Age

15

Gender

Female

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Appearance

Mina is a girl that doesn't stand out too much through her appearance (but rather her personality). She's barely five feet tall and everyone in her family, except for her nine year old sister is a lot taller than her. Her long, soft, chestnut hair falls loose past her shoulders and stops in soft curls along her hips. She'll often braid a couple of her hairlocks in three-part braids and tie pretty red, silk ribbons at the ends. Her round face ends up in a slightly pointy chin and her forehead is always covered by slightly messy bangs that barely reach her top eyelids. Her eyes are neatly outlined by long, thick eyelashes and her thin eyebrows, hidden by her bangs most of the time, sport the same chestnut colour as her beautiful hair. Unlike most her family members that are slightly on the heavy side, due to various reasons (mostly hereditary), Mina is pretty lean and quite frail-looking.

Style-wise, Mina prefers wearing girly outfits and anything that she deems cute or adorable. Her usual outfits consist of knee-length dresses that may or may not have frills and bows on them, short- sleeved cotton jackets that almost always have frilly collars and puffy sleeves. She prefers matching her outfits with pretty-looking flats, but she sometimes goes out of her way and wears sneakers, but only if she's supposed to walk a lot. She always carries around a purple raincoat and matching purple boots for when it's raining and a pink, hand-made, wool scarf can be found stored neatly in a pocket, right next to a few pairs of tights that she wears during winter. An adorable pair of hand-made wool mitts match the scarf she's so proud of.

Her favorite accesories seem to be the various silk bows she ties in her hair and chokers, usually matching her dress colour. She wears no earrings as she often says that they're "utterly annoying and unnecesary" and she rarely hapens to wear any sort of bracelet or ring. She sometimes replaces the silk bows in her hair with a colourful scarf, but only if it's extremely windy or if she feels cold.

For her journey, Mina opted for an adorable pink dress with frills on the front and a white short-sleeved, cotton jacket with a frilly collar and some strings in the front that the girl tied into a pretty bow. The usual red, silk ribbons hold her three-part braids together and a cute pink and red choker is neatly wrapped around her neck. A pair of pink flats with red bows on the front were her choice of footwear, but she neatly packed away, right next to her purple rain boots, a pair of pink and black hiking sneakers. For sleeping purposes, she neatly packed away a pair of long, blue, sweatpants that she matches with a long-sleeved hooded sweatshirt that has adorable Skitty ears on the hood. The backpack she went for is a rather large red hiking backpack with plenty of different pockets, offering her enough room for a couple of changesof clothes, as well as any items she might need in her travels. She handpicked a teal sleeping bag on which she handpainted various Pokemon sleeping and the tent she decided to buy was large enough to fit at least two other people, promptly telling her mother that it's "better to be safe than sorry".

Personality

Mina is an extremely cheerful person. She's quite gullible and easily-impressed, but despite all that, she has great instincts and a keen eye for details and that's what got her out of many sticky situations. She's quite good at beating about the bush, but, at the same time, she's pretty impulsive and she might lose her temper and snap, if the person she's interacting with tries stretching her already thin patience. She can get quite competitive at times and she can be hot-headed. She rarely says no to a challenge and she'll get out of her comfort zone at times, just to try and win.

At times, Mina can be much like a fizzy drink, exploding when you least expect it. She easily gets flustered and angry at the same time, especially if anyone makes any comments on her height or calls her "Shorty" which is a generic, but accurate nickname her family gave her, due to being the shortest in the family.

She loves Pokemon and can't stand seeing them suffer. She'd often bring home stray Pokemon as a kid and get scolded for it, because she used to get so attached to some of them that she'd often outright refuse letting them go once her family found them a loving family or a place to stay.

Mina can be as childish as she looks at times, especially when it comes to food or candy. She's a bit of a glutton and she'll never pass up on any kind of food that looks delicious. She refuses sharing her sweets in particular and she will only do it if the person in question is in such a poor state that she feels bad about them.

Starter Pokemon

Chibi (♀)

• Ember
• Astonish
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• Smog

Short description of your Pokemon's traits and personality

Chibi is a lot like her trainer. She's extremely playful and quite mischievous at times. She's as naive as her trainer and, unlike Mina, she lacks the great instincts and the eye for details. She depends a lot on Mina and can act just like a spoiled child if not given enough attention. She can get quite competitive if another Pokemon seems to be snatching her trainer's attention and would go as far as to sap the life energy out of the "intruder". She has a hard time accepting other Pokemon around Mina, but there's some she instantly feels connected to and that she eventually allows in the presence of her trainer.

Despite being easily impressed and naive, Chibi isn't one to trust strangers and will always retaliate with an attack against every attempt to be handled by anyone other than Mina. That's why, her trainer has to always either be present while Nurse Joy examines her or call the Pokemon back into its Pokeball.

Chibi hates her Pokeball because she fears that Mina might one day forget to call her back out or that she might start prefering another Pokemon over her so, if ever called inside, she'll pop back out and refuse to go back in, choosing to run off and hide for a while, until Mina gives up on trying to call her inside.

Mina allows Chibi to feed off her life energy every once in a while, but the Pokemon feels really bad about it and often refuses to do it, prefering to sneakily sap away some from nearby Pokemon or people.

Roleplay Sample

"I'm off to the Safari Zone, Mom!" Mina shouted excitedly as she slipped into her flats and dashed towards the door.

"Ok then, dear, take care! And don't bring any Pokemon home, you hear me?" her mother shouted from the kitchen. "Be back in time for dinner!"

Mina was already running towards Route 47, right west of town. She loved going at the Safari Zone and watching all the people and Pokemon around. She had been visiting the Safari Zone at least twice a week for the past three years now and all the staff was used to her constant visits. She became so widely known among them that word of the young, regular custommer, reached the Warden's ears so he decided to give her free access into the area whenever she could not afford to pay the entrance fee. She was nice enough to bring everyone Lemonade and Dumplings as thanks whenever she couldn't pay the entrance fee, though, so that made it quite fair for both parties.

As she was making her way along Route 47, clouds started gathering on the sky, slowly, but surely, covering the sun and the wind picked up. The girl started shaking, as the breeze turned colder and wrapped her arms around herself to stay warm. As she went on, the thunder started roaring and she could soon see lightning dashing across the sky. In a matter of minutes, rain started pourring and Mina had to give up on her visit to the Safari Zone and head back home.

As she turned around and was about to start running back home, she heard a faint cry coming from the trees nearby, on Route 48. She stopped in her tracks and listened carefully. The faint cry reached her again and the girl was soon running towards the source. She soon reached what seemed to be the source of the cries but could see nothing. She looked around and carefully listened again.

"Wiiiiick!" the faint cry reached her once again.

This time, she was closer so she immediately realized that the cry was coming from a huge tree to her right. She went over and looked around once more. On the ground, at her feet, she saw a small, white, candle-like Pokemon that looked up at her with its big, yellow eyes. She immediately got on her knees and tried to pick up the Pokemon but it immediately used Smog. It was, however, weak so it was more of a puff than of the actual move, so the pokemon cowered in fear.

Mina gently picked it up and noticed that it had no flame and that it was breathing heavily. She held the Pokemon close at her chest and started running home, holding the small creature close, trying to keep it warm.

The Pokemon looked up, trying to understand the human and not knowing what to expect. It was really scared, but, somehow, it felt safer in the girl's arms than under that tree, in the rain.

Mina reached home faster than it took her to get to Route 48 and pushed the door open, threw her flats off her feet and ran straight to her room where she grabbed a pillow and a blanket and placed them on an armchair, after which she wrapped the Pokemon in the blanket and went to the kitchen to grab some food she could feed it.

Her worried mother decided to follow her, as the girl would not answer any of the questions she'd been asking since her arrival and was extremely upset to find out that her daughter had brought home a Pokemon again.

"Young lady, what did I tell you when you left earlier, huh?" she asked in an angry tone.

"I don't have time for this now, mom, please!" Mina pleaded then sat next to the armchair and tried feeding the weak pokemon before her, but to no avail. It was too weak to eat and too scared to even move.

The girl's mother shook her head and left the room while letting her daughter know that she was disappointed.

Mina ignored her mother's words and tried feeding the Pokemon once more.

"Come on, you can do it!" she encouraged the little creature, but it let out a soft cry and closed its eyes, sighing deeply.

The worried girl dashed downstairs and grabbed the Phone and dialed the number of the Cianwood City PokeLab.

"Hello?" a mild woman's voice spoke on the other end.

"Hello! Professor Lyra?" a worried Mina said between sobs.

"Yes, who is it?" Lyra asked worriedly.

"It's Akimoto Mina. You've got to help me!" the girl said and then rapidly explained what happened.

She knew nothing of the Pokemon she picked up and the only one she dared asking was Lyra, the Pokemon Professor.

"What you have there is a Litwick" Lyra said then read the info she had on it to a concerned Mina that quicky started writing everything down.

After a good 15 minutes, Mina finally knew what to do so she thanked the Professor and ran back to her room. She had found out that Litwick need to feed of life energy for their flame to light up and that it would feel better after doing so. She was scared, but she had no other choice so she softly caressed the creature before her and spoke to it in a soft voice:

"I know you need to feed of life energy to feel better so I'll offer you some of mine. Please, take as much as you need." she pleaded and the weak Litwick looked at the girl, curiosity lurking in its yellow eyes. "Do it, please!" Mina went on and closed her eyes as she mentally prepared for any sort of possible pain.

The tiny Litwick realized that the girl was being serious so it proceeded to sap away at her life energy, just enough for its flame to light back up and for it to feel better again.

A now tired Mina now collapsed next to the armchair, her head resting softly on the pillow, next to the Pokemon she had rescued.

When she woke up the next day, she discovered that she was wearing her pyjamas and was in her own bed, with Litwick watching her closely from the nightstand nearby. The girl was happy that the Pokemon was all better so she ran downstairs to give her parents the good news, only to find out that Professor Lyra had paid them a visit the previous night, explaining the situation to her parents and that they agreed to let Mina keep the Pokemon for as long as she wanted to.

That day, Mina cheerfully asked the Litwick if it wanted to be her partner and friend and, after it said yet, the girl caught it with a Pokeball her mother gave her that the Professor had given them just in case. To Mina's surprise, soon after capture, Litwick popped out of its Pokeball on its own and refused to go back ever since.

The two became the bestest of friends and had been for over two years. In those two years, Mina found out that Litwick was female and decided to nickname her Chibi and, as the two grew closer together, the girl decided that when sheturned 15, she would go on her own pokemon Journey, to discover the mysteries of Johto and meet all sorts of Pokemon.

Now that she had Chibi, her partner, she was ready to take on the world.