Red

Physical Appearance

• Waist-length red hair
• Green eyes
• Fair skinned with a decent tan
• Medium to somewhat tall in height
• Physically fit with a slender but lean-muscled build

Clothing Style

Red seems to always wear the same outfit consisting of a green long sleeved shirt and jeans with brown shoes and a crescent pendant. Sometimes he wears a shorter sleeved green shirt, but more often than not it's long sleeved, which is weird since he lives in the desert region of Orre. Why? Because simple outfits are easier on the comic artist. I mean *cough* I don't know what you're talking about.

Personality

Red tends to be somewhat serious most of the time and is not easily impressed. He tends to almost always have a deadpan expression or just a neutral one when talking to people he's comfortable being around, although he can sometimes have an explosive temper if pushed too far. He doesn't particularly like other people, especially if they're annoying. Annoying qualities to him consist of hyperactiveness, not understanding personal boundaries, excessive aggressiveness, lack of an inside voice, etc. Red takes his responsibilities very seriously, and he also doesn't like to talk about his past in too much detail. He lives with his mother and their Pokemon, and it's clear he's still a little touchy when it comes to talking about his father, who apparently died during his childhood. Kit is his closest friend, and Red only seems to confide in her and the other Pokemon on his team.

Abilities

• No supernatural abilities
• Skilled at driving a motorcycle and a few other vehicles
• Skilled in hand to hand combat and some acrobatics, although he primarily uses these skills to protect himself rather than to attack others

Strengths

• Resourceful, quick witted, and adaptable
• Clever, flexible, and skilled in espionage
• Enduring, level headed, and not intimidated easily
• Focused on his goals, dauntless, and doesn't give up easily

Weaknesses

• Rude, blunt, and not terribly sensitive
• Not very emotional or enthusiastic, and he doesn't humor others much
• A loner, doesn't accept help often, and slow to trust
• Stubborn, closed off, and touchy when talking about his past/his father

Backstory

From what he's mentioned of his past, Red was born in Orre and grew up with his first Pokemon companion, his Vulpix named Kit. His mother was the leader of a biker gang and his father secretly worked during the formation of Team Cipher.

A friend of his father worked as a scientist studying preliminary work that would eventually become the Shadow Pokemon project. At this stage, the scientist used stolen research from a certain rich criminal geneticist to create an altered Pokemon clone that combined multiple Pokemon. However since the research was stolen and somewhat incomplete, the creature turned out disfigured and unstable, and the introduction of the early Shadow Pokemon experiments on it didn't improve its condition. For the first few months the creature was erratic, yet capable of being handled. Red was familiar with the dark creature during this time and ended up spending quite a bit of time with it along with his other Pokemon when his father and the scientist would meet.

Somewhere along the line the clone became too unstable and went on a rampage. Red's father ended up fighting it and his friend, who insisted he could get it under control. In the end, the clone was recaptured and sealed away, but the scientist and Red's father lost their lives in the battle. Red, being witness to this battle, is still rather haunted by the event and will do anything to honor his father's last wish to keep the creature from being released or further studied.

Currently Red still lives with his mother in the desert of Orre. They live a relatively normal life, other than the chaos that occurs whenever their only neighbors tend to stir things up.

Red acquired most of his Pokemon as a child and as gifts from his parents. Kit was his first companion, and she was the baby of his father's own two Ninetales. He then received Rosaline as a Jigglypuff, which used to be one of his mother's many Jigglypuffs (this particular one attacked the police when his father was speeding). His father fished up Benvolio as a Chinchou in a puddle in the middle of the desert (no, not an oasis, a puddle, which he never actually fully explained), and he also gave him Balthazar after stepping into its sand trap. Tybalt is the only Pokemon that Red caught on his own. Later on into the clone research, Red's father also acquired Mercutio as a Ralts from the shipments of smuggled Pokemon, and he gave it to his son to prevent it from being a part of the experiments.

No association to a certain fellow from Kanto. Who needs that lame region when you've got Orre?

You've heard of fanfiction characters. Well this is a fan-character for a fanfiction, OH HO HO. Go check out this person's glorious Pokemon characters for more context. Except I take her world and make it horrible and not cool as she makes it. Whoops.

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