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Character Name: Poli'ahu Calandra Rye
Pronoun Choice: She/They
Age: Twenty-seven
Home Region: Alola
Character Overview: Poli'ahu was once a rather carefree child, with her main focus being on dancing and pursuing her dream. But with Team Skull practically invading her home, she was forced to make a change. Now, she's become shrewd and withdrawn, and someone who puts on a mask to deal with every day life. She had to push her own identity down for so long that it almost feels foreign now, but with the opportunity to turn her life around through the NRC and going to Nauwill... She hopes to find herself again. And to make sure what happened to her home never happens to anywhere else.
Five Likes:
- Reptile Poke'mon
- Pineapple (or the equivalent)
- Action / Suspense / Thriller movies
- Solitude
- Napping
Five Dislikes:
- Cherries
- Wearing heels
- Coffee
- Normal typing - why does it exist????
- Romance movies / books / tv shows
Hobbies: Surfing, Swimming, Parkour, Dancing (mostly hip pop, breakdancing and freestyling)
Three Strengths:
- Focused: When there's a goal in sight, there's nothing that will stop her from reaching it. Poli'ahu zeroes in on the problem and does whatever it takes to get it solved.
- Adaptable: Quick to embrace change, she can fit in to any situation with ease.
- Collected: Even under strong pressure, Poli'ahu remains calm and cool. Very little shakes her, allowing her to have a clearer mind in almost every scenario.
- Shrewd: Poli'ahu is intelligent and quick, but she's not afraid to accomplish things in an underhanded manner, and has a disregard for the general feelings of others. She has become bitter and untrusting of the world after everything she's been through.
- Masked: Due to her under cover time with Team Skull, Poli'ahu has learned how to push her own feelings and opinions aside in order to play the perfect part. Some might say she's a great actor because of it, but it's something that she actually hates about herself nowadays. It feels like she's lost her true self.
- Intimidating: The way she holds herself and speaks can be frightening at times. She takes absolutely zero shit, and has the perfect resting bitch face.
History:
- Born and raised in Alola on Akala Island
- Mother was the Kahuna of Akala Island
- Father was a stay at home dad, tending to Poli'ahu each and every day
- Raised in a very loving home where she was encouraged to try and do many different things
- Learned how to dance from an early age, and was very deeply integrated into the traditions of the island
- While exploring the island one day with her father at the age of nine, she met an injured Salandit near a cave
- Took the Salandit home to help it recover and ended up bonding tightly with it
- Began to train for the possibility of taking on the Island Trials two years later, eventually catching a Gastly, Spinarak, Mareanie, and trading for a Venipede and female Nidoran.
- By the time she could participate in trials, her team was Salandit, Nidorina, Ariados, Whirlipede, Gastly, Mareanie (everyone was about early 20's level)
- By the time she was done with the trials, her team was Salazzle, Nidorina, Ariados, Haunter, Toxapex and Scolipede. (she also had a harem of Salandit on the side for her Salazzle, they just weren't battlers)
- It took her two years to fully beat all the trials, with tons of training in between.
- Once the trials were done, Poli'ahu continued pursuing her dream of dancing all over the world, though she hadn't gotten out of Alola just yet.
- While she had returned to dancing, a more pressing matter had come to light.
- Team Skull was invading various areas of the region, and had taken up a base on Akala Island.
- They began terrorizing the local population, both of people and Poke'mon, and even attempted to battle Poli'ahu's mother many times.
- By the time she was 16, her mother was attacked by Team Skull and left in the hospital.
- Not only were they terrorizing the people, but they were also messing with the ecosystem by scooping up as many Poke'mon as they could.
- Poli'ahu had become to be fed up with this and their blatant disregard for the traditions and native Poke'mon of the region.
- She started out trying to battle them until they'd leave, but it didn't particularly work.
- At the age of 17, when battling a particularly hardy and cruel Team Skull member, Poli'ahu's Salazzle was injured so terribly that she passed away before even reaching a Poke'mon Center.
- In her grief, Poli'ahu released all the Salandit she'd captured for her Salazzle, so they could find a proper home again, and began to formulate a proper plan to make Team Skull leave.
- At age 18, Poli'ahu cut her hair and put in contacts to try to join Team Skull under an alias, to take them down from the inside.
- It worked, and it took her another two years (age 20) to prove her "loyalty" to the team, fighting non team members and helping to catch Poke'mon for research (much to her distaste).
- Team expanded tremendously due to the connections with Team Skull, though, and getting off island Poke'mon - obtained an Ekans, Toxel, Skorupi, Croagunk and Foongus.
- With a large enough team finally, Poli'ahu began to work towards her original goal: taking down Team Skull and getting them to leave the Alolan region.
- Within the year (age 21) she had built up enough strength with her Poke'mon to have a large enough amount of poison gas to enact her plan. (Nidoqueen, Ariados, Gengar, Toxapex, Scolipede, Arbok, Toxel, Skorupi, Croagunk, Foonguss)
- Poli'ahu let loose the poison gas into the vents of the base, which ended up making hundreds of people sick, and several got very close to dying. (but no one actually did die)
- Every single Skull Team member in the base at the time was hospitalized from the poisoning, along with many innocent people who were family members of the team members, or friends they were trying to recruit.
- She was caught immediately thanks to the camera security of the base, and while Team Skull was taken into custody as they were recovering, Poli'ahu was also taken into custody for poisoning people on such a massive scale.
- Poli'ahu was taken to jail after a massive two year long trial (age 23) for the mass poisoning, all of her Poke'mon stripped from her and sent to her mother and father, even though the lawyer had fought valiantly for her trying to protect her home region from Team Skull.
- When the NRC came around, Poli'ahu was one of the first to put her name on the list for the rehabilitation.
- She had grown to regret the path she took in Team Skull, and hurting all the people that she had.
- Hearing about Nauwill made her strengthen her resolve to try to keep a new, unblemished place from being corrupted the way that Team Skull had corrupted her and her home.
- She was in jail for three and a half (ish) years before the program came about.
- has Acrophobia and Trypophobia
Stats:
Strength 2 (5) | Vitality 2 (5) | Dexterity 3 (5) | Insight 3 (5) |
Tough 4 (5) | Cool 1 (5) | Beauty 2 (5) | Clever 3 (5) | Cute 1 (5) |
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