-Name: Tsubaki Zanbo.
-Age: 19.
-Gender: Female.
-Class: Trainer.
-Appearance: (since the left-hand colored side doesn't show the shoes, consider them to have a white-and-pink color scheme.)
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-Personality:
Tsubaki is a rather energetic young lady, perhaps as a side-effect of the Pokemon DNA in the mix. She's always been a fan of having adventures, and could never sit still in one place for too long. Hell, her mom was hard-pressed to keep her in the house while she was away or at work, since Tsubaki would always be looking for some clever way to sneak out. While her conception was the product of human-on-Pokemon intimacy, she herself isn't into "Pokephilia;" when she finds the man of her dreams, he's going to be 100% man-meat. Interestingly enough, she also has this habit of quoting and paraphrasing anime lines in battle; this is often attributed to all the anime shows her mother collected on DVD as a hobby.
-Home Town: Phenac City, from the Orre region (starts this RP in Castelia City).
-Starter Pokemon: Growlithe (affectionately nicknamed "Nobi" by Tsubaki). Male, Level 6. Knows Bite and Roar.
-Background:
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The circumstances of Tsubaki's birth are a bit...different than most. Her mother - Momo Zanbo - had a sexuality complex known as "Pokephilia," and at the time, she thought that the genetics were too different for them to get her pregnant. Then, along came an Entei - though its reason for being in the area remains unknown - and in a stroke of miraculously dumb luck, she woke up the following day feeling a baby in her belly. Fast forward 9 months, and Tsubaki Zanbo was born, a one-in-a-million hybrid of human and Pokemon DNA. Such hybrids are extremely rare, so Momo was very proud that she'd bear such a unique and gifted daughter.
During her childhood, Tsubaki was always trying to wander out of the comfort zone her mother had established for her; even as a baby, she was wandering all over the house from the moment she could crawl, and her ability to learn about new things was rivaled only by her urge to discover said new things. Whether it was walking, riding a bike, or practicing parkour, she was never content with just sitting on her laurels. This trend of adventurous activity stil sticks with her today, most likely a byproduct of the Fire-type Pokemon DNA mixed into her genes.
At age 6, someone came to Phenac City with a litter of young Growlithe puppies, all put up for adoption. Naturally, Tsubaki was curious, and found the runt of the litter constantly being shoved away from his mother by his siblings. After a few minutes of begging her mom to get that one, she became the lifelong caretaker for the little Growlithe Nobi, who now sees her as a mother-figure, though he can't express it in words. Likewise, Nobi is much like a son to Tsubaki, and the two have been nigh-inseparable ever since his adoption. While she technically does have a Pokeball that Nobi can stay in, Tsubaki much prefers to let him roam around, as he has a free spirit much like her own.
Of course, word about a human-Pokemon hybrid travels fast in Orre, and somewhere along the line, some foreign agents from Team Magma of the Hoenn region caught that word. Having been struck severe blows by a meddling Trainer in their own region, they had to resort to even seedier work for their funding...one of which was sex slave trafficking. Knowing the number of people into catgirl fetishes and the like, these agents saw a golden opportunity right in front of them. Sending one of their covert operatives in disguised as a Ranger, they sought to lure Tsubaki away from home, capture her, and make a killing on the profits. The bait seemed to do its job just fine, too; with the prospect of seeing the relatively sparse amount of wild Pokemon in Orre, how could she resist? Of course, the trap's revelation was rather swift, as they attempted to use an Ultra Ball to snag Tsubaki, believing her Pokemon-half DNA would make it work...but thanks to the human DNA in her, the Ultra Ball was rendered ineffective...
...and they awakened her dormant Fire-type abilities.
Since Tsubaki is only half-Pokemon, her ability to summon and manipulate fire is (for lack of a better term) half-baked, but it was enough to fend off Team Magma's assault. Using an impressive mixture of flaming punches and kicks, she sent Trainer after Trainer sprawling before their Pokemon could even get a hit in. However, this was all fueled by fight-or-flight instincts, and when she was done, her gloves and shoes had burned off, and the skin beneath were suffering the pain of rather nasty burns. It's a miracle the town doctor managed to get that skin back to its original softness and human texture afterwards, as is the fact that she's still willing to go on adventures despite that incident. When looking back on the incident, Tsubaki herself could describe it as "thrilling;" perhaps her Entei father was the type who enjoyed worthy opponents, or such related interests?
That said, Tsubaki did consider leaving the Orre region behind after her Team Magma run-in. Obviously, the region of Hoenn was not among her reasonable alternatives; seeking revenge all by her lonesome would've been stupid, not brave. She's not the legendary champion Red, or anything. Instead, the Unova region called out to her, and so, she took the most feasible cruise liner she could afford to Castelia City. It's a big metropolis, with roads stretching to all manner of other places, so it's a bit of a far cry from Phenac...but given her adventurous lifestyle, she kind of prefers the hustle-and-bustle in a way. Besides, if she really got homesick, she has her mom's phone number on her P*DA, and there's always that desert to the north with a little of Orre's feel to it...
-Other: As mentioned before, Tsubaki has latent Fire-type abilities from the Entei half of her DNA. However, she cannot call upon these flames of fury by her own will; they tend to manifest only in cases of severe stress and adrenaline (such as during fight-or-flight instincts), and if used for too long, they will cause some burns on her body. Whether or not she meets an NPC who teaches her how to control these flames is up to the GM.