Icirrus, à Unova, Jay a dit. "La plupart des gens le connaissent comme la petite ville près de la tour Dragonspiral." Il ne l'a pas dit comme une bonne ou une mauvaise chose, simplement que c'était comme ça. Ayant grandi là-bas, Jay savait combien il n'y avait pas grand-chose à faire dans cette ville. Pourquoi quelqu'un irait là-bas s'ils n'étaient pas en route pour voir la tour qu'il ne savait vraiment pas. Et même après s'être demandé ce qui rendait la tour si grande pour être utile de voir pour la plupart de sa vie primitive, Jay avait pensé que c'était un endroit assez ennuyeux quand il avait finalement exploré son intérieur.
« Donc, Geoffrey, Juliette, » Jay regarda son guide apparent qui ne montrait aucun signe de quitter bientôt. "Vous êtes des entraîneurs?" Les soupirs provenant des pokeballs sur la ceinture de Jay étaient presque audibles. Cinq minutes sur terre et il était déjà en train de balayer sa compétition. Non, pas vraiment la concurrence; il pouvait facilement dire que ces deux-là ne constituaient pas une menace réelle. Mais il ne pouvait pas connaître ou faire confiance à quelqu'un tant qu'il ne savait pas comment leur pokemon les voyait. Et à ce moment-là, Jay a été rappelé qu'il devait encore laisser Ava sortir de son pokeball. Il devrait probablement s'inquiéter moins de ses compagnons et plus de lui-même pour le moment.
Name: Jay Rayne
Age: 24

Gender: Male
Region of origin: Icurrus, Unova
Why he was accepted: He's the Unova Ex-Champion, and holds the standing record for least amount of pokemon used to defeat the previous champion

Jay Rayne grew up in Icirrus City, and at the time he was the only child his age in the city. Like any kid his age with no peers to play with, Jay was extremely lonely and bored. So what did he do? He explored the surrounding forests. While exploring in the wooded moors, the young Jay Rayne bumped into another child who'd had the same idea. Jay made his first friend that day: a young girl with long black hair and beautiful azure eyes. Ava. The two played and played, happy as two kids could be.
Because Jay was the only kid his age in the small city of Icirrus, his parents simply assumed that he'd made an imaginary friend, happy that he was finally having some fun for once. Ava and Jay explored every inch of the moors and surrounding forests, never tiring of the other's company for an instant. It was a while before Jay found out that Ava wasn't real. She didn't exist. She was just an illusion created by a lonely Zorua to keep a boy as lonely as herself company. But Jay didn't care what she was, so long as she was his friend. They continued to play together, Ava sometimes appearing as a girl and sometimes as a small black fox, right up until the day winter reared its ugly head. Once it started to snow, Ava told Jay that she was leaving the area with her family. He was sad that his one friend was leaving, but he knew there was nothing he could do to change the fact. He'd never met this family of hers, but from what she spoke of them, he didn't want to.
A few years passed, and Jay was now eight. His explorations had turned with time into hunts. He was going to be the best trainer in the world, so he practiced hunting and capturing pokemon, which wasn't as easy without any pokemon of his own, or even any pokeballs. On one particular hunt, just as Jay was about to pounce on an unsuspecting Vanillite, someone grabbed him from behind and pulled him backwards. Ready to yell at whoever had attacked him and let his quarry escape, he spun, and froze. "Ava?"
The two were inseparable, and this time Jay even convinced Ava to come into the city with him. Everyone, including his own parents, were surprised to say the least. And even Jay was surprised by her as well when she dropped her illusion for him. She had evolved during the time he hadn't seen her, into a dark and elegant Zoroark. She didn't leave him again, her evolution giving her freedom from her pack's control. When Jay turned ten, Ava became his first pokemon, his partner in crime for the long journey to come.
Jay and his partner rose through the ranks like a flaming arrow, incinerating all in their way to the top. Along the way, Jay assembled a team of pokemon. His team grew slowly, as Jay never just took a pokemon out of its natural habitat. It had to want to go with him. "Ava" the Zoroark was his queen, sweeping the competition with ease without letting any of jay's other pokemon get a chance to do anything. His second pokemon was a Tyranitar, nichnamed "Gula", raised from a Pupitar that had attacked him. Jay had been impressed with the creature's ferocity even then, and he'd asked it to join him. His third pokemon was given to him as an egg, which hatched into an Eevee. "Luxuria", or "Lux" is Ava's baby. Jay was hardly even allowed to hold her. Jay beat the Unova champion with just three pokemon, a record that still holds. For three years, Jay has won every battle that he's used Ava in. He was forced to allow trainers to battle him without Ava because there was some bad publicity after a challenger had a mental breakdown from what Ava showed him with her illusions, but a few weeks passed and still no one had beaten him.
One day as the champion was taking a walk through the same forested moors that he had explored as a child, Jay was challenged to a battle by a man seeking his title, and Jay couldn't refuse a battle. The man sent out a Gardevoir against the legendary Ava, and Jay forfeited the battle. He instead chose to beat the man's face in. Jay's sharp eye saw the signs. For what he had done to that pokemon, the man had deserved so much more than he had gotten. Jay was forced to resign from his position, and his advisors had him go to work at a pokemon rehabilitation center to wipe away some of the red marks on his record. The Gardevoir followed him, not willing to leave the man that had saved her. Jay renamed her "Solitaire" or "Sol". Besides Ava, she's the closest out of his pokemon to Jay's heart.
He's been working in the center for a few years now, just keeping his head down and acting like a model of good behavior. Two more have joined his ranks in that time: "Acedia" or "Ace" the Talonflame was the first of them. It was dropped off anonymously to a pokemon center, severely injured, one wing broken in three places, the other in two, and a gash across its head. The nurses at the center let Jay, or rather, Solitaire, heal the injured bird's injuries, and when it was fully healed, Jay asked it if it would like to take revenge on those who had done such a thing. That set Jay's team at five.
The other is a similar, if sadder, story. A Garchomp came in, carrying injuries unlike anything a pokemon battle could produce. It's side was completely shredded, as if it had taken the blast of a powerful explosive. What sort of person would have done something like this? He didn't know, and the Garchomp couldn't tell him. Jay asked the Garchomp if it hated the person who had hurt it, and it told him that it did. That was all Jay needed to hear. "Ira" became his sixth pokemon, and a day later, he died. Working at the center was suppoed to cool him down, stop him from lashing out, but it had the exact opposite effect. Jay saw what pokemon were forced to endure at the hands of their trainers, and now he'll punish anyone who mistreats a pokemon. All it took was one incident, an attack on an "innocent" trainer, and Jay was forced to leave Unova.
He's changed a lot from that lonely, happy, naive, little boy that Ava met so long ago. She will be with him to the end, no matter what he does with his life.
Pokemon:
Pokemon Name: Zoroark
Nickname: Ave Dominus Nox (Only she calls herself that though, everyone else just calls her Ava, or Ave if they want to be really polite.)
Gender: F
 
Any other notable distinction:
Jay's first pokemon, and his lifelong partner. She passes for human most of the time. Ava is an absolute monster to cross. Her awesome physical strength strikes terror into the hearts of her partner's opponents, only second to the terror beheld in her illusions. She's usually fun-loving and kind, but that changes suddenly and without warning. Ava speaks and acts like a human when she uses her illusion to look like one. She acts as a translator between pokemon and Jay.
Ability: Illusion
Moves: Night Daze, Night Slash, Foul Play, Dark Pulse, Double Team, Scary Face, Taunt, Hone Claws, Snarl, Fake Tears, Copycat, Captivate
Pokemon Name: Tyranitar
Nickname: Gula
Gender: M
Any other notable distinction:
Gula doesn't care about doing anything. Nonsense and frivolity pisses him off. So basically, his emotions range from apathy to homicide and back again. He is the only one capable of matching Ava in brute strength, but he has none of her speed or planning. His normal strategy is to tank everything and end battles in one attack. You do not want to be on the receiving end of one of his Hyper Beam. You will die.
Ability: Sand Stream
Moves: Stone Edge, Dig, Surf, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Earthquake, Strength, Roar, Sandstorm, Rock Polish
Pokemon Name: Vaporeon
Nickname: Luxuria "Lux"
Gender: F
 Any other notable distinction:
Lux is a spoiled little brat. It's totally Ava's fault. She may be the weakest out of Jay's pokemon, but underestimate her and you lose. Jay developed the strategy she uses in battle, which he's dubbed "mist armor". Lux holds considerable power of Jay's other pokemon, as she is the only one who doesn't have to fear Ava's wrath.
Ability: Water Absorb
Moves: Mist, Acid Armor, Hydro Pump, Scald, Ice Beam, Aqua Ring, Rain Dance, Baby-Doll Eyes, Charm, Attract, Rest, Refresh
Pokemon Name: Gardevoir
Nickname: Solitaire "Sol"
Gender: F
 Any other notable distinction:
That image does not convey the crazy that is inside Solitaire. Sol is obsessed with Jay. She kind of got her original trainer, the person who bred and hatched and evolved her, nearly killed, and she felt all of his thoughts and emotions as it happened. And she enjoyed it. She could have stopped Jay, should have, but she didn't want to. Solitaire is good friends with Ava, but sees her as a romantic rival for Jay. Sol has only ever known love by what her old trainer taught her, so that's what she thinks will happen with Jay. Ava knows this but hasn't said anything to Jay. She wants to see what he does.
Ability: Trace
Moves: Psychic, Psyshock, Moonblast, Dazzling Gleam, Hypnosis, Teleport, Ally Switch, Wish, Healing Wish, Calm Mind, Captivate, Misty Terrain, Protect
Pokemon Name: Talonflame
Nickname: Acedia "Ace"
Gender: M
 Any other notable distinction:
Yes, Jay has a flyer. Ace is his name, and speed is his game. Ace burns his opponents first, then uses his blinding speed to accumulate thousands of tiny attacks in seconds, there and gone before the opponent even has a chance to react. Instead of the normal way, Jay rides Ace by standing on his back in a way similar to a snowboard. A flaming, flying snowboard.
Ability: Gale Wings
Moves: Flame Charge, Flare Blitz, Brave Bird, Acrobatics, Aerial Ace, Steel Wing, Me First, Roost, Tailwind, Swords Dance Fly