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radneighborPlayer Name: Eva
Characters in Game: NA
Character Name: Brendan Birch
Canon/OC: Canon (Gameverse)
Age: 19
AU/Previous Game History/Etc?: NA
Appearance: Right here.
History:
(NOTE: Brendan, as the rival character in-game, (and having been aged up significantly since the end of his known canon) does not have much canon history at all! Literally he gets a few lines and a very vague backstory. This means that nearly all of his history—and everything else for that matter—is my personal headcanon. Please take this into consideration! Also, any mentions of May have been discussed with her player.)
The bit of canon we do know is that Brendan Birch was born to Professor Birch and his unnamed wife. He has a younger brother (also unnamed) and likes to help his father with his pokemon research. He leaves with a single pokemon and a pokedex at the same time as May and always seems to stay one step ahead of the player, mostly likely because he spends his time collecting pokemon and filling his pokedex instead of training and doing the gym challenge. He gives up being a trainer before the end of the game and goes back home to help his father with his research.
/canon.
HEADCANON GO!
Brendan, as the son of a well-known professor, most often grew up with only one parent. Professor Birch was usually too busy with his work at the lab, or away altogether in the field, and unable to spend much time at home. Brendan's mother was attentive and loving but Brendan ached too much for his father to properly enjoy it. As soon as he was old enough, he began emulating his father, both because he looked up to him and wanted to somehow gain his attention. To do this Brendan spent a lot of his time outside, usually alone because he came from a small town, playing in the dirt and examining rock and pokemon like his father did. When he was old enough, he sat himself down in front of his father's thick texts and taught himself to read the big words as best he could when he learned that bothering his mother about the definitions of every other word caused her to confiscate the books and send him outside.
It was this supposed interest in pokémon research that first gained Birch's attention, as the young Brendan had hoped it would, and he began to teach his young son about pokémon before Brendan could fully understand him. He took Brendan to his lab and sat him down with the most docile pokémon and let him explore the grass that only came up to his ankles. This attention overjoyed Brendan, but was quickly lost as he became too curious in the lab, too inclined to play where he shouldn't, and too tall to be amused by the short grass he'd once used for mock adventures. Professor Birch once again left him at home with his mother, who could not seem to match up no matter how hard she tried, now that even her attention was divided with the new baby.
Young Brendan became bitter, and soon devised another idea to regain his parents' attention. He began to study with a renewed rigor, hoping to wow his parents with how much more he knew than anyone else his age. He reopened his father's large tomes on pokémon and the science of the word and taught himself to read and understand even the hardest of words. He poured over it for hours and hours at a time, memorizing facts about type, breed, evolution, and the habitats of pokémon. He learned the names of the pokémon that existed only in fossils, and went on mock-excavations in his backyard, looking for anything that might resemble Aerodactyl, whose name he had spent days learning to pronounce.
This thirst for knowledge and interest in research gained Professor Birch's attention once more, and soon Brendan was back at Birch's lab, only this time not to play, but to learn. Not quite the attention he‘d wanted, but Brendan learned to be happy with what he got, at least happy he was able to receive more attention from his father than his younger brother did.
He grew to enjoy learning in the lab setting, just as he'd come to enjoy learning in the privacy of his room. The discovery of Aerodactyl's existence and his hunts for false fossils was soon overshadowed by a glimpse of a real one, and the knowledge of the methods of resurrection. He spent as much time with Birch's lab assistants, sometimes more, than with his father, and this disappointment further fueled him to learn and gain recognition in his father's eye. He began to yearn to follow Birch out on the field work he seemed to love so much, rather than stay put inside with his father's less-adventurous colleagues.
He began exploring his backyard again, but at first it seemed too restricting and dull. There were no wild pokémon, and no true fossils. He found stone and rock instead, at first a disappointment, but soon a discovery for Brendan in and of itself. He studied rock and plant and the world around him as best he could while his father experienced it for himself, and soon became bored when he could discover no more from, first his backyard, and then the very town of Littleroot. Brendan begged and pleaded with his father until, at the age of 9, he was finally allowed out with the professor for research.
Brendan enjoyed this new freedom extensively, and he went with his father as much as he was able, helping and learning as much as he could. He discovered a love of exploration, and soon began to sneak out by himself as far as he dared, just to catch another glimpse of some area he'd wanted to explore. It soon became apparent to Birch that Brendan would require some form of defense and greater freedom, after an unfortunate incident regarding a wild Poochyena. So, on his 10th birthday Brendan was given his first Pokémon; a Mudkip, and the freedom to explore the routes surrounding Littleroot and the close by Oldale Town alone.
Without even realizing it, Brendan‘s want for his father's attention and praise had been overshadowed by his love for pokémon and research. He began to study pokémon training because it was interesting and he had his own pokémon, not because he thought it would make his father happy. Free from his own expectations, Brendan discovered just how much he actually enjoyed helping his father, regardless of whether he was helping alongside him or not.
A few months later, Brendan met May, a girl about his age who'd just moved from the Johto region. Despite having just arrived to the region, and only having just received a pokemon, she crushed him in battle, took her single pokemon and her pokedex and went off to explore the world on her own. Inspired, Brendan decided he was done playing in the grass under his father's feet and he left home to go on a journey of his own. Rather than follow the gym challenge, Brendan explored the region and searched for the pokémon out of reach of his small hometown with a pokédex obtained from his father. It was his goal to fill it and he spent many months traveling and catching pokemon.
During his travels he ran into May a few times for the occasional battle and it was during these that he realized he wasn't cut out to be a trainer. He'd spent so much time worrying about filling his pokedex that he hadn't put enough time into his pokemon team and he paid for it in every battle. After a final loss at her hands, he decided to call it quits and head back home. It was during the return trip home, when he would watch the pokemon around him without trying to catch them that he realized research was what he loved to do, not for his father, but for himself. He returned home in higher spirits than when he'd left.
A little while later he became involved in a skirmish between Team Aqua and Team Magma at May's request and essentially helped to save the world, though he rightfully gave the credit to May for finding and releasing Raquaza and thus restoring peace to the legendary beasts.
He spent the next year and a half at home and went back to researching with his father, who was happy to take him along during all of his field work after seeing Brendan's detailed job on the pokédex. After so long on the road, life at home seemed almost dull and he filled his time eagerly by researching, tutoring his brother, and training his team. He even took time out to help May's mother, who often spent her days alone with both her husband and daughter busy with their pokemon.
Though he enjoyed his time at home, he found himself bored soon enough and at not yet 14 he repacked his bags and headed back out into the world. He spent some time in Mossdeep City, drawn to the promise of space rocks, and left with his interest in rock renewed. This brought him next to Fallarbor Town, on the other end of the region, chasing a rumor about a man digging for fossils. He learned what he could about meteorites from Professor Cozmo, realized he wouldn't find any fossils, and went on his way.
It was then that he set out on what would be the first of many trips to Meteor Falls. He spent many months away and eventually stopped returning calls or sending post cards, much to the fright of his family and friends, until he returned home, slightly worse for wear, with a broken leg and a cell phone lost to the rocks. Though he returned with little research done and a month of bed rest ahead of him, he also brought with him a young Bagon he’d broken his leg saving from the edge of a cliff.
While recuperating, he spent another year at home, where he trained his Bagon into a tough and battle-eager Salamence. A mistake on his part, perhaps, for, as the year ran out, Brendan stopped battling and training as often, and went back to doing more extensive research, eager to make a name for himself after his embarrassing failure at Meteor Falls. He made plans to return with Salamence, who Brendan felt would be a valuable companion, for the newly-evolved pokémon knew the area well.
Unfortunately, the trip was abruptly canceled when he lost control of his Salamence, and he instead spent two weeks locked in his room with his head covered in bandages and Salamence deposited into Lanette's PC. During this time, he abruptly asked May to take the pokémon off his hands, during one of her worried visits, explaining he was unfit to be its trainer. They ended up trading—Brendan’s Salamence for May's Flygon, who seemed much more eager to aid Brendan with his research than Salamence had. (Brendan has since made up with Salamence, and often calls May to ask how he’s doing.)
After May left on her newest journey to Kanto, Brendan went on his re-planned trip to Meteor Falls with some of his father's colleagues. He spent a few months researching the pokémon and their habitat before leaving. It was because of this trip that he published his first paper, and he returned on and off during that same year to add more to his findings. During this year, Brendan also did some research with his father, while on his frequent visits home. (It should also be noted that he made absolutely sure to be at home on his brother's birthday, and he stood at the entrance to Route 101, Swampert at his side, with the rest of the town as the newly turned 10-year-old left home for the first home.)
After a year of researching Meteor Falls, Brendan began to expand. He traveled throughout the entire Hoenn region again both to appease his inner adventurer once more and to research. He was published time and time again, until he himself began gaining in credibility and popularity and was no longer known merely as "Professor Birch's son". His more thorough journey took two and a half years, and he returned to Littleroot with much stronger pokémon, journals and journals of published notes, and an overall happy outlook on life.
May returned from her extensive trip not long after his own return the two of them moved into a small apartment in Petalburg City together to catch up while allowing May, and sometimes Brendan, to help out at her father's gym.
Half a year later and now, at 19, Brendan spends most of his time researching and publishing what he can from Petalburg and occasionally assisting May and Norman at the Petalburg gym.
Personality:
The most noticeable/obvious aspect of Brendan's personality is his introversion. He grew up mostly alone, due to his own expectations and failed ploys to ironically gain the attention he'd always wanted. Years spent studying in his room alone, away from children his age, made Brendan socially awkward and generally quiet. This is expressed upon his very first encounter with May, in which he blurted out that he had assumed she must have been a boy because of her father's job. He just doesn't know how to interact with people, plain and simple, and though he wants to make friends and expand his social circle he's never been very good at the actual process.
This social awkwardness makes Brendan seem uninviting if we're being fair, a jerk if we're being honest, because he finds himself unable to properly communicate with someone he's only just met and deems unpredictable. He is also rather unlikely to instigate conversation upon the first meeting, if only because prior experience proved how inept he is at it, though this is by no means because Brendan doesn't want to make friends, and is merely because he has a hard time doing so by himself. This has toned down a bit, however, upon befriending May and growing close to his pokémon team, and he has grown a bit more open, though he still remains mostly introverted and quiet.
Brendan is not, however, a recluse. When he does become friends with someone, he opens up considerably and tends to prove himself to be an extremely helpful, kind and considerate person. And though he could be described as shy, he oftentimes calls friends when in need of advice or a listening ear, which happens quite often when he's working on a project. In fact, he can be quite a rambler, especially when it comes to his research, and his friends are quite likely to get their ears talked off when he's been inspired or hit a slump.
With strangers he tries to be polite, unless given reason not to be or if his lack of tact shows itself, and he is professional and generally pleasant with colleagues and fellow researchers or professors. He's also more inclined to be respectful to his elders, and tends to become shy or flustered around people he admires. (read: fanboys)
Another rather important aspect of Brendan's personality is his drive. He's a hard worker by nature and can be incredibly stubborn. He's a passionate person who puts his all into the things he does and it takes a lot to get him to back down once he's set his mind to something. Unfortunately, when he does back down, he falls gracelessly and very stubbornly refuses to get back up again with nearly the same intensity. When he hits a slump he hits it hard and he often needs to be dragged back to reality. Or, at least, given an appropriate amount of time to stew in his failure and then cool down.
Abilities/Skills: Brendan is a normal human being without any spectacular superhuman abilities. He does, however, have above-average intelligence, experience surviving out in the wilderness with only a small bag of supplies, and a team of creatures under his control that can control certain elements.
Belongings: In addition to his usual clothes (ridiculous hat, gloves, shirt, shorts & pants combo, and Devon issued running shoes) Brendan will have carried with him a sling bag. In it he carries a few different classes of potions, ethers and revives, a few different types of unused pokéballs, a small assortment of rocks, a pair of glasses, and a pair of Go-Goggles. He also always has at least one notebook, an assortment of writing utensils, and, despite giving up being a trainer seriously, his pokédex.
Brendan will also have brought his pokémon team along. This consists of: Swampert, Flygon, Tropius, Metang, Crobat, and Froslass.
Samples:
3rd Person Prose Sample:
The sky was dark and the air was cool with the chill of night when Brendan finally got a fire going. It crackled weakly on the pitiful kindling he'd been able to produce from the rocky terrain, but the fire was still strong enough to give him a sense of accomplishment. He'd almost literally kicked himself for not bringing Slugma along on the trip when he found himself stranded and alone with darkness quickly approaching, but it appeared he'd worried over nothing.
Well, not exactly nothing. He was still alone in a rocky prison with a broken leg. And no supplies as he'd somehow dropped his bag off a rather inconveniently placed cliff. He'd never been so grateful he'd decided to clip his pokeballs to his belt for the trip as he had in the aftermath of his moment of panicked terror.
So maybe he wasn't quite so alone. He'd sent Crobat off some time ago to alert the team he'd stupidly left at camp and his Swampert was settled behind him, acting like a large worried dog who couldn't seem to decide what to do with itself. Brendan leaned back against his oldest friend, sighed heavily, and closed his eyes.
When he opened them next the fire was out and Swampert had stilled at his back. There was no sign of Crobat but Brendan noticed a small pile of fruit a few paces away, stacked beside the dying embers. He reached for one without taking the time to question the mysterious gift, too hungry to really care about its origins, and it was only when the fruit was halfway to his mouth that he spotted the little Bagon. The same one he'd broken his leg saving in the first place. It was standing a small ways from his pitiful camp, timidly peering at him from behind a large boulder. There was a considerably sized fruit discarded at its feet and Brendan quickly put two and two together. He took a bite out of the offered fruit he'd been holding, eyes on Bagon, and it was only once he'd finished it and nudged Swampert awake to have some as well that the small pokemon fled.
Lack of anything better to do while awaiting his rescue, Brendan dozed off again.
He briefly awoke to the feeling of something warm settling down onto his lap. He hadn't even realized he'd been cold, but the new addition quickly reminded him. His shivering ceased and he was lulled off again.
He awoke fully to the sound of his name being called and a warm hand on his shoulder. He blearily recognized one of his father's assistants and snapped awake quite suddenly as the man called over his shoulder to a few other people that had obviously trailed behind him. Crobat flew in circles at the edge of his vision.
It was only after he took all this in that he realized the strange weight in his lap he'd thought he'd only dreamed was still there. Startled, he looked down into the slumbering face of the little Bagon, curled up close and gripping his shirt as best it could in a fingerless hold.
It wasn't too surprising that he ended up taking it home with him.
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(It only just makes the cut number wise, and a few tags were really lacking so let me know if you need something else!)
Characters in Game: NA
Character Name: Brendan Birch
Canon/OC: Canon (Gameverse)
Age: 19
AU/Previous Game History/Etc?: NA
Appearance: Right here.
History:
The bit of canon we do know is that Brendan Birch was born to Professor Birch and his unnamed wife. He has a younger brother (also unnamed) and likes to help his father with his pokemon research. He leaves with a single pokemon and a pokedex at the same time as May and always seems to stay one step ahead of the player, mostly likely because he spends his time collecting pokemon and filling his pokedex instead of training and doing the gym challenge. He gives up being a trainer before the end of the game and goes back home to help his father with his research.
/canon.
HEADCANON GO!
Brendan, as the son of a well-known professor, most often grew up with only one parent. Professor Birch was usually too busy with his work at the lab, or away altogether in the field, and unable to spend much time at home. Brendan's mother was attentive and loving but Brendan ached too much for his father to properly enjoy it. As soon as he was old enough, he began emulating his father, both because he looked up to him and wanted to somehow gain his attention. To do this Brendan spent a lot of his time outside, usually alone because he came from a small town, playing in the dirt and examining rock and pokemon like his father did. When he was old enough, he sat himself down in front of his father's thick texts and taught himself to read the big words as best he could when he learned that bothering his mother about the definitions of every other word caused her to confiscate the books and send him outside.
It was this supposed interest in pokémon research that first gained Birch's attention, as the young Brendan had hoped it would, and he began to teach his young son about pokémon before Brendan could fully understand him. He took Brendan to his lab and sat him down with the most docile pokémon and let him explore the grass that only came up to his ankles. This attention overjoyed Brendan, but was quickly lost as he became too curious in the lab, too inclined to play where he shouldn't, and too tall to be amused by the short grass he'd once used for mock adventures. Professor Birch once again left him at home with his mother, who could not seem to match up no matter how hard she tried, now that even her attention was divided with the new baby.
Young Brendan became bitter, and soon devised another idea to regain his parents' attention. He began to study with a renewed rigor, hoping to wow his parents with how much more he knew than anyone else his age. He reopened his father's large tomes on pokémon and the science of the word and taught himself to read and understand even the hardest of words. He poured over it for hours and hours at a time, memorizing facts about type, breed, evolution, and the habitats of pokémon. He learned the names of the pokémon that existed only in fossils, and went on mock-excavations in his backyard, looking for anything that might resemble Aerodactyl, whose name he had spent days learning to pronounce.
This thirst for knowledge and interest in research gained Professor Birch's attention once more, and soon Brendan was back at Birch's lab, only this time not to play, but to learn. Not quite the attention he‘d wanted, but Brendan learned to be happy with what he got, at least happy he was able to receive more attention from his father than his younger brother did.
He grew to enjoy learning in the lab setting, just as he'd come to enjoy learning in the privacy of his room. The discovery of Aerodactyl's existence and his hunts for false fossils was soon overshadowed by a glimpse of a real one, and the knowledge of the methods of resurrection. He spent as much time with Birch's lab assistants, sometimes more, than with his father, and this disappointment further fueled him to learn and gain recognition in his father's eye. He began to yearn to follow Birch out on the field work he seemed to love so much, rather than stay put inside with his father's less-adventurous colleagues.
He began exploring his backyard again, but at first it seemed too restricting and dull. There were no wild pokémon, and no true fossils. He found stone and rock instead, at first a disappointment, but soon a discovery for Brendan in and of itself. He studied rock and plant and the world around him as best he could while his father experienced it for himself, and soon became bored when he could discover no more from, first his backyard, and then the very town of Littleroot. Brendan begged and pleaded with his father until, at the age of 9, he was finally allowed out with the professor for research.
Brendan enjoyed this new freedom extensively, and he went with his father as much as he was able, helping and learning as much as he could. He discovered a love of exploration, and soon began to sneak out by himself as far as he dared, just to catch another glimpse of some area he'd wanted to explore. It soon became apparent to Birch that Brendan would require some form of defense and greater freedom, after an unfortunate incident regarding a wild Poochyena. So, on his 10th birthday Brendan was given his first Pokémon; a Mudkip, and the freedom to explore the routes surrounding Littleroot and the close by Oldale Town alone.
Without even realizing it, Brendan‘s want for his father's attention and praise had been overshadowed by his love for pokémon and research. He began to study pokémon training because it was interesting and he had his own pokémon, not because he thought it would make his father happy. Free from his own expectations, Brendan discovered just how much he actually enjoyed helping his father, regardless of whether he was helping alongside him or not.
A few months later, Brendan met May, a girl about his age who'd just moved from the Johto region. Despite having just arrived to the region, and only having just received a pokemon, she crushed him in battle, took her single pokemon and her pokedex and went off to explore the world on her own. Inspired, Brendan decided he was done playing in the grass under his father's feet and he left home to go on a journey of his own. Rather than follow the gym challenge, Brendan explored the region and searched for the pokémon out of reach of his small hometown with a pokédex obtained from his father. It was his goal to fill it and he spent many months traveling and catching pokemon.
During his travels he ran into May a few times for the occasional battle and it was during these that he realized he wasn't cut out to be a trainer. He'd spent so much time worrying about filling his pokedex that he hadn't put enough time into his pokemon team and he paid for it in every battle. After a final loss at her hands, he decided to call it quits and head back home. It was during the return trip home, when he would watch the pokemon around him without trying to catch them that he realized research was what he loved to do, not for his father, but for himself. He returned home in higher spirits than when he'd left.
A little while later he became involved in a skirmish between Team Aqua and Team Magma at May's request and essentially helped to save the world, though he rightfully gave the credit to May for finding and releasing Raquaza and thus restoring peace to the legendary beasts.
He spent the next year and a half at home and went back to researching with his father, who was happy to take him along during all of his field work after seeing Brendan's detailed job on the pokédex. After so long on the road, life at home seemed almost dull and he filled his time eagerly by researching, tutoring his brother, and training his team. He even took time out to help May's mother, who often spent her days alone with both her husband and daughter busy with their pokemon.
Though he enjoyed his time at home, he found himself bored soon enough and at not yet 14 he repacked his bags and headed back out into the world. He spent some time in Mossdeep City, drawn to the promise of space rocks, and left with his interest in rock renewed. This brought him next to Fallarbor Town, on the other end of the region, chasing a rumor about a man digging for fossils. He learned what he could about meteorites from Professor Cozmo, realized he wouldn't find any fossils, and went on his way.
It was then that he set out on what would be the first of many trips to Meteor Falls. He spent many months away and eventually stopped returning calls or sending post cards, much to the fright of his family and friends, until he returned home, slightly worse for wear, with a broken leg and a cell phone lost to the rocks. Though he returned with little research done and a month of bed rest ahead of him, he also brought with him a young Bagon he’d broken his leg saving from the edge of a cliff.
While recuperating, he spent another year at home, where he trained his Bagon into a tough and battle-eager Salamence. A mistake on his part, perhaps, for, as the year ran out, Brendan stopped battling and training as often, and went back to doing more extensive research, eager to make a name for himself after his embarrassing failure at Meteor Falls. He made plans to return with Salamence, who Brendan felt would be a valuable companion, for the newly-evolved pokémon knew the area well.
Unfortunately, the trip was abruptly canceled when he lost control of his Salamence, and he instead spent two weeks locked in his room with his head covered in bandages and Salamence deposited into Lanette's PC. During this time, he abruptly asked May to take the pokémon off his hands, during one of her worried visits, explaining he was unfit to be its trainer. They ended up trading—Brendan’s Salamence for May's Flygon, who seemed much more eager to aid Brendan with his research than Salamence had. (Brendan has since made up with Salamence, and often calls May to ask how he’s doing.)
After May left on her newest journey to Kanto, Brendan went on his re-planned trip to Meteor Falls with some of his father's colleagues. He spent a few months researching the pokémon and their habitat before leaving. It was because of this trip that he published his first paper, and he returned on and off during that same year to add more to his findings. During this year, Brendan also did some research with his father, while on his frequent visits home. (It should also be noted that he made absolutely sure to be at home on his brother's birthday, and he stood at the entrance to Route 101, Swampert at his side, with the rest of the town as the newly turned 10-year-old left home for the first home.)
After a year of researching Meteor Falls, Brendan began to expand. He traveled throughout the entire Hoenn region again both to appease his inner adventurer once more and to research. He was published time and time again, until he himself began gaining in credibility and popularity and was no longer known merely as "Professor Birch's son". His more thorough journey took two and a half years, and he returned to Littleroot with much stronger pokémon, journals and journals of published notes, and an overall happy outlook on life.
May returned from her extensive trip not long after his own return the two of them moved into a small apartment in Petalburg City together to catch up while allowing May, and sometimes Brendan, to help out at her father's gym.
Half a year later and now, at 19, Brendan spends most of his time researching and publishing what he can from Petalburg and occasionally assisting May and Norman at the Petalburg gym.
Personality:
This social awkwardness makes Brendan seem uninviting if we're being fair, a jerk if we're being honest, because he finds himself unable to properly communicate with someone he's only just met and deems unpredictable. He is also rather unlikely to instigate conversation upon the first meeting, if only because prior experience proved how inept he is at it, though this is by no means because Brendan doesn't want to make friends, and is merely because he has a hard time doing so by himself. This has toned down a bit, however, upon befriending May and growing close to his pokémon team, and he has grown a bit more open, though he still remains mostly introverted and quiet.
Brendan is not, however, a recluse. When he does become friends with someone, he opens up considerably and tends to prove himself to be an extremely helpful, kind and considerate person. And though he could be described as shy, he oftentimes calls friends when in need of advice or a listening ear, which happens quite often when he's working on a project. In fact, he can be quite a rambler, especially when it comes to his research, and his friends are quite likely to get their ears talked off when he's been inspired or hit a slump.
With strangers he tries to be polite, unless given reason not to be or if his lack of tact shows itself, and he is professional and generally pleasant with colleagues and fellow researchers or professors. He's also more inclined to be respectful to his elders, and tends to become shy or flustered around people he admires. (read: fanboys)
Another rather important aspect of Brendan's personality is his drive. He's a hard worker by nature and can be incredibly stubborn. He's a passionate person who puts his all into the things he does and it takes a lot to get him to back down once he's set his mind to something. Unfortunately, when he does back down, he falls gracelessly and very stubbornly refuses to get back up again with nearly the same intensity. When he hits a slump he hits it hard and he often needs to be dragged back to reality. Or, at least, given an appropriate amount of time to stew in his failure and then cool down.
Abilities/Skills: Brendan is a normal human being without any spectacular superhuman abilities. He does, however, have above-average intelligence, experience surviving out in the wilderness with only a small bag of supplies, and a team of creatures under his control that can control certain elements.
Belongings: In addition to his usual clothes (ridiculous hat, gloves, shirt, shorts & pants combo, and Devon issued running shoes) Brendan will have carried with him a sling bag. In it he carries a few different classes of potions, ethers and revives, a few different types of unused pokéballs, a small assortment of rocks, a pair of glasses, and a pair of Go-Goggles. He also always has at least one notebook, an assortment of writing utensils, and, despite giving up being a trainer seriously, his pokédex.
Brendan will also have brought his pokémon team along. This consists of: Swampert, Flygon, Tropius, Metang, Crobat, and Froslass.
Samples:
3rd Person Prose Sample:
Well, not exactly nothing. He was still alone in a rocky prison with a broken leg. And no supplies as he'd somehow dropped his bag off a rather inconveniently placed cliff. He'd never been so grateful he'd decided to clip his pokeballs to his belt for the trip as he had in the aftermath of his moment of panicked terror.
So maybe he wasn't quite so alone. He'd sent Crobat off some time ago to alert the team he'd stupidly left at camp and his Swampert was settled behind him, acting like a large worried dog who couldn't seem to decide what to do with itself. Brendan leaned back against his oldest friend, sighed heavily, and closed his eyes.
When he opened them next the fire was out and Swampert had stilled at his back. There was no sign of Crobat but Brendan noticed a small pile of fruit a few paces away, stacked beside the dying embers. He reached for one without taking the time to question the mysterious gift, too hungry to really care about its origins, and it was only when the fruit was halfway to his mouth that he spotted the little Bagon. The same one he'd broken his leg saving in the first place. It was standing a small ways from his pitiful camp, timidly peering at him from behind a large boulder. There was a considerably sized fruit discarded at its feet and Brendan quickly put two and two together. He took a bite out of the offered fruit he'd been holding, eyes on Bagon, and it was only once he'd finished it and nudged Swampert awake to have some as well that the small pokemon fled.
Lack of anything better to do while awaiting his rescue, Brendan dozed off again.
He briefly awoke to the feeling of something warm settling down onto his lap. He hadn't even realized he'd been cold, but the new addition quickly reminded him. His shivering ceased and he was lulled off again.
He awoke fully to the sound of his name being called and a warm hand on his shoulder. He blearily recognized one of his father's assistants and snapped awake quite suddenly as the man called over his shoulder to a few other people that had obviously trailed behind him. Crobat flew in circles at the edge of his vision.
It was only after he took all this in that he realized the strange weight in his lap he'd thought he'd only dreamed was still there. Startled, he looked down into the slumbering face of the little Bagon, curled up close and gripping his shirt as best it could in a fingerless hold.
It wasn't too surprising that he ended up taking it home with him.
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