laid back but short tempered, tactless more often than not, transgressive for the sake of being shocking. loves drama from a distance but gets frustrated when people bring those problems near her, specially if she thinks they would be easy to fix. not that she'd tell them how to anyways.
“witchy” but in the sense she’d ritually sacrifice a small pokemon to put a curse on someone who annoyed her in line at the bank. strongest contender to recreate the thousands dollar tattoo tiktok scam. believes herself to be the only sane person in any given room.
in case you haven't noticed, she’s weird. she’s a weirdo. she doesn’t fit in. she doesn’t wanna fit in.
her Guardian Star/soul takes the form of a Sliggoo
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born and raised in Camphrier, Kalos, to a wealthy family, from a loveless marriage held together only by the need to keep up appearances. from a young age she took an interest in the macabre, things everyone around her found repulsive, things that tore down the farce she saw in that stuffy upper class environment. she truly felt at home when she found goth fashion, a fitting middle finger to her family's old money snobbery, but she had nobody to share it with in such a small town. that is, until she met Yan in highschool.
she was the first person he told about his powers. she always wanted a ghost or dark type pokemon but since her parents didn’t allow that, she decided to rebel by not having any. so Yan would tell her everything he’d learned about ghost pokemon, never skipping the creepiest detail for her entertainment. they had fun doing normal teen stuff, like hanging out at the cemetery after school.
but as they grew older and he started to mellow out, her parents started to take a liking to him. constantly comparing them and telling her she should follow his example and be more mature, more responsible. and Yan— he didn’t even seem to care! if anything he welcomed that attention. she could almost see the gears turning inside his head in every social situation, trying to appease everyone. the same fakeness she’d been trying to escape. that resentment started to fester inside her.
maybe that’s why she was drawn to Kevin. attraction aside, he was the only person who knew Yan personally and could see through his bullshit, someone to knock him down a peg and show him he couldn't be liked by everyone (and sure, maybe she also enjoyed how much her parents disapproved of him). plus Yan was spending so much time with Alan it was like he didn’t even remember they were supposed to be friends. so when the two of them approached her at that party asking for a tattoo, why shouldn’t she have said yes? and what right did Yan have to be upset about it afterwards, talking about being too drunk to make that choice. why couldn't mr perfect take responsibility for his own mess for once?
she was torn when Yan left. one side of her felt they took things too far, the other was furious at him for bailing out without a word. he treated them all the same, as if she wasn’t his best friend of years. he never even confided in her that things were getting so bad, was she just supposed to divinate that shit like he did?
she hung out with Kevin and Alan a couple times afterwards, but it was no fun. Alan was too distraught and Kevin fell squarely back in the role Yan had taken from him. she could never really connect with Nadia, so she never saw her again. the group dissolved. she put it out of her mind for her art career.
she never imagined moving into Cyllage, the beach never appealed to her, but the opportunity for a job presented itself there. in just a couple years she had her own thriving tattoo shop set up, not in small part thanks to the overly eager youths that came to fight the local gym leader and would get anything poked onto their bodies while high on the adrenaline.
i haven’t decided how she feels about the whole thing or if she ever thinks back on it. she's the one that got away nearly unscathed.
Elvira, the Gengar ♀ — given to her as a Haunter by some bozo thinking it would guarantee him a date. it didn't work of course, but she loves this big purple ball more than she's willing to admit.
