[hider=The ‘Ryte’ Trainer For The Job!] [center] [h1][b][color=violet]Clarissa Ryte[/color][/b][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/sYiFg65.jpeg[/img] [hider=Her Theme Song(s), Because Yes] [center][i]~Hometown/General Theme~[/i] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8D0KWsSh7Y[/youtube] [i]~Inner Self Theme~[/i] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTJZ6KHD64[/youtube][/center] [/hider] [/center] [color=violet][b]Appearance[/b][/color]: A slender but maturing girl whose expression is usually presented as stoic in front of others, Clarissa has long light-purple hair and a pair of piercing purple eyes in turn to match. Outside of the public eye she can be found to smile more often around her Buneary and family, her smile can be seen to be generally small but rather distinct looking compared to her ‘usual’ self. She has a braid on the left side of her head that is secured with a purple ribbon, given to her by her grandmother, and generally keeps it on her person at all times. As well. In terms of height she is 5’8”, and her weight is 132 pounds. [color=violet][b]Age[/b][/color]: 16 [color=violet][b]Gender[/b][/color]: Female [color=violet][b]Personality[/b][/color]: A person whose psychic powers put a strain on her from a young age, pushing her to learn to control them as well as learn to restrain herself to an extent that has shaped her personally. What became the end result was someone who outwardly enforces a well-trained stoic expression on her face, a true ‘poker face’, who might be mistaken as ‘unfeeling’ in the process. Yet despite rarely showing outward expressions of emotion in a public setting at all, behind closed doors and with loved ones and friends and trusted confidants she is more comfortable letting herself express what she is feeling. Indeed, especially since her powers began developing and she began to train with them Clarissa can be an empathetic and kind person indeed….though this, due to her powers, can be both a good thing as well as a burden that wears on her mentally to boot. Generally she will try to be polite to others, though growing up in Orre she was raised to always keep an eye out on and an ear open to the world around her respectively. This mindset of awareness has been drilled in such that to her it's as natural as breathing air, as well as becoming a personal habit in the vein of drilling herself in trying to maintain a sense of self-restraint. Beyond this, she does have a general ‘spark’ of curiosity in her that drives her to want to learn about things or look into them. The sort of mindset someone like a field researcher or archaeologist or such might enjoy, or perhaps even befitting of a scientist like her father at that. So despite her ‘strong self-restraint’ in the personal sense, she is more liable to poke her head into something that catches her eye well enough than not depending on the particular situation and case in which something does so. In that vein, getting to be paid and looking into things in her new region of residence is certainly a bonus in her mind. [color=violet][b]Trainer Class[/b][/color]: Wanderer [color=violet][b]Hometown[/b][/color]: Pyrite Town, Orre Region [color=violet][b]Background[/b][/color]: Clarissa Ryte was born to Milo Ryte, a man working at the Pokemon HQ Lab in Orre but whose family lived back in The Under before it was lost, and a mother who had come from Agate Village and met her father in Pyrite Town while visiting to look for different herbs across Orre. Despite living in a version of Pyrite Town that didn’t have CIPHER involved, Clarissa was raised to be aware and wary of the sketchy types and rougher sorts that still definitely called Orre home locally and otherwise. It was a life lived always keeping one eye open, and taking occasional trips to visit her maternal grandmother in Agate Village or paternal grandparents who had moved to Phenac a few times a year. There were also many times she went to watch Colosseum fights and such at Pyrite Colosseum with her mother and/or father, being both a way to get entertainment locally as well as get to see more Pokemon outside of the battles held in Duel Square. On occasion she’d stop by the local fortune teller with her mother, perhaps, or watch TV to see whatever shows were on or whatever the ONBS was saying in the latest news stories. Living in the Orre Region, she wasn’t exposed to a Pokemon-rich region and most often saw them when it came to watching Pokemon battles or people going about with their own Pokemon. The region itself was, after all, a notable wasteland without much in it to sustain Pokemon save for three curious areas called Pokespots where some ‘native’ pokemon had begun to appear and live in. With her father involved in helping the Pokemon HQ Lab in leading the legal and non-criminal importation of Pokemon to Orre, he would also on infrequent occasions get to go to Gateon Port and bring her back some kind of souvenir or trinkets the ships had picked up from some other far-away region. Beyond this, however, her father was often gone due to work most of the time and her mother was the one who was most at home. At the age of five, however, a young Clarissa would find herself suddenly struck with what seemed like a debilitating condition that made her collapse in the middle of town as she went shopping with her mother. She kept mumbling about voices in her head and feeling all sorts of things even after she would wake up later, but after getting medically checked up the doctors could not find out what was wrong…until she started talking about things they’d been only ever thinking about and never said aloud. Eventually it would be confirmed that she’d begun to develop psychic powers of some sort, which in turn would lead to an attempt to grasp the situation by her parents as they tried to find out how to assist her. It wasn’t exactly an easy thing to raise a child with actual ESP in a region without so much as a school for such things. Where the most help would end up coming from, though, would be Clarissa’s grandmother and the peaceful serenity that was Agate Town. With herbs to help the frequent headaches a younger Clarissa would get from her powers, and training to try to restrain and control herself as well as tapping into some old contacts from her trainer days who had such powers to come help, Clarissa’s grandmother would help her and even take her on walks to see the Celibi-honoring Relic Stone the village held so dear. It was also here that something of an event would help spark her curiosity to become a trainer would truly occur, back when a twelve year old Clarissa would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night after yet another day of training with a friend of her grandmother. Feeling drawn to somewhere, the girl would wander to the Relic Stone and see it letting off little sparks of green light…like fireflies even. Yet she could feel a presence there, flitting about around her. Watching her, even, curious and yet keeping its distance. As the girl reached out to touch the Relic Stone, running a hand gently down it, the presence would suddenly appear behind her. Despite falling to the ground from the sudden spook, the younger girl was shocked to see the legendary pokemon Celebi staring right back at her as it flew lower to the ground to get a better look at her. For a moment, the girl would reach up hesitantly, with the smaller legendary pokemon reaching back to touch her hand in turn, before eventually moving back and disappearing as quickly as it had arrived again in a small flash of light. Upon telling her grandmother, and her dirty pajamas telling some evidence of the encounter as she wandered back out of the Relic Forest in the early morning hours, it was certainly an event that struck her grandmother as unique. Of it she was told that it was ‘a blessing, a sign that [she was] meant for something great’, though the impression of it all left a sense of wonder in the girl that didn’t seem to fully fade away even as she got older. Indeed, as she got older, and more of a handle on herself and her powers, Clarissa would become more as she has become by current times. Restrained. Reserved. Putting up a wall and a front to help her create a basis for controlling herself. Etc. It didn’t make her many potential local friends, though, but eventually to try to cheer her up she went with her father and mother to one of his visits to Gateon Port. Supposedly a new shipment of Pokemon had arrived, and he hoped to get her a pokemon of her own to keep her company. Only just having turned fourteen at the time, Clarissa came along with her parents hoping that having a pokemon would help her learn to better express herself. It would also be at this time that Clarissa would, as they walked by the Machine Shop, be struck with the feelings of something that was…suffering. It was in pain. It wanted to live. It felt….alone. All of these were something that felt, even if for a moment, all too familiar to how she’d felt all those years ago. Without batting an eye the girl darted away down a side alley, her parents in very worried and hot pursuit, only for her to find a Buneary that seemed wounded and starving for food. It was weak, and only getting weaker, and as she took it up into her arms it seemed to look slowly up at her in the process. It was after this that Clarissa’s parents, as they arrived and watched her turn around with this hurt pokemon in her arms, would later look back on as the ‘moment that [they] realized there was some kind of connection she had to this little, injured pokemon from afar’. Clarissa would ask to bring home the little Buneary, after her and her parents raced it get it to a Pokemon Center in time, and then help care for and bring the little Buneary back to health the rest of the way after taking it to the nearest Pokemon Center in a hurry, and would want to bring it home afterward. From here, it was a year of bonding and growing with her new Buneary that seemed to bring them both out of a ‘funk’ they had each been in. Allowed them to see more of how each other was, coming out of their shells, and ultimately leading to her Buneary getting a nickname from her and entering a Pokeball as she decided she wanted to become a proper Pokemon Trainer. Soon after this, however, Clarissa’s father would find a change in jobs and her parents would move along with her to Grand Glory City in the Evig Region so her father could work a new position he’d been hired on for at a certain Professor’s lab. Plus moving to a generally safer region, one full of many more Pokemon, was something that Clarissa’s parents felt would be healthier for her than reaching adulthood in Orre. And so they moved to the city, and her father took up work at a different Pokemon lab and began his work there. As for Clarissa, however, it was….still going to be an adjustment. But she had her beloved Buneary with her, and he had his beloved trainer in turn. Fast-forward another year later, and her father would bring her to work one day upon request of his boss. It was here the girl was talked to for a bit by the Professor, before eventually being made the offer to take up a Pokedex and go out into the Evig Region! It was something that would enable the start of her own ambition to become a trainer, it would help her better familiarize herself with her new home, and, well it was an opportunity that she and a certain Buneary could seize with their own two hands! What could go wrong? [color=violet][b]Kind of Pokémon you like[/b][/color]: Pokemon she can empathize with, or form some sort of bond or connection to. Ones that in perhaps some way can be or are relatable to her and, yet individuals of their own who can grow alongside her and vice-versa of course. That is what matters most in the end for her. Yet one cannot deny either that she seems drawn more toward little ‘oddities’ of Pokemon as well, whether common ones or uncommon ones alike, with a personality that seem out of the way or are ‘outcasts’ or that can be found in little holes in the wall or cast-out places in a sense. Things like her Buneary that made his way far from home on its own adventure, coming from far away, or a Murkrow or some peculiar ghost type like a Mimikyu that lives out of an abandoned factory in the ramshackle part of town and the shadows. Things like an ancient Pokemon brought back from a fossil from long ago, such as a Lilleep or Kabuto, a mischievous prankster of a personality who enjoys a bit of fun here but for whom such a personality might seem a bit ‘out of place’, or something that lives in the surrounding hills such as an Absol-....w-wait a second here! There might be a pattern! It might be, in part that is, Clarissa accidentally has a sort of natural penchant for the sort of Pokemon that seem very ‘shady’, ‘cunning’, ‘tough’, and even potentially ‘mafia-like’ in some sense. Perhaps it is her upbringing in Orre and so forth that has shaped her like this, whether consciously or unconsciously, to this end? In any case, it is a neat little ‘quirk’ about her all the same when it comes to the types of Pokemon she likes. [color=violet][b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b][/color]: [list] [*]She works to both become stronger herself (as a trainer and psychic and person) and train with her Pokemon to help them become stronger as well. In a sense, doing for her Pokemon what her grandmother and grandmother’s friends did for her. Become better. Learn. Become stronger. Pursue that path forward, and chase the sun over that horizon! One way or another, she is going to forge her own path forward. Beat gyms? Definitely Collect and find Pokemon? Of course. Something else too, perhaps? She would have to see, but it certainly wasn’t out of the question. [*]She enjoys spicy types of food generally, though her starting compatriot seems to have something of a greater tolerance for spiciness than herself, though she also has a soft spot for sweets which she prefers to have for special occasions primarily. When one friend of her grandmother sent some peculiar spiced chocolate from Paldea, it was an exciting prospect and she enjoyed it in the end! [*]In general she isn’t picky about food. A hot meal is a hot meal, and even if she isn’t a glutton she will appreciate it. She also, though, does enjoy trying new foods. She has the basics of cooking down in a general enough sense to survive and subsist at the very least as well. [*] [*] [*] [*] [/list] [color=violet][b]Items[/b][/color]: [list] [*]Camping Gear/An Extra Change of Clothes [*]1x Potion [*] [*] [*] [*] [/list] [color=violet][b]Pokédollars[/b][/color]: 500p [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Starter/Right Hand: Sir Lopsalot the Buneary] [center] [h1][b]Sir Lopsalot[/b][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/38iYIL4.jpeg[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: He also has a notably prominent, and once horrific (long ago), scar going over (vertically) his left eye (luckily the eye itself is ok), but that’s all. [b]Species[/b]: Buneary [b]Gender[/b]: ♂ [b]Type[/b]: Normal [b]Personality[/b]: [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Adamant [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Alert to Sounds [*]Sir Lopsalot is quite an adamant and outgoing little bunny, and is a loyal pokemon that will stand his ground even if faced with overwhelming odds for the sake of the things and individuals he cares about. He likewise generally seems to carry a certain sense of pride for a Buneary, even in the face of defeat trying to hold his head up high….though when defeated he does tend to sulk a little bit in frustration or such. In general can usually be relied upon to be generally courteous and polite to others, unless they are not nice to his trainer (or he perceives them as being such or potentially such) in which case he will take issue with them personally. His behavior reminded his trainer of a ‘little knight, like the ones from tales and bedtime stories’, and thus he got his cute little name as a result and seems to take pride in that nickname as well. At the same time, he is alert to sounds and his trainer’s demeanor and usually keeps an ‘ear open’ as the saying goes. If his trainer is resting he usually wants to be there keeping a watch on their surroundings. Whether this watchman-like behavior is just out of a sense of care and loyalty, or perhaps due to other things that happened in the life of this Buneary before Sir Lopsalot met his trainer, mostly remains a mystery to his trainer as of current times. He also quite enjoys a good meal, especially after a hard-won victory in fighting or after some good training! [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]To Become The Strongest! [s](He Shall Become The One Punch Bunny/One Kick Bunny!)[/s] [*]Sir Lopsalot wishes to become stronger and a very mighty bunny indeed, but also seems to want to see other places and things and pokemon and people as well. It is also a curiosity, in this latter case, that he seems to share with his more reserved trainer in turn. [*]He enjoys spicy foods and spicy flavors. [*]He thinks dancing is kind of cool, due to a human stranger he saw on the streets of Gateon Port one day in the past who had really big and weird spherical hair colored like a pokeball for some reason. This remains true, as much as he is embarrassed about liking it or dancing in front of most anyone (but his ‘secret theme’ is tied to this specific quirk). [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 7 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Splash [*]Pound [*]Defense Curl [*]Power-Up Punch [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Limber[/i] - Prevents the Pokemon from becoming paralyzed. [b]Held Item[/b]: (None, at least yet) [hider=*Bonus Material* - Sir Lopsalot’s Backstory (Just For Fun)] Sir Lopsalot was a rather adamant and stubborn bunny back home, the sort who got into little fights here and there and even tried to go on adventures beyond the scope of home. At the same time, after a particularly bad and stormy day its mother failed to come back to the den and disappeared without a trace. While several of its siblings stuck together, Sir Lopsalot included, it eventually came down to the little bunny trying to protect them all as time went on and dangers as well as other wild Pokemon began to close in on where they lived in Sinnoh. Eventually the small band of Buneary moved off to eventually re-settle on route 218 near Canalave City before eventually disbanding and dispersing after being chased by an angry local Floatzel they stumbled across who chased them off all over in different directions before returning to its den. Ending up in Canalave itself, Sir Lopsalot would eventually scavenge for food and find his way to and onto a strange foreign ship docked in the harbor. A sister ship of the former S.S. Libra, this was a Pokemon-importing ship that was just finishing restocking food for its Pokemon cargo onboard. Said cargo of Pokemon, as it were, were bound to be brought back to the wasteland of the Orre Region, which had rather few native Pokemon at all compared to most everywhere else. It would be here that Sir Lopsalot would sneak his way down and make friends with a small group of Wooper onboard the vessel and end up accidentally stuck on the ship as it left port while he was onboard. It would be a long journey of hiding from crew and trying to sneak food with the help of its new friends, but in the end Sir Lopsalot would make it to Gateon Port proper before being finally discovered trying to sneak some leftovers from the kitchen to his new friends one morning. Trying to seize or capture the illegal stowaway, the sailors tried to battle it and the little bunny had a scrap with them as it tried to escape. This is where it got its scar. To this end it would at least manage to escape, though, making it into the port town and coming to live there for a few days as it scavenged for food behind the Krabby Club and tried to remain hidden. It was only when a local girl and her parents passed into Gateon Port a few days later that the poor Buneary was finally found, and something about the girl seemed to draw the bunny’s curiosity as she picked it up off the ground. It had been driven away from its little hovel near the Krabby Club by a trainer, only to struggle to find more food to eat and nearly wasting away in a nearby alley behind the local Machine Parts Shop. Due to being psychic, the girl had felt its emotions and ran to find the poor Buneary with her parents in hot pursuit behind her. Finding the poor thing, the girl took it up in her arms and convinced her parents to help her get it to the nearest Pokemon Center. Even in her arms the Buneary felt something unique about the human girl, and in the ginger care in which she carried him despite her haste, and after it was cared for at the Pokemon Center the girl wanted to take it with her. Take him…home. At first the male Buneary would be mostly quiet and reserved at first, even as the girl brought it food and tried to make it a little bed in her room and everything, all before eventually starting to open up to her more in turn to her. At first it was a happy reaction when she’d come to see him resting in his little sheet-lined box that was his bed, then turned into the bunny following her around, to eventually accepting a nickname of his own as a new name. Bit by bit he began acting once more as he once did back home with his siblings, and she in turn seemed to open back up to him as well. A year later, and with both having grown and changed already since then, Sir Lopsalot would decide to even go into a Pokeball of his own as her Pokemon by the time the girl and her family moved away to the Evig Region. What adventures would await them? He didn’t know, but he looked forward to it all the same. [/hider] [center][hider=His (Secret) Dancing/Contest Theme Song] [center][i]~This Adamant Bunny Is Also A Little Bit Secretly Silly!~[/i] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqWRi_HZpLM[/youtube][/center] [/hider][/center] [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Left Hand: Scrapper the Trubbish] [center] [h1][b]Scrapper[/b][/h1] [img]https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/pokemon/568.png[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: (Nothing special beyond the normal) [b]Species[/b]: Trubbish [b]Gender[/b]: ♂ [b]Type[/b]: Poison [b]Personality[/b]: [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Quiet [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Highly Curious [*]Scrapper is a Trubbish who was born a survivor of the sewers of Grand Glory City, having lived down there his entire life down there prior his capture. He is a quiet little guy who doesn't pipe up too much in terms of speaking, though he is often considerate and contemplative about decisions and apt to thinking on his little feet after so long surviving down in said sewers as well. Likewise while he's apt to run from danger if he can, and the scenario fits it in his mind, he also knows when he can't run and is willing to stand his ground [s]even against a dangerous murder bunny chasing after him[/s] and try his best to hold his own where it counts. At the same time, he is still ever a curious little Pokemon who enjoys exploration, learning about new things and places, and even trying new proper food or potential 'foods' for his part. While his primarily more contemplative side helps temper his curiosity somewhat, on certain occasions of a strong curious streak he's potentially liable enough to follow a curious streak and end up having to flee from something or might end up bringing a situation upon himself and/or others. Or, well, making him apt to sit quietly by someone's side and to pat themn lightly on the back if they're having a tough time alone. His nickname orignated from a spur of the moment decision on his new trainer's part, finding it to be 'fitting for a little survivor' as much as it also 'sounded a bit tough-loooking' as well. At the same time, his nickname, to him, isn't too cutsey as much as it kind of sounds like a street nickname for him. Either way, he certainly likes it! [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]Enjoys singing on occasion, finding it fun and enjoyable on his part. He's not even shy about singing in front of others for that matter. He's...well, he's also actually pretty darn good at it, funny enough. [*]Scrapper is far from a picky eater, having had to subsist on what humanity left he and his kin in the sewers as well as do so in comeptition with the sentient goop that hunts both the same food as well as [b]Trubbish like himself[/b] for dinner to boot! Then again, he does have a soft spot for more astringent (slightly acidic or bitter) types of food and isn't really a fan of sweet stuff. [*]He does not wish to become someone's food. He doesn't like Alolan Grimer/Muk personally as part of this. [*]He is a bit detail oriented when it comes to certain tasks, taking his time and enjoying getting things where they 'feel right' and are in proper order. In that vein he's a rather good organizer! [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 6 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Pound [*]Poison Gas [*]Recycle [*]Acid Spray [*] [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Stench[/i] - By releasing a stench when attacking, the Pokémon may cause the target to flinch. [b]Held Item[/b]: Black Sludge [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Third Pokemon: Lady Goowain the Alolan Grimer] [center] [h1][b]Lady Goowain[/b][/h1] [img]https://www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/pokemon/new/088-a.png[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: (Nothing special beyond the normal) [b]Species[/b]: Grimer [b]Gender[/b]: ♀ [b]Type[/b]: Poison/Dark [b]Personality[/b]: [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Impish [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Proud of its power [*]Lady Goowain is an Alolan Grimer, a hunter of garbage, a proud lady of the Alolan Grimers of the sewers of Grand Glory City, and hasn't skipped a beat since her capture by a certain psychic girl. Trainer or no trainer, she is a proud Alolan Grimer and will prove it! On one hand, she is a lady who enjoys eating her meals neatly and properly and not in a 'sloppy' way as well as enjoys harmless, playful, and ultimately mischevious pranks and jokes being played on others by her (might even try to get so co-conspirators in on it if she feels she can). On the other hand, she will throw hands if she feels provoked and will stubbornly keep standing tall (by Grimer/Muk standards physically-speaking) no matter how many times she is knocked down! She is also fond of entertaining events and watching amusing things happen, and such things will often draw her attention to boot as well as bring her potentially to laughter and such jovial actions on her part perchance as well. [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]Thinks she has a fine sense of taste and acts like it-....and is, despite her annoying attitude, a rather good judge of food quality! It is no wonder she was a Grimer who, while hunting and scavenging in the sewers was simply a task to keep herself fed, found her true enjoyment of food always came from seeking out meals such as pizza slices and cast-aside human foods! She'd even dare to poke her head out to the surface now and then, seeking a nearby trash can or metal bin behind a restaurant, during the late night hours! It is no wonder she could be found closer to the entrance(s) of the Grand Glory Sewer Network. [*]She likes being the boss of a particular group of Pokemon, but at the same time isn't too foolish as to pick fights with something larger and stronger than her....unless she thinks she can win. Is most apt to pick fights with weaker/less stronger Pokemon than anything. [*]Lady Goowain is a flirt when it comes to other male Pokemon in her egg group, esxpecially those like Gengar and Galarian Weezing whom she finds to be a most handsome species! ((OOC: Ths is just played up for comedy purposes, not to be sounding bad or such, but if she found a proper mate then someone's finding an egg eventually.)) [*]Not very neat and orderly about where she sleeps. Food is the finest thing in life! Where she sleeps? She's used to wherever really. [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 4 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Pound [*]Poison Gas [*]Harden [*] [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Poison Touch[/i] - May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact. [b]Held Item[/b]: - [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Fourth Pokemon: Libera the Aron] [center] [h1][b]Libera[/b][/h1] [img]https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/pokemon/304.png[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: (Nothing special beyond the normal) [b]Species[/b]: Aron [b]Gender[/b]: ♀ [b]Type[/b]: Steel/Rock [b]Personality[/b]: [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Brave [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Capable of taking hits [*]Libera is an Aron of the Grand Glory Sewers, having moved there along with a number of her kin to eat up the delicious human-wrought metals of the underground! She didn't even hesitate to get involved in such food-seeking activities either, even at the risk of the odd trainer or someone eventually coming down there when inevitably one of them might eat up a pipe or line that was rather important to those living above....not that they'd know, being Pokemon of course, about all of that. All the same, she is a brave sort who when danger rears its head will defiantly stare it back down and charge in to smash it to pieces, and indeed as this shows when faced with 'fight or flight' she chooses the former in the spur of the moment. All the same, she isn't the impetuously bold sort who just shoves themselves into everything and everyone's business either or seeks out a ton of trouble. She is brave, willing to face immediate dangers and turning her fears into an instinctive 'fight instead of flight' when danger or trouble comes knocking, but outside of these things she is a rather docile and hard-working Pokemon who prefers more blunt measures and such to getting things done and can be counted on to keep walking forward even when times get tough. This being said, she is also not adverse to tactical approaches, but she isn't a 'thinker' as much as she is a 'one who does things' and isn't afraid to get more than a little dirty or take the patient time (not being overly stubborn) to get something or another done when she puts her mind to something. [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]A rough life in the sewers, and perhaps having migrated from a certain Hidden Cavern to boot in search of food to eat, seems to have shaped her more personal trait of instinctively standing her ground and even fighting when danger or a threat presents itself. It isn't a trait that lends itself to the best of results depending on the threat, especially if it's one much greater than herself, but it is something that she begins with all the same and is something a trainer of hers might need to learn to deal with or work around depending on how she matures and grows and evolves over time. [*]As noted, she is brave rather than simply bold, and her preference to 'avoid drama' is something she tends to do on the average unless it somehow drags her into it all. She isn't one to fuss over and bicker with others, simply wanting to go about her business and get things done, though if pulled into something or driven to action somehow by it she is rather forwardly apt to try to put an end to it. [*]A fan of spicy flavors to an extreme, of all things, though in terms of metals and outside of regular Pokemon foods this translates to something desiring and enjoying [u]hot[/u] and [i]heated[/i] metals as part of her meal (aka: "Spicy Metal" in her mind). Her tolerance is such that it'd make a spicy-heat-loving Paldean (pokemon or trainer for that matter) shudder in terror! Or so it would at least seem. Dense levels of spice are really her thing as well, liking highly-spiced foods as well as being a spicy-flavor-enjoyer. ((Note: She'd even try other peculiar metals, frankly, if given the chance perhaps, to see if any fit her palette as well.)) [*]A grumpy sleeper that doesn't like being awoken jarringly or suddenly outside of the normal, wishing to get a good night's rest as best as she can! Even in a dangerous situation she'd be grumpy, though, even if she would understand being woken up for such an event or happy someone woke her to the danger instead of leaving them all to be at risk by not waking her. [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 5 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Tackle [*]Harden [*]Metal Claw [*] [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Rock Head[/i] - Protects the Pokémon from recoil damage. [b]Held Item[/b]: - [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Fifth Pokemon: Pyrite the Roggenrola] [center] [h1][b]Pyrite[/b][/h1] [img]https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/pokemon/524.png[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: Former scratches on his little 'right foot', stained red from the rocks and surroundings as it healed, which makes his appearance somewhat more unique compared to his kin. [b]Species[/b]: Roggenrola [b]Gender[/b]: ♂ [b]Type[/b]: Rock [b]Personality[/b]: [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Careful [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Strong Willed [*]A resident of the Hidden Cavern beneath the Grand Glory City Sewers, Pyrite is accustomed to the weirdness of Evig in these peucliar and alien lower reaches-....and yet just not much care about it. It was the only home he'd ever known since hatching from an egg however long ago, sure, and through its dangers and peculiarities he became a rather careful little Pokemon who tends to take careful consideration of things before acting after likely some amount of mishaps and struggle along the way. He eventually learned enough of the tunnels and maneuverings to get around, avoid trouble, stay out of anything big's way in case it might eat him, find safe spots to relax or feed, and the like. At the same time when he dedicates himself to a course of action he isn't one to back down softly or normally, being about as stong willed a Pokemon as the human population of his namesake's home region has had to be to some extent or another. He isn't one to give up on a serious pursuit or decision easily, and is one to put his actions and thoughts out there without hesitation (such as dragging off a certain walking trashbag to try to avoid trouble), but he is one to think before acting and take proper caution and care all the same and isn't a rash sort about things. In all of this, it is of note that his nickname is more fitting than his trainer might realize. However, naturally, he had never seen a human before, so when one came down into his home area he didn't expect that something wholly new would send another Pokemon to weaken him enough to catch him while he was 'vibing' in one of his favorite spots! But....eh, he wasn't eaten or something? Well, this was all rather new, wasn't it? He was cautious about it all, but....well, this was certainly going to be quite the trip, wasn't it? So just as a tumbleweed might roll about a desert, he too would roll with this new lot in his life all the same. [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]When he eats food, he likes it bitter and has a dislike of dry sorts of flavor palettes in his own picky manner. While this has mostly amounted to bitter minerals and such as a diet thus far, things like dark enough chocolates, green teas, dark coffees, and even some amount of herbs or potential vegetables would be seen as 'good tasting' to him. Flavors and things he finds to be netural to him will still be eaten, sure, but he will normally jump to his favorite sorts of flavors outright if given the chance. He's picky to enough of an extent, really, just not so to an extreme. [*]Stomps his little feet when frustrated or angry, which is adorable until he becomes a Gigalith and the stomping shakes the ground a little bit, and paces about when he's thinking hard about something while also sitting still if he isn't thinking too hard about something. [*]He is not one to mind scenery changes or going to different places like beaches, volcanoes, cities, farms, forests, lakes, etc, heck he doesn't even mind being far from his original home or anything. Home is where his trainer and such is, it seems, and he doesn't bat an eye (if he had one) at it. However, the one thing he does mind is that he cannot swim. [*]His favorite activities are 'vibing' (sitting about enjoying nature or the feeling of a particular place he's in) and training, and oddly enough at the same time he also enjoys being the equivalent of the "group dad" to other party Pokemon because he is often the one to be careful and drag back others if they get in danger. He will never admit to this lattermost thing though. [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 5 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Tackle [*]Harden [*]Sand Attack [*] [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Sand Force[/i] - Sand Force boosts the power of Rock-, Ground-, and Steel-type moves in a sandstorm (by 30%) during a sandstorm. [b]Held Item[/b]: - [hider=His Glorious, Inevitable Theme Song Because....Yes] [center][youtube]https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU?si=Gzt_kL0N5h6klSsB[/youtube][/center] [/hider] [/hider] [hider=Clarissa’s Sixth Pokemon: Jotaro the "Tuff' Fire Puff"] [center] [h1][b]Jotaro[/b][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/nDnYzKr.png[/img] [/center] [b]Appearance[/b]: [hider=IC Description] It was certainly strange. These things looked like Igglybuff, but also not really? For starters, their round bodies were a bright orange, not pink, and instead of a puffy tuft of hair on the top they had various feathers colored red and yellow tied up with dark turquoise beads to resemble flickering embers. Their eyes, which were normally red were also that same shade of turquoise. The only thing that resembled the typical Igglybuff was the trademark swirl on its forehead. Nils and Clarissa's Rotom Phones hovered in front of them and read the following entry: [center][color=lightblue][i]Pokedex Entry- Igglybuff, the Ember Pokemon. Igglybuff are filled with highly flammable gas that turns into a 1800 F flame when ignited, leaving their foes blackened. Their diet consists of rocks that are converted into flammable gas and typically favor Roggenrola as their prey.[/i][/color][/center] [/hider] The only unique trait to him that makes him stand out from other Eviggean Igglybuff is that he has a small splotchy and distinctly yellow-ish birthmark-like patch on his body on the upper back of his body (basically the back of his head as far as it should be considered in reality). [b]Species[/b]: Igglybuff (Evig Variant) [b]Gender[/b]: ♂ [b]Type[/b]: Fire/Fairy [b]Personality[/b]: Jotaro is one of the two "Fire Puffs" Clarissa and Nils encoutnered in the Hidden Cavern's (very likely) Wigglytuff-led underground population deep underneath Grand Glory City's sewers, one of two little baby Igglybuff brothers at that who was apparently left at the entrance to the den to play about. Having lured in a punk human kid exploring the sewers above, it seems, he and his brother proceeded to capture and bully the human kid around and were having quite the time amusing themselves in this vein of things.[s]Truth be told, the day he was caught he and his brother had become quite bored sitting near the den entrance....at least until he and his brother found an overly-curious human close enough to home to kidnap and bully for entertainment.[/s] It had been a boring type of day, really, and yet despite their fun Jotaro and his brother would be confronted by a pair of two more human kids...but these were trainers! Up to the challenge of a fight, Jotaro and his brother took on the their new opponents, teaming up to defend their fun and getting some good hits in before- *DING* ...they got captured in the end. Oh. [i]That[/i] wasn't part of the plan. [s]Their mom was going to be SO, SO very mad about this later.[/s] For his part, Jotaro had always been a bold sort who dares to go where no [s]chaotic toddler energy Pokemon[/s] Eviggean Igglybuff has ever gone before! Sometimes he enjoyed sneaking out when the older Pokemon where sleeping, he didn't hesitate to step up to get something to eat when coming up to bat with the other Igglybuff of their home den, he helped his brother when he needed it, and was even bold enough in his strategic thinking even in battle to help think up obtuse and strange plans like "hey lets turn a Poison Gas into a giant fireball that goes boom" in a combo attack with his brother during their fateful battle with two seemingly just as bold trainers. When he puts his mind to something, he does it with boldness and decisivness! This can also include boldness exhbitied in the form of a bit of mischief that he and his brother so seemed to enjoy, though this in part could be chocked up to the fact he's technically a baby Pokemon of sorts. But now, now he goes out into a world yet unknown to he and his new trainer for the most part! That will certainly lead to exciting adventures and so forth for sure! Though, yes, sure he has to deal with the punch bunny that socked him with one of its fists and and ear....but why not add a rival to the mix of things, hmm? Sure will help motivate him moving forward, maybe both of them even, in the days and so forth to come. Plus it means more silly things and mischief that could be gotten up to, oh yes, and potentially so much more! He won't be kicking the bucket or giving up that soon, that much is for sure, and life can have its fun momments! Not that you don't have to sometimes retreat and replan or the like if or inevitadly when in life things go south, because even the best-laid or spur-of-the-moment or even bold plans can definitely have a chance to fail. Gotta take risks sometimes, though, that's still a fact to him! Ah. Even so, the journey will certainly help him sober up more, and a touch of such soberness does exist within him when it came to his growing personality back home somewhat as well. Can't be bold without running into crap at times that scares the naievety out of you, after all, and you have to be bold sometimes to protect those things and ones you hold dear....old or new ones to come into his life alike. [list] [*][i]Nature[/i]: Bold [*][i]Characteristic[/i]: Mischevious [*] [/list] [b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other[/b]: [list] [*]To see the breadth of Evig, and explore this new world he has been pulled into! [*]Become the toughtest Number 1 Igglybuff-like Pokemon as best as he can. [*][s]Maybe on rare occasion bully the walking trash bag that tanked his and his brother's super cool fireball move sometimes.[/s] [*]Mischief [/list] [b]Level[/b]: 5 [b]Moves[/b]: [list] [*]Poison Gas [*]Echoed Voice [*]Ember [*]Defense Curl [*] [/list] [b]Ability[/b]: [i]Combustion[/i] - Turns normal type moves into fire type moves and increases their power by 30% [b]Held Item[/b]: - [hider=I Had To For This One, Its Fits The Vibe And I'm Not Sorry] [center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT5JaB5agSE[/youtube][/center] [/hider] [hider=E-Igglybuff Stat Spread] [b]HP[/b]: 40 [b]Attack[/b]: 20 [b]Defense[/b]: 20 [b]Sp.Attack[/b]: 50 [b]Sp.Defense[/b]: 40 [b]Speed[/b]: 30 [/hider] [/hider]