Name: Raizo 'Rai' Montgomery
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance: Standing at a decent 6 feet 1, with powerful, lean muscles built from past fights and constant travels, Raizo is what you would call a 'lean, mean, training machine'. His skin is lightly tanned from sleeping under the sun, and his fists and face is a bit scarred from some rather...tough times in the past. A naturally rugged, eager grin is usually found on his face, framed slightly by wild, spiky black hair and focused, yet glaring brown eyes.
Raizo's clothes aren't fancy, as he prefers to keep them light and practical. Tough cargo pants, coal-black in color acts as his bottoms, while he wears durable brown and yellow sleek trainers. His shirt is a tight white fit with a black leather jacket over it, constantly unzipped with dark yellow patches on the elbows and shoulders. His bag is white in color, tossed over his shoulder carefully, while his Poke-Balls are on a magnetized belt located around his waist. The appearance of a hardened teenager with a chip on his shoulder.
Personality: On the outside, Raizo is what could be considered as 'brash'. Growing up in a rough neighborhood where he has to fend for himself almost on a day to day basis, it tends to make one rugged and tough as nails, for only the strong survive. He has quite a fiery and determined attitude, easily coming off as rude due to his blunt demeanor. When it comes to those he respects or doesn't mind, may it be friend or pokemon, he is a bit nicer and a little more respective, even if the words sometimes are rowdy or vulgar. Despite Raizo's apparent rock-like headeasy-to-anger behavior, he is far from an idiot. Street-smarts and battle-hardened instincts has given him an edge in battle, allowing him to come up with brutal, yet efficient and cunning tactics and strategies on the spot. This helps him with moves as well, as he constantly comes up with different moves and fighting techniques for his Pokemon, even if they aren't for that specific type. Generally a rugged, tough trainer that enjoys practical movements and battling. Rai hates abuse, neglect, or thieving with a passion, and if possible would take care of the offender with haste.
History: Born in the dusty streets of Gringey City, Raizo's mother died shortly after birth, sadly, and his father automatically went depressed mode. This ended up in the child having to fend for himself as soon as he was old enough to. The neighborhood kids and gangs were no better either, fights and robbery were frequent. Raizo was no different nor excluded from the occasional violence that erupted here and there.
There wasn't small gangs around each corner where kids were beaten up or pokemon abused for losing a battle. Being robbed of their possessions, it was a rough life indeed. In order to survive, the young man had to make a decision, to join a small gang and fit in, or be an outcast and attacked for it. While he never went into the extremes such as killing another or jumping a poor, defenseless old man, Raizo had done theft, made threats, gotten into his fair share of scuffles that landed him in the hospital occasionally. But he quickly learned not to back down into a corner when someone was trying to beat the living shit out of you.
As time went on, he graduated from grade to grade, climbing his way up the latter until he can graduate and move onto secondary school. Well, that might as well be a pip dream, he had no money for such thing. And his father surely had no interest in his son's education, not when there was alcohol to buy and spend a day out of the week picking fights with his son. Raizo had began to lose faith in ever escaping the hate-filled life he lived in. Until a glimmer of hope, a small candle lit in a dark room, came to surface. The one thing that could help him escape the darkness and change his life around, a new meaning and purpose: Pokemon.
Many pokemon were often seen throughout Kanto, whether they be wild or abandoned whenever not accompanied by a human. Originally, Raizo held a pip dream that he'd go to visit one of the professors of Kanto to receive his first pokemon. A grass type, a water type, or a fire type. The ruffian had different ideas tossed about, whether or not it'll be a water type or a fire type he'll go with. At least, until he traveled near the edge of a large, rancourous cave where a group of punk kids were ganging up on an Elekid. Despite the rumored strength of this pokemon, he was outnumbered. His heart and anger set ablaze by this sight, Raizo ran in with a pipe at hand. Between the two, the small group was dispersed followed by a symphony of spiteful words. The Elekid turned to Raizo, eternally grateful for his assistance and furthermore impressed by his actions, and decided to keep the male company. It didn't take a psychic type to figure out Raizo could use a friend.
This friendship took off in a direction that was unfamiliar and well needed in the boy's life. Even though Elekid wasn't human, he was close enough. He understood basic communication, was a listening ear, and didn't need anything in return. A genuine friendship. With a pokemon of his own, the male decided it was time to go out on his own after finishing his education. To go to the a truer part of the map to become a licensed pokemon trainer, and thus begin his own life with his Pokemon. And more importantly, to get out of this hell hole.
Starter Pokemon: Elekid, the Electric-type Pokemon.
Other: A character I've been stewing around with on another site, though with a few edits.
Species: Elekid
Level: 6. (Thought that it fit. I'll change it if you'd like, however.)
Gender: Male.
Ability: Static - Though random and only slightly rare, this ability causes any Pokemon whom attacks Elekid with a phyisical move to be paralyzed due to the static coursing through the electric-type's body.
Moves: Quick Attack, Leer, Thunder Shock.
Summary: Elekid was, as stated in the biography, met during his fight against a few punks. He was only around level 1 at that time, and was getting his butt kicked by the snotty little dickwads. He was later saved by Raizo, and due to the honor and strenth he felt rolling off of the teenager, decided to join him in his journey. Elekid is a focus, determined Pokemon, the almost carbon copy of it's trainer. He loves both training and battling, and wants to become the best of the best, no holds barred. Forget weakness; he abhors it, and wants nothing to do with it. Pure strength and will!