Somehow, I'm not surprised that I'm one of the last people to get their bio's up... Anyway, I've gone a little nuts with this (and with how the first post is shaping up, that as well), so sorry about how long this is. I should be ready to start this up pretty soon, so expect a thread in the next few days.
Name: Lucina ‘Lucie’ Harper
Gender: Female
Hometown: Irricus City
Age: 24
Height: 5’6” (1.67m)
Weight: 140lbs (63.5)
Hair: Short light brown hair
Eyes: The left is dark brown, and the right is a bright blue colour
Clothing: Tends to keep it simple, with dark blue jeans, practical black boots, and a black shirt. Over this, she sports a grey suit jacket, a gift from her brother, which has scorch marks all of the right side of it.
Identifying Marks: Heterochromatic eyes
Musculature: Lean and strong
Personality: Lucie can come across to others as being fairly biopolar – her default mood is one of icy calm, where she displays as little emotion as possible. However, if a topic comes up that she cares about, namely Pokemon Rights, or politics, she can quickly become deeply engrossed in debate or argument, becoming determined to convince others that her way of thinking is correct. People who disagree with many of her personal policies she tends to look down upon, to the point of walking away in times of need. For example, during fights, she tends to try and avoid killing Pokemon to the best of her abilities. However, anyone who needlessly (in her eyes) kills, tends to find themselves on the receiving end of her hatred. The reason for these odd mood swings is because, over the last 5 years, Lucie has learned that there is no point in dealing with emotions such as sadness, as they just tend to take up precious time and cause her to make rash decisions, which have in some cases, resulted in the death of her Pokemon. It’s not that she’s become numb to the deaths and pain around her, but rather, she just shoves them down, and attempts to hide it all behind a blank face. The only emotion she’ll allow to show is anger, as she’s found it helps her to fight and to sometimes commit horrific acts. As such, she feels as if she’s been completely consumed by her rage, and her guilt for her involvement in Plasma’s take over, and she really wishes she could let it all go. But, she’s aware that she’s devoted too much time and lost too many people to this cause to be able to let it go, so she’d find her life would lose all meaning without it. So, all she really perceives is left in her life is to carve her way through the League’s enemies in the vain hope that they can actually make a difference, until she eventually is killed.
Skills: Quite good with Pokemon in terms of understanding their behaviour and also dealing with injuries, has no official combat training but her Scrafty has been teaching her for the last 5 years, so she is fairly decent at fighting dirty nowdays.
Past: Lucie was born as the younger-by-one-minute twin of two Pokemon Rights activists. Her parents ran a Pokemon shelter on the outskirts of Irricus, and ended up taking in a lot of Pokemon that were rejects from the intensely competitive breeding industry. Originally, most of these Pokemon would have been released into the wild, but having been born in captivity and with no parents to train them, most didn’t survive. Her parent’s shelter took these Pokemon in for free, so it helped save a lot of lives. Lucie and her brother, Marth, were kept separate by their parents from the shelter until they time they were eight years old, so that they didn’t have to see some of the less well treated Pokemon that came in. However, one day her mother was knocked over when attempting to calm an injured Sawsbuck that had found its way into their land. She hit her head on a steel beam as she fell, and the resulting brain damage was bad enough that she lost the ability to formulate new memories, and control over her motor skills. So to continue being able to run the shelter, Lucie’s father needed them to help out, as their mother was constantly in and out of hospital trying to find a way to repair the damage. So, this introduced the siblings to the kinds of ways that some people treated Pokemon early on in their life, although as the shelter also allowed for adoptions, they also learned that only some abused Pokemon, not all. This was also the way that she met most of her Pokemon, as occasionally she’d find one that she really clicked with, and would adopt herself.
Over time, Lucie got more and more involved with and passionate about Pokemon rights, concluding that many people saw Pokemon as less intelligent creatures that they could use to fight for their own gain, and wished to introduce legislation to make it harder for people to get their trainers license to try and weed out people who were likely to treat their Pokemon badly. She also was rather opposed to the idea of the League and other competitions encouraging mass breeding to get the ‘strongest’ Pokemon. Her attempts at protesting originally didn’t go too well as she got arrested, but she eventually started a group during High School to try and discuss how to change the system. Eventually, they came across Team Plasma. Their ideals struck a chord with Lucie and her friends, causing most of them to join up once they turned 18, including Lucie and Marth.
Lucie then spent the next year of her life helping Team Plasma. Originally, this was just with rallies, but due to her effective way of using her Pokemon’s abilities, she was taken aside for special training. This caused her and her Pokemon to quickly become quite powerful, and she ended up going on some much more dangerous missions, such as raids of ‘Pokemon Factories’, and even protecting N during his visit to Dragonspiral Tower. So, when they succeeded in getting the region to mass release or place into shelters their Pokemon, she was overjoyed. However, like many members of Team Plasma, Lucie was completely unaware of what the original intentions of Team Plasma was. Upon finding out, she was devastated that they had lied to her, particularly N, whom she had quite admired. Like many members, she deserted, but unlike many members, she managed to avoid being arrested. She doesn’t know what happened to her brother or her friends. One day at Undella Town, she found herself caught up in a riot started by some members of the League. Speaking to them, she managed to convince them to recruit her, and as such has been fighting for them ever since, although she has kept her nature as an Ex-Plasma grunt secret. During her time in the League, she’s lost two of her Pokemon – a Chandelure named Antimony, and a Swanna called Mytho.
Family: Frederick (Father), Sumia (Mother), Marth (Brother).
Love Relationships?: She has had a few casual relationships over her life, but is currently trying to avoid getting in anything serious, due to the fact that she doesn’t want to be mentally crushed if they die.
Pokémon:
Species: Zoroark
Nickname: Renard
Gender: Male
Ability: Illusion
Hidden Power: Steel
History: Like many of Lucie’s Pokemon, Renard was originally a bred Zoura that didn’t meet standards, and as such, was abandoned into the wild. He was however picked up by Sumia, along with the other rejects, and brought to the shelter to be put up for adoption. He found that he quickly became quite attached to the eight year old Lucie, amusing her by making himself look like others, and then mocking them, much to her amusement. Eventually, she adopted him, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
Personality: Renard is fairly relaxed, often acting as a soothing contrast to Lucie’s fire. He likes to try and protect her from rushing into things without thinking, but over time, he’s been less and less successful at this. All the fighting makes him uncomfortable, and he hates it with every fibre of his being, but he is also unwilling to leave Lucie’s side, as so he does his best to fight for her.
Species: Whimiscott
Nickname: Navi
Gender: Female
Ability: Prankster
Hidden Power: Fire
Special Features: A lot of the cotton on Navi is scorched, and she has burn marks on her face.
History: Navi was the daughter of Lucie’s mother’s Whimiscott, and was the runt of the group. But, due to Lucie’s skills, she managed to get the young Cottenee on her feet. So, she ended up following Lucie around so much until she ended up getting adopted by her. During the Plasma raid, she came under fire from a Houndoom, and her second protect failed, however Lucie, having already lost one of her Pokemon that day, threw herself into the line of fire to protect Navi from most of the flamethrower. She feels quite guilty about this, and as such stays close to Lucie to cripple enemies that come near her.
Personality: She is quite a shy Pokemon, preferring to only hang around others that she knows well. Around those she doesn’t know, she can be very soft spoken, but when she really needs to get someone’s attention, Navi tends to repeat the same words over and over again in an annoying voice, causing most to get irritated with her, and as such she withdraw with others even more.
Species: Scrafty
Nickname: Pandora
Gender: Female
Ability: Moxie
Hidden Power: Psychic
History: Pandora was originally given as a Christmas present to a young child, only for the family to find that she was just too rowdy for them to keep, so they decided to give her to the shelter. There, she tended to try and bully others into submission, only for Lucie to get in her way each time. Eventually tensions got so high that Renard had to meditate between the two, and they discovered that Pandora was only acting that way as she’d come to believe herself to be not good enough for her original family. The three worked together to convince her that she wasn’t a bad Pokemon, and have remained friends ever since.
Personality: She seems just as fiery as her trainer, and her reasons for being this way are similar. Pandora feels strongly about the fight against Plasma, and has managed to convince herself that she loves fighting in order to keep herself going. In reality, she’s terrified about the killing machine that she has become, but knows deep down that if she admits this to herself, she’ll break down completely.
Species: Beartic
Nickname: Jasper
Gender: Male
Ability: Snow Cloak
Hidden Power: Fairy
History: Jasper had been living out a relatively normal life on Twist Mountain, until one day a rather violent trainer battle near his home caused him to flee towards Irricus. As most people were unused to seeing such a large Beartic nearby, he caused a large amount of panic as he headed near a school. A group of kids, came out to try and battle him, only to be stopped by Lucie, who managed to calm him down. She fed him before he headed back to Twist Mountain, only to find that the place he’d used to call home had been destroyed by the battle. As such, Lucie was fairly surprised to find the Beartic on her doorstep the next morning, and ended up catching him so he’d have somewhere to stay.
Personality: He is fairly rough around the edges, but practical, and doesn’t back down from a good fight. He can be fairly protective of all of the members of his group, particularly Pandora, and can easily be sent into a spitfire rage if any of them are threatened. He tends to find himself as the emotional crutch of Pandora, as he is conscious of what’s going on in her head, even if she won’t admit it.
I can tell you put a lot of thought into this so I know it's going to be one hell of an adventure! I've got nothing to add at the moment but I'll let you know if I come up with some ideas.
Just put up a quick bio of the character you intend to use when you've got time yeah?
