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Sapphire Birch | Pokemon Special | Reserved
Name: Holo
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Current Characters at Luceti: N/A
Character
Name: Sapphire Birch
Fandom: Pokemon Special
Gender: Female
Age: 11
Time Period: Post-Emerald arc
Wing Color: Dark blue
History: History from Bulbapedia
Sapphire Birch | Pokemon Special | Reserved
Sapphire practically grew up in the forest, and isn't bothered by dirt and mild injury - she's a rough-and-tumble girl who grows her nails long, wears clothes made of leaves when she can, and brawls with her chicken-monster best friend for practice and fun. She also has the knowledge base appropriate of such a lifestyle - she's clever and intuitive, noticing things in her environment and using her situation to her advantage in battle, but is a horribly poor reader, doesn't have much patience for non-hands-on learning, and is entirely unfamiliar with city life and typical...decorum, I guess. She's acrobatic, strong as hell, and does a lot of moving around on four feet. Sapphire also has a good understanding of animals (Pokemon) - she doesn't talk to them or see them as equivalent to humans, but she understands their behavior as a function of their environment, and can deduce their motivations based on what she knows about the creatures she's familiar with, able to tell when they are sick or hungry and figure out their natural skills with clues from their anatomy and actions.
In addition to the exuberant, wild energy shown on the outside, Sapphire has a lot going on behind the scenes. Her passion for battle and in-your-face temperament aren't innate traits. Up until she was about six years old, Sapphire was, as she puts it, "girly" - still friendly and excitable, but a child who expressed herself with more gentle words, indulged in her fantasies of fairytale princesses by wearing dresses and cute clothes, and enjoyed playing with cute or sweet-hearted Pokemon rather than training them to fight. When she was six, a friend of her father's came from Johto region to take a Gym Leader qualification exam. He brought his son, Ruby, who was an avid novice Pokemon Trainer and nearly the same age as Sapphire. The two became good friends, and when Ruby's father had his exam, they went to explore and play in the woods. What happened next was the most influential event in Sapphire's life. The two children were attacked by a savage wild Salamence, and while Ruby tried to drive it off with his Pokemon, Sapphire could only stand aside helplessly. Ruby fought hard to defend them both, pushing Sapphire out of the way of the dragon's attacks, and finally managed to wound the Salamence and drive it away - but not before it had clawed at his face, opening two large wounds on his hairline. Sapphire vividly remembers lying terrified on the ground from the chaos of the battle, and bursting into horrified tears when Ruby turned to her to reassure her, his face covered in blood from his wounds.
In the aftermath of this incident, Sapphire changed almost completely. She felt guilt and shame over the incident - first for being able to do nothing and having someone else be injured while fighting for her, and secondly for being frightened by the aggression that Ruby showed. She began to train herself physically, accompanying her biologist father into the woods to assist with fieldwork and asking him for Pokemon that she could train and train herself beside. She began to change the way she interacted with people, becoming more assertive and aggressive. The new personality was not a facade - Sapphire genuinely grew to love being loud, strong, and tomboyish. Her "girly" appreciation for romance and cute things wasn't overwritten, and she will defend to blows her right to be a little feminine, but she does have a kneejerk reaction to things like frilly, impractical clothes, which revive a bit of her shame over having not been emotionally resilient during the Salamence incident. Her biggest lingering issue with the whole incident is her need to be able to take care of herself and others. Sapphire absolutely does not want people fighting on her behalf, especially in actual physical fights. She is terrified of someone getting hurt for her sake again, and does not like being "protected" or kept from a battle she wants to be involved in. Sapphire has nothing against being a team player, but defaults to fighting solo (as "solo" as a Pokemon Trainer can be), easily accepting help from allies but only asking for it in dire straits.
Sapphire is young, and it shows the most in how she reacts to other people. She has a habitual respect for her elders, speaking to them as messily as ever but toning down her energy and addressing them more formally than usual. That respect is multiplied in a student/teacher or junior/senior situation, regardless of the superior's age. Sapphire is open to learning from other people, either from their direct instruction or by imitating what they do, and easily defers to a more experienced party as a leader to take orders from. One thing she really doesn't have any experience with is children younger than herself, and she has played the role of a student and junior, but never that of a mentor. She sees herself as someone who has a lot to learn, but is proud of what she already has learned and of what she believes is a great potential to be stronger and more capable.
Sapphire has a very competitive nature. Like many others from her world, she sees competition as a way to gauge someone's worth - not just in whether they can meet the goal or not, but in how they go about meeting the goal, how much effort they put in, and how they treat their opponent. She expects others to pay the same attention to her, and throws herself into any kind of task, challenge, or contest as though she's being graded on her performance. She's not just showing her capabilities to onlookers when she does this, but proving to herself that she can meet all of her own expectations.
Her time as Ruby's friend has removed most of her scorn for people who enjoy the "girly" things she edges away from, and Sapphire doesn't begrudge any civilian or trainer for not being strong. But she tends to get annoyed with people who don't try, whether their wasted potential is in physical strength or emotional strength or any variant on the idea, and Sapphire is personally offended and infuriated by people who have the abilities or resources to solve a problem and choose to ignore or run away from it. To her mind, that's just as bad as causing the problem yourself.
Sapphire Birch | Pokemon Special | Reserved
Physical:
- Very good senses, especially smell and hearing
- Excellent overall physical strength and endurance
- Excellent agility
- Has monsters (Blaziken, Aggron, Tropius)
Mental/Emotional:
- Very perceptive/intuitive, clever, and resourceful
- Emotionally resilient in stressful situations
- Perserverant, fast learner, undeterred by challenges
- Has had training to resist possession/mental influence and the like
Weaknesses:
Physical:
- Still physically an eleven-year-old - light, overall easy to injure when on her own and/or escape routes cut off
Mental/Emotional:
- Functionally illiterate
- Has complicated feelings on topics such as frivolity vs. practicality, protecting/being protected by people, "girliness", strength and what it's for, etc.
- Handles interpersonal relationships immaturely
Samples
First Person: Q/A
Third Person: It was a wet but not fully rainy day when Sapphire found the treehouses, the air just damp enough to discourage Toro from accompanying her on foot through the woods. Sapphire blinked hard at the image, thinking for a moment that she was imagining it where there was really only overgrowth and broken branches - but no, that was definitely a rope walkway.
The girl stared from the ground for a moment, eyes traveling up and over the structures. Then she took a step back and turned and clambered swiftly up a tree, hands slipping a little against the wet bark. This forest was nothing like her own, less dense and comprised of straight, tall trees without low limbs and situated on mostly flat land and lacking the thick webs of vines that made travel above the ground so easy. Here, she had to rely on long jumps across wide gaps - like this one. Sapphire tensed and gripped and leapt like a spring let out of a can, outstretched hands landing on the edge of a platform and swinging her forward to land on the surface.
It seemed uninhabited. Sapphire sniffed at the air - it smelled uninhabited, too, missing any scent apart from the earthy mix of wood and dirt and chlorophyll that permeated the rest of the forest. "Would ya take a look at this!" she marveled to the Pokemon on her belt, while carefully testing the rope walkway with a foot. Step, step - it was still sturdy. Emboldened, she bounded across it, peering into the small hut at the other end.
"Like Coach's city! It's a little Fortree! Ya think," and she climbed over a house and into the crown of the tree as she asked, "we could stay here? Or at least call 't our place!" Her answer was a chorus of tiny, muffled growls and calls.
Sapphire grinned, standing and surveying the houses from the high point where she stood.. "Then - that's that"
Request and Q&A!
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Physical:
- Very good senses, especially smell and hearing (smell, sight, hearing)
- Excellent overall physical strength and endurance (you can put him down now, FIVE MINUTES! TEN IF I TRY HARDER!!
- Excellent agility (she jumps around like a cricket to evade hits in serious battles)
- Has monsters
-- Toro, female Blaziken. Fire- and Fighting-type, has kicking and punching moves with and without fire as well as the ultimate Fire-type attack, Blast Burn.
-- Rono, male Aggron. Large, heavy dinosaur thing that eats iron and grows armor. Possesses physical attacks such as tail blows and full-body smashes.
-- Pilo, male Tropius. Large, sturdy long-distance flyer who becomes more energetic and agile in strong sunlight. Has ranged Grass-type moves. Produces edible fruit from his neck.
Mental/Emotional:
- Very perceptive/intuitive, clever, and resourceful (a shark teeth gambit)
- Emotionally resilient in stressful situations (witnesses widespread destruction, brutal near-murder of two respected adults, goes into a demanding battle and passes out after winning, then is pretty much fine two days later)
- Perserverant, fast learner, undeterred by challenges (she basically trained herself from age six)
- Has had training to resist possession/mental influence and the like (Ruby is on this page but Sapphire does it too)
Weaknesses:
Physical:
- Still physically an eleven-year-old - light, overall easy to injure when on her own and/or escape routes cut off (look at her she's a twig)
Mental/Emotional:
- Functionally illiterate (only kanji in japanese, can't phonics to sound out new words in english)
- Has complicated feelings on topics such as frivolity vs. practicality, protecting/being protected by people, "girliness", strength and what it's for, etc. (basically her whole character arc + backstory)
- Handles interpersonal relationships immaturely (expecting a disney romance out of ruby after all that. you guys are preteens no shit he's gonna freak out and deny everything BASICALLY SHE JUST EXPECTS THINGS TO TURN OUT HUNKY-DORY MORE THAN THEY ACTUALLY CAN OR WILL)
SAMPLES
1. Do you have any regrets? If so, what are they?
Eh...I don' know about regrets. Maybe I'd 've started thinkin' about bein' a trainer from th' beginnin'...I guess...
2. What is the most successful thing you’ve ever done?
Winning all of Hoenn's Gyms, a' 'cos! That's why I'm th' Gym Conqueror!
3. How would you describe the most important person in your life?
[......why would you-]
Well there's a lotta important people! Like Papa! And Winona!!
[but Sapphire]
Ya can't say one's more important than th' rest!
[pls]
...but there's a person who's been around time after time, an' 'cos a' them I've become a lot better. Even if they don't wanna think about it...
4. Are you a team player?
Tha's what bein' a Pokemon trainer's about! But if ya don't mean Pokemon teams, I'm still one a' th' Pokedex Holders, so sure!
5. What is your opinion on species unlike your own?
Pokemon are cool! They're strong, an' they've got amazing powers, an' they can be yar partners or yar family or yar friends!
6. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound?
...A' 'cos it does. Why does it matter who's around?
[Sapphire is handed a slip of paper with the final "question" on it.
7. あなたがこれを読むことができれば、あなたは文盲ではありません！
Hey, what's this? "If ya can...." Can what? "Then ya ain't" what? C-can't I get some help on this...?
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