ahead of time, so that he can complete things thoroughly and on the first try. This gives him a high rate of success in the things he tries but at the same time he has a problem with over-planning above and beyond what is needed.

Despite his outwardly calm appearance he is someone who is driven to do his best and can be surprisingly stubborn and passionate about things. While this spurs him on to give his best effort he can sometimes become fixated on a goal of it is something he is having difficulty with; as such he is someone who at times has difficulty letting things go.

In interactions with others he is best described as reserved and cool; he is not outwardly emotive or expressive which makes it hard for people to tell what he is feeling most of the time. At the same time his manner of speaking sometimes comes across as short or abrupt, even rude, but this is not to say he is unkind or uncaring; he just doesn’t often show his kinder side to those he has just met.

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Short Biography:[/b][/color] The son of an engineer and a teacher, an only child, Tobias grew up in the coastal city of Sunyshore. His parents were often busy with their respective professions, either working long hours or bringing their work home with them respectively, but always made sure that at least one of them was free to spend time with him when he was young. Usually this was his mother, the teacher, who was home more often than her husband even if she sometimes had to work even then; as a result Tobias was closer to her than his father.

Often she would read to him, or teach him things, and as he grew older he would be the one reading or they would read together. She instilled in him a love of books and of learning and even when his parents weren’t around he was usually reading by himself rather than playing with children his own age. His father meanwhile, when he was around, taught Tobias how to think; how to rationalise, how to break problems down and solve them piece by piece, how to tackle unknown situations; it might have been different from what most fathers taught their sons, but he gave Tobias an engineer’s mind-set to go along with his love of learning.

During Gym Challenge season he would also spend time at the Sunyshore gym, mostly out of a lack of anything else to do and also because like any kid he had an interest in Pokémon. He didn’t have any aspirations of becoming a Pokémon trainer at this point but he enjoyed the spectacle of the battles and he enjoyed cheering for his hometown’s gym leader all the same. However over time he started watching the battles more closely, paying attention to the strategies involved more than the showiness of it all; he began to notice things. Each trainer had their own way of doing things, their own approach and their own plan; some succeeded and others didn’t, some were too weak and others strong enough, some he could see adapt and adjust their plans when things went wrong and others he saw stick to their plans and fail.

Pokémon battles were a lot more complicated than he had first thought. They were a complex and dynamic puzzle as much as they were a test of strength, probably more so.

From the moment of this realisation onwards Tobias was set on becoming a trainer. He couldn’t even say why exactly, but it was like a fire had been lit under him and it was something that he had to do. At age fifteen he obtained his first Pokémon, a Magnemite given to him by his father, and he began training in earnest. At age seventeen he approached the Sunyshore gym leader and asked him for a recommendation.

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Pokemon:[/b][/color]
[hider=Magnemite]
[img]https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6c/081Magnemite.png/250px-081Magnemite.png[/img]
[b]Name:[/b] Magnemite
[b]Species:[/b] Magnemite
[b]Gender:[/b] N/A
[b]Ability:[/b] Analytic
[b]Personality:[/b] Observant, Curious, Passive
[b]Move Set:[/b] 
Tackle
Supersonic
Thunder Shock
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[color=#FFFFFF][b]Summary:[/b][/color] Someone who believes that everything can be ‘solved’ given enough time and information, including Pokémon battles.

[color=#FFFFFF][b]Other:[/b][/color] Enjoys cooking and reading[/hider]