[Best Rookie March 2011] Begin, Again (Kanto Journey RP)

Name: Isabella Axella Claire, she goes by Axel for reasons explained in her history.
Gender: Female
Age: 18

History: Axel was born to two loving parents in Lavender town. Her mother, Annabell Frost and her father Anthon Clair had been high-school sweethearts, and married when they were both 19. Anthon had a good job working at the laboratory as an assistant and at age 22 Annabell gave birth to Isabella Axella, named for Annabell's mother and Anthon's mother respectively. However, as with most women who settled down and had a baby early in their lives, Annabell started to feel like the prime of her life had been taken from her. She started to do more reckless things, going out to discos in the big city, stay out all night at parties. This caused a bit if a rift in the marriages with many arguments to boot. Long story short, Axel's parents divorced when she was but 4 years old, her dad getting custody.


Axel was always a bit on herself, though everyone could see that she was an intelligent child. She didn't often play the games the other kids did in the break, preferring to read quietly and alone. She had one or two friends, but mostly she just stayed on her own. When she was 8 she announced to everyone that she was going to go by Axella, as she hadn't seen her mother in four years, and she saw no point in having the name of the mother of a mother she could barely remember. It was also around this age that Axel discovered the delight that was sports. It was also a delight to her father, who'd grown worried of his daughter's less than social behaviour. Finally there was a way for his daughter to really get involved with others.


But Axel tends to almost obsessively throw herself into something, it was the same with sports. Suddenly most of her breaks were spent in the gym, practicing. Her competitive nature also started to develop, she started pushing not only herself, but also her teammates. Most of her afternoons were on the tennis court as well. She continued to excel at school, though most of that comes from that same obsessing behaviour, as she spent most of her time not devoted to sports on schoolwork. As she entered high-school she started getting especially interested in human sciences.


Enfin, most of her high school career was much of the same, except for one thing, her mother was requesting to see her. At first Axel had no desire to see her, but she was quite persistent and finally her father convinced her to go, even if it was just for a cup of tea. She was her mother after all. So Axel travelled to Celadon City, where her mother now owned a penthouse in one of the sky scrapers. Apparently she had married a popular musician who she'd met on one of her parties. He was almost never home, but he did give her the penthouse to live, which suited Annabell just fine. Annabell, quite the selfish mother she was, thought that having her daughter be a Pokémon champion would be a wonderful thing to brag about to her friends. So, skilled in manipulation, she suggested to Axel that she'd never be able to go on a journey. Axel ended up leaving Celadon after a huge fight with her mother.


But her mother had succeeded in planting the idea, no, more of the insecurity inside her daughter's head. The idea kept pestering her, the fact that she wouldn't be able to do it, that it was one challenge her mother believed she'd never be able to do, and she couldn't stand it. So, after graduation, the idea exploded. She'd show her mother just how well she'd be able to be a trainer. She entered the Pallet academy through a scholarship she'd earned by practicing sports. Of course with her competitive and tactical nature she found that battling did indeed suit her just fine. She passed the tests with flying colours.


Personality: Axel is one independent lady, and also one with a bit of a temper. It's not hard to push the right buttons and leave her in an incredibly agitated stage. In fact, depending on her mood, it's harder not to. She prefers to stubbornly do things herself, and will persistently decline any form of human help. Even with Pokémon she only gladly accepts the help of her own team (And preferring it to be by her own command), but she's more inclined to accept Pokémon help when the need really does arise.

The stubborn nature does expand even more. She has a classic case of 'if you say right, I go left.' Also, if you're going to try and get her to apologize, you may be waiting for a very long time. 'Sorry' is only in her dictionary when she wants it to be, and that is not often. In general, Axel pretty much can't get along with the human race very well at all, and she does little effort to change that.


Well normally being a bit of a hot-head, in battles she turns into a bit of a cold calculator. She has an extreme competitive side and will want to win no matter what. 'No matter what' does, unfortunately, stretch out to her Pokémon as well. Sometimes she'll go for tactics that would seem a bit… unorthodox to some. She's in it to win it, and definitely not to lose it.


Looks: Axel, standing at 1.92, is tall, very tall. The height is equally divided between upper body and lower body, as proportionally-wise her upper body is quite long. With her Mediterranean tan, broad shoulders (for a woman) and strong arms she can come off as a bit intimidating. It doesn't help that a slight bored/annoyed expression seems to be her default.


Axel's hair is a very dark brown, distinguishable from black only in direct sunlight. It's thin, straight and reaches down to her scapula. Nine times out of ten she has it up in a high ponytail to keep it out of the way. Her fringe is parted in the middle and cut straight horizontally at the eyebrows. Her face is long with grey-blue eyes, a slightly large, hooked nose and small pierced ears. Contrasting to the rest of her pointed features she has a somewhat larger mouth with full lips and, to finish it off, a cleft chin.


Axel wears a pair of dark denim jeans, a simple red tanktop and a black leather jacket over top. She prefers to push the sleeves of her jacket to her elbows., mostly because she feels a bit confined otherwise. Over the jeans she wears brown boots with sturdy grips on the bottom and white (well it used to be) faux-fur on the top. Lastly there's a dark red scarf that she wears around her waist, stuck through the loops of her jeans and tied on the side. Hanging off the scarf are 2 faux-golden hoops which can each hold three Pokéballs.

She doesn't wear much jewelry, only a small silver hoop in each ear and a silver stud in the top of her right ear. She also has a watch on her right wrist, with its face down and a braided leather bracelet, of two shades of brown, on the same wrist. And then there's her bag, a brown leather messenger bag that looks like it's seen the best of its days a long time ago. The leather has discoloured spots all over it, and there quite a few patches where the leather is broken and flaking off.

Starter choice: Snivy, which shall be nicknamed Smugleaf (;

Theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HufdO7Ry7lk (I apologize for the foreigness but I couldn't find any English translations and the song is simply perfect for her!)