Virgil Aries Grant AKA Grant
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Gender: Male Age: 21 Trainer Class: Nurse/Breeder/Coordinator |
Height: 5'8'' Religion: Jagravanism Sexuality: Homosexual Western Zodiac: Trudusa the Jellicent Hometown: Melka Village, Northwest Godai
| Weight: 143 lbs Alignment: True Neutral Birthdate: October 1st, 179 Eastern Zodiac: Year of the Buneary Residency: Oraclair Town, Northeast Godai |
Hair Color & Style: Grant has short brown hair that is usually styled in a quiff with gel or mousse. His dresses in a sort of ‘dress to impress’ style, always doing his best to look nice, even when at work.
| Eyes: Grant’s eyes are light brown with a slight bit of gold in them. |
Clothing/Accessories: Living in the north, Grant is used to the cold and has learned to endure it rather well. Even so, he has different outfits depending on the climate. His normal everyday wear for a mild climate usually consists of a v-neck, t-shirt and jeans, with differing accessories. Sometimes, he wears an infinity scarf and when it’s relatively cold, he might wear a hoodie. When he needs to dress a little snazzier, he usually changes into just a nice dress shirt with a tie or bowtie, saving his blazers for the more formal events, though he does own a casual blazer and quite a few cardigans for semi-formal events. Though rare, he also has a few hats he likes to wear, including some fedoras and a few snapbacks.
For colder climates such as when he’s hiking or snowboarding, Grant has learned how to bundle effectively and only ever wears a max of three layers. The first layer are his boxers and a muscle shirt or t-shirt, just so he can quickly strip down to something more comfortable to sleep in. His second layer is usually a turtleneck sweater and a pair of long johns, usually black. The third and final layer consists of a cozy parka lined with Piloswine fur on the inside and a water resistant polyester on the outside. The parka also has a hood that clips on the back and front to keep it on when needed and off when not. He also wears a pair of snow pants made of the same polyester and a pair of boots with retractable spikes for climbing. To cover his face, he wears a black scarf that can hook onto a pair of goggles he also wears to prevent snow blindness. Finally, he wears a pair of wool gloves and wool socks to keep his extremities warm. To say the least, Grant is prepared in any sort of snowstorm.
For hotter conditions, like when he’s at a beach or when it’s just smoking hot out, his wardrobe is much less complicated. Usually, it just consists of boardshorts or cargo shorts and either a muscle shirt or no shirt. He then wears a pair of flip flops, or runners if he’s exercising, and sometimes a pair of sunglasses and more rarely a hat as well. The only reason he can have so many choices when it comes to his wardrobe is because his sister lives at home and is almost always there to put clothes into his PC box for him to then retrieve from a Pokemon Center.
General Appearance: Grant stands at 5’8’’ and weighs around 143 lbs. He has a rather slim yet muscular build and his overall appearance makes him seem even younger than he is, most often being mistaken for a teenager. He has an inverted triangle, cleanly shaven face with a chiseled jaw. His lips and cheeks are a natural, healthy pink colour on his olive tanned skin. His nose has a strong bridge with a small little bump at the end of it and his eyebrows are sloped inward towards his nose and he makes sure to keep them maintained through plucking them. Due to his unfortunate genes, if he didn’t shave and pluck regularly, he would have a full beard, nose hairs, and a unibrow within the week.
Though he is very small in stature, he has a good upper body strength and a nice toned stomach. He also has really good lower body strength from snowboarding, something he’s been doing almost his entire life. When walking around though, you can’t really tell how strong he actually is. He doesn’t hold himself with an arrogant air like most jocks, but doesn’t have an introverted sort of walk where he doesn’t want to be noticed. The way he walks is a more sort of confident walk, a walk that shows he’s not trying to show off but also not trying to hide either.
Talents: Grant is very athletic and involved in a numerous number of sports including soccer, snowboarding, skiing, and martial arts. He enjoys working out quite a bit and also enjoys cooking though he’s a vegetarian. He is also very good with people, especially children, having helped out at his grandmother’s daycare when he was younger. Pokemon also stayed at the daycare and thus Grant is very good with Pokemon as well. He has learned a multitude of breeding, pokemon and egg care, and grooming techniques while working there. It’s these skills that are going to help him become the breeder and coordinator of his dreams.
Personality Grant is a very outgoing person and loves making new friends. When talking with said friends though, he prefers to listen to their stories as opposed to telling his own. This is because he feels closer when listening to other people's stories and he feels mildly obnoxious whenever he talks about himself. Especially for extended periods of time. He also isn’t very good at telling stories, always getting sidetracked by small details.
Grant is very selfless as well, always willing to help those in need. The main reason he does this is because it makes him feel good seeing the outcome of the work he does. He also does this because he believes in Karma and if he does good things, he will get good things in return.
Grant also enjoys staying active. To do this, he takes part in a multitude of sports, including skiing, snowboarding, soccer, and martial arts. He is a pacifist though, so he never harms someone unless he feels threatened. This keeps him level headed and rarely ever angry. Though he doesn’t believe in fights, he thinks pokemon battling is a good alternative towards personal fighting as long as it’s not taken too far, the pokemon aren’t too badly injured, and the pokemon aren’t being forced to fight against their will.
Off the battlefield, his pacifism continues into his romantic life, Grant being a hopeless romantic all of his life. Before finding his one true love, Grant always wanted someone to come and sweep him off his feet. He found that person in Nathan, someone who shared his beliefs, but was a little taller and a little more of an ‘alpha’ male.
After Nathan’s death, Grant became depressed. For days, he stayed inside, not talking to anyone and barely eating anything, let alone anything nutritious. Even after the funeral, Grant hasn’t been his normal self. He hasn’t been as outgoing or active and he has had a much shorter temper.
It wasn’t until he moved in with his sister and received his Budew as a gift from her did he start becoming his normal self. After a few events transpired while travelling to Oraclair, Grant decided to travel the world to achieve a zen state in the hopes that he’ll finally move on from Nathan’s passing.
While exploring and to achieve this state, Grant plans on competing in contests and gym battles and eventually opening his own breeding center. His favourite kinds of pokemon are nurturing and/or pacifistic types like the Fairy, Grass, and Psychic types. His least favourite types are Dark, Ghost, and Poison types because they are types focused on fear and destruction.
History Grant was second born to a family living in a small religious neighbourhood of the Melka Village. They were Arceists and proud of it, the women of the family always staying home while the men went out to work at lumber mills or mines. Therefore, from the very beginning both Grant and his older sister Allie had their futures planned out for them; Allie would be a housewife and Grant would work in the mines like his father.
At first, they were both content with these futures as they were led to believe that was how everybody lived and that it was normal. Through the early years of their lives, they attended a church school. The school taught them the basic stuff any school teaches (math, social studies, and basic pokemon studies/care), but there was also a mandatory course where they spent time studying the teachings of Arceus. This ranged from the creation of Heaven and Hell to the many rules and sins they have to follow.
From ages three to five, Allie and Grant went to this church school until they were old enough to enter a normal school. After that, they just attended normal church with their family, going every Sunday. As they made new friends, they realized that not everybody has the same values. The idea of having a job of their choice lit a spark in both Grant and Allie. One that their family would not be able to extinguish.
The idea of choosing their own lives first came up during dinner when Grant was ten and Allie was twelve. Allie openly asked if she could go to a police camp the next day. Surprised by her interest in the camp, her parents asked why she wanted to go and she explained that she was thinking of becoming a cop when she was older. The conversation ended there abruptly, both saying they would think about it and decide tomorrow.
That night, Grant and Allie stayed up in their shared bedroom and listened as their parents argued about the camp. Her mom said that she should be able to go, but her dad disagreed, saying letting her go to the camp would spark a desire to be a police officer when Arceus says she needs to be a housekeeper. Eventually, Allie and Grant couldn’t help themselves and passed out, neither certain about the outcome of the argument.
The next day, after school, her father took her to the police camp, though still mildly reluctant towards the idea. Afterwards, Allie was confident in her wanting to become a police officer and began planning her high school years towards going to an academy and becoming one. It wasn’t until two years later did Grant figure out what he wanted to do.
On Grant’s twelfth birthday, their family went to visit his grandmother (on his mother’s side) in Cascadia City. His grandmother owned a rather small pokemon and human daycare and grooming center. It was run out of a small section in a mall close to her house. She had at most five employees working for her everyday and at least three; one watching the kids, one watching the pokemon, and one grooming. On busier grooming days though, they had three people grooming, one watching the children, and one watching the pokemon.
Though she didn’t work herself, Grant’s grandmother visited almost everyday to check up on the employees, children, and pokemon there as well as to make sure her customers are satisfied. When Grant and his family visited for Grant’s birthday, they went to visit with them. There, Grant spent a lot of time with the pokemon and little kids and even learned of the grooming process from his grandma. After that day, Grant decided he wanted to help people and pokemon like his grandma did.
After doing some researching of jobs on his own, he found one that was a perfect fit for him; nursing. He also found an open position at a daycare within walking distance, a place he could start learning about taking care of people and pokemon. Now the only issue was trying to convince his parents to let him go. The next night at dinner, he found his opportunity.
During dinner, while talking about his day at work, Grant’s father brought up how Grant should go with him to the mines tomorrow since he’ll be working there soon. That’s when Grant found his opening and rolled with it, saying that he might not want to work in the mines. This made everyone silent, even Allie. Seeing as there was an awkward silence, Grant continued by talking about the nursing job. That’s when his father sent him and Allie to their rooms, by this time separate ones.
That night, all Grant could hear was his parents arguing in the kitchen, his room being across from it. His father was yelling, saying there was no way he was going to let his son turn into some loser, wimp nanny. Hearing his father say this about him brought tears to Grant’s eyes as he lay in bed, thinking of worst case scenarios before falling asleep. That night, he had a nightmare that his father disowned him and Grant ended up living on the streets.
The next day however, his father seemed to have changed his mind, letting his mother take him to go hand in his application. It only took a day for the daycare to call him back and hire him. While Grant was working at the daycare, his sister Allie managed to find a job as a desk assistant for the local police office. Though this went against their ways, his father eventually learned to live with it.
Then, Grant started to have feelings for another boy at his work when he was about fifteen. At first, they were unnoticeable, just him thinking it’s him thinking of the guy as his best friend. Then, there was the incident. They were both working a late night shift and were cleaning up the building while just talking casually. The next thing Grant knew, they were making out. After getting home (his friend having walked him), he was smiling from ear to ear and Allie noticed. Commenting on it, Grant said it was nothing, though his face betrayed him by going beet red.
Grant pushed past Allie and went to his room, Allie following him while pestering him with questions. Eventually, he burst forth and told her the truth, stunning Allie. After saying it out loud, Grant faced the wall, refusing to look at the shocked look on his sister's face in fear that she would tell their parents. Instead, she shocked him by jumping on his bed and asking him for details.
After that night, the two of them became much closer, almost always having a talk at night about interesting developments. About a year later, Allie finally convinced Grant to tell their parents about it. The next night, when they were sitting in the living room after dinner, Grant finally brought it up. He just sort of came out and said it, taking almost everyone by surprise.
After a brief moment of silence, his father looked at him and with an angry tone in his voice, he told Grant to get out. Grant was shocked stupid by this, not sure he heard his father right. He definitely heard him right when he stood up and yelled it, pointing at the door. Scared of what he might do, Grant ran to the door and left, surprised that his sister didn’t come to his defense. As he walked down the street, he tried to figure out what he was going to do, tears streaming down his face.
At first, Grant was completely lost as to where he should go. For the first, blistering-cold night, he spent his time on the corner at the end of his street. He sat there until midnight, waiting and hoping to see his sister, mother, father, anyone walk down the street and tell him to come home. By midnight, nobody came and he chose to give up, unable to stand the blistering cold let alone sleep in it. Walking over to his elementary school, he found a little alcove to shelter him from the snow and slept there, pulling his hoodie up and over his head.
Luckily, it was winter vacation for schools during this time and so nobody was there when he woke up the next morning, partially covered in snow and still freezing cold. The next few weeks, Grant spent his time searching through garbage cans for food and trying to find an abandoned home for shelter. Every single night, he cried himself to sleep, hating himself for telling his parents and hating his family even more. At that time, he even hated his sister for not defending him.
This daily schedule of scavenging, shelter-hunting, and self-loathing went on until the end of winter holidays. The night of New Year’s Eve was when he was caught by police scavenging through someone’s garbage. He spent that New Years in a cell, listening as the officers outside had a blast and he hated himself even more. That night, he made a New Years resolution to stop this routine and get better come next New Years.
The next morning, he was released from jail and he finally went to a homeless shelter. The reason he never went there before was because he refused to accept the reality that he was indeed homeless. There was some part of him that still believed, before that day, that his family would come and take him back. However, that part was now gone and he finally accepted reality.
For the next month, he spent time at the shelter and started applying for jobs. Eventually, he got a job at a drugstore. Finally, his life started to turn around and started looking up. He even got in a mildly serious relationship with one of his fellow employees. He didn’t tell his boyfriend that he was homeless, worried that he’d get dumped, but it was still better than having nobody. He even got over the incident when his family kicked him out, pretending they didn’t exist.
That was until he helped his mother at the till one day. She didn’t even notice him, his hair being much longer than before and him having facial hair; however, he recognized her, and the fact that she didn’t say anything brought all the feelings back. That night, he was so hurt that, before closing up, he went to the pharmacy and stole some pain medication. After taking one pill and experiencing a high that allowed him to forget everything, he was hooked.
He started taking more closing shifts and stealing medications as often as possible. For weeks he did this, eventually reaching a point where he had to take three pills just to experience a high. Eventually, the store owner noticed the drugs missing and checked the surveillance. The next morning, he was fired. His boyfriend found out about his drug abuse as well and dumped him pretty much on the spot. Grant was so hurt that night that he went to a back alley and purposely overdosed, hoping to end this miserable life as painlessly as possible.
A week later, he woke up in the hospital with his mother sitting beside him. Apparently, someone taking out the garbage at night found him and called 911, saving his life with seconds to spare. After arriving in the hospital, his medical documents were found and his parents contacted. He spent a week in a coma before waking up that night, which was filled with his mother’s apologies falling on deaf ears.
The next morning, both she and Grant’s father arrived. At first, he was tempted to call for security and have them escorted out, wanting nothing to do with them. Something in him made him change his mind though and instead he let them stay. It was his father’s apologies for saying what he said and kicking him out which finally broke Grant and made him an emotional mess. The next night, the hospital finally dismissed him and he went home with his parents.
Though he was excited to see his sister, he was surprised to not find her there. His mother then explained that on the night of the incident, Allie moved to Oraclair town and hasn’t contacted them since. That night, Grant contacted her with his Holocaster, having gotten it back after moving back home. After talking to her (many tears, happy and sad, were shed), she agreed to come visit for a little bit. Finally, everything seemed right in the world.
Life was going back to normal for the next two years. Grant quit his addiction, went back to school and graduated, and he even got his own car and place to live. Grant also got his dream job, working both at a nearby hospital and pokemon center as a nurse. It was there he met the love of his life: a Pokemon Ranger by the name of Nathan.
They met when Nathan walked in with a badly injured Houndoor, Grant quickly taking care of it and making it all better. After returning the pokemon to Nathan (who ended up adopting the Houndoor), he asked Grant if he wanted to go get a cup of coffee sometime, Grant said yes, gave Nathan his number, and it all fell into place. On their coffee date, they quickly realized that they had lots in common, like their love of nature and their thrill seeking attitudes.
It took only three dates for them to finally become official, Grant then inviting Nathan over to meet his parents. Surprisingly, Grant’s father was very welcoming, putting Grant’s stress about the whole night at ease. Of course, Allie was super excited, constantly teasing her brother and making sure there wasn’t a single moment his face wasn’t red.
They dated for about five months before Grant finally moved in, selling his apartment. Shortly after moving in, Grant met Nathan’s parents when they came over for a dinner. Grant even cooked a dinner for them. After they left, Grant and Nathan sat and just watched some TV.
The next day, Nathan went to the mountains for a Ranger mission and Grant went to the breeding center as per usual. Though Grant didn’t know the specifics, apparently there was a hiker stranded up on the mountains and a small team was being sent to find them. It was expected to be a routine rescue mission, nothing should’ve gone wrong.
Later that day, when Grant was relaxing at home after work, he heard a knock at the door. Answering it, he found one of Nathan’s coworkers, a grim look on their face. Without words even needing to be said, Grant knew what she was going to say. Still, he let her speak, wanting to know exactly what happened. Apparently, during their mission, an avalanche occurred on the mountain. Though the rest of the team managed to make it outside of it’s reach, Nathan was caught inside it, having run back to rescue another member. Though no body has been found, he has been presumed dead.
Crushed by this news, Grant had a breakdown when she left, trashing their apartment and then falling asleep crying. The next day, he didn’t even leave bed, despite having to work. For weeks, he was in a depressed stupor. It wasn’t until his sister came to visit for the funeral did he actually leave his apartment. At the funeral, he didn’t speak to anyone and when he went to make a speech, he stood in silence for a good couple of minutes before finally speaking.
After the funeral, at the after party held at Nathan’s parents house, Grant just sat outside staring at the mountain, drinking himself into a stupor. He was on his third glass of wine when Allie came out to see him. They talked for a bit and cried together before the night ended. Heading home, Grant couldn’t sleep, everything reminding him of the pain he felt from his loss.
The next day he made the decision to move out. Though she lived farther from his parents, Grant called Allie to see if he could move in, not wanting to burden his parents with his presence. Of course, Allie agreed and Grant decided to move in with her, packing up his stuff and listing his apartment. Once it sold, the two made their way to Oraclair Town.
Inventory- Inventory
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Dians:  1,000 Items:  5x Pokéball Key Items:  PokéDex  Journal  Holocaster
Trainer Advancement
Pokemon
Total EXP Gained: 0
 CloverBudew #406 Received at Level 5
Nickname: Clove Gender: Female Type: Grass/Poison Ability: Natural Cure Height: 0’6" Weight: 1.95 lbs
Personality Clove is like a baby; adorable and cute, but almost always needing supervision. She has an insatiable curiosity and almost always gets herself into trouble because of it, wandering off and getting lost. This is how she lost her parents and found her way into a ranger facility. From there, she was fostered by Virgil’s sister before she gave Clove to him for adoption. Just like a baby, Clove almost needs constant care and supervision so Grant usually cradles the little bud pokemon in his arms while bottle feeding her, which she enjoys immensely. Though not being the strongest, Clove does know how to fight; however, she prefers to avoid it if at all possible and is reluctant even when Grant tells her too. Health: Weak EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (6/8) EXP Gained: 0
Exp Log N/A
Level: 5 Division: D8 Total Stats: 55
- Attack: 10
- Defense: 8
- Sp. Attack: 10
- Sp. Defense: 17 (30%)
- Speed: 10
Vitamins Used: None
| Moveset: 1. Absorb 4. Growth
Unique Moves: - - - - Item: N/A |
PC Box: Stored Pokemon (NONE)
Journal
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