Umiko

(tw; attempted infanticide)

Umiko, like Legends Arceus' protagonist and Ingo, was displaced in time and space. However, they traveled when they were a toddler, and thus they remember little to nothing about it. The event of their temporal and spatial displacement started by their mother's decicion to get rid of them. Thrown from a cliff into the raging ocean on a rainy night, Umiko should have died right then and there. Yet, somehow, they did not. Not completely, at least!

If pressed to recall anything about this night, they remember being cold, impossibly so. Also, that there were basculin and basculegion there, and they were swimming together somewhere. Beyond that they've got nothing, but Iscan's account of the day when he found them was that he felt compelled somehow, by something, to get up before the break of dawn and walk down to the beach where he found a washed up Umiko on the shore. They were deathly cold, and barely breathing, and Iscan was terribly afraid they weren't going to make it, but after many unconscious days of fighting a cold they did. Somehow, they pulled through, and after a bit of futile searching for their parents Iscan ended up with a new charge to take care of.

Around the time of the happenings of Legends Arceus Umiko has grown up, and while helping their father Iscan out whenever needed, mostly spend their time wandering about the Cobalt Coastlands. Since Iscan is a capable guy, they usually spend their time helping out the pokémon in their home area instead, which has granted them the fortunate ability to move around the area near unbothered as most of the pokémon recognise them as benevolent. They definitely don't get bothered in the water due to being adopted by the school of basculegion/basculin, so if trouble's brewin' Umiko likes to just toss themselves into the water to get away if they can.

Despite being taught the inns and outs of being a Warden by Iscan, Umiko themselves are unafilliated to any clan, and seem to be entirely against the idea. It's become sort of a running gag for Adaman to ask Umiko to join, and for them to refuse every single time. Iridia did ask off-handedly once too, while visiting Palina, and wasn't too shocked when Umiko said no then too.

Despite being a friendly character, helping those they come across in need, Umiko doesn't really go out of their way to be sociable. Most of their days they spend entirely on their own, with just pokémon for company, determined not to be a nuisance to the two wardens while they work (plus they're not really friends with Palina anyways!). They also rarely leave the coastlands, at most they swim upriver to the Crimson Mirelands, so their friends have just gotten used to seeking them out to hang! This also hasn't netted them the best people skills, which isn't helped by the fact that they think it's funny to see people's reaction to them breaking social conventions.