Post by Tala Storm on Mar 30, 2018 14:03:11 GMT -6
TALA STORM
NAME — Tala Storm
AGE — 23
GENDER — Female
SEXUALITY — Bisexual
TRAINER CLASSES — Morph [Houndoom], Breeder, Scrapper
AFFILIATION — Unaffiliated
OCCUPATION — Trainer
APPEARANCE
HEIGHT — 5'5"
WEIGHT — You don't ask a girl's weight!
HAIR COLOR — Dark Brown
EYE COLOR — Hale Navy
SKIN COLOR — Caramel
ABNORMALITIES — A tattoo on her abdomen sporting two feathers forming an X with the letters L.B.D.D above it; a sleek houndoom tail; one hard disc above each temple.
PERSONALITY
You could use a lot of words to describe Tala Storm, but most of them would probably get you a slap from your momma. Tala knows exactly what she wants and who she wants to be and doesn't care who she hurts to get her way. She doesn't care about your little feelings or your opinions either. To her all that matters is that she stays true to herself, and those who can't handle her can hit the road and stay the hell out of her way. She speaks her mind and has zero filters even to those she views as friends. Though to be a friend of hers in the first place would require a strong resilience to her brutal honesty.
Tala lives on the edge and loves any thrill she can find, be it hunting dangerous Pokemon or even just battling it out with other trainers. Although she often gets in over her head, her confidence and perseverance, as well as severe stubbornness, usually sees her through in the end. Her confidence is so solid that she rarely experiences things such as fear or doubt. She believes in herself and never holds back once she has set her sights on something. Making her either a very strong-willed friend or a dauntingly ambitious enemy.
Due to her past Tala has no patience nor trust for men, which sometimes even transfers to male Pokemon. She has no problem using them to get her way but don't expect her to ever open up to one. She has yet to meet a man that could change her mind and she believes no man ever will. A rare one may gain her respect, but nothing more.
Even a tough girl like Tala has a soft spot however. Although it usually takes a lot to gain this woman's respect and friendship she has a distinct weakness to young girls and can become very sisterly, and even sometimes motherly, toward them. She has never truly understood where this side to herself came from, perhaps from a subconscious desire to be a mother some day, and the fact that being one could never happen naturally for her. Regardless you can count on her to look out for any young girls she comes across... and probably corrupt them a bit with her language and attitude while shes at it.
BACKGROUND
As a child Tala took great pride in her status as a morph knowing it was something Crux valued. After all Crux was all she knew, she had never been outside their HQ's living area and spent most of her time with the other kids of Crux. As far as she cared Crux was cool and strong and all she wanted to be when she was an adult. By the time she was seven her father had taught her Morphs were the elite of Crux. They were born stronger and better than normal humans, and Crux valued them like gold. Although she ate up his words she never did adapt his egotistic attitude about it, instead remaining silently proud of her linage much like her mother did. However, her world was quick to crumble when the true nature of those she loved revealed themselves.
The first strike came in the form of the fights. As Tala grew older it became more and more common for Zoey and Roujin to fight whenever they were both home. At first they tried to hide it from Tala, but soon even that failed. One night when Tala was ten they had a fight that escalated far more than normal, even coming down to flames and slashes. By morning Zoey had said her goodbyes to Tala and left. Being a child Tala had never been told the details of why Zoey didn't just leave her father, but instead left Team Crux as well which meant she essentially went on the run. She didn't understand her mother's actions... but she did decide on one thing. It was Roujin's fault.
After that night Tala avoided her father and soon began to believe all men were like him. She remembered how deeply in love her parents were when she had been younger, and knowing that he had gone from that to the monster that chased off her mother was almost to much for her to handle. The last straw came the day he vanished. When she was twelve Roujin suddenly disappeared during a mission and was believed to be KIA. Although this effected her severely regardless of her hatred towards him, the real blow came with how his disappearance was treated. No one else seemed fazed. No one. She had been told Morphs were treated like gold and loved, but once they died... that was it? The experience acted like a slap of reality and she soon decided her father and even she herself were nothing but tools for crux. But that wasn't how she wanted to live.
Four nights passed before she ran from Crux deciding she didn't want to grow up to be a tool for them to just use as they liked. She lived alone in a large city and survived mostly on the kindness of strangers, always keeping to the shadows and out of sight. She had always been told those who leave Team Crux were traitors and deserved to be hunted down, which she had always agreed with, but what about now? Did this make her a Traitor? Could she even be a traitor even though she had never technically joined Crux? She was to young and inexperienced to know the answer to this and so lived in fear that Team Crux was hunting her. She never stopped watching her back or jumping at every shadow. Thus was her life now.
Tala evolved in her teenage years but even then she lived mostly in the shadows. By then she had become accustomed to hiding her Morph linage and even after evolving she constantly filed down her horms and hid her tail to appear like a normal Human. Of course, while alone she did teach herself to use Pokemon moves in case she one day needed them, although despite her fears she never did run into any Crux members hunting her. However, after she picked up the habit of smoking she did find a sneaky ember was quite useful when you didn't have a lighter handy...
By the age of eighteen Tala had become well accustomed to life alone and on the run. Although she had for the most part lost her fear of Team Crux hunting her she still kept her morph features hidden to all but those she truly trusted, which was about zero. Well, until she met Seraphina. The day had begun like any other and Tala had been heading to a place to eat when a stranger tripped out of nowhere and crashed into her without warning. Before she knew it she was wearing the woman's nachos all over her and to make things more aggravating there seemed more hot cheese than chips in it. Yet oddly enough before she could get riled up and start a fight the stranger's stammering and awkward demeanor made her pause and take pity on the girl, a feeling quite rare for her to experience in the first place. Instead of fighting she made a deal to call it even if the girl replaced her shirt, and before she knew it she went as far as to offer to show the girl a restaurant she thought made the best nachos in Stellara. Thus began her and Seraphinas strange relationship.
Despite being very different in personality the two hit it off and began dating regularly, and as time passed Seraphina became the first person for Tala to ever fully trust. She was also the first to know of Tala's status as a Morph and her past, a fact that was more or less ironic considering Seraphina was actually a member of the group Tala ran from. Love was odd like that, wasn't it? After a few years went by and Tala turned twenty-two the two got married and began a life of traveling together. More so because neither could afford a place to settle but Tala kind of liked it that way. There was something fun and exhilarating about wandering the region with your other half and she simply loved it. However, something was missing.
A few months into her life as a married woman Tala came across a Pokemon egg that had been abandoned in the woods. Seeing it on it's own struck a chord with her and she quickly brought it to their campsite and took it under her wing. The Buneary that hatched from that egg became Tala's first Pokemon and the second friend to gain her complete trust. Before this Tala had given thought to becoming a trainer but had never really known where to start, however Tokumei gave her the perfect opportunity to give it a shot. Besides, with the amount of trouble her and her wife got into... it was nice having your own Pokemon to fight with.
STARTER
NAME — Tokumei
LEVEL — 5
SPECIES — Buneary
TYPE — Normal
EGG GROUP — Field & Human-Like
ABILITY — Run Away
HELD ITEM — None
GENDER — Female
HEIGHT — 1'04"
WEIGHT — 12 Lbs.
MOVE LIST — Defense Curl | Pound | Teeter Dance
PERSONALITY — Tokumei is a classic case of 'like trainer, like Pokemon.' She has been around Tala all her young life and as such has picked up most of Tala's bad habits and snarky attitude. She doesn't care who she offends nor if she is liked or not by others. She simply is who she is. Tokumei can be sarcastic and rough with other Pokemon, a sort of behavior she calls 'tough love' but which usually leads others into thinking her a bully. However unlike a bully, if she sees someone picking on those who are weaker just for fun she will make it her goal to make their life a living hell. She is the type of Buneary to stand her ground even if there is no hope of winning, simply because it's what she wants to do. Although she gives her love and trust a lot easier than Tala does she will break anyone who betrays her.
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