Post by mouse on Nov 22, 2013 14:49:37 GMT 11
NAME |
Kenton Underhill
ALIAS |
Kenny
AGE |
19 years old
GENDER |
Male
REGION |
From Hoenn
HOMETOWN |
Lilycove City
TRAINER TYPE |
Trainer/Traveler
APPEARANCE |
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Kenny isn’t a very impressive looking boy. For one, he’s scrawny and bony in the weirdest ways. If it wasn’t for his baggy style of dress, you’d never think he looked healthy. And with that, you’d be correct. Kenny is a sick kiddo who merely covers it up the best he can. He is a very tall man and tends to stand above the rest. Not that this is always a good thing. When you are weak like he is, being tall only means aching joints. He is young in spirit, but old in body. Pale skinned which sometimes points out his high cheekbones and almost sunken face. However, when in good health, it is hard to spot these things. Only when his symptoms flare up does he ever look this poorly.
His hair is jet black and he keeps it somewhat long. It does well to cover up his neck and face, especially when he accidentally is bruised. He was always shamed by how easy he was to bruise as a child and so his hair tended to cover up ones he got on the back of his neck and face. Mostly he doesn’t get those anymore, but the style never changed. Kenton also has pale hazel eyes that are always bright like his smile. If he doesn’t smile, his eyes do. His favorite attire tends to include anything long-sleeved, for the same reason as his hair. It hides any imperfections and signs of his sickness. Sturdy shoes and normally jeans, or something easy to move in. The elephant in the room with him is his crutch. He only has one and often he can go without it nearly completely on good days. If his symptoms give him trouble or his joints start to hurt though, he will rely on it. Mostly he tries to ignore it and not let others see it ever.
PERSONALITY |
Sickly & Weak of Heart | Obviously this isn’t just a physical matter. When one is poor in health, it infects who they are too, not just what. It isn’t uncommon for him to almost fall into this self-pity trap that the sickness gives him. His physical and emotional actions all can seem weak when his symptoms become bad. Even when he puts on a strong front, he can feel scared and uncertain within. Can you blame him though? This is what he must overcome every day. The fears of not seeing tomorrow and having to find a way to push on no matter what comes between him and the future is more than a molehill. It is a mountain for his spirit to overcome and it just isn’t that easy.
Determined & Go-Getter | Despite that, Kenton is the type to keep going simply because he is scared. He will go after whatever he wants because if he doesn’t do it now, he may never be able to in the future. He spent his whole childhood being babied and taken care of. Being stuck in the house, unable to play with others. It developed a sense of having to go after what he wanted because he couldn’t before. The doctors have been constantly telling him that he’d never be able to walk again within a few years. That’s enough to give anybody the push to move on to their dreams.
Friendly & Nervous | He’s actually very friendly and social when you get to it beyond that. Kenton likes people and has always been the type to try and be friends with most everybody. Since he was at the hospital so much as a child, he became good friends with many of the elderly and other sick people there. Doctors and nurses got along well with the oddly chipper child he once was and that never left him. But he is paranoid and often very nervous about what others think of him. He doesn’t want them to think he is somebody that needs helped all the time, not that he will turn it away when he really does need it. He just wants to be normal which he never had the chance to be growing up.
Brave & Rash | Act first, think second. He had too long to sit back and think and not act. Now that he’s out there, his own personal morals and sense of justice tend to override him to the point of ridiculous. He is quick to scold those that act out and go after those he thinks need to be stopped. Being such a sheltered child, he often doesn’t have a lenient sense of what is okay in the world and only knows what his more conservative parents taught him. He could do with some learning experiences about the world around him, but his actions are rarely put down by patience. He is highly impatient, eager to get back on the road and get moving. If you can slow him down, make sure to have patience for his ignorance.
HISTORY |
His parents were pretty normal considering everything. Kenton was the second child of the family. The first was a daughter, Renee, who was quite healthy and happy throughout her infancy. With this in mind, they thought that another child would be just the same. It was purely bad luck that they passed on something crippling to their son, Kenton. From the time he was little, he didn’t have the energy for many things. They noticed it right away, and the first few years of his life were spent in that hospital.
He was nearly two before he could go home with a strong enough immune system and body to withstand what was around him. Renee had a free childhood, but that was never going to be Kenny’s life. From the start, he was coddled to assure he never came to harms’ way. Every sniffle sent his parents into a panic to rush him back to the emergency room. This isn’t uncommon for parents not used to being sick or raising a child with a damaging sickness like his. Eventually, he managed to have some form of life that involved being mostly back in his hometown of Lilycove.
Kenton couldn’t go to school like his sister, and often complained to his parents about this. They didn’t want to run the risk of him getting sick from the other students and tutored him at home where they could. The refreshing company of the family’s pet lillipup, Tiny, was what helped him get by day-to-day. Even when he would come home from long days of testing at the hospital, Tiny could give him all the attention the boy wanted.
He turned ten, his sister then fourteen, when she left home to start her own Journey. She wanted to cover Hoenn and pleaded their father to take her to Littleroot for a starter pokemon. Kenton then also begged to go on a journey saying that he’d take really good care of his pokemon and always call home. It wasn’t that easy because he wasn’t yet of age, to their standards, and his health was such a risk that they couldn’t dare allow him out that long. But his pleading did grant him permission to public schools which did wonders for his social life. If he was quiet and almost depressed before, he finally came out of his shell now.
Kenton called his sister every day, getting the update on her pokemon and her journey. She was gone for so long, but Kenny refused to stop listening to her tales. Even if he was in public schools now and was attending regular public events, he still was jealous of his sister’s health and ability to travel. Their parents meant well by keeping him back. Kenny just kept his chin up and worried more on getting better, since that’d be his only way of ever setting on his own trip as well.
But the news came not long later that his sickness was deteriorating his mobility. Eventually, he wouldn’t walk again, perhaps around the age of twenty-five. Fear was all he felt because the idea of never walking again put him in a panic. So many things he’d never experience because he’d have no legs. Waiting to get better no longer was worth it and he knew he had to take matters into his own hands. He turned nineteen, a proclaimed adult by now, and left home for Johto. While he didn’t want to leave home so suddenly, there was no way his parents would simply allow him to go no matter his age.
This is his only shot at being normal, at doing something before he loses all chances with his legs. He has to do it right, or he’ll just live with that regret forever.
GOALS |
Honestly, with the fear of death on his back and knowing his weaknesses, Kenny’s goals are quite easy to obtain. He merely wants to gather badges and see the world, a sort of last thing before he goes immobile for good or his health takes a downwards spiral.
OTHER |
Not that hasn’t been mentioned already.
HOW DID YOU FIND US |
Old advertisement on other site.
APPLICATION COMPLETE |
Yes
