@AThousandCurses It would be interesting if you could have it that Pastille has a gym elsewhere, and because of that Hestia and Pastille have an intense rivalry?
It would depend. If I read correctly, Hestia, Henrietta, and Pastille conflict for leadership of the Circhester Gym. Henrietta less so than Hestia and Pastille because which gym she occupies is more vague.
Pastille's background is that he battled for leadership for the Circhester Gym while Hestia started a fire type gym in Circhester. Depending on context such as two gyms existing in one town or there can only be one gym, I would most likely have to change my background.
APPEARANCE: Pastille is 5’8 ft in terms of height and has an average figure despite how many ice creams he consumes a day.
Whenever he’s at gym work he wears a typical ice cream clerk uniform along with an ice cream pin attached to it.
When not at work he wears a pink, ice cream patterned jacket along with a brown short-sleeve shirt underneath. He wears vanilla-colored long pants and black shoes.
PERSONALITY: Pastille at first glance is an incredibly cold person, pun unattended, when it comes to first impressions. He holds a rather aloof presence with a disinterest expression and would leave a conversation if he thought it was a waste of time. This holds true to any interaction as Pastille’s attention seems to be elsewhere, or at least in a formal interaction fit for business. This includes his pokemon, except for his Vanilluxe, to the point that they got used to their trainer’s behavior. At the very least he’s respectful, when it comes to his close peers or elders, that he’d pay attention to whatever they have to say.
This image is completely shattered once people know Pastille’s obsession. As stated before Pastille is an incredibly cold person… except when it comes to ice cream. Pastille’s personality does a full 180 turning from a disinterested, cold person to an eccentric, nerd that’s sole focus is ice cream. It has taken such a deep hold in Pastille that he completely changed a town's economy to have ice cream be a huge part of it. Though he would put his obsession for ice cream for the sake of the town when needed.
BIOGRAPHY: Pastille was born in Circhester Town and never moved from there. Ever since he was a young boy, he had a love for ice cream. Whenever he had a meal, there would always be ice cream at the end of it. It was cute until the love turned into obsession. It was in his teen years when everyone made fun of his ice cream obsession. Everywhere he went he had either a popsicle or ice cream in his hand and if he didn’t have one you’d better bet he was going to pull another ice cream cone out of nowhere. The fact that he could pull an ice cream cone out of nowhere was rather creepy, which caused him to get bullied over it.
Pastille didn’t mind it… until they made him, drop his ice cream. From sheer spite alone he vowed to become gym leader and prove them the greatness of ice cream. Embarking on a quest to spread ice cream awareness, Pastille ventured out to achieve his dream.
When Pastille came back, he was stronger than ever. Challenging the gym leader for leadership of the Circhester Gym that was until it was already occupied by a new gym leader, whose typing greatly differentiated from the natural theme of Circhester which was ice. This greatly angered the ice cream loving man to the point of abandoning Circhester Town. It's former glory now lost to a "hot head," that had no taste in ice nor ice cream.
Eventually once the blizzard died down, Pastille had a plan. He was going to plan a revolution against all the gym leaders in Galar. After challenging a gym leader for ownership and obtaining the gym he slowly began his plan. Turning the town into a town known for its ice cream, making new ice cream flavors, and governing the town, Pastille will make the entirety of Galar realize the importance of Ice cream!
RELATIONSHIPS: [Relationships with other gym leaders]
Pastille holds indifference and respect to his fellow gym leaders. While he doesn't like their uncultured tongues, he does respect them as fellow co-workers. Though to those who insult his ideology of ice cream then he straight up ignores them and any respect that was there has completely vanished.
Personality: Nakagawa can described as someone with incredibly low standards towards life, in other words he's pessimistic. He downplays everything he could do and lumps as something someone could better than he could ever do. Every bad thing that happens to him he takes into stride and contributes that he somehow factored into the problem, no matter how ridiculous it is. That being said, he tends to not interfere with other people's business and keep his problems to himself.
Due to his upbringing, Nakagawa tends to observe people a little too much. It comes with the front of assuming someone wants something whenever they come over and fearing what they may think of him. Because of this nature he has to evaluate his relationships to determine how stable it is and to continue being acquaintances and become a little suspicious on what others are doing. Regardless of what he feels, he'll set aside those feelings and give people a chance before completely giving up on them.
History:
Nakagawa grew to fear other people's intentions. Due to an accident that happened prior to his birth, one of his mother's friends swindled her and took a great sum of money, his mother had become greatly paranoid. Not wanting her son to commit the same as she did, she taught him to fear other people, to tell them nothing, and to observe them thoroughly. As a young child, the doctrine of paranoia easily seeped into his brain and made him paranoid of other people when he grew older.
As he grew, he became more cautious when it came to interacting with people. As such, when he had friends he constantly looked out for any hints that their relationship was bad and kept his guard up, revealing little to nothing about his family or himself. Then entered in Azumi, who would whittle her way into his heart. Azumi went against everything that his parents ever taught him. Helping others, telling them about little bits of information regarding herself and her family, and hanging out with them.
Nakagawa was confused by her behavior and tried to keep himself out of her affairs, yet she befriended him anyways. While he wasn't against making friends and hanging out with him during school, Azumi was on a whole new level. She constantly invited him whenever she and her friends were going out, gave him money whenever he was a few short, and later on in their friendship told him several personal secrets. Nakagawa told her nothing about himself. Yet, he felt happy rather than confused. To be trusted to this extent even though he was, in his thoughts, a stranger made him feel happy. They continued hanging out together and eventually, Nakagawa began to develop feelings for her.
Though, these feelings were kept locked in his heart. Having no confidence himself and being the secretive boy he still was for his entire life, he could only watch as she got herself a boyfriend and seemed happier with him. This betrayal would eventually made him saddened, causing him to vanish after high school. Regret only filled his mind as he mindlessly work to get a degree in his university and then get a job at an IT company. From there, he decided to try his hand again at friendship and often discusses hardware and software over the internet.