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Name: ABUISHGFUISGFI! I'm sorry, but I have to use Trent Rift. It would kill me on the inside if i didn't. So: Trent Rift

Gender: Ah! I hate this one! Can I have a third option? No? Argh. Fine :p Male

Age: 16

Appearance: Trent is a reedy young lad, weighing in at 110 pounds and being around 5'5. His hair is long and hangs around his shoulder, and is a cyan color. It frames his thin, angular face very well, and is quite messy, usually having random spikes sticking out everywhere. He keeps it out of his eyes with a large pilot goggles, usually pinning it to the top of his head. His eyes are the exact same shade, providing a rather...cyan effect. His face is rather average, having no particular features or marks. He normally wears a cyan t-shirt that matches his hair and has a black monogram of a pokeball on the front, (See where I'm going with this?) and tends to wear knee-length khaki shorts. Brent carries a cyan backpack (See? There it is!) with him, as well as a PokeNav.

Personality: Trent is a rather awkward lad. He doesn't know what to say half the time that he talks, and usually it comes out as rambling. Of all the times he's awkward though, it's around girls. He has a chronic fear of them...More of pleasing them. Trent loves making people happy, and tends to become sad when he can't, and he, like every other guy in the universe (and parallel universes) has not found out how to make girls happy. (Am I right guys? XD) It's for this reason that he tries to avoid girls if at all possible, but he will not hesitate to attempt to talk if approached by one of the feminine gender. He is a loyal friend, and would defend you with his life if you were threatened after befriending him. One of his favorite sayings, by himself of course, is "Those who abandon their friends in this world are worse than trash."

History: Trent was born in the Hoenn region, and more specifically Rustboro. His family were good friends with Roxanne, so he got a good start with pokemon at an early age. He was showed to the Petalburg Forest to catch his first pokemon, which so happened to be a Slakoth. Trent trained with his Slakoth tirelessly, falling completely in love with the world of pokemon. He went on small adventures, had a great time with his partner. When he turned ten, he was finally allowed to compete in the gym challenge. As soon as he could, Trent challenged Roxanne and beat her easily, despite his obvious type disadvantage. It was obvious that from then on, he would be a great trainer.

Trent worked day after day to become a pokemon master, and by the time that he reached the eighth gym, his team consisted of a Slaking, a Camerupt, a Sceptile, a Wailord, a Swellow, and a Manetric. He beat the gym leader almost flawlessly. Trent was arrogant then, full of pride. More pride than what was good for someone. He began to travel with a friend or two, and they ended up getting caught up in a crossfire between Team Magma and Team Aqua. It ended when his friends were killed by rogue pokemon. From that day on, Trent changed. "I couldn't save my friends! What kind of pokemon trainer am I!?" He was angry with himself, and decided from then on he would work only to protect those he loved and to please others instead of himself. He went on to the pokemon league and ended up getting all the way to the champion before he was defeated in a close battle, won only by a split second. It was a crushing defeat, but Trent learned from it. He decided that this defeat would only make him stronger.

It was then that he recieved the letter to come to the Celestia League. He hadn't seen his family since he started his journey, so he returned home to talk it over with his parents. While he had been gone, he had kept in constant contact with his parents and he had known that his father had been deathly ill for a while. Upon Trent's arrival, he found his father, dead in his bed. This was a tragic blow to Trent. "I...I COULDN'T EVEN SAVE MY OWN FATHER!" It was then that Trent decided that he was going to defeat the Celestia League with room to spare. For his friends. For his father. He said his final goodbyes to his remaining family and friends. After that, Trent left the Hoenn region on the back of his Wailord. (To be sent back later once he reached shoreline.)

Starter: Slakoth - Male - Kong (Get it? He'll be a gorilla-thing when he's fully evolved! Look at me, being clever and what-not!)

Color Badge Case: Cyan (Eh? Eh?)

Other: His theme song? There is only one possibility!



I have a feeling that the video won't work, so in case it doesn't, it's Together Forever.

The thing is, DBZ fan, that you're looking at it from a storytelling perspective rather than a promotional perspective. The reason the main girl has been replaced in this pattern is to promote the new generations. The reason Brock was replaced was for promotion- of both the new generation and the "reset" feel they were going for. It was not because the writing dictated they be replaced due to closed arcs; that was just a side-effect of the later closures. Misty did not get an especially good closure because she had not gotten much development prior to the set time of the AG switch. As far as I can tell, by the time they decided she was going to leave, it was too late to expand a lot on her character. We did see a sudden upswing in her accomplishments in late Johto- she won the Seaking fishing competition and the Tour de Altomare, and did well in the Whirl Cup. But ultimately she was essentially forced to give up travelling and take care of the gym, which leaves her in an unfortunate position- she is stuck where she is with little room for expansion. That's her ending, really, which is not nearly as happy as May or Dawn's. Those two left Ash and Brock after significant personal development and continued to pursue their dreams. Misty, as far as we can tell, got neither of those things.

((Let's take an aside and talk about closure- the word seems almost misleading when the characters we deem as receiving better closure actually have not shut the doors on their journeys but instead continue to learn and grow and experience beyond the confines of the screen we view them from.))

From a storytelling perspective, Misty's ending is very weak. Her developmental arc was nearly nonexistent. It would be wonderful if she either came back under better writing or got a spinoff series or something to remedy the injustice to her character. But from a marketing perspective, that's probably not going to happen. The companions are for promotion. And the number of Kalos natives is already a significant amount; it'd be a shame not to at least use some of them. And then the writers would be juggling characters as they tried to feature the Kalos kids enough to get the direct promotion in while also rewriting Misty (and Brock, if you want the original trio) and honestly it would be a confusing mess of too many things jammed into one place.

Like I said before, the best chance of an Original Twerps reunion would be a filler saga in between times of essential promotion. And then I would love to see them back- as long as there was significant character development for Misty involved.