Name: Helena Gray
Gender: Female
Age: 22, but looks much tinier and younger. Her face fits her age, however.
Team: Team Awesome
Description: Helena looks entirely diminutive when compared with people of average height, even other women. Not only is she short at only 4'11", her body is slender and fine-boned. She has a thin face and slim, long limbs in relevance to her body. Her large, oceanic eyes stand out on her face. Her fine, chocolate brown hair is always pulled back into a braid or ponytail, but cascades down to her shoulderblades when let down. She is olive-skinned and looks strikingly beautiful, though she pays no attention to the aesthetics of her features.

She generally wears close-fit, comfortable clothing that suits a wide range of movement. She is almost always sporting brown leather fingerless gloves and prefers long-sleeved items. She often wears breathable sneakers, never clunky, and is light on her feet. She dons no jewelry or trinkets, save for a single earring on her right ear. This earring holds the Burst stone she needs to trigger fusions with her Pokemon team.

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Sexuality: Asexual (possibly demisexual)
Personality: Helena has a cold, clinical personality. She has a direct and blunt approach to everything--black and white. She comes up with the most logical or literal explanation for events, applying Occam's Razor whenever possible. She is almost never emotional or perturbed--in fact, there are few who have ever seen her as anything but her blank, stoic self. She has amazing concrete intelligence. She can memorize, analyze, or recall anything she hears or sees. She uses these facts and logic quickly to fashion tactics in the moment. However, she is not particularly creative or imaginative.

Helena is reclusive and generally stays alone. She has no real sense of empathy or compassion for others and tends towards selfishness. She has erased her need for intimacy and relationships on every level, making her a terrifying sort of person to be around at times. At most, she has comrades, though she rubs too many the wrong way to become friendly with them. She feels that she has no need for true friendship and is satisfied to keeping relationships professional or polite. Deep down, she may even fear relationships and attachments as weaknesses. She thinks being detached makes her less emotionally compromised. She has ambitions to hone her skills and become more powerful in her own right, fed from the fear of being weak.

She has an incredible sense of stubbornness and control. This adds to her unflappable demeanor. There has not been a single person who could truly strike fear into her. She believes in 'an eye for an eye', more in fairness and justice than true revenge. She meets every challenge to the fullest and defeats opponents swiftly to discourage them. So far, she has won nearly every fight she's been in, especially as she gains more experience. She will never back down, believing it makes her stronger and more respected or feared.
She rarely seeks fun or enjoyment, other than the knowledge of successfully completing a task set out for herself or someone else. Helena likes the security of her own strength.

Background: Helena was born and given away immediately to a foster home in the slums of Goldenrod City, where she, as the smallest and weakest child, was constantly bullied. She quickly decided that to be safe, she needed to seclude herself and become stronger or learn to be stealthy. Her food was often bullied away from her so she took to stealing, becoming good enough to never have been detected.

At the tender age of seven she took to the streets, hating being confined by the home's walls and mean-eyed brats. She lived in dark alleyways and abandoned buildings, slipping away from police every time they thought they'd caught up to her after a theft. She relished in her own power and skill as a thief and a scrapper, though one day the tiny girl was cornered by a rough-and-tumble gang who tired of her stealing their things. She took a few of the huge gang members down until one got in a lucky blow with his steel baseball bat, and Helena crumpled in a heap to the ground. They would have killed her if not for a man coming to her rescue.
Later, she woke in the man's house, and he introduced himself as Kenji. Feeling hateful towards herself, she told him she'd repay him however she could--however, he waved it off before offering to teach her to fight properly. He'd seen how she fought in the street and saw potential in her. He offered her the one-time opportunity to train under him and learn to really fight, and she took it with hardly any hesitation.

A day came when Johto fell into chaos. War and economical hardship ravaged the country, hitting Goldenrod particularly hard. She learned of Lance's parents and his part in Harper Industries, and though she did not particularly feel that she should be sorry for him, she respected him for wanting to get Johto back on its feet.

In the midst of this, Helena managed to get her hands on a Burst orb. She obtained this by stealing from those who had stolen from Kanto--stealing from thieves. Knowing full well what this item could do, she quickly obtained a Pokemon team. This was harder than she anticipated, however, and took quite a few years. Every single one of her Pokemon team are previously abandoned or unwanted Pokemon that were deemed too weak or unspecial. Not that she did this on purpose, they were simply the easiest to obtain, since nobody cared that they went missing.

Skills: She was classically trained at a late age in several schools of fighting. However, her self-invented stealthy style slips in quite often in her own brand of fighting. Her trainer tries to break her out of this habit, though he has not succeeded quite yet.

Helena is fast and thinks fast. She's not intelligent in the book-sense, but she is very good at evolving tactics quickly in her head to get out of bad situations.

She is very good at pickpocketing, general stealing, hotwiring, and anything else you can think of having to do with thievery.
Weaknesses: She does not work very well with others. She's anti-social and aloof, and often comes off as rude or blunt. She has no real desire to be liked. This probably means that she is difficult to work with in her team, though she does not go out of her way to be a detriment to them. Her overall goal is to become stronger by obtaining an Ancient Burst stone and honing her skills in combat and Pokemon battle.

She's not a powerhouse. She uses tactics, stealth, and speed as her ally. Helena is tiny and easily hurt if someone more skilled gets in a good hit.

Pokemon:
Natalia (Lucario)
Female, Brave

Bolt (Jolteon)
Male, Bold

Tonsiru (Greninja)
Male, Serious

Caydranth (Noivern)
Female, Adamant

Bilizar (Alakazam)
Male, Calm

Narcisa (Crobat)
Female, Impish
Other: She uses concealed, small weapons, favoring a hunting knife. She owns no vehicles, but has the intelligence and cunning to steal whatever she needs.