Trainer Details Easy-going and friendly. (Push-over of the highest order.)
Hesitant to go after things they want.
Kind of nervous by nature, but hides it well.
Comes off like an airhead, but is actually quite scientifically minded.
STRENGTHS
Slippery as an Eel || Pip is exceptionally good at avoiding direct confrontation. They can demure and dodge like no one else. It is easy to avoid giving offence when you can avoid being pinned down to any particular opinions, promises, or interests.
Goes with the Flow || Although some might argue a lack of ambition is a weakness, it also means they're open to new opportunities and good at adjusting to changes in circumstance. They miss out on something, or find themselves somewhere they didn't want to be? It's okay -- they'll make it work.
Calm Under Pressure || The thing about water is that its deadly. When you're beneath the waves, its important to be calm if something goes wrong. Panic, you lose your air, you lose your life. Pip is exceptionally good at keeping cool in a crisis and taking decisive action when it's really necessary.
WEAKNESSES
Backbone of a Jellyfish || Pip has never said "no" to anyone in their life. They're incredibly easy to manipulate, and have no idea how to stand up to social pressure. If they haven't managed to slip away and are faced with direct confrontation, then they've already lost.
Shifting as the Sands || A side effect of being so easy going and indecisive is its hard for people to get a proper read on Pip. They tend to come off as shallow and wishy-washy... which is, honestly, a fair read. Even they're not sure who they are, so why should anyone else be? It also means that they have a history of people writing them off, which hasn't done much for their sense of self worth or self identity.
A Bit Blue || The thing about never really making choices and never doing things because you want to do them, if you get a bit... lost. If you were to ask them, Pip would tell you that they're perfectly happy doing whatever. They really think they are; they just haven't quite figured out that there is a difference between not being unhappy, and being happy.
LIKES
The ocean
Early mornings
Flowery / pretty pokemon
Puzzles / problem solving
Warm weather
DISLIKES
Aquatic pokemon
Having to make decisions
Excessive (unfamiliar) noise
Restrictive clothing
Littering / environmentally harmful activities
HOBBIES
Surfing
Shell Collecting
Sketching
Water Colour Painting
Just Vibing (TM)
Pre-Nauwill History
Pip's mother came from a family of fairly well know water-type specialists in the Kalos region. If the area had had a water-type gym, they'd probably have been the leaders, but as it was the family has produced a number of world renowned trainers, and ever a couple of Champions (most notably, Pip's long-retired great grandmother). Their father was a marine biologist, often away on long research trips, and their mother worked full time at the family run aquatic pokemon training center. As such, Pip was raised right in the middle of the action, thrown in the metaphoric and literal deep-end. Unfortunately, Pip was a very nervous child, and the effect of those early experiences was less endearing and more traumatizing. All they could ever see was that all of these fast, deadly, water-adapted pokemon could easily sneak up on or out maneuver a human in the water, and that even a well-intentioned pokemon could accidentally drown a person.
Of course, they couldn't just say that they didn't like being in the water with water-type pokemon. That would have been very confusing to their family, and they didn't want to disappoint anyone. So they just kind of... sucked it up, and carried on. As they got older and were expected to participate in the family business they found ways to avoid direct in-water interaction with pokemon where ever possible. They taught swimming to the kids who came in for classes, they worked on training drills where they could be primarily on dry land, etc. When they graduated from high school, they followed in their father's footsteps and studied marine biology. It was a family approved field, and had the advantage of a minimum of six years education before anyone expected them to actual do anything with it.
Since Pip was always around pokemon, and their family were loving but kind of oblivious, it managed to escape their notice that Pip never actually took on a pokemon, personally. They helped raise and breed the ones that the family maintained, but they never had their own. It wasn't until they had returned from school for a few years that Mémère (their formidable maternal great-grandmother) insisted that they be given a pokemon of their very own. Perhaps one of the eggs from their own prize-winning Lapras' lineage? It was in a moment of pure panic that Pip announced that they couldn't accept a pokemon from her, because they were going to take a job at Nauwill and they were so very strict about foreign pokemon!
So... they either had to follow up with their claim, or fess up to Mémère. So they packed a bag and refreshed their resume.
Pip arrives on the island to start their new job, only to be given the unwelcome news that part of the job is going to require they have a pokemon partner... which was, of course, half the reason they ran away from left home in the first place. (WC: 859)
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