[SU/DS] Spiritwater – Tides of Witchcraft

[[Desolate Divine]]

May amend these slightly but the jist of it is there. Rushed a little to get them done before class.

Jon

Spoiler:

Name: Jon Drake
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Role: Operative (Squad Commander)
Appearance:
Physical:Standing at 5ft 11, Jon is a well built individual weighing in at about 80 kilograms. His naturally blonde hair is dyed dark brown, as his wife and daughter are used to seeing it that way, though he isn’t as stressed any more about keeping his identity hidden. The beanie he used to wear stills makes an appearance every so often, though usually his short to medium length brown hair is uncovered.

Having spent most of his adult life wearing contacts, Jon finds glasses to be irritating, however tends to keep a pair on him for when he has his lenses removed. If Jon were to remove his shirt, the first thing one would notice are the scars scattered across his torso and his upper arms, though he isn’t as self conscious about it anymore.

Attire:
His standard attire tends to be a mix of looks and comfort. Whilst he hates baggy jeans, he tends to wear ones loose enough that he can run in, or even defend himself in, unhindered. However due to the different climate he has a few pairs of shorts packed. Due to the risk of media attention, being the winner of the first High Seas Tournament appearing on the S.S. Wishmaker again, he has made a point of wearing more button up shirts, though occasionally it is unbuttoned over a white or black tee. His usual footwear consists of white socks and some black Converses, though some sandals have been packed just in case.
Costume (Optional): Whilst the idea of costumes seemed silly to Jon, he understood the need to blend in, however wanted make sure the costume he used was practical for a mission. With Alyssa’s help, Jon made a costume reminiscent of a shiny Rayquaza, being a black body suit with Rayquaza themed worbla plates covering most exposed sections of his body. What one does not realize at a glance is that hidden beneath each of these worbla plates is a piece of sheet metal, which whilst it wouldn’t stop a bullet, would probably stop a knife, or more likely, Jon hopes a hex placed on his costume from taking effect on him, though the Ladies haven’t had time to help him confirm this hypothesis. On his head is a similarly designed, sheet metal base, worbla covered helmet, reminiscent of Rayquaza’s head.
Personality: Jon tends to confuse people at first because he seems to mix an overly serious nature with not taking things seriously enough. The truth is that Jon places a great deal of stress on self discipline and responsibility, and tends to not take it well when people seem like they aren’t taking those things seriously. Outside of that, he tends to be a somewhat easygoing person, though has no qualms about using his fists to solve problems if he thinks that is the most effective solution. He has an incredibly protective personality, particularly with his wife Alyssa, and their three year old daughter, Amelia, though this tends to transfer to his Eon Academy students.
History:
See Pre-Wishmaker History here

Aboard the S.S. Wishmaker, Jon was one of the people, alongside his Latios partner who helped to catch the Diamond Ladies. He was there as a competitor, however moonlighted as an operative, and when he found himself with the Diamond Ladies at his mercy, ready for him to detain, was shown by Latios, a pokemon with a supernatural sense of empathy, how low and broken they were at that time. At Latios’ request, Jon talked to them, and offered to help them pick up the pieces and get their lives back on track if they decided to turn themselves in, and whilst they declined at first, making a break for it, after an encounter with other operatives whom they had turned into Pokemon, they took Jon up on his offer.

The idea Jon had was for him to take the fall for the supernatural events, using a Zoroark and their ability to create illusions to sell the coverup that Jon had used Zoroark to create illusions to blackmail the ladies, specifically Cassandra, into throwing the tournament. This allowed for the supernatural things the public saw to be dismissed, and for the public to continue to believe there was no such thing as witchcraft, meaning that the chance of copycats was low. Steven and Cynthia were for the idea, Lance however was not, wanting to see the Ladies punished and made an example of, for the sake of fixing his shattered ego.

Lance attempted to kill the Ladies and frame Jon for the crime, though Jon managed to stop him, however Lance wasn’t acting alone, with accomplices leaking the truth to the media, putting an even bigger target on the Diamond Ladies back, causing them to decide to come clean. Jon ended up facing Cassandra in the final match, winning the first High Seas Tournament.

Whilst Jon won the tournament, his reputation still took a hit due to the measures he took to prepare the public for seeing him as the villain of the cover up story, as well as for his support of the Diamond Ladies and calls for them to be treated better than they were.

With the prize money from the tournament, Jon and Alyssa wanted to buy a house together, however the one they had been looking at had sold. However, for sale in Mossdeep City was a property containing an old, unused monastery. Jon and Alyssa ended up buying the property, living in the caretakers house, and turning the monastery and grounds into The Eon Academy, Jon’s own trainer school, where during the school year they would run basic classes and have school groups come in, whilst the summer contained a twelve week intensive for the more experienced trainers wanting to take their battling to the next level.

After their supposed death, Jon had been in contact with the Diamond Ladies only once, after sending Latios to find Cassandra, having been requested by Steven to perform an off the books mission, and knowing he needed help. The mission entailed capturing Rayquaza, as it had made itself a target of the military who had made it their mission to eliminate it. However after Jon said goodbye to Cassandra after that mission, he didn’t see her again for a bit over another three years.

A year after the S.S. Wishmaker incident, Jon ran the first Eon Academy Summer Program, where five students spent the summer living on the property, learning to improve their battling from Jon, two of them being Abbee and Dylan.

By the time Jon heard from the Diamond Ladies again, it had been three and a half years since he had last seen Cassandra, and was shocked to find three Pokemon knocking on his door.

The Ladies quickly explained the situation to Jon, though he felt like he was too recognizable and well known after the S.S. Wishmaker incident to be much help practically. He contacted the League with the information regardless, accepting a role as a Squad Commander, before offering Dylan Squire (an ex Eon Academy Student who now lived and worked there) and his close friend and ex Eon Academy Student, Abbee Strauss who was visiting at the time the opportunity to join his squad, spending the next few weeks attempting to train them to the best of his ability, and calling in favours from Christopher Kingswood, Charlotte Jones and Justin Collins to run the Summer Intensive whilst he was absent.
Pokémon Team: Latios, Blaziken, Nidoking, Scizor, Absol and Jolteon. Also possesses an illegal, unregistered Pokeball containing Rayquaza, however Rayquaza will only make an appearance if Jon feels like that is the only way forward, as being caught with Rayquaza in that Pokeball would make him an enemy of the state, and have him thrown in jail.
Other:Husband to Alyssa (34), father to Amelia (3) and temporary Guardian to Dylan (20).

Abbee

Spoiler:

Name: Abbee Strauss
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Role: Operative- Jon’s Squad
Appearance:
Physical: Abbee stands at 5ft 4, with a slender figure, long jet black hair and green eyes. Her slightly pale skin is clear, and her demeanour tends to be approachable and friendly.
Attire: Abbee packed for the mission bringing a mixture of standard civilian clothes to blend in (beachwear, sundresses, summer attire), in addition to clothes that suited being on the job, that she could move freely in. (OOC: this bit I struggle with because I tend to have the characters clothing be pretty day by day, unlike the anime where they wear the exact same clothes every day…)
Costume (Optional):
Personality: Abbee tends to be cheerful and bubbly to almost everyone she meets, which to some, can be grating. She tends to make friends without the other party necessarily wanting to be friends, and tends to try and look past wrongdoings and give people the benefit of the doubt, only really losing composure when the circumstances are weighing down on her.

Jon has had to make a point of telling her that the witches they will be trying to find aren’t like the Diamond Ladies. He was lucky that the ones he took a chance on were the sort to actually try and make amends, and has warned her to not be trusting of anybody they come across during the mission.

Abbee’s strength is her ability to think outside the box, and creatively come up with solutions to problems placed before her that may not have been considered before.
History:
Abbee grew up in Ecruteak City Johto, as the daughter of the battling legend, Richard Strauss. She doesn’t remember a great deal of her early life, only knowing her dad retired whilst she was still young. She was six when her mother passed away from a terminal illness, though she doesn’t remember much of her life before that.

Growing up, her dad was her biggest mentor and supporter. When she wanted to become a trainer, her dad was the one who taught her everything he knew about battling, and whilst Abbee wasn’t too fond of competing, she enjoyed battling her dad, and getting stronger. She wasn’t sure what it meant for her long term, whether she would go on to compete like he did or whether her calling was elsewhere.

When Abbee was fifteen she came across word of the Eon Academy, a school run by Jon Drake, a trainer who had taken the media by storm by winning the first High Seas Tournament, but also splitting battling fans down the middle with his reputation. Richard however was a supporter of Jon, liking the attitude towards battling he brought to it, and feeling like he didn’t have much more he could teach her, supported Abbee about spending the summer there, hoping she could find there what he couldn’t give her. Abbee on the other hand, went there hoping to figure out what the future held for her, and she did.

During the summer, Richard was killed in a shock car accident. Abbee left the Eon Academy in order to spend time with her older brother, and plan and attend the funeral. It was there she realized that the reason her Richard retired from battling was to be with her when her mother passed away, and that he probably would have loved to have spent the rest of his life competing if he could.

Hearing this, Abbee felt driven to compete like her father, feeling like he put his own legacy on hold to be with her, and now she wanted to continue it.

Abbee returned for the end of the summer program, where she came across Victini, whom she clicked well with, before going to live with her older brother. She spent the next three years finishing school, returning to the Eon Academy each summer, with this summer now visiting as a guest tutor, being too old to attend now, however shocked to hear Jon’s request of joining him on a mission...
Pokémon Team: Typhlosion, Ampharos, Ariados, Glaceon, Politoed, Victini
Other: During the week the Diamond Ladies spent at the Eon Academy, Abbee wanted to become accustomed to being a pokemon, knowing the risk was there she would be turned. Wanting to turn this risk into a benefit, she acquired DNA samples of a few Pokemon, having Cassandra turn her into them so she could learn to use their abilities, becoming somewhat proficient in a Decidueye form, and planning to spend a bit of time in that form during the mission.

Dylan

Spoiler:

Name: Dylan Squire
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Role: Operative- Jon’s Squad
Appearance:
Physical: Dylan is a tall young man, standing at 6ft 1, with a somewhat muscular physique. He has shaggy medium length brown hair with brown eyes and a lightly freckled face.
Attire: Dylan’s standard attire tends to be somewhat reminiscent of the 90s grunge sort of era, with faded and torn jeans, a band tshirt and possibly a flannel top, though given the beach environment, he is likely to trade that for shorts and a singlet.
Costume (Optional): At Abbee’s suggestion (and pressure), Dylan is wearing a Bewear costume, like the maskot ones...
Personality: Dylan tends to be very quiet and reserved. Jon, Alyssa and Abbee are the only ones he really feels comfortable around, however he can start and maintain a conversation with his Ex Eon Academy classmates.

Dylan is a quiet observer, tending to notice the little details people miss in their day to day rush, and has a solid instinct for caring for and raising Pokemon, understanding their needs with little experience.

Dylan’s greatest weakness is that when pressure does become too much, he is likely to freeze and shut down, though the threshold for that is high enough that Jon thinks he can handle this mission.
History: Dylan never knew his dad growing up. He wasn’t in the picture when he was born, and whenever he would ask his mum, she wouldn’t answer the question. When Dylan was eight, his mum got married, however when Dylan was twelve he woke up one morning to be told by his stepdad that she had gone. Left the both of them.

Dylan stayed with his stepdad, who as time went on, started to drink more and more, resenting Dylan’s mum for walking out on both of them, and leaving him to look after her kid, and eventually growing to take that out on Dylan.

Dylan’s solution to this was to try and not be at home, and when he was old enough to start working a part time job, he began doing that, taking all the shifts he could get, saving money so that he could spend summers on camp, away from home.

When Dylan was seventeen, he ended up attending the Eon Academy, though was the odd one out, as he had the least experience being a battler.

Towards the end of the camp, it was Dylan’s eighteenth birthday, and his stepdad had invited him to spend the weekend at home to have a celebration, sending him the message through Jon.

Not wanting to tip off what home life was like and raise suspicion, he went, when really this birthday celebration was his stepdad spending the weekend plastered, complaining about Dylan’s mum, and how she and Dylan ruined his life, with the only thing Dylan being useful for was the benefits he received for keeping him around.

They ended up in a fight, and Dylan returned to the Eon Academy after the weekend, when Abbee noticed a bruise on his neck. Keeping an eye out, she started to notice other marks and scars before telling Jon who alerted the police, who charged Dylan’s stepdad, and placed orders preventing contact.

With Dylan now 18, and not fitting into the foster care system, Jon ended up inviting him to stay at the Eon Academy, working there as an intern of sorts, and trying to provide the family that neither of them had growing up.

Dylan spent the next three years spending months at a time with Jon, helping him run the Eon Academy, and doing some travelling when he could. A few months before The Diamond Ladies appeared at the Eon Academy, Dylan was in Canalave City, where he helped deal with a situation where a child wouldn’t wake up from what seemed like a never ending nightmare...


Pokémon Team: Sceptile, Walrein, Metagross, Flygon, Dusknoir and Darkrai
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