(Sorry about the long bio, I got really into it, but now I can't really find time to proof read it.
Hopefully, the Quality isn't too important, as long as you get the idea of what's going on, right? )
Name: Castor Garnet
Age: 14
Hometown: Olivine City
Appearance: Castor stands at about 5’8 and weighs about 130 pounds. His skin is pretty dark, at least in comparison to a tan individual. His eyes are a particular shade of red, easily comparable to garnets, which he commonly does. His hair is a simple black, normally being partially hidden by his red bandanna, leaving only two bangs and some hair in the back to be visible.
During his journey, Castor wears a pretty basic outfit, being concluded of his red bandanna, his gold gloves, black jeans, red shoes, and a pretty simple red t-shirt with a black mountain design on its front, the back being left blank. He normally always carries a gold wallet chain, for the sheer purpose of looking cool.
Other Notes: His gloves are made from Mareep Wool, so they can absorb electricity fairly well. The inside if made from a pretty good insulator(rubber maybe?), so he doesn’t get shocked by the electricity.
Personality: To put simply, he is very hot blooded, something annoys him, he will tell you, you annoy him too much and he will attempt to knock you out. When it comes to a problem, he normal just goes with a first though, which in the end can be some fairly complicated plans, because of bad experience he had from thinking too much about something. Castor is a pretty boyish boy. He loves fighting, be it pokemon battling or fighting with actual people,(or him fighting pokemon.) it’s just really fun to him. He also loves to be in dangerous situations, although he much prefers a life threatening situation where he is helping someone. He has a very strong heart, willing to put himself much behind others; even he doesn’t know them too well. Far too naïve, willing to go along with whatever someone tells him, unless it is much too obviously a lie. He can be fairly clever in battle, but outside of battle he tends to be a little dimwitted(partially intentionally.) but of course there are limits to both of these. Finally, Castor is extraordinarily energetic.
Biography: Castor was born in Olivine Town to a family of breeders. He lived with both parents and had one sibling, a younger sister. His family focused primarily on breeding Mareep for the famed (Glitter) Lighthouse of the city as a source of income, although if requested they would have breed other pokemon. The Mareep, or should I say Ampharos for the situation, that are used by the lighthouse is picked via a contest in which any breeders who feel their pokemon is worthy for the job, may participate in. The Garnet family Mareep/Ampharos normally end up the contest and the familys uses the prize money to subsist and breed more Mareep for when the chosen Ampharos is finally in need of retiring.
Ignoring situations where the family is unable to breed a viable Ampharos and lose the breeding Contest, the family managed to keep a fairly constant flow of money, because of this Castor managed to live life fairly well. His family didn’t need to worry too often and had a very large budget for their children. Castor himself went to a fairly good school in Olivine and managed to be able to grow in a fairly consistence fashion.
Castor himself never cared too much for the family tradition, although due to his age, it is only fair. During youth he never really like the Mareep that were around him, because there were just so many and to be honest, he really preferred fire pokemon. This was a rather sad, as for his tenth birthday, Castor received a Mareep of his own, because of family tradition of course.
The Mareep was named Virva long before Castor received the pokemon, because of it's possibility of being a lighthouse Ampharos instead of a breeder's partner pokemon. Castor’s Mareep was a cheerful pokemon, constantly trying to be by her trainer's side. Castor himself actually greatly disliked the Mareep when he first received her because the Mareep's cheerful personality made him feel as if it was trying to opposing him or held some negative intent. Ironically, this cheerfulness is, in a way, much like Castor, despite his cheerfulness being energetic then just happiness.
The duo were forced to stay together for most of their time since then overtime the boy managed to get used to his Mareep, but still wasn’t too close to her. From the start, the two were prohibited from battling, as Castor’s parents felt he was much too young for battling, despite other child his age were beginning their adventures around Johto already. This bothered Castor a bit; as it really went against his love of fighting and the rebellious personality he was beginning to develop. Castor soon began a habit of taking his Mareep out to train a little around town in secret. Trying to find and occasionally get into battles. The battles he did manage to get into he normally lost due to his lack of experience. Naturally, being a kid, the boy was caught and furthermore in trouble rather often. This idea of trying to train his Mareep around town and constantly getting in trouble went on in till the boy came to be about 13, where he just began to feel it wasn't worth it anymorel.
Over the time period his Mareep hadn't gotten much stronger through all this time and the bond between the two, while fair, still hadn’t gotten to a point where one could say the two had a ‘strong’ bond, despite all the time the two spent with each other. There was something missing between the two. That was in till, Castor met his Charmander, Icuru.
One day a Charmander randomly appeared in Olivine City. While it wasn’t too abnormal for wild pokemon to appear in towns, this Charmander was a little eccentric. He randomly challenged trainers he could find, but being very weak, he lost most of his battle, due to his low level of power. It was a bit odd that the pokemon was never caught, lathough the most reasonable hypothesis was that people just felt he was too weak, regardless, the pokemon still roamed freely for about a week. It's roaming ended when he choose to challenged Castor, assuming him to be just as powerful as all the other trainers he fought. Despite Castor not being a real trainer. he and Virva accepted the challenge naturally, due to the fact they hadn’t really had a ‘battle’ in a long time, since they retired from their previous habits. The battle between the lizard and the sheep was fairly quick, but tiring for both of them, but in the end, the Charmander won, just barely.
Finally achieving victory, the Charmander gained a powerfulconfident. Apparently the charmander was faced with a problem it had to face and in order to achieve it, it had to get stronger. This is why it openly challenged trainers, constantly battling in till it gained victory. When it finally defeated a trainer, it knew it could overcome it's power. Infact, this rush from victory increased this thought in the charmanders little head, he felt it was ready to over come any problem it was proposed with. With this victorious rush in mind and despite being heavily injured, the charmander ran off, out of town. Oddly, Virva seemed distraught and followed followed him rapidly, as if scared of something that was too happen. Naturally, as the pokemon partner Castor follow. When running Castor noticed something about Virva's attitude, it seemed fearful, it is possible that the charmander may have hinted to the mareep just what his problem was and from the mareep's reaction, she seemed that it knew, he wouldn't be able to overcome the goal it set out to do.
The Charmander hastily ran to a cave hidden away on the beach of Olivine. It jumped into the cave excitedly, knowing that he was now stronger.. While entering the cave shortly after the charmander, he was much out of their sight and the interior ended up being a rather large cavern, with multiple paths to choose, oddly the charmander's track also were unable to be seen. It took about ten minutes for the two to reach the Charmander, the fact they managed to get there so quickly was a great miracle. Unfortunately, by the time they finally found the hidden away room, the scene was rather dreadful. There was lake in the room, a terrifying Gyarados floating over the lake and furthermore, a heavily injured Charmander whom laid at the edge of the water, its fire on its tail was growing very dim. It seemed that it was about to finish off the Charmander in till it saw Castor and his Mareep enter. It grew furious and redirected its attention towards the intruders.
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A mighty fear overtook the young boy as it looked at the Gyarados’s fearsome eyes, it was the first time he actually has seen such a scary pokemon in reality. The feeling was so odd, but at the same time, he was excited. There was a strange emotion that stirred inside him, something that made him very willing to help this poor Charmander. He boldly took note of the pokemon’s eye and nodded. He ran off to the right, his Mareep followed naturally. The Gyarados took the moment to shoot a purple flame at the two, but due to the sudden movement between the duo, it missed, in a very blatant fashion, but something did happen because of the attack, the entrance was covered by this odd flame, so escape was no longer an option. This battle was a matter of life or death now and this fact made Castor grow even more excited.
Quickly, the boy called out his Mareep’s name and told it some quick instructions and ran back towards the direction of the flames, his Mareep continued in the same direction as it was going. The boy looked towards the Gyarados, he noticed that there was a mark on its head, obviously it was burned by the Charmander in the previous spout. This was a very good sign for the two. It might have just been possible for them to win this battle. The Gyarados decided to direct its attention towards the human, knowing that the Mareep would probably be useless without its human companion and furthermore, it was rather interested in what human tasted like. This managed to play into the boys plan very nicely, although he did realize the possibility of it targeting the Mareep he still had an idea covered for that as well. Rushing the boy rubbed his gloves together, for an unknown reason, while maintaining a quick run towards the fire, quickly the boy reached the flame and turned, hoping to force the Gyarados into the flame. As it turns out, the Gyarados itself wasn’t too dumb and easily avoided the flame and continued to shorten the distance between it and the boy.
Angered and frustrated the boy looked over towards his Mareep, she was glowing, but she didn’t seem to glow enough for his plan and as such, he suddenly stopped. The Gyarados continued it’s path happy to see it’s pray was willing to accept it’s demise, that was in till it received a blow to the head, where it’s burn was. The Gyarados screeched in pain, normally a hit from a human wouldn’t hurt it too much, but there was something odd about this hit. It was full of electricity! Castor was wearing a pair of wool gloves, rubbing them gather static electricity and while normally static electricity probably wouldn’t be able to do anything to a Gyarados of this caliber, there was something special about it. The gloves were made from Mareep wool! Mareep wool is known for its electrical storing properties and the fact that it came from such pedigree Mareep from the Garnet house, adds to the power of the gloves. While, still very useless against stronger pokemon, or just pokemon not weak to electricity in general, these gloves can still be useful when coming to situations where pokemon just aren’t enough.
The Gyarados was now severely angered, not injured, but just angry. The combination of the electricity, of which it horribly hates, and the fact it was hit on it’s burn it received from that annoying Charmander, made the hit really hurt, but no where near knocking it unconscious. It growled menacingly after its embarrassing cry, and proceeded to attempt to eat the kid. Fortunately, the cry left Castor enough time to gain some distance a little more to continue the game of cat and mouse between the two.
Things were very scary at this point, but at the same time, for Castor everything just grew more and more exciting. This was certainly the life for him! He looked over towards the Mareep, it was almost ready, but both his plans haven’t worked out too well for him. His first plan failed miserably and this second plan didn’t work out just how he wanted it too, especially considering just how much pain his right arm is at the moment, he probably wouldn’t be able to repeat the act he just committed.
Castor soon reached a corner, a very bad corner for him. He could have easily just turned left, but if he did that, he would be leading the Gyarados back towards the Mareep and that could cause many more complication. His time to take in consideration of possibility took much too much time, the Gyarados approached him and cornered him, there wasn’t too much left for him now that was in till a powerful thundershock came from across the room, the Mareep finally finished charging and released its attack. This was probably the worse experience the Gyarados had in its life. Its horrible weakness to electricity really got it now and the fact it was so heavily charged was much too much for it. Its body fell limp and became unconscious. Castor and Virva managed to achieve their first victory!
Slowly, Castor walked passed the fainted Gyarados in attempted to get to his Mareep and the Charmander. His Mareep did the same. The two obviously were tired with the pass they continued at the Charmander. The Mareep had only gone through a harsh battle with the Charmander a few minutes before and having to charge so much energy drained it heavily. Castor on the other hand had to spend on all his energy on running from the snake like Gyarados, as well as using a good percentage of his energy punching on top of the head, to a point where his arm is probably fractured or in some way injured. The duo looked at the condition the Charmander was in and they knew they had to do something and with how it seemed right now, only one choice was left; Catch the Charmander.
Considering the pokemon’s condition this was entirely possible, after all, the weaker the pokemon, the easier it was to catch. Castor went into his pocket; there were two pokeballs, one that was Virva that his parents gave him, when giving him the female Mareep. The second was an unused pokeball, something he stole from his parents. He pressed the button of the second pokeball to expand it and tossed in ontop of the unconscious Charmander, as expected it caught it within seconds. Slowly, Castor used his left arm and picked up and pocketed the pokeball. He looked over towards the flames; they had died down now, enough for Castor to be able to have a chance to safely get out now at least. He looked over towards his Mareep, whom gave a nod, he returned the girl to its pokeball.
Now all alone, Castor looked over towards the Gyarados, its body was very fearsome there, unconscious and unmoving. He really wanted to get out of this creepy cave now and as such he walked over towards the dying flames and rolled through them, yelling a little when hitting his arm. He got up and proceeded to walk out. That was in till a serpent appeared from out of the blue, to chase the kid down one last time. It wouldn’t allow it to be defeated so easily, not only recently taking this form! The Gyarados growled and rushed through its own purple flames to chase the boy.
Nothing was left for Castor to choose from, he had to run! The thought of sending out his Mareep to shock the Gyarados one last time hadn’t gone through his head yet, all that he could think of doing now was to run and as such he did. Castor soon felt fear again, but this fear, he didn’t like. It wasn’t the same, it didn’t give him joy, excitement; this fear was far darker. Despite him experiencing nearly the same condition, things were really different at this point. He wasn’t fighting for someone else, he wasn’t running to protect someone; he wasn’t running for the sake of something, he was only running for the sake of his life. This wasn’t fun.
Castor followed his tracks through the cavern the best he could, but they were muddled by other pokemon footstep that dwelled in the caverns. He was relying on his memories while trying to avoid this Gyarados. Things were very bad and progressively got worse as the pokemon managed to get its jaws around Castor. Things began to look very dim for the boy that in till his pokeballs fell out of his pocket, his Mareep being released directly infront of him and the Gyarados, with a quick burst of thought the Mareep sent a quick shock towards the gyarados’s mouth, as it pushed castor back a bit. It was the moment of truth, the gyarados snapped it's jaws closed with the mareep inside. It was a horrendous moment, that was in till a sudden golden light shined through the pokemon's menacing teeth. The interior of the gyarados was being attacked directly by the mareep's measly thundershock. While something painful to most pokemon, this attack was outrageous to the gyarados, it's weakness to lightning in combination to an internal attack with no protection from his skin or scales was absolutely monstrous, the gyarados would have probably died from a heart failure if it weren't for the fact the Mareep ran out of energy and fell unconscious. The Gyarados to fell unconscious, from all the aspects of the electricity in it's system. It fell promptly onto the floor, it's jaws wide open. Frantic, Castor pulled the Mareep from the gyarados’s mouth and looked at her sadly.
Virva was unconscious, but very close to death, even more so then the Charmander. It’s beautiful gold coat was now covered in it’s blood, causing a very odd mixture between the two. The little girl that belonged to him, his very close friend, was in such a horrible condition. It couldn’t cause anything but tears to the boy, as he held the pokemon. He looked away, trying to find the pokeballs he dropped under the Gyarados, finding both of them, he returned the Mareep and proceeded to run and exit the cave.
When Castor finally escaped from the cold grasps of the horrible seaside cave. The gyarados was defeated, but his pokemon were still in a bad position, he rushed to the pokemon center, to heal his pokemon, whom he believed to be in critical condition, his injuries had to be ignored atleast for this moment. After giving his pokemon to the center's nurses,he was relived to hear that both of them should be okay after a certain amount of time. He then went off to the actual human hospital in Olivine to take care of his arm. As it turned out the three all managed to get to perfect health at about the same time.
That short adventured proved to give Castor a great taste of what it would be like to be a trainer in the outside world. The thrills that can be achieved by battling and the dangers and fears that can arise from it too. It was an interesting concept to the boy and during his hospitalized time this was the main thing he really though about, asides from his pokemon themselves. He still wasn’t too sure, but there was something about being a trainer he really loved.
Regarding his family, they were horribly worried about Castor and were really unwilling to allow him to become a trainer, even after hearing his explanation of the joy he got from battling the Gyarados, hands on. While the family didn’t originally wish for him to be a trainer, this really gave a great reason for them to decline his wishes. It was just much too dangerous for them to openly let him do.
Once all three of the trio were finally okay, Castor held a secret meeting amongst him and his pokemon, regarding his wishes to be a trainer. While it was a little hard to fully converse with pokemon, he knew how to at least get yes and no answers from them. From what he asked them he could easily conclude both of them would willingly follow him if he were to become a trainer and that they supported him honestly. This gave Castor a lot of confidence with his choice on what he wished to do with life.
It should be noted that during this time, Charmander showed a bit of it's personality. It was a little stupid, while not in a negative sense, it wasn't really great at deducing simple ideas and concepts. It had a fairly straight forward mindset. This mindset also was the reasoning behind his loyalty to both Virva and Castor, as they both saved their life, risking their lives to do so. He felt loyalty and commitment to the two was the only form for him to repay them. This is also why he openly took the name Icuru from Castor, knowing that it would be a good way to show his willingness to repay him. It should also be noted that Charmander's goal in defeating the gyarados was never really fully defined nor questioned. Both Castor and Mareep were willing to believe that he just saw it as a challenge he had to overcome and nothing more, although it is very possible that their was or is a deep meaning behind the attack.
His Mareep, Virva had undergone a change after the battle too. While still remaining a cheerful persona, she was far more protective over Castor. While not an obsessive protective, she would be more cautious in the movements she would allow him to make, such as taking bad turns in the city or doing something dangerous. It possible she felt guilty over anything that may have happened to Castor during the cave incident and that she didn't put in enouhg effort, despite the fact that she was the one who defeated the gyarados. The same idea of protectionism towards both his pokemon, but especially Virva, also developed in Castor at his time, giving him doubts about becoming a trainer. He didn't want to hurt his pokemon for his sake, but their absolute willingness to join him in his quest of becoming a trainer, lessened this doubt, but still didn't remove his wish to not have them hurt.
Over the time period between his hospitalization and his 14th birthday, Castor constantly attempted to convince his parents that he should become a trainer. He tried to sell them by telling them that he had talent by how he defeated that Gyarados. He tried to explain that his pokemon are completely willing to become battling pokemon and that he was just destined to become a trainer. Training was very dangerous and they didn’t want to see their first born just die in the middle of nowhere. That was in till his 14th birthday. Castor decided if they weren’t going to allow him to go on a journey, then he would just do it by himself, by running away.
As such, he stated so to his parents, but before telling him of his plans to run away, he waited to see their reply, it was his birthday after all. Surprisingly, they finally said yes. It may have been that they overheard him or they just simply finally understood how badly he wanted to become a trainer, whatever the reasoning was, they finally gave him permission child to travel the world. This day was probably one of Castor’s happiest birthdays, if not days, of his life. His wish has finally came true! Castor could finally be a trainer!
From there it would be decided that in due time, Castor would be sent to the Furoh Region to begin his adventure, as it would be a little to awkward for him to ready himself for Johto by going too some far off town, to be put in a place where wild pokemon weren't too strong. being shipped off would have been much easier seeing as they do live in the port City of Johto, Olivine City and the idea that Castor was going to be away anyways.
Starting Pokemon:
Species: Mareep
Nickname: Virva
Level: 10
Gender: Female
Species: Charmander
Nickname: Icuru
Level: 10
Gender: Male
Items:
New Model Red (Not Pink) Pokegear
Medium Size Gold backpack
Reasonable amount of food for him and his pokemon
Wallet
Pokeballs x15
Potion x10
What is the biscuit's name? The answer is... Waldorf!