Chinatsu Tanaka

NAME — Chinatsu Tanaka
AGE — 16
GENDER — Female
SEXUALITY — Heterosexual
TRAINER CLASSES — Morph (Chinchou) / Type Expert (Water) / Breeder
AFFILIATION — Unaffiliated
OCCUPATION — N/A
MORPH MOVES — Electro Ball | Water Gun | Aqua Ring | Spark | Thunder Wave | Bubble Beam


HEIGHT — Height.
WEIGHT — Weight.
HAIR COLOR — Blue
EYE COLOR — Gold
SKIN COLOR — Cream, with patches of shimmering pale blue fish-like scales
ABNORMALITIES — The pupils in her eyes are dark gold crosses, and the irises are exceptionally larger than average, leaving the sclera barely visible. She has two antennae growing out of her head much like her Pokemon-sake. Her ears are instead blue fins tinged with yellow at the tips that she usually hides under her hair.




Chinatsu is shy. She was always a quiet kid, but much of this has stemmed from the bullying she encountered as a child. She doesn't speak much, also because of this. At best, strangers will manage to get a small handful of words from her. She is much more comfortable talking to people she knows, though she still isn't terribly talkative. She's independent, though, preferring to do what she can herself. She's capable, but isn't afraid to ask for help if she thinks she needs it, not necessarily when, though. Despite the bullying she endured as a child, she's extremely proud of her Morph features, as they were a 'gift' from her mother, whom she thinks the absolute world of.

From this has also stemmed a sense of empathy. She can relate to many a person's struggles, and she is more than willing to sit and listen to you if you need to open up. She won't judge you for your past, but rather for who you try to be now. If you wrong her, she's not likely to soon forget it. Chinatsu is known for holding a grudge against those who hurt her or her Mudkip, and she'll be wary around you if you hurt anyone she's close to. She's sweet, and kind, and has a big heart that cares for others. Despite this, she find she can be rather jealous sometimes, envious of others who maybe have it easier, or who have accomplished already what she's set out to.

She's observant, and intelligent. People often assume she's a mute, or just dumb, because of her lack of speaking, but the opposite is in fact true. She has a mind that pays attention to detail, and a huge capacity and desire to learn. She's often found reading something, be it history or research or just-for-fun fiction. At the same time, she's gullible and easily tricked. If she trusts you and you're a half-decent liar, you can tell her things and she's likely to believe you. That can lead to problems if she ends up trusting the wrong person. She believes in the benefit of the doubt until otherwise proven, so she can easily be conned.


Chinatsu was born elsewhere, in a region she doesn't remember the name of. If you asked her parents they could probably tell you where it was. She was born as a Morph, a Chinchou. Her mother is a morph, Lanturn, born in Stellara, and her father is human, from their old region. Ever since she was a little kid, Chinatsu was teased about her morph-ness. She doesn't know if she'd call it bullying. She was different, and the other kids didn't really know how to react to that. Especially not at five. So they'd tease her, calling her things like "fish-girl" and "gill face." You know, kid stuff. And she knew she was different. That and the teasing made her shy, and the kids teased her about that, too, as kids sometimes do.

No, at first it wasn't really bullying. But it would escalate to that. What was just teasing in kindergarten, kept going into the first grade. The second. Names got meaner and more creative at the same time, and she slowly got shyer and more closed off. Third grade was when the physical bullying began. It started with one boy who pushed her into a pond to see if she really did have gills. She didn't of course, but she was able to hold her breath for long periods of time. So when he pushed her in, she stayed there under the surface, refusing to come out. She knew they wouldn't follow her into the water. The water was her safe place from them. They left within minutes, thinking they'd done something really bad, and she went home a few minutes later. Her mom had asked her why she was wet, and she murmured quietly about the boy that had pushed her into the pond. Her mother had hugged her and comforted her that night with their favorite snacks and movies.

It continued to escalate into the fourth grade. The pushing was no longer relegated to just ponds. While they had left her long for most of the rest of third grade after the pond incident, they seemed to have forgotten it by the fourth. Now they would push her whenever they saw her, whether there was water around or not. The names got meaner still, and people began ignoring her or laughing at her whenever she spoke or protested. They treated her like she was stupid. She knew she wasn't. She knew she was a bigger person than them. Her parents had been more supportive than they could be cruel, but still, it hurt.

In the fifth grade, some of the girls in her class tried to see if they could pull her scales off. She ran to the teacher, bleeding from her arm, who promptly sent her home. The girls were punished, but it didn't stop them from being cruel in other ways. While they no longer tried to get physical, they kept laughing at her or ignoring her when she spoke, pretending that she hadn't. Her entire class started doing it, as well as kids from other classes. By the end of the year, she had given up on speaking in public entirely. She would still speak a few words at home, and her parents were incredibly worried about her. They transferred her to a different school for the sixth grade, but still she wouldn't speak.

The kids at the new school didn't tease her or bully her for her Morph features. Sure, the odd kid would call her weird, and she swore she could hear the whispers about her in the halls, but it was nothing like her old school. Still, it wasn't exactly better. She still refused to speak at all, preferring to write down her answers when asked a question. The other kids thought it was weird that she didn't talk, but they had a child who was deaf-mute, so it wasn't something they were terribly unused to. They'd just assumed she was like him, but she could hear or read lips or something. She learned to sign from the other kid, and learned to read lips, though she's not great at it. It was nice being able to communicate without worry of being laughed at because she said something dumb, or her voice was funny, or any of the other reasons the kids at her old school had to bully her.

She completed her education up to the seventh grade at the new school. The teachers had grown used to her muteness by now, and while no one really talked to her, and she didn't really have any friends, the same kind of bullying didn't happen again. That was a relief to her parents, but they were still worried about her refusal to talk. She would still only speak at home. If she went out with her family, she wouldn't say a word, not even to them, but she seemed more comfortable with it in the privacy of their own home. When she finished her seventh year of school, a few months after she turned 13, her mother asked her if she'd like to see where she had grown up. If she'd like to move to Stellara.

Chinatsu said yes very quickly. Her mother had told her about Stellara, how Morphs were far more common there than here, and that she could be whoever she wanted there because of it. Normal people were used to people like her, she wouldn't have to feel shy or ashamed of who - what - she was. She told her mother she had never been ashamed of her morph features. She loved them, because they were the same features her mother had, who she saw as beautiful and powerful and strong. She had long ago refused to ever be ashamed of being a Morph like her mother.

They moved to Stellara two months later. A little house just outside of Polaris Lake.

The lake was her favorite place about Stellara so far. It was where she spent much of her time. About three months after they moved to that house, Chinatsu found a mudkip in the lake. There were water types all over the place, so that wasn't unusual, but this guy was all alone. And he was obviously sad, even stranded looking. Chinatsu offered to help him, and he very quickly grew attached to the girl. They spent the afternoon swimming together and sitting around together, and he followed her home. When Chinatsu's mother saw him, she just looked at him for a moment before offering the mudkip a place to sleep for the night. After that, as they say, it was history. They became inseparable after that day.

Chinatsu spent the next two years exploring the area around the lake. There was a little town not far, and most of the locals knew her by name. She had begun to get her voice back, and though she was quiet, it was obvious she was much happier. People didn't whisper about her or throw things at her. They acted like she was just like them, and it was helping her regain her voice. She was still quiet, but she was beginning to speak again. She still has a hard time when she meets someone new, only saying a few words or not talking at all depending on the vibe the person she met gave her, but she'll talk now with people outside of her family in public.


NAME — Signi
LEVEL — 5
SPECIES — Mudkip
TYPE — Water
EGG GROUP — Monster, Water 1
ABILITY — Torrent
HELD ITEM — None
GENDER — Male
HEIGHT — 1'
WEIGHT — 16lbs
MOVE LIST — Tackle | Growl | Water Gun | Whirlpool
PERSONALITY — This is basically a puppy. A water puppy. He was part of a big group of other Mudkip, but whatever was in the lake separated them, and he couldn't find his way back. When Chinatsu found him, he stuck her to like a barnacle. He was lonely and wouldn't leave her alone. Now, he's one of the brightest, friendliest pokemon around. He loves that he and Chinatsu can go swimming together, and while she doesn't know it, he wants to be able to teach her water moves. Because to him, obviously, she's just a bigger water-type Pokemon. He wiggles whenever he sees someone he likes, squirming all over the place with affection. His biggest wiggles are saved for her, though. If he doesn't like you, you just get ignored. You don't even exist in his eyes if he doesn't like you.

PLAYED BY Sayuri