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Character Name: Kanoa "Noah" Lama
Pronoun Choice: He/Him
Age: 60
Home Region: Alola
Character Overview: A short researcher with a love of the idea of exploring a new island even if he isn't exactly a spring chicken anymore. He is interested in the research of the fairlight company and eagerly signed up for a job. He may not be a top researcher but his love of money and research making him willing to operate in slightly grey areas make him a good candidate for the company as does his experience around the lab and use of equipment.
Five Likes:
Five Dislikes:
Hobbies: He enjoys puzzle books and brain teaser apps. Reading research papers (though he always complains the samples are too small, or not all the biases are disclosed) and taking care of his drampa. He spoils it more then anything else. and of course going places for research! He doesn't really care about boating but is proficient in it because that's how you get places to do research in the field! He'll learn a skill just to be able to go do research.
Three Strengths:
History: Growing up in Ula'ula in Alola he was all over the island in his youth. He got himself into trouble more then once and was saved by a Drampa from a flock of wingull. He quickly bonded with the dragon Pokémon and the two were inseparable. This actually lead to Kanoa to his love of research as he wanted to find a way to make the berries that Drampa fed on grow at higher altitudes, but due a lack of funding and interest in the mater Kanoa got shut down at every avenue. He learned to love money and wished he was rich. He continued being a researcher and traveling from place to place where ever the funding and research lead him. He ended up being called Noah often as his fellow researchers got his name wrong and even started to spell it awkwardly. This annoyed Kanoa for years but eventually he gave up and just started answering to Noah and stopped caring how others spelled it.
He had a few romantic partners over time but no one who ever captured his heart like research did. Even when he met someone as passionate as him as soon as the project would complete they would booth drift apart as their passion for research was stronger then interpersonal relationships. Kanoa continued to research and found not just Drampa with food issues but many pokemon with environmental issues as human territories expanded and smaller villages modernized and changed the terrain around them. He works on projects to help reduce human impact on environments and how environments often affect Pokémon in greater ways then first understood at a cursory overview.
Stats:
Character Name: Kanoa "Noah" Lama
Pronoun Choice: He/Him
Age: 60
Home Region: Alola
Character Overview: A short researcher with a love of the idea of exploring a new island even if he isn't exactly a spring chicken anymore. He is interested in the research of the fairlight company and eagerly signed up for a job. He may not be a top researcher but his love of money and research making him willing to operate in slightly grey areas make him a good candidate for the company as does his experience around the lab and use of equipment.
Five Likes:
- Money. Makes the world go round and makes research possible.
- Research the world is too vast and full of wonder not to want to poke and prod and find things out.
- Alola his home region is a burst of life and color and the land and water research makes him proud of his home
- Alolan tropical shirts. They function well for every occasion out of the lab
- Sunsets over the water.
Five Dislikes:
- His height he has a bit of a complex about being short. (he is 5'5")
- Snow. It's cold
- Cheap Whiskey. Yeah it gets you drunk but it doesn't have the taste so why waste your time on it
- ANYONE who messes with his workspace. He has it set up how he wants it.
- Being low in seniority. He hates being left out of the fun research behind closed doors. He wants access to it all.
Hobbies: He enjoys puzzle books and brain teaser apps. Reading research papers (though he always complains the samples are too small, or not all the biases are disclosed) and taking care of his drampa. He spoils it more then anything else. and of course going places for research! He doesn't really care about boating but is proficient in it because that's how you get places to do research in the field! He'll learn a skill just to be able to go do research.
Three Strengths:
- Tech savvy: Despite his age his interest in brain teasing apps and research has kept him up to date on technology and how to use it. He might not know the most modern media or songs but he can discuss processers and set ups with the best of them. As anyone can tell you that in the early years of research you have to figure out how to put together your equipment and keep it running on a hope, prayer, and a bit of pysduck tape (for the toughest headache of a job).
- Healthy body: He has been surfing and boating from the time he could walk and living on Ula'ula. He has the physical ability of a much younger man because he has stayed active in his old age. He will complain about his knees but capable of lifting and hauling like someone a decade and a half younger.
- Brave: He willing to take on new challenges and learn new things no matter what the age to continue his research.
- Social intelligence: He can be a bit out of tune with sensitivity. He is the old man who will admit that a person he didn't like was an absolute asshole at their funeral. He doesn't need to coddle someone who is having a breakdown. He would tell them to pick themselves up and 'get over it.'
- Driven: if He has a project or something he is researching he will ignore/exclude most everything else. He has fainted in the lab from not eating for three days and he was only upset because the experiment he was running burned up while he was getting medical assistance from the person who found him. It has lead him to be more active and fed into his healthy body but his driven nature quickly turns to neglect when he hyper focuses on topic for research.
- Clutter bug: Perhaps due to his past of not have a lot of funding he has a habit of collecting and keeping lots of junk. You never know when you need to have four or five paperclips to help hold equipment in place. This has also lead to him forgetting where some things are even if he says he knows were everything is at. He's wrong. So he may have two or three hole punchers but only thinking he has one. No you can't get rid of that old stack of research papers, he might need to reference one of those one day.
History: Growing up in Ula'ula in Alola he was all over the island in his youth. He got himself into trouble more then once and was saved by a Drampa from a flock of wingull. He quickly bonded with the dragon Pokémon and the two were inseparable. This actually lead to Kanoa to his love of research as he wanted to find a way to make the berries that Drampa fed on grow at higher altitudes, but due a lack of funding and interest in the mater Kanoa got shut down at every avenue. He learned to love money and wished he was rich. He continued being a researcher and traveling from place to place where ever the funding and research lead him. He ended up being called Noah often as his fellow researchers got his name wrong and even started to spell it awkwardly. This annoyed Kanoa for years but eventually he gave up and just started answering to Noah and stopped caring how others spelled it.
He had a few romantic partners over time but no one who ever captured his heart like research did. Even when he met someone as passionate as him as soon as the project would complete they would booth drift apart as their passion for research was stronger then interpersonal relationships. Kanoa continued to research and found not just Drampa with food issues but many pokemon with environmental issues as human territories expanded and smaller villages modernized and changed the terrain around them. He works on projects to help reduce human impact on environments and how environments often affect Pokémon in greater ways then first understood at a cursory overview.
Stats:
Strength 3 (5) | Vitality 3 (5) | Dexterity 1 (5) | Insight 3 (5) |
Tough 4 (5) | Cool 2 (5) | Beauty 1 (5) | Clever 3 (5) | Cute 1 (5) |