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Pokemon Clue (SU ~ Rated PG-13)

Monster Guy

Fairy type Trainer
Name: Liam Anwell

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Appearance:
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Liam is short for a young man his age. He stands at exactly five feet tall. He well aware of his small stature, and makes jokes about it if it get's brought up. While he does claim his lack of height adds to his appeal, he does wish he were taller sometimes. Despite seeming weak and fragile based on his appearance, he is actually stronger than he looks. He keeps himself physically fit to compensate for his lack of height, and has a fairly toned physique hidden underneath all the clothes he wears. He was born with a pale complexion, He has messy blonde hair on top of his head, and his bangs go to his eyebrows. He has big violet eyes. A trait that seems to run in his family. As well as a small nose, and a round "Babyface", which give him a youthful appearance. His face is clean-shaven, and his upper body is free of any hair except the top of his head and eyebrows.

Liam is very into fashion, and likes to dress well. He designs his own clothes to reflect his taste, as he has a hard time finding clothes he likes in men's clothing stores. His fancy wardrobe mostly consists of button down dress shirts, vests, trousers, and dress shoes. He always keeps his clothes neat and tidy. He wears as much pink as he is allowed to get away with. His current outfit consists of a pink dress shirt that fits him well, and he rolls up the sleeves. Over this, he wears a pink vest. He dons a pink cravat around his neck. He also wears a pink pearl bracelet bracelet around his left wrist, and a diamond ring on his right ring finger. On the bottom he wears a pair of pink trousers. His choice of footwear include a pair of pink dress shoes. He accesorizes this with a pink cap on his head that has a diamond brooch attached to it, a pair of pink diamond earrings hanging from his earlobes. He carries around in a pink messenger bag.

While doing his duties as a Gym leader, he wears a pink Fairy costume he made himself. It consists of a pink, skintight, sleeves unitard. The unitard is covered in glitter, and makes him sparkle like a fairy. It also has a pink heart pattern on the chest. He wears a sash tied into a bow around his waist. On his feet are a pair of pink knee-high boots. He wears a lot of pink jewelry including a long pearl necklace, two matching pearl bracelets, pink diamond earrings, and a pink tiara sitting on his head. The look is completed with a pair of large pink fairy wings that are glittery, and resemble a butterfly's wings.

Personality: Liam is innocent, carefree, and seemingly always happy. He is faithful to his loved ones, and will stand by them no matter what. He wants to spread kindness to everyone, and is accepting of everyone. He enjoys talking to people, and being friends with everyone. He tries to see good in everyone, and sees no reason to discriminate against others. Some have been known to manipulate him because of tendency to trust people immediately, but he doesn't see that as a bad thing. He is the one who will cheer you up and offer words of encouragement when you are down. He values loyalty and kindness in other people.

Liam has tastes that are usually considered feminine. His favorite color is pink, and a lot of his things are pink. He is very into fashion, and designs his own clothes to reflect his tastes. While he isn't necessarily vain, he does like to take care of his appearance. He carries around a mirror, and often consults it when he feels like he needs a confidence boost. He also doesn't particularly care for getting himself dirty either. Due to the fact that he feels there is a lack of nice clothes for men, he likes to make his own clothes to suit his own tastes. He also has a passion for cute and pretty things. It's the reason why he likes the Fairy type. The Pokemon under it are gorgeous. Anything he perceives to be adorable whether it be a person or a Pokemon makes him squeal excitedly. He also has several childish interests as well. He likes candy and other sweets, and he has a rather large collection of fashion dolls that he makes clothes for, as well as cute Pokemon plushies, and his room is decorated with posters with characters from his favorite cartoons.

Liam is adorable, and he knows it. He does use it to his advantage if he knows if it will benefit him somehow. Usually to flirt with guys, or get himself out of trouble when they get mad at him. Due to his small size, and child like appearance, he is often perceived as being weak. This has earned him both the ire of bullies who liked having an easy target, as well as the care of nicer people who felt like they had protect him. He works out regularly to compensate for this, but people still coddle him. He considers it both a blessing because it gets him attention and people think he's cute, and a curse because some people underestimate him. He works hard to prove himself, such as staying up late to study, or consistently practicing a new skill. The one thing he hates most is a bully. He has been the victim of it in his youth, so seeing somebody get picked on makes him angry. When he does get bullied, he'll usually respond with some sassy comment, and act like it doesn't bother him, but it does get to him. He doesn't understand why so many people have problems with boys liking pink.

Regardless, Liam is a cheerful optimistic person. He is often seen with a smile on his face, and acting like life is all cupcakes and rainbows. He believes it's easier to live life when you expect the best than expecting the worst. This does not mean that he is never sad. He cries openly when he's sad, but it doesn't take much to make him feel better. He is also very affectionate. He likes giving, and receiving hugs, and often gets very close to people. He develops crushes on guys rather easily. These qualities make him a natural flirt. While he likes people in general, he is attracted to other males. You can often find him staring at, and flirting with guys he finds attractive. In general he is an emotional person, and expresses all of his feelings openly. When he is happy, he is ecstatic. When he is sad, you'll see him bawling. The occasions when he gets angry, he screams, shouts, and acts rashly. While he seems childish at times, Liam is a happy, fun loving young man, who just wants to be accepted for who he is.

History: Liam was born to a wealthy, prominent family in a region beyond the sea. His family contained a long line of skilled trainers, and Liam was expected to carry on that tradition. As a child, his parents put him in prestigious private schools in order to get the best education possible. Growing up, Liam learned he was never interested in the things typical boys were interested in. He liked cute little ponies, and Barbie dolls while most boys liked playing with toy cars and football. He also preferred Pokemon like Clefairy and Jigglypuff where the other boys were obsessed with Charizard and Garchomp. This made him the target of bullying by other boys.

This made him the target of bullying by other boys. here was one particular boy who gave him a hard time. A guy named Ryuki. He liked Dragon types, and had aspirations of being a rock star as well as being a Dragon type gym leader. He gave Liam a very hard time, making fun of his interests, and calling him a whimp, among other insulting nicknames. He also got his other friends to join in on the bullying. At first, Liam didn't really care. He would just play with the girls. They played better anyway. They were just words anyway. However, the fact that it was constant, and stop no matter how much Liam tried to be nice to him only made Liam upset.

Things became different when he started high school. While other boys were interested in girls, he wasn't. He attended a elite boarding school, so he shared a room with another boy. Sure, there were there cute girls at the school, but he found his male roommate more attractive than any girl. He kept his attraction to guys a secret for a while, but that didn't last long, as it was getting hard to keep the secret. First, because it was starting to become awkward with his roommates, and also because Liam just had a really hard time keeping something like this to himself. He told his roommates first, and he was surprisingly alright with it. He told his family about it when he returned home for the Summer, and they were also fully supportive of him, much to Liam's relief. After that, he started flirting with boys openly.

Of course, not everyone was supportive of Liam being gay. Ryuki was also a student at the same school Liam attended, and he hadn't changed at all since they were kids. The bullying got worse since he came out as gay. Now things escalted to physical violence. He would often be beaten up by Ryuki and his group of friends simply because they could. He told other adults what was going on, but it only served to make things worse. Needless to say, Ryuki is the only person Liam can say he truly hates.

Liam's favorite Pokemon were Fairy type Pokemon. They were adorable, but powerful and not to underestimated, which is why he liked them. After he graduated, he became a Gym Trainer at a local Fairy type Gym, in order to get first hand experience of being a Gym Leader. There, he trained under the Gym Leader to learn everything he could about the Fairy type. He occasionally battled against other trainers that came to challenge the leader. Also during this time, he decided he didn't want to be viewed as a whimp, and a bullying victim. So, he started working out and getting stronger in order to compensate for his lack of height.

While he enjoyed his time there, and made friends with his fellow gym trainers, he was a little annoyed that he was the only male trainer in the entire gym. Weren't there other boys who liked Fairy type too? He was a loyal gym trainer for two years. One day, the gym leader announced her retirement. He was surprised when she announced that she had chosen Liam as her successor. He was certain he would pick one of the girls. Liam happily accepted the job, and was now a Gym Leader. Over time he became a very popular leader in the region.

He ran into Ryuki again at the annual gym leader conference. He had hoped to never see him again after completing school, but somehow he had managed to become a Gym Leader, much to Liam's surprise. He always seemed like such a slacker back at school. He had hoped the years out of school had made him a nicer person, but of course it hadn't. They didn't speak at all during the conference, but Liam could tell based on his interactions with others, that he was the same jerk he had always been. Which is why he wasn't at all upset to hear that he had been murdered.

Other: He has a lot of other Fairy type Pokemon back at the Gym, these are just the six Pokemon he brought to the convention.

Pokemon

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Nickname: Gabriel

Species: Togekiss

Gender: Male

Personality: Gabriel is Liam's first Pokemon. The two have been through everything together, and Gabe is fiercely loyal and protective of Liam. Liam often uses him as his ace Pokemon in the gym. He is a calm Pokemon who serves as the father figure to the other Pokemon, but that doesn't mean they always listen.

History: Liam's parents gave him a Togepi for his tenth birthday. It was his first Pokemon, and Liam takes him everywhere.

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Nickname: Swirly

Species: Slurpuff

Gender: Male

Personality: Swirly is exactly what you would expect a Pokemon that resembles cotton candy to be like. He is a Jolly Pokemon that is always laughing and smiling. He acts like is on a never ending sugar rush, and is literally bouncing around all over the place.

History: Liam met Swirly when he was a Swirlix, while on a trip to a local amusement park. He was eating the cotton candy, and causing problems for the guy running the cotton candy stand. Of course, Liam had to have a Swirlix the moment he saw it. It was pink, a fairy, and looked like candy. Liam battled it, caught it, and raised it into the Slurpuff he is today.

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Nickname: Boo

Species: Mimikyu

Gender: Male

Personality: Like the Mimikyu Pokedex entry states, Boo just wants to be loved, and wears a Pikachu costume hoping to be loved as much as Pikachu. He's a bit of a shy one though, and has a hard time expressing his feelings. He gets very affectionate with people he actually knows though.

History: Liam went into a haunted house in his native region specifically to catch a Mimikyu. The instant he found one, and a Mimikyuium Z, he left that place as quickly as possible. Liam was not the biggest fan of scary places.

Other: Holds a Mimikyuium Z

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Nickname: Maya

Species: Mawile

Gender: Female

Personality: She acts sweet and innocent towards Liam, and is vicious towards anyone else. She likes to battle, and has a habit of trying to bite, or even outright attacking people she doesn't like.

History: Maya was a Mawile that Liam encountered at some point. She put up one heck of a fight, but Liam managed to defeat her in a battle, and catch her. This gave Liam the Mawile's respect, as most others that came across her just ran away.

Other: Holds a Mawilite

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Nickname: Beau

Species: Sylveon

Gender: Male

Personality: Beau is a little bit of a diva. He prides himself on his appearance, and hates to get himself dirty, and thus he rarely takes part in a battle. Instead he usually supports the rest of the team with support moves. He can fight, he just doesn't do it all that much.

History: Eevees and their evolutions are very popular Pokemon. Naturally, Liam knew he wanted to add a Sylveon to his team of fairies. So he caught himself an Eevee, raised him, and evolved him into a Sylveon.

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Nickname: Jacques

Species: Mr. Mime

Gender: Male

Personality: As a Mime Jr, Jacques liked to mimic his trainer's mannerisms and gestures for the amusement of others. He sometimes still does that even now. He likes to put on a show and get attention. It frustrates him greatly when people don't pay him any attention. While he was trained to be used in the Gym, Liam doesn't often use him in battles, and is usually just there for entertainment in the gym.

History: Jacques was the offspring of the previous Gym Leader's Mr. Mime. She picked the nickname, but Liam got to keep the Mime Jr. after she retired, and Liam held on to it, and raised the Pokemon with the others.
 
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Schade

Metallic Wonder
I thinkkkk my SU is done now
 

VampirateMace

Internet Overlord
Solsabre - I'll put you on wait list, and I'd prefer not to open Dragon to players.

TikTok13, Schade/Yasha; I'll review your SUs shortly.

Is anyone else done with their SU?

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TikTok13 - Edward Grey, Dark: Accepted

Schade/Yasha - Alain Renard Dubois, Fighting: Accepted
~ But fix King's species, okay?
 
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TheSequelReturns

Faithful Crusader
I'm finished with mine as well, though i dont know how to get those pokemon models or anime character models. Fixed thanks to Monster Guy's help.
 
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Dragalge

"Orange" Magical Girl
WIP for now:

Name: Cain Edwards

Age: 21

Gender: If you're male or female: Male

Appearance: Cain is a young adult who stands at 5'11 ft tall. His skin color is a fairly healthy white color but he is trying to get tan out of it with little luck. His hair color is purely black where it is always smooth as possible. Cain's eye color is green but wears contact on top of them too. For clothing, Cain wheres a red polo shirt (and he loves wearing polo shirts a lot...even keeps long sleeve ones during colder seasons) with a small pocket to on the right. He wears a watch on his left arm with the hands resembling that of the keys usually held by Klefki. Cain wear blue jeans with a dark brown belt around the waist. Even when his pants normally fit perfectly, Cain still wears a belt fearing that they will fall off in some way. White socks and brown shoes are his go to footwear although in the winter, they are bigger, lighter colored snowshoes.

When in more formal attire, Cain wears a generic suit and tie although the color of his suit jacket is a light brown color with a tie scattered with Spewpa patterns. He wears brown colored khakis and his socks and shoes are both colored black. Cain carries a dust roller in his suit due to him fearing that his clothes will gather dust wherever he is at. His watch is also now has the hands shaped like the arms of Leavanny.

Personality: As a gym leader, Cain is an easygoing person who is able to get along with just about everyone. He does not mind being around even the most coldest of people and will do his best to make friends with him or her. He treats all of his opponents with good sportsmanship and takes every loss as way to help him develop his skills further. Of course he can also be scatterbrained as well, often misplacing his belongings to the point of almost losing them. His attempt at making friends with everyone however puts more pressure on him otherwise.

Cain loves to at least look good enough for the public. Because of this, he's always concerned on how he dresses and that everything is polished. On the contrary, Cain only does this because he fears of being made fun of by others and sometimes carries a dust roller or some cleaning towels in case anything happens to his clothes. Because of his awkward behavior, he sometimes ends up embarrassing himself to even those he battles against, putting both the opponent and his Pokemon in a dumbfounded state. This gives the trainer an opportunity to defeat the Pokemon Cain is currently using before he can get his act together in time. Overall, Cain wants to look good but not to impress a particular person or a group of people but so that he does not get mocked at.

History: In his childhood, Cain lived in Viridian City as an only child with his parents. He would often go to Viridian Forest and play with the Bug Pokemon that saturated the area from Caterpie to Weedle. One day however a trainer's Caterpie spewed out some silk thread at Cain's clothes out of bullying. This made Cain suddenly scared in that it would never come off. Cain ran off to his house as the trainer laughed at him for how he looked with the silk thread that was spewed on him. After his parents cleaned his clothes, Cain vowed to make sure that he would never get dirty again. Despite what happened eariier, Cain still enjoyed playing with the Bug Pokemon but took extra measures to make sure that he would not get String Shotted again.

Cain's fear did not end however as eventually the fear of getting dirty as him being as clean as possible turned into an OCD of sorts in that he made sure that he would always stay clean as possible including his hair. At age twelve, Cain had started to travel around the Kanto region with only a Butterfree, a Venomoth, and a Pinsir at his side. He was not the best battler due to him worrying about his own appearance over his Pokemon but he still treated his opponents and his Pokemon with a lot of care. Eventually he got all eight gym badges and challenged the Pokemon League in Kanto to only lose. Determined to get better, Cain started to travel in Johto and Hoenn to challenge the gyms in those regions too, all with newly caught Bug Pokemon like Ledian, Scizor, and Shedinja. Each and every opponent he was very kind towards too...even those that mocked him for his issue of being too focused on how he looks. Nevertheless, Cain started to be recognized by the higher ups who determine who may be a gym leader.

By the age of 19, Cain had caught many Bug Pokemon with some he cherished deeply the most. Pokemon like Lifis the Leavanny and Veronica the Vivillon were key allies in his adventures and he was ready to visit the Alola region after his journey in Kalos. That trip however was delayed due to an executive asking if he could take over a gym in the Kalos region to which he agreed delightfully. He carefully selected which Pokemon he would use and those ended up being Shedinja, Leavanny, and Vivillon. He usually did not hold back in his battles but his worrying of clothes got to the best of him and thus he had a big streak of losing to a lot of trainers. Despite that, every other gym leader in Kalos respected him for his extreme kindness to others.

Later, Cain decided to go to Alola to discover and catch more Bug Pokemon. Along the way, he caught a Wimpod and a Grubbin whom he both evolved into Golisopod and Vikavolt respectively. In Malie City, he met an unusual person named Ryuki who was traveling the world with his Dragon Pokemon. Initially excited due to Cain traveling around in his life, Cain was happy to meet him and as he shook Ryuki's hand, he saw that his outfit was somewhat dirty. Cain stepped away and asked why he had not had his clothes cleaned to which he replied saying that he's too busy to focus on that stuff during a concert. Disgusted at his words, Cain did not hesitate to step back and hurry up to get back to Kalos, hoping to avoid Ryuki as much as possible so that he would not get dirty himself.

Time has passed and Cain now is 21 years old and still working as a Bug type gym leader in Kalos. The annual Gym Leader Conference was almost ready to kick off and as ordered, Cain left to go to the conference with his bags packed in many polo shirts and a couple of suits along with his Pokemon. Upon arrival, Cain met the others and greeted them with glee. However, Cain saw Ryuki again and the latter approached up to him. Surprisingly, Cain confessed that he did not want to get dirty from him only so he would not get made fun of by others to which Ryuki somewhat ignored. Afterwards, Cain began exploring around the area and during one night at the Inn, Ryuki was found to be dead in his room. This scared Cain as well as the others who were frightened by this (with the exception of a couple of people) but he was more concerned in not getting dirty than anything.

Pokemon:

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Nickname: Lifis

Species: Leavanny

Gender: Male

Personality: Lifis a tendency to make clothes out of leaves for fun and he even tries making Cain wear some of Lifis' clothes that he created himself. He is a capable battler and has a caring heart towards Cain's other Pokemon.

History: Cain had found Lifis as a Sewaddle as it reminded him of the times he used to play with Caterpie and Weedle as a kid. Located in Pinwheel forest After a short battle, Cain caught the Sewaddle and named him Lifis. Since then, Lifis has rose to becoming of of Cain's most reliable Pokemon on his team.

Other: Nah

Pokemon:

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Nickname: Veronica

Species: Vivillon (Monsoon pattern...can't find the model for Monsoon so just roll with it)

Gender: Female

Personality: Veronica often gets easily dumbfounded whenever Cain worries about his own clothing but quickly focuses on not getting hit whenever that occurs. She is mostly joyful much like Cain which, in turn, makes one of Cain's most loved Pokemon he owns.

History: Veronica was found as a Scatterbug when it was injured in Santalune Forest. After Cain healed it, the Scatterbug thanked it and suddenly evolved into a Spewpa. The design of Spewpa inspired him to buy a tie with patters just like the Pokemon and he caught the Spewpa. After a few battles, Spewpa evolved into a Vivillon and since helped him fight in many battles despite being confused by Cain's worrying self from time to time.

Other: Nah

Pokemon:

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Nickname: Gustav

Species: Golisopod

Gender: Male

Personality: Gustav is a much more serious battler compared to most of Cain's other Pokemon. He shows no mercy to his opponents and has great passion in winning his battles. Gustav is also the only Pokemon who will still fight even when Cain worries about his own clothes over the battlefield.

History: Gustav was first found as a Wimpod in Akala Island where it was naturally scared of others. After Cain caught it, Gustav eventually grew to like his other Pokemon and after a bit of training, evolved into Golisopod. Now much bigger, Gustav was ready to show what it truly was made of and became a hard hitting partner for Cain in the battles they fought together.

Other: Nah
 
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VampirateMace

Internet Overlord
Monster Guy - Liam Anwell, Fairy: Accepted
~ I may overrule the length of time they were in the same school(s), just so you know.
~ I feel the emotional scarring of being bullied might have bit more effect of personality (like not being so trusting, or there being some result from bottling up his emotions when he is bullied). But overall, looks good.

TheSequelReturns - Kotomi Yamagishi, Psychic: Accepted
~ Your appearance kind of runs into your personality, but there seems to be enough appearance info anyways.
 
Is it alright if I remove my reserved spot? I’m sorry but I just don’t think I can remain dedicated to this. It’s nothing personal or specific to this RP, I’m just not an RP gal.
 

VampirateMace

Internet Overlord
Nerdy McNerdface: Alright, I'll take you off the list.

I'm also gonna remove the non-confirmed Pre-Reserves, so there should be a couple spots if anyone is interested (starting with our wait list).
 

Tangeh

Well-Known Member
Name: Mariana Brightsea

Age: 24

Gender: (Straight) Female

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Appearance: Mariana is a moderately tall young woman, standing at 5'8". She is decently, though not overly curvy, her chest and hips further accentuated by her style of clothing. She prefers lighter outfits which are still feminine and stylish by her standards, currently wearing a deep blue backless dress made with a light, flowy fabric. The front of the dress narrows toward her neck, and is tied with an V shaped string in the front, and an X-shaped string pattern in the back (*ignore reference image). The thin strings allow the bikini strings of her medium turquoise bathing suit to show underneath. She can very efficiently whip off the dress to show off a revealing bikini underneath. She wears matching turquoise sandals underneath, decorated with a large (fake) turquoise flower on the top of both of them.

Her hair is naturally curly and voluminous, but the caramel highlights that snake through her dark brown hair are the work of a professional rather than genetics. Her bangs refuse to fall as perfectly as she would like, so she either curls them artificially to keep them nicely out of her face, or - more practically, considering how often she's in the water - she will pin them back with a trademark hair clip. The base is a large shiny pink gem, and it spouts turquoise feathers upwards.

Mariana has an oval-shaped face with deep blue eyes, accentuated further with waterproof black eyeliner and mascara. She can get away with minimal makeup otherwise, for practicality in the water, but if attending a formal event tends to go much heavier on the makeup, sporting a blue smoky eye and dark red lipstick. She wears large gold hoop earnings and sports a chunky gold-and-turquoise bracelet on her right wrist, as she is left handed.

Personality: Mariana is one book you can judge by the cover, and she does the same to everyone around her. Looks are everything to her, and you can tell just by looking at her exactly the type of person you're dealing with. She walks with a straight, graceful posture that's so well-practiced that its almost overdone. She talks about fashion and currently trends a lot, and is quick to chide anyone whom she feels is terribly outdated in the wardrobe department. Politely or subtly, of course - she wouldn't want the media catching wind of her being rude to anyone, as her reputation is equally as important to her as her looks. She likes to twist her words to leave people wondering whether or not they'd been insulted - much easier to cover her back that way if they get upset. She is highly expressive and uses her hands a lot when she talks.

Mariana is a social butterfly and likes to be friends with as many people as possible, but particularly any that are of high-status, such as wealthy people and gym leaders. She will ignore less attractive or less important people in favour of interacting with those who can give her an up in the world. A notable schmoozer, her efforts to impress those whom she perceives are above her can come off as shallow or fake. She has many friends in high places, and is always willing to help those of appropriate social status at a moment's notice. Despite a few notable bad run-ins with the media in her past, she is friendly and chatty to them as well, occasionally using the outlet manipulatively if she is double-crossed by another figure in the public eye. Mariana has also been noted to flirt openly with men to get what she wants, though her relationship with Ryuki has made her wary of long-term relationships. She uses her charm purely to manipulate or perhaps initiate a fling, but will leave them just as easily to move on to the next guy. Sometimes she can be a drama queen, overemphasizing her emotions when necessary to get her own way.

She is happy to give new trainers battle pointers, and has designed her gym as a large swimming pool to give them a brand new battle experience. Because of her particular gym's proximity to the region's professor, she is typically the second gym encountered in the region. Therefore, when she gets a more advanced opponent, she is happy to go all out, employing sneaky, almost dirty tactics to secure victory.

History: Mariana was born in Castelia City, Unova and was raised as an only child. Her family was exceptionally wealthy, and she lived most of her life on a 26th floor penthouse overlooking Castelia's harbour. She spent many hours as a child watching the ships sail in and the water-type pokemon play in the harbour, and she became fascinated with the ocean. It was a love that her father encouraged, as he was the CEO of the largest ship building company in Unova. She was privately educated with other wealthy children, and had many likeminded friends growing up. Her parents both worked long hours and she rarely spent much time with them, but being a very social child she sought attention from her peers instead. She soon learned she gained more friends if she looked and acted a certain way, and, starved for attention, quickly conformed. This began an obsession with her appearance around the age of ten, when she first started colouring her hair, wearing makeup, and watching what she ate. She made sure to be up to date on all of the latest fashion trends, and her popularity - and self-confidence - skyrocketed as a result. She got good grades despite not being overly studious, considering her parents hired tutors to drill lessons into her head.

When Mariana was thirteen years old, for reasons her father evaded he became increasingly concerned for her safety. He insisted she obtain a starter pokemon and learn how to properly battle, on top of her normal studies. She had never considered or desired a pokemon journey, so had never wanted a pokemon before - however, recently a boy in her class had been getting a lot of attention as he was a transfer student from Kanto, and had a bulbasaur with him. Wishing to outshine her classmate, she demanded her starter pokemon be a popplio - a pokemon found only in the exotic Alola region. Not pressing the issue, her father submitted to her demand, and had one imported. Mariana nicknamed her new charge 'Caspian', and as she predicted, her classmates were in awe of him.

Mariana was privately instructed in pokemon battles with Caspian, and took to them surprisingly well. Perhaps a little bit too passionately, as she soon grew bored with her desires to become a world class fashion model and designer and took on a new dream to become pokemon champion. Her parents didn't take this too seriously, assuming it was another childhood phase, and supported her dreams passively. They were around even less as Mariana grew up, but she often spent nights at her friends houses anyways, and it proved to be convenient when she reached high school age. Parties at her house (which her parents weren't even aware of) made her even more of a name amongst her classmates, and Mariana reveled in it.

When Mariana was fifteen, she was walking home from school when two men approached and shoved her to the ground, grunting that they were going to hold her for ransom money from her father, as he owed their boss money from a shady deal two years back. Caspian burst out of his ball and dutifully sent a water gun hurtling toward the bandits. Mariana scooped up Caspian and made a run for it - the men had quickly gotten up and strategically pursued her to the end of a dock. Onlookers stared in concern but nobody intervened in time, so Mariana dove into the ocean. Caspian loyally kept the would-be captors away with water gun attacks until police were called to the commotion and arrested them.

Mariana was thrust unceremoniously into the media spotlight after these events, as it was revealed her father had engaged in illegal business practices that had prompted her attempted kidnapping. Part of her adored the attention, and she retold the event dramatically, hailing Caspian a hero, and overstating her own abilities as a trainer. The other part of her knew the negative attention on her family could have unfortunate consequences on her when she grew older. Her parents forced her to participate in therapy sessions for the next year, convinced she had to be mentally damaged from the ordeal. Still, the most profound discovery that came out of the situation was how amazing Caspian had battled in the water, and it changed the way she practiced battling forever. She spent more and more time perfecting Caspian's battle techniques in the water, and after graduating high school left Unova to travel the world.

She spent her next four years traveling around the seven pokemon regions, building her collection of water-type pokemon, and training and battling regional gym leaders. The media had stopped showing interest in her after the fiasco, but soon had a brand new reason to follow her, as her battle prowess was quickly becoming well-renowned. The media was quick to pull up her past, but Mariana shook it off, spinning it into a 'rags-to-riches' story of survival and triumph over the odds, claiming the incident to be the inspiration that pushed her to become the best water-type trainer she could be.

At age twenty-two, Mariana began dating dragon-type trainer Ryuki. Mariana was in the midst of getting her own pokemon gym set up when they began dating, and she was in a very good position at this point in her life. They were alike in many ways, being both passionate and talented regarding a specific type of pokemon, and declared each other boyfriend and girlfriend after two months into the relationship. From there they started getting more serious and more public, often seen together at formal events for top trainers. This was when Mariana began getting warnings from others: "he's homophobic; he treats his pokemon horribly; he's incredibly rude when he doesn't get his own way" - Mariana began observing her boyfriend more carefully, and was horrified to realize how blinded she'd been. All of the rumours were true, and even when she thought back to how he'd acted when they'd first started dating, she was amazed that she hadn't realized it sooner. She considered the matter for a few days, then privately discussed her concerns with Ryuki. Unsurprisingly, he turned unattractively angry, and threw a tantrum much like a child. Disgusted, Mariana insisted she wished to end their relationship.

She was a bit depressed by the turn of events, but knew it was for the best. She couldn't stand to be with someone who was so vile to other people - it was bad for her image, anyways. Her life was getting back to normal when Ryuki called her, and begged her to attend one last dinner with him. They had reserved a couple's table at the event a few weeks ago, and it was non-refundable. Many gym leaders and even members of the elite four were expected to be in attendance, so it would be a fantastic opportunity for both of their careers. Ryuki assured her he would not make things awkward, as nobody else knew about the breakup yet, and she would never have to see him again after this. Mariana reluctantly agreed to this final favour.

It would turn out to be the biggest regret of her life, as in the middle of the dinner Ryuki loudly began making a scene about how how much he hated Mariana, and that he wanted to break up with her. He spun a marvelous story about how deceitful and toxic Mariana had been as a girlfriend, implied she'd been cheating on him, and even went as far as to warn the stunned attendees and media never to interact with her. Mariana had never, and still has never, been so angry and humiliated in her entire life. This escalated into a shouting match between the ex-couple so severe that security was called in to forcibly remove them from the dinner. The next day's media coverage of the event somehow made the fight seem even worse than it was, and Mariana vowed to get revenge for tarnishing her image.

Still, she managed to get on with opening her own gym, and her life from then up until now has mostly been devoted to running the gym and attending related events and other related duties. She absolutely adores being a gym leader and being a model for other trainers to look up to. Her gym is part battle arena, part day spa - large UV lamps in the ceilings provide an area for patrons to tan while they watch the match, and a glass soundproof wall allows other customers to view while getting other services done, if they wish. The arena itself is a large swimming pool with several floating platforms. For new trainers Mariana prides herself on giving them a brand new battling experience - for more experienced trainers, she employs the water for advanced, almost dirty techniques to take advantage of any who were expecting a normal battle. The annual Gym Leader Conference was not one she was about to miss - even if it turned out her ex-boyfriend was there. She evaded Ryuki the entire time, and pointly ignored him when he attempted to make conversation. He could go die somewhere for all she cared - anything to get him out of her life permanently...

Pokemon:

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Nickname: Caspian

Species: Primarina

Gender: Male

Personality: Caspian is calm, elegant, and graceful. He likes to maintain a peaceful demeanor, and even within battle every move is calmly calculated and precisely executed. He is motherly toward younger pokemon.

History: Caspian was given to Mariana as her starter pokemon imported from Alola. He trained with Mariana and was the reason she eventually became a gym leader. He on one occasion saved Mariana from an attempted kidnapping and became a local hero for a short period.

Other: n/a

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Nickname: Morgan

Species: Toxapex (Shiny)

Gender: Female

Personality: Morgan is shy yet viciously spiteful to any who cross her. Her battle style is very defensive and sneaky. It's unusual that Mariana would force her to socialize, as she doesn't exactly play nicely with others. Despite this, her shiny colouration made her a prime candidate to drag along to the conference to show off.

History: Mariana purchased Morgan from a breeder for a hefty sum of pokedollars, attracted by the unusual colour and eager to show her off to other trainers. She has trained with Morgan for many years and now uses her only for gym trainers who have obtained six or seven badges before challenging her gym. Mariana will send Morgan directly from her ball to the bottom of the pool, hiding her pokemon choice from the opponent until the either are forced to have their pokemon blindly investigate, or Mariana chooses to command a pin missile from the depths of the pool.

Other: Shiny.

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Nickname: Storm

Species: Vaporeon

Gender: Male

Personality: Proud and snobby, Storm thinks himself better than most pokemon. After all, he is one of the main pokemon used by a gym leader. His friendship can be won over with a little effort.

History: Obtained as an eevee while in Kanto. Mariana evolved him into a vaporeon right away, to get the most out of his evolution. Nowadays he is used mostly for trainers who have between three and six badges when challenging the gym.

Other: n/a


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Nickname: Dewdrop

Species: Marill

Gender: Female

Personality: Dewdrop is innocent, sweet, and friendly to all she meets... to a fault. In short, the perfect pokemon to be used as a front-mon for Mariana's image. Though experienced and precise in battle, she is not as powerful as the other pokemon Mariana chose to bring to the conference.

History: Obtained from an egg while in Kalos. Dewdrop sees a large amount of usage in the gym, as she is typically used as the final pokemon in battles against trainers who have zero or one badges, and as a standard pokemon against trainers who have two or three badges already. As such, she has become Mariana's "signature" pokemon.

Other: n/a
 

VampirateMace

Internet Overlord
Tangeh (Mariana Brightsea, Water): Accepted
- "for reasons her father evaded he became increasingly concerned for her safety" I'm not sure what word evaded was supposed to be here tho.


EVERYBODY:
Guys, it's been brought to my attention that some of you may be using more then 500kb in GIFs in your SU posts. This is against SPPF rules, so please edit your SU if this applies to you.
 
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VampirateMace

Internet Overlord
Vern - ALF, Ghost: Accepted

Dragalge - Cain Edwards, Bug: Accepted
- You forgot to remove the prompt note from gender.
- Some minor typos/issues in Appearance, looking a little rushed. Did you do this bit last?
 
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