[SUDS] Tides of Freelance: Nigh Ruin

[TheProtobabe]

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Character 1:

Name: Zorayda Anna Moonlin (AKA “Zor”)

Age: 23

Role: Freelancer

Gender: Female

Appearance: Short and curvy, standing at 5’2”, 180 lbs. Zor is not in-shape, though she has a very feminine and pretty figure that is admired by a lot of men. She has medium length, wavy blonde hair and gray eyes framed by thick lashes. She often wears clothing that accents her body because she enjoys the confidence boost from feeling and looking beautiful. However, she can’t run long distances or fight very much without wearing out quickly. She also wears glasses when she remembers to; these are dark, rectangular metal frames that work with her round face. Her skin is pale from a lot of staying out of the sun and reading books when not training Dusk and Viola. She’s also somewhat sensitive about her appearance. A compliment can make her day while an insult could devastate her and make her feel ugly.

Personality: Zorayda is a myriad of different things, but what people see right away is that she’s cheerful and very friendly. Some people would even call it annoyingly perky. She makes friends right away and is very helpful and kind, and treats Pokemon as equals/companions, not as animals or lesser beings. She also has a knack for seeing the bright side of things, which makes people attracted to her subconsciously. Zor is unsure why, but people flock to her to tell her their problems, at which she simply listens and comforts them but usually doesn’t know how to solve them. She has a huge amount of empathy for people and genuinely feels pain and happiness for others.

Under that happy exterior, though, Zor is a deep ocean of emotions. Having had a bad family life, she was brought up to feel guilt for wanting things for herself, and taught to think next to nothing of her own abilities. She pushes aside all of her own needs to grant the needs of others, no matter the cost. Zor acts confident at times, but again it’s mostly all a facade that covers her cripplingly low self-esteem. There are some days when she’s angry at the world and wants nothing but to just cry; this happens at least once a month and sometimes more. However, she only opens her true self to the ones she completely trusts, and through that bond her calmer, more level-headed nature comes out, and she’ll actually tell the truth about what she thinks and not sugar-coat it.

She’s actually very smart in a lot of ways, though her ‘blonde and bubbly’ personality can make that seem unlikely. Like her Ninetales, she has unconventional ways of looking at problems and can make the best of any bad situation. Zorayda is also extremely creative and artistic; she can paint things from memory and she has no problem with visual puzzles.

Zorayda is extremely sensitive to others’ reaction to her. She doesn’t understand when people don’t like her and she takes insults to heart. Compliments make her feel nice temporarily but don’t seem to throw sticky darts in her heart like insults do.

History: Zor’s history is complicated, to say the least. She was born in Goldenrod City in a middle-class home, raised alongside her six-years-younger little sister. Her father wasn’t home very much, being a traveling construction superintendent that went even as far as Kanto, Sinnoh, and Unova. Back at home, however, things weren’t as they seemed. Her mother was controlling and mentally and physically abusive. This is the root of Zor’s insecurities and sorrow as well as her anger and a need for positive attention from others. To strangers, neighbors, and Zor’s friends, her mother was the nicest person on the planet, but behind closed doors her mother could be a vicious, mean-spirited woman. Zor would get out of the house as often as possible while also shielding her little sister from the brunt of the attacks when she could, though it wasn’t hard because Zor was the center of all the negative attention for some reason.

One of these outings was with friends, who traveled to Ecruteak City to visit the Burned Tower and Bell Towers and learn of the legendary myths. Zor felt a heavy rush of despair and sadness when looking at the Burned Tower, something that felt foreign as if it wasn’t her own emotion. It was confusing but she didn’t think much of it, having found Viola as a kit on the southern border of the city. Zor was approximately eleven years old at the time. She was terrified to bring the Vulpix home with her mother there, but her mother simply sneered and told her not to bring Viola inside. So the pup lived in a pen, the best Zor could give her... for about three years.

When ENDoG became a real thing, Zor didn’t know very much about it besides that it was a faction trying to control the disasters that kept happening in the world. She had no idea that they were a bad thing until one day when she witnessed someone’s dear Pokemon undergoing the ‘treatment’. Zor was too young to remember a lot of the disasters, so the fear-induced abuse of Pokemon seemed horrific to her. Though she didn’t know how to do so without suffering penalty, she knew she had to help those poor Pokemon and teach the scared people that they were wrong... somehow. Not much later, she heard rumors of Freelancers, those who opposed the government. Seeing a highly opportune moment to escape her horrible home life and to help the Pokemon, she ran away to find them with her Vulpix.

Years later, she’s now a strong Trainer with two able Pokemon. She hopes to help Pokemon escape with the other Freelancers and to re-educate the public about ENDoG and Pokemon. She also hopes to someday reunite with her sister and keep her safe from ENDoG, though a selfish part of her wants her sister to become a Freelancer and fight alongside her.

Pokemon:

LICENSED

-Viola the Ninetales has a Quirky nature. She marches to her own drummer in life; Viola is not necessarily always obedient, but she’s smart and has a way with solving problems in surprising ways. She thinks outside the box and uses her environment to her advantage in battle. The Ninetales is less serious and ‘majestic’ than others of her kind, probably due to being raised around humans since birth. Zorayda found her as a Vulpix newborn. Her mother had hidden her among overgrowth near Ecruteak, when ENDoG’s forces found the mother Ninetales and captured her. The mother’s location is unknown. Zor took the lone kit and raised her as a pet for a long time before becoming a Freelancer. She learned to protect her precious companion’s safety and freedom, training her to become a tricky battler.

UNLICENSED

-Dusk is Serious-natured, with steel resolve and an incredible work ethic. He’s no attacker, but his bulk and endurance make him a tough shield to contend with. He is highly protective of Zorayda and Viola and would stop at nothing to make sure they were safe. Zor obtained Dusk as a young Eevee. In the Underground, male Eevees were less desirable, and his stoic nature made him unattractive to those who wanted cuddly little foxes. Zor saw his potential and couldn’t help but to pick him up off the Pokemon trader who was trying to give the little guy a new home. He evolved when protecting Viola in a tough double-battle with another Trainer, who had attempted to hit the Ninetales with his Pokemon’s critical-hitting attack. Dusk took the brunt of it and evolved out of the love and desire to protect his fellow teammate and Trainer.

-This Pikachu has recently been caught and has no nickname yet. He is Brave-natured, though, and has chosen to follow Zorayda and help the Freelancer's cause with some convincing from both Dusk and Viola.

Mark: Lugia-Can spawn powerful storms of wind and rain, making it incredibly difficult for any living thing to traverse through. This is activated by powerful emotions and can be stopped when the person is at peace. This person can also breathe underwater.

Signature Move-Aeroblast

Psychic-Your intuition is often right about the future. AKA you can take a guess about what's going to happen and it's vaguely correct. NOT precisely correct. Eg. ‘I know something bad is going to happen around a town with a port’

Flying-More agile than a normal human. More graceful and far more persuasive than normal humans.

Other: She has a Southern accent, picked up from her father.

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Character 2:

Jace Allan Timber

Age: 27

Role: ENDoG

Gender: Male

Appearance: 5’11”, 160 lbs. Jace is well-muscled but not a bodybuilder. He has the figure of a surfer with slightly more buff arms due to lots of carpentry when he lived in Ecruteak. He has semi-short black hair, olive skin, and dark green eyes. He wears the uniforms given by ENDoG, though when off-duty chooses to wear collared button-downs and jeans with designer sneakers. He has a tattoo of a tribal-style Luxray on his right arm/shoulder, signifying his first given Pokemon Panja.

Personality: Sharp and a bit tough when in ‘Lieutenant’ mode, but very amiable and friendly when relaxed. He has a very ‘chill’ personality and is easy to relax around. Jace is the kind of guy you would invite to go have a few drinks with and shoot the breeze. ENDoG has worn down his kindness somewhat, though, and he can sometimes be a little harsh or abrupt without intending to be.

History: Jace grew up in Ecruteak around the legends and tales that were told there. His mother died giving birth to him, but he was raised well by his father, a carpenter. Jace learned to become a Groomer when he learned of the trade, interested in making Pokemon happy. He often visited the Kimono Girls’ Eeveelutions to keep them looking beautiful for battles and contests, or just to look good next to the dancing girls.

When ENDoG formed and began to hunt down Pokemon, Jace became concerned about the well-being of people and Pokemon. Older people in Ecruteak began to agree with ENDoG, saying that the Legendary Pokemon were too powerful and caused too many disasters. Not sure if he believed this, Jace remained ignorant of just how cruel ENDoG truly was. Eventually he heard the stories enough to start to see their point of view, and joined their forces to help neutralize threats. He was told that this meant nothing more than harmlessly taking Pokemon’s superpowers away and releasing them to be like ‘normal’ animals in the wild... of course, he quickly found that to be a lie.

He wanted to quit as soon as he saw the horrifying abuse of Pokemon, of Legends being caged in places and dying slowly. He saw the natural disasters that happened BECAUSE of ENDoG, though the older generation were stubbornly set on solving problems this way. But, having signed his life away as a recruit, he was threatened with extreme punishment if he did not obey... some even hinted towards torture. Jace knew he was stuck, but he tries to make the best of things now. He takes things day by day and attempts to earn ENDoG’s trust while figuring out how to help Pokemon and Freelancers in the meantime... without getting caught.

Pokemon:

LICENSED

-Panja the Luxray is Bold-natured, fierce and ruthless in battle and sometimes disobedient to his Trainer. This electric lion is noble and strong-willed, resisting a lot of ENDoG’s harsh treatment and refusing to take down Pokemon he deems too weak to fight him. His sense of honor often infuriates other ENDoG operatives when he stubbornly sets his teeth and chooses not to kill a fellow Pokemon. The only reason he hasn’t had his power taken from him is because Jace does his best to keep Panja in his Poke ball when other ENDoG members are around to watch him battle. Panja was given to Jace as a young recruit as the Luxray he is now, since ENDoG didn’t want to spend all that time evolving and training Pokemon and instead caught him wild.

-Gabriel is Docile natured--he humbly follows every order and stays at Jace’s side to protect him from other Pokemon’s and human’s attacks. He doesn’t have the nobility that Panja does, making the lion look down on him in disgust most of the time. Gabriel, however, has the mindset that a Pokemon does what his human companion wishes, no matter what--even if it is unethical. Jace has had Gabriel since he was a Kirlia, but evolved him a few days later with a Light stone. Gabriel works as more of a shield and protector of Jace’s person than anything else.

-Artemis is Brave in nature, though extremely dim-witted like a child. She was forced to evolve as a Magikarp, much like the Magikarp of the Lake of Rage. This resulted in raw, unparalleled power, unnatural and horrifying to watch when she battles. However, it’s somewhat uncontrolled; the chemical used to make her evolve messed with her head, and she’s stuck at a juvenile stage. This can lead to more temper tantrums and rampages than that of normal Gyarados, especially when punished for disobeying. She simply doesn’t understand most of the time; Jace has to use a special scent to calm her down. Jace received Artemis when she was first introduced to the evolving chemical agent. He was able to calm her before she was murdered by the ENDoG for being insubordinate and uncontrollable, and was therefore given the task of keeping her and using her for Pokemon raids. Jace was wearing a specific type of cologne, a scent that the Gyarados has associated with safety, and will only be calmed by that scent anymore.

-Argren is Jolly in nature, though his personality has been damaged by ENDoG abuse. He remains cordial and indifferent to other humans, but with Jace he warms right up. Argren was given to Jace recently when he became Lieutenant, in order to use the bird to Fly from place to place.

Rank: Lieutenant (commands a small troupe of Private-PFC’s)

Other:

[Death's Spook]

This is me, reserving Uxie. I'll get an SU up soon. I think I'm recycling Doc for this one, actually.

[[Desolate Divine]]

This is me reserving rayquaza for character number two. Will edit both SU into this post.

Name: Jet

Age: 18

Role: Marked Freelancer

Gender: Male

Appearance: Jet doesn't dress for appearance. He dresses for practicality. He dresses for speed. Jet wears light runners, track pants on top of a pair of board shorts, and a tshirt over a hoodedsinglet. His pants have numerous pockets containing bits and pieces that he thinks might be needed later.

Jet stands at approximately 5 foot 7, with a thin frame. Though he lacks muscle, he makes up for it with his speed. His messy black hair sometimes covers his light grey eyes, and he has a rather pale skin tone. However his pale skin is covered with scars, mostly covering his arms and legs. He was lucky that his face wasn't harmed in the accident.



Personality: Jet is silent most of the time. He knows how to talk, and will do so if he has to. However due to being deaf for the past 10 years, he hasn't heard his own voice, and is embarrassed at how he might sound. That's right. Deaf. In his silence, Jet is a deep thinker, and will put much thought into a Decision before making it, and will think very carefully about his words. Tough he doesn't talk often, his opinion should be taken seriously.

History:
Jet isn't the first freelancer in his family. His parents were both freelancers, who met in the underground. His parents would sneak out after Jet went to sleep of a night for guerrilla warfare, attempting to stop ENDoG. This involved destroying a ENDoG facility in the middle of Castalia city.

When Jet was 8 he woke up from a nightmare, and walked into the living room to find his parents. However he just missed them as they went out the door. Jet followed them out the door, but after a few miles of trying to follow them, lost them. He found himself in front of what he didnt know was the ENDoG facility that was planned to be blown up. The freelancers had token in and released the Pokemon from inside, and had planted explosives to take the building down.The was a bang as the building exploded, pushing Jet through the air, and making him hit the ground, knocking him out.

Jet awoke in a hospital a few days later. However he awoke to silence. The TV was on, but there was no noise. People were talking, but Jet heard nothing. He looked at his skins and saw bandages. Wondering why, he pull ed the, off, and to his horror found his flesh horribly burnt. Doctors and nurses came over to try and calm him down, but soon realised he couldn't hear them. He had lost his hearing from the explosion.

Ridden with guilt from the accident, Jet's parents gave up their life of fighting ENDoG, and moved to Rustboro city in Hoenn. Here they managed to get a special license for Jet, and an Absol that would act as his ears. This Absolute became a close friend to Jet, and would have given its life to save Jet.

When Jet was 14, his parents made the decision to send him to a school for the hearing impaired, in Lilycove city. He was failing at regular school, due to his impairment, and lack of motivation due to the bullies. They made fun of him for his scars, and being deaf. Since he couldn't hear them, they would get their point across by pushing him around. However every so often, Jet would throw a rock at them, and run like hell, because he knew they stood no chance at catching him.

Jet spent two years at the school for the hearing impaired, where he learnt to lip-read, and sign language. However the closer he got to Absol, the more he felt sorry for pokemon and they way they were treated. Feeling like he was moving nowhere at the school, Jet ran away.

After a few weeks, he found himself in the ranks of the freelancers. Due to his small frame and quick feet and wit, Jet had the job of delivering messages that were to important to be delivered via other means. Jet never stays in one place too long. He will deliver a message, get another one and deliver that, repeating the same cycle.
Pokemon:
Absol
Absol serves as Jet's ears, due to being unable to hear for himself. He was given to Jet at age 9, 6 months after he lost his hearing. Jet's parents warned him not to get too attached, as the government could take it away if they don't think he needs it. However Absol became Jet's best friend, and they have stuck together over the years. Absol is the only one of Jet's Pokemon that is licensed, due to Jet's impairment. Absol would lay his life down to save Jet, and is his loyal companion

Blaziken
Jet found Blaziken in Lilycove city as a Torchic when he was 11. Lilycove served as ENDoGs main shipping port. When Pokemon were captured, they would be taken to Lilycove and shipped to facilities, where they would have their power neutralised. However Torchic was the lucky one, who escaped from the back of the truck. As they opened the doors, Torchic shot them with a flame thrower, and ran off. Jet saw from a distance, and followed the Torchic. He let the Torchic hide in his backpack, and when the men caught up to him and asked if he had seen it, he used sign language to tell them to ****off. Lucky for him, they didn't understand, and assumed he knew nothing, being deaf. Te Torchic stayed with Jet and has since evolved twice. Blaziken is hot headed, and will burn stuff first, ask questions later. He becomes restless easily and if left cooped up too long, will break out of the Pokeball.

Flygon
Flygon was Jet's father's Pokemon. Before Jet went to the school in Lilycove, his father gave him Flygon's Pokeball. He believed that due to their activity against ENDoG, that ENDoG might come after Jet as a way to get to them. He told Jet to keep Flygon a secret, and to only use him in an emergency. Jet kept Flygon a secret, rarely letting him out of the Pokeball until he became a Freelancer. Flygon remembers being told to protect Jet, and will stop at nothing to follow his old trainers orders to protect him.

Lanturn
During his time at the special school, Jet had few periods off, and in those times, did laps of the lake on the school grounds. One day when he was doing laps, he stopped half way through, and went for a swim. The water got to his neck, and he was treading water, until he accidentally kicked something in the mud. Jet dived down and found what looked like a Pokemon egg. The Pokemon hatched into a Chinchou which soon evolved into a Lanturn. Lanturn is the youngest of Jet's Pokemon and is often seen as the baby by the rest of them. It loves having room to swim, and will sometimes wander off if Jet doesn't keep an eye on it in large bodies of water.

Mark: Latios: Is able to see through the perception of another person, as long as this person has made contact with this person.
Signature Move: Luster Purge

Other: Jet can use sign language and lip read. He is a very capable runner, and carries with him a Swiss Army knife, a small whiteboard, marker and eraser, and his Pokeball, as well as other supplies such as food, water and blankets.

Name: Jamie

Age: 21

Role: Marked Freelancer

Gender: Male

Appearance: Jamie is approx 6 foot 1 with short blond hair and brown eyes. He is well built, and fairly muscular. He has slightly tanned skin, and usually wears black jeans, a white shirt and a grey hooded jacket. His face lacks blemishes, but is expression is generally that of bitterness.



Personality: Jamie has a compassionate heart towards Pokemon, and will do anything to help them. However he despises most people. Either for letting what has happened to pokemon happen, and for using them as tools. Unless someone proves they care about Pokemon, he will not trust them.

Jamie is easily angered, and will become violent quickly. Especially when Pokemon are involved. During the times when adrenaline is pumping, and he has the choice of fight or flight, he will choose to fight, and die doing that, than be a coward like the rest of humanity and bow down to ENDoG and their views on Pokemon.

History:
Jamie didn't seem to have as much resentment for people as a child until one day when he was six. He was playing in the park while his mum sat at a park bench reading some magazines. He found himself near some bushes, and heard strange noises coming from the other side. Jamie pushed his way through the bushes and found an injured Latias.

He ran back to his mother and told her about the injured Pokemon, she looked it up on her pokedex based on Jamie's description. When she learnt how powerful it was compared to most Pokemon, she called ENDoG, who arrived within minutes. From a distance, Jamie saw them enter the bushes. Little did he know that the injuries of the Latias' were the doing of ENDoG. When the Latias saw the uniform she attempted to fly away, but was shot down by the ENDoG agents Raichu. The electric blast knocked it out, but the fall killed it. The agent then kicked the Raichu for hesitating in attacking it, which sealed Jamie's views of people in stone. Humans were evil, and needed to learn their place. They were no more important than Pokemon, and had no right to harm them.

After this, Jamie was scarred. He became easily angered, and was soon getting into fights, the most notable being when a person in his class said Bidoof look stupid, and Jamie punched them in the eye.

Jamie left school at age 16, and began working as a volunteer at the Pokemon Center. After seeing the Pokemon hurt from ENDoG, and their own Pokemon forced to kill their own kind, and worked to near death, his hatred for EMDoG grew stronger.

After working at the Pokemon Center for three years, Jamie heard word of a group called the Freelancers. Trainers who trained and raised their Pokemon underground, who fought ENDoG. Jamie left his position at the Pokemon Center, and managed to get into contact with the underground. Now he works as a guerrilla, fighting off ENDoG in an attempt to protect Pokemon from them.

Pokemon:
Swampert
Jamie first met Swampart as a Mudkip. He was hatched and raised by an underground Pokemon Breeder. When Jamie was walking home from the Pokemon Center, he saw an ENDoG agent hassling the breeder, demanding to know what was in his bag. Jamie walked over and asked if there was a problem. When the agent insulted him, and told him to leave, Jamie punched him in the head, knocking him out. The breeder thanked him, saying that if he were caught with the Mudkip, he would be in prison for life. He gave Jamie one of them, and left, attempting to hide as many others as possible.

Scyther
Jamie 'liberated' Scyther from an ENDoG Agent during his time at the Pokemon Center. The agent forced it to fight until it passed out from exhaustion. It was taken to a Pokemon Center where it slept for two days. When it woke up, and the Pokemon Center called the agent, he told them to out it down, as it was too weak for passing out. Jamie put it in the records that it was put down, but kept the Scyther, of whom he shares a close bond.

Aggron
Jamie found Aggron as a Lairon in a cave on the outskirts of Jubilife city. It's parents were killed by ENDoG agents, and it hid throughout the attack. It emerged from its hiding place to find the corpses of its parents, and Jamie who had heard word of an attack here. The Liaron attacked Jamie, who dodged it and tried to explain that it wasn't him, but the Lairon was too enraged to listen. It wasn't until it ran at Jamie, and he grabbed it, and stood his ground did the Lairon listen to him.

Sneasal
Jamie woke up one morning and went out to his car to find his tyres slashed. He looked at the street and all the cars lining it where the same. All the tyres cut in the same place. Jamie replaced the tyres that day, to find they had been slashed the next morning. After replacing them a second time, he waited in the bushes of his front yard for the slasher to come by. What he found to his surprise was a juvenile Sneasal, who found entertainment from cutting his tyres. Jamie caught it, and has attempted to train it, but with no luck, as it continues to disobey him

Mark: Rayquaza: Able to nullify weather based abilities or enhance them, creating the wanted weather of the bearer of this mark. Can breathe in any air based atmosphere regardless of oxygen content or pressure.
Signature move: Draco Meteor

Other: Jamie lives in Jubilife city.