ChoShadow
That One Fear In My Enemy's Eyes
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If you have not contacted me in some way, either in the OOC thread for this RP or via private message, you may NOT post a character to this thread. If you do, I will have it removed.
Communication is a basic courtesy between role-players and the GM of the RP they want to join. If you won't show me that basic courtesy, I am not obligated to allow you to participate.
Thank you.
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Age: 20
Sex: Female
DOB: December 25, 1996
Birthplace: Saffron City, Kanto Region
Height: 5' 11" (~180cm)
Weight: 140 lbs. (~63kg)
Hair Color: Indigo Blue
Eye Color: Violet
Body Type: Mesomorph
Voice Type: (Example starts at 0:27)
Starter Pokemon: Torpius (Female)
Personality: Josephine is a difficult person to read due to her rather troubled past and stoic exterior. Typically she is seen with a face that betrays no emotion whatsoever. No happiness. No anger. No sadness. Not even a sense of just being content. Expressively she is a blank slate with no tells whatsoever as to what she's feeling. Unless she speaks up or if you have strong psychic power and can read minds, you would never know what in the world is going on inside her head if she didn't say anything.
Josephine is rather cold when she first meets new people. It's not that she wants to be, nor that she is cold naturally. She is defensive. She'd rather whomever it is she's just met think of her as nothing but a casual acquaintance than a potential new friend. To that end she naturally tends to give one-word answers to questions and presents no interest in what's going on. Even when something is genuinely exciting or fun, she will never express it until she is alone and has time to smile and think about what a good time she had when she knows nobody is looking.
Biography: Josephine Falenas was born on December 25, 1996. Being born on Christmas Day came with a lot of mixed emotions. For one she was grateful to be born on a holiday, but the fact that she only got one round of presents instead of two like most kids did irk her a little in her youth. Her mother, Francis Yssandra Falenas, was and remains to this day a working artist and sculptor of Pokémon art. Some of her mother's art even hangs in museums dedicated to protecting and preserving modern art. Her father, Richard Rahl Falenas, was a successful entrepreneur who made a rather sizable fortune since he was part of a research team which helped develop the first in a new generation of Pokémon Trainer Safety Equipment.
Her father's invention is called the PokéLife App. It's an app installed directly into the Pokédex which monitors the owners vitals using a specially crafted and non-invasive electronic pulse. This pulse scans the user, bounces back information which is read by the app, and determines when and if the user is ever in danger, injured, severely ill, or in any other potentially life-threatening condition. If and when this is true, the Pokédex automatically sends out an alert to the nearest local law enforcement and emergency response units and broadcasts via satellite GPS tracking the location of the owner. This app has already saved over 2,200 lives since it first hit the scene in 2009, and continues to be one of, if not the single most important apps in the Pokédex today.
As for his daughter, Josephine... She grew up a perfectly normal child for the first handful of years of her life. But when her father died in a small plane accident during a business trip, everything went south. His business partner claimed total ownership and control of the business they'd built together and cut off Josephine and her mother from sharing any further fortunes. He also took them to court claiming the fortune earned by her father was rightfully his since he was the primary engineer behind the app. The court, thanks to his lawyers, ruled in his favor and Josephine and her mother had to pay nearly all of what they had to him as damages. Left with next to nothing, Josephine and her mother scraped by until her mother remarried when Josephine was five.
And so began the worst years of Josephine's life...
We won't go into what happened to Josephine over the next twelve years of her life from the age of five to the age of seventeen. That information is private and she keeps it well close to the vest. However we will inform you that they were enough to completely change a previously happy, go-lucky girl with a bright and positive disposition into the cold and apathetic woman she has since become. Known now as the Black Rose for her cold and apathetic demeanor, she travels the Kanto Region as a seemingly soulless wanderer who only stops to rest and eat at local restaurants and inns. Otherwise she keeps to herself and rarely if ever stops to speak to anyone for any reason unless she knows them or believes that they have or know something that she wants or needs to hear.
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Age: 21
Sex: Male
DOB: February 17, 1996
Birthplace: Blackthorn City, Johto Region
Height: 6' 1" (~185cm)
Weight: 185 lbs. (~83kg)
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Grey
Body Type: Mesomorph
Voice Type: Baritone (Example starts at 3:37)
Starter Pokemon: Venom (Zubat, now Golbat)
Personality: Tomoya is a steadfast, proud, and confident young man. Having trained in martial arts from an early age his self esteem and his sense of self worth are through the roof. Nobody can get him down, and nobody can insult him or throw him off. He is immune to taunting and goading, and once he makes up his mind nobody can change it unless he is presented with proof to an opposing solution which is superior to what he came up with initially. He is intelligent and well educated, having come from an upper middle-class family who prioritized education over all else. But he has a good social life as well and knows how to be a people person.
He's a bit of a big kid at heart as well. He is very curious and always eager to learn something new to apply to his knowledge pool. He also loves exploring and going wherever his instinct takes him. Every now and then this gets him into trouble since he doesn't always look before he leaps, and he's wandered into the dens or territories of several large Pokémon in the past which forced him to run for his life. A scary experience, but looking back it was almost always entertaining to him to think back on how silly he must have looked running and screaming from a Feraligatr when he got too close to the riverbank as a ten year old trying to go fishing.
But everyone has a dark side... And Tomoya is no different.
Despite his usually bright and unflinching nature, he does have his moments. At his core he holds no sympathy for those who do him wrong. A good example of this apathy and uncaring nature was revealed when one of the neighborhood bullies in Blackthorn fell into the lake and was attacked by a trio of Carvanha. The hungry and angry little Pokémon nearly removed his left arm before he scrambled out of the water with blood pouring from the gaping bite marks and rent flesh. Tomoya watched the whole thing without batting an eye. When the bully asked what the heck was wrong with him for not helping, Tomoya simply replied... "Karma". The bully didn't lose his arm, but his arm is permanently crippled because Tomoya refused to help him since Tomoya was one of his frequent victims.
If you've done Tomoya wrong and are in a life and death situation, don't count on Tomoya to help you.
Biography: Tomoya was born on February 17, 1996. His father, Hirito Akabane, was and remains to this day a successful Pokémon League competitor and former Pokémon League Champion. He won the title of "Most Powerful Trainer In The World" one time in 1989, seven years before Tomoya was born. It is a title he holds with pride and the trophy still sits in the family trophy room behind a locked glass case. A bit narcissistic, but it's not everyday you get a title and trophy indicating you're the "best in the world" at anything. So there's more than a bit of pride in the family about this achievement.
Tomoya himself aspired to be like his father from a young age and his father gave him a private at-home education on Pokémon Training starting at age 5 alongside his regular scholastic work. Because of this Tomoya has a fairly thorough knowledge of how to be a Pokémon Trainer even though he's never had a Pokémon of his own. But knowing what to do and being able to do it are two different things and that's where most of Tomoya's nervousness about having acquired his Pokémon Trainer's License came from as the day for testing approached. Tomoya passed the test with flying colors and acquired his License, but when he received his first Pokémon, a Zubat, he was scared out of his mind that he would do something wrong and hurt it or cause it some kind of undue stress.
Thankfully he was able to utilize what his father taught him to properly care for his new Zubat. It was purchased from a Breeder when it was still young, and since during its short life had seen it cared for by humans Zubat was quick to warm up to his new owner and bonded with Tomoya in a matter of days. Tomoya name Zubat Venom, a name he took to readily. Though it was difficult getting Venom to adapt to a life lived mostly during the day, it worked out easily enough and Tomoya was able to help him adapt in a matter of weeks with some help from his father. Venom evolved into Golbat by the time it was two years old, which was one year ago now.
Tomoya elected to simply become a vagabond Trainer going wherever his instincts take him. And it's because of this that he met someone interesting and formed a rather unique, albeit odd, bond. Josephine Falenas. The Black Rose and a wanderer without a Pokémon companion of her own. The first time they met was in Celadon City's game corner where Josephine was passing time casually sitting and watching people play the slots. Tomoya engaged her in conversation, but her stiff and one-word responses rubbed him the wrong way. But Tomoya didn't let her off and called her out on that behavior. After a rather lengthy conversation with her, he learned that she was naturally defensive around new people and didn't want to make friends.
Tomoya didn't accept this, of course, and so he kept pushing and talking until Josephine at last got up and left the game corner telling him to "bug off". Tomoya encountered her again a few weeks later in Vermillion City at the harbor watching the Cruise Ships like the S.S. Anne floating in the water. She recognized him the moment she turned to look at him when he called to her, and looked back out at the ocean. An hour of badgering later and Josephine snapped again leaving Tomoya behind with a firm "leave me alone!" command. Tomoya, either out of a moment of genius or naiveté, felt that he was having a positive effect and promised himself that the next time he saw her he'd convince her to go with him to get a Pokémon of her own and travel with him for a while.
Well... He did that. They ran into each other again three months later at Cerulean City where Josephine was sitting by the river taking a nap which Tomoya rather rudely interrupted. She groaned upon seeing him and asked him if he had anything better to do with his life than bother her. He said "no", and she about fainted from mental exhaustion despite the conversation lasting less than five seconds. He sat next to her and asked her over and over again why she wanted to be alone to which she finally screamed "I don't know!" at him. But having gotten her to admit that much, he was able to gently talk her down into a calmer state and convince her that having a Pokémon for a companion would be a good thing for her. Once he got her to agree to that, he convinced her, very carefully, to travel with him so he could teach her the ins and outs of being a Pokémon Trainer and that once she felt she was ready she could part ways with him and just enjoy her new Pokémon.
Josephine reluctantly agreed to this arrangement, and so now Tomoya has a (reluctant and still grumpy) travel companion!