Name: Shadara "Shade" Arcafiwhed Darastrix
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Hometown: Lives North of Mt. Moon, Kanto. Was born on Cocona Village, Oblivia.
Appearance: She is 5'11" (1.7 m) and weighs 130 lbs (58.9 kg). She has long, straight hair that is pale purple with pink tips and black roots. She has black eyes with pale purple and pink specks on the iris. Her skin is ghostly pale with a bit of pink here and there, and has very fair skin. She has dark circles under her eyes and she has more scars on her body than Pyros. Although, she often hides this unless she’s comfortable around someone. She also has ear piercings on the lobes and has an eye tattoo commonly used to signify Mean Look in between her shoulder blades. Her fingernails are also a little long and are normally painted black. She is actually pretty buff and toned, and looks quite slim. She has a black T-shirt with pink on the collar and bottom edge and pale purple on the cuffs of the sleeves, pale purple booty shorts with a black and pink gradient on the edges, and black moccasins. She has a hand-made choker made out of twine with charms, them being Black Glasses, Darkness Amulet, Dread Plate, Spell Tag, Ghostly Amulet, Spooky Plate, Twisted Spoon, Psychic Amulet, and the Mind Plate. She commonly wears a white lab coat that drapes down below her shins, and keeps it buttoned up.
Personality: She is sweet and caring and would do anything to help a fellow trainer in need. The sweetness disappears if she ever finds out that the trainer is abusing their Pokémon. She becomes enraged and would even steal the Pokémon from them, making sure that the Pokémon is safe. She treats Pokémon as if they were humans, and she is more closely attuned with these Pokémon than others of her species. She is very cold and calculating when dealing with someone she doesn't like, and will often make witty comments against them. She, however, has some mental issues. She has some variation of Schizophrenia, which will activate when she doesn't get enough sleep and will only affect her vision, making her see shadows of people following her. If it gets worse, she will start to hear things. She also has Chronic Insomnia, Chronic Night Terrors, General Anxiety and Paranoia, along with being mentally insane. Since she has had experience controlling her insane self, she won't hurt others unless they get in her way. Whenever she does go insane, her voice transforms from being sweet or serious from that moment, to being shrilly and screechy. Her body even slouches than the usual upright-like-a-royal kind of position. It's best not to see her when she's angry... She acts like a royal sometimes, which would sometimes be seen as snobbish to someone else who doesn't know as much as she does and they're older. She is wise for her age, but doesn't exactly act like it, acting more like a child if anything else. She also hates putting her Pokémon in Poke Balls, so they are usually out and about. She also has perfect memory, but because of this she is prone to migraines, and will usually forget things because of those.
Backstory: She had been studying about Pokémon ever since she could read, always being around them and learning how they behave. It helped to study about Pokémon when her mother was a collector and still trying to collect all the Pokémon in her 60 years of living to grow her ranch, known as the "Darastrix Ranch". When she was 6, Shadara’s siblings and she got sent into the nearby forest by their parents and the Pokémon there taught them how to fight like a Fighting-Type, how to think logically like a Psychic-Type, and how to be cruel like a Dark-Type. Shade took the Fighting-Type training kind of seriously, and she took the Psychic-Type and Dark-Type training extremely seriously. After four years of "studying" under them and understanding the minds of Pokémon, they went back to their parents as stronger and smarter beings. They then went to high schools around the regions, spending at least a year or less in them, due to being homeschooled for a year prior their first high school (11 when in Kanto, 12 in Johto, 13 in Hoenn, etc.). Although, after she hit puberty, her once blonde hair and light blue eyes became the flurry of colors they are now, and her skin became tainted with those colors, as well. Her personality even mirrors those of the Pokémon that have the typing Psychic, Ghost, and Dark. This caused her to snap due to insanity, and she can be known to be extremely cruel or very mischievous. She may also act extremely beyond her years and then become very silly the next; her mental state always fluctuating. Right after puberty hit, she literally became insane for almost a year, until she finally became better through herbs given to her by her mother. During this time, her sister, Catrina, would abuse the herbs to get a high and got addicted off of them. Seeing the state of her sister and seeing that everyone was worried about Catrina and herself, she taught herself how to control herself, even when completely insane. Through all the regions, she has gathered all the badges from all six of the regions, and has collected all of the Z-Crystals on her journey in Alola. She even has won a few contest ribbons in Sinnoh and Hoenn when participating for the cute and smart kinds of styles of contests, as well as a Key or two in Kalos. She has tons of experience with Psychic-, Ghost-, and Dark-Types, and knows how to get around most types because of her understanding of how they work. She is a geneticist and a Pokémon Behaviorist and is going around the world, teaching people about how Pokémon behave. She is now coming to Alola to find Pokemon for her research.
Team: Alolan Raichu (F, Chu), and Skorupi (F, Skarpi)
Other: She has schizophrenia and chronic insomnia and night terrors, so it is extremely difficult to sleep. Although, she does have a very good grasp on reality, and her schizophrenia isn't as bad anymore. She is straight.