Post by Raven on Jul 25, 2010 3:39:28 GMT -6
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[/u][/size][/right]Let's Get It Started...NAME: Anna Grace Harden
NICKNAMES: "The Boss" though just "Boss" to her face. Her closer relations sometimes take the liberty of giving her their own little pet names as well such as Annie, Anne, or Butterfly. If you ask her though, and aren't her underling, she'll tell you to call her Raven.
AGE: 23
GENDER: Female
SIDE: Evil
JOB: Team Shard Leader, Trainer, and Amateur Breeder.
POKEMON TYPES OF CHOICE: Rare, Young, and Shy pokemon have a certain appeal to Anna that others don't, but she likes all pokemon.
THEME SONGs:
The Crow and The Butterfly by Shinedown
You're Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring
Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly by HIM....In Here
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[/u][/size][/right][/blockquote][/blockquote]To Be Your Own Best Friend...APPERANCE: Anna has always had a delicate appearance. She has a small frame and tends to hold herself in an uncertain manner. She is far from the image of an evil leader that most of her underlings probably hold of her. Her appearance suits much more for what she really is, a girl who's been hurt and set aside, underestimated and abandoned. However her appearance is useful to her. Because she looks far from the evil leader she is, and because she hides her identity from her own grunts, much less does she announce herself to the world, she is able to move about freely in the world without anyone knowing who she is.
Going into more detail though Anna is 5' 4", short as well as slim, and has fair skin. In contrast to her skin her hair, naturally a light brown, has been dyed to a slightly dark purple-red color in exception for a strip of hair that is bleached white. Her face is softly rounded with a slightly sharper angled chin. Her nose is slim and her lips fine. Her ears are of average size for her head and her eyes seem big on her face, making her appear a little childish despite her age.
Her style of clothing reflects what her appearance would try to tell you, that she is delicate and broken. Her clothes are usually of very dark purple colors and also tend to be puffy and lacy. While she was the one to design the uniform she doesn't particularly care to don it herself as to her those dressed in it are the only ones she can even start to trust, and she doesn't really trust herself very much anymore. Also she prefers to stay inside and doesn't need the warmth of the uniform.
PERSONALITY: When Anna was a young girl she was a sweet but shy kid who believed in the magic of the world. A lot has changed since then. These days Anna has lost her innocence, her sweetness, and has given up on any magic saving the day. Her views on the world have grown colder and colder with her hard and misinterpreted lessons of life. Now she has a hard time getting to know people, not because she is shy, but because she doesn't feel as if she can trust anyone she doesn't know well. Her first assumption when she meets someone is that they are going to try and hurt her.
Anna is also very insecure about herself as well. She doesn't trust herself to be able to handle things well and struggles through trying to appear col and in control, thus why she tends to hide behind her admins, when they are around, her only real friends, she feels as if she herself is stronger. She also fears that if her underlings below the admins saw her in a moment of indecision or insecurity, they would hatch plots to overthrow her or try insubordination of other forms.
However she wouldn't be easy to overthrow, or even budge for that matter, even if she doesn't think the same of herself. When a situation calls for it, or when it comes to pokemon battling, Anna works swiftly and with precession that speaks of her harder years from earlier on in her life. She is a tough opponent and on occasions can also lash the hell out of someone with nothing but her words if provoked to anger. She really is a lot stronger then she gives herself credit for, in many ways if not physically.
Anna tends to rely on those she trusts anyways, saving her tougher side for when she really needs it without realizing that is what she is doing. Yet it is her who is always coming up with the ideas and keeping the quarrels that go on between her admins and other underlings at bay with smooth words or ideas for those who know the quarrelers. She is really bright and in many ways makes up for her insecurities with her sharp wits, strategy, and being a tough trainer. It is her pokemon though that she relies on most. Each of them seems to have the a bit of the healthy personality that she lacks and she is constantly looking to them for the ways she should respond to many types of situations.
LIKES:
- Her Pokemon- Always there for her to lean on for support and to believe in her, even if they can't tell her so, Anna's pokemon are very important to her. They are closer to being her family now that she has lost her parents to whatever reason and she loves them all dearly.
- Lacy Clothes- Weather she realizes she likes them for a reason or not could be speculated upon, but she does have a reason for liking her lacy clothes and it is a good one too. By keeping everything, about her, including her clothes, matching the delicate appearance, she is able to move freely and unnoticed among even most of her own people.
- Books- When she has lost all faith in herself or is too tired to do anything but lie around, but can't sleep, books are her escape from the real world. Be it a book on strategy or a fantasy, Anna will read it. She finds the information of non-fiction to be useful in many forms and enjoys the release from the stress of her own life by reading about the imaginary life of someone else.
- Coffee- On a long night when her work keeps her from sleeping, coffee is her best friend. While she doesn't care for the taste, she appreciates it knowing that it saved her butt with its energy boost quite a few times.
- Freedom- While it seems a given, Anna has more reasons for enjoying her freedom then most. The main of these reasons being that since she already feels trapped by her own life in some ways, she loves to get away and become unnoticed.
- Night- The stars, the crisp air, and the freedom of the dark are all causes for Anna's love of the night.
- Baths- After a long day of work a warm bath serves to calm and cleanse Anna as well as refresh her enough to think coherently when she is in a fluster.
- Candles- She simply loves candles for their class and their sweet scents that she loves to have filling her room.
- Flying- Ever since Lance evolved and learned to fly well enough to carry her, Anna has enjoyed soaring through the sky with her oldest and dearest partner and friend.
DIS-LIKES:
- Team Rocket- The biggest dislike of them all, Anna hates Team Rocket for the way they treated her and for never really telling her what happened to her father.
- Exposure- She hates being exposed to the thoughts others have of her and to being known well enough to even be thought of.
- The "Good Guys"- To Anna, these are just people who seek to destroy all that she has spent so much time and energy building without ever taking the time to think that maybe someone had worked hard to get where she has. She feels they judge her before they have ever even met her.
- Crowds- Too many people for her comfort.
- Boats- Baths are nice, drowning in deep water because the craft you are on can't stand a storm like a pokemon can is not.
....On The Outside Looking In
[/u][/size][/right][/blockquote][/blockquote]Leave Out All The Rest...HISTORY:
You may think you know her story. You may have heard the rumors and now you think you know everything. Well I'm here to tell you that you're wrong. I'm here to give you the story of what really happened to our little butterfly to turn her into a heart-broken raven. It doesn't start with a grunt eager to climb the ranks, it starts with a loving mother and hard-working father. It starts with a innocent child who's views on the world were untainted. It all started with a bed time story.You're Words Still Serenade Me
Your Lullabies Won't Let Me Sleep
I've Never Heard Such a Haunting Melody
Anna was born in the Kanto Region to her stay at home mother and her father who worked hard to support both his wife and child. He never really spoke of where he worked, but it was obvious enough to Anna what he was, for his pokemon often chose to sleep in her bed with her and often played with her. She knew that he never took her to the place where he worked because there was no one place. In fact, sometimes he would spend weeks away in towns clear across the Region fighting other trainers.
Sometimes, if Anna had been a good girl, her father would tell her stories about his work before she went to sleep. He would tell her about the battles, speak of strategies he had used, and gloat over his victories. More often though she just watched him. She watched him when he trained the pokemon and paid attention anytime he even hinted at talking about them. His starter had been a charmander from the Pokemon Lab and he had also obtained a mankey and a rattata. She loved her dad's pokemon as much as he did and would often sneak them treats whenever they were home, which wasn't too often.
When Anna was eight her dad gave her an egg his charmeleon had laid after spending some time with a male charizard. He told her to keep it with her and take good care of it. At the time she had no idea what it was and treasured it as a gift from his father, but nothing more. It was a surprise for her when it hatched and revealed to her that he had given her her very first pokemon, the same type as his as well. She couldn't decide who she needed to hug first so in the end she scooped the small lizard pokemon up and ran to her dad to throw her free arm around him, squealing with happiness. She named the charmander Lance after the knight from the tales.
For five years Lance was everything Anna could have wanted at the time. He was a friend, a constant companion, and a guardian from the bullies at school who had taken advantage of her childhood shyness to victimize her. Yet during this time Lance did not level much. Anna hadn't been focusing on training him, instead she had been busy forming a strong bond with him. It was that bond that kept her sane through the event that came shortly after Lance's fifth birthday.I'm Just a Step Away
I'm Just a Breath Away
Loosing My Faith Today
I'm Falling off the Edge Today
Anna saw her father off on another work related trip as she always did, with a hug and a kiss on the forehead and the words, "See you soon." After that days went by. Then weeks. Then two months. All the while she thought her father must be doing a real good job, but her mother seemed to grow more and more worried. After three months had passed Anna was beginning to worry as well. At four months her mother broke down and started shouting nonsense towards the sky, crying and tearing at her hair and the grass.
Worried about her mother's actions Anna tried to calm her. However this only caused her mother to turn on her and let loose her dad's big secret that Anna had never suspected he had. He had been a pokemon trainer, yes, but in his desperation to make money he had signed on with Team Rocket, the notorious gang. He had done so back when they were still expecting Anna, hoping to climb the ranks so that he could provide well for his family. In trying to climb the ranks though he constantly volunteered for the hardest and most dangerous work. Anna's mother had warned him that he would get killed one day if he kept it up, but he had told her he'd be fine.
That morning however a short note had come in the mail. It had been from team rocket and it contained a little bit of cash that was explained by the note to be her father's "last earnings." The note also said that they would be keeping his pokemon as they had been theirs to start with. What Anna gathered from this note was that her father had either gone missing, or been killed in his work somehow. Yet, she would never know for sure unless she went to find out. She got ready to set off to confront Team Rocket, but her mother stopped her, begged her not to follow in her father's footprints. She gave in and allowed her mother to keep her from her mission, but not for long. Soon their meager cash reserves were running dry and her mother was refusing to eat so that Anna could. When it reached this point Anna knew she had to do something. No matter what her mother said.The Evidence Was There
For You to Point the Finger
A Momentary Lapse Casts Me
Into Oblivion. Am I Wasting My Time?
Anna set out on here own to find Team Rocket, but it was harder then she had thought. It took her a little over a month to find someone who could direct her to their head quarters then another month to get there. She survived off of the money she got from the few battles she allowed her hungry charmander to participate in. However the constant watching of her father's training sessions had been useful. She turned out to have good strategy and timing. If she had been able to feed her pokemon better she might have been willing to train him more, but she was conserving his energy, as well as her's, for what lay ahead.
When she finally reached the Rocket HQ she entered and almost begged them for a job even though they would normally never hire on someone so young. In the end they found they'd be unable to rid themselves of her until they showed her she wouldn't be able to last on the team. They instead had one of their grunts challenge her to a one on one battle. It was a good thing she had been saving Lance's energy. It took every ounce of it and of her strategical abilities to defeat the grunt. It might have shown her something if the grunt's pokemon hadn't been a water-type that was obviously much older then Lance. Instead she had managed to prove that she could take care of herself, and she didn't let any of them see how tired she was, nor did Lance.
Grudgingly the grunts she had confronted took her to a higher up to discuss the possibilities. When she was confronted by the higher ranked she was asked what she wanted to do on the team. She told him flat out that she wanted to earn money so her mother could eat and she wanted to find out what had happened to her father who had worked for them before her. He had laughed at that, for he then knew who she was. He told her that her father had been a weak trainer at best. He had never had the guts to push his pokemon hard enough to win and in the end it had gotten him killed. However he couldn't help but to see that Anna had seemed to push her Lance just as much as it had taken.
He decided to put her to a task to prove her worth as a possible grunt. He told her that some of his underlings were unable to steal pokemon from other trainers, that only the best of the grunts could do it. He then told her that if she could steal a pokemon by the end of the next day she would be in. He let her rest for the night first, actually thinking she might have a bit of potential. Then the next morning she was sent off to try and steal a pokemon and told that if she couldn't do it she'd not be allowed to return. The other grunts thought they were rid of her.
Just as the sun was getting ready to set though Anna came running back to the base, not one, but two scuffed up pokeballs gripped tightly in her hands. They contained twin dratinis who she had seen being abused by their trainer. When he had recalled them to go to dinner she had waited for him to be out of sight, then snuck into his make-shift tent and swiped both of the balls. She had considered taking another ball she had seen in the bag, for it might too contain another abused pokemon, but she had decided against it.
When she presented the twins to the person who had assigned her the mission, placing both the balls in his hands as soon as the pokemon were out for him to examine, she stepped back nervously and waited anxiously for his reply. He let out a chuckle, an eerie thing that made her skin crawl, but in a way friendly as well. He tossed her back one of the balls then tucked the other into his coat pocket. "Well done kid. We'll make you a Rocket yet." was all he said, but it was as good as her having just signed a contract. She was in and she could start to find out exactly what had happened to her father and support her mother.You Don't Ever Ask Me Why
You Don't Read the Signs
Give me Way too Many Reason
To Want to Get High
However the new addition to Anna's team brought jealousy from the other grunts. They bullied her and teased her out of spite, and she dared not to oppose them in case she might loose the position she had earned there. She was stuck with all the dirty work and tedious jobs no one else wanted, but she did them with a gusto that drew attention towards her from other even higher ups then the head grunt who had allowed her in. The attention only made the other grunts even more jealous. Soon enough she was being bullied more then ever as well as being given more exciting work from the higher ups.
Then the other grunts did something that was unforgivable. Jealous of her standing within the Team her fellow grunts decided to get rid of her by framing her for something big. They stole one of the admin's pokemon in the middle of the night and placed it in Anna's bag. When Anna was confronted on it she told them honestly that she had no idea how it got there, but the other grunts pointed out that she was one of the trickiest snatchers they had. It'd have been easy for her to try and play of her childish looks to appear innocent.
Even though it seemed obvious to Anna that she was innocent, and possibly the higher ups as well, they couldn't stand for such subordination and giving the other grunts the example that stealing would be allowed. The only thing to tell Anna that they knew it wasn't really her fault was when they arranged for her to have enough food to get home and let her keep her pokemon. However knowing that they knew she was innocent didn't soften the blow, it hardened it, and she felt it deep within her soul. She had been with them a little over a year and had been sending money home to her mother the whole time.
When she returned though she found the house was empty and abandoned. Not only had she come home not knowing what had happened to her father, now her mother was missing too. Anna was heart broken and desperate. She check the mail box to find almost all of her money still in there except for the first month's worth. When she asked a neighbor what had happened to her mother she found out that her mother had remarried about three months after Anna had run away and had moved in with the man immediately.
What Anna found when she found her mother though, was not what she had expected. What she found was her mother with a newborn baby in her hands. She told Anna it was her half brother, but that was too much for Anna to take. That night she left and took the money she had made to take her away to Jhoto and Honnen. In those places she caught and trained herself a full team, treasuring them all but never catching more pokemon then she could handle.
This journey spanned over 5 years, starting when she was 15 and ending shortly after her 20th birthday. She then returned to her home Region. 5 years had given her a lot of time to seethe about what had happened to her and to become stronger. Now her heart had hardened against the events of the past and she was driven by a wish for revenge. However she did not want to take it directly, and not alone, for she knew she could do neither. Instead she looked for others like herself. Those who had grudges against Team Rocket, or any other Team for that matter. They were going to show all of them what they had struck down was now going to out shadow them all. Then they'd seek their own revenge, once they were so great in force and strength that not all of the Teams together could stop them.
As if forming out of her own needs for a place to rule over a new Region was discovered to the north. Quickly she and her few trusted allies headed to the new region. Here she is now building a Team of her own, hiding behind her closest and most trusted head admins, haunting the new Region with her grunts and underlings and quickly gaining ground she lost when Team Rocket booted her.There's Something in Your Way
And Now Someone Is Gonna Pay
And If You Can't Get What You Want
Well It's All Because of Me....Leave Out All The Rest
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NICKNAME: Lance
GENDER: Male
LEVEL: 47
MOVES:
- Flamethrower
- Slash
- Fly
- Dragon Claw
INFO/PERSONALITY: Lance was Anna's first pokemon who hatched to her from an egg her beloved father had given her. They have been together most of each others' lives and care deeply for each other. Lance, as his name might imply, tends to protect her from danger often and has a mostly noble nature. He has qualms about how Anna is dealing with her feelings towards Rocket, but he is willing to support her in whatever she does.
NICKNAME: Aria
GENDER: Female
LEVEL: 43
MOVES:
- Dragon Rush
- Aqua Tail
- Surf
- Slam
INFO/PERSONALITY: Aria was stolen by Anna from her original trainer, but she adores Anna for it because at the time she had been being abused and Anna had saved her from it. She noticed quickly though how the other grunts had abused Anna as well and grew an stubborn and quick tempered side to make up for Anna's shyness and fear of the time. Those traits remain to today even though Anna has made up for them on her own by now.
NICKNAME: Teddy
GENDER: Male
LEVEL: 37
MOVES:
- Yawn
- Slash
- Sweet Scent
- Faint Attack
INFO/PERSONALITY: Teddy is fat and lazy. His favorite things to do are eat, sleep, and curl up around Anna. In fact that is how she met him. One day she was out camping and as she was going to sleep a big old Ursaring comes up and sniffs her then curls up around her as if he had been doing so all his life. She had tried to leave him there but he had followed her persistently until she caught him. Since then he has grown on her and she couldn't bare to part with him.
NICKNAME: Darian
GENDER: Male
LEVEL: 42
MOVES:
- Double-Edge
- Aqua Ring
- Rollout
- Bubble Beam
INFO/PERSONALITY: Darian is the trusting and outgoing pokemon that seems to get into the most trouble out of all of Anna's pokemon. He loves strangers and will often make them feel uncomfortable with how close he likes to get to them. He can be a bit of an idiot, but he is a great fighter and Anna can't hate him when he gives her the majority of his affections. He too had been hatched by her after she received his egg while she was traveling through Honnen. She has raised him since he hatched as an Azuril.
NICKNAME: Vincent
GENDER: Male
LEVEL: 43
MOVES:
- Leaf Blade
- Psycho Cut
- Teleport
- Night Slash
INFO/PERSONALITY: Anna also got Vincent while in Honnen, catching him on a dark night when all other trainers where sleeping in their tents. At first he didn't like her or any of her other pokemon, but as he trained with her and got used to the others he started to become protective of Anna, though he stubbornly hides the fact that he likes her from anyone, even her most of the time. He is otherwise a very serious but stubborn pokemon.
NICKNAME: Sasha
GENDER: Female
LEVEL: 39
MOVES:
- Bite
- Howl
- Assurance
- Roar
INFO/PERSONALITY: Sasha, Anna's last pokemon and the only one she ever received from a trade. However it wasn't a trade of pokemon, but rather an exchanging of money for her at the Honnen daycare when they said that the egg had been left in their care but they didn't have time for the aggressive pup that had hatched from it. Sasha has always been a fighter, aggressive and forceful but with a healthy sense of humor as well. She is the sort to mess with people and pick fights. While she doesn't seem as attached to Anna as the rest of her pokemon, Sasha does get into a lot of fights with Teddy over who gets to sleep with her at night.....I Ain't The Sharpest Tool In The Shed.
[/size]Hands Held High Into A Sky So Blue...NICKNAME: Fluffy
AGE: 16 (Almost 17)
GENDER: Female
ROLE-PLAYING CLASS: I'd like to believe I am Advanced.
FOUNDATION: Proboards Support
....Ocean Opens Up To Swallow You
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