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⊱ Carly Cole . ithiel . gym leader . 20 . 5'10 . 25/12/91


⊱ Finnigan Black . taranis . traveller . 23 . 5'11 . 19/07/89


⊱ Elizabeth Nightingale . oberon . traner . 15 . 5'4 . 08/04/97

[Cai]

Trainer Elizabeth Nightingale
of Oberon Town

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Lizzy - 15 - Female

Place of Residence
Oberon Town, but currently travelling

Occupation
Pokémon Trainer

Preferred Pokémon
All-rounder

Sexuality
Heterosexual

Relationship Status
Single

Family
Charles Nightingale - father - 47 - Oberon Town
Helene Nightingale - mother - 38 - Oberon Town
Leo Nightingale - brother - 20 - lives abroad
Charlotte Nightingale - sister - 11 - Oberon Town
Anna Nightingale - sister - 8 - Oberon Town

Appearance
elegant, pale, well-dressed, aristocratic, chestnut hair, hazel eyes

Elizabeth is a slightly built girl with a naturally pale complexion. Her overall appearance is one of high breeding and aristocratic delicacy, but as she is no longer in the cool, dark home her parents have in Oberon Town, she is becoming less well groomed and slightly more tanned, ruffled and ordinary looking. She still dresses in finery, her parents having provided her with plenty of clothing and money for supplies, but her travels have left her fine garments a bit frayed at the edges. She often wears expensive 1960s style dresses with the prim, curved dolly collar, and even when it is very hot outside she is covered shoulder to wrist with long sleeves and waist to thigh in opaque tights.

Elizabeth is quite pretty in a rather waifish, statue-like way, her thick chestnut hair naturally wavy and long, though she usually keeps it twirled up in neat half-buns. Her eyes are a matching hazel, a peculiar shade which appears to shift in hue depending on the light. She is not tall, standing around 5'3, but she may yet have a couple of inches to grow before she reaches full height. Her limbs are proportionally long, though, and she has spindly long legs and bony elbows. Her weight is always kept low both by a naturally high metabolism and a lack of interest in food, so Elizabeth has a fairly boyish figure and a willowy frame. Her expression often borders on cold and detached, her early upbringing leaving her with a stoic external repression of her internal feelings, and it is difficult to tell what she is thinking from her outward appearance.

Personality
stoic, determined, brave, repressed, isolated, resentful, cautious, sly

Elizabeth has been instilled with a stiff upper lip mentality since birth, and because of that she utterly refuses to show any sign of weakness. She is gritty, stony and steadfast, allowing no one else to look out for her because she thinks she doesn't need it. Left in the care of a governess as a child, she is prim and proper as well as very well spoken, but she is also fairly cold and detached from other people her age. She has few friends and keeps herself to herself, though one suspects that deep down she is desperately in need of some kind of emotional contact to combat the repression of her childhood.

By nature Elizabeth is wary and cautious, never throwing herself into anything before she knows exactly where she'll land. She is surprisingly resourceful for someone who had been raised in privilege, and she is admirably self-sufficient. However, being waited on hand and foot has left her with a weaker wilderness survival sense and a below average ability to fend for herself, which makes her new trainer life difficult at times. Sleeping rough, travelling long distances and battling hard weather are the biggest challenges for Elizabeth, who is unused to such discomfort. She is fiercely determined, however, and refuses to give up even when things are deeply unpleasant. She is also a brilliant strategist and has been highly trained in the art of battle, which is her strongest area.

History

Elizabeth Nightingale was born into privilege and wealth as the eldest daughter of Charles and Helene Nightingale, rich property developers living in a large house in Oberon Town. Her mother was only eighteen when she married her father, a man nine years her senior, and she was pregnant within a month of marriage. Their first son was born in the October of that year, a boy whom they named Leo. Elizabeth's father, an old-fashioned man still living as if it were the 1950s, was very pleased to have a male heir to his estate already, and in his view Helene's wifely duty was essentially already fulfilled. However, a few years later Charles wanted a second son to help with the business, so he and his wife tried for more children, but unfortunately for him, no sons were forthcoming and they had three daughters in a row, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Anna.

The household was run in an antiquated aristocratic manner. The children were left to the care of household staff, only seeing their parents on formal occasions and for meals. The children were left to amuse themselves most of the time, though Leo quickly grew too old for such games and Charles hauled him into learning his expertise as soon as he was old enough to read and write. As a result, Elizabeth was left alone for much of the time during her early childhood since Charlotte was an infant while Leo wasn't around. When she turned six, however, Charles had been influenced by an even more affluent friend of his whose son and daughter were on Pokémon journeys and were rising stars in the trainer scene. Thus Charles decided that a better course of action would be to occupy his daughters with Pokémon and send them off for character building experiences. He had Elizabeth undergo intensive, top class education in Pokémon theory, strategy and training, set on the idea of her becoming a master trainer in the region.

As a result, Elizabeth's childhood was consume by her training, which left no room for play. Her teachers were hugely strict and demanding, and her education was gruelling, challenging and exhausting. She became a master at type advantages and evolution types before she hit puberty, and her head was full of only Pokémon knowledge. Charlotte, on the other hand, did not join the school until she was eight, and hated it so much she cried constantly and learnt nothing, such that the educators despaired and sent her home in disgrace. Elizabeth carried on, her mind so indoctrinated towards the goal of becoming a Pokémon master that she didn't think of much else. In the meantime, Leo had grown sick of being bullied and controlled by his father and went to school in Ithiel City, before going on to university outside Caligo. Charlotte and Anna remained at home.

At fifteen, Elizabeth was deemed ready to leave the school and went back home briefly. Her father, with whom she had never had any real relationship, severely ordered her to choose a team of six Pokémon from the family supplier, but Elizabeth was resolute. She did not wish to have Pokémon bestowed upon her by her family, nor did she want ready-made champions. Her father was angry, calling her ungrateful for the money he had poured into her training. Sullenly Elizabeth was made to take her starter, which proved quickly to be a poor match for her. The Beldum was selected for its high power and potential, but it did not recognise her as its rightful trainer and the two had a disharmonious relationship. Charles, annoyed by her obstinacy, told her to either go out and prove she could catch her own strong Pokémon within two days, or to take the other five provided for her.

Elizabeth then went out in a desperate search for Pokémon to prove herself, searching high and low on the island. However, she had great difficulty controlling the Beldum and as a result could not weaken those that she found in order to catch them. The two days passed quickly in a storm of frustration for her, and in the end she had to trail home having caught only two Pokémon, a small Taillow and, to her great shame, a Magikarp. Elizabeth's father roared with laughter when she reluctantly presented her team to him, and she burned with embarrassment as he derided her abilities, declaring her eight years of study a complete waste of his money.

With that, he dismissed her, and Elizabeth was left to take her small team and go without any fanfare or any additional help from her family. Her mother intervened at the last minute to tell her not to go and that she wasn't ready and her father didn't mean what he said, but Elizabeth knew she didn't want to stay in Oberon any longer. She left home and set off on her Pokémon journey since she had no other prospects, what with her father's distaste for his daughters.

Three months later, she's scraping by, still on her own.

Other

• Elizabeth is a horrible cook. Like, truly terrible. She cannot cook. She's never had to in the past, so she can barely feed herself while travelling.
  
• She doesn't get along with her Beldum, but she is very defensive about her Taillow and Magikarp as she loves them fiercely because they were the product of her own hard work.
  
• Elizabeth has a lot of money but it's running out fast since her father isn't providing anything and she's been flying solo for a while.
  

Party Pokémon

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Beldum	Taillow ♀	Magikarp ♂
Lvl 16	Lvl 13	Lvl 15
Take Down - - - -	Peck Growl Focus Energy Quick Attack Wing Attack	Splash Tackle - - -

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RP Sample

A bellow of unkind laughter reverberated in the high-ceilinged, echoey front hall. Elizabeth's cheeks burned, her hands hanging by her sides as she clutched the empty Pokéballs.

"A pathetic runt of a bird and a fish, Elizabeth?" her father sneered, eyeing the two forlorn Pokémon huddled together on the floor. "This is what you call catching your own Pokémon?" He looked at his eldest daughter with disdain. "My money was misplaced in sending her to that school, Helene" he snorted, turning to leave. Tears pricking her eyes, Elizabeth snatched up her Pokémon and headed for the front door.

Helene watched her eldest daughter with a stone-faced steadiness, seemingly unaffected by the scene before her. "Elizabeth." she said, and Elizabeth faltered for a moment, her hand frozen on the doorknob. "He does not mean his unkind words. You are simply not ready to travel alone. Come back inside, child; Charlotte and Anna are playing upstairs."

Elizabeth's expression hardened.

"No."

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[Cai]

Traveller Finnigan Black
of Taranis City

Finn . 23 . Male

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Place of Residence

None - travels

Occupation: 

Unemployed

Preferred Pokémon:

Hardy Pokémon

Significant Other:

[]

Family:

Roderick Black - father - unknown location

Esme Stevens - mother - lives outside caligo

Jessica Black - sister - deceased

Judea Devreux - aunt - lives outside caligo

Appearance:

tall, lean, pale, monochrome, washed-out, long limbed, shadowy, stony

At nearly six feet tall but built like a wiry young tree, Finn has a strange yet unclassically beautiful appearance. He is astoundingly washed-out looking, his pallor, near white-blond hair and grey-blue eyes creating a striking image, if not necessarily in line with conventional male beauty. His hair is usually over-long and hovering in his eyes while his clothing, limited in range, is immaculate, suggesting a certain fastidiousness despite the nature of his existence. Dressing in black more often than not, Finn adds to his monochrome appearance on most days with a black leather coat, a simple shirt and dark jeans, though he has a few scant changes of clothes which he carries in a leather pack. 

Finn's light grey eyes are wide-set in a handsomely sculpted face with defined cheekbones, a very straight nose and strong brow, commonly seen furrowed in a slight frown. To many, particularly young teenage girls, he is an attractive young man, even if there's something just slightly odd about his appearance. The way he carries himself, the strange colouration, and perhaps even a sense of coldness, since he almost never smiles or shows any obvious sign of affection, make Finn an unusual sight to behold. He is easy to compare to a figure cut out of alabaster since he looks so stony, unaffected and bleak. He also has a voice like cool metal, measured and with an ever-present undercurrent of sarcasm. 

Personality:

scathing, mistrustful, grudging, tough, resourceful, empathetic, protective. 

A self proclaimed loner, Finn usually avoids people and people avoid Finn. He is not friendly, cheerful or welcoming and his reaction to the strangers he meets is usually walk away. It's not that he doesn't know how to act around them; indeed he actually possesses a quick wit and sharp tongue that can be both deeply humorous and cruelly cutting. It's simply that Finn has no wish to be around people due to an innate suspicion and cynicism that means he doubts people, prefers to manage alone and ultimately is afraid to be close to anyone lest he end up getting hurt. The only things he allows himself to become close to are his Pokémon, since their loyalty has never failed him. 

Apart from that Finn does very well on his own as he's a clever, resourceful and streetwise young man capable of solving virtually all problems that come his way without needing anyone's help. He's usually strapped for cash since he's got no steady source of income, but he's a mean blackjack player and, though he keeps it on the down low for obvious reasons, he's a light-fingered pickpocket. When he gets really desperate for money, however, he's not above seducing his way into a bed for the night or a meal in the evening. Chances are he'll hate himself before dawn and be gone by morning, but he knows what he has to do to survive.

Had things been different in Finn's life, he might have been a very kind, dependable person since by nature he's empathetic and essentially a good person. He wants to help the weak and the downtrodden, but too often his pragmatism and sense of self-preservation push him to avoid getting involved or attached anywhere.

History: 

"You're a disgrace, Esme. Your bastard won't be welcome here"

On a muggy summer's day in a run-down area of Taranis City, a twenty-two year old woman fetched her neighbour as she went into labour, eventually giving birth to a son that evening. The child was that of her partner, a man called Roderick who was seventeen years her senior and notoriously fond of his drink. The woman, Esme, was shunned by her very religious family for having had a child out of wedlock while Roderick, a rough back-alley trader, possessively kept her and their newborn son in their ramshackle two-room home almost twenty-four hours a day. It was a difficult life.

The baby boy was named Finnigan Black, and the gloomy room with the peeling paint in which Esme Stevens gave birth to him was to foreshadow an equally grim life about to begin. Family life in the Black household was not easy: Roderick drank what he earned and shouted every time Esme raised her concerns over the family's near-poverty state. She and Finn were at home doing nothing all day long because Roderick refused to allow her to do anything, but he wasn't bringing enough in to support both his drinking habit and the family. As such, the first five years of Finn's life were not good.

"I'm Amy. Amy Westwood." 

Finn went to school when it became legally necessary, but disliked it from the beginning. Teased because of his shabby dress and underdeveloped skills, Finn was isolated even at a young age. Meanwhile, Roderick continued to drink himself into a stupor while Esme fell pregnant once again when Finn was seven and gave birth to a baby girl, Jessica. Finn felt an instant protectiveness over his little sister and ended up taking care of her more often than not, since Esme was fast-fading while Roderick drank himself into continuous rages. 

However, in his third year of school, things got a little better for Finn. A girl moved from Port Saint Kitts to Finn's district in Taranis over the summer, and she began attending the same school as him. That girl's name was Amy Westwood, and she was little, bright and generous of heart. She had light brown curls and bright green eyes and freckles all over her nose, and though her family was hard-up too, she was somehow free from that downtrodden air of poverty that clung to Finn and his mother, perhaps because, money aside, hers was a very happy and loving family. 

"I promise we'll always find our way back to each other"

From that first day in school when Amy approached Finn, all smiles and sea green eyes, they became friends. She was his confidante, too, and the only one at school who knew what went on at home. Finn was closed off to everyone else - teachers, other children, his parents - but with Amy he was free to be himself. This made the next few years of Finn's life bearable; whenever he could he would sneak out and visit Amy and her family at her modest but cosy home, or on rarer occasions she would climb up the drainpipe and slip in through his window to visit him.

All that was the silver lining in Finn's life, but it didn't last forever. When he and Amy were eleven, her father got a job elsewhere in Caligo. The summer of his twelfth birthday saw her disappear from his life, her home all packed up into a truck and her green eyes full of tears as she said goodbye. She scribbled down her new address for him but neither of them had any means to keep in contact and that was it. Finn never saw Amy again, and would harbour a desperate hope of finding her again all his life. 

"You did this! You killed the most innocent thing any of us knew!"

The ensuing years, now lacking Amy's moderating influence, saw Finn's descent into delinquency and violence. He fought at school, joined a street gang and got expelled from school by the time he was fourteen. He fell out with his mother and fought so often with his father that one day Roderick threw him against a wall so hard that he splintered the plaster. After that, Finn swore he'd leave home, but the only problem was Jessica. Finn knew his mother was incapable of caring for her, as she had deteriorated mentally and physically over the wearying years, but knew he couldn't bring her with him. But one day, when Finn was out, Roderick got very drunk. He started to beat Esme, but when Jessica tried to get him to stop, he pushed her aside and she fell down the stairs. Finn didn't find out until he was by her hospital bed. The fall had been fatal. 

No one could prove Roderick had done it but Finn realised this was it. The next day, he went out, fetched the money he'd got from various illegal sources and hauled Esme and a bag of their things out with him. Together they ran, heading for Port Saint Kitts and when they reached it, he put her on a boat headed for the Johto region, where Esme had a long-estranged sister. Finn left his mother there, too embittered to want to stay with her. He knew none of their blighted life had actually been her fault, but he couldn't help but blame her for Jessica's death.

"I'm accountable to no-one from now on. Forever." 

From that day on, Finn lived as a traveller. He started raising Pokémon when he caught a lone Misdreavus in an abandoned ruined house he spent a night in, and as soon as he had the money he travelled to Kepa City in search of Amy's new address, but when he got there he found she'd moved again, and nobody knew where she was now. He spent some months searching for her, and never stopped hoping she would turn up one day. But as the search went on, Finn's hopes faded, and resigned, he simply started to survive. He stole, sold and battled for money, finding the underground Pokémon battle circuit was fairly lucrative, if brutal. He added a young Buizel to his team at age sixteen, and at that point he discovered that young teenage girls, taken with his looks, were prime targets for valuable objects and free food. Self-loathing came with this low technique, but Finn did what he had to to get by. 

Six years later, he's still doing just that, and the notches on the bedpost are countless. But throughout it all, Amy has never been far from his mind.

Other: 

Party Pokémon:

Misdreavus ♀	Buizel ♀
Lvl 19	Lvl 18
Confuse Ray Astonish Psywave Spite	Swift Water Gun Pursuit Quick Attack

RP Sample:

"I'm not staying, Mother". 

A long pause elapsed. Esme, her eyes too big in her hollowed-out face, looked back at her son, and the look that passed between them was just the same in both sets of ghost-grey eyes. She smiled a bittersweet smile, but it was as if he was simply confirming she'd known all along. Finn set his jaw.

"Please, just... look after yourself. I'll... I'll stay in contact". He waited, but there was no reply and he stood, shifting from foot to foot, wondering whether Esme was in one of her trance-like phases again. He contemplated just picking up his bag and going. But at last his mother raised one frail hand and touched his hair, tracing his cheek.

"I've never done a very good job looking after you, have I?" she murmured. Finn's brow creased.

"None of it was your fault," he muttered.

"I should've been stronger than I was." She squeezed his hand weakly. "Finn, be safe. I love you."

Another pause. "I know." He looked at her one last time, but he said nothing more. Shouldering his pack, he turned to go. 

"Finn?" He paused. "I hope you find her." With one curt nod, Finn walked out the door of his aunt's house and never looked back.

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Amy Westwood
of Port Saint Kitts

Amy . 23 . Female

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Place of Residence 

Corsair Cove

Occupation 

Unemployed

Preferred Pokémon 

Relationship Status 

Single

Family 

Appearance 

small, pretty, fragile-looking, looks younger than her age, dyed blonde hair, green eyes

Personality 

generous but guarded, kind, wearied, affectionate, warm-hearted, disillusioned, streetwise

History 

born in Port Saint Kitts; moved to Taranis aged seven and befriended Finn Black (read his history for details); dirt poor but a very happy home life. Moved to Kepa aged eleven; moved elsewhere aged 13.

something happened to cause her to lose her family and become homeless and penniless at some point between 14 and 18, resulting in an almost identical lifestyle to Finn's up to the present day (basically doing pretty low and debasing things to earn money); took up permanent residence in Corsair Cove. 

Up to you to flesh out the details!

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Party Pokémon 

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