Ryusuke Ugumi

NAME — Ryusuke Ugumi
AGE — 15
GENDER — Male
SEXUALITY — Heterosexual
TRAINER CLASSES — Ace Trainer/Tactician, Martial Artist
AFFILIATION — Unaffiliated
OCCUPATION — Trainer


HEIGHT — 4' 11"
WEIGHT — 128 lbs
HAIR COLOR — Blond
EYE COLOR — Gold
SKIN COLOR — Caucasian
ABNORMALITIES — Missing right arm up to Ryusuke's shoulder, and left leg missing below the knee. Both limbs were initially replaced with prosthetics able to restore form and basic functionality for the missing limbs.

Standing in at a fairly short 4' 11", a good portion of Ryusuke's weight is actually a result of the prosthetic arm and leg he's worn since the age of ten. Of fair complexion with light blond hair and an unusual golden eye color to match, courtesy of his father's Blackthorn heritage, Ryusuke's clothing can vary anywhere from the typical t shirt, jeans and sneakers while in a city to the heavier duty boots, pants, jacket and tank top he tends to wear when durability is required of his clothing. After leaving home, however, Ryusuke has made it a habit to wear the crimson coat that his mother had in her youth, both as a reminder to why he left home as well as motivation to measure up to her legacy.


Over the course of his short life Ryusuke has undergone a number of different changes to his personality, mostly the result of external stimuli. While extremely inquisitive and enthusiastic during his early childhood it soon gave way to a defiant and self reliant nature as he became the target of ostracism both in and out of school (largely because of his appearance), although this would also fade within the next year and a half to produce a balanced mix of the two sets of personality traits by the age of nine.

Mostly self reliant by then and with the inquisitive nature and enthusiasm that had driven him earlier now returning but this time with the drive to stand up for himself, Ryusuke remained both driven but happy in the following year until his mother's confinement to a wheelchair in the same car accident that took both his right arm and left leg. While drawn into a deep depression for a matter of months during the rehabilitation process, Ryusuke would emerge from the dark period changed, but for the better.

Rather than let the accident drag him down, Ryusuke's personality was further strengthened by the fact he knew he was lucky to be alive. By the time he had turned 13 his metamorphosis, while not complete, had reached a relatively stable point - while still retaining the intelligence from his early childhood years, Ryusuke had become a highly independent and self reliant, daring individual, taking risks whenever he felt them necessary, a trait even further fueled by the motivational drive he'd acquired earlier in his life. As a result it has made him particularly stubborn and difficult to persuade even with logical arguments once he sets his sights on a particular goal - Ryusuke had figured by this point that life was too short and the time worth too much not to pursue what one wanted. That being said, he still harbors a number of personality quirks that make him appear at the very least eccentric to those around him at times, the first and foremost being phantom limb pain (the sensation of feeling pain or biting cold from limbs that no longer exist) – while becoming increasingly rare as time passes and lessening in intensity, it will cause him to act somewhat oddly at times, as if distracted or otherwise preoccupied, although certain external stimuli can mess with his prosthetics and generate similar responses.

Above all, Ryusuke values family and loyalty, regardless of how much he's become disillusioned with his own. While he might genuinely dislike someone, dislike and disrespect aren't necessarily the same things, and as long as someone holds fast to their beliefs and convictions he will typically respect their wishes and won't do anything to get in their way unless it places him or someone he cares for at risk. Since becoming a trainer, Ryusuke has also developed a healthy respect for those able and willing to exercise their own independence, recognizing that not everyone has the willpower to do so. Recent events have hardly dulled his own drive, although it might be noted that they've instead pushed him beyond the point of simple acceptance of his innate ability and instead to improve beyond his own limits.


Born to two trainers, Ryusuke was incredibly inquisitive, showing an inborn intelligence from an early age that was quickly noticed by both teachers and fellow students alike. While normally not particularly attention drawing on its own it quickly made him the target of ostracism when combined with his hair and eye color, along with the fact that he didn't seem to partake in any of what most children his age considered socially acceptable activities. By the time he had reached the age of 7 it had come to outright physical confrontation, and what had been something of an enthusiastic but inquisitive nature quickly turned into one of defiance and self reliance, with Ryusuke finally joining a local dojo at his mother’s insistence in the hopes of learning a means of self defense.

Highly encouraged by his natural ability in the arts, Ryusuke excelled with his studies at the dojo, quickly becoming one of the top students due to his quick speed, the ability to improvise quickly when needed and above all, just plain being too stubborn to back down. As he became less and less of a social outcast thanks in part to both having found a group that accepted him as well as having gained the ability to fend off the few physical attacks that came his way, Ryusuke was actually happy for a short time, although this would be a relatively short lived period.

A year later he and his father would be involved in a building collapse during the Lilycove flood, courtesy of Kyogre and the machinations of Teams Aqua and Magma. The incident both crippled his father and cost Ryusuke two of his limbs, completely severing his right arm from the shoulder down and crushing his left leg from the knee down. Bleeding heavily and unable to locate his arm for possible reattachment in the rush to pull both father and child from the building, the medics were forced to amputate the remains of his lower left leg to stop the bleeding, with Ryusuke still nearly dying despite numerous blood transfusions. Unconscious and unresponsive for nearly two days after the collapse, Ryusuke found himself without the ability to move on his own and his father in a similar situation as a result of being paralyzed from the waist down, and for months afterwards he was drawn into a deep state of depression, with only the rehabilitation process saving him from complete despair. By the time he had reached the age of ten Ryusuke had managed to pull himself loose from his depression, focusing on what good had come from it - for starters, both he and his father were alive when they had no right to be, and in large part due to several advancements in prosthetics he could hypothetically regain full functionality in day to day life despite the loss of his limbs.

Realizing that life was simply what you made of it and that everyone's time was limited in one way or another, be it by age, chance or otherwise, Ryusuke decided he'd simply make the most he could of the time he had, viewing it as a second chance. Returning to normal classes nearly 10 months after the accident (in large part due to the physical rehabilitation and adjusting to his new prosthetics), Ryusuke delved back into life with a drive rarely seen in people his age, climbing to stand near the top of the student rankings, position he managed to maintain despite (or due to) his rather stubborn attitude in addition to having to leave the dojo he’d been training at.

Despite Ryusuke being old enough to help around the house and not require constant overwatch from his parents, his mother would abandon her work for Devon to pick up a job at the local Safari Zone to help pay the bills. While Ryusuke was unable to physically move around much during the recovery process, however, other activities remained plenty open to him, and with much more time spent at home the experience would ironically jump start his trainer career under his mother's tutelage.

Ryusuke, during all of this, had started to get his own ideas - having long been raised on stories of his parents' travels as trainers he'd initially considered choosing that lifestyle before his prosthetic surgery and rehabilitation had put a hold on those plans, and thanks in large part to his mother's battle tutoring the blonde would soon begin to push to leave home at the age of thirteen. Taichi, needless to say, refused, unwilling to allow his son to leave on his own so soon after the rehabilitation and recovery process had come to an end. Despite the rejection of the idea, however, Ryusuke was not so easily dissuaded, and eventually a compromise would be reached when his mother offered to act as a chaperone/travel partner until he was experienced enough to travel alone.

The next year would largely account for Ryusuke learning the basics of being a trainer, and the mastery of those skills - remaining within Hoenn's borders but seeing all that it had to offer, the young trainer would quickly prove to be his parents' offspring in more than just name. After nearly eleven months spent traveling, training and building an initial starting team, however, his mother would deem him fit to travel on his own, at least for a time - and, for insurance, the woman would leave her son with her Metagross before parting to leave the region for a time. While effectively off the grid, the year after that would be spent much the same as the first, albeit with only the occasional phone call or letter from his mother to serve as a means of communication. Having seen all that Hoenn had to offer and having earned his father's acknowledgement as a trainer in the time since leaving home, Ryusuke would eventually board a ship bound for Stellara.


NAME — Treecko
LEVEL — 5
SPECIES — Treecko
TYPE — Grass
EGG GROUP — Monster/Dragon
ABILITY — Overgrow
HELD ITEM — None
GENDER — Male
HEIGHT — 1' 11"
WEIGHT — 12 lbs
MOVE LIST — Pound, Leer, Absorb, Leech Seed
PERSONALITY — Treecko is, at his best, a sibling, companion and caretaker all in one. At his worst, however, a delinquent of the worst sort. Having been around since Ryusuke's highly formative years of five onwards, Treecko was obtained as an egg from a family friend and intended to help keep an eye on the child in the same way the boy's mother had grown up surrounded by Pokemon. And, to a point, it worked,
although likely not in the manner intended. Taking very much after Ryusuke himself, Treecko is intelligent and independent to the extreme,
often acting more like a human than a Pokemon at times - bar when it suits him to ignore certain social norms. Having been at Ryusuke's side practically their entire lives ever since hatching, however, Treecko is fairly unusual in the sense that he lacks the usual Pokeball that most trainers keep their companions in, opting instead to usually travel under his own power or asleep somewhere on Ryusuke's person. In spite of his antics - often performed in the name of boredom - Treecko is loyal to his human partner in the extreme, a bond that goes both ways.

PLAYED BY Spartan/Slate