Kipling
Roundrobin
- Created
- 2 years, 15 days ago
- Creator
- kookaburra23
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Profile
KIPLING
Blunt • Perceptive • Mellow
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Quite blunt and sarcastic, but friendly and aware enough to let the others around to do the talking. Kipling tends to keep themselves very private and only has a small group of close friends. They are perfectly happy to keep to themselves, and they tend to lose track of time when engrossed in a task. They do tend to act quite stoic and apathetic, but they do have a huge soft spot for bug type pokemon, finding them to be misunderstood. Back when they were the bug type gym leader, they were known for generally not being top hard on most challengers, but not holding back if someone assumed it would be an easy fight. They are rather smart, studying bug type pokemon scientifically before becoming a gym leader, and they have a tendency to go over and over things that interest them, as they enjoy looking for small details that they may have missed before. They are sometimes a bit oblivious, but are also rather sensitive and are overly aware of how they come off to others, meaning some of their interactions come off as forced. They are very perceptive to how others are feeling, and tend to notice things others may miss. Ever since everything happened, they seemed to have mellowed out quite a bit, and are much more content to sit back and watch the world go by, only intervening if it's really needed, they still do enjoy battling, and will occasionally join in on some unofficial matches.
Notes
- Will refuse to go out in rainy or stormy weather.
- The rust staining is permanent and will increase overtime.
- The Archeops on Pivots team is Crumble, Kips old pet archeops.
- Not caught in a pokeball, they find the idea too weird.
- They can type, but tend not to. They are already quiet and typing with durant paws is tedious so they only do it when they really need to.
Character
Likes
- Bugs.
- Leaves.
- Caves.
- The sun.
Dislikes
- Fire.
- Ghosts.
- Beaches.
- Mud.
Moodboard
GYM LEADER
Set in a rather quiet town in Galar, Kips bug type gym was themed around surveying an environment and deciding what, of the various bug types lived there. The gym itself is just behind a large forest where Kipling liked to hang out and give their gym team a break between the battles, usually accidentally scaring off curious gym challengers with their bug-like silhouette and goggles that sometimes seemed to glow in the dark. They do sometimes travel to Unova or Kalos to study the bug types that live there, but are generally happy to stay at the gym and deal with business there. Even as a gym leader, they keep a very private life and aren’t as well known in public as most of the other gym leaders.
DEATH
One rather dark evening, Kipling was running a quick errand, across town without their pokemon. On the way across, it started to chuck it down, quickly soaking everything. Trying to get home before they got too wet, Kip was hurrying but slipped on a bridge over a river. Waking up as a durant in a group of 3 other pokemon, where they all resolved to get back home. Kipling seemed to start to rust over, grow more feral (unlike the others, who were adjusting well) and they seemed much more weak to ghost moves then a durant really should be. It wasn’t until they got to meet directly with Giratina, who sent them here, they were able to confirm that they were in fact dead, and it was this, as well as the Distortion Worlds influence that caused this. Despite being content, they asked to be returned back home, and while they could, it would have to come with a catch.
POST-PMD
Being returned home, still as a durant, Kip set out to prove who they were. People becoming pokemon wasn’t unheard of, but this scenario had never come up before, while it took a bit of difficult convincing, it was eventually proven, though while it was made known to those it mattered too, it was generally kept quiet to the general public (Though people did notice the durant that seemed to live there, it was assumed it was Cheddar, Kips old ace pokemon). Kips old gym had now become a flying type gym. Kip and the new gym leader get along very well, and Kip is surprisingly content with the situation.
Even with their secretive nature, Kip was well known for spoiling their pokemon. They tend to take trips to visit their old team, as well as pokemon that they worked with that didn’t belong to them, such as Turnip and Brisket..
Best friends throughout childhood, they pretty much grew up together. Cavalier is the only one to know the full extent of what happened to Kipling. The Cradily and Armaldo on their respective teams were both gifts from each other.
From the start, Pivot was rather hesitant and unnerved by the circumstances, but they do get along quite well. They both enjoy playing minor pranks on the trainers that come and challenge the gym.
