Post by RivaRanRan on Jul 21, 2010 7:29:31 GMT 11
Name: Rhea Lloyd
Gender: Female
Age: 52
Appearance: Due to her age and the stress that comes with the research she does, Rhea hair has become increasingly salt-and-pepper-like. Because it tends to splay outwards, she has long since given up tending to it and just keeps it cut chin-length, giving her hair a messy and almost devil-may-care look to it. There are dark lines that have taken residence underneath her brown eyes, and the lines of fatigue and age have begun to creep onto her skin. Her eyes betray a sort of desperation on her otherwise calm face -- this was her last chance before her body grew too old and battered to travel. She wears a black cardigan over a deep red shirt, and prefers to wear worn, loose-fitting jeans concealing the extensive burn scars she received when she was younger. She goes around in gray sneakers probably meant for someone twenty years her junior, but hey, they were comfortable and didn’t look half bad. Rhea walks with a slight limp due to an accident in her early twenties and is never seen without a walking stick.
Personality: Rhea can often appear to be rather cold and at times a little odd -- she's a relatively silent person that only really speaks when she feels she has something important to contribute. It does keep people from approaching her, but regardless of any perceived aloofness, she isn't terribly hard to get along with provided she doesn't think that you're a moron (in the case that she does think you're a moron, you should probably look into it because you may very well be one). She’ll often turn things upside down – or, more and more frequently, turn herself own vision upside down by turning her head or leaning over railings – in order to get a different perspective on things. She has great respect for Pokemon and, though she does deal in Pokemon pathology, tries not to use live Pokemon as test subjects. Grass Pokemon are a particular weakness for her – she loves them to high heaven.
History: She grew up in Sinnoh and had started her journey with a Turtwig. Rhea was a good enough trainer and had managed to make rather far it through each region’s – save for Johto’s – respective leagues. During her tour of the Johto region in her early twenties, a young boy’s rampaging Monferno had lost control of its Flame Wheel attack and would have run the poor boy and his Seel over if she and her then Grotle hadn’t pushed them away. The Monferno had caught Rhea’s leg as she dove to push the boy out of the way while Grotle took care of Seel, and, since she was but a fragile human, her leg had been broken and severely burned. Grotle was able to finally subdue Monferno by tackling it into a boulder, but its face had been burned so badly that it had affected its eyesight.
After the accident, she'd had to give up Pokemon training in order to recover and retrain her leg how to walk. She'd reluctantly gotten a degree and ended up loving research so much that she began researching Pokemon pathology. Once she’d realized that research was going to be a permanent fixture in her life, she’d given all her Pokemon save for Grotle to trainer friends that she knew the Pokemon would enjoy being with.
She taught for a while at the university she was conducting research at, but teaching was not quite her forte, so she ended up going to an independent group in order to continue her research. She spent years with increasing unhappiness with the state of her life – romantic relationships never seemed to quite work out for her (it didn’t help that she kept calling people morons) and she admittedly didn’t have much of a social life – and her lab assistants were of the opinion that she was going insane from all the energy she put into her lab work, so with some cajoling from them, she decided to put her research aside for a year or so to finish her Pokemon journey. She’d left her now Torterra with them, as its eyesight was so poor from a combination of the burns and old age that it would’ve had a hard time traveling with her, and also because her assistants found him rather helpful around the lab.
And so here she is, looking to get a starter Pokemon…
How did you find us? Found a link from the Bulbagarden forums, and it says to say that revolvingscott referred me.
Gender: Female
Age: 52
Appearance: Due to her age and the stress that comes with the research she does, Rhea hair has become increasingly salt-and-pepper-like. Because it tends to splay outwards, she has long since given up tending to it and just keeps it cut chin-length, giving her hair a messy and almost devil-may-care look to it. There are dark lines that have taken residence underneath her brown eyes, and the lines of fatigue and age have begun to creep onto her skin. Her eyes betray a sort of desperation on her otherwise calm face -- this was her last chance before her body grew too old and battered to travel. She wears a black cardigan over a deep red shirt, and prefers to wear worn, loose-fitting jeans concealing the extensive burn scars she received when she was younger. She goes around in gray sneakers probably meant for someone twenty years her junior, but hey, they were comfortable and didn’t look half bad. Rhea walks with a slight limp due to an accident in her early twenties and is never seen without a walking stick.
Personality: Rhea can often appear to be rather cold and at times a little odd -- she's a relatively silent person that only really speaks when she feels she has something important to contribute. It does keep people from approaching her, but regardless of any perceived aloofness, she isn't terribly hard to get along with provided she doesn't think that you're a moron (in the case that she does think you're a moron, you should probably look into it because you may very well be one). She’ll often turn things upside down – or, more and more frequently, turn herself own vision upside down by turning her head or leaning over railings – in order to get a different perspective on things. She has great respect for Pokemon and, though she does deal in Pokemon pathology, tries not to use live Pokemon as test subjects. Grass Pokemon are a particular weakness for her – she loves them to high heaven.
History: She grew up in Sinnoh and had started her journey with a Turtwig. Rhea was a good enough trainer and had managed to make rather far it through each region’s – save for Johto’s – respective leagues. During her tour of the Johto region in her early twenties, a young boy’s rampaging Monferno had lost control of its Flame Wheel attack and would have run the poor boy and his Seel over if she and her then Grotle hadn’t pushed them away. The Monferno had caught Rhea’s leg as she dove to push the boy out of the way while Grotle took care of Seel, and, since she was but a fragile human, her leg had been broken and severely burned. Grotle was able to finally subdue Monferno by tackling it into a boulder, but its face had been burned so badly that it had affected its eyesight.
After the accident, she'd had to give up Pokemon training in order to recover and retrain her leg how to walk. She'd reluctantly gotten a degree and ended up loving research so much that she began researching Pokemon pathology. Once she’d realized that research was going to be a permanent fixture in her life, she’d given all her Pokemon save for Grotle to trainer friends that she knew the Pokemon would enjoy being with.
She taught for a while at the university she was conducting research at, but teaching was not quite her forte, so she ended up going to an independent group in order to continue her research. She spent years with increasing unhappiness with the state of her life – romantic relationships never seemed to quite work out for her (it didn’t help that she kept calling people morons) and she admittedly didn’t have much of a social life – and her lab assistants were of the opinion that she was going insane from all the energy she put into her lab work, so with some cajoling from them, she decided to put her research aside for a year or so to finish her Pokemon journey. She’d left her now Torterra with them, as its eyesight was so poor from a combination of the burns and old age that it would’ve had a hard time traveling with her, and also because her assistants found him rather helpful around the lab.
And so here she is, looking to get a starter Pokemon…
How did you find us? Found a link from the Bulbagarden forums, and it says to say that revolvingscott referred me.
