Player Name: Rin
Contact:
rubberfaceokumura
Referred by: N/A
Other characters:
Rin Okumura [
satanslash]
Emperor Ioder [
fortheempire]
Ilyana Ackermann [
arrowroot]
Chloe Price [
papiliocaeruleo]
Character Name: N (Natural Harmonia Gropious)
Series: Pokemon Black/White (Game)
Game transfering from: Vatheon | Bastion
Canon Point in previous game: Post Canon, Hilda/Touko-verse
Summary/History: Bulbapedia entry
Changes in character from previous game:
Though N was in Vatheon for a handful of months before the game was closed and it's characters scattered to the winds of RP, his personality didn't get much of an expansion there. He did begin to warm up to the idea of having actual friends, though he maintained that he 'was not a good friend' and would often hold people at arm's length. This didn't stop others from attempting to befriend him anyway, and he left with at least some connections that actually mattered to him at the end.
Beyond that, though, it was in Vatheon that Hilda found him again. Through that they were actually able to begin developing a relationship, though it didn't fully blossom until Bastion.
Bastion was where N really began to define himself as someone other than "his father's pawn", though it took time, struggles, and just as many steps backwards and forwards. Getting used to people, understanding himself more and actually being able to hold on to relationships with even a modicum of human emotion and caring was not easy for him at all. For a good portion of his time on the island he swore that Hilda was the only human that would ever matter to him, but just like in Vatheon there were plenty of people who refused to let that stand and befriended him anyway. It was because of them that he was able to see that his caring for Hilda went far beyond any sort of emotional connection, and that even though he would likely struggle with physical affection for the rest of his life he didn't care so long as he could love her and have her in his life.
As mentioned in Hilda's app, he too became far more domestic in his life. Eventual marriage to her aside, the two of them began the Pokemon daycare to care for the eggs that were left behind as well as help others become partnered with Pokemon companions. It was because of this that the last of his doubts about trainers melted away, and getting to see and feel the happiness of Pokemon teamed up with survivors finally felt right to him.
Yes, he is still very much a manchild, but he's one that's finally getting the chance to grow up in to something (hopefully) less so.
Personality:
It's difficult to pin down just where to start with N. Many have called him an "enigma of a character". His sister, Concordia, has described him as having a pure an innocent heart, but in the same sentence claimed that there's nothing more beautiful and terrifying than innocence. And on a more extreme note, his foster father harshly declared him "a freak without a human heart". In some way these statements all ring true in one fashion or another, but there are complicated layers in between, almost all of them a result of his past and coupled with his recent adventures and new found freedom.
N started out as an emotional stunted teenager, a childish but intelligent mind trapped in a near-adult body. Raised to believe that humans were the source of all Pokemon suffering, he saw himself as the hero that would save them all, and very little could be done to change his mind. Ghetsis had planted the seeds of this in his head at a young, impressionable age, and his isolated upbringing amongst people who shared this belief and abused Pokemon who would only tell him horror stories of unfair, abusive trainers only served to make this seed sprout in to a twisted tree of his current beliefs.
But his travels during the game, his encounters with other people and other Pokemon who spoke of different ideals swayed his mind in to doubt, and once he learned the truth of Ghetsis' real plan he realized how wrong he was to try and force the world in to black and white ideals. After spending so much of his life claiming he couldn't understand humans, only Pokemon, he realized at the end that he didn't even truly understand Pokemon as much as he thought he did.
His defeat against the player and the reveal that he had merely been a pawn certainly knocked a bit of humility in to N, but one day cannot change a person's entire upbringing, and much of N's personality remains roughly the same. He is still socially awkward, unable to fully understand emotions, even his own. He would rather spend time with Pokemon than humans, but he at least knows now that he cannot avoid them entirely. It will take time for him to adjust to the idea that self imposed isolation will only damage him further. Chances are it will be difficult for him, especially since he has such a hard time not understanding why people don't see things the way he does, but it's the idea that embracing other ideals rather than rejecting them that he learned at the end that will help him in this.
But much like a child who never did fully grow up, N still has a lot of child-like tenancies. He is curious, fascinated by equations and chemical reactions as well as transportation. He absolutely loves the idea of a Ferris wheel, how the circular motion is "like a collection of elegant formulas". His room also showed that he enjoyed trains, skateboarding, building blocks and basketball.
He can be shockingly loyal and protective, though. Even though they were human, he was protective of the grunts of Team Plasma, likely because he saw them as a bit of an extended family since they were likely the only other people besides Ghetsis, his sisters, and the Seven Sages that he saw on a fairly regular basis. This even translates to trying to stop Ghetsis from attacking the player after their battle, as he admits before "I was starting to like you". Compassion is in there, somewhere, along with a myriad of other emotions and feelings that he might in time come to understand and embrace, but it's certainly not something that will happen quickly.
Powers/Abilities:
No real powers or abilities outside of being a mathematical genius that really hasn't applied his intelligence to much else. Instead he will be bringing in his own team of Pokemon.
Zoroark, Altaria, Darumaka, Woobat, Cottonee and Driftloon.
(Levels/Genders available in his journal)
Items on your character:
+Hat, shirt, undershirt, bracelet, Meneger Sponge charm, necklace
+Six Pokeballs, though he'll hardly use them
+Cloak and backpack that Megaera gave him
+Wedding ring, obv
Contact:
Referred by: N/A
Other characters:
Rin Okumura [
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Emperor Ioder [
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Ilyana Ackermann [
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Chloe Price [
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Character Name: N (Natural Harmonia Gropious)
Series: Pokemon Black/White (Game)
Game transfering from: Vatheon | Bastion
Canon Point in previous game: Post Canon, Hilda/Touko-verse
Summary/History: Bulbapedia entry
Changes in character from previous game:
Though N was in Vatheon for a handful of months before the game was closed and it's characters scattered to the winds of RP, his personality didn't get much of an expansion there. He did begin to warm up to the idea of having actual friends, though he maintained that he 'was not a good friend' and would often hold people at arm's length. This didn't stop others from attempting to befriend him anyway, and he left with at least some connections that actually mattered to him at the end.
Beyond that, though, it was in Vatheon that Hilda found him again. Through that they were actually able to begin developing a relationship, though it didn't fully blossom until Bastion.
Bastion was where N really began to define himself as someone other than "his father's pawn", though it took time, struggles, and just as many steps backwards and forwards. Getting used to people, understanding himself more and actually being able to hold on to relationships with even a modicum of human emotion and caring was not easy for him at all. For a good portion of his time on the island he swore that Hilda was the only human that would ever matter to him, but just like in Vatheon there were plenty of people who refused to let that stand and befriended him anyway. It was because of them that he was able to see that his caring for Hilda went far beyond any sort of emotional connection, and that even though he would likely struggle with physical affection for the rest of his life he didn't care so long as he could love her and have her in his life.
As mentioned in Hilda's app, he too became far more domestic in his life. Eventual marriage to her aside, the two of them began the Pokemon daycare to care for the eggs that were left behind as well as help others become partnered with Pokemon companions. It was because of this that the last of his doubts about trainers melted away, and getting to see and feel the happiness of Pokemon teamed up with survivors finally felt right to him.
Yes, he is still very much a manchild, but he's one that's finally getting the chance to grow up in to something (hopefully) less so.
Personality:
It's difficult to pin down just where to start with N. Many have called him an "enigma of a character". His sister, Concordia, has described him as having a pure an innocent heart, but in the same sentence claimed that there's nothing more beautiful and terrifying than innocence. And on a more extreme note, his foster father harshly declared him "a freak without a human heart". In some way these statements all ring true in one fashion or another, but there are complicated layers in between, almost all of them a result of his past and coupled with his recent adventures and new found freedom.
N started out as an emotional stunted teenager, a childish but intelligent mind trapped in a near-adult body. Raised to believe that humans were the source of all Pokemon suffering, he saw himself as the hero that would save them all, and very little could be done to change his mind. Ghetsis had planted the seeds of this in his head at a young, impressionable age, and his isolated upbringing amongst people who shared this belief and abused Pokemon who would only tell him horror stories of unfair, abusive trainers only served to make this seed sprout in to a twisted tree of his current beliefs.
But his travels during the game, his encounters with other people and other Pokemon who spoke of different ideals swayed his mind in to doubt, and once he learned the truth of Ghetsis' real plan he realized how wrong he was to try and force the world in to black and white ideals. After spending so much of his life claiming he couldn't understand humans, only Pokemon, he realized at the end that he didn't even truly understand Pokemon as much as he thought he did.
His defeat against the player and the reveal that he had merely been a pawn certainly knocked a bit of humility in to N, but one day cannot change a person's entire upbringing, and much of N's personality remains roughly the same. He is still socially awkward, unable to fully understand emotions, even his own. He would rather spend time with Pokemon than humans, but he at least knows now that he cannot avoid them entirely. It will take time for him to adjust to the idea that self imposed isolation will only damage him further. Chances are it will be difficult for him, especially since he has such a hard time not understanding why people don't see things the way he does, but it's the idea that embracing other ideals rather than rejecting them that he learned at the end that will help him in this.
But much like a child who never did fully grow up, N still has a lot of child-like tenancies. He is curious, fascinated by equations and chemical reactions as well as transportation. He absolutely loves the idea of a Ferris wheel, how the circular motion is "like a collection of elegant formulas". His room also showed that he enjoyed trains, skateboarding, building blocks and basketball.
He can be shockingly loyal and protective, though. Even though they were human, he was protective of the grunts of Team Plasma, likely because he saw them as a bit of an extended family since they were likely the only other people besides Ghetsis, his sisters, and the Seven Sages that he saw on a fairly regular basis. This even translates to trying to stop Ghetsis from attacking the player after their battle, as he admits before "I was starting to like you". Compassion is in there, somewhere, along with a myriad of other emotions and feelings that he might in time come to understand and embrace, but it's certainly not something that will happen quickly.
Powers/Abilities:
No real powers or abilities outside of being a mathematical genius that really hasn't applied his intelligence to much else. Instead he will be bringing in his own team of Pokemon.
Zoroark, Altaria, Darumaka, Woobat, Cottonee and Driftloon.
(Levels/Genders available in his journal)
Items on your character:
+Hat, shirt, undershirt, bracelet, Meneger Sponge charm, necklace
+Six Pokeballs, though he'll hardly use them
+Cloak and backpack that Megaera gave him
+Wedding ring, obv