Pokemon choice: Flygon
Character name: Tess
Gender: Female (hence the name)
Age: 15
Description: Tess is a smaller than average, green, dragon like Pokemon. The majority of her body is a shade of light green, on her head is a forked crest that is a darker shade of green, she has two, three toed hands with long claws, and diamond shaped wings, which are light green and rimmed with red. Her neck is long, and her body is rather pear shaped, but still slender. Her upper legs have a darker green spot on the top of each of them, and her feet are darker green at the toes, making it appear as if she is wearing slippers of some sort. Her tail is long and tapered, with thick bands of darker green at intervals along the entire length of her tail. At the end of her tail is a fan shaped growth divided into three sections, each diamond shaped, with the coloring being the same as her wings. Her eyes are dark and covered by a red, transparent shield, and she has a long scar along the length of her neck from a past accident.
Personality: Though Tess is lacking in size, her intelligence makes up for it. She is a quick thinker, able to quickly comprehend something, such as the situation that she's in, even as everyone's still standing around, dazed. However, due to her smaller size, she can easily be defeated if she goes against a larger Pokemon using brute strength, and for that reason, she avoids using strength, instead battling by using strategies and the higher speed that comes with her smaller size. Tess can also be extremely curious, when something catches her interest, she just has to find out more about it. More often than once, her curiousity has gotten her into some degree of trouble, and through those experiences she has learned to be more cautious. Most of the time, Tess is pretty solitary, though she isn't exactly a mean Pokemon either, she likely will still act at least politely to you even if she doesn't like you, though she has a way of telling Pokemon that she doesn't like them even when she's acting politely towards them. Tess also rarely gets angry, which is a good thing, because when you really do reach the end of her very slow burning fuse, she'll pretty much attack you head on, usually without warning, showing the strength that she is capable of, but which only shows when she does get angry. However, she is bitter towards other Flygon, and will attack another Flygon without warning.
History: Tess wasn't exactly born in Forina, she was kind of abandoned there as an egg, and somehow hatched. As a result, she has no recollection of her parents, though, due to the fact that she never had any parents, it has never really affected her that much. She lived with a group of Flygon for most of her life, and inside the group, they pretty much took care of each other, and it was from living with the group of other Flygon that she learned to take care of herself as well as others. Being one of the group of Flygon, she also heard and learned their tales and legends. One popular one that was told often was of five Pokemon, a Pinscir, a Marill, an Absol, a Raichu, and a Flareon, all of whom gave their lives to save the Pokemon, as well as to reclaim the world, so that it once again belonged to the Pokemon. Although the other young Flygon listened with interest, Tess was the only one who wanted to become a legend like those Pokemon, and she began voicing her dreams. However, the group of Flygon didn't like it, including the other young Flygon, and she kept her dreams to herself for a few years. A few years later, though, she began to pick up on her old dream again, and the Flygon attacked her, driving her from the group wounded, it was in that attack that she sustained the scar upon her neck, which came from a nearly fatal wound. She learned to survive on her own, and has been training day after day in order to sharpen and hone her skills, that was how she learned to live, until one day when she crossed paths with the very Flygon that had iniflicted the near-fatal wound that remained as a scar upon her neck, who recognized her the moment he saw her. Almost without warning, they attacked each other at the same time, though, in her anger, Tess managed to win, and drove him away from that area of Forina, an area well away from where the group of Flygon she was exiled from lived. Since then, she has resumed her training, and upon hearing of the Deoxys, her training as intensified, as she remembers the legend of the five Pokemon whose sacrifice earned them one of the highest positions in legend, and who showed courage beyond courage, and Tess hopes to be able to do the same.
Rp sample:
“Well, this map says that we have to travel through Petalburg Woods to get to Rustboro City…” Shaun said, yawning. They had only gotten up a few moments ago, and still had not fully awakened, or at least, their senses seemed to have been dulled. Her eyes were still heavy with sleep, she had not slept well last night, but then, she had never slept too well. Her mind was simply just too active, and she stayed awake late into the night, thinking about subjects and things that would never even be important in her life, about things that she would never need to know about, or to know. Strange as if was, it was a fact, and, the way it went in her book, facts did not change. So far, the fact that she was almost always kept awake late into the night because of her stupid mind and brain or whatever had not changed yet. Though, come to think of it, Shaun realized that she felt more awake all of a sudden, now that she had gotten thinking about what made a fact.
More awake, at least, than Electrike, who seemed to have dozed off next to her, and Poochyena, who was letting out occasionally sleepy growls as it continued to hover somewhere between being half-asleep and being half-awake. Weren’t they the same things though? Half-asleep and half-awake? Half-asleep means that you’re not quite asleep, you’re somewhat aware of what’s going on around you, but its all fuzzy, and you can’t quite comprehend what anyone else is saying, or what you happen to be saying at the moment, for that matter. Shaun said to herself, and half-awake means that you’re not quite awake, still half in sleep, but you’re at least conscious and somewhat alert, though not really. Well then, I guess they really are the same things, or nearly.
By the time she had finished with deciding whether half-asleep and half-awake meant the same thing or not, both her Pokemon were fully awake and ready to start their journey through Petalburg Woods. More ready than she was, at least, as her mind was still on the terms “half-asleep,” and “half-awake.” Funny how these two terms could have her thinking for a full ten or so minutes, when most people, when asked the question “do you think half-asleep and half-awake mean the same thing?” Would reply, “yeah, sure, whatever.” And continue on with their day.
“Great! Now we can start the day, right guys?” She shook herself from her thoughts and stood up, rather more cheerful and perky than she usually was, like those stupid cheerleaders on TV, who always wore fake smiles and an expression of bland cheeriness. It made them all sort of…blend together, until it was pretty much impossible to tell them apart and they all kind of melted together into one big picture. That was how it looked to Shaun, that was how it had always looked. But no more on that matter. She could feel herself falling into deep thought once more, and was reluctant to hold her and her Pokemon back any more. She had probably made them wait long enough while she thought about…
Anyways, Shaun thought firmly to herself, we’d better get some food and get going, I bet Electrike and Poochyena would agree. Her Pokemon were already being led away, looking like they weren’t quite sure what was going on, by a Chansey that had nothing better to do and figured it would pass the time showing Shaun and her Pokemon where to eat. Shaun already knew where she could get some food, of course, but followed behind patiently as the Chansey led them into a room with a handful of sleepy looking trainers. Sitting them down, it rushed away to make some food.
After eating, though Shaun had to admit the food tasted slightly odd, especially the pancakes, which tasted a little too salty for her taste, though she didn’t say so, for fear of hurting the Pokemon’s feelings. Electrike, walking beside her, as it enjoyed traveling through forests, and Poochyena, in its Pokeball, had both gagged slightly as the Chansey prompted them to sample the Pokemon Food that it had concocted from a recipe that seemed as if it had made up on the spot after they were finished with the prepared food that they had been given, though neither of them made a negative comment.
As they entered the Petalburg Woods, the air immediately became cooler. Overhead, branches crisscrossed and the weak morning sunlight filtered in through the leaves. In the morning, the forest was beautiful, with an almost otherworldly feel, and Shaun shivered, though she wasn’t cold. Electrike seemed to love it in the forest, however, and it had a certain skip in its step as it led the way down a mossy path, and Shaun had to run in order to keep and keep from losing sight of Electrike in the leafy undergrowth. As soon as she had caught up, a rustling in the trees caught her attention, and she saw a strange Pokemon resembling a Pinecone in the tree branches right above them. She had never seen a Pokemon like that, but before she could get a good look at it, it had disappeared. Shaun gazed at the spot for another few seconds, before she shrugged and walked on, following Electrike.
Sample taken from The Epic Challenge: Hoenn Region
Created by Dark_Link12
Character: Shaun Alexander
Played By: Me, duh
♠ Brother // Lusankya ♠ Theme Credit // Myself/Elektrisch ♠
Featuring // Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel