Hooray, and now that Hoopa's open... I would like an expert opinion on whether or not it would mesh well with Leo, never saw the movie with Hoopa in it and I don't want to be the guardian with a pokemon that's just not gonna be played like Leo.
Appearance: Leopold has semi-long black hair that he keeps in good condition with just the right amount of shine, his skin is a nice olive tone and he wears a nice array of greens, dark grays and light blues. He stands about 5'10 and is a fairly skinny, but not emaciated fellow. He wishes he could grow a bear but his facial hair is just too sparse to warrant it.
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Personality: Leopold, despite his upbringing, is far from the selfish, pretentious person he so easily could be, he's more focused on everything but himself it's incredible. Leopold has a knack for finding beauty in everything, and when he can't he does his best to create it where there is none, going so far as to spend thousands of Pokeyen to do so. His optimism blinds his reality, more often then not being the reason he misses small details and focuses on purely big picture ideas. His mind is always in the here and now, his plans for the future don't account for more than ten minutes from when they're made, and what few plans he does make for the long term eventually get forgotten before completion. Somehow, despite all of this, he has kept determined to be the greatest Coordinator in Hoenn, despite having moved away.
Hometown/Region: Lillycove, Hoenn
History: Born into a family with perfect children, not much weight was put onto the shoulders of a young Leopold. His older brother had already gotten 8 gym badges by the time Leopold met Shuppet, and his older sister had gone away to university studying fashion with internships already lined up. His already rich parents had no worries left by the time he started training and simply allowed him to do his own thing. Leo tried his hand at battling, but couldn't bare to see his shuppet get hurt the way she did, and refused to live that life, but he still sought the fame of being a high level trainer. He searched other areas, trying out for a school musical and landing a role on stage crew, due to his lack of acting and singing ability, but it was here that he found his true calling. He watched the rehearsals on the set he helped build and noticed one of the leads was a bit off in timing and met up with her after the show to let her know, she scoffed and told the directer he was being a creep. Discouraging, yes, but the voice in the back of his head demanded he bring it up with her, or the director again. And that he did, he actually had a complaint about nearly every cast member and the director of the show brushed him off until the next rehearsal where every flaw pointed out by Leo was now clearly visible. The boy had an eye for directing and the director let him know this, letting him co-direct the play and even getting his first credit on his professional career! After opening night of the show, a woman approached the young Leopold and told him she thought he would make a fine coordinator and he scoffed, coordinators weren't a cool thing for a middle school boy to be, and with his lack of battling he was already one of the least manly students in his class. But the woman insisted, even telling him of the next contest in town and to mention her name for a free ticket in. Leo hesitated but ended up going, upon mentioning the woman's name he was even brought backstage by the contest hall staff to watch up close and personal as the coordinators did their thing and he fell in love. He ended up entering a contest the next week, losing miserably. But he finally had direction in his life. His older siblings helped out along the way too, his sister making his clothes and even clothing for his pokemon and his brother got him a Petalil from his adventures afar, promising that it would win him something someday. He and his Banette would go on to win the Hyper rank in cleverness and his Lilligant would take home a super in beauty before his parents and him moved to Longsand Island in the Viore region. He had to make an all new start and was ready to take the contest scene there by storm, especially with his newest partner, Noibat. Oh, and yes, over the years he has learned how to act well enough to act as the lead in a few plays, but his singing could still use some work.
Pokemon
Bannette (♀)
Ability: Insomnia Moveset:
Destiny Bond
Shadow Sneak
Shadow Ball
Night Shade
Lilligant (♀)
Ability: Own Tempo Moveset:
Leaf Storm
Petal Dance
Healing Wish
Entertainment
Noibat (♂)
Ability: Infiltrator Moveset:
Tackle
Wing Attack
Agility
Aerial Ace
Legendary Guardian:
Other: Sometimes doesn't eat for entire days because he forgets Can make the greatest pokeblocks, but fails at making spaghetti for people Struggles at using a pokemon's cuteness to their advantage, which is why he's never entered that type of contest Despises battling but can do it if he needs to
@Experiment 249 Using your Guardian in Contests/Gym Battles would have been against the League/Festival Rules anyways, considering that, as I said before, your Guardian is technically not a member of your team.
GAH! Didn't see the GM claimed three of them, haha,, only knew of the Keldeo. That sucks because Victini is an amazing contest pokemon (In tough contest, weirdly enough!)
None of the other open ones really suit a coordinator either, the only reason I was gonna go for the lati@s thing was for the duality between a trainer and a coordinator. Guess I'll live without a guardian and just be fabulous without a legendary helping Leo out. Speaking of which now I gotta edit my history to get rid of the second trainer I was gonna make! CS should be up by, say, 5pm EST?
@Ninian That uh, that does not mesh well with my idea for my Latios, was gonna go for a coordinator who's got too many big ideas and misses all the small details, haha.
Is victini or Shaymin still open? Those would go well with my guy
@Ninian Follow up because of @Shiny Keldeo's post, do you wanna go halfsies on the lati@s guardians or should I just go no guardian because we don't know each other at all?
@Shiny Keldeo I would love to work with someone else closely as one of the Lati@s', but I'll draft up a set of characters for both just in case! (They'll be close friends, one a coordinator one a trainer. If someone wants to take the offer of working with me I'd be using just the coordinator)