Name: Shay Miru
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Appearance: Shay stands at 5’8, weights around 120 pounds. A young female athletic body is hidden under a slate grey hoodie that seems just too big for her, and black slacks with a single white line down the sides of the leg. Even wearing a hood, she wears a faded teal Gatsby hat with a blue tie around it on her head. Her skin is slightly tan, despite the heavy clothing, and is quite the looker in past male views. Her face is calm and flawless, greyish blue eyes seem to glow under her shaded face, giving her that enigmatic ambiance. Should she not be wearing her sweater, underneath is a carmine, form fitting tank top with rune-like markings all over it in a dull red that is just a few shades from the carmine it’s printed on. The popular choices of black fingerless gloves and wrist bands to match are also part of her swag.
Accessory wise, Shay only has three things: a back pack, and a necklace with the rare faded lens sunglasses that she only wears in public. The backpack is a medium sized, worn out school bag that has seen better days. Despite its rugged look, it’s lasted over the years. What was a bright blue is not a faded and washed out cerulean hue, trimmed in grey, having used to have been white. There is frayed fabric in the corner most of the backpack, and few zippers that have stood the test of time hide various carry-on items in their pockets. The necklace is a simple silver chain and a trinket as its main center piece. A pewter S in the shape of a Giratina in origin forme, coiling around itself that Shay received after completing the Dragon’s Den test. Her rarely worn sunglasses are a faded lens in a plum colour, with a darker colouration on top and a much more faded variant towards the bottom of the glass.
Personality: Shay has grown away from people and always around Pokemon, and therefore isn’t much of a people person, that is anyone else that isn’t her family. She acts seemingly cold and arrogant at a first impression, sometimes even ignorant to the person as well; however she isn’t truly like that at heart. Inside is a caring person, though seems to care more for Pokémon than human beings, and won’t hesitate to help someone in need. This impulsiveness however is often followed with her commenting something along the lines of incompetence towards the person she just helped. Her lack of socializing with other people has worn away at her ability to properly talk to a person in most cases, sometimes leaving her to outburst angrily at someone when they poke at something personal either about her or her past. This may also grow to violent tendencies where Shay is not afraid to pin someone up against a wall to get someone off of her back about something, or even someone elses if they dare go that far. Even with that Shay tries to remain as cool and collected as possible at all times, even giving the false hint that she doesn’t care about what others may think. She rarely gets into the business of other people, or society, however when her intuition feels off about something, she investigates. Her intuition is very strong with the natural world and with Pokémon, to a point where she has her own form of communicating with them through understanding of how Pokémon speak.
Underneath the hardened exterior is a very loving person who is incredibly loyal and selfless and would give up her life for a dear friend, though those kinds of friends she does not have many of. Shay isn’t one to talk about herself, and it is incredibly hard to get her to do so. She often feels awkward talking about herself if put in the situation, as it makes her feel self centered and attention hungry. She often distances herself from other people to prevent this sort of interaction and won’t hesitate to do some odd or crazy things to maintain this distance. This applies to her fantastic battling skill, applying and any every possible option to come out victorious or to make an escape. Her daring nature comes in handy with such escapes, willing to dive on her own for a few hundred feet from a certain altitude to lose pursuers and meet up with one of her flying Pokémon once again at a lower altitude. Though she thinks of any and every option to gain a victory in battle, she will not use dishonorable tactics, or fight dirty. However, if it’s her fighting another person, it’s a slightly different story. She is a survivalist, where people may call her a stuck up and well educated country girl, or a ‘hick’. This is not the case, as she prefers nature over civilization, and is self-sufficient thanks to the skills she learned while living in Blackthorn.
Overall Shay is a person that is hard to gain the trust of, but when you do, she makes a wonderful ally. If you don’t though, she makes an incredibly worse enemy.
History: Shay could be described as the trainer her started her journey at the youngest age. This is because she was raised on her parent's Pokemon ranch outside of Blackthorn City. There were always Pokemon all around the massive plot of land and she always got along with them, understood them and interacted with them. Being home schooled all she did was Pokemon activities, trumping any other Pokemon school anyone could think of putting her into. She was always a daring child and it persisted until she was legally allowed to go on a journey by herself. Years before that she traveled around with her father to many of her relative's homes all over the world. On one of these travels she found an abandoned Charmander egg nestled in the rocks of a nearby stream, while hiking with her father's Torterra. She took the egg home and took care of it herself, adamant it was going to hatch and after some months, it hatched into a small, shiny Charmander. Thus her beginnings as one of the most tactful battlers began. Just before she went on her global travels, she took the Dragon's Den test and passed it with good remarks from the elders, and was awarded one of the clan's special Dratini.
For the past nine years she has been traveling the globe, training many Pokemon from each corner of the region, you'd be amazed anyone had that much patience for training. Oddly enough as the years went on, and her team developed, she challenged gyms from all over the world, but never took on the league challenges. No one is sure why she didn't enter for the league, but she has all of her badges to show for her prowess. This has earned her a rumor reputation around the Pokemon world, one of which isn't brought up very often but when it is, she tries to avoid it like the plague. One of these travels involved going to Sinnoh, and its vast mythology enlightened her of Giratina. She understood why that dragon was granted to her on her necklace, as it was one that could change the very shape of the land. It was a misunderstood potential, and she felt it fit her very well. As she traveled around, rumors of the Starr Corporation began to greet her with suspicion. She was glad that they had no foot hold on nature, or out in her home of Blackthorn, but couldn't help but feel something was wrong. Speaking it over with her other immediate family, -that being her Pokemon team- they all agreed investigation was the best possible route.
Pokemon:
Asharas ♀
Air Slash
Roost
Dragon Pulse
Flamethrower
Bryn ♀
Hurricane
Fire Punch
Dragon Rush
Extreme Speed
Riuda ♀
Foul Play
Swagger
Rock Slide
Ice Punch
Cayci ♀
Thunder
Bug Buzz
Energy Ball
Thunder Wave
Seyge ♀
Dual Chop
Low Kick
Shadow Claw
Dragon Dance
Vio-Nai ♀
Surf
Roost
Dark Pulse
Dragon Pulse
Name: Attica Lyre
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Good/Bad/Neutral: Good
Appearance: Attica is a shorter female with long chocolate coloured hair and natural blonde highlights. The length doesn't go past her neck around her face, and the only length of hair she has is often held back in a ponytail. Her eyes are a strong, greenish blue colour. She's only 5'6 and is a medium build that is thin, but to the trained eye, well toned. She wears a dark slate vest over pale green shirts, one a darker evergreen tee over a paler hazelish shirt. She wears bistre coloured pants with one side pocket on either leg, aside from the two hip pockets. She has a messenger bag in cream draped over her left side. Her look is simplistic, as she wears no jewelery aside from a silver bracelet with various Pokemon charms hanging from it. Inside her bag are various tools, such as her books, a harmonica and sparring gloves. She wears thick padded fingerless gloves in a coffee hue on both of her hands.
Personality: Attica is one of the most expressive people you'll ever meet in your life. The way she speaks is very lively and she has a lot of self confidence, but never going so far as to have an ego. She often acts modest whenever credit is due and always is pleasant to those she meets, if they give her a good impression before the first impression. Always civil unless it isn't needed, Attica is fair and gentle in most of the things she does. It's only ever rarely that she gets aggressive, and that is when the time calls for it. As an effective warrior in martial arts, Attica is not afraid to put you flat on your back if you cause her to come to that kind of conclusion. Put under pressure, she thinks quickly and acts fluidly, however her ability to recover from unexpected surprises is not one of her strong points. Stealth also isn't an issue for her as she is naturally silent, even when she isn't trying to be. She is knowledgeable in therapeutic practices such as music and aromatherapy. Attica loves music and knows how to play a few instruments herself, adding to her expressive ways. She often speaks with her hands when she talks [even when not using Sign Language], and uses body language and facial expressions to amplify her words and expressions. You can almost always tell what she's saying to you with the body language alone. This would help because Attica has never spoken a word in her life. She is mute.
History: Attica has been mute since birth, and has never once used any assistance aide to speak. She feels she doesn't need it and instead, learned how to talk through face, hands and even music to communicate with other people. When she was younger, she was bullied and treated as if she were a disabled individual who was incapable o doing a lot for herself, and for awhile, she believed it. Her parents decided to put her into Pokemon therapy, but refused the first choice of Pokemon for her therapy -a Chatot- due to her parents believing that their daughter would think it was an assistant for helping her learn how to speak, or a substitute voice for her. Instead the doctors replaced the bird with a Riolu, who turned out to be a much better choice for Attica. Over the years, Attica went to school with the Riolu, and learned body language and physical expression, growing more and more confident with her abilities as an individual in elementary school. Jealousy of the Riolu provoked more pestering by students, however the Riolu was quick to defend his patient with a quick use of his lithe fighting abilities.
Thus perked Attica's interest in martial arts. She practiced not only with her Riolu friend, but at dojo's her parents allowed her to go to while under therapy. She was under this therapy from age seven until thirteen where her self confidence grew tremendously, as well as her ability to flip people over two feet taller than her. Such a boost in self confidence spurred her to go on a Pokemon journey, albeit a bit later than most children.To her luck, the doctor allowed the Riolu a release of employment and to stay with Attica. Overjoyed the pair of them went on into exploring the world, being casual yet energetic Trainers and the on and off coordinator. After four more years of traveling with her Pokemon, the sprout of Starr Cooperation and the theft of GTS Pokemon, Attica traveled around to try and give sympathy to the families and trainers that had lost loved ones. All the while her Riolu not Lucario, sensed something was amiss, but couldn't determine what it was. Their next destination was Goldenrod, where they met a trainer named Shay who also seemed to be looking into the same thing.
Pokemon:
Iol ♂
Blaze Kick
Bullet Punch
Hi-Jump Kick
Swords Dance
Emers ♂
Low Sweep
Agility
Energy Ball
Thunder Punch
Iyli ♀
Gunk Shot
Substitute
Sucker Punch
Cross Chop
Grey ♂
Brave Bird
Roost
Endeavour
Close Combat
Amethi ♀
Bounce
Detect
Night Daze
Hidden Power [Fighting]
Syncho ♂
Dig
X-Scissor
String Shot
Protect
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