Name: Anders
Gender: Male
Hometown: Ecruteak City
Age: 20
Height: 6'1"
Weight: ~185lbs
Hair: Dirty Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Clothing: Tan Hat(occasionally), Gray T-Shirt, Coyote Brown Cargo Pants w/Matching Field Jacket, Brown Hiking Boots, and a Olive Green and Gray Rucksack.
Identifying Marks: Faint criss-crossed scars across forearms from tree branch scratches while traveling through the forest.
Musculature: Lean, tawny build. Very wiry, and strong, but not overly muscled.
Personality: Anders is a quiet, reserved, and polite individual. He has many opinions but tends to keep them to himself, unless blatantly asked, or they fly in the face of his ideals. Though young, he is very precocious and idealistic. He is slow to warm up to people, but once he does is fiercely loyal and a friend for life. Though he would seldom admit it, he is a hopeless romantic. Anders is very intelligent, and idealistic, which leads him to believe he is always right, even when he is wrong. That being the case he often has to learn the hard way that he was indeed wrong. However, he will always seek to make amends, or set things right once he's come to terms with the fact.
Skills: Growing up around the forests of Ecruteak City, Anders learned at an early age how to live off the land. Tought the skills of firecraft, shelter building, wilderness survival, and first aid from his father (a former ranger) as well as a lot of trial and error.
Past: His father, a former Pokemon Ranger, tought Anders everything he knew. Survival skills, first aid, even pokemon catching. In fact, these skills served him well when he was 16 and managed to capture a Growlithe (Archer) who has been Anders' steadfast companion since.
His mother was an Ecruteak native who weaned her son on the myths and stories of their town, which helped shaped the young boy into the man he grew up to be.
Unfortunately for Anders, both his parents perished in the blaze that consumed the tower and some of the town while the two were trying to lend aid. A memory that still haunts him to this day. For this reason the young man set out from his hometown to find his place in the world.
Family: Mother and Father, both deceased
Love Relationships?: Gemma, a beautiful girl two years younger than himself, has been the target of Anders' affection. He has loved her for nearly 5 years now, but his idealization of her, and the fact he has no way of providing for a family, has rendered him powerless in approaching her. Still though, he believes they're to be married... one day.
Pokémon: Species, Nickname, Gender, Ability, Hidden Power, Special Features, History/Personality, etc.
Archer (Growlithe, Male, 4 years old, ability: Intimidate)
He has a normal coat for his species. Anders came upon the pokemon while he was undergoing a "trial" of sorts by his father to test his skills of self sufficiency. The young Growlithe was investigating a peculiar pile of berries when it fell victim to a snare that was set out. It was found by Anders sometime later who captured it a pokeball (crafted by himself out of an apricot) so he could nurse the poor beast back to health.
Archer originally resented Anders for "enslaving" him, but over the course of time it took to heal his leg he found Anders to be caring and compassionate and grew rather fond of him. Eventually Archer decided to stay with the then 16 year old as his partner when he had been released. Though he much prefers life outside of his pokeball.
Archer is a very clever, intelligent, and Inquisitive pokemon, lending himself to getting onto quite a series of predicaments. He much prefers his autonomy, but like all of his kind is fiercely loyal to those he's deemed worthy
