Name: Michael (Known to his friends and family as Mikey)
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Appearance: Michael is 6’0” tall, 165 lbs of wiry muscle. He has light brown hair cut quite short and generally mussy. His skin is pale (like Scandinavians in the real world), with blue eyes. He wears a muscle shirt, hand and foot wraps and Thai-style shorts in warm weather. In colder weather, he dons a sweatshirt, warm work pants, boots and some warm gloves.
Personality: In spite of a rough upbringing full of hard work and training in the martial arts, Michael is a somewhat shy but friendly sort. He’s willing to joke with a passerby and does not hesitate to help those in need. He’s very protective of his friends, especially those he believes to be weaker or less mature than himself, a trait acquired from being a third parent to his eight siblings.
Team: Conkeldurr, Krokorok, Carbink
# Badges: 4 (3 from Kalos, 1 from Kanto)
He grew up in mountainous Kalos, working in Snowbelle city in construction. His father sent him to Kanto for a fresh start with money that he’d been saving since Michael was born.
Starter: Michael placed the Thunder Badge into his badge case as he blinked groggily in the Pokemon center of Vermillion City. The battle for the Thunder Badge had been won thanks to crucial help from Krokorok, who had been justly rewarded with affection and food. They’d just been taking a well-deserved rest but Michael had awoken and his Pokemon did so shortly thereafter.
After receiving information from Nurse Joy that another gym was present in Celadon City, Michael recalled Krokorok and Carbink, and with his longtime companion Conkeldurr, he set out into the woods. The woods were alive with Pokemon, most of which were not foolish enough to mess with Conkeldurr. Most he was not interested in, none he felt like catching. It had been a while since he’d seen anything of note, when he heard a girl yell something off in the distance, followed by barking of some pokemon. He nodded to Conkeldurr and the two both rushed through the woods in the rough direction of the shout. Their rush toward potential danger was interrupted as a black, quadrupedal shape bolted out of the undergrowth and towards Michael and Conkeldurr. He was caught flat-footed but Conkeldurr was not. It stepped in front of him and slammed its pillars into the earth, adopting its usual fighting stance. The oncoming Pokemon yelped in surprise and barely avoided running headlong into a large chunk of concrete by leaping aside and scurrying into the undergrowth beyond. He turned back to the task at hand: someone might be in trouble. He pushed through another bush and saw a girl with jet-black hair with an Ivysaur, looking somewhat shaken. He called out “Hey, are you alright?” as Conkeldurr plodded out, its concrete pillars at ease on its back.
(OC: Hopefully this works for an introduction. I assume the voice calling out to Koharu is fair game for any of us to pick up. If it’s not I’ll rewrite my intro where necessary)
