Name: Daniel El Raye

Gender: male (trans)

Age: 22

Team: Sabotage Squadron

Description: Daniel stands at roughly 5’6”, and is of sleight build. He has blue eyes and dark blond, nearing brown, hair. It’s cut short, but the hair near his face is long enough to, on occasion, get in his eyes. There is also a fairly short beard on his lower jaw.
Daniel doesn’t usually wear flashy clothing, preferring comfort, practicality, and freedom of movement over a fashion statement. He tends to dress in blacks and greys, sometimes a splash of blue or violet working its way into his wardrobe. He typically ends up in a t-shirt, on specific black hoodie, sweatpants, and sneakers, with a satchel slung over his shoulder, containing a cell phone, swiss army knife, first-aid kit packed with supplies for both humans and Pokemon, snacks, and likely a bottle of water.
Daniel dons an ace ring, in which is set a keystone.

Daniel’s Pokemon partner is Elric, an absol. Elric is perhaps more slim and frailer than a typical absol, and has a collar around his neck with an absolite set in it.

Personality: Daniel is both a romantic and aromantic. He loves fantasy and science fiction novels, he loves the prospect of adventure, and is interested by urban legends and conspiracies, and has no interest whatsoever in any sort of romantic partnership. He is something of an introvert and a loner. He tends to act friendly with many people, but doesn’t consider himself someone’s friend unless he’s known them for a while. Those he considers friends, however, he loves, and would rather let himself be hurt if it meant a friend were spared the pain.
Daniel is impulsive and curious. If he wasn’t, he likely would not have gotten to be quite a powerful battler. He is good at improv and reacting intuitively, though he does have multiple tried-and-true strategies in battle that he sometimes falls back on. He isn’t especially confrontational, and rarely wins arguments. He does tend to be emotional, and can be overwhelmed by emotions or by his own senses.

Backstory: Daniel was born in Redinas, and did not really move around once. He enjoyed reading, but was also the type to grow restless easily, and so also spent a great deal of time going walking around the mountainous terrain, when it wasn’t snowing too hard. He enjoyed thinking about other worlds and mythical creatures, and dreamed of someday making them real through perhaps writing, or traveling to Merius and becoming an acting star. Utilizing portals, one summer Daniel’s family even managed to see a musical live in Merius, which was a dream come true for him.
By the time Daniel was 16, however, the earthquake had struck Rustol, and Rutgard became isolated. Daniel was disappointed by this, but his attention rapidly drifted to the strange creatures he began seeing from a distance on his walks. He repeatedly tried taking pictures of these creatures on his phone, but was never able to get an especially good shot of one, or get closer than several dozen yards to such a creature. Until one morning, when Daniel saw the white wolf, his future partner.
There had been a blizzard the previous night, and was still snowing slightly today, and the wolf would have blended in entirely if not for its furless black skin, scythelike horn and tail, and intelligent-seeming crimson eyes. It appeared malnourished and weak. Most people would have given the wolf a wide berth or run away, however Daniel was impulsive and extremely curious. He kept a cautious distance from the wolf, yes, but when it started walking away before pausing and seeming to wait for him, he did follow it.
According to some people, following a mysterious superpowered wolf that seems more intelligent than a typical animal would be begging for death or major injury. According the Daniel, this would turn out to be one of his smarter decisions, as while he was following that creature, his home city was attacked by a larger, scarier, more hostile creature. The moment Daniel heard destruction and panic in the distance, he called his parents. Upon no one picking up, he called the police. Upon being put on hold, he ran back to see what was happening, the wolf following him from a distance. When he arrived at the city, he saw an enraged and flaming dragon laying waste to the buildings.
Daniel was relieved to find that his parents were still alive. But since that day, a great many citizens of Redinas, Rutgard, and indeed the planet would believe the creatures dubbed Pokemon were feral beasts. Daniel was wary of many of the larger Pokemon. But he knew that if it wasn’t for that wolf, he likely would have been in mortal peril. Perhaps its appearance was a coincidence, but Daniel liked to believe that the wolf had known what was coming and wanted to help him.
It wasn’t the last time he saw that wolf. It refused to enter the rebuilding city, but in time it would regularly approach Daniel close enough to be touched, and never seemed to show aggression towards him. Possibly because Daniel had taken to feeding it, when it did appear. Daniel ended up naming it ‘Elric’ after the protagonist of a book he had once read. Over time, however, it became clear that Pokemon of any sort were understandably not welcome in the capital. Daniel heard of a civilian watch violently driving other Pokemon out of the city, and decided to leave for elsewhere with his new friend and partner.
After some traveling, in which Daniel and Elric learned how to fight, the pair found themselves in Drusk. Daniel made ends meet doing odd jobs, and eventually found himself recruited by an underground bodyguard group which used ‘unconventional methods’(Pokemon partners) to protect their clients. While in this group, Daniel received a Keystone and Absolite, for use in emergencies.
Three months after moving to Drusk, Daniel came into contact with the Sabotage Squadron, and ended up joining up with them. The two now have quite the reputation in Drusk and the surrounding areas as highly powerful battlers, only in part due to their uncanny power of ‘Mega Evolution’.

Starting Pokemon: Absol (“Elric”, male)

Other: n/a