A Journey in Disguise - OOC thread

Ranks:

Giovanni: Field-Marshal
Beaten Jessie and James: General
Beaten E4 member 3: Luitenant general
Beaten E4 member 2: Major general
Beaten E4 member 1: Brigadier
Beaten Team Rocket Executive: Colonel
Beaten Team Rocket Operative: Luitenant Colonel
Beaten Eight Gym: Major
Beaten Seventh Gym: Captain
Beaten Sixth Gym: Lieutenant
Beaten Fifth Gym: 2nd Luitenant
Beaten Team Rocket Officer: Officer
Beaten Fourth Gym: Master Sergeant
Beaten Third Gym: Staff Sergeant
Beaten Second Gym: Corporal
Beaten First Gym: Lance Corporal
Starting Rank: Private

Name: Silvia Crowley

Age: 16

Apprentice of: Bugsy

Starter: Venonat

Appearance: Silvia is a relatively fit young man. He wears mostly dull toned t shirts: Grays, Faded Blues, Sage Green, and Faded Reds. The shirts fit tightly around his body, showing a built frame with noticeably muscular pecs, and toned biceps. His primary bottoms are usually faded, tight fitting jeans, in either blue, gray, or black color. His skin is fairly tan, and stands out from his simple clothing. His hair is dark brown, almost black, but still manages to catch the light on top of it. He has thick eyebrows and green, nearly hazel eyes that don't catch very much light. They are something that you need to see up close to really appreciate. He has a sharp shape to his face, what we would consider a "Greek Jawline." He would be considered a handsome boy, but that is usually not the case because he always wears a thick scowl across his face.

Personality: Silvia is, plain and simply, a complex person emotionally, and never really reacts in the way that you would. He is generally quiet, always trying to avoid unnecessary tangents. He likes to deal with things as quickly, calmly and effectively as possible. He may come off as rather blunt, because he doesn't see the point in dwelling on things; this is an aspect that usually strikes a cord with others. He doesn't socialize much, preferring to act alone. Silvia tends to feel weighed down by others, preferring (usually naively) to be alone. He is rather confident in himself, and tends to get over-confident when things go his way. He has trouble eating his own words, and doesn't like to admit he is wrong. Once heated up, he will argue and shout for as long as it takes for him to be satisfied, yet another aspect of Silvia that people tend to dislike.

History: Silvia's mother Rosa, was born in Rustboro City, Hoenn. She was always interested in Pokemon, both her parents being workers for the Devon Corporation, her mother in the Specialty Pokeball Sector, and her father in the Fossil Restoration Sector. She graduated from the Trainer School, and became a Pokemon Trainer. She traveled Hoenn, competing in the Pokemon League, and even trying her hand at the Elite Four. She continued her adventure in Kanto, eager to explore a new Region. It was in Fuchsia City that she met her husband, Marc.

Marc was born on Cinnabar Island, the son of a grocer. Upon his parents retirement, Marc was relocated to Fuchsia City, where he began work at 16 at the Safari Zone. He was content with his simple life, enjoying life with his one Pokemon, Tauros. He met his wife, Rosa when she came to try her hand at the Safari Zone. The two fell in love, and relocated to the quiet town of Azalea to raise a child.

Ever since he was young, you could tell that Silvia was a bright kid. He taught himself to read, and never stopped. His growth was hindered by his parents, though, who preferred to do things they way they wanted, rather than make the right decisions for their child. They averted sending Silvia to study in Goldenrod, preferring a simple life with their son. Silvia has been resentful of this, commonly referring to this as the "incompetence" of his parents. Silvia never felt quite loved enough because of this, and grew away from his parents some.

Reason Chosen: Living nearly all of his life in Azalea, not only was Silvia known to Bugsy as a neighbor, but he had a motive, --(Read RP Introduction) :Team Rocket abducted his parents. Under the impression that his parents didn't love him, Silva was surprised when Marc, his father, saved his life with Tauros before he himself was taken, unwillingly leaving Tauros and Silvia alone. From then on Silvia began to build love and respect for his parents, vowing to see them again. After the Rocket Raid, Silvia lived with Kurt, the Custom Pokeball Maker; a friend of Bugsy. Since then, Silvia has treated Kurt like an uncle, being grateful for what he was given. Because the people of Azalea were most concerned with safety, there were no other candidates for Bugsy to choose from to help in her mission. There really were no other options. After discussing the opportunity with Bugsy, Silvia decided it was what he wanted: A shot at Team Rocket. He finalized the deal and was given a Venonat as his first Pokemon.

RP Sample, or Introduction:

Name: Kamora
Age: 18
Apprentice: Whitney
Starter: Aipom

Appearance: Kamora's height is the one thing he doesn't like about himself. He is about 64 inches tall and evcen thought he is the oldest of his siblings he is the shortest of his siblings. So to make himself seem taller he wears a hat black hat, with a white ring at the bottom, when he activates this ring it makes his shoes grow seven extra inches and gives him a taller appearance. This appearance makes him look goofy, but makes him tall and that is what matters to Kamora. Along with his goofy shoes, and magic hat, Kamora wears a black vest that covers his white t-shirt, rectangular glasses with black frames,and long black jeans. The glasses Kamora wears have a special tent in them that makes his eye color unknown to others. Kamora's head is usually covered by his hat, so he has cut his hair to be shorter. Kamora has silver hair, and the only one in his family with this type of hair, which is another unique thing Kamora tries to hide from others. However, when Kamora is about to battle he changes his appearance. He takes his hat, shoes, and jacket off. He puts a black wristband around both wrist and then changes his glasses into clearer lens so his opponent can see his eyes.

Personality: Kamora is a fun loving person, who wishes to be a coordinator rtaher than a trainer. He takes time in making his Pokemon and himself look good whenever they are going out or battling. He does not like to talk to people that are taller than him, because most people he meets talk about his size. This has made Kamora someone reclusive to other people and so he only talks to people his size and smaller. This makes Kamora is well liked by children. He is compassionate to others, except tall people, and tries to guide everyone out of trouble emotionally and mentally. However, if Kamora is insulted about his size, he immediately tries to start a fight and destroy the trash talker. Another key quality of Kamora's personality is that he likes to flirt with girls, of all sizes. His size has become the main reason why girls will not talk to him, but he still takes his time to flirt with them, before being pulled away by friends, Pokemon, or family. He usually drops anything and everything to go flirt with the cutest girl he sees.

History: Kamora was born in Johto. Kamora was born into a household, where battling was the only thing that boys should focus on when it came to Pokemon. At first, kamora liked this idea and focused on that, but then three more brothers came. As his brothers started to grow, Kamora started to be looked down upon. he was the oldest of the children, but he was alos the shortest of the children. His parents and his siblings made him believe that his height made him weak and that he wasn't as tough as the rest of them. Kamora started to grow more distant from his family and at the age of 16 left the house to journey alone. Kamora searched for a way to fix his height problem and return to his family so he could be looked on as tough. Two years later, kamora found the technology he needed to be taller and invented his height shoes. These shoes gave him the appearance of being taller, but also made him look goofier. During his journey, Kamora met an Aipom that was smaller than his family. The family left the Aipom and Kamora adopted her as his own.

Reason you were chosen: Kamora first tested his height shoes in Goldenrod City. When he started them up he grew too tall, which caused him and his shoes to smash into the gym. It was there he met and fell in love with the gym leader and promised to clean the gym, until his debt was paid to her. Ever since that incident Kamora has not gone home and stayed with Whitney and her Normal Pokemon. After Whitney battled a young trainer and lost, she became ill. Kamora watched over the gym and Whitney during her time of need. However, instead of closing the gym because Whitney was sick Kamora took the role as substitute gym leader. Kamora battled using Whitney's Milktank and his Aipom. After three days of illness, Whitney found that her gym was clean and that Kamora had not lost a single badge. She was impressed by Kamora's ability to not only take care of her, but also the gym leader position, the gym, and her Pokemon. With such a display of awesomeness Whitney took Kamora on as her apprentice, so that both her and him could stronger together.

RP Sample, or Introduction: Necro's journey While Necro waited for a response from the others, a hellspaqwn jumped in the air and knocked him out. Necro soon awoke two days later and found the cafe empty. "Where did everyone go?" questions Necro. Leon tugs on his master's clothes and points in the forest direction. "Alright, I amy have failed in trying to round the troops, but I know I can help now! By the power of Ursaring I will find them and help them save the cat." Necro dashes off into the forest. Leon quickly follows after him. When Necro finally speeds through the forest, he finds it in ruins. "There must have been a pretty harsh battle. I wonder where the others are? I hope they weren't apart of this chaos. But if they were, that would leave me alone. If I'm alone then that means I have to rely on my own power. In other words, I am about to die to wahetever creature did this." he sighs and puts his head on the ground. While felling sorry for himself, Leon jumps onto Necro's shoulder. After Necro realizes he still has Leon he cheers up. The two get off the ground and move forward into the forest.

As the two are walking they come across a camp site. The two partners investigate the area carefully. The look at the leaves that were used as a bed, some sticks that had been burned and used for firewood, and flowers. Leon deduced that the others had set up camp about two hours ago and then left. "Good work, Leon" compliments Necro. Leon then points to the tracks that have been left on the ground by another Pokemon. The duo begin to follow the tracks. As they walk along the path made of tracks, they also find blood around the area. Necro again fears that the others are dead. When they finally reach the end of the tracks, they both run into a tree. The two dazed by the tree, inadverently walk through the entrance. When they look up they see the tree is flourished and beautiful. Necro is hypnotized and falls into a pitfall. Leon jumps in after him. When Necro finally hits the floor, Leon hits his head. "Leon, watch where you're going next time." scoffs Necro. "Chimchar, chim!" says Leon.

"I was watching where I was going. I just got distracted."

"Chimchar, chim."

"What do you mean 'Like I said'? I was distracted! You could have changed your course."

"Chimchar!"

"Don't make you angry, don't make me angry!" the two squabble. Leon uses Flamewheel, as Necro puts up a Rock Shield. The ramp of the shield launches Leon up, then he comes down with the same speed. Leon releases an Ember. Necro creates another shield above him, but must use the shield that was in front of him. With that the Emver is blocked, but Leon now shoots another Ember from in front of Necro.

Necro is thrown into a plant and on the verge of being eaten. "Leon, help, help, help!" screams Necro. Leon sees his master in danger and uses Ember to burn the plant. Necro embraces his partner in a hug and apologizes for all the trouble. "Now that's over, let's find the others." the duo walk around the tree. The tree seems to be a maze to them. After going around in circles for about three hours, they quickly scream. "We can't find a way out!" and then a vine falls down in front of them. "Lucky us, now we can use the vine and go to the top. I bet the others are up there. It is obvious they aren't down here." Necro and Leon grab the vine and climb up. When they reach the top, they see that it once held a battle areana. The areana has been bashed apart and there are claw and fang marks everywhere. Leon and Necro put their detective hats on, which they just happen to find in the maze, and search for clues. They each examine fine points from the area then share their results.

"Chimchar, chim, char, chim chim."

"I agree that there was a battle and the others won it through the use of beast like powers. This makes me conclude that they also have an alter-ego like my Exodia. In other words we are all linked in someway. However, while we know they 'were' here, where are they now?" the two ponder. As they think, a small piece of light hits them in the face. The two put their heads together and go outside the tree. A red leaf falls from the tree and starts to be blown away by the wind. Leon and Necro, believeing it to be a clue to the others, follow the leaf. They each run and run after the leaf, showing no signs of stopping. They chase the leaf even when the sun goes down.

When the leaf finnal hits the ground, the two find themselves on Cinnabar Island. "Leon, how did we get all the way to an island?" "Chimchar, chim?" "So you don't either. I hope we will find the others here. However, how did we get started chasing a freakin leaf for that long. Are we on drugs?" questions Necro. As they look around for answers a flyer hits Necro in the face. "Festival of Fire, sounds like my type of think, after all Leon is a fire-type." Necro goes around and ask where to find the festival. A jester points him to the ship that is already starting to go. Necro smirks and puts Leon on his shoulder. He manipulates the ground below and creates a surfboard. He then uses his the board to follow after the ship. The chase for the ship continues..."Don't worry guys, i will help get the cat girl back!"

Name: Edwin Tasselbury, a.k.a. Lupin
Age: 23
Apprentice: Morty
Starter: Misdreavus
Appearance: Lupin is 5'9" tall. His deep brown eyes are clearly visible behind rectangular glasses, because his hair--which is wavy, straw-coloured, and reaches about to his shoulders--isn't thick enough to get in the way. His skin is quite pale due to lack of sunlight, and although he definitely looks and feels thin-figured, he's actually in pretty good shape.

Perhaps part of the reason why Lupin seems a bit intimidating is the fact that he wears all black. All his clothes hug his figure without being tight on him. His coat is especially striking in that sense--it's long enough to reach down to his thighs, and has dark purple embroidery on the bottom, neck, and ends of sleeves. It has a row of golden buttons down the front, and one on each sleeve, and it has four pockets on the outside. He wears a shirt underneath this coat, but no one ever sees it because he always buttons the coat all the way up to his neck. The sleeves of the coat are just long enough to cover part of his hands, which are covered with black fingerless gloves which revel his long, thin fingers. In addition to all that, Lupin wears a pair of black trousers and black leather shoes.

Personality: An outlaw at heart, Lupin has a penchant for sneaking his way around the rules. Specifically, he specializes in stealing things; his strongest skills are in pickpocketing and lock-picking. He always does so in a surreptitious manner, and goes by the motto "quickly, quietly, reasonably" so as to avoid getting caught. ("Reasonably" means "only when necessary" or "not just for the heck of it"). In general, he tends to be a rather quiet person (not to mention he never shouts or raises his voice), and though he'll let friends into his life, he'll still have a hard time warming up to them save for a small conversation on occasion. Most people would see him as being very serious, quite a bit cold-hearted, even a slight bit intimidating--he certainly does have a dark aura about him. In fact, seriousness is the "emotion" he most commonly shows, with perhaps an occasional smirk or fret added in there.

Although Lupin is not normally talkative, he can be when faced with a rival or enemy, in which case his tone of voice can sound a tiny bit pedantic, as if to win them over by wit. He takes on a similar tone when in a discussion group. Moreover, if he's asked a question he doesn't want to answer, he'll try to lead the asker away from the subject. And although Lupin mantains a cold and serious attitude towards strangers and even acquaintances, he sometimes "warms up" a bit when around his closest friends, which he currently has only four of anyway. Even so, it takes him quite a while to form a close bond with someone, as well as to trust someone. In fact, he does have a tendency to be selfish, though there are those times in which he will go out of his way to help a friend, or in very rare cases, a non-friend. One thing he does have is a lot of willpower--he will endure or overcome a perilous situation to the absolute best of his ability.

As far as other things go, Lupin is not too fond of bright lights, and is thus nocturnal. Also, though he doesn't seem to have much respect for people's property, he does have great respect of nature. Thirdly, it's nigh impossible for him to fall in love with or be attracted to someone--I doubt even a siren or love potion would work very well. Last of all, his major weakness is his past, when it catches up to him and finds its way into his thoughts. He gets depressed about it at random times; it is these times when being alone in a remote place is his top priority.

History: Edwin lived the early years of his life in a flat in Lilycove City, Sinnoh. His father worked at a rather prestigious and expensive restaurant called the Golden Swan, although he just washed dishes and swept floors and didn't get paid much. The Tasselbury family was in fact quite poor, poor enough that Dad didn't want a child because it would be too expensive to raise. Mum managed to convince him otherwise, but she really wanted a daughter, and was thus a bit disappointed when Edwin was born. The first three or so years were pretty much okay, but Dad soon got sick of him, maybe even angry for him being a "financial burden". Thus he often took to hitting and even torturing him, in as many ways as possible. (It would probably not be wise to go into detail at this point.) That or he would lock him up in the closet while he went to spend time alone with Mum.

Fortunately, there were some good points. First of all, Edwin eventually figured out how to work his way through the lock on the closet door and his bedroom door. Secondly, he frequently snuck out of the flat at night to explore the city. It was on these ventures that he started to develop his thieving skills, as he needed them to obtain food and money (his parents certainly didn't give him much). Being nocturnal really did have its benefits. Also, as time passed, Mum noticed all the money he had stolen and was actually a bit proud of him--perhaps the family had a second source of income now. Unfortunately, Dad's behaviour and attitude didn't change--if anything, it got worse. Eventually, Edwin decided he'd endured enough of it, and ran away when he was ten, immedately hitchhiking on a ship headed out of the region.

The ship went to Kanto, where Edwin was brought to an orphanage for a while. There, things finally started to improve. Though he didn't care much for the other children in the orphanage, there was one exception: a seven-year-old girl named Yamiko. She was the tiny little redhead whose outfit made her look somewhat like a Kirlia, not to mention she was taking ballet lessons at the time, and thus her most common pet peeve was the "Kirlia Kid". For some mysterious, magical reason, the two got along very well--the friendship seemed to defy Edwin's tendency toward loneliness. However, two months after the day they first met, the two were separated--someone came along to adopt Edwin.

But it wasn't all bad. The new family he lived with had two other sons, and one neighbour who soon became friends with them. Inspired by Edwin's habits and past, the four eventually formed into a gang called the Black Cat Bandits. But this wasn't a violent or foolish gang at all. They were mostly thieves and spies, and didn't pull off any big robberies because they didn't want to attract attention. Also, they gave themselves nicknames, making for extra fun over the years. In that group there was Halberd, the fix-it person who liked to collect knives and even swords; Warren, the amiable Pokemon lover who was usually a scout; Merlin, the bookworm and paranormal enthusiast who did mostly planning; and Edwin Lupin, as he was known from then on, the one who did most of the work.

Once the Black Cat Bandits passed their teenage years, they became less active, and turned to their separate lives. Halberd became a mechanic and strove to become a gym leader as well, Warren went off on his Pokemon journey, Merlin got reunited with his good friend Morty, and Lupin... well, he ended up traveling to Johto, intent on seeing what Team Rocket was up to. However, there was one surprise waiting for him once he got to Violet City: Yamiko, his old friend from the orphanage! Yamiko explained that her Kirlia (surprise surprise) had just been taken from her by Team Rocket, incidentally. The two spent a little more time in Johto, with the intention of spying on them and maybe even getting Yamiko's Kirlia back.

Actually, Lupin succeeded with the latter--he found the Kirlia in a Pokemon storage facility he snuck his way into at one point. What he didn't realise, though, was that Team Rocket had placed a tracking device on that Kirlia a while back (that's how they found it and took it away), and didn't take it off since. So although Yamiko was glad to have Kirlia back, it wasn't too long before Team Rocket found them again. Fortunately, this time Yamiko was able to keep Kirlia away from them, and even destroy the tracking device in the process. Lupin, though, wasn't so lucky. The grunts took him to their own prison, which mainly held disobedient Team Rocket members and other major threats. Its owners had a habit of torturing their prisoners for information, which in Lupin's case was often things like where Yamiko lived or what her Pokedex ID number was, or how Kirlia found its way back to her.

After a narrow escape from Johto, Yamiko went to the other Black Cat Bandits, who tried to come up with another plan to infiltrate Team Rocket, and maybe rescue Lupin in the process. However, the last part wasn't necessary; after about two weeks Lupin managed to escape from this prison, which was a huge shock to not only Yamiko, but Team Rocket as well (apparently he was the first person to have escaped from there). Also during that time, Merlin got a call from Morty, who said that he and the other Johto gym leaders had been coming up with a similar plan. Overhearing this, Lupin decided to make his own contribution to the plan: he thought it would be a good idea to pretend to be a Team Rocket member, but in actuality be spying on and working against them. Morty liked this idea, and thus shared it with the other gym leaders, who refined the details of the plan.

Reason for being chosen: As is said in the last paragraph of the History, Lupin helped come up with the plan against Team Rocket. Well, a few days after that happened, Merlin received another phone call from Morty, who said that he wanted to see Lupin in person, also telling him to come alone. Once Lupin got to the location Morty specified, Morty told him about the final plan the gym leaders had come up with, and again thanked him for his contribution. But that wasn't the only reason why Morty chose him for this mission. Morty was known for being kind of a loner as well, so often times he didn't have any assistants. In fact, at that time, Merlin was his only one, especially because the two had been friends in their childhood, not to mention Morty approved of the research work Merlin had done on things such as paranormal activity and the characteristics of the legendary Pokemon.

Still, why wasn't Merlin chosen for this mission instead? Well, in recent years Merlin had told Morty about Lupin and the other Black Cat Bandits quite often. At first Morty was considering sending Merlin on this mission, but then he thought that the best choice for such a Rocket spy would be someone who has more experience with criminal activity, and preferrably one who already knew a thing or two about the team. He teetered on the issue quite a bit, but something at the back of his mind told him that Merlin wouldn't be a good convincing Rocket. However, since Lupin was already a thief and had snooped on Team Rocket a little bit in the past, he figured that he would be a better candidate. However, there were two problems. First, what if Team Rocket recognised him? However, if he went in disguise, that could be fixed, and Lupin had said he never gave out his name to the team. Second, Lupin didn't have any Pokemon. But that was easily remedied; Morty gave him a Misdreavus he had recently captured.

RP Sample: (from a non-Pokemon RPG on another site)

Spoiler:

Name: Roberto 'Tito' Daviles

Age: 16

Apprentice of: Chuck

Starter: Tyrogue

Appearance: Tito has curly black hair, which he bleached yellow, though he buzzes it very short making it hard for anyone to notice. His eyes are a dark brown color, big with rather bushy eyebrows. He seems to be missing two molars on the right-upper side of his jaw, and his veins tend to bulge out rather prominently when angered. Body-wise, Tito stands at the average height. However, he works out intensively, and looks like a pro-wrestler because of his muscles. This alongside a short, black goatee makes him seem older than he actually is.

In the clothing department, Tito, being the ingenuous guy that he is, would walk around the globe barefoot with nothing but his gi on. As a matter of fact, he did just that while he was in Cianwood, but since he must infiltrate the Rockets, he must also copy their clothing style. He thinks of it as 'training'.

Personality: Growing up under Chuck's wing, Tito has grown up to become some sort of a workout freak. Taking each and every opportunity he can to improve on his, and his Pokémon's strength, speed, resilience, and balance. He does things such as using weights to hold up the grocery bags, walk over railings rather than the street, whenever he swims he does it underwater, which makes swimming an anaerobic exercise, and whenever he wakes up early he goes on running frenzies around Cianwood City.

Other than these and those things and perks [and possibly obsessive-compulsive-disorder], Tito appears to be a one way minded person, and generally nice and honest. Even so, the simple Tito is armed with the weapons of hard work and diligence, and will beat up anyone who means either him, or someone he loves, harm. This leads him to be naive and easily fooled, but whenever people lay big expectations on him, he has a knack for not letting them down, and will do just about anything to help out the people he cares about, including accepting certain sacrifices in the name of the 'greater' good.

History: Born in Cianwood City, Tito had always been like any other kid in the small community. Naïve, with dreams of fame, and huge admiration and respect for the one man who had accomplished what they only dreamed of: Chuck. Like it is tradition in Pallet Town to get a starter Pokémon from Prof. Oak, who they all admire, it is also a tradition here in Cianwood City, to study Pokémon training from the master himself. Although Chuck seems like a harsh man, everyone tries his best to train under him, and he likes this since he enjoys teaching to the newer generation.

When Tito came to the Cianwood Gym, he was just like anybody else. What separated him from the rest was his hard work and his diligence that earned him the title of 'number one disciple', and Chuck's trust to go out into a mission as hard as the one that had been planned from the beginning by the Johto Gym Leaders.

Reason you were chosen: Chuck has truly always seen himself a bit in Tito, and he has high expectations of the kid. The way Tito truly enjoys training not only his Pokémon, but also his own body, captivates him like none other. His wife feels the same way as him, and where they both see him like a son; to him they are both his second parents. They also feel that out of all of their earlier disciples and trainers they've encountered, he is probably the guy who is best suited for the job in the sense of being mentally mature enough to avoid any stupid mistakes that would lead to his deception being found out, and he isn't know in the training circuit at all. This factors make him a possibly lethal pain to Team Rocket.

RP Sample: From Omnizaru's The KSA

Spoiler:

Name: Anna Silverman
Age: 16
Apprentice: Jasmine
Starter: Skarmory
Appearance: Anna is a fairly tall girl, standing in at around 5 foot and 10 inches. She has slightly tanned skin and some muscles under the skin. She has auburn, shoulder lenght hair that frames her oval face. Her eyes are of an amber color. Anna has a faded scar on the side of her neck and her nose is slightly crooked above her thin mouth.

Anna likes to wear a black tank top with an outline of a bird on it. Over top of that she wears a wool grey vest with some black designs of Pokeballs on the front and back. She also wears grey long shorts with a black strip going down the sides. She also has black shoes with silver designs on them. For her accessories, she has two black wrist sweat bands and a long necklace in the shape of a Steelix.
Personality: Anna is very quiet and usually doesn't say much unless she has to, and even then. She tends to just like to sit back and watch other people go about their lives. This also reflects in her battling, as she is almost never the first on to make the first move, instead having her opponent do so. That way, Anna can see what kind of strategy they like to use. She is also quite resilient and very few things bother her. Though if something does, Anna makes sure that she can do something to change it. Anna also likes to be distant from people, though she will get close to someone if she has to.
History: Anna was born in Pallet Town, but her parents moved to Olivine city back when Johto was still quite peaceful. As she grew up, Anna saw how Team Rocket was taking over to the region and hated every second of it, but she didn't know what to do. She really hated it when her father joined the evil organization, but didn't let him know that. Though, luckily, this gave him permission to help and train her in Pokémon battling. Of course, with each training session, he made it clear that he was doing this so that she would be able to help out Team Rocket when she was older. Just when she thought that her destiny was doom to the hands of Team Rocket, she gets a call from the ex-Gym leader of Cianwood that changes everything…
Reason you were chosen: Anna was picked because of her ability to be able to read a situation before her and for her hatred of Team Rocket. Though her family would most likely be against it, Jasmine knows that her resilient nature will help Anna in coping with what's happening around her.
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Name: Elijah Colton.

Age: Almost 15.

Apprentice: Pryce.

Starter: Snorunt.

Appearance: Elijah has a thin figure, and stands around five foot and six inches with a light tan. He has a set of two dark brown eyes that usually end up covered by dark brown hair that reaches down to his eyelashes and the bottom of his neck. His ensemble is made up of a light blue tee, with grey and black plaid capris that reach between his knee and ankle, and suspenders hanging down, only worn as an accessory. His shoes are hi-top tennis that are a pale blue and black, to match his outfit. Underneath his shirt, he always wears a silver chain his father had given him while he was still young.

Personality: Elijah is not one for meeting new people. He gets shy easily, never really making eye contact. But, once he warms up to a person (which would take some time), he becomes a giant ball of sunshine with a goofy smile.
On the contrary, its hard for Elijah to keep up a conversation. Knowing this, he would much rather be alone so that way he wont make a fool of himself.
In awkward situations, he has a tendency to get angry with whoever is around. He is also quick to assume people don't like him.


History: Born and raised in the tiny Mahogany Town, Elijah is well known, seeing how the town has a very small population.

It was easy for team rocket to take over Mahogany Town. Nobody thought that the secret base was being occupied again, until it was too late. With his father out at sea most of the time, Elijah had no male role model in his life.
One day, while secretly taking a stroll to the towns neighboring lake, he saw an elderly man just sitting down, enjoying the calm breeze, and inhaling the soft scent the dewdrops cast in the morning. Once Elijah realized it was Pryce, he built up all the courage he had, and began talking to him.
Beginning to train regularly at the gym Pryce worked at, his mind and body became more stable. After showing much determination and strength, Pryce began letting Elijah train with his ice typed pokemon. While most of his pokemon were taken by team rocket, one of his Froslass and Glalie he owned had had an egg. There was no doubt in Pryces mind when he let Elijah keep the egg.

Reason you were chosen: Pryce had taken an extra liking to Elijah. He sort of took him under his wing, if you must. Training him in the art of pokemon battling and learning how to keep a calm mind, there was no doubt in Pryces mind when he chose Elijah to become an assistant of his.
While some of Pryces training may slip from Elijahs mind from time to time, Pryce has always thought of Elijah as a star pupil.

RP Sample, or Introduction: From something awhile back on another site.

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Name: Drake Summers.
Age: 15
Apprentice: Clair
Starter: Female Dratini called Ryu.

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Has ruby red eyes instead of normal coloured eyes, if thats okay.




Appearance: Drake stands at around 5ft7, He has short, messy, brown hair with his fringe spiking out a bit, and has light green eyes. Whenever he smiles most people divert their attention to his face. He hasn't got any scars and he hopes that he doesn't get any. His skin is smooth and is a nice ight tan colour. He isn't fat or too thin, but he has a decent amount of muscle. Although it isn't much muscle he is still proud that he has some.

His regular clothing is a long, open, black jacket, that comes down to about his knees, worn on top of his favourite dark green and black shirt. He wears dark green and black 3/4 trousers, that aren't very short, they are just a bit longer than his jacket, and he wears black and dark green trainers on his feet. He has a dark green coloured shoulder bag, in which he keeps everything he needs, he wears black gloves that dont cover his fingers. Around hs neck he wears a dragon fang necklace

Personality: Drake is a bit of a loner. He doesn't like much company and tries to keep away from large crowds. Despite him being lonely, Drake is quite a cheerful person and can be extremely sarcastic at times. He can also be quite bitter and is easily stressed and frustrated. He always remembers when people help him so that he can later repay them. He is quite skilled in the art of battling but doesn't really like to fight all that much.

History: Drake was born in Blackthorn and, abandoned at the age of 5 and was immediately placed in care. When he was 6 he started to sneak into the Dragon's Den and played with the Dratini there. One day Lance saw him playing with the pokemon and immediately saw his potential with dragon pokemon.

A few weeks after being seen by Lance, Drake was adopted by Clair and was trained to battle and raise dragon pokemon. He was a fast learner and could possibly even defeat Clair. The only thing stopping him is the fact that he has never had a pokemon. When he was 14 Clair announced that Drake was her official Apprentice. As a gift Lance gave him a strange egg, there wasn't much time to celebrate as it was about the time that Team Rocket started theyre invasion. Drake was lucky to escape the Gym without any damage done, Claire on the other hand had lost some of her prized pokemon.

Drake and Clair retreated to the Dragon Shrine and it was there that Drake's egg hatched, it was a Dratini, but there was something different about this one. The Dratini had beautiful Ruby red eyes that could be mistaken for real rubies. Clair was angry with Team Rocket and decided to join the rest of the Gyms to overthrow them. The biggest problem was that Team Rocket had stolen her Pokemon and there was a limited choice of trainers who had any. That's when she turned to Drake, she told him that if he did this then he would be able to battle her once she get's her pokemon back, and if he wins, he would become the new Gym leader. Drake agreed thinking that it'd be quite easy getting to be an admin. As a parting gift Clair gave him a Friend ball in which he would hold his newly hatched Dratini.

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Name: Helena Gray
Age: 15
Apprentice: Flannery's
Starter: Chimchar (Voldemort)
Appearance: At first sight Helena might look like a little angel. She's small for her age, not being any bigger than 5'3. She is also very thin with long and slender limbs. Puberty has been very kind to her through the years, her skin has never had severe attacks of acne and her body has developed some nice curves.
Her face itself is a bit on the small side. She has a true doll-face complete with a button nose. Her eyes are a bit on the big side, being one of the rare things about her that is big. They're very light gray, there is no almost no blue to be found in the iris. Even though she is blonde her eyebrows and eyelashes are a light shade of brown.

As just mentioned her hair is blonde. Her locks are honey blonde in colour and her hair is very thin and wavy. Her bangs are straight but very thin, not the thick kind that covers her entire forehead. There are just a few strands on her forehead, usually pushed aside a bit. The rest of her hair grows to a few cm over shoulder length. It starts more straight but the longer it goes the more heavy the waves get. She sometimes ties her hair into two ponytails over her shoulders and other times she just lets it go. There is always a bit of hair over her shoulder, it never likes to stay completely on her back.

Helena likes to dress in a girly matter. She likes puffy blouses and dresses. Her ordinary outfit consists of a bright orange tanktop with hibiscus flowers printed on it. Over that she wears a loose white blouse with puffy sleeves and buttons. Depending on the weather it is either open completely, somewhat buttoned or completely buttoned up. The blouse itself is slightly see-through so there will always be some orange showing through.
Under that she wears light grey shorts, showing quite some of her skinny legs. They are made out of denim material with some white fading. It has some loose threading and is quite worn, but it's her favourite pair of shorts.

Also with her, in her bag, is a short and dark denim skirt and a bright red sweated made out of wool with a wide boat neck. Along with those two pieces of clothing is a large blue shirt that almost comes down to her knees that she uses as pyjamas and a white and black two-piece swimsuit.

On her feet she normally wears teal low top Converse for comfort. Also stiffed inside her bag is a pair of comfortable black ballet flats with a single strap over the foot.
This infamous bag is a stylish brown and tan messenger bag. She keeps all her stuff in this and is completely in love with it. One of its best features is that you can choose to drape it across the shoulders or just on one side. It has a multitude of pockets sewn all over the place, made by Helen herself, because she didn't think it had enough. These pockets are made of bright colours and totally not match the actual colours of the bag, but it just makes her love it even more.

Accessory wise Helena doesn't wear that much. She sometimes chooses to wear an orange headband in her hair to keep it out of the way when it's not tied. When it is tied, she wears bright red ribbons around the bundle of hair, tied in a neat bow. There's also a rhinestone necklace in the shape of a snowflake that is almost always tied on her neck. Above that is an orange ribbon with a little silver bell on it that is tied almost like a choker.

Personality: Helena, at first glance, seems to be a little doll. She's somewhat happy-go-lucky in her own way, her default expression being a smile. But she's got a temper worth mentioning. She likes to joke and tease people and make them smile. She's quite ditzy, seeing her trip over something as trivial as a little branch is not an uncommon sight. This leaves her to have a special little red pocket sewn onto her bag especially for band-aids and the like. No really, she needs it. She has bundles of energy, and these bundles will always find a way to bubble to the surface. She rushes into things without thinking because of this, and is often seen getting herself into trouble by running after things she shouldn't run after.


She can also be a bit clingy. If Helena finds someone that she really likes, she'll follow them until they tire her and then she goes off into another direction. She's really a bit childish sometimes, and should definitely be more careful with a lot of the things she does. She has one of those mentalities that a lot of teenagers have, that nothing could possibly really harm them. She doesn't see why some things are dangerous at all, while someone else might be 'duuuur' about it.


Helena is definitely easily angered. She is especially easy to take something to the offense, and then quickly becomes agitated. When she is mad, her reaction has a great range of possibility, depending on the person, what they did and how much she really dislikes them. She could simply ignore them, shoot them down with every opportunity or start a full-out swear-war. And you really don't want the last one. When things start going wrong, when things start to get out of her hands, she'll become even more irritated. She'll just be in a bad mood, because she hates it when things stop being predictable. She's a bit OCD like that. She needs things to be predictable, to be in hand. When they get out of hand, she gets agitated and annoyed and even a little scared. Really, though, she's a control freak.


When describing Helena, prideful is definitely a word you want to use. She has great pride, and she hates lowering herself. She doesn't like apologizing for something she did wrong, and will not often do so. She would much rather just keep looking for outings and reasons why, in the end, she was right anyway. Hurting her pride would get you a one-way ticket to the black list inside her head. Lucky that grudges really aren't her thing, or you'd really be screwed.


Battle-wise, the little doll with a temper turns serious. Helena likes to go straight on, like she does with everything. There isn't often room in her strategies for non-damaging moves, she would much rather just go ahead and attack. This is also her weakest point, something she must still learn. Overall Helena is a girl that looks very carefree and simple on the outside, but actually hides many a layer. One for her temper, one for her control issues, one for her pride and there will always be more. For someone who doesn't like things to be unpredictable, she's very unpredictable herself.


History: Helena grew up in the quiet little town of Lavaridge. The town itself was very hard to reach, so there weren't many people living there, and tourism was pretty much dead except for the trainers that came to the gyms. She was born to a family of 5, having an older brother, twin brother and younger sister, her parents ran a small inn right by the hot springs that didn't really attract a whole lot of clientele. But they got by enough, even if the kids had to help out daily with the chores.


Helena had always been the angel of the family, with her golden hair and adoring smile, especially as a child. She loved her big brother Edgar, was almost the same person as her twin Paris, even though they weren't identical twins at all. She didn't really like her younger sister, Aria, though, feeling slightly jealous for the baby that got all the special attention now, but she tolerated her. These early years of her life were the best.


With the coming of the Gym, the life in the town got a lot busier. Suddenly costumers from all over the region wanted to stay at the Black Duck Inn to enjoy the incredible hot springs, business was going very well. Suddenly there were far more people than there were rooms, which called for renovations and additions. The small family business suddenly grew into a huge booming business. Actual staff was hired and the children didn't need to help anymore. They found themselves with way too much free time.


Edgar decided to become an actual employee in the inn and help out full-time, since he graduated school and had little interest in Pokémon, unless they helped him cook today's meal. Helena and Paris found that they didn't know what to do after school now. And that was when they heard about Flannery looking for apprentices to train. Flannery was new to gym leading then and she had no one to train, but she did know that leaders usually had apprentices. Helena was definitely interested and dragged a doubting Paris with her to the gym to apply. They were both eleven then, but got accepted without much ado.


Paris soon showed himself to be an adept trainer, he had natural talent for strategies and he instinctively knew what the weakness of certain Pokémon were. Helena had a much harder time. She always used offensive techniques and hit spots that the opponent was practically immune to. She felt more and more like a failure while Flannery really wondered if anything would ever become of her. The leader set up private training with both her and her brother, trying to get Helena to learn from her brother's successes. Slowly but surely she got better, but it was very slowly. She still didn't have her own Pokémon though, she just used the gym's stored ones. Flannery really didn't think that it would be a good idea for her to get one yet.


Then came both Helena's and Paris' fourteenth birthday, the day Paris received his own Pokémon, but Helena didn't. She had been hopeful, Helena had made a lot of progress, she had somewhat learned the uses of defensive moves and the likes. She had even managed to look at a Pokémon and guess where it's weak point would be. Now, guesses weren't always right, but it was more than what she used to do, blindly make her Pokémon attack random points. So while Paris received his brand spanking new Houndour, Helena received an little white and red premier ball. Flannery explained that when the time came, she would receive her first Pokémon in that ball, and put it on a shelf in the gym.


Another year came and went. Paris went out to catch some new Pokémon and challenge gyms while Helena stayed in Lavaridge and trained as hard as she could in the Gym. A few days before her birthday Paris came back, having travelled through Hoenn and picked up 5 badges before he failed to defeat Winona and had come back. He had an impressive team now, the powerhouse being his enormous Houndoom, even though it was closer to a tame Growlithe in personality. He also had a Kirlia and a Dewgong to add to his team. Helena had mixed emotions over his return, she had loved to see him again, but also she felt jealous. He came with wonderful stories and with shiny badges and finds, while Helena came only with some tellings of how her training was going better, and how she was progressing. Her birthday came, and she eagerly visited Flannery again, but once again she only got that same Ball.


Agitated about this, Helena marched out of the Gym and headed for the mountain. She climbed up over the steep ridges for a bit before getting so tired she couldn't go further. She sat there, panting, and when she had cooled down a bit, and went to climb back, she got a fright trip. Looking over the edge she saw that it was very steep, more so than it had seemed coming up. She panicked and curled up on her ridge, waiting for someone to notice where she had gone. The night was falling and it was getting really warm, she was shivering when a sound come from down the mountain. Her brother was calling her name.


She called back frantically, and before she knew it his Houndoom was there to help her down. With the Pokémon's help she got down safely and got home. The little trip had caused her to feel the wrath of a worried parent, and a very nasty illness called the flu. She couldn't go down to the gym for two weeks, where she was both sick and grounded. When she did return, she found Flannery in a frenzy. She was talking to her oldest brother about something she didn't fully understand. Something about Hoenn not helping Johto out when their need was greatest. And then a mixture of angry swearing, calling people cowards and some more of that dramatic stuff. This was when Helena decided she could wait one more day to come back. Angry Flannery frightened her.


The next few days went as they always had, until that time when Flannery took Helena aside. She explained to her in a heated manner about the condition of Johto. She had been contacted by someone about the resistance and their plans, had talked about it with other leaders here, but they had refused saying that they needed their trainers by their side in this war. Some more angry comments ensued, but she then came back to the real deal. Helena was to travel to Johto as unnoticed as possible. She was to take the Rocket challenge, and help to take them out with the other ones chosen by the Johto gyms. And also, to Helena's delight, Flannery produced the little white and red ball, and released a little fire-monkey. Helena already loved him and affectionately called him Voldemort.


Reason you were chosen: Flannery would never tell Helena this, but the reason she was chosen to go was because Paris declined. She had asked him to go at first, but he didn't think it to be a good idea, and wanted to stay here. Helena, no matter her flaws, was honest and knew where her heart lay. Flannery knew there was very little chance that the girl would actually join Team Rocket was she given the chance, and it was also a chance for her to learn. Since Helena was also the one who has stayed in her Gym the longest, Flannery knows her through and through, and she is the one, besides Paris, that she trusts most.

Extra: Helena tends to have an unhealthy obsession with literature. This shows in her naming her Pokémon like characters of books, and maybe in a bit of an unusual matter. She wasn't kidding when she named Chimchar Voldemort. Not at all.

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