[GOLD]*

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GOLD --- The story of a SIXTEEN year old MALE with TRAINER aspirations

---Appearance

Like many sixteen-year-old males, Gold is really cautious about his physical appearance, perhaps due to puberty and the young women that come along during this early phase of his life. Nonetheless, Gold keeps himself up extremely well and he has to---his mother would never let him live it down if she saw him looking only halfway decent. Similar to his mother, Gold has creamy tan skin perhaps form the continuous play in the outside sun when he was a young boy. Also like his mother, Gold has a unique mixture of cloud gray and navy blue eyes that blend together perfectly when one looks at them in a good enough light. His eyes are very inviting and friendly, showing no signs of a dark nature. Similar to his eyes, Gold's hair is an obvious mixture of a dark gray and navy blue color. He keeps his neck-length hair rather spiky, yet tidy.

Gold has an extensive set of his journey clothes, but the constant is the black and gold striped baseball cap that rests backwards upon his head. A gift from his rarely seen father, this logo-less cap is always on Gold's head and Gold always has a good few strands of hair coming out form the front (the back facing the front) of the cap. On his upper body, Gold sports a hoodie with a red sweater portion and the actual hood of the hoodie being all white. The waistline of the hoodie is white while the cuffs of the hoodie are black. In a convenient holster of his left cuff is a slot for his PokeGear and Gold also has a black shirt underneath the wear of his hoodie. For the lower body, Gold wears long black pants-like shorts that are rolled up to his upper shins. The sides of the rolled up portion each have thick white stripes. Running shoes on his feet, Gold's favorite and useful footwear are stylishly all white with a few red portions at the toe and on the upper tongue.

To carry his things around with him on his journey, Gold carries a silver back, which once had a sparkly aura about it. Now, the bag is a dingy gray with the glitter effect disappearing over time. The backpack only has one strap, but it still strong enough to carry the numerous items that Gold has acquired over the course of his journey.

---Personality

First and foremost, Gold is definitely a people person, being capable of communicating with anyone he will come across over the course of his life. Gold likes to bring smiles, laughter, and happiness to people and Pokemon alike. In addition, being with a lot of people and Pokemon has caused Gold to have a deep understanding of what it means to care and love someone after developing a close relationship with them. When a person gains his trust, Gold can be as loyal as the loyalest Growlithe. But when crossed, it is very difficult and challenging to gain the trust of Gold back. When angered, Gold can be quite cruel and careless, even to the point of battling the person with his Pokemon or perhaps putting up his dukes and just battling it out the old fashioned, hand-to-hand combat way.

Because he is so used to winning just about any competition (no matter how big or minuscule the importance is), Gold gives off an arrogant and cocky vibe. In his talk and his walk, Gold has intense swagger. He believes in the old saying "anything is possible" and he lives by it everyday. The things that happened in this world rarely surprise him, but they do not fail to amaze him. Gold loves to live life on the wild side and is willing to try anything once, twice, three times, just to ensure that he enjoyed his experience. Perhaps this is why people tend to find Gold such an entertaining and funny person. At times, however, Gold can be unintentionally mean and demeaning but this nature is unbeknown to him because no one has ever questioned why he does things he consistently does.

Gold is straight and has never had a relationship. It is not that he has not thought of having a girlfriend, but he feels that now is not the time to have a girlfriend due to his journey. But secretly, Gold is searching for that special girl who accepts him despite his apparent flaws. Someone that will laugh at all his jokes, make him happier, and keep him happy and satisfied as long as they were together. Gold thinks he will find that someone soon over the course of his journey when a girl proves to him that she really wants to be with him. Until then, Gold is still searching.

---Miscellaneous

*Over the course of his journey, Gold has acquired seven out of eight Johto badges. He's currently taking a break from his badge record and is now in training.

*Gold's favorite activities consist of swimming, running, and gambling at the Game Corners. Gold has earned an extensive number of coins during his days gambling and is a frequent visitor of Goldenrod.

*Losing is one of Gold's fears because he does not take it very well and can get somewhat depressed after major losses.

*He was born on February 14th.

*His home in New Bark Town only consist of his mother and the numerous Pokemon that live with her. Gold has a few companion Pokemon living back home but his main six Pokemon are currently on him and are in training.

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Pokemon Team

JACK --- The MALE fiery TYPHLOSION

Jack was Gold's starter Pokemon. At an earlier age, Jack was a shy and unsure Pokemon. However, with time, Jack developed into a confident and fiery Pokemon after Gold's intense training. Because he was Gold's first Pokemon, Jack shares a unique bond with his Trainer and is closest to Gold out of all of the Pokemon on his team. Jack's signature attack is Flamethrower.

ABE --- The MALE goofy AIPOM

Gold's first official capture belongs to Abe, his Aipom. Abe was capture while Jack was inside of the Ilex Forest, using a new move, Headbutt, on trees. After a few minutes of headbutting, the Aipom attacked both Gold and Jack, but Jack (at the time a Quilava) easily downed the weaker Pokemon. Jack is extremely goofy and comedic at times, but is a troublesome foe in battle. Abe's signature attack is Swift.

QUEEN --- The FEMALE royal Politoed

Gold captured Queen as a Poliwag and she eventually evolved into a Politoed after being exposed to a King's Rock located in Cianwood. After evolving, she did battle with her father, Chuck's Poliwrath, and won. The two Pokemon share a close relationship and she shares the desire of being a physical attacker despite not being a Poliwrath. She acts very sophisticated. Queen's signature attack is Ice Punch.

LUNA --- The FEMALE quiet UMBREON

Gold received Luna as a thank you from the PC mastermind, Bill. Once an Eevee, Luna evolved into an Umbreon after Gold battled with her at night. Happy with Gold's training, the newly evolved Umbreon received a statistical boost, but kept her quiet and shy nature. Luna's signature attack is Faint Attack.

X --- The MALE powerful SCIZOR

Gold captured X as a Scyther in the Goldenrod City Park's Bug Catching Contest. X's capture led to Gold winning the contest and also winning a fabulous prize. X has always been on of Gold's favorite Pokemon to use in battle, notable for taking down Bugsy's Scyther in an Azalea Gym rematch. X evolved into Scyther after Gold found a Steel Coat in the Olivine Lighthouse. X's signature attack is Metal Claw.

WOODY --- The MALE infamous SUDOWOODO

Woody is perhaps Gold's most famous capture. The Sudowoodo was blocking the path to Violet City as well as Ecruteak City. After Gold defeated Whitney and received a watering pail, Woody attack Gold. After his capture, Woody became on of Gold's most powerful Pokemon and was a key player in taking down Morty's Gengar. Woody's signature attack is Mimic.

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The Reserves

BATT --- The MALE narcisstic Gligar

Batt was a gift from Gold's mother to him. She captured him on a trip to Cherrygrove City near a rocky route that led to the north (Blackthorn). Batt is very fast Pokemon who loves to show off his brilliant moves in battle and would much rather look at itself in the mirror rather than spend his time doing other things. Batt's signature attack is Slash.

SPIKE --- The MALE rare PICHU

Gold met Spike in the Ilex Forest by accident. As Gold and his team were headed to Goldenrod City for the first time, Gold spotted this Spiky Eared Pichu playing inside of an ancient shrine, now known as to be dedicated to the Legendary Pokemon, Celebi. Nonetheless, Gold easily captured this little guy and immediately sent it home to his mother as a family pet. Spike's signature move is Nasty Plot.

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[[GOLD]*]

---Name: Xander (Just call me TK)

---MSN: [e-mail]

---RP Sample:

Hiro began walking down the tortured and bulldozed path known as Route 1, without caution and full of hope. This route was very unattractive to Hiro and was in dire need of restoration. But that would take years and years of hundreds of people with green thumbs to do this. Fortunately for Hiro, he was not one to care that deeply about the environment. It appeared as though an extension of a town was supposed to be built here, but the workers got lazy and left half of a disappeared forest and the other half a standard forest.

Hiro began to walk in the forest portion of the route and immediately felt the need to allow Chimchar out of his Pokeball so that the two could get to know each other. Thus, Hiro took out his Pokeball, enlarging it and tossed it forward off the cold dirt-filled Earth.

"I choose you, Chimchar!"

The ball burst open as the Fire Monkey Pokemon appeared out of the Pokeball and a burst of bright light before the light dimmed down completely. Chimchar looked around curiously as it walked beside Hiro, looking up at its Trainer. Hiro looked down at Chimchar smilingly weakly.

"Hey Chimchar, I'm Hiro, your Trainer. We've got a lot to accomplish in this lifetime and I... hey where the hell are you going!?"

It appeared that Hiro's 'speech' did not faze the little chimp as Chimchar began scrambling way ahead of Hiro down the path. As soon as it came up to quite a massive tree, Chimchar took the liberty of clambering up the huge plant and rested on a thick branch that extended out to another tree. Curious even more, Chimchar leaped back and forth from tree limb to tree limb, causing slight disruptions as tree leaves shook and broke off of branches and collapsed to the forest floor.

Hiro looked up at tree, about to climb it, but he first shouted to Chimchar, trying to get the Pokemon down, "Come on Chimchar! Enough Aipom-ing around, we've got to get going, man!"

When Chimchar did not respond, Hiro heaved a great sigh and took out his Pokeball, attempting to return the Starter Pokemon. Hiro shot the crimson return beam into the air, but was unable to get it in contact with Chimchar.

"This sucks," Hiro pouted"Guess I better stop climbing, huh."

(A bit shorter than what I normally do, but it's from another RP site, so... blah.)