Name: Rion Mazer, pronounced Leon
Age: 16
Date of Birth: July 7th
Gender: Male
Hometown: Lacunosa Town, Unova
Reason for Entering: Repay a debt and to gain more confidence
Appearance:
The first thing you could think of with Elly is downtrodden. He looks depressed a lot of the time, mostly when he's not sad at all. His face is not particularly expressive regardless, a small line of indifference usually on his face most of the time. He has a small, fragile build, like a sixteen-year-old shrunk to the age of thirteen. It is almost as though his time had been frozen. Even with the logical idea that puberty could have just not struck him, he is sixteen and that is highly unlikely. His limbs are thin, almost that they could be snapped with a single rough grasp. There is no trace of baby fat, making him more angles and edges than anything else. Even his skin reflects depression and weakness, almost chalk-white.
His hair is black and after all this time, neatly combed. It runs around his head, covering his ears and curling at the edges of his face. One part of his hair is longer than the rest, covering his right eye. Or to be more accurate, his right eye socket and the long scar running down it. His remaining eye is a frosty blue, cold like the Giant Chasm. Around his neck lies a pendant with the yin-yang symbol, something he doesn't take off lightly.
His clothes are baggy on his person, even some of the smaller sized shirts nearly falling off if he isn't careful. His undershirt is pale blue and sleeveless, leaving his white blazer to droop over his hands most of the time. There is fire embroidered on the right side of the white blazer, which is only buttoned in the middle. His pants are surprisingly, shorts, dark blue khakis if you would like the exact kind. He wears black, featureless shoes that look like they were simply the first thing they picked out. They were actually.
History:
A story is passed down in Lacunosa Town. A meteor crashed there, creating the Giant Chasm. In it rests a dragon, who on the cold, windy nights would steal people and Pokemon from the small, nearby town and eat them. As such, the citizens are forbidden to go out at night and the high walls have remained, even if the legend has stopped being believed in.
This is the city Rion was born in, the youngest of four. He was born to the rote of clockwork; games in the day, home in the night. Simple to remember but not so simple for him to execute. Born with a learning disability, he would frequently not be able to understand the cues of normal children and even struggled with his own parents, who weren't used to such difficulty with their other children. It brought inside him a deep-set sense of failure and discouraged his attempts to solve the more complicated problems that occurred. Eventually some of the other children began to mock him, physically and verbally, slowly giving him a fear of physical contact.
Eventually he stopped going outside at all, learning slowly in the quiet of his room. His siblings didn't care too much. They liked the fact that if whimsically, they felt like sitting in his room and talking, Rion would force himself to turn around and listen, even if he didn't understand everything that they were talking about or was able to respond appropriately. He didn't know it, but that taught him more about people than the doctors or books ever could.
At the age of ten, frightened by their youngest son's dismay of the outdoors, they gave him a Pokemon egg, that of a Rufflet. When it hatched, it was not entirely what they had hoped. A quiet, determined Pokemon, it guarded Rion wherever he went and against anyone deemed necessary, including the two of them. As Rion had no clue what to do about this, he ended up forced to release the Pokemon they gave him, two years after it had hatched. Confused, he went to do so.
However, things did not go as expected.
The two of them spend a nice, long last day together, wandering, though unknowingly, further and further away from the city and closer towards the dreaded place of legends: the Great Chasm. As day fell into night the temperature dropped gradually into deep cold. Suddenly, Rion became aware that he hadn't marked the path as he was taught and stood in the middle of a cold cave with his Pokemon, hopelessly lost. So… not certain of what else to do, he walked onward, not knowing he was exactly where he should not be. Along the way, Pokemon attacked him, prompting Alan into many desperate battles with strong Pokemon he could not beat, a Crobat getting through to his human and wounding him horribly on the head with Cross Poison, taking out his right eye in the process. Eventually, now frightened out of the normally composed state, Rion grabbed his Pokemon and fled deeper into the chasm, not realizing how cold he was… or how tired…
Eventually they hid in a small cave, Alan flying once in a while to get them food or help his human to a frigid lake. The rest of the time was spent mostly in his trainer's arms, trying to keep them both alive. With the cold wood, the boy could build a fire. Unfortunately, he simply did not know how to do so. At some point, no matter how much the Rufflet's wings smacked him, he simply fell asleep, overtaken by the cold and the poison. The Pokemon, not wanting to leave his trainer's side, starting calling for help in the loudest voice he could muster.
Now whether by luck or coincidence, they were found by a wayward Audino, or rather, a lost, trained Audino. It quickly healed them, trying to prevent as bad a case of frostbite as possible. Alan was thankfully mostly all right but Rion did not wake up. Unsure of whether to go find her trainer or stay, the Pokemon fretted for a moment. Her trainer clumsily appeared moments later, led by an odd Absol with sparkling pink eyes. Without waiting for the woman to understand, the Absol lifted Rion and went to leave the Giant Chasm.
Three days after this, Rion woke up in a home in the Village Bridge. He tried to remember what happened, only to send a shooting pain where he was struck down by the Crobat. Soon, he glimpsed Alan, his Rufflet, who was now very despondent and miserable, and the odd Absol, who simply nodded at him. He didn't know how but judging by the lazed position the Pokemon had on the floor, it was here to stay. The sensation of cold rose into his mind the longer he looked at her and not knowing why, he began to scream. The trainer who had found him rushed into the room and slowly calmed him down.
She, after ascertaining his condition, introduced herself as Laura Mably, a child care psychologist. She had found him at the Great Chasm during one of her whimsical walkabouts. She explained that if she had been there a hour later, he likely wouldn't have woken up again, frostbite or not. Also, the bloodstream in his brain was affected by Crobat poisoning, causing the headache he was currently having and his distinct memory troubles. Rion couldn't understand very much of this. All he could really grasp was that he was very lucky, and owed this woman his life.
The next few years were strange. As Rion slowly recovered, he eventually was able to get in contact with his parents, who were overjoyed to find their son alive. However, he could mostly see them as strangers, his mind likely permanently scarred by the events. This did set a permanent fear of cold in his system, prompting Laura to recommend getting him a Fire type. It ended up being his Vulpix. Miss Mably took on the task of helping Rion to be able to function in normal society, something that even with the family's help, was quite difficult.
Unknown to them, Rion wanted to repay the woman for all the help they were giving him, not sure what he had done to earn it. So at night, with one of his brother's help, he learned how to Pokemon battle. It was complicated and tiring but Rion learned. He decided on his sixteenth birthday to go to this tournament and try and see if the money earned here would repay all that was spent on him. He didn't tell anyone except his brother and ran away, not considering his difficulties as a child were still there.
Pokemon:
Absol (Female)
Deena
Ability: Pressure
Nature: Docile
Moves: Future Sight, Ice Beam, Razor Wind, Night Slash
Rufflet (Male)
Alan
Ability: Keen Eye
Nature: Serious
Moves: Slash, Air Slash, Rock Slide, Shadow Claw
Ninetales (Male)
Dante
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Mild
Moves: Flamethrower, Extrasensory, Quick Attack, Energy Ball