[WAR Season II RP] Arcane Pokéworld [SU/DT]

[Marius]

Name: Atala Pici
Gender: Female
Species: Merfolk
Age: 25
Team: Jupiter Mining Corporation
Description: Atala has short, stringy dark brown hair which is stiff with salt and, of course, dark sea blue eyes. She doesn't get much sun for obvious reasons, so her skin is basically pure white and she sunburns very easily. When underwater, which is most of the time, she possesses a silvery fish tail. Her fingernails and toenails are usually painted a shade of silvery-blue to match both her eyes and her tail. There's a stripe of missing scales down one side of her tail- in her human form it manifests as a long scar. She got it from a vicious Sharpedo attack.

Personality: Atala is fairly smart, but only about such things that exist underwater. She is rarely away from home, seeing no need for it, and as such can be incredibly naive about the way some things work on land, or just about land itself. She is especially bewildered by unfamiliar Pokemon. Overall she is generally kind and friendly, but only to those she trusts. She can be very paranoid and distrustful, especially of people who are not fellow merfolk.

Background: Atala has always been nervous- in her youth it was difficult for her to go to school for fear of being judged or mocked. When she did go, she was intensely shy aside from confiding in a few friends. One of these friends used her secrets against her, and this drove Atala further into her shell. She didn't become more social until she was forced to for work- now she is largely over those issues, but still finds it difficult to reach out to strangers, especially those of different species.

She has two younger siblings, both sisters, and a twin brother. Her parents are missing or dead; they simply disappeared, along with several other researchers, while charting an unexplored deep-sea trench. The four had good relationships when they were children, accentuated by the fact that they tended to have to move around a lot for the sake of their parents work. Often, they were the only friends that the others had. These relationships disintegrated after their parents vanished, the siblings separated and do not contact one another very often. Her sister's names are Kelly and Sunn- her brother is Kody. None of the four know the specifics of their parents' work including Atala herself.

Atala now works at a laboratory that keeps land-Pokémon underwater for the sake of studying. They are a subsidiary of the group Jupiter Mining Corporation, which, among other things, studies the effects that different environments have on Pokémon. She is fascinated by the ones she hasn't seen before, and sometimes also by the ones that she has seen. This is a wing of Pokémon studies, also called pokeology. She has a college degree, and is fairly skilled at it. She feels comfortable with her Pokémon subjects the way she rarely does with other humanoids, and occasionally confides in them.

Pokémon: Dragalge (M), Lanturn (F), Azurill (F), Empoleon (M), Tentacruel (M), Togekiss (F)

Other: Atala dislikes guns and in general they do not work well (or at all) underwater, so her weapon of choice is a long-bladed fishing knife.