Post by sun on Jul 27, 2012 11:56:12 GMT -5
Trainer Mika Lynn Saitō
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Ren - Seventeen - Female
Place of Residence
Lacewing Town
Occupation
Preferred Pokémon
Fire types. Their glorious blaze is what mesmerizes her.
Sexuality
Heterosexual, of course.
Relationship Status
As she's always been, single.
Family
Laura Jade Lynn - Mother - Teacher - 48 - Deceased
Connor Stone Saitō - Father - Trainer - 52 - Unknown
Appearance
Despite being skinny and lean, Mika, or Ren as she prefers to be called, has some muscle protruding from her frail figure. While it may be a little stretched in calling it muscle, her everydaychasesruns giver her a few pounds of muscle, but leave her skinnier than before. The balance of nutritional food that is supposed to go with exercise is not something that she has access too, leaving her strong, yet thin. Being a vegetarian may have an affect on her figure as well, but she normally eats bread or nuts. However, even though she is frail, she is lean and tall in size, standing at nearly 5'9", making her as tall as most boys her age, sometimes taller. And with the outfit she wears, hiding her red hair, she can sometimes be mistaken for a boy.
She usually wears a dark hoodie, opposite to her pale yellow eyes, with pale jeans and gray tennis shoes. Those shoes were once white, but had succumbed to the dirty and dust they were worn in. Her hoodie has many pockets, such as the inside where she hides all her Pokeballs. She'll wear that coat even if it's hot outside, making her look quite insane to other people, but she had no other place to store them. Not enough money to spare for a decent pack. However, heat normally does not affect her, since she's handled many fire creatures before, to the point where she was able to approach them without feeling a single degree change. However, this also left her with many burn marks, most of which healed over time, except one. A deep burn mark in her left hand, that cover the entire web. However, she's not mad because of it. In fact, she likes to think of it as a souvenir, for it came from the Pokémon who would soon become her greatest friend.
Personality
While most people take her jokes as rude and arrogant, she really just means somegood, cleanfun. Ever since she was younger, Mika never really had great interaction with other kids, so she doesn't quite understandwhat everyone else's problem is when she tries to tell a jokewhy everyone seems to hate her sense of humor. While it may be dry and dull, she does love to crack a joke every now and then.
Mika is a lone wolf kind of girl. She prefers to keep to herself, and have the rest of the world just ignore her. After all, she's been used to that since she was little, making it a hard quality to change. It would take a really stubborn child in order to bring her out of her crab shell. In all honesty, Mika's just shy. She may rub people the wrong way, but she really doesn't know what to say to them. And whatever she does say, people hate. So she prefers just to not speak at all. Call her hypocritical, but Mika is a very sensitive and reserved girl. Not in the sense that the world is harsh (while that's true), but she wonders why people act the way they do, and why they shun her away. After all, her soul is already quite a fragile thing, but she hides it up pretty well with her bad-girl attitude. A mask hides her sensitivity, and she handles it by replacing it with anger as opposed to sadness.
Mika is truly alone, and has been ever since her mother passed. At first, she didn't want the company of anyone else, just to be alone. She closed off the entire world for five years, refusing to even open the shades of her windows to see who was out there waiting for her. And eventually, they stopped trying. As soon as she opened the door again, no one cared. No one made the effort to know her again after five years, not her teachers or her friends. She was alone truly.
Alright, you may not believe her on this one, but she truly is self-less. She may come off as a selfish and self-centered person, but she does things every now and then for the well-being of others. They may be small things, such as helping someone carrying a large box through a door or helping an old lady cross the street, but she still does these. Of course, nobody ever notices them, but she continues to do them in hopes someone will one day notice her. But Mika, just like probably every other teenage girl, is stubborn. Quite stubborn, in fact. She will usually automatically throw everyone else's ideas out the window before they've even had a chance to explain, mainly because she usually forces the idea into her head that they're bad beforehand.
History
She was just a stay-at-home mom, Laura. Discovering she was pregnant as soon as her husband left the family to tour the region himself. He would never know he'd had a child until he finally returned home, and when would that be? Weeks would stretch into months, and months into years. But Laura decided she could raise the girl on her own, and gave her the name Mika, meaning new moon. Everything Laura did, she hoped her husband would appreciate when he returned home. Mika, being the toddler she was at the time, went on about life without a father, not even caring. But Laura worried if he'd even stay with the family when he found out. Would he be angry? And for what reason: having the child in the first place or missing out in her life? Then again, Connor never wanted kids; he'd thought they'd hold him back from being a trainer. But how would he feel afterwards?
Mika was around three or four years old when she was introduced to her first Pokémon. A Chimchar, a fire type. It was the neighbor's, Mrs. Claudia, who let little Mika experience her first Pokémon. Of course, she cried, terrified of the flames at first. Laura comforted her that night, saying that everything would be alright in the end. That Pokémon weren't her enemies. And about her father. How brave and strong he was, how he was traveling the world and living the dream he wanted to so many years ago. But Mika never really understood him, thinking he just left them out of the blue without caring. Mika never cared for him, despite how well her mother told of him.
Mika was a smart girl for her age, in the first grade. For her, school was a breeze; her mother always said she got that from her father, to which Mika scowled. She wasn't sure if her mother ever noticed her hatred for her disappeared father, but it was evident to almost everyone else, so she assumed so. Yet, her mother kept going on and on about him, like he was the greatest man in the world. If he was, then how come he wasn't there with them, celebrating her birthdays? She was already six years old. He'd missed out for six years already. If he cared, why didn't he come see them?
It was on her seventh birthday that all doubts were wiped away. For graduating the ninth grade, her mother told her she'd received a package in the mail, a gift from her father. Being too young at the time to realize the handwriting was actually her mother's, she accepted the gift in joy that her father actually cared about her, and unwrapped it carefully and slowly, making sure to savor the surprise. When she lifted the cardboard lid off after tearing apart the wrapper, she was amazed to see a young egg inside, recently laid, according to the note. The pattern of the shell was in a blue and red blaze, seeming to just emit heat from the sight of it. Her mother said it was hers to keep, her very first Pokémon. However, since it was just an egg, she said it could take months for it to hatch. Mika was a bit too impatient for that to happen, but excited and anxious for it to hatch. In fact, there was one time where she put the egg on the stove, hoping it would speed up the process. Her mother was terrified, snatching the egg off the pan and accidentally dropping it on Mika, age eight at the time. This was how Mika attained the scar, but despite her mother's frantic calls, she really didn't care. In fact, she thought it was pretty cool. She and her mother were obviously close.
Until the accident.
Her mother died in a thunderstorm. One that should have been harmless. She should have lived. But it was all because Mika wanted to run out and see the lightning. See the blue and yellow flames in the sky. At age nine, she should have been smarter. But she went out, without telling her mother, and had a frantic Laura scrambling for her. What's the percentage for being struck by lightning... what, 0.00003666667%? That sounds about right. It was really stupid. She shouldn't have gone that way. But Laura was at the wrong place, wrong time. And Mika was the one at fault. The one who had to pay the price. She expected her father to come back, after hearing about the accident. But as she waited in the Childhood Adoption Center, he never came for her. And then she remembered... he should have. He sent her that egg. He would have come for her. And then it hit her; Mom lied. He never sent that egg. He probably didn't even know she existed. How could he? Never once did Mika see her father face-to-face. She lied to keep her hopes up. And now she felt even worse. Not to mention the fact that Mika was now scarred for life by lightning. Scared of lightning.
Mika bounced back and forth between foster homes for six years, most of the families complaining about her behavior and reckless attitude. Her favorite family was the Grimstones, and the only reason why was because they helped her to hatch her egg. A Cyndaquil was what came out, smiling at her like he found his mama. He was her only family now, since her mother was dead and her father never knew of her existence. She was just going to have to live with Cyndaquil as the only family left. But when she turned sixteen, Mika was deemed too old for the Adoption Center, and she'd have to live out on her own. Tired of the horrible memories her city left behind for her, she packed up her bags, and with what little money she had on her, bought a one-way ticket to Lacewing Town, where she thought she could start fresh. A clean slate. Instead, she was stuck with the job of a teacher's assistant, living in a cruddy apartment, and held down by her job as her only lifeline.
Other
Party Pokémon
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| Cyndaquil ♂ Blaze | Mienfoo ♀ Regenerator |
| 11 | 11 |
| Ember Smokescreen Tackle Leer | Pound Meditate Detect --- |