As per http://forums.gtsplus.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=49940&view=findpost&p=1552759, though I have made an obvious alteration with his having a disability.
Name: Lysander Kirby Doyle
Alias: Kirby; Sander; Sandy
Age: 23
Hometown: Sootopolis City, Hoenn
Appearance: Lysander is is six feet, four inches tall and weighs close to two hundred pounds. He is a lithe boy with muscle tone that is not readily visible unless he’s wearing shorts or actively showing it off. Lysander has dark skin and a head full of thick black hair, which he has braided into small, tight braids close to his head. At the nape of his neck, these braids dangle down toward his shoulders. Lysander has amber-brown eyes with a dark brown ring around them.
Lysander’s most prominent feature is the wheelchair in which he is constantly sitting. Unable to walk, as a spinal injury paralyzed him from the waist down, he has forsaken his soccer career in an attempt to take his pokemon journey, thirteen years later than most people. He usually wears a black non-sleeved shirt under a dark blue windbreaker jacket, loose cargo pants, and white sneakers. Lysander carries a backpack with him at all times, slung over one of the handles of his wheelchair. He almost always has a smile on his face.
Personality: Despite the circumstances, Lysander is a very optimistic person. He has been wheelchair-bound nearly three years and is slowly becoming more and more accustomed to it. At the time of his injury, he did not take it well when he was told he would never walk again, and after his plans to play soccer professionally were ruined, he spiraled down into depression. He overcame it with much help from his family, and looking at all of the good things he has in life now has helped him to keep an optimistic view.
One of the things Lysander cannot stand is when someone presumes he is unable to do anything for himself. He is not an invalid, and while he has his service dog and is grateful for the help, he is also fully capable of doing many things for himself. While he does not usually lose his cool, this is one of the things that could possibly make him do so. Lysander has a soft spot for children, growing up with all younger siblings, and is used to being the adult. He has also picked up his parents naming technique, though Lysander’s are generally mythological.
Biography: Lysander is the eldest of four children, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. The four of them were born to Richard Doyle, a university professor of literature, and Jordan Nagi, a high school history professor. Between the two of them, they came up with some very interesting names for their children that merged their two fields of expertise. Lysander himself is named after a Spartan general (Lysander) and the writer, Kirby Wright.
Lysander was six when his brother, Sun Alexander (named for Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of Journey to the West, and Alexander Graham Bell) was born. They were eight and two, respectively, when the only girl was born. She was named Clytemnestra Luthien, after a character in The Oresteia, and a character in Tolkien’s Similarion. She was one went the youngest of them was born, Icarus Patroclus (after the Greek myth of Daedelus and Icarus, and a character in Homer's Iliad).
The four of them grew up fairly close, having a good home life and parents who cared about them very much. They are simultaneously annoyed and amused by their parents’ choice of names for them, but have made their own adjustments over time, referring to themselves respectively as Kirby, Xander, and August, Icarus being the only one who truly liked his name. Ironically, their parents are as amused by this change-up as they are annoyed, and the kids found it to be a nice balance.
August and Icarus look up to Lysander a lot (Icarus more than anyone), and envied him when he went off to college on a soccer scholarship. Xander was the only one of them who did not get on incredibly well with Lysander. When he turned ten, he immediately left on his pokemon journey, rarely returning home to visit.
Lysander had put off his pokemon journey in favor of playing soccer professionally. He was nineteen when he was injured during a game, getting hit in the lower back, and told that he would never walk again. He spiraled down into a depression that he was a long time recovering from. It was Icarus who finally hit him in the head with the means of his recovery – quite literally, when he chucked a pokeball at Lysander’s face.
It took some time, but Lysander overcame his depression and grew accustomed to being confined to a wheelchair. His parents paid to have a young growlithe trained as a service dog, and gave it to Lysander as a gift on his third year of successfully overcoming the emotional rollercoaster he had been thrown into by his injury.
When Lysander told his family his plans of going on his pokemon journey, they were both concerned and encouraging. Icarus, who had just received his first pokemon (a mudkip), ran out and caught the first pokemon he could find, which happened to be a rather feisty meowth, who put up a good fight. Icarus made Lysander take the meowth with him, for good luck, and Lysander headed out on his journey with a very reluctant Icarus staying behind. Choosing to begin his journey somewhere new and exciting, Lysander decided to take a ship to the Furoh region. Along the way, he came across a baby hippopotas, and caught it.
Lysander's journey is for him to find a place in the world that is not defined or decided by whether or not he can walk. He intends to prove to himself that he is fully capable of succeeding in a pokemon journey, even when people often look at him and only see a cripple. Lysander takes a soccer ball with his everywhere, as a momentum of sentimental value more than anything, though he has found that Mafdet enjoys playing with it. Despite his inability to move his legs, he is still quite talented with the ball.
Class: Trainer
Starting Pokemon:
Just a little backstory for Garm of Hounds would be nice, since the growlithe is currently Lysander's most powerful pokemon. I won't delay your approval over this small edit though.
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