Cayenne Culpepper

History

• Prior to becoming a gym leader, Cayenne was a member of the girl group, Red Hot Royals. They experienced fame for a time until the other members left to pursue solo careers.
• Unsure of where to take her career, she decided to give the pkmn league a try, since she had to drop out of the gym challenge when she was younger to commit to her singing career. Her agent thought it would be gimmicky enough for the public, not knowing she was actually good at it.

Personality

• Cheerful and upbeat, at first glance she seems like the flashy and ditzy type. She still tends to play up to her “cute girl” image, but is tenacious in the heat of battle. Even if she doesn’t win all gym battles, she’s known for her showmanship and how she can command the crowd’s attention. She likes to make sure that at least her audience is having a good time. Loves using special effects and pyrotechnics for her gym battles.

Gym Mission

• Requires the challenger to decode a string of special effects notations and activating them in a specific order (ex. pressing buttons for pyrotechnics, smoke machine, confetti cannon, etc). If done correctly, a gym trainer will appear to challenge them before they can take on Cayenne.

Trivia

• All of her pokemon are named after some kind of pepper. 

- "Cascabel", Flareon
- "Savina", Salazzle

- "Poblano", Coalossal*
- "Kambuzi", Camerupt*
- "Rocoto", Gigantamax Charizard*

- "Manzano", Flapple

Those with a * are pkmn she only uses if participating in the Champion's Cup. In a gym battle scenario she will dynamax her Salazzle.

• Jersey number is a pun for shichi-mi (togarashi), a mix of spices.
• Her fellow Red Hot Royals all specialize in different typed pokemon:
  • Jeanette "Jeanie"- Electric
  • Birdie - Flying
  • Carolina - Ghost
  • Bonnie - ???