History

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Childhood

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Born in Goldenrod City, Kana grew up in a relatively stable home. Her mother worked in the Daycare just south of the city as a Pokemon Breeder with a proclivity for Electric-Type Pokemon, and her father worked on the Magnet Train as an electrical engineer. Her parents always suspected she might grow up to follow in their footsteps and become an Electric-type specialist, but never pressured her to choose that path. Fortunately, Kana never needed any pressuring to begin with. When she was 8, her parents ordered a Rotom from the Goldenrod Department Store to operate the appliances around the house and help her mother with chores. When said Rotom arrived, it didn't take Kana long to sneak out with him at night and venture to the nearby National Park, where she began fighting every other Trainer she could lock eyes with. She nicknamed the Rotom "Gizmo" along the way and managed to avoid getting caught for a few months - but eventually, her parents found out what she was doing, courtesy of a Park officer who had caught on to her. Needless to say, little Kana was immediately super grounded.

After a couple weeks of being forbidden to go challenge Trainers (and many lectures reminding her that she wasn't even the legal age to have a Trainer's license), Kana's mother finally realized that her daughter needed a sense of adventure and an opportunity to bond with Pokemon in order to flourish. Kana was promptly enrolled at the local Trainer's School, which she attended on the weekends.

Preteen Years

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Within two years, Kana and Gizmo had become forces to be reckoned with. As soon as Kana received her official Trainer's license at age 10, she trekked to Route 36 north of Goldenrod City and caught a Shinx (exactly as she'd been planning to do for the last year and a half). Along the way, she met two boys on bikes named Morty and Eusine, who claimed they were searching for Legendary Pokemon. To her surprise, when she challenged them to a battle, they were both able to defeat her. Undaunted, Kana challenged them to meet her same time, same place next week - and thus, a friendly rivalry was born.

As Kana kept getting stronger, people began noticing, and her parents began suspecting that their child had real talent as a Pokemon Trainer. Kana's dad reached out to a friend of a friend, who put him in touch with Lieutenant Surge in Kanto. Swayed by some stories of Kana's battle prowess, the Electric-type Gym Leader agreed to let Kana try out for a position as a Gym Trainer during their next round of auditions. As a result, within a month, Kana and her family found themselves on the S.S. Anne en route to Vermillion City.

Kana was extremely nervous when battling in front of Lieutenant Surge, and admittedly made a few more mistakes than she had wanted to. Still, she managed to win a few battles, and Surge was undeniably impressed by her abilities. He agreed to take her on as a Gym Trainer, but only part time, with the stipulation that she spend an adequate amount of time with her family back home in Johto - he didn't feel comfortable with separating Kana from her family full-time, given her age.

Although Kana was intimidated by Lieutenant Surge at first, a strong bond and mutual understanding sprang up between the two of them, with Surge becoming an unexpected father-figure in Kana's life. The sight of a large, muscle-bound man holding a young girl's hand as they headed down to the docks of Vermillion Bay for ice cream became quite routine. During their 'dock talks,' as they called them, Surge attempted to instill in Kana the value of caution in all things, as it had been what had saved his life as a soldier; conversely, he'd seen too many bright lights like Kana blaze out after throwing caution to the wind. Kana, on the other hand, preferred to use their 'dock talks' to chat about whatever was going on in her life - including, eventually, a certain crush on a young blond-haired boy who everyone said was poised to become the next Gym Leader of Ecruteak.

Though Kana's schedule was hectic at times owing to her travels between Kanto and Johto, Morty and Eusine remained constants in her life; the trio of friends spent many hours biking all across Johto in search of the Legendary Dogs. Unfortunately, a couple glimpses of Suicune and Raikou were the only rewards for their efforts. Despite her burgeoning feelings for Morty, Kana continued to battle him and Eusine regularly; although she could often defeat Eusine, defeating her crush often proved significantly harder. The only thing she was able to beat Morty in was bike racing - Kana was undeniably faster than either boy, a fact that she loved flaunting as they sped around the Region.

Late Teen Years

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By age 16, Kana had become Surge's top protege, and had begun both the Indigo and Johto League Gym Challenges. She was scheduled to challenge the seventh Gym in each League when unusual power outages across both Kanto and Johto put her journey on pause. While Kana - and most of both Regions - were sheltering in place, her father was enlisted as part of a team which tracked the sources down to a mysterious entity draining supermassive amounts of energy from the Kanto Power Plant. Rumor quickly spread that nothing other than a Legendary Pokemon could produce such an effect.

In Kana's eyes, this could be nothing other than destiny. With her head full of "Chosen One" stories from Morty and Eusine - as well as a stolid determination to prove she didn't need to be cautious to Lieutenant Surge - Kana set off for the Power Plant, certain that she was meant to form a bond with the Legendary Pokemon. When she reached the island that housed the Plant, she found the entire place had been evacuated for worker safety - and for good reason. A Pokemon, cloaked in plasma, was soaring through the skies, draining and discharging electricity at inordinate rates and even melting down the steel superstructures with the force of its blasts. Still, foolishly undeterred, Kana continued onward.

It didn't take long in battle for Kana to realize she was horrendously outclassed. Worse, it appeared other people had come to the Power Plant in a bid to become the Legendary Pokemon's Trainer as well. To Kana's surprise, these other Trainers unleashed their Pokemon - and then turned them on her directly. Gizmo, too busy holding off the Legendary Pokemon to help, watched as Kana was brutally attacked and left for dead. When the Trainers turned their attention to the Legendary Pokemon, Gizmo was able to finally stop worrying about keeping the being at bay, returning to Kana's side.

As soon as Gizmo saw the condition his Trainer was in, he didn't hesitate to enter Kana's Pokenav and call Lieutenant Surge and the police. When both arrived, Kana was still alive - but barely. Surge helped render emergency first aid, and helped two police officers transport her unconscious form off the Power Plant and to a proper Pokemon Center. Despite all efforts being made to investigate the situation, Interpol only found a small, flat hexagonal device, crushed on the ground near where Kana's body had lain; all evidence of the other Trainers - and the Legendary Pokemon - was gone.

Kana subsequently spent several months in convalescence, needing reparative surgery for her shoulder and arm, which had been speared by a Nidoking's horn. Surge, Morty, and Eusine visited her in the hospital frequently, and though the road was hard, Kana did eventually make a full recovery physically.

Mentally, howeer, Kana was scarred and completely unable to stomach the idea of a Pokemon Battle. All of her atempts to battle were fruitless and resulted only in panic and her voluntarily surrendering to her opponent. Ultimately, this led Kana to hand in her resignation as a Gym Trainer to Surge. The two parted for the last time on uncertain terms, neither completely sure what to say to the other anymore.

Upset and afraid, Kana visited the Power Plant one last time - and released all of her Pokemon there with the exception of Gizmo. She asked them to please use their strength to protect the other Electric-type Pokemon that made this island their home...and walked away from her most trusted companions and her life as a Pokemon Trainer for good.

Back home in Johto, Kana threw herself into the one thing she still loved doing: biking. She began competing in bike races on Cycle Road - and then she began winning them, too. Although she never knew it, Surge made sure to attend every race she competed in, cheering for his not-so-little-anymore-girl from the sidelines. Eventually, Kana's victories attracted the attention of Macro Cosmos in Galar, who offered to sponsor her as an official Rotom Rally Racer if she moved to Galar. At age 20, Kana accepted the offer and stepped into the next phase of her life.