Eli T. Cage

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Name: Eli Tiberius Cage.
Sex: Male.
Date of Birth: August 12.
Age: 35 years old.
Occupation: Detective, Pokemon Trainer.
Hometown: Saffron City.
Height/Weight: 6'02" 190lbs
Personality: Distant, broken, critical, intelligent, lonely with an obsessive drive to destroy Team Rocket.
Appearance: Shaggy gray and auburn hair, unshaven, green eyes. Generally dressed in a three-piece suit and tie with a heavy trench coat in case of weather.

Background: Up until a few years ago, Eli T. Cage was considered a brilliant detective, running cases on Team Rocket in particular. Following a lead for possible ties between Silph Co. and Team Galactic, he traveled to Sinnoh to investigate. There he met the woman he would spend the rest of his life with. After their marriage, and much debate over the issue, Eli convinced his reluctant bride to move to Saffron with him, rather than stay in the more peaceful Sinnoh region. Driven by a hero complex to take down Team Rocket, the young detective and husband could not see the danger he was putting his spouse into.

Months later, the couple were happily blessed with their first child, a daughter they named Naomi Sorella Cage. For a baby shower gift, the grandparents gifted the new parents with an Pokemon egg, containing a Elekid, meant to grow with the new baby and be a companion Pokemon for the girl since birth. Although owning his own Pokemon, Eli was nothing by means of a Trainer, but the idea of his little girl getting such an early start on a life with Pokemon was thrilling.

Sadly, this fairy tale life was short lived. Due to the nature of his work, pissing off powerful criminals by sticking his nose in their business, a hit was placed on his head. Thinking he was occupying the building, his house was set afire, his young family suffocating within. His own Pokemon were with him at the time, and only his daughter's freshly-hatched Elekid managed to escape the flames. Since he has changed, becoming obsessed with vengeance, destroyed by the loss of his wife and child. He spends most of his time trying to pose as a Trainer, in hopes of attracting Team Rocket's attention so that he may finally bring them to justice.

Pokemon Team
Most of his team is older than the rest owned by the usual young trainer, and it shows. All are marked with scars, bodies made leaner through hard living, poor diet and depression. Even their eyes are more hollow and distant, nearly as jaded as their trainer. But all are loyal to one another to the bitter end, holding on to the only thing they have left: each other.

Name: Dreton.
Species: Golduck.
Gender: Male.
Personality: The oldest member of the party, and Eli's companion since boyhood. Raised from a humble Psyduck, there is no one on this earth who knows Eli better than this Pokemon. The death of the family came as strong as a blow to Dreton as to his master, but he copes with the loss with humor and a strong front. The show-off of the party, Dreton is the most comedic. He masks pain with humor, and hopes one day this attitude will eventually rub off on his trainer. Most of all, he hopes to impress Naomi with his prowess, but so far the Electabuzz has ignored his advances.
Appearance: Concerned with his physical appearance, Dreton spends considerable time trying to make himself physically stronger, which is a unique trait for a psychic type Pokemon. He is lean, covered in wiry muscle that is exaggerated by his sleek feathers. While of normal coloration for Golduck's, he sports a unique crack running up the left side of his beak, making him appear rugged.

Name: Fallon.
Species: Flaaffy.
Gender: Female.
Personality: Docile, timid and meek, Fallon is a fragile soul among a troupe with hearts of black coal. She is too lighthearted of a soul to deal with the jaded nature of her owner, but is loyal to him nonetheless, knowing how he depends on her for the emotional support. Fallon is reclusive and shy, hardly prone to violence and detesting it in all forms. Yet she always fights for Eli when asked, understanding his need to get this grief out of his system, even if by means she does not approve.
Appearance: Fallon is an awkward collection of proportions somehow made into something graceful. She moves without effort, but her gait is also slow and simply so unnatural. Like all Flaaffy she's stuck somewhere between being a quadruped and biped, and somehow makes due with the limbs she's been granted. Rather than having to tend to the wool around her neck and head, the curly hairs have been corded into dreadlocks that fall around her in a messy heap. For her species she is thin, and by all rights should be unappealing to the onlooker, but this pink sheep carries with her a haunting beauty like no other.

Name: Naomi.
Species: Electabuzz.
Gender: Female.
Personality: Perhaps inappropriately, Eli has named his daughter's Elekid after her, and even treats her like his child at times. Technically a "wild" Pokemon, Naomi has no Pokeball and is free to leave at her leisure, but is desperate for the appreciation and respect from her master. She is not content with being treated as a replacement daughter, and hopes to one day earn Eli's respect as a partner--his Pokemon, and not an unhealthy delusion that she is somehow the last tie to his daughter that he has.
Appearance: Typical appearance for an Electabuzz. She is thinner than most, and her fur a little more scruffy. What she lacks in body fat she makes up for in toned sinewy flesh that gives her incredible, wiry strength. She is the youngest of the group, and it shows, especially when compared to her aged companions. Her right eye has been damaged beyond repair after the Cage household was set aflame, and the scarred surface is covered in an old red rag that serves as a makeshift eye patch.

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Contact Information
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Sample Post: If Team Rocket planned on making a comeback, Slowpoke Well would be a nice place for it, explaining exactly why Eli was here. He sat at the edge of the well beside a small campfire, basking in the predawn light while musing over his bitter "cowboy" coffee. The ground was wet from the night before, and the morning rank with the stench of the forest. In the distance he could hear the calls of wild Pokemon, as well as the echoed yawns from the pink hippos that were beginning to stir beneath the earth.

With him, as always, was the blind Lucario, standing vigil at the edge of the trees. The Pokemon, Naomi, flicked her tail agitatedly, feeling restless and exposed in the open. Eli had been content to watch her pace to and fro, jerking her head and listening intently to every new sound the distant wilds had to offer. Only after shaking water from his trench coat did he decide to go join her, and see if there was anything to be done to set her mind at ease. "What's got you so worked up, Omi?"

Turning toward her master, her sightless eyes stared right through him before the pair exchanged a knowing nod, and the "meld" began. Accessing his aura, and in turn allowing Eli to access hers, Trainer and Pokemon were joined in thought and feeling. He could feel her anxiety as his own, and envisioned her visions even as her imagination conjured them. In his mind's eye he saw bandits bursting from the trees to catch them by surprise and steal their possessions. Eli just cracked a smile in response.

"That's the whole idea. You should calm down and sit, haven't rested all night." He knew what she was feeling, even though the melding of their auras had already ended: he hadn't slept either. Naomi just frowned after the older man as he shuffled back to the fire, and she hesitantly followed after him. The Lucario did not so much as sit, but merely stood vigil in the warmth of the flames as Eli stirred the coals within, and rubbed his hands through his graying auburn hair and whiskers, muttering how he needed a shave and a haircut some time soon.