Name: Reino Mortensen.
Age: Twenty-three (23).
Hometown: Snowpoint City, Sinnoh.
Appearance: At a rather short height for his age, Reino stands at about 5'5” with a slender body structure. His face is rather thin, and box-framed, black glasses rest on the edge of his nose. He has a pallid complexion, due to growing up in the north. Tanning (read: burning) easily, he stays clear of the sun at times. His hair is a golden blonde, and his bangs are normally always pulled back with a simple, purple barrette. It falls to his shoulders in almost a straight line, the sides framing his face. His eyes are a deep blue, and his right eye seems to have some sort of defect in it. In reality, he's blind in said eye.
Reino dresses to impress. His main outfit consists of wearing a dark grey, button up, dress shirt underneath a lavender, button up vest (that matches the barrette in his hair). Although the initial dress shirt is loose, the vest is rather tight and slimming, which causes the shoulders of the shirt to wrinkle. He wears black, loose-fitting trousers that end below his ankles, gathering at his feet. At the pant line, his shirt is tucked in. The vest's corners, however, end a few inches after his pants begin, covering the first part. Reino's shoes are black and comfortable.
The man also carries a royal purple duffel bag that is usually slung around his shoulder. It's never fully on, and it has various pockets that hold different items. The strap is usually rather long; when on his shoulder, the bottom of the bag comes to mid-thigh.
When returning home, he often wears a long heliotrope scarf, with a matching, high-collared trench coat. The coat's lined with faux white fur.
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Personality: It is indeed that he is blind in his right eye, due to a cataract. However, due to a certain fear of going under the needle, he refuses to have it removed, resulting in blindness. He doesn't mind it, as it doesn't really interfere with daily life, as he can simply see with his left eye. The other eye, though, has really poor eyesight, and so he wears glasses with thick lenses. Without the glasses, his vision is rather blurry and he cannot act on anything without them.
Reino is a clumsy, clumsy man. Usually tripping over everything from a small ledge to steps to larger items, it often results with him falling. He has tried to be wary of his surroundings, but fails amazingly often. When around others, if he trips, he gets really embarrassed—face flushing—politely excusing himself to regain his composure. It takes him several minutes to do so.
The man thinks lowly of himself. He often has to be cheered up by his Pokémon (usually Torden or Paere). He is afraid of failure, and thus refuses to enter battles or contests unless his pokémon are properly trained. He is frequently found crying softly, curled up on the ground, usually for no apparent reason. He finds it really hard to trust people. He constantly wonders how people think of him, and so he acts shyly. Reino prefers contests to battles, but his pokémon are trained to battle as well (hardly).
When in battle, he is very serious, often not smiling and rather stiff. This is one of the only times where he doesn't trip over his own two feet. He commands with skill and fierceness.
Biography: Reino comes from an upperclass family, that resides in Snowpoint City. His mother was a stay-home mom, and his dad was some important person that had to travel forty-five minutes from their home every day to get to work. He was often pampered and spoiled lightly, in such a way where he would become generous and not pompous. However, being brought up this way has made him really sensitive. He didn't grow up around many people, and the children he tried to be friends with would often lie to him. He isolated himself, then, from everyone, and had to be put on homeschooling.
When he was around the age of six, his mother had to go in for surgery to remove a deadly disease. She died on the table, and this is where Reino's fear of surgeries stems from. To this day, he feels as if he could've prevented his mother's death.
After the death, he was raised by several lovely maids that cherished him. His father also began coming home more often, fearing that his son wouldn't have a father figure around the house. During the times when he was with his dad, usually in the afternoons and every Saturday, he was taught how to train pokémon. He used his dad's, or one of the maids' Chanseys.
Right before he turned twelve, his dad came home one day with Sluge, the Gulpin. Since he was a difficult pokémon to want, Reino's dad figured a lonely pokémon would be perfect for a lonely boy. Reino was, of course, overjoyed; he promptly nicknamed it and began reading furiously on how to train the pokémon, to no avail.
Two years passed, when a large storm hit just south of Snowpoint—so it was warm enough for it to rain heavily. This is when a certain Electrike traveled north to take shelter. A few days passed and one of the gardeners found the pokémon in the gardening shed, sleeping soundly. The gardener took the Electrike and, with Reino's father's permission, gave him to Reino. The boy was now excited that maybe—just maybe!—he would be able to train this one.
And, finally, several months passed. On his fifteenth birthday, Reino was given a yellow egg that hurt to touch it by a neighbor. He cared for it, and it hatched at a normal rate. Paere immediately took a liking to the boy.
His father began to go back to work more often, usually only spending a full day at home on the weekends and possibly Fridays. The maids continued to care for Reino, as did the pokémon. The maids, though, seeing how fragile the young Mortensen was, didn't view him fit to battle. They took him frequently to the contest halls, and that's when Reino developed a love for the beauty of contests.
Getting tired of Snowpoint, and not really wanting to view the rest of the region, he bid adieu to his darling maids and father, and, equipped with several pairs of spare glasses, he arrived in Furoh, as advised by a neighbor that they were good for beginner coordinators.
Starting Pokemon:
Approved! Post in the Current Levels thread and enjoy! I look forward to seeing this guy in action .
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