Tamara "Tammy" Myra Avera

[Fluffy]

Name: Tamara "Tammy" Myra Avera
Age: 12
Gender: Female

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Appearance:
&&Height; 4' 8"
&&Weight; 95 lbs
&&Eyes; Blue
&&Hair; Blond
&&Style; Lolita
&&Picture; So this looks a bit older then she is right now but it is still her!
&&Overall Appearance;

Tammy is small for her age and thin, in a sickly looking way. Her skin is also somewhat sickly pale and she appears to be very frail and fragile. She isn't just low on fat, but also low on mussel, though she doesn't look like the skeleton she was as a baby anymore. She tries to hold herself up high and strong, but often wears herself out since she isn't able to breathe well, much less is she strong enough to do such even if she had fine breathing.

Tammy's eyes, dark blue in color, hold a friendly, but somewhat "dull" light to them as if she isn't always there. They are somewhat big and seem to sit strangely on her thin face, almost looking too widely spread. Her somewhat poofy bangs help to hide the thin state of her face somewhat though and make it look a little less strange. She keeps the rest of her very light, golden hair up in two long pig tails. Along with her hair style and short stature, Tammy is made to look much younger then she really is.

In order to try and counteract the thin and frail looking state of her body, Tammy tends to wear poofy and delicate lolita like clothes to make her appear fatter and less delicate in contrast. She also tends to wear black and white together to have the white appear to be much lighter then her own sickly skin. It wouldn't hide her state from anyone watching her with any attention, but it serves to keep those who pay her little to no attention, which is almost everyone, out of feeling sorry for her.

A few constants about her appearance that aren't attached to her body are her favorite black sideways lolita hat, that actually gets clipped onto her hair but which she likes to wear because it makes her look bigger in contrast, some sort of neck warmer to hold her throat steady and keep her vocal chords from causing too much pain as she breathes, her white gloves that give her delicate hands a bit more protection, and her panda stuffed animal, called Wish, a name she knows for him but which she can't actually say to others, whom she keeps at her side almost all the time, much like a security blanket.

Personality:
&&Likes; Pokemon, Wish (the stuffed panda), Audio Books, Soft and Cold Foods, Deaf People, Calm Forests, Pictures, Simple Words, Soft and Warm Things She Can Cling to, Her Half-Brother Sage, Pokemon Battling, and Going Unseen.

&&Dislikes; People and Crowds, School, Reading, Writing, Math, Strenuous Exercise, Water of Any Sort, Hard or Sharp Food, Fizzy Drinks, Being Pitied, Awkward Silences, and Social Situations.

&&Strengths; Good with Pokemon, Brave, Cautious, and Respectful.

&&Weaknesses; Physically Weak and Disabled, Mentally Challenged, Mute, Frail, Low Endurance, Reliant on Others, Easily Manipulated, Naive, and Young.

&&Quirks; Tammy is rather interesting in that though she is almost a teenager, she still think much more like a child and isn't really all that smart. Though this is to be blamed on her mother's drug use, it also causes her to have troubles with others in the gang and she often ends up just getting used as she almost always does as she is told.

&&Fears; Never Seeing Sage Again, Loosing her Pokemon, Being Raped, and Being Judged as Useless and Being Eliminated for it.

&&Hopes & Dreams; She hopes to see Sage again some day soon and to become a strong enough pokemon trainer to protect him as he used to protect her.

&&Overall Personality;

Because Tammy is small and very weak she isn't able to stand up for herself well. Her only real strength when it comes to protecting herself is the tight bonds she has always been able to make with pokemon. Pokemon tend to stand up for her and protect her, and the likely hood is that her own pokemon will probably protect her only even more. Strangely, it is thanks to her defects that she got this gift. Pokemon seem to sympathize more with her since she can't read or write well and can't talk at all, and most of them seem to take pity on her, but don't show it the way humans would, and rather try to get her to become stronger for herself.

Tammy is someone who tends to rely on such connections with others to survive. She probably wouldn't fair too well on her own, as she never has been able to do so from the start. First she had incubators and doctors to help her, then she had Sage. Now suddenly she is all on her own until she can get to the laboratory and retrieve a starter to protect her. She is afraid of what might happen to her on her way, as she fears many things, but she is also very brave despite her numerous disadvantages and is willing to try and overcome almost all of her fears for the sake of survival and Sage's wishes.

Tammy isn't at all bright. She has had learning troubles all her life, more of her mother's drug use side effects. She has trouble understanding complex ideas and isn't one to come up with too many ideas of her own that go beyond the simplest of things. She has never really mastered how to read or write and can't do anything involving math that isn't simple counting, adding, and subtracting. Ask her to multiply anything and she'll look clueless. She particularly hates 9's and 7's cause she has more difficulty with them then other numbers for some reason.

Tammy is better suited for calm and relaxed situations then extremely stressful ones as her body can't handle them well, but she gets some sort of thrill from battling pokemon that allows her to not really feel all that stressed during a pokemon battle. It is strange, but probably not unheard of. What will stress her out though is if her pokemon are seriously injured in one of these battles. For that reason she knows it is very important for her to train hard and become a strong Battler.

History:
&Birthday;; February 18th
&Family;;
-Mother; Jailed for Drug Use
-Father; Whereabouts Unknown
-Half-Brother; Sage, 23, Missing Thought to be Dead
-Sage's Father; Left after Tammy was Born
&The Full Story;;

Tammy's mother was married and had an 10 year old son before she got into drugs. However once she did get into drugs, she started spending less time with her perfect little family and started to have a few affairs. Even now which of those many men is Tammy's father is still unknown. Though it is certain she is not the child of her brown haired mother and her black haired ex-husband. That's right. After he found out his wife was pregnant he thought it would be a reason for her to stop seeing other men and doing drugs, but she didn't. So when Tammy was born bright blond and blue eyed, he left her.

Unfortunately her blond hair wasn't the only thing "wrong" with her when she was born. Thanks to her mother's drug use her body hadn't all formed right. She was born prematurely and small. She suffered from withdraw from the drugs her mother had been using and had many seizures and many difficulties in breathing. She was also very excitable and tried to cry a lot. Tried, because her vocal chords were deformed and stiff, them being her main problem with breathing. They could only tell she was really crying if they looked at her, or heard the strange, loud, and raspy breaths that were the only noise she could make. She would try to cry like this so long that she would only damage her useless vocal chords more, making it harder for her to breath and causing her to faint. Luckily the machines she was on kept the air flowing somewhat normally.

Her mother was arrested upon the discovery that she had used drugs regularly throughout the pregnancy, particularly in the first 13 weeks, and even confessed to as much. She had a fine placed on her and was jailed for a few months and put in a rehab clinic to suffer through her withdraw and stay off the drugs. During this time Sage and Tamara were left with the wardens of the state, seeing as Sage's father didn't stick around long enough to find out about it and was unwilling to come back even when he did find out, even for his own son, much less Tamara.

Sage grew attached to his very small and weak sister though, especially since she couldn't give him any head aches with her crying, and he would stick around her to make sure she was alright. Once their mother was out of rehab and jail, she was hesitantly allowed to take her children back. She stayed clean for about another year, or as far as anyone knows anyways. However when Tammy was about three her mother got back on the drugs as a more regular thing. Sage, now fourteen, noticed this, but he kept quiet to keep himself from being separated from his little sister until he could legally care for her himself.

At this point however more faults were making themselves known in Tammy. Her growth was much less noticeable then the other kids around her, though thanks to both her mother, and presumably her father, being very tall she was still somewhat normal looking, though she looked more like a one and a half year old then a three year old. Along with not being able to speak, her damaged vocal chords made it hard for her to run and play for any one period of time and she had trouble keeping her food and drink down the right tube. With age she learned how to swallow food better, but she still often chokes when drinking liquids. She was also, and is, unable to swim due to her constant need for air and the energy it takes to swim. She eventually learned how to relax herself and float, but she always feared the water, knowing that one mess up in it might kill her.

It was also becoming extremely apparent that she wasn't learning as well as her piers her age. While they were making friends and connections with people, and learning to read and write, she was still struggling to even hold a person's interest in her as she couldn't speak and she ended up spending more time with pokemon as they seemed to need no words from her to understand her. She was also still trying to learn to use the restroom on her own and struggled to understand math and the alphabet. Yet if she had been able to talk she seemed like she might have been the sort of child to constantly be talking about anything and everything.

When she was a little over seven years old, Sage turned their mother in for all of her drug buying and dealing as well as for having broken the contract she had made to stay off drugs. She was arrested once more and Sage, being eighteen, was allowed to take custody of Tammy. However he soon found out that supporting a child without a job wasn't going to be easy at all, and he sought out help. He found it in a gang as they were willing to give him a starter pokemon and help support him through the money he earned battling others if he worked for them. He agreed and became a gang member, not really knowing what he was getting into and not telling Tammy.

Tammy was still struggling at this point in her relationships with humans, but she had never had any stronger connections with the pokemon. She was starting to understand them the way she couldn't understand humans and their complicated teachings. When Sage came home one day with a strange aggressive pokemon though, she was worried for the gang given pokemon. It seemed to have something wrong with it and different from the rest of the pokemon. She spent as much time with it as she could, and eventually grew to accept and love it anyways. The poor thing almost loved her, but couldn't actually manage the emotion and instead just focused its hatred on anyone who came near her or insulted her.

Sage on the other hand, was appalled by the state of his starter and never came to understand it. He tried constantly to cure it of its horrible changes, and found that he hated the gang and all they were about, but he couldn't risk leaving them and being hunted down and killed before Tamara could fend for herself. He became more and more depressed and withdrawn though and unlike the actual things he said that Tammy would miss, she didn't miss the little things in him that changed and they made her feel as if she was loosing her brother.

However, recently he couldn't stand what they were doing anymore and tried to leave. He woke up in the morning as he usually would, and came to Tammy. He told her to go to New bark and get herself a pokemon starter to protect her from the gang. He would have taken her himself, but he didn't want to risk her being found with him and beaten up, or worse, along with him. Now he has mysteriously disappeared and the police have decided he is thought to be dead and the only way Tammy can stay out of an orphanage or foster home where the gang will likely find her and use her as bait is to start a pokemon journey and hope she'll be alright.

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Theme Songs:

Structure/ Innerpartysystem
Untitled/ Simple Plan
Life Starts Now/ Three Days Grace
Nobody's Home/ Avril Lavigne

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Pokémon in Party

Charmander
Name: Drake
Gender: Male
Level: 5
Attacks: Scratch, Growl
Nature/Personality: Drake is a bit of a quick tempered charmander who likes to try and talk for Tammy and tries to eat anyone who messes with her. Literally. He has a chewing problem and likes to bite anything and everything in site. He even gives Tammy Love bites now and then

Pokémon Box

Bill's PC

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Inventory

Item: Pokeballs X5

Item: Great Ball X1

Item: Full heal X2

Item: Revive X1

Item: Potion X3

Item: Map of Johto

TM/HM Case

~empty~

[camtoniac]

Accepted.