Post by Armand Leclair on Nov 13, 2020 15:57:36 GMT -6
Armand Leclair
Demographic Information
Age: 25
Birthday: November 17, 1994
Gender: Male
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Orientation: Heterosexual
Faction: Citizen
Class: Trainer
Rank: 2
Occupation: Contract Worker
Hometown: Lumiose City, Kalos
Current Residence: Apartment in Cerise City
Appearance Information
Height: 5'11" / 180cm
Build: Lean, but a bit muscular
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Gray
General Appearance: Armand has a black medium unkempt hair with sideburns and light peach skin along with his bluish-grey eyes. During his travels or work, he mostly wears a blue polo shirt, black jacket, black pants, and grey boots. However, he does remove his jacket during a Pokemon battle or whenever he finds himself in humid or hot weather. For his casual wear whenever he takes a break from his work or travels, he wears a simple black long-sleeved shirt, black slacks, and brown loafers with a small journal kept on his back pocket. During his travels, he carries a black shoulder bag that contains his essentials along with his party's PokeBalls, which he also removed during a Pokemon battle.
Aura: Armand's aura is a blue watery-like cloak and colored strings and movements that depend on his mood. When he is calm, the strings take on an azure white color as the aura moves normally around him. If he's happy or grateful though, the strings are baby blue and the aura intensifies as it sheds feather-like embers. If he's stressed or angered, however, the strings become dark violet as the watery cloak now has flame-like tinges as it intensifies and moves wildly.
Personality Information
Personality: In his first impression, Armand comes off as a cold, stern, and a rude man to most people. In reality, he's a quiet, yet kind man who preferred to keep his conversations short towards any stranger he meets. Due to his abilities, he tried to distance himself from others, worried that he might accidentally hurt them. However, he is willing to open up to the people that he deemed as trustworthy and when he was able to control his abilities. Even if he kept them a secret to everyone including his family, he also preferred to use his abilities when his Pokemon are unavailable to help him or when he has no choice in a situation.
Due to his parents' influence, he treats his Pokemon as his partners and friends, willing to take the time to give them the care and attention they need in his free time. His kindness and caring nature also extends towards wild Pokemon as he is willing to drop everything to help when they are in danger. He often shows good sportsmanship towards his opponents, often willing to learn from his losses to do better in his future battles.
While he isn't very cold, he is a bit condescending to others. Adding to his brutal honesty, he can come off as arrogant who ignores anyone's feelings. It doesn't help that he tends to stumble on his words when he's a bit shy towards them and tends to cut off any conversation to save himself from any embarrassment or misunderstanding. And while he stays calm in any situation, he does have his limits when it comes to his temper and patience. Whether by mocking his loved ones and his Pokemon or just stressed out in any given situation, he will snap at anyone without any second thoughts, which complicates his attempts to keep his abilities in check.
Despite his faults, Armand does share the same traits as any trainers have: perseverance and hard work. Regardless of his strange past and quirks, he will try his best to achieve his goals alongside with his Pokemon and participate in many battles like the ones he saw during his childhood.
History: Armand Leclair was born and lived in Lumiose City with his Kalosian father, Evan Leclair, and Kantonian mother. For most of his childhood, Armand grew to love Pokemon thanks to his mother's work as a Pokemon breeder working in a local daycare. He first grew an interest in Pokemon training and battling when he was 10 years old where he witnessed a Pokemon battle that was televised on TV one day. His curiosity became an interest as he started to watch several battles posted on social media when he has the chance and some battles that he watched live alongside his parents. Under his parents' advice, he decided to become a Pokemon trainer once he graduates from high school.
However during his time in high school, he was a target of bullying due to his studious nature, but he tried to endure it as he thought of them as a nuisance than a problem. His life changed one day when he was suddenly asked by one of his tormentors to come to the school entrance after class so he and his friends could apologize for their horrible actions towards him. At first, he believed his words and came as he asked. But just as he could arrive, he suddenly heard his tormentors' voices in his head, stated that they plan to humiliate him and a transfer student in front of the student body with a cruel prank. Horrified and enraged, he not only disrupted their plans, but he called them out for trying to hurt him and others for their own amusement. Because of this event, his tormentors never returned to school due to suspension.
Ever since that day, he experienced more strange occurrences for the rest of his high school days such as hearing more thoughts from others and recurring blackouts after those episodes. He tried to wonder why was this happening to him, even trying to search around the area for any Psychic or Ghost-type Pokemon who might be playing tricks on him. It wasn't until during one of his family reunions where his grandfather revealed the truth. Unknown to many of his family, he possessed a rare bloodline of psychics that originally lived in the Kanto region known for their strange dream walking abilities, which he didn't have when he awakened his abilities and advised him to avoid sharing this with everyone else to avoid making enemies.
Upon this realization, Armand grew distant from his classmates to avoid hurting them with his powers by accident. However, he spent his free time not only to study for the license test but also visited his grandfather in Santalune City to train his psychic abilities. While he vowed to take his Pokemon journey after he graduated, he obtained his license at the age of 18 under his grandfather's instructions and spent his summer vacation traveling in some cities in Kalos to train his mind and body as part of his psychic training.
Once he graduated from high school, he learned of a region called Ageos from his grandfather where he visited there to hone his abilities as a teenager. Hoping to control his abilities while earning money for his family, he decided to move there a year later in hopes of not only challenging the region's gyms but to work there as a contract worker to gain income for both himself and his family back in Kalos. Hopefully, by the time he starts his Gym Challenge there, he might find a goal outside of his desire to control his powers someday.
Goals: Due to the revelation of his psychic abilities, Armand's long-term goal is to know more about his abilities and to control them to avoid any accidents. And if possible, he hoped to find other psychic users like himself to help him learn how to cope with these strange abilities.
For his short-term goals, he hoped to earn enough money from his prize money and salary from his work to help him sustain his income as a trainer and to his family back home. In the near future, there is a chance he might aim to become a Ghost-type Gym Leader in Ageos someday.
Skills, Abilities, and Notoriety
Agility: 10
Charisma: 4
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 1
Stealth: 0
Strength: -5
Survival: 2
Cooking: 2
Profession Skill: N/A
Custom Skill: N/A
(Power Skill) Psychic: 5
Possessing mysterious psychic abilities depicted from Psychic-type Pokemon, Psychics are able to move objects with their minds and read other people and Pokemon's minds. While some are able to predict the future, rare Psychics are able to enter and manipulate dreams and create mental suggestions to others' minds.
Ability List:
Telepathy (Adept) (Cost: 4)
Reputation: 6
Fame: 4
Alignment: +3 - Neutral
Features
Class Feature: Prize Money
Feature #1: Jack of All Trades
Feature #2: Warden's Start
Feature #3: Gainfully Employed
Other Notes
- Armand's negative Strength score is because is not very physically fit despite his build and average build, which shows from his poor grades during his high school PE classes.
- Armand will be using the Import System and will be importing his starter at the start.
Pokémon
Starter Option: (Pick Your Partner) (Litwick - Imported - Proof)
OOC or IC?: OOC
Diamonds To Be Spent?: 6 Diamonds - Receive your choice of one Common or Uncommon Pokémon. You choose all of its stats except color and level. This Pokémon has a 10% chance of being Shiny, and its level will be based on your range of personally-obtained Pokémon. (Absol - Huge! - Quiet - Justified (Hidden Ability) - Bite (Egg Move)/Mean Look (Egg Move))
OOC Info
Played By: SpinnerNite
Face Claim: Augustine Sycamore from Pokemon X and Y