Post by poyzund on Jul 29, 2010 8:03:33 GMT 11
Name: Garfield Raphael Strauss
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Appearance: Black as night is the hair that tops Garfield's skull, its straight strands forming short locks that barely reach to his shoulders in the back. Dark-brown eyes stare out calmly, almost coldly, from amid a sea of pale flesh. His lithe body bears no scars or tattoos, yet lean muscle is prominent and it is clear that he has more than a little physical strength in him. His body is build more like that of a runner's than anything else, and it is not only his semi-slender form that supports this. His petite nose and thin, pale-red lips are a perfect match for his almost non-existent cheekbones. His rounded jaw adds to his almost two-dimensional appearance. He is the kind of boy that your eyes would probably roll over without really noticing him, moving on to someone or something far more interesting.
His clothes are as plain as he is, though perhaps as dark as his eyes often appear to be (when anyone bothers to look into them for longer than it takes to issue forth a passing glance). Finely made jeans and running shoes designed to quicken his step smoothly and comfortably are a match in hue for the long black trench coat he wears. The darkness of his coat is broken only by familial markings as red as blood near the bottom, one to either side of the frontal opening of the coat. His shirts are typically one shade or another of red, and are typically t-shirts or tank tops. A silver earring in the shape of a pokeball adorns his left ear lobe; on the middle finger of his left hand resides a silver, square-topped ring bearing the same marking as on his coat. He is sometimes seen wearing dark sunglasses, assuming the climate about him calls for such a thing.
Personality: Rain is as life-giving as the ocean, yet it can be as violent and destructive as a blazing inferno. This is the best description of Garfield Strauss, a trainer by birth and practice (see Background). He is typically quiet and watchful, preferring to let others do all the talking and play the role of social butterflies. He is a thinker more than anything else, rarely acting on something without first knowing what he is getting himself into. Yet in battle, he pushes his pokemon to their limits and uses whatever dirty trick he can think of to win. Overall, he is a follower more than a leader; however, he doesn't mind being a leader at all. Except when battling, showering, or sleeping, he often has a set of headphones blasting heavy metal music into his ears.
He prefers pizza to any other kind of food and soda pop to any other kind of drink. He doesn't boast about winning or complain about losing very often, not seeing the point; he usually just shrugs and goes about his business. He dislikes his first name, but he prefers it to his even more strongly disliked middle name. His favorite color is red. Nothing gives him more pleasure than completing an objective he's set for himself, and he doesn't mind doing so-called 'dirty work' as long as he's paid well enough for it.
Background: Garfield grew up in a family of trainers. Every man, woman, and child in his family for nearly 140 years has been strictly groomed to capture and battle pokemon. To his knowledge, his family boasts over a dozen Elite 4 Champions in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh, yet the majority of his family cares more about training pokemon than about winning championships. Strong pokemon are what makes a trainer strong, not badges and status. It is under the careful tutelage of this mentality that Garfield has been raised. Pokemon journeys for badges and championships are a personal choice only occasionally undertaken, and Garfield's father expressed a desire for him to do so long ago. According to the old-timer, “It's about time for another one of our family to become a pokemon master.”
Only Garfield's younger sister, Arlene, has refused to train pokemon to fight in the last fifty or so years. There are a few coordinators in Garfield's family - his sister included, much to his parents' chagrin - but his family mostly consists of trainers. He still remembers shaking his head the day his sister was kicked out. She was only twelve, he fourteen (it was about a year ago), but his parents didn't care; they disowned her for wanting to teach pokemon to do ballet instead of training them to fight. As for Garfield, he spent most of his young life learning about pokemon battles and participating in battles with his father. He would be given one of his parents' pokemon and taught how to train it against his father's chosen pokemon.
It was thus only recently that he was allowed to set out upon his journey. He was given a few basic items and a backpack resembling a pokeball, and then he was sent off to the lab. What adventures await him remain to be seen, but one thing is for sure: he isn't the type to back down simply because a fight looks tough.
Other Info: I intend to have him join Team Rocket, though I may also have him earn badges beyond the first one.
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