Name:
Alisa Sokol

Nicknames:
N/A

Age:
17

Gender:
Female

Origin:
Jubilife City

Appearance:
Stands at about 5'6 and 131 pounds. Prefers to wear clothing that's more casual in style.

Personality:
Cheerful and hot-blooded, Alisa welcomes excitement and challenge. She's constantly seeking thrills, having a craving for adventure. Energetic in general, Alisa has a zest for life and is generally friendly towards most people at first glance, thinking nothing of a casual battle just to test each other's abilities and just for fun.

Unlike what her personality would imply at first glance, though, Alisa is more cunning than she looks. In both life and battle, she's not one to let an opportunity pass her by. Outright research and study isn't her forte, but she's rather adept at lateral thinking and creative approaches. She prefers to stay versatile in battles, mixing in tricks and misdirection alongside brute force.

Short Biography:
Born and raised in Jubilife to a pair of professional Pokemon breeders, Alisa was raised alongside Pokemon since she was young. Her parents made their living breeding competitive Pokemon for career Trainers, and so Alisa grew up interacting with both Pokemon and professional Trainers, hearing stories of battling and adventure from visiting aces whenever they came to pick up their Pokemon.

As she grew older, Alisa found herself helping her parents with their breeding business. Outside of providing freshly bred Pokemon for professionals, her parents also had a brisk side business of an ordinary Pokemon Day Care's functions, which included light training. Alisa took the job seriously, ensuring that at the very least, Pokemon left with her parents' business didn't have their skills and experience atrophy from idleness.

In her free time outside of school and work, Alisa wound up at a local battling facility in Jubilife that specialized in supplying rented Pokemon, given that she wasn't allowed to borrow Pokemon being raised by her parents. As it turned out, listening to professional Trainers since childhood meant that she at least had some idea of what she was doing in a battle, and Alisa quickly started racking up wins and making a name for herself in the local circuits.

It was at one of these rental tournaments that Alisa caught the eye of one of her parents' clients. The pro Trainer and former Gym Challenger hadn't realized that her local breeders' daughter was at least competent, and this quirked her interest enough that she arranged Alisa's sponsorship into the next year's Gym Challenge.

Alisa was delighted when she found out, having wanted to strike out on her own adventure for years. Her parents were slightly more reserved on the matter, but arranged to have a Pokemon for her by the time the competition started. They gifted her with a recently-hatched Honedge, given her fondness for Aegislash, and Alisa spent the next few months until the Gym Challenge began bonding with the newly-dubbed Lanza.

Pokemon:



Summary:
Local girl taking full advantage of her opportunity for travel and excitement.

Other:
Battle theme
Voice actor: Laura Bailey

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Name:
Scarlet Leone

Nicknames:
The Burning Lion

Age:
19

Gender:
Female

Origin:
Oreburgh City

Appearance:
She stands at a tall 5'11 and weighs [redacted] pounds. Due to the boots she wears her height is usually closer to 6'0. Her hair is naturally white, and though she's gone through phases of dyeing it she has since settled on leaving it alone. Her skin is also pale from all of her time spent digging in the Underground.

Personality:
Scarlet tends to come off as brash and haughty, though actually this is a very calculated persona. In reality she is an eccentric girl with many conflicting opinions and a personality that tends to switch on a dime, often from one extreme to the other. She loves fossils and the idea of reviving them. She also has an interest in Pokemon Contests though it'd be difficult to make her admit it. She loves Eevees both for their cuteness and their evolution ability, especially because many of them involve evolution stones, another fascination of hers.

She is an only child who was raised by a miner and a stay at home mother, and her father's profession rubbed off on her, as she loves her home town and especially its museum.

Short Biography:
Scarlet spent much of her life not leaving Oreburgh City, spending a lot of time in the mines as a kid. There were multiple times that she got lost and had to be rescued, though she never worried when she was lost, she thought it was kind of cool that she could get some privacy in the mines. As she got older, she learned about the Underground and began spending more and more time there, searching for and collecting evolutionary stones and rare materials, giving her a decent amount of money. This income allowed her to buy fancier clothes than most from other regions, and led to her love of Eevees. She has never made a Secret Base, however.

She was given her partner Eevee by her mother, who in turn got him from a Coordinator friend whose wife was a Breeder, and who had an affinity for the pokemon themselves. This was at age 17, and the two have been inseparable since. Scarlet used her minor wealth to get a special collar made for him, which incorporated the first Everstone, the first special stone of any kind, that she found on her own in the Underground. She wears a matching Everstone from the same dig in her own necklace.

When she began training her Eevee in the mines, she would often cause minor cave-ins that had to be cleared away, which she would usually have to help with. Coming back home covered in even more coal dust than her father earned her the nickname of "Charcoal," which when the townsfolk saw her engaging in mock battles with other would-be trainers soon became "The Burning Lion," as they saw how bright her and her partner's passion was.

Pokemon:

Summary:
An Underground fanatic who can't make up her mind.

Other:
Her Eevee has a collar with an Everstone in the center, matching her necklace.