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• player •
Name/Alias: Jordan
LJ: tomato_redux
Contact Info:
AIM: disastertastic99
MSN: cravenscruples[at]hotmail.com
Previous Characters: None
• canon character •
Name: Gardenia
Age: 24
Hometown/Region: Eterna City - Sinnoh
Class: Leader
Team:
Primary:
Cherrim ♀ - (Jolly nature) Mischievous
Ability: Flower Gift
¤ Petal Dance
¤ Take Down
¤ Leach Seed
¤ Sunny Day
Tropius ♀ - (Gentle nature) Capable of taking hits
Ability: Chlorophyll
¤ Solar Beam
¤ Fly
¤ Air Slash
¤ Roost
Cacnea ♂ - (Bold nature) Highly persistent
Ability: Sand Veil
¤ Needle Arm
¤ Sucker Punch
¤ Ingrain
¤ Pin Missile
Torterra ♂ - (Adamant nature) Proud of it's power
Ability: Overgrow
¤ Earthquake
¤ Frenzy Plant
¤ Crunch
¤ Synthesis
Roserade ♀ - (Sassy nature) Very finicky
Ability: Natural Cure
¤ Magical Leaf
¤ Grass Knot
¤ Solar Beam
¤ Attract
Leafeon ♀ - (Bashful nature) Likes to run
Ability: Leaf Guard
¤ Leaf Blade
¤ Giga Drain
¤ Grass Whistle
¤ Last Resort
Stored: Vileplume, Butterfree, Bellossom and Carnivine
History:
Some ambiguously notable person once said that it takes a village to raise and child, and that was clearly the approach that was taken where Gardenia’s childhood was concerned. Born to single mother, who loved her dearly but worked full time, Gardenia can recall as much time spent at neighbors’ houses and in the forest as at home. Mondays and Tuesdays she was at the Eterna City Gym, where in between training and battling challengers her Grandpa taught her the wonders of Grass Pokemon and how strong the bond between trainer and Pokemon could be. With Mrs. Robinson is where she was found on Wednesdays, coated in flour and powdered sugar behind the counter of the local bakery, learning how to knead dough and measure by sight and how to bake the perfect brownies, the older woman had two children at University and welcomed the energetic girl, full of questions and the exuberance of youth. On Thursdays she roamed the Eterna Forest, one of her favorite locations, playing hide and seek with the other kids, digging in the dirt, climbing trees and crawling through the underbrush. On these days she burst through the door in the evenings with dirt encrusted finger nails and scraped knees, leaves like Christmas ornaments dangling from her hair and clothes, but the wide grin showed that almost nothing made her more content. Fridays were occupied at her best friend Jenna’s house - day dreaming of adventures and Pokemon and what it would be like to see…well, everything.
It was a patchwork sort of adolescence, but a time that Gardenia cherished. Above all, however, she loved the weekends. Saturdays were when her mother was home and the two spent the sunny days knelt among the soil, flowers and leaves of the small garden outside their home, where Gardenia had ceaseless questions and Adrianna answered every one with a laugh and smile her daughter mirrored precisely. Sundays the two ventured into the woods to collect seeds for the garden and fallen leaves for her Adrianna’s journal, where she kept sketches and notes on all the things she found. From her mother Gardenia learned the name of every plant, berry and flower in Eterna Forest, plus some. She wanted to know everything: which berries were sweet? Which were sour? What was this flower used for? Could you eat it? Why did touching that leaf make her hands itch and would that one really turn her tongue blue?
These hours defined her youth and enhanced her love for all things nature related, including the Grass type Pokemon her Grandpa specialized in. Because of this, there was little surprise when on her tenth birthday she received a Budew from him and leapt into training with the ardency she afforded everything else related to plants or Pokemon. It was a surprise, however, when she opted out of the Gym Challenge many of her friends seemed to be undertaking, choosing instead to remain at the Eterna Gym to train and find more Pokemon close to her home. Instead, shortly before she turned eleven she became a permanent member of he Eterna City Gym, acting as the first trainer challengers had to face before reaching the Gym Leader. It was technically the lowest station at the Gym, but it gave her invaluable experience as a trainer and taught her to be able to accept defeat without become complacent.
In the next few years Gardenia worked her way up the Gym totem pole and expanded not only her knowledge of strategy, but also her Pokemon team as a whole, as it was over that period that she obtained her Cherubi, Turtwig and Hoppip.
Having spent her whole life up to that point in Eterna City, the itch to travel begins building when she reaches her pre-teen years. She’s content at the Gym but there’s little room to grow in a place where everyone has known you since you were born, and some of the trainers at the Gym had begun to say the only reason Gardenia had gotten as far as she did was because her Grandpa was the leader. These reasons, along with a restless desire to learn more and see more and do more are what cause Gardenia to decide to take on the Gym Leaders at the age of fourteen.
A couple months before she was due to leave an Eevee was discovered on the grounds of the Gym, weak and underfed. Charged by her Grandpa with helping it to recuperate, Gardenia spent the next few weeks bringing the Eevee with her everywhere. At first she held only a sympathy for it (only horrible people did things like abandon Pokemon) and a desire to see it healed, but as it recovered and it’s personality began to show (bashful, but affectionate and playful) Gardenia couldn’t help but grow to love it and by the time she was ready to depart Eterna, Eevee had become a permanent member of her team. It was to her own shock that after a battle against a Bug Catcher in Eterna Forest, only days after leaving, the Eevee evolved into a Leafeon (needless to say, she pretty much fell in love all over again).
A little over a year was spent traversing Sinnoh and collecting badges, training and meeting people and seeing Pokemon. In midst of a sand storm she caught a Cacnea, though Leafeon never quite forgave her for all the sand in her ears, and Gardenia found her Pokemon team complete.
It was also during her journey, however, that her once latent fear of Ghost Pokemon surfaced full force. It had always been a lingering issue of hers, fueled by the rumors of the Old Chateau so close to her home, but it was easily ignored in favor of all the other more pleasant places there were to explore in Eterna Forest. She had fallen behind her usual travel schedule, and found herself on the road between Celestic Town and Solaceon Town when she was challenged to a battle. Little did she know that Trainer had been pulling the same stunt on people for weeks; before challenging another trainer he would release his Dusclops, then while his opponent was focused on the battle against his other Pokemon, Dusclops would use it’s innate ability to evoke fear to scar the opponent to distraction. Gardenia had shrieked upon seeing the Dusclops (a fact she will deny forever and ever), face draining of color, and the Trainer started to make the final move against Roserade -- only to find his Nidoking had fallen victim to Grass Knot and lay in a tangled heap on the ground and Dusclops followed shortly there after. The creep would have met the same fate if Gardenia hadn’t gotten to him first, jerking him into the air by his collar(though her hands still shook) and informing him sweetly that if he ever did that to anyone ever again, she’d have Cacnea aim a Pin Missile at -- well, you get the idea. And THEN she let Roserade tie him next to his Pokemon and the two left him there, continuing on to Solaceon town, but Gardenia’s fear of Ghost Pokemon was magnified to terror.
That incident was the lowest point of her adventure, and though recalling it still caused her to shudder (and maybe lose a little color) it was for the most part entirely over shadowed by all the good things the challenge did for her. Facing all the gym leaders was endlessly exciting, and training her Pokemon to combat the varied types was more fun than she had ever thought, finding ways to overcome type disadvantages and prove how capable Grass Pokemon were (even if Byron totally kicked her ass a couple of times. . .and don‘t even ASK about Snowpoint). By the time she reached the Elite Four, she had grown immeasurably as a trainer and a person, though she retained her vivacious and wildly extroverted demeanor.
She had no Champion ambitions to speak of but facing the Elite Four and seeing what the best could do was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up, and she didn’t regret it even after her defeat -- using defeat as a euphemism for ‘total annihilation at the hands of Flint.’ Gardenia certainly wasn’t the first to have lost to the Elite Four and she wouldn’t be the last and there was no shame in that, not for her. She’d made it as far as she could, as far as her team could and in her opinion they’d done awesome. None the less, the whirl wind adventure had come to a close and Gardenia was ready to return to Eterna City, and settle back into daily life at the Gym.
Of course, things were rarely that simple for her. Besides open arms and warm welcomes and that wonderful feeling of being home, Gardenia found that an in-house tournament at the Gym had been announced - to decide who would take over when her Grandpa retired. The desire to battle ignited again, she spent the two months before the tournament performing the rigorous training exercise she and her team had developed on the road, one that focused as much on speed and evasion as on attack because the best way to counter an attack with the type advantage? Don’t get by it.
When the competition rolled around she was in her element, steam rolling through the others with a determination and exuberance that characterized her as a trainer. No one could say she didn’t earn the title for herself.
At the age of seventeen Gardenia became the Gym Leader of Eterna City and settled into a routine that was rarely disturbed. At eighteen, a boy and a girl tore through Sinnoh like tornadoes, rocking foundations and knocking Gym Leaders off their feet and after that. . .after that things settled again. She faced challengers, awarded badges and explored the forest until she had re-familiarized herself with every nest, nook and flower present and that was how her life has been for the past few years, settled into a small cottage on gym property, with a green house in the back where she lets her Pokemon roam and she herself gardens.
She jokes every now and then about taking off on another adventure, but it’s only half in jest as she grows more restless and less complacent. She figures it’s about she got out of Eterna for more a week and really - her trainers can totally handle it.
If they’re lucky she might even leave a note this time.
Personality:
A sunny person by nature, Gardenia’s open, approachable manner makes it easy for her to make friends with just about anyone, and she often does just that. If she finds a person interesting or wants to know more about them or their Pokemon she has no qualms about walking right up and asking, especially even if it’s rather inappropriate. She's very social and more than a little ridiculous at times, but she's a beyond loyal friend and will do whatever she can to help those she cares for succeed.
She's also a morning person. You know, those people that are so unnaturally chipper at 7:00am you'd think they mainlined caffeine? Yea, one of those people.
Her duties as a Gym Leader have also given her a lot more responsibility than she possessed before, though she does occasionally...forget...to tell her trainers when she decides to disappear into the woods for a day. She tells them it's to make sure they can handle things on their own, since she will be looking for a replacement eventually (but really it's because it's sort of funny to watch them freak out).
Those moments aside, she makes sure that both her Gym and her trainers are well taken care of, as well as all the Pokemon that train in her Gym, regardless of type, though her love for Grass types runs deep, (so much so that it would most likely over come her inherent fear of Ghost types, if ever there was a Grass-Ghost Pokemon, though she does find herself conflicted on the subject). Gardenia commits one hundred percent of herself to everything she is involved in and to everyone she cares about and it’s hardly something she’s ashamed of, though sometimes she wishes she didn’t wear her heart so blatantly on her sleeve.
On the flip side, her passion and exuberance can be a bit overwhelming at first, and her powerful personality could take some getting used to in large doses. Though it’s not her goal to scare people away or be overbearing, she is largely unapologetic about her nature. She has her low moments of course, rare though they may be, and her negative emotions are just as strong as her positive ones. This trait makes it a little hard for to let go of grudges and forgive, though she's trying to be better about it, and also means that when she's having a bad day -- just about everyone knows it.
Sample I:
You have reached the phone of Aroma Lady Jenna. Please leave a message after the tone: *Beep*
Jennaa!
Have you seen the ranking list for this month!?
I'm last, Jen, dead freaking last. There's gotta be a glitch or something, I mean, last month I was in the top twenty for Sinnoh, at least! I haven't even had a challenger since then, how could my ranking have gone down?!
This isn't possible. Poor Cacnea is distraught and --
(addresses someone in the background) Yes. Yes this is about Cacnea. what do I care about stupid rankings anyway?
I don't care, obviously, I mean, I know we're not the toughest gym (just the most awesome), so it's no big deal real--
Hey! Breaking your phone was totally an accident, ok? i was just...startled is all. . .you needed a new one anyway.
If I find out who's responsible for this I swear I'll --
No I am NOT gripping the phone too hard. My knuckles are always white. . .Shut up.
Anyway -- could you put the 'closed' sign up at the gym for me? We're heading into the forest to do some serious training. The next challenger won't know what hit 'em!
Thanks Jen!
(grumbled) Last place my foot.
*click*
Sample II:
The way she’s squinting at him is probably unsettling, the fact that she’s been doing it for upwards of five minutes probably more so, but Gardenia can’t bring herself to care about his discomfort. This is the third time the squirt has been in her gym in a week, pushing his way through her trainers with his Raticate. This will be the third time she’ll battle him, the third time she’ll win and the third time she’ll tell him to please, do himself and his Pokemon a favor and train for a while before returning. The other trainers need time to heal their egos and she needs time to. . .well ok, she just wants a break from his shouting. He does a lot of shouting, she notes, primarily about his Rattata -- and thats a little disconcerting as the Pokemon on the field, and the only Pokemon he has is a Raticate...
The first battle was clocked at a whopping four minutes and fifteen seconds, including her opening spiel and the Youngster (because only Youngsters wore shorts like that, honestly) spent the majority of it trying to trash talk. Gardenia laughed her way through most of it, she's a light hearted kind of person like that, Leafeon turned Raticate to mince meat with Leaf Blade and she said 'good bye, better luck next time', wholly unaware that “next time” would be less than forty eight hours later.
When Leafeon is propelled from her Pokeball for the third time, she glances at the Raticate before turning to look back at her trainer, the look the on verdant pokemon’s face is as close to exasperation as Gardenia figures she can get. In response, however, Gardenia can only rub the back of her neck and grin. She’s not going to deny the kid a battle and she’s gotta give him props for determination even if it is a bit. . .excessive. Besides, everyone deserves a chance to --
“There’s no way your stupid flowers can beat my Raticate this time!”
‘Screw it. Brat’s going down.’
Name/Alias: Jordan
LJ: tomato_redux
Contact Info:
AIM: disastertastic99
MSN: cravenscruples[at]hotmail.com
Previous Characters: None
• canon character •
Name: Gardenia
Age: 24
Hometown/Region: Eterna City - Sinnoh
Class: Leader
Team:
Primary:
Cherrim ♀ - (Jolly nature) Mischievous
Ability: Flower Gift
¤ Petal Dance
¤ Take Down
¤ Leach Seed
¤ Sunny Day
Tropius ♀ - (Gentle nature) Capable of taking hits
Ability: Chlorophyll
¤ Solar Beam
¤ Fly
¤ Air Slash
¤ Roost
Cacnea ♂ - (Bold nature) Highly persistent
Ability: Sand Veil
¤ Needle Arm
¤ Sucker Punch
¤ Ingrain
¤ Pin Missile
Torterra ♂ - (Adamant nature) Proud of it's power
Ability: Overgrow
¤ Earthquake
¤ Frenzy Plant
¤ Crunch
¤ Synthesis
Roserade ♀ - (Sassy nature) Very finicky
Ability: Natural Cure
¤ Magical Leaf
¤ Grass Knot
¤ Solar Beam
¤ Attract
Leafeon ♀ - (Bashful nature) Likes to run
Ability: Leaf Guard
¤ Leaf Blade
¤ Giga Drain
¤ Grass Whistle
¤ Last Resort
Stored: Vileplume, Butterfree, Bellossom and Carnivine
History:
Some ambiguously notable person once said that it takes a village to raise and child, and that was clearly the approach that was taken where Gardenia’s childhood was concerned. Born to single mother, who loved her dearly but worked full time, Gardenia can recall as much time spent at neighbors’ houses and in the forest as at home. Mondays and Tuesdays she was at the Eterna City Gym, where in between training and battling challengers her Grandpa taught her the wonders of Grass Pokemon and how strong the bond between trainer and Pokemon could be. With Mrs. Robinson is where she was found on Wednesdays, coated in flour and powdered sugar behind the counter of the local bakery, learning how to knead dough and measure by sight and how to bake the perfect brownies, the older woman had two children at University and welcomed the energetic girl, full of questions and the exuberance of youth. On Thursdays she roamed the Eterna Forest, one of her favorite locations, playing hide and seek with the other kids, digging in the dirt, climbing trees and crawling through the underbrush. On these days she burst through the door in the evenings with dirt encrusted finger nails and scraped knees, leaves like Christmas ornaments dangling from her hair and clothes, but the wide grin showed that almost nothing made her more content. Fridays were occupied at her best friend Jenna’s house - day dreaming of adventures and Pokemon and what it would be like to see…well, everything.
It was a patchwork sort of adolescence, but a time that Gardenia cherished. Above all, however, she loved the weekends. Saturdays were when her mother was home and the two spent the sunny days knelt among the soil, flowers and leaves of the small garden outside their home, where Gardenia had ceaseless questions and Adrianna answered every one with a laugh and smile her daughter mirrored precisely. Sundays the two ventured into the woods to collect seeds for the garden and fallen leaves for her Adrianna’s journal, where she kept sketches and notes on all the things she found. From her mother Gardenia learned the name of every plant, berry and flower in Eterna Forest, plus some. She wanted to know everything: which berries were sweet? Which were sour? What was this flower used for? Could you eat it? Why did touching that leaf make her hands itch and would that one really turn her tongue blue?
These hours defined her youth and enhanced her love for all things nature related, including the Grass type Pokemon her Grandpa specialized in. Because of this, there was little surprise when on her tenth birthday she received a Budew from him and leapt into training with the ardency she afforded everything else related to plants or Pokemon. It was a surprise, however, when she opted out of the Gym Challenge many of her friends seemed to be undertaking, choosing instead to remain at the Eterna Gym to train and find more Pokemon close to her home. Instead, shortly before she turned eleven she became a permanent member of he Eterna City Gym, acting as the first trainer challengers had to face before reaching the Gym Leader. It was technically the lowest station at the Gym, but it gave her invaluable experience as a trainer and taught her to be able to accept defeat without become complacent.
In the next few years Gardenia worked her way up the Gym totem pole and expanded not only her knowledge of strategy, but also her Pokemon team as a whole, as it was over that period that she obtained her Cherubi, Turtwig and Hoppip.
Having spent her whole life up to that point in Eterna City, the itch to travel begins building when she reaches her pre-teen years. She’s content at the Gym but there’s little room to grow in a place where everyone has known you since you were born, and some of the trainers at the Gym had begun to say the only reason Gardenia had gotten as far as she did was because her Grandpa was the leader. These reasons, along with a restless desire to learn more and see more and do more are what cause Gardenia to decide to take on the Gym Leaders at the age of fourteen.
A couple months before she was due to leave an Eevee was discovered on the grounds of the Gym, weak and underfed. Charged by her Grandpa with helping it to recuperate, Gardenia spent the next few weeks bringing the Eevee with her everywhere. At first she held only a sympathy for it (only horrible people did things like abandon Pokemon) and a desire to see it healed, but as it recovered and it’s personality began to show (bashful, but affectionate and playful) Gardenia couldn’t help but grow to love it and by the time she was ready to depart Eterna, Eevee had become a permanent member of her team. It was to her own shock that after a battle against a Bug Catcher in Eterna Forest, only days after leaving, the Eevee evolved into a Leafeon (needless to say, she pretty much fell in love all over again).
A little over a year was spent traversing Sinnoh and collecting badges, training and meeting people and seeing Pokemon. In midst of a sand storm she caught a Cacnea, though Leafeon never quite forgave her for all the sand in her ears, and Gardenia found her Pokemon team complete.
It was also during her journey, however, that her once latent fear of Ghost Pokemon surfaced full force. It had always been a lingering issue of hers, fueled by the rumors of the Old Chateau so close to her home, but it was easily ignored in favor of all the other more pleasant places there were to explore in Eterna Forest. She had fallen behind her usual travel schedule, and found herself on the road between Celestic Town and Solaceon Town when she was challenged to a battle. Little did she know that Trainer had been pulling the same stunt on people for weeks; before challenging another trainer he would release his Dusclops, then while his opponent was focused on the battle against his other Pokemon, Dusclops would use it’s innate ability to evoke fear to scar the opponent to distraction. Gardenia had shrieked upon seeing the Dusclops (a fact she will deny forever and ever), face draining of color, and the Trainer started to make the final move against Roserade -- only to find his Nidoking had fallen victim to Grass Knot and lay in a tangled heap on the ground and Dusclops followed shortly there after. The creep would have met the same fate if Gardenia hadn’t gotten to him first, jerking him into the air by his collar(though her hands still shook) and informing him sweetly that if he ever did that to anyone ever again, she’d have Cacnea aim a Pin Missile at -- well, you get the idea. And THEN she let Roserade tie him next to his Pokemon and the two left him there, continuing on to Solaceon town, but Gardenia’s fear of Ghost Pokemon was magnified to terror.
That incident was the lowest point of her adventure, and though recalling it still caused her to shudder (and maybe lose a little color) it was for the most part entirely over shadowed by all the good things the challenge did for her. Facing all the gym leaders was endlessly exciting, and training her Pokemon to combat the varied types was more fun than she had ever thought, finding ways to overcome type disadvantages and prove how capable Grass Pokemon were (even if Byron totally kicked her ass a couple of times. . .and don‘t even ASK about Snowpoint). By the time she reached the Elite Four, she had grown immeasurably as a trainer and a person, though she retained her vivacious and wildly extroverted demeanor.
She had no Champion ambitions to speak of but facing the Elite Four and seeing what the best could do was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up, and she didn’t regret it even after her defeat -- using defeat as a euphemism for ‘total annihilation at the hands of Flint.’ Gardenia certainly wasn’t the first to have lost to the Elite Four and she wouldn’t be the last and there was no shame in that, not for her. She’d made it as far as she could, as far as her team could and in her opinion they’d done awesome. None the less, the whirl wind adventure had come to a close and Gardenia was ready to return to Eterna City, and settle back into daily life at the Gym.
Of course, things were rarely that simple for her. Besides open arms and warm welcomes and that wonderful feeling of being home, Gardenia found that an in-house tournament at the Gym had been announced - to decide who would take over when her Grandpa retired. The desire to battle ignited again, she spent the two months before the tournament performing the rigorous training exercise she and her team had developed on the road, one that focused as much on speed and evasion as on attack because the best way to counter an attack with the type advantage? Don’t get by it.
When the competition rolled around she was in her element, steam rolling through the others with a determination and exuberance that characterized her as a trainer. No one could say she didn’t earn the title for herself.
At the age of seventeen Gardenia became the Gym Leader of Eterna City and settled into a routine that was rarely disturbed. At eighteen, a boy and a girl tore through Sinnoh like tornadoes, rocking foundations and knocking Gym Leaders off their feet and after that. . .after that things settled again. She faced challengers, awarded badges and explored the forest until she had re-familiarized herself with every nest, nook and flower present and that was how her life has been for the past few years, settled into a small cottage on gym property, with a green house in the back where she lets her Pokemon roam and she herself gardens.
She jokes every now and then about taking off on another adventure, but it’s only half in jest as she grows more restless and less complacent. She figures it’s about she got out of Eterna for more a week and really - her trainers can totally handle it.
If they’re lucky she might even leave a note this time.
Personality:
A sunny person by nature, Gardenia’s open, approachable manner makes it easy for her to make friends with just about anyone, and she often does just that. If she finds a person interesting or wants to know more about them or their Pokemon she has no qualms about walking right up and asking, especially even if it’s rather inappropriate. She's very social and more than a little ridiculous at times, but she's a beyond loyal friend and will do whatever she can to help those she cares for succeed.
She's also a morning person. You know, those people that are so unnaturally chipper at 7:00am you'd think they mainlined caffeine? Yea, one of those people.
Her duties as a Gym Leader have also given her a lot more responsibility than she possessed before, though she does occasionally...forget...to tell her trainers when she decides to disappear into the woods for a day. She tells them it's to make sure they can handle things on their own, since she will be looking for a replacement eventually (but really it's because it's sort of funny to watch them freak out).
Those moments aside, she makes sure that both her Gym and her trainers are well taken care of, as well as all the Pokemon that train in her Gym, regardless of type, though her love for Grass types runs deep, (so much so that it would most likely over come her inherent fear of Ghost types, if ever there was a Grass-Ghost Pokemon, though she does find herself conflicted on the subject). Gardenia commits one hundred percent of herself to everything she is involved in and to everyone she cares about and it’s hardly something she’s ashamed of, though sometimes she wishes she didn’t wear her heart so blatantly on her sleeve.
On the flip side, her passion and exuberance can be a bit overwhelming at first, and her powerful personality could take some getting used to in large doses. Though it’s not her goal to scare people away or be overbearing, she is largely unapologetic about her nature. She has her low moments of course, rare though they may be, and her negative emotions are just as strong as her positive ones. This trait makes it a little hard for to let go of grudges and forgive, though she's trying to be better about it, and also means that when she's having a bad day -- just about everyone knows it.
Sample I:
You have reached the phone of Aroma Lady Jenna. Please leave a message after the tone: *Beep*
Jennaa!
Have you seen the ranking list for this month!?
I'm last, Jen, dead freaking last. There's gotta be a glitch or something, I mean, last month I was in the top twenty for Sinnoh, at least! I haven't even had a challenger since then, how could my ranking have gone down?!
This isn't possible. Poor Cacnea is distraught and --
(addresses someone in the background) Yes. Yes this is about Cacnea. what do I care about stupid rankings anyway?
I don't care, obviously, I mean, I know we're not the toughest gym (just the most awesome), so it's no big deal real--
Hey! Breaking your phone was totally an accident, ok? i was just...startled is all. . .you needed a new one anyway.
If I find out who's responsible for this I swear I'll --
No I am NOT gripping the phone too hard. My knuckles are always white. . .Shut up.
Anyway -- could you put the 'closed' sign up at the gym for me? We're heading into the forest to do some serious training. The next challenger won't know what hit 'em!
Thanks Jen!
(grumbled) Last place my foot.
*click*
Sample II:
The way she’s squinting at him is probably unsettling, the fact that she’s been doing it for upwards of five minutes probably more so, but Gardenia can’t bring herself to care about his discomfort. This is the third time the squirt has been in her gym in a week, pushing his way through her trainers with his Raticate. This will be the third time she’ll battle him, the third time she’ll win and the third time she’ll tell him to please, do himself and his Pokemon a favor and train for a while before returning. The other trainers need time to heal their egos and she needs time to. . .well ok, she just wants a break from his shouting. He does a lot of shouting, she notes, primarily about his Rattata -- and thats a little disconcerting as the Pokemon on the field, and the only Pokemon he has is a Raticate...
The first battle was clocked at a whopping four minutes and fifteen seconds, including her opening spiel and the Youngster (because only Youngsters wore shorts like that, honestly) spent the majority of it trying to trash talk. Gardenia laughed her way through most of it, she's a light hearted kind of person like that, Leafeon turned Raticate to mince meat with Leaf Blade and she said 'good bye, better luck next time', wholly unaware that “next time” would be less than forty eight hours later.
When Leafeon is propelled from her Pokeball for the third time, she glances at the Raticate before turning to look back at her trainer, the look the on verdant pokemon’s face is as close to exasperation as Gardenia figures she can get. In response, however, Gardenia can only rub the back of her neck and grin. She’s not going to deny the kid a battle and she’s gotta give him props for determination even if it is a bit. . .excessive. Besides, everyone deserves a chance to --
“There’s no way your stupid flowers can beat my Raticate this time!”
‘Screw it. Brat’s going down.’