Evie s'inclina fermement en entendant son nom. Elle essayait décidément de ne pas regarder les autres. Si elle les regardait, elle aurait dû faire une introduction, et ce n'était pas encore le moment. Une fois que tout le monde s'est installé et que leur entreprise a été conclue, elle a pu faire sa grande entrée. Pourtant, elle a pris note de tous leurs noms, en stockant mentalement ces informations pour plus tard. De même, à mesure que les professeurs sortaient, elle fermait aussi leurs noms. Comme tout le monde avait été conduit dans le labo, Evie a essayé de ne pas se laisser prendre dans le moment, voyant tous les techniciens de laboratoire travailler dur, et toutes les choses cool qui se passent autour d'eux. C'était le moment de se concentrer.
La fille qu'elle avait remarquée avant a été emmenée par l'un des professeurs, pour prendre un pokemon, apparemment, tandis que le reste du groupe a reçu un peu d'explication sur le labo et d'autres infos. Assez tôt, cependant, c'était l'heure de Pokedex. Le temps qu'elle attendait. Alors qu'elle a pris son appareil hors du plateau, Evie ne pouvait pas s'empêcher de sentir un sentiment d'attente, et d'excitation. Il était temps de s'affranchir de son style de vie salissant et d'aller vers quelque chose de plus grand. Il était temps pour Sengun de se balancer à son rythme! Elle a craqué un sourire, résistant à l'envie de tomber trop profondément dans ses rêves de jour. Elle devait écouter attentivement pour savoir où aller. Au nord-est, à travers une forêt. Elle était excitée par la possibilité de rencontrer un nouveau pokémon qu'elle n'avait jamais vu auparavant, et bien sûr, il y avait une liste de pokémon familier dans sa tête qu'elle n'aurait pas voulu traverser pendant son voyage aussi bien. Sa première cible de défi était Kelsea, qui a utilisé... une sorte de pokemon, elle ne s'en souvenait pas. C'est Tch. Eh bien, je vais le trouver en cours de route. Peut-être que je pourrais l'assembler d'un de ces autres gars.
Evie était occupée à réfléchir à la façon d'obtenir la réponse qu'elle cherchait, donc elle a été surprise de ses pensées quand les professeurs ont posé des questions au groupe pour toute dernière minute. Bien sûr, il y en avait un qui brûlait un trou dans son cerveau, mais ce n'était pas le bon moment. Plutôt que d'avoir l'air stupide de demander ce qui était probablement une question évidente, elle procéderait comme prévu et l'arracherait à quelqu'un plus tard, tranquillement.
"Pas de questions, patron. Prêt à sortir quand tout le monde l'est. J'espère qu'on pourra s'entendre pendant un certain temps. Les solitaires sont si hier, n'est-ce pas Shinzo?" Elle a jeté un coup de poing amical à l'épaule du garçon tranquille à proximité, qui s'était prosterné devant tout le monde et tout depuis qu'il est arrivé ici. En vérité, elle ne l'a choisi que parce qu'il était proche et il semblait qu'il était du genre à rester là et à le prendre. Après tout, c'était une question rhétorique. Mais si c'était comme ça qu'elle passerait la première étape de son long voyage, ça pourrait être pire. S'il restait calme ici, il serait le meilleur matériel pour serrer ses réponses à partir de plus tard. Les autres... elle pourrait les juger plus clairement en voyant leurs actions ici.
Name: Evie (not the pokemon, dammit) Black
Age: 22
Sex: Female
Appearance: A short, spunky girl with chin-length messy hair dyed crimson-red (originally black) and a fire in her dark blue eyes. Evie is 5 feet 2 inches tall, with a wiry build. She acts and dresses much like a 'punk,' usually seen wearing a lot of black or leather clothes. Her usual clothes consist of a black tanktop and skirt, accessorized with silver necklaces or leather belts. She also has a selection of black t-shirts that she cycles through, as well as black jeans for colder weather. She likes simple clothes that don't stand out much, but accentuate her physique and are comfortable. Her gear is carried in a stylish black-and-red camoflauge patterned satchel, which is large, but not unwieldy or anything. Her pokeballs hang easily from one of up to three thick leather belts she wears around her waist. Her accessories vary, but always in place is a thick steel chain she wraps around her wrist and travels halfway up her forearm. It has no function, but reminds her of her home for reasons she doesn't go into.
Personality: Idolizing a certain poison-type trainer from Unova (despite being older than that trainer) Evie has taken to acting out a sort of punk-rock-chic character, and will take any opportunity to display how 'cool' she is in front of others. She is extremely proud, almost to the point of arrogance, and loves to take charge of a situation just to show how capable she is. And, in all fairness, she doesn't usually disappoint once she sets herself up to something. Still, her brash persona can easily get on peoples' nerves, and she isn't very receptive to other peoples' signals. In battle she acts confidently and with purpose, trusting everything to go right, even if things aren't going the way she anticipated. She clearly has total faith in her abilities and in her pokemon, and is capable of making spur-of-the-moment decisions based on only that.
Beyond her obvious persona, Evie clearly has more than a few insecurities, hence her desire to mimic people she looks up to. She doesn't like to feel like she is being judged, and will get aggressive if people question her personality or life choices.
Profession: Evie has been a trainer for some time, but a few years back she decided to take up breeding as a hobby. She travelled around a few of the regions collecting certain pokemon that she liked and trying to figure out how to get the most out of her partners' abilities. She is fascinated with pokemon who have uncommon traits or abilities.
Talents: Evie's unique nature seems to be able to draw out the uniqueness in both people and pokemon. As a breeder, she has unnaturally good luck getting 'hidden abilities' and transferring 'egg moves.' With other people, she seems to empathize well with their insecurities, which either gets under their skin or creates a faint bond between them, depending on the personality of the other person.
She has also proven adaptable due to her confident persona, and is easily able to roll with the punches, whether in battle or in life. She is the sort of person who could have everything taken from her and confidently start over from scratch (which, incidentally, is almost exactly what she is doing by coming to Sengun.)
Starter Pokémon: Venipede (male) lv.5 - Poison Point - Defense Curl / Rollout / Poison Sting / Toxic Spikes (Bred from a Forretress)
Evie wanted the vanilla Sengun League experience, so she has left her breeding business behind, save for one pokemon that she has confirmed exists on Sengun itself. While she is interested in Sengun's own starter pokemon, she settled instead on a pokemon that would emphasize her nature and remind people of how cool she is. This Venipede was recently bred by Evie herself, and while they don't share a particular bond just yet, she hopes they might in the future.
Inventory: Aside from a basic selection of clothes and accessories, Evie has brought over the following:
-10 Pokeballs
-5 Potions
-10 Antidotes (for use on freshly caught pokemon)
-P$1000, cash, of course.
-Her own specially mixed brand of hair dye, enough to last for the conceivable duration of her journey.
-Her X-tranceiver, black.
"If I need more stuff, all I gotta do is beat other trainers, right?"
Hometown: Castelia City, Unova
Biography: A spoiled, inner city kid who doesn't know the simple pleasures of country living. Or so her parents would tell her. Her home life was spent mostly uneventfully, aside from the usual teenage rebellion. Of course, her rebellious period still hasn't ended. She was never interested in the Unova League. Their focus on history and tradition was boring, she thought. Instead, she decided to strike out on her own and pursue strength in her own way. While still in her teenage years, she flew to Kalos, where she immersed herself in the counterculture scene, and she stayed with that group for a long time.
As she crested into her 20s, Evie grew bored with the culture she so loved and flew back to Unova to separate herself from the people she used to run with, but she couldn't separate herself from Kalos' signature focus on style and culture. For a couple of years she travelled around the Unova region on her own, and she grew fascinated with unique pokemon and the breeding process. Thus began her hobby of collecting 'cool' pokemon and breeding them to see how strong they could get. Every so often she was offered money to do this for someone else, which she was more than happy to oblige, and it turned into something of a small business as well as a hobby, but she still never felt a particularly strong bond with any pokemon the way that trainers so often say.
Ultimately, she decided that her new quest was to grow strong with pokemon in the way the stories always said. For a fresh start, she decided to take up the offer of the Sengun region to come test out their new Pokemon League. Selecting one prized pokemon to bring with her, she shoved the rest off onto her parents, and boarded a plane to Sengun. After her arrival, she contacted the number she was given, reserving herself a pokedex and arranging the start of her own journey.