Post by Kali Vincent on Mar 23, 2017 21:33:35 GMT -8
Kalista Sabela Vincent
Kali | "19" (20) (Apr 21, 1997) | F / Straight (Married) |
Gateon Port; Traveling | Trainer | Vacationer / Professional Husbandsitter |
Appearance
Kali stands at all of 5'3" with a slender if somewhat curvy frame. While she has fairly nice hips if she accentuates them and a noticeable enough bustline, with the right attire and demeanor, she can easily pass for being in her early teens to most people.
Her long gray hair tends to lie pretty limp, though sometimes with enough product she can get it to hold just a bit of curl, which she might employ with pigtails if she wants to look especially young/cutesie on a given day. Her eyes are very definitely crimson red, and uttering the word "magenta" in her presence will earn you a very red glare. (Her eyes are absolutely closer to magenta than true red.) She generally wears very heavy eye makeup unless she's making a particularly strong effort to look younger, though whether or not she wears more than that depends on the day. Her skin is pale, and her features soft and delicate overall.
On the back of her neck and left shoulder is one fairly large, noticeable scar from a Rattata bite when she was very young. Some less prominent scars might be found here or there from various misadventures, but no others are likely to stand out at a glance.
She owns more clothing than any human being reasonably should, and as such her attire varies greatly. Cute soft little sundresses; tank tops with sporty shorts or tight pants; cute short skirts on their own or over leggings; goth loli esque attire; fancy vaguely formal dresses; and much more fill her closets. However, whatever the style, she strongly favors black and red as her main colors with maybe some white or silver at times (not that she won't wear other colors, but it's rare to see her without at least one of those in the mix). She abhors sleeves, with the only notable exception being very soft cozy sweaters when it's cold enough. A cute enough outfit might make her willing to deal with it for the aesthetic, but she won't be happy about it.
Personality
Encountering Kali "in the wild", as it were, may yield one of a few different results.
The first possibility is a very sweet, slightly naive, overwhelmingly innocent young girl. She loves people and Pokemon, might be very friendly or rather shy depending on the situation, and in general gives off the vibe of someone you want to protect. Precious smol, very good. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, she'd be so terribly grateful for any help you could offer her, kind stranger~ She may even, at times, be a bit giddily flirty. You really are cute, aren't you~? Teehee~
The second possibility is, if Kali sees nothing to be gained from being friendly or is just in the right mood, much more of a haughty Alpha Bitch impression. Her wit is razor sharp, and she can be a bit of a know-it-all who is all too eager to point out another's flaws and shortcomings. With someone for whom this is more complimentary than antagonistic, rather heavier flirting including plenty of banter is likely enough to arise.
Unsurprisingly, genuine Kali is closer to the latter. She thrives on the feeling of being better than other people, and of having a sense of power-- though she'd much rather be a badass second in command than the immediate face of anything she does. She loves some of her own Pokemon as dear companions, and has particularly mixed feelings about anything with telepathy and as a result Psychic-types in general, but she views most Pokemon as definitively subservient to people, and has few qualms about using them to that end. She is cunning and at times ruthless, and doesn't care too terribly much about most other people. That said, she can be fiercely protective of the few she likes, most especially her husband. Resourceful and usually pragmatic, she tends to find a way around whatever obstacles may arise, even if it might take longer sometimes than others.
Kali is "fiercely tenacious", which is a fancier was of saying stubborn to a fault. She cannot handle the thought of failure-- to a point that if she needs to give up on something badly enough, she has to be able to either convince herself that she isn't really giving up, just taking a break/experiencing a setback; or convince herself she didn't really want this thing in the first place and is just ceasing wasting her time on it to pursue better things. If she can't do one of those, she usually keeps going, even at the expense of injury or other consequences.
Of course, Kali isn't all manipulation and stubborn pride. In her downtime, around people she likes, she can still be pretty catty and sharp-tongued, but has a lot kinder sense of humor. She is incredibly devoted, and enjoys both giving and receiving gifts of any variety immensely. While she's a notorious flirt, anything beyond that is reserved pretty strictly for her hubby, around whom she can be very lovey-dovey, even (or who is she kidding, especially) if he happens to find it embarrassing or flustering at the given time, though this isn't as common as it used to be (to her mixed delight and dismay).
History
Kali's earliest memories are of an orphanage in Gateon Port, Orre; though by age 6, she had been adopted by a single father-- a man who had always wanted children, but never found a partner. He doted on Kali and spoiled her with everything she could ever want-- save perhaps him being home more often, that was.
He was a very busy man, unfortunately, but such will happen when one is a high-ranking member of an organization like Team Cipher. When she was especially young, Kali would often throw fits and eventually full-on tantrums about being left "alone", even if that was still with her nanny and the Shiny Elekid daddy had gifted her, but said nanny quickly broke her of this, drilling into her how important her father's work really was, leading to Kali growing up with a deeply ingrained sense of respect and awe for... whatever it was. The particulars didn't matter.
Daddy sometimes shared some stories from work, and Kali always enjoyed them immensely even if she didn't really have context for what exactly they pertained to, but wouldn't be until she was 9 that she finally learned what Cipher was. While wandering through a part of the house she knew was off-limits, she came upon an unnaturally aggressive Rattata, who attacked her on sight. Her father quickly, fortunately, though not before the Pokemon left her with a nasty bite that could have easily been fatal had it been offset by just a little bit.
To her confusion, daddy just... recalled the Pokemon, though? How could such a creature be tame?
Finally, he explained to her in full about Shadow Pokemon, how the process was still often unstable, but how when perfected it could bring out the greatest potential of a Pokemon. Kali never once questioned the validity of these claims.
Over the years, Cipher would rise-- and fall, and rise again. But after the second, the desire to rebuild seemed to have faded from the higher-ups. Or if efforts were being made, they were far more hush-hush, cutting many loyalists-- including Kali's father-- out of the loop. The man fell into a deep depression, and Kali... eventually got sick of it.
She tried for a while to cheer him up, but he barely seemed to notice her anymore, and the mixture of neglect and him having just given up so hard pissed her off enough that one day, she just took her then-Electabuzz and left, wondering how long it would take him to even notice she was gone.
For the next few months, the 16-yr-old girl would wander the Orre looking for anyone who might have insight on Shadows or interest in the project, while trying not to be too overt, of course. During this time, her Electabuzz evolved, and she "acquired" (stole) several more Pokemon for her journey. (What do you want? It's not like catching was much an option (even if she didn't especially need the excuse).) Among these was her new Sneasel, who would become a valuable part of her team.
As Orre was proving fruitless, Kali eventually traveled to another region in which rumors were circulating of Shadow activity. Here, she would soon luck across a scientist of indeterminate age who introduced himself as "Yue to men, Leon to women, and Alias to those who are both or neither". While his usage and explanations for his names may change over time, he became Leon to Kali in that moment, and this has stuck since.
As soon as it became clear Leon knew something about Shadows, Kali became determined to learn whatever she could from him and aid his cause if he was competent enough. Leon was adamantly opposed to the idea of having "a child" around bothering him, but Kali made it rather clear that his options were to let her help or to have her constantly doing so anyway, without proper instructions, and gosh if she should mess something up from not having someone to guide her actions wouldn't that be a shame. He very begrudgingly relented, and she took up residence in the laboratory he both worked and lived in.
He was fiercely frustrating to be around, particularly given he never seemed to take care of himself (and just what did he expect to do if he passed out while operating a machine some time???) or even the lab really outside of his immediate projects. The facility had been long abandoned from some past endeavor before he took up residence in it, and much of the building was in a state of disuse or still housed old machines or storage supplies unrelated to their work; all Leon cared about was his own narrow field of vision, and it drove Kali crazy. How do you live in a place like that??
So, in addition to learning his craft over time and at least some of how the various machinery worked, Kali sort of... did everything else she could, too. She caught ludicrous numbers of Pokemon-- to train, to sell (not that they needed funding, with support from a local Duchess, but for her personal expenses and pet projects), and as fodder for their research. She took to cleaning up and restoring the lab in her spare time, turning the break room into a proper kitchen and dining room, making a proper den they could relax in, just... generally trying to ensure the place was both a worksite AND a home. She also, maybe, sort of, did things like catch a Drowzee to force Leon to sleep when he wouldn't listen to her requests, set up Pokemon patrols both to guard the lab in general and to make sure Leon didn't get out of bed to work in the middle of the night, learned to cook things he'd like to bribe him into eating more (even if her Pokemon actually handled more day to day chores), and uh....
Well, maybe she might have also done stuff like... get Leon a Slowpoke so he could chew on its tail while he worked since he liked sweets so much, or maybe take it a little too personally when he rarely took time away from his work to do anything fun with--
Okay so, it hadn't taken her long to develop an enormous crush, though she spent at least a little time at first denying that fact, and spent months after that telling herself it was stupid and pointless but there was no harm in indulging it just for fun. So she'd flirt with him, sometimes subtly, sometimes shamelessly. Sometimes he'd tease her a bit in return; sometimes he'd brush her off. Sometimes she tried a more 'seductive' approach, which was invariably met with a disinterested or even repulsed reaction, though Kali never did quite catch on that he was thoroughly uninterested in sexual things in general, and spent far too long thinking maybe if she just tried harder. (Not that she'd have even known what to do if he was interested, but...)
When he started to do things like... express his appreciation for something she'd done via a kiss to the forehead and other casual displays of affection, Kali quickly started to realize she... wasn't just indulging in silly fun anymore. Shit...
It took her nearly a year, and many many ups and downs. They'd go back and forth between getting along well and even sharing cute fluffy moments on occasion to being extremely irritated or even angry with each other, bickering or... One of her biggest challenges was her frustration at the idea of him treating her like "a child". In retrospect? Okay, she can almost see his point. But she had long since reviled the treatment from anyone, at least when she wasn't specifically using that impression as part of a ploy. Among colleagues-- other workers the lab had picked up, patrons of their work, and the like-- she wanted to be seen as an equal, as an adult, and that went all the more for Leon.
But finally-- not long before her 17th birthday-- they both broke down and admitted their feelings for--- each other??? He returned them? She didn't know whether to be elated or pissed that she'd not managed to get him to admit this sooner, but she'd definitely end up favoring the prior~
They dated for a short time before, on her birthday, they snuck into the ruins of the broken monarchy's former castle, much of it burned and decrepit from the revolt several years prior. There, in the former throne room, he proposed, and of course she gave an emphatic yes. (It would also be here that she'd learn he was a 30-ish year old virgin who believed in waiting until after marriage, which in retrospect made her seduction attempts in the past terribly amusing to her; though she can no longer remember whether this conversation came before or after the proposal, eheheh.) At any rate, they agreed to be married the following year.
In that year and those to follow, the country went from shit to hell, but for Kali and Leon, things were golden. They'd gotten their Shadow technology running smoothly, and when war broke out, providing both sides with super powerful Pokemon was just good business. They were married, and continued doing science and being cute together. Kali pursued her training hobby more and more as well, always eager to prove herself the best, and using some small degree of growing local fame as A Powerful Trainer (with none the wiser as to what sort of work she did outside of this) to show off these amazing powerful Pokemon that anyone looking to increase their own strength should definitely look into buying.
As fantastic as that all was, though, it did eventually start to bother Kali-- especially after over a year of being married-- that they never really had a proper honeymoon? They had talked about traveling some time-- a dream she'd always sort of had in the back of her mind-- but a few times trying to politely bring it up tended to be brushed off pretty quickly. Which was to say, Leon always agreed, but there was always One More Thing he needed to do first, and... well... she'd known him long enough. When he wouldn't go to bed, she caught a Drowzee. So when he wouldn't let himself take a vacation, wellllll....
Given her questionable morality at so many other aspects of life, no one should be particularly surprised that she maybe, kind of, sort of, slightly kidnapped her husband. Of course she made plenty of arrangements to see to it the other lab workers (now including her father who she'd recently managed to bring into the project to offer his expertise) could handle things in their absence. But, yeah, Yue maaaaay have sort of awakened one day to find himself on a plane and being informed he was on vacation now~ Don't worry, this will be fun~~
Over the past few months, they've visited a few different regions, with Veria being the latest stop on the list. In truth, Kali is starting to get a little restless herself, her ambitious nature not entirely satisfied by a life of leisure. However, she is bound and determined to get at least a solid year of travel out of this vacation, because Arceus knows it's gonna be another ten before she gets Leon away from his work long enough to try again. And, well, she's never been one to give up.
However, she'd be lying to say she isn't very intrigued by Veria's usage-- however rare-- of both Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, concepts entirely foreign to them before beginning their travels; and she would desperately like to know how either (or both? can both be used simultaneously?) would react with Shadow Pokemon. Unfortunately, this long away from home has resulted in her own Pokemon being purified without a proper re-application, but... well... she could always try to learn it to take home, or if they stay in one place long enough, Leon does tend to get antsy..... Who know~?
Pokémon
Pokedex Name: Electivire (Shiny)
Nickname: Stormy
Gender: Female
Ability: Motor Drive
Moveset: Electric Terrain, Ion Deluge, Electroweb, Giga Impact, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch
Pokedex Name: Flygon (Shiny)
Nickname: Kjaerlighet
Gender: Female
Ability: Levitate
Moveset: Iron Tail, Superpower, Earth Power, Dragon Rush, Dragonbreath, Earthquake
Pokedex Name: Rattata
Nickname: Nibbler
Gender: Male
Ability: Guts
Moveset: Endeavor, Super Fang, Hyper Fang, Focus Energy, Shock Wave, Zen Headbutt
Pokedex Name: Weavile
Nickname: Siavush
Gender: Male
Ability: Pressure (* Reverted from HA since HA does nothing, with Yumi's permission)
Moveset: Night Slash, Low Kick, Iron Tail, Screech, Punishment, Snatch
Pokedex Name: Arcanine
Nickname: Pup
Gender: Male
Ability: Flash Fire
Moveset: Helping Hand, Iron Head, Fire Fang, Thunder Fang, Bite, Roar
Pokedex Name: Gyarados
Nickname: Flopsy
Gender: Female
Ability: Swift Swim
Moveset: Aqua Tail, Rain Dance, Dragon Dance, Crunch, Bounce, Iron Tail
Pokedex Name: Alakazam
Nickname: Helen
Gender: Female
Ability:
Moveset: Gravity, Foul Play, Teleport, Ally Switch, Miracle Eye, Psychic
Pokedex Name: Gardevoir
Nickname: Reyna
Gender: Female
Ability: Trace
Moveset: Heal Bell, Pain Split, Moonblast, Psychic, Calm Mind, Healing Wish
Pokedex Name: Dragonite
Nickname: Barney
Gender: Male
Ability: Inner Focus
Moveset: Hurricane, Fire Punch, Dragon Rush, Dragon Dance, Ice Punch, Iron Head
Pokedex Name: Chandelure
Nickname: Whiteshade
Gender: Male / Female / Genderless
Ability: Flash Fire
Moveset: Pain Split, Confuse Ray, Flame Burst, Hex, Will-o-wisp, Fire Blast
Skills (3/11)
Endurance (Major, 2) - Kali has been regularly attacked by wild Pokemon and Shadow Pokemon alike, thrown from the back of her Flygon, fucked up attempts at agile maneuvers, and the like and learned to keep getting back up whatever life throws at her. Her pure natural stubbornness contributes to this a lot as well.
Agility (Minor, 1) - She's not the fastest or strongest person around, but Kali's movements tend to be very precise and light on her feet. Navigating treacherous terrain has not been an unusual part of hunting down Pokemon in the past, and she's gotten at least decent at dodging incoming blows or delivering a well-aimed counterattack (even if not a very strong one) when need be.
Other Information
Upon turning 20 she decided... she did not want to be 20. Didn't want to stop being a teenager? Something like that. This was bothering her for a few months leading up to her birthday until... she looked at her husband and remembered he'd been making up whatever age suited him for as long as she'd known him (and certainly longer she was sure) so?? Fuck it she'll just stay 19 for another 10 years or however long she can sell it.
RP Sample
(See Sera)
OOC Information
OOC name: SG
Face Claim: [b]THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls[/b], Kanzaki Ranko as [i]Vincent, Kali[/i]
Continuity: Import [x]
Other Characters? Sera, Nikolai, Lilah, Alex
Starter Items: n/a
made by Wolf of GS