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Username: Prints Avoid
Name: Claude Desrochers
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Trainer
Pokemon:
Zen, male Slowpoke
Prism, female Amaura
While Prism isn't technically Claude's own Pokemon. The two have become very good friends, with the Amaura always coming along with him when he travels.
Appearance:
Claude's a big guy. He stands at 6'2" and has a robust solid build. He typically wears some loose pants of a sturdy material. He also wears a dark blue tank and a loose white button up shirt over that. Up until recently he wore glasses but switched to contacts. He's having trouble getting used to them.
Personality:
Claude is a nice guy. He's just... not always very good with people. Once a complete loner, he's learned to feel comfortable in social situations. However his grouchy and brooding nature isn't something he's learned to completely control. This can cause problems with others as he ends up getting annoyed with others or sometimes offending them. He has a low tolerance for people who annoy him.
He's got a pretty good brain in his head, and an eye for detail. He loves to just sit and observe, though using what he learns is much a much more satisfying feeling. Though he can keep up his grumpy attitude almost all the time, when he can be relax he's much easier to get along with. His friends have said it's like talking to a completely different person when he's in the middle of research or when he's fishing.
History:
Son of a fisherman, Claude grew up in Cyllage City. He had a decent childhood, not much different from that of the others in Cyllage. He was never too interested in the bicycle races though and while other kids spent their weekends watching and having their own races, Claude preferred to go out on his dad's boat. It was on this boat that he discovered his love of Pokemon. When fishing or when just sailing in general, the sheer beauty and variety of the different Pokemon he occasionally spotted awakened a great curiosity in him. Sometime when he was fifteen, he and two of his friends sailed around the coast to Azure Bay. While there, Claude was struck by a Slowpoke he saw, its tail in the water as if fishing. He sat with the Slowpoke for a while, the Pokemon not reacting to his presence but staring vacantly ahead. After a while it gave up, and one borrowed Pokeball later Claude had his first Pokemon.
Over the course of his childhood, Claude had made only about two friends. He avoided others, and others avoided him, especially once he started growing into his full size. Despite that his two friends helped him get over his discomfort around people over the course of a few years and actually occasionally enjoy the company of others. A common place for them to go eventually became the Cyllage Gym. It had become a popular spot with the teenage crowd of Cyllage, particularly those interested in becoming trainers. The rock walls were a nice change of pace. It was a fun exercise for him to plan his route up a wall, the attention it got form some of the girls also made him see there were benefits to interacting with people. Though Claude was more interested in the rock walls, he and his Slowpoke did occasionally take part in a battle. It was fun, but Claude always found himself distracted by his curiosity about the Pokemon.
It was at the gym he first encountered the fossil Pokemon. He'd heard about the lab down in Ambrette Town, but until witnessing Grant in a battle, he had never seen one of these Pokemon. About a year later, he went down to the Lab himself, intent on getting a research position in the lab. It took a few tries but he eventually secured a position as an aide at age 19. Though much of his work was running errands, he did get to spend a lot of time observing the revived Pokemon. It eventually became customary to take a fossil Pokemon with him every time he traveled in order to expose them to different environments.
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