Post by Maya Sullivan on Apr 16, 2013 11:57:58 GMT 11
Faceclaim = Kaho from Sister Princess
Name: Maya Sullivan
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Trainer Type: Trainer
Hometown: Goldenrod City
Appearance: A little short for her age, Maya stands at 4’8” and weighs in at 95lbs. She’s got a fair skin tone. Her hair is cut just barely short of her chin and is a mousy brown with a matching eye color. Her face is rather childlike for her age, which reflects how she views the world with innocence. It’s rare to find her without a smile on her face. She’s generally giggling about something or another.
As far as clothing goes, Maya prefers to keep her outfits comfy, yet cute. She likes to wear bright colors, though her favorite color is technically navy blue. The child often wears blouses, skirts, and casual dresses. These are accompanied by sneakers and maybe and accessory or two of some sort. Whatever it is she chooses to wear, she always wears a headband in her hair that matches her clothes. One day she wants to grow her hair out since she thinks long hair is really pretty, but she keeps it short since she doesn't want it getting in the way while on her journey.
Personality: Maya is generally a carefree child. She makes plenty of impulse decisions and has a soft spot for cute things. She’s naive and easily trusting, as well as a bit of a ditz. Maya has always held her sister, Irene, in high regard. Ever since Irene’s accident, Maya has been afraid to even sit on a bike.
The young girl has always shared her sister’s love of pokemon. They've been one of her favorite things to sketch, even though the closest she’s ever gotten to one is watching them from afar on route 7 or being a spectator to a gym battle whenever a trainer challenged Whitney or Sabrina. Ever since Maya got the idea of become a trainer herself this love of her’s has done nothing but grow. She knows that as soon as she’s further along enough in her journey to catch Irene a couple of pokemon, the same thing will happen to her big sister. It will be just the thing to perk her right up!
Maya’s got a bit of a short attention span. She’s got the bad habit of starting something, but moving onto something completely different before finished first thing. This is shown in almost all of her hobbies in some way or another, be it reading, sketching, or baking. Many of her little projects only get finished when Irene gets Maya back on track. Now that she’s become a trainer, she’s trying to get better at finishing what she starts. That hasn’t stopped her mind from wandering on more than one occasion though.
History: Maya was born to Jill and David Sullivan. Along with Irene, her sister that was four years older than she was, she had a fairly normal early childhood living on the outskirts of Goldenrod City. The sisters were practically inseparable and accompanied each other everywhere. It remained that way for six years, up until Irene’s tenth birthday.
Irene had always been the more athletic of the two, so their parents decided to get their eldest daughter a bike for her birthday. The child wanted to ride it right away, of course. Everything was going smoothly until Irene hit a large rock going way too fast when she wasn’t paying attention. The child was flung from her bicycle and ended up crushing part of her spine when she landed. She lived through the experience, but the damage to her spine caused her to become a paraplegic. She would be wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.
The entire family was devastated. David and Jill spent weeks arguing over what had happened. They had pent up anger over the incident and didn’t know where else to release it, so they threw it at each other. Their relationship became unbelievably strained and eventually they ended up splitting up. Jill took Irene and left to live in Saffron City in Kanto. David kept Mayu and stayed in Goldenrod City.
Maya’s parents communicated very little with each other after they split up. Even though she was young, she would often go to visit Irene in Saffron City by herself. They were in different regions, but the trip back and forth was fairly short trip using the magnet train. There were no worries about being attacked by wild pokemon either, seeing as how the two cities were directly linked. It was because of these reasons that her parents were alright with such a young child traveling back and forth on her own.
Irene always enjoyed the visits from her younger sister. They were still just as close as they were before even though they didn’t live in the same place. They shared many of same interests, so there was always plenty to do. One day the two of them would be baking some cupcakes, and another day they would spend time sketching wild pokemon on route 7.
Over the years, Irene slowly grew depressed. She had always dreamt of becoming a pokemon trainer, and eventually moving on to the title of gym leader. The road to accomplishing such feats weren’t exactly wheelchair accessible; especially with the constant need of medication to keep her back pain at bay. Given her circumstances, this dream of hers seemed further away with each passing day.
As ditzy as she was, Maya took notice of her sister’s growing depression. Her goal of one day being a gym leader had never been much of a secret. She hated seeing Irene down in the dumps like that, so one day she got an idea. Maya would become a pokemon trainer in Irene’s place! Eventually Maya could help Irene catch some partners of her own! She would be sure to take lots of pictures, draw lots of sketches, and call her sister every day with updates on her progress. Maybe she would even keep a journal that Irene could read periodically.
Maya was a little young, but becoming trainer at age 12 wasn’t unheard of. It’s not like anybody else in their family worked very closely to pokemon. Maya was Irene’s only shot at this. Besides, she loved pokemon as well. This might be the perfect time to prove herself as more than just the baby of the family. She would take on gyms all by herself while she was at it. With enough pleading, Maya convinced her parents to let her travel as long as she got starter from Professor Elm.
Goals:
1. Collect Johto gym badges
2. Sketch lots and lots of neat pokemon
3. Catch a couple of friends for Irene
4. See Irene become a gym leader one day
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