Name: Riley Heckler
Gender: Male
Hometown: Anville Town
Age: 16, near 17
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 162 lbs
Hair: A sort of light brown color, it's generally messy, and while brushed to the side in the front, the part has bits of hair sticking up. It's messy, but not.
Eyes: Hazel
Clothing: He generally wears a long-sleeved shirt with a vest that doubles as a windbreaker, and some jeans. He likes to wear a long purple scarf as well, that trails behind him when he runs. Riley thinks it looks cool. He has regular sneakers.
Identifying Marks: Nothing much. You can tell he's a person.
Musculature: He's fairly thin, but not skinny. His clothes certainly aren't falling off him.
Personality: Riley is a fairly confident person. He likes to have battles, and thinks they're fun. As a result, he often gets overexcited and loses track of the battle. He's rather inexperienced, and is likely to panic when something goes wrong in a fight. He cares for his Pokemon deeply, and worries when something bad happens to them. In such occasions, he does not focus on much else.
Skills: Riley has a rather keen balance. He certainly won't be backflipping and doing fancy stunts if he gets knocked over or anything, but he keeps his footing nicely.
Past: Living in Anville Town, Riley had been relatively naive most of his life. Since the colony was so far out of the way, he didn't know much about the outside world, not even anything of Team Plasma and their doings. He knew the Subway took people to the mainlands of Unova, but he was content not to leave his mother, who had become part of the Anville Colony when she lost her husband. Now sixteen, Riley decided to finally leave the colony and try being a trainer, taking the Brown Line to Nimbasa City.
Family: Riley is an only child living with his mother, Alexandra. After an unfortunate incident in the city where his father was killed in a traffic accident. Riley was three at the time, and Alexandra, wanting to escape the oppressive city of Castelia, she took part in the effort to further colonize Unova, and settled down in Anville Town, far enough from civilization for her but close enough for her son to have a life there.
Pokémon:
Species: Vanillish
Nickname: Weston
Gender: Male
Ability: Ice Body
Hidden Power: Fire
Special Features: None
Pokeball: Pokeball
Personality: Vanillish is most like Riley in personality. He often gets overexcited, and starts spewing ice chunks around. He tends to be generally oblivious to unfortunate situations around him. The downside to this is that, in battle, he doesn't realize when he is at his limit and often faints from exhaustion, something Riley tries to prevent. He's used to Riley fussing over him, but it annoys the Ice and Snow Pokemon somewhat.
History: Riley met Weston as a Vanillite during winter. He met it when he was making a snowman, and the Pokemon decided to help out. Watching from the window, his mother realized this would be a great step to him leaving the town one day, and so she searched the house for the Pokeball and eventually found one. She gave it to her son, and taught him how to catch it. Weston didn't mind, he wasn't planning on doing much that day anyway.
Species: Emolga
Nickname: Makoto
Gender: Female
Ability: Motor Drive
Hidden Power: None
Special Features: None
Pokeball: Quick Ball
Personality: Makoto is a stubborn little rat, as Riley affectionately refers to her as. She takes unnecessary risks in battle just to show off, although she is rather strong. She listens to Riley's commands, but executes them in her own style, if only to frustrate Riley. Regardless, they're both good friends, despite the playful jabs.
History: Makoto was the first Pokemon Riley caught when he officially entered Unova. It was badgering the baseball team inside the Little Court by getting in the way as they were practicing. Riley hadn't seen a sport outside of the TV before, so he decided to go and watch. At one point, however, a baseball was knocked straight into the Emolga's face, and it fell out of the sky. Not wanting it to get hurt, Riley reacted on his primary instincts to save others and threw whatever ball he could grab at the Pokemon so it wouldn't be further damaged. The Quick Ball did its job, and although Makoto doesn't enjoy being a captured Pokemon, she'll live with it. On the bright side, Riley got tickets to the next game.