carine serrano

NAME — Carine Serrano.
AGE — Eighteen.
GENDER — Female.
SEXUALITY — Lesbian.
TRAINER CLASSES — Ace Trainer | Tactician | Breeder.
AFFILIATION — Team Crux.
OCCUPATION — Agent.


HEIGHT — 5'6".
WEIGHT — 120 lbs.
HAIR COLOR — Brown.
EYE COLOR — Brown.
SKIN COLOR — Light.
ABNORMALITIES — Her eyes flash red under certain lights. It's kind of creepy.

[x] [x] [x] — A sleek, elegant girl with an almost noble air about her. She likes cute hair accessories an awful lot, though, which detracts a bit of poise from her.


Carine is a liar.

There isn't much more to say. This compulsion of hers has overtaken her wholly—it's a need, it's an addiction, it's a thrill, and she can never get enough of it. She lies and she lives her lies so thoroughly that she can't separate truth from untruth anymore, and in fact she believes there's no real difference between them. She knows how to make something sound just plausible enough to parse, just realistic enough to accept, and if all else fails she has her charisma to fall back on. She'll lie about everything and act it through all the way. She lives perpetually on a stage.

Her lies tend to snowball. That's fine, exciting even, to Carine. She is nothing if not adaptable, able to improvise so naturally that her every move seems to have been planned out beforehand. Once she acts on an impulse, she dedicates herself to it. She can build an entire lifestyle from a single lie, a world from a whim.

Carine is clearly unstable, which her acquaintances come to realize sooner or later. Yet they find themselves drawn to her. She's always charming and always composed, almost to a psychopathic extent, and she likes to play with the hearts of others. People flit to her as if they are weary travelers in a desert and she an oasis, though they know full well that she's only a mirage. There is something somehow stunning about her illusory existence.

Perhaps karma will catch up to her one day. If so, Carine intends to welcome it with open arms.


Carine was a precocious child. As precocious children are, Carine was captivating. She was popular among adults and students alike; she led them along by nooses around their necks. She took ballet classes and held tea parties and had a pet Zorua that she battled her friends with in the park. People, she noticed, tended to arrange themselves around her—she sat at the head of tables, atop desks, at the front of the formation—so she happily took lead. Carine came to think of herself as someone special.

So she started testing her limits. How far could she take things? How much were the people around her willing to put up with, just for her? She began with pranks, a pastime facilitated by her Zorua's illusory abilities, but soon graduated to lies. She spread rumors about her friends, turning them against each other, stole her classmates' wallets and phones and fanned the flames towards her chosen scapegoats, made herself out to be someone she wasn't. For each person she had a lovingly crafted personality, for each situation she had an alibi or an excuse.

They believed her. They forgave her. Even when they found out, as they often did back when she was an inexperienced liar, they swallowed the backup lies she fed them. She drove people in circles, drove them insane, and she loved every moment of it. With just a few choice words, she was someone else entirely, someone invincible. It was fun, of course, but at some point it also became necessary. She was nothing but her lies; she was only what she presented herself as. Nothing more.

As Carine grew older and cleverer, she decided she needed a larger stage: no more child's play. Her influence would sweep the world. Since she wanted to continue working closely with her Zorua, her partner in crime and the only being she felt connected to, she enrolled in a prestigious trainers' academy in Cyngi. She picked up training and breeding with ease, as she had a good eye for potential in Pokemon, and in four years she graduated with flying colors. 

Carine planned to enroll in university, but her plans met a face-heel turn when she was recruited into Team Crux. One of her teachers in junior year was an agent, apparently, who taught in the trainers' academy in order to spot promising potential members. Impressed by her talent, charisma, and possibly her questionable morality, he approached her at the graduation ceremony and offered a friendly battle between them using rental Pokemon—a gesture from a teacher to a former student, it seemed, though in truth it was an initiation process in disguise. She won and, a few days later, he showed up on her doorstep to offer her entrance into Team Crux.

Carine immediately accepted, half on a whim and half out of ambition. She feigned fervent interest in Team Crux's goals, which she actually didn't care much for. She just wanted access to the resources the organization had to offer. So she took a last-minute rain check on her entrance into university, told her friends and family that she wanted to travel the region and sweep the gym circuit first, and took off. Currently she is planning a double life in which she challenges gyms and rises through the ranks of Team Crux, but this is subject to change considering the kind of person she is.




NAME — Pantone.
LEVEL — 5.
SPECIES — Zorua.
TYPE — Dark.
EGG GROUP — Field.
ABILITY — Illusion.
HELD ITEM — None.
GENDER — Female.
HEIGHT — 2'5".
WEIGHT — 27.5 lbs.
MOVE LIST — Captivate (egg) | Scratch | Leer | Pursuit.
PERSONALITY — Pantone is a honeypot. Being conventionally cute to humans and attractive to Pokemon, she uses her appearance as a charm point and then—snap!—rips what she wants from them and disappears into the night. She's absolutely shameless, so she has no qualms with using all kinds of sickening flattery and seduction to get her way. Though she likes to be subtle in her aims, she can get aggressive very quickly if things are going in the wrong direction. In this way she has quite the temper, try as she might to suppress it. 

Pantone is self-serving yet surprisingly firm about where her loyalties lie. She has pretty much stitched herself together with Carine, and so she does her best to get along with the rest of the team. It's hard to earn her respect but it's always worth the effort.

PLAYED BY HOLY