Is there anything important that I would need to know before we start / that I won't find out through character interactions?
Also, here's my character
Let me know if anything seems like it would be weird / too much given the story and other characters
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Name: Alexander Forester
Gender: Male
Hometown: Mossdeep
Age: 18
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 120 lbs
Hair: Short, dark brownish red
Eyes: Warm brown
Clothing: It's not obvious, but if you look closely, you can see Alex's clothes seem to hang off of him. He typically wears a brightly colored t-shirt and dark blueish jeans, always with a jacket tied around his waist, just in case. Never know when it's going to get cold.
Identifying Marks:
Musculature: skinny, more bony than muscled
Personality: Alex is, primarily, a kindhearted person. He is at his happiest when those around him are enjoying life as well. However, having encountered a number of people who were less genuine than he believed, Alex has developed an undercurrent of fear and a slowness to trust. (Note: this manifests in subtle ways, such as taking care to sit facing the door and always knowing a building's exits). Alex feels strongly about protecting those who can't protect themselves, a quality that often conflicts with his tendency towards fear. Alex hopes to be a pokemon researcher someday, particularly in the field of behavioral research.
Skills: His empathy helps him communicate with telepathic pokemon more easily, though he himself is absolutely not psychic.
Character Flaws: Fearful/hesitant, but almost irrationally passionate when pushed to protect those he cares about
Past: Alex has always loved pokemon. Raised by a domestic pokemon trainer, he gradually picked up on his mother's love for the creatures. After years of watching initially unremarkable pokemon trained into gentle, fierce, or intelligent partners, he grew particularly interested in behavioral research. At the age of fifteen, his mother had managed to save enough money to purchase a growlithe for him. With a professional trainer as his mentor, Alex was able to train his new partner and his curiosity grew. After his growlithe was sufficiently trained, his mother set up a lesson on catching pokemon. She had a wild eevee brought in from a breeder, who became Alex's first catch. Raised by a fiercely protective single mother, Alex wasn't allowed to truly begin his journey until he had sufficiently trained his growlithe, and his eevee had already evolved into an espeon. As such, he began his journey relatively later than most other trainers.
Family: Jane Forester (Mother)
Pokémon Information
Pokémon Team (please include type(s) and level(s), moves are optional):
Species: Growlithe
Gender: female
Ability: Intimidate
Personality: Quick to excitement and full of energy. Ironically given his ability, Growlithe is very friendly to both people and pokemon, though also easy to scare. Very perceptive and protective of Alex. Growlithe takes very well to training, much moreso than Espeon.
Species: Espeon
Gender: male
Ability: Telepathy (note: early on in Alex's journey, Espeon is unable to use this ability)
Personality: Genrally low-energy and spacey. Jumpy around other pokemon, tends to perfer people. If you judge him based on the conventional interpretation of intelligence, you'd be right to say he's pretty dumb. However, he is very cunning and has a good sense for others' motives. If you put a cookie in a locked box, he'll never be able to unlock it. However, he'll be quick to find a way around the lock.