Gladion
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Personality: Strong-willed and intelligent, Gladion has been hardened by his experiences. Though cold and aloof, his rough exterior hides a kind, caring person. He is especially protective of his partners and sister, however this attitude extends to anyone he forms a bond with. With a surly and cynical disposition, it's difficult for Gladion to cut loose, even if the source of his misery has been, for the most part, defeated. Though he's been able to take losses with considerably more grace than he used to, he's still quite self-critical, and strives to become a formidible Trainer.
Hometown/Region: Aether Paradise, Alola
History: Gladion's childhood was relatively normal for the first several years of his life. His mother and father were loving, caring parents, but they were often absent; leaving Gladion and his sister, Lillie, in the care of others.
His father was the head scientist of the Aether Foundation, an organization dedicated to the preservation of injured Pokémon. However, in the interests of keeping their organization afloat, they heavily invested in their research. Gladion's father, Professor Mohn, was a cutting-edge scientist, diving into the fields of the unknown. A strange portal to another world was discovered, and even more terrifyingly, occasionally dangerous Pokémon would appear from them. The professor sought to uncover the mysteries of the Ultra Wormhole.
Before his research was completed, Mohn was lost to the very thing he studied. The Aether Foundation began their project Type: Full in order to combat the extraterrestrial threats. In the process, Gladion's mother, Lusamine, was driven mad.
Her insanity became increasingly apparent as time passed. It was almost as if something corrupted her being, amplifying her negative traits. The Type: Full project was soon deemed a failure by the Foundation (and renamed Type: Null), however Gladion knew that if his mother planned to force open an Ultra Wormhole, this project was the only chance he had at stopping her.
Breaking into a high-security lab, Gladion successfully liberated a cryogenically frozen Type: Null. However, he would soon discover the percise reason for the projects failure; the chimeric creature was driven to madness, and was volatile, and uncontrollable. Gladion was determined to prove its creators wrong, and liberate the feral Pokémon, turning it into the Beast Killer it was designed to be. Grievously wounded, but not disheartened, Gladion took Type: Null with him as he left Aether Paradise.
Gladion began working for Team Skull in the interest of supporting himself financially while finding a way to free Type: Null from its restraints. He would go on working for them as an Enforcer for two years until they made the mistake of kidnapping his sister.
Working with the eventual Champion of the Alola Region, they managed to rescue his sister, however they were not able to thwart his mother's grand scheme. Lusamine was taken in by an Ultra Wormhole, along with Team Skull's leader. With his mother in an entirely different dimension, Gladion was left with no way to stop her. Leaving a Moon Flute in the care of his newly found friend, Gladion entrusted the future of Alola to a powerful trainer.
Aether Paradise was left in shambles, and without a president. The president they had was filled with corruption, using the Foundation in ways contrary to its initial purpose. Gladion then dedicated himself to rebuilding the Foundation's core from the ground up.
Legendary Guardian:
Other:
Family - Lillie (Sister), Lusamine (Mother)
Items - Z-Ring, Steelium-Z, Memory Drives (All)
Shinon the Lucario, Aenir the Froslass, Jill the Skarmory