Post by Gifted on May 10, 2015 2:09:28 GMT -5
Name: Jessica ‘Jessi’ Smith
Age: 11
Trainer Class: Ranger Signer
HP: 44
Level 4 Base Stats:
Strength: 7
Wisdom: 16
Intelligence: 10
Constitution: 7
Dexterity: 15
Charisma: 14
Features:
Aim For The Horn!
Befriend[]
Companion[]
Safe Passage[]
Guardian Sign{}
Healing Sign{}
No marker= General Feature
[]= Ranger Feature
{}= Signer Feature
Starter Pokemon: Cyndaquil
Backstory: Jessi grew up in a middle to upper middle class family in Goldenrod, but she was well aware it hadn’t always been that way. Before she was born, her family had been extremely poor. All her life, she’d been told stories about her mother being forced to choose between eating and paying rent, not having enough money from her brothers and sisters school supplies, and of winters spent without heat and summers spent without air conditioning. “Finish your food! Do you know how lucky you are to have fresh vegetables to turn your nose up at?” She was told if she didn’t finish her food. “When your sister was your age we were lucky to get beans out of a can.” If she complained about being cold, it was always. “Put on a sweater. When your sister was your age we didn’t have heating in the winter.” Jessica was raised to be grateful for everything she had, and be grateful towards the people who made it all possible.
Team Rocket. Countless times, by her brother, mother and various agents who passed through their home, Jessica had been told the story of how her sister Sarah had taken the first steps to drag the family out of poverty when she was still a preteen, joining Team Rocket and earning an income to support their family. Through the generosity of Team Rocket her family had been saved, and in her family they were heroes for it. It was considered a day of joy and celebration when her brother began bringing in the extra income, and again when he became an official member of Team Rocket just like his older sister. After everything that being with Team Rocket had done for her family, why wouldn’t it be?
But Jessica did what no one in her family seemed to be able to do and looked beyond her family. She heard the stories of the favour which started it all and could only think of the Slowpokes around Kanto with no tails to fish. She drove with her family to pick up her brother from the police station for stealing, and wondered how many kids like her brother would it take for the shopkeeper he stole from to go out of business. Stealing pokemon and breaking laws and taking money and objects – Jessi just couldn’t shake the feeling that it was all so wrong. Her eleventh birthday approached, the year that both her sister and her brother had first joined Team Rocket, and Jessica could feel everyone’s eyes on her. They all expected her to follow in her siblings footsteps and give back to the organization that saved them. But Jessica didn’t want to work for Team Rocket. She wanted to tell them that joining Team Rocket was wrong.
But how could she say that? Without Team Rocket, they would be living like all the other impoverished people in the city or worse. Without Team Rocket, she could never have gone to the school she’d gone to, worn the clothes she’d worn, lived the life she’d lived. She’d lived off of the fruits of Team Rockets labour, labour that was built off the grief of others, and now that she’d reaped the rewards she was going to complain about that fact? She was so ungrateful. Team Rocket made her, and she knew it. So the days went by, and though she had many opportunities to tell them she didn’t want to follow in her siblings footsteps, Jessica never found the courage to speak up.
But as her eleventh birthday drew nearer and nearer, she began to panic, lying awake at night contemplating the inevitable future she was being thrown into and that she couldn’t change. Either she spoke up, disgraced her family and revealed how ungrateful she was, or she’d stay quiet, and be forced into a life as a Team Rocket agent, into an organization that profited off the grief and misery of others.
It was the morning of her eleventh birthday. Her sister had come home for the first time in months, and her brother was home too. She heard her mother as she left for school that morning saying another Team rocket agent, one who was a bit of a family friend, would be there as well. She was out of time and she still didn’t know what to do. Her legs shook as she stepped off school campus after the last bell so badly she had to sit down under a tree. She couldn’t do this. She couldn’t do this. Her eyes began to fill with tears. How was she supposed to choose! She was such an ungrateful awful daughter, but she’d hurt so many people if she joined up…
She couldn’t do this. There was only one way to get away from her destiny. Jessica wasn’t really thinking when she dropped her backpack and pulled out her pokeball and pokedex before zipping the bag back up and leaving it under the tree. She could never come back. She’d run away, far away, where Team Rocket couldn’t find her. With her starter, some pocket money, a pokedex and nothing else, Jessica Smith ran from destiny.
She kept off the roads and far away from the cities, forging her own path through the wilderness. She had no destination in mind, nor any way to tell which way she was going. But she didn’t much care which way she was going, as long as it was away from home.
She made it a few days, but during that time dark clouds rolled in overhead and pressed together ominously. Late at night, four days after she’d fled home, the clouds erupted into a downpour which soaked her through to the skin. Stuck in a valley between two cliffs, she had nowhere to seek shelter. Lightning and thunder clapped alarmingly close and loudly and as Jessica tried to put one foot in front of the other, shaking from the cold and the rain on her skin, she began to worry she wouldn’t live to see the morning. Lost and alone, Jessica curled up into a ball on the sopping wet grass, trying to keep warm and just praying the night would end.
Suddenly she felt something warm and soft press up against her back. Looking up, she saw the great yellow fur and large four paws. “No way…” She breathed. Was this really him? The one neither her brother nor sister had bonded with, the last legendary dog to complete the set? “Raikou?”
The legendary dog nodded and turned to walk away, but it stopped after a few steps and looked back. Jessica got clumsily to her feet, understanding. He wanted her to follow him, didn’t he? Jessica stumbled after him as he led her up the side of a cliff, showing her which paths she could walk. He led her to a cave where she could wait out the storm and then lay down, inviting her to approach. “Thank you.” She said, sitting down and leaning back against his soft fur. “I always hoped I would meet you. I just didn’t think it’d be like this.” She smiled at the legendary dog and snuggled up against him. “My siblings have met Entei and Suicune, you know. They’ve got their crests or whatever you call it. Now that I’ve met you, we complete the set.” She giggled. “I don’t think I’ll ever see my siblings again though…” She said with a sigh. “Will it be stormy for awhile?”
The storm lasted for three days. Three days she spent curled up in a cave with Raikou, telling him all about her life and her family and how she ended up in the valley where he’d found her. She introduced Raikou to her Cyndaquil and let him try some of the pokemon food she’d bought for Cinderella the one time she dared venture into a store. When she awoke on morning four, sunlight was streaming through the cave door. “Sunlight!” Jessi squealed. She leaped up and dashed outside. Everythig was damp with the water from the three day storm, but it was all sparkling and reflecting bright sunlight off the green blades of grass and bright blue sky. “The storm’s over!” She said happily, looking back at her new friend. “Thank you for saving me, Raikou. I’d never have made it to shelter without you.” Raikou lowered its head and put one paw forward.
Out of the brilliant blue cloudless sky, lightning struck out of nowhere. Jessi cried out and leaped back, but it struck the grass between them both. When she came closer to examine the point the lightning had hit, she saw Raikou’s crest, burned into the grass. He was giving it to her. She couldn’t believe it. Just like Sarah with Suicune, and Jason with Entei… now she had the crest of Raikou. “Thank you!” She said. She wasn’t quite sure what to say.
She followed Raikou as if in a dream as he led her back towards civilization. She couldn’t have told you how long it took or from which way she’d come when she finally saw Ecruteak city in the distance. “I understand.” She said, because she did intuitively understand. “I won’t stray quite so far from civilization next time. Don’t worry. Thank you.” She headed towards the city to replenish her stores, grateful for all the help she’d been given from her awesome legendary pokemon.
Pokemon
♀ Cinderella (Quilava) lvl 15
Ability: Flame Body
Quiet Nature
Max HP: 39
Exp: 5000
Hit Points: 6 | 8
Attack: 6 | 7
Defense: 6 | 9
Special Attack: 10 | 12
Special Defense: 7 | 10
Speed: 6 | 9
Moveset:
Tackle
Leer
Smokescreen
Ember
Quick Attack
Capabilities:
Overland 10
Jump 2
Power 2
Intelligence 3
Firestarter
Heater
Sinker
Age: 11
Trainer Class: Ranger Signer
HP: 44
Level 4 Base Stats:
Strength: 7
Wisdom: 16
Intelligence: 10
Constitution: 7
Dexterity: 15
Charisma: 14
Features:
Aim For The Horn!
Befriend[]
Companion[]
Safe Passage[]
Guardian Sign{}
Healing Sign{}
No marker= General Feature
[]= Ranger Feature
{}= Signer Feature
Starter Pokemon: Cyndaquil
Backstory: Jessi grew up in a middle to upper middle class family in Goldenrod, but she was well aware it hadn’t always been that way. Before she was born, her family had been extremely poor. All her life, she’d been told stories about her mother being forced to choose between eating and paying rent, not having enough money from her brothers and sisters school supplies, and of winters spent without heat and summers spent without air conditioning. “Finish your food! Do you know how lucky you are to have fresh vegetables to turn your nose up at?” She was told if she didn’t finish her food. “When your sister was your age we were lucky to get beans out of a can.” If she complained about being cold, it was always. “Put on a sweater. When your sister was your age we didn’t have heating in the winter.” Jessica was raised to be grateful for everything she had, and be grateful towards the people who made it all possible.
Team Rocket. Countless times, by her brother, mother and various agents who passed through their home, Jessica had been told the story of how her sister Sarah had taken the first steps to drag the family out of poverty when she was still a preteen, joining Team Rocket and earning an income to support their family. Through the generosity of Team Rocket her family had been saved, and in her family they were heroes for it. It was considered a day of joy and celebration when her brother began bringing in the extra income, and again when he became an official member of Team Rocket just like his older sister. After everything that being with Team Rocket had done for her family, why wouldn’t it be?
But Jessica did what no one in her family seemed to be able to do and looked beyond her family. She heard the stories of the favour which started it all and could only think of the Slowpokes around Kanto with no tails to fish. She drove with her family to pick up her brother from the police station for stealing, and wondered how many kids like her brother would it take for the shopkeeper he stole from to go out of business. Stealing pokemon and breaking laws and taking money and objects – Jessi just couldn’t shake the feeling that it was all so wrong. Her eleventh birthday approached, the year that both her sister and her brother had first joined Team Rocket, and Jessica could feel everyone’s eyes on her. They all expected her to follow in her siblings footsteps and give back to the organization that saved them. But Jessica didn’t want to work for Team Rocket. She wanted to tell them that joining Team Rocket was wrong.
But how could she say that? Without Team Rocket, they would be living like all the other impoverished people in the city or worse. Without Team Rocket, she could never have gone to the school she’d gone to, worn the clothes she’d worn, lived the life she’d lived. She’d lived off of the fruits of Team Rockets labour, labour that was built off the grief of others, and now that she’d reaped the rewards she was going to complain about that fact? She was so ungrateful. Team Rocket made her, and she knew it. So the days went by, and though she had many opportunities to tell them she didn’t want to follow in her siblings footsteps, Jessica never found the courage to speak up.
But as her eleventh birthday drew nearer and nearer, she began to panic, lying awake at night contemplating the inevitable future she was being thrown into and that she couldn’t change. Either she spoke up, disgraced her family and revealed how ungrateful she was, or she’d stay quiet, and be forced into a life as a Team Rocket agent, into an organization that profited off the grief and misery of others.
It was the morning of her eleventh birthday. Her sister had come home for the first time in months, and her brother was home too. She heard her mother as she left for school that morning saying another Team rocket agent, one who was a bit of a family friend, would be there as well. She was out of time and she still didn’t know what to do. Her legs shook as she stepped off school campus after the last bell so badly she had to sit down under a tree. She couldn’t do this. She couldn’t do this. Her eyes began to fill with tears. How was she supposed to choose! She was such an ungrateful awful daughter, but she’d hurt so many people if she joined up…
She couldn’t do this. There was only one way to get away from her destiny. Jessica wasn’t really thinking when she dropped her backpack and pulled out her pokeball and pokedex before zipping the bag back up and leaving it under the tree. She could never come back. She’d run away, far away, where Team Rocket couldn’t find her. With her starter, some pocket money, a pokedex and nothing else, Jessica Smith ran from destiny.
She kept off the roads and far away from the cities, forging her own path through the wilderness. She had no destination in mind, nor any way to tell which way she was going. But she didn’t much care which way she was going, as long as it was away from home.
She made it a few days, but during that time dark clouds rolled in overhead and pressed together ominously. Late at night, four days after she’d fled home, the clouds erupted into a downpour which soaked her through to the skin. Stuck in a valley between two cliffs, she had nowhere to seek shelter. Lightning and thunder clapped alarmingly close and loudly and as Jessica tried to put one foot in front of the other, shaking from the cold and the rain on her skin, she began to worry she wouldn’t live to see the morning. Lost and alone, Jessica curled up into a ball on the sopping wet grass, trying to keep warm and just praying the night would end.
Suddenly she felt something warm and soft press up against her back. Looking up, she saw the great yellow fur and large four paws. “No way…” She breathed. Was this really him? The one neither her brother nor sister had bonded with, the last legendary dog to complete the set? “Raikou?”
The legendary dog nodded and turned to walk away, but it stopped after a few steps and looked back. Jessica got clumsily to her feet, understanding. He wanted her to follow him, didn’t he? Jessica stumbled after him as he led her up the side of a cliff, showing her which paths she could walk. He led her to a cave where she could wait out the storm and then lay down, inviting her to approach. “Thank you.” She said, sitting down and leaning back against his soft fur. “I always hoped I would meet you. I just didn’t think it’d be like this.” She smiled at the legendary dog and snuggled up against him. “My siblings have met Entei and Suicune, you know. They’ve got their crests or whatever you call it. Now that I’ve met you, we complete the set.” She giggled. “I don’t think I’ll ever see my siblings again though…” She said with a sigh. “Will it be stormy for awhile?”
The storm lasted for three days. Three days she spent curled up in a cave with Raikou, telling him all about her life and her family and how she ended up in the valley where he’d found her. She introduced Raikou to her Cyndaquil and let him try some of the pokemon food she’d bought for Cinderella the one time she dared venture into a store. When she awoke on morning four, sunlight was streaming through the cave door. “Sunlight!” Jessi squealed. She leaped up and dashed outside. Everythig was damp with the water from the three day storm, but it was all sparkling and reflecting bright sunlight off the green blades of grass and bright blue sky. “The storm’s over!” She said happily, looking back at her new friend. “Thank you for saving me, Raikou. I’d never have made it to shelter without you.” Raikou lowered its head and put one paw forward.
Out of the brilliant blue cloudless sky, lightning struck out of nowhere. Jessi cried out and leaped back, but it struck the grass between them both. When she came closer to examine the point the lightning had hit, she saw Raikou’s crest, burned into the grass. He was giving it to her. She couldn’t believe it. Just like Sarah with Suicune, and Jason with Entei… now she had the crest of Raikou. “Thank you!” She said. She wasn’t quite sure what to say.
She followed Raikou as if in a dream as he led her back towards civilization. She couldn’t have told you how long it took or from which way she’d come when she finally saw Ecruteak city in the distance. “I understand.” She said, because she did intuitively understand. “I won’t stray quite so far from civilization next time. Don’t worry. Thank you.” She headed towards the city to replenish her stores, grateful for all the help she’d been given from her awesome legendary pokemon.
Pokemon
♀ Cinderella (Quilava) lvl 15
Ability: Flame Body
Quiet Nature
Max HP: 39
Exp: 5000
Hit Points: 6 | 8
Attack: 6 | 7
Defense: 6 | 9
Special Attack: 10 | 12
Special Defense: 7 | 10
Speed: 6 | 9
Moveset:
Tackle
Leer
Smokescreen
Ember
Quick Attack
Capabilities:
Overland 10
Jump 2
Power 2
Intelligence 3
Firestarter
Heater
Sinker