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Name: Jess Backster

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Personality: In a word, adamant. Jess is proud, resolute in what she believes in, and strong-willed to the point of obnoxiousness. Despite being overly inclined to prefer everything being done her way, she will relent if sufficiently convinced—a quality she shamelessly touts as being representative of her consideration for others' thoughts, which she lacks. Though of average intelligence, she is less proficient than most in picking up on the feelings of others. She doesn't ever let her opponents get through to her, thinking this to be an act of submission; for instance, if slandered for her weight, Jess might turn it around to point out that she's not trying to pretend she's something she's not. Jess also tends to hold grudges. Despite being self-centered and somewhat arrogant, she is not in the least bit mean-spirited and will not actively seek to hurt the feelings or attack the beliefs of others, and if she discovers she has done so, she will apologize. All in all, she is an indomitable spirit, for better or worse, whose confidence can be both self-destructive and self-preservative.

Though strict with Pokemon, she secretly loves their company, be it fighting gloriously in battle or playing on a sunny day, revealing that she has a friendly side. Among her favorites are the Drilbur line, Pachirisu, Espurr, the Cleffa line, most conventional starter Pokemon, Flaafy, and Zoroark. Much is the same with people once she really gets to know them; she stands by her friends with the same tenacity that infests herself. 

Brief Bio: Jess is a native to Kalos, born in Camphrier Town to a happy couple soon after the creation of Kalos's first Day-Care for Pokemon. Growing up, the young girl expressed natural talent as a Pokemon breeder, always trying to bring out the best in the patrons of her parents' business. Be it cruising the extensive river just outside of the Day-Care's back door or perusing grandiose Parfum Palace, Jess quickly befriended the majority of the Pokemon left with the family. As she got older, however, her interests shifted somewhat; after witnessing a local, small-scale Pokemon tournament during an annual celebration several days after her twelfth birthday, she became hooked on battling. 

Without a Pokemon of her own, Jess turned to those staying at the Day-Care. Full of excitement and earnest to re-enact the spectacular fighting performed at the tournament, she went in to the Day-Care without her parents' notice or permission and began a naïve institution akin to a tiny gym. Some of the Pokemon were more than willing to brush up on their skills during their vacation; others, Jess more or less forced. Never thinking that some of the creatures were too young or disinclined to fight and without any real knowledge of how to battle, little Jess pitted her friends against each other to see who was the strongest. Lacking proper guidance and restriction, the Pokemon often injured one another or themselves, and daily trips to the Pokemon Center in Camphrier Town with one or more hurt 'mon in tow became commonplace. Nevertheless, the innocent little fight club continued.

One day, the nurse at Camphrier's Pokemon Center finally decided to do something about the seemingly endless parade of wounded Pokemon coming in each day with happy, carefree Jess. She contacted Jess's parents, the Day-Care couple, and advised them to pay closer attention to what their daughter was doing every day after school. Though initially indignant and dismissive, Jess's mother and father quickly discovered her activities and were appalled. Gently they took their misguided daughter aside and explained to her exactly what she had been doing to the poor Pokemon of the Day-Care, many of whom had been little more than babies When the realization finally sunk in, Jess ran off crying and sank into a depression. Remorseful and full of self-loathing, she sought comfort with her Pokemon friends, only to find that they were reluctant to be with her—even afraid. Without anyone to turn to, Jess took comfort in excessive eating, and over the course of a miserable year gained substantial weight. It would take four years for her to regain the trust of the Pokemon, and that of their owners, as well as coping with her own problems. At the end of it, though, Jess emerged as a new person, possessed of an incredible self-confidence and a little more wisdom. When questioned about what caused this self-realization, she claims that a Zoroark found her in the woods behind Shabboneau castle, took pity on her, and befriended her. In light of their daughter's recent redemption, Jess's parents elected to finally give her her own Pokemon by way of Professor Apple and send her on a proper journey.

Starter Pokemon: a Zubat called Belial
Starter's Personality: Belial is very quiet, drawn into itself and shy. It drastically prefers solitude and dark to bright light, loud noise, and chaos. Deep inside he really cares for his trainer and will do anything to please her and prove he isn't worthless. He is not particularly smart or competent, however, which only enforces the incorrect general perception of him as worthless. 

Theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aJUnltwsqs 

Anything else: The emblem on Jess's cap is Zoroark.
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