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[VeloJello]

Name: Lenore Valdis.

Gender: Female.

Age: 23 years.

Team: Awesome.

Description: Lenore is fit, and it shows. She stands at roughly 6’, and she has a broad build. While there is a little bit of natural chub around her lower body, hiking, Burst Heart training, and plenty of physical exercise have left her overall muscle tone far from unimpressive. She has several small scars from miscellaneous Pokemon encounters. Her skin, a mix of her mother’s deep brown and her father’s pale white, appears a rich, dark tan color; her eyes are dark brown, and her blond, ringlet hair is usually kept in a ponytail (for skin tone and hair color, imagine someone similar to this woman). While she enjoys looking good, she typically dresses for field work, wearing plenty of pockets, well-insulated clothing, and shoes good for walking or running. Her well-stocked backpack is pretty much ever present.

Personality: Strength seems to be Lenore’s defining trait in will, mind, and body. She is constantly learning, constantly chasing knowledge; she hates to be still or contained, both in terms of location and character. Because of this, she has a tendency to come into conflict with those of a higher status than her, as her natural confident and independent nature makes her less than endearing to her social, academic, or vocational superiors. Although her pride is a stumbling block in her relations, it is not entirely unfounded - thanks to her upbringing she brings a wealth of information to the table.

Other side effects of her upbringing include perceptiveness, quick wit, and cool emotionlessness, especially in battle. While Lenore is rarely cold or emotionally distant in interpersonal relationships, she is capable of masking her emotions quite well, an ability that comes in handy when one is constantly battling for cash in the streets or playing bodyguard to a man caught up in incredibly dangerous war. To most people, she’s friendly, warm, and kind, even playful, but she takes her work seriously and has very sharp focus. Her aspirations run high, and she honestly believes that she and her Pokemon can change the world.

Background: Once upon a time, a young woman named Cecilia entered the Ecruteak Gym and dealt its leader a sound defeat. Her spirit and grace attracted Morty’s attention, and the two of them began to date. A few years later, rings on their hands, they began to watch their little daughter Lenore grow up. They gave her her first Pokemon companion at the tender age of seven - a young Absol named Micah, whom Cecilia had found skulking about near the base of the Burned Tower. That was the time Lenore began to train Pokemon, but it was also the time her eyes were opened to yet another world of wonder. Her father’s brother, a cloaked, showy man by the name of Eusine, paid Morty regular visits, and Lenore would stay up for hours while the adults shared stories of huntings for and sightings of great Legendary Pokemon. She quickly became enamored; rainbow-winged birds, fire-spitting lions, and leopards with the wind in their paws filled her dreams. Morty and Cecilia warned her not to pay too much attention to uncle Eusine; they believed in the Legends, but they also believed that the Legends only appeared in times of need to the worthy and Eusine was “definitely needy, but just as definitely unworthy”.

However, Lenore saw an opportunity in Eusine that would not have been present otherwise - all traveling scholars needed protection in wild places, after all, and through her parents’ coaching Lenore had grown more than skilled enough for the job. Furthermore, she believed that such a journey would be much richer in opportunity and learning than the travels of a normal Trainer. She convinced Eusine to take her on as a partner and protector at the age of eighteen, and left home.

Eusine was a wonderful storyteller and a well-versed scholar. Thanks to the old money running through his family, who had a history in the well-paying industry of Gym leading, he had no problem paying Lenore a decent salary. However, he was also egotistical, arrogant, childish, and - though not, thankfully, to his niece - an obnoxious womanizer. Lenore worked for him for about a year and a half before she decided that she absolutely could not stand him anymore, then quit and tried to strike out on her own as a solo researcher.

A combination of her youth, her independent nature, and a general lack of need for her particular skillset left finding work difficult. More and more often she discovered herself battling her Pokemon, using winnings from the bets as a source of income. It was a tough lifestyle to manage, but her team grew ever stronger and larger, and soon she found herself winning more and more frequently; her earnings ranged from cash to supplies to even one of those strange, rare stones called the Burst Hearts. Slowly she began to build up a nest egg for herself, one that she planned to use to find her own expeditions in hunting for the Legends.

That plan was shattered when the war broke out. By all accounts Lenore could find, the Legends fled once Johto came under attack; what’s more, the ordered League battles began to fall apart as fewer and fewer had the money to gamble with. Lenore was forced to hunt for solid work and was on the brink of signing onto the Johto military when an old friend contacted her. Alistair Harper, whom she had met shortly before she left with Eusine after he tore through her father's gym, offered her a position as the bodyguard of his brother, the heir to Harper Industries. Lenore had dozens of questions about the situation in general, but she held her tongue, resolving to keep her mouth shut and learn by watching, if at all. After all, her main objective - the money - was not in jeopardy. Now she resides wherever Lance resides - Goldenrod City, currently - while she builds up funds and information enough to track down the Legends and bring them back to Johto in the hopes of restoring the nation's pride and peace.

Pokemon: Micah/Absol/M/Pressure/Docile/Alert to sounds.
Hananiah/Gengar/M/Levitate/Naughty/Strong-willed.
Deborah/Xatu/F/Synchronize/Lonely/Often lost in thought.
Miriam/Feraligatr/F/Torrent/Adamant/Loves to eat.
Amos/Nidoking/M/Poison Point/Quiet/Capable of taking hits.
Asiyah/Arcanine/F/Intimidate/Rash/Likes to run.

Other: Niece to Eusine; the two do not get along particularly well, but they still collaborate and share findings while keeping their face-to-face interaction minimal. Is acquainted with most of the Silver League members and some of their immediate family but is not close with any of them. Has a good relationship with Morty and Cecilia Valdis, and they try to keep in touch where it is practical.

Lenore prepares for pretty much any situation. Her bag includes a camera and backup batteries, notepads and pencils, a Swiss army knife, matches, and a first-aid kit for human or Pokemon use. She also carries a nine millimeter pistol and a spare magazine; at one point she kept it concealed but has recently begun wearing it openly.

Lenore's backstory as pertains to the canonical characters has been greenlit by Xaiku, if that matters.