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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
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[2/?] Iris | Pokemon Black & White (anime) | not reserved
Character name: Iris
Character canon: post-series
Canon point: post-series
Physical Description: a short, ten year old girl with impressively large purple-tinted hair (sectioned into two fluffy pigtails, while the rest is pulled into a poofy and loose ponytail (which stores apples and baby Dragon Type Pokemon), with gold-coloured clips). She has round, full cheeks, big brown eyes, and typically wears pastel-coloured clothes and bows and other cute things, if she isn't wearing traditional dress (
somehow gets roped into playing the role of a priestess a lot) or princessy dresses.She has a slim, but also well-toned build (she grew up fighting wild Pokemon!).
About the Character: I have an old, very verbose app written (although using Japanese names, whoops) if you want something more detailed, but for this app, I'll keep it short!
Iris is a(n implicitly orphaned) ten year old girl from the Dragon Village, a reclusive village from the Unova region, although she spent much of her time in the surrounding forest, learning to fight from wild Pokemon, the girl being half-wild. The people of her village are quite traditional, favouring teaching by oral tradition, living off the land, and living in plank houses, but they are known for their deep connection with Dragon Type Pokemon. Even among the people of this village, Iris is of a rare bloodline who can connect with Dragon Type Pokemon in exceptional ways...
Iris puts on airs of being more mature than Ash (which isn't THAT hard, to be fair) and loves calling out others on their childish behaviour ("what a kid~" is a popular phrase of hers), but she can be just as childish and butts heads with Ash quite a bit early on for this reason. She also gets along with him very well for this reason too! They're very alike, impulsive, food-loving, brash, and have a strong sense of justice.
She's playful and likes to play pranks on her friends!
Iris can be ruthlessly blunt and typically says whatever's on her mind. She doesn't tend to spare feelings, particularly if she feels the person deserves it. She does this more to Ash before she genuinely likes him, but once she cares about him, it's just gentle and friendly teasing. She grew to care about him very quickly, but remained somewhat aloof for some time, dodging questions about her goals and disappearing on her own before she regularly travelled with the group.
However, she's also a very kind and nurturing character to whoever needs it, particularly to Pokemon. She's very motherly to Axew and any baby Pokemon who finds itself in her care, and she's careful and patient with troubled and frightened Pokemon, never rushing them (early on, she did have trouble keeping out of Pokemon's personal space, if she found them cute enough to tease, but she learned pretty quickly!).
Iris herself has an intense aversion to the cold. She'll be comically overdressed for even a slight chill, her hair turns super frizzy on exposure to a cold breeze, and she tends to duck behind Cilan to get away from Ice Type Pokemon (... even when he's carrying them ^^;;;). She claims the weakness is due to her connection with Dragon Type Pokemon, saying her village elder also has trouble with cold (... but she's an old woman, so...), but Ash's rival Trip doubts the logic behind it, saying she ought to be afraid of Dragon Types too, if it was just about what Types Dragons are weak to.
He offers to help her overcome her phobia, but she declines.
Iris adores cute Pokemon! She doesn't care THAT much about fashion or styling hair, but she likes wearing cute clothes. Judging by her game counterpart's Champion dress and her roles in Luke's movies, aside from pastel colours, a common theme is princesses and tennyo/heavenly maidens.
Ironically, considering the source of her powers, Iris had a lot of trouble opening up to people, owing to her difficult past, and takes time to trust, but she's a fiercely loyal friend and will stand up for anyone who's been wronged.
She's quick to anger and can have an explosive temper, moreso if the target of it harmed or endangered her friends or someone vulnerable (like a partner Pokemon!) in any way. She HATES abusive trainers.
Before even leaving her village, Iris became a strong battler, practicing with an Excadrill she had tamed after a few scuffles with him, but when she failed to recognize her partner's limits and forced him to keep battling Drayden when they were clearly outmatched, he lost confidence in her and stopped battling for her.
Knowing this, the Old Matriarch, the village elder and closest thing Iris has to family in the village, sent her away to an academy in the city, hoping the opportunity will help her hone her skills. Unfortunately, being too wild for the prim upperclass students and having difficulty adjusting to city life was too difficult for Iris and she was heavily ostracized and isolated, to the point she even stopped eating.
This turned Iris from carefree and cheerful to someone secretive and mistrustful. Given that her unique powers relied on empathy, the academy was stifling her potential, rather than helping her reach it.
Having had enough of the academy, she chose to run away, taking her mistrusftul Excadrill and the Axew who had imprinted on her in the village [and was to be the Dragon Type she was tasked with raising on her own future journey], and was very reluctant to return to her village, believing she had disappointed the elder and also Drayden, the Opelucid Gym Leader and principal of the academy.
(In reality, the Old Matriarch and Drayden both saw that a journey was better suited for Iris' development than the academy, but they kept this secret, as she had to find her own path.)
When Iris met Ash and later Cilan, she was initially still secretive and put up a strong front, mocking Ash quite viciously, before showing that she sincerely cared for him, and her mockery of his childishness and impulsiveness became fond and friendly. She would even apologize to Cilan when her teasing got him too upset.
She began to change into a more empathetic person and, eventually, learned that Excadrill's "disobedience" was due to his lack of trust for her after she blamed him for their loss. She apologized and even told him he would never have to battle again, if only he would play with and run in the fields with her like they used to... this earned his trust again.
She also gets a lazy, selfish, manipulative, apple-obsessed Emolga who likes to charm her way out of anything remotely resembling work, who also undergoes growth of her own to become someone who genuinely cares about her fellow team mates and not just filling her belly. (... the awful first impression remains for Ash's Snivy, though, so Emolga butts heads with her a LOT.)
Axew also grew from being too weak to battle to becoming quite strong under her care and as she continued to become more open to others, even bonding with a Dragon Type she believed to have been abandoned and teaching it to trust again, as well as calming a Hydreigon who turned violent following evolution (comforting it and calming it down, while it bit her and thrashed around!), her powers finally manifested when she met an angry Dragonite who had been falsely accused of a crime—she proved his innocence after receiving his memories of what really happened and was fortunately able to find a security camera recording that matched.
Iris frequently clashes with a girl named Georgia who was dedicated to defeating Dragon Type specialists, calling herself a Dragon Buster, for admittedly childish reasons (she lost once pretty badly to a Dragon Type specialist and holds a grudge, but as Georgia fully acknowledges she's a childish child—and what's wrong with that—Iris' usual barb has no effect on her)... but over time, especially after an incident where Iris was forced to work together with one of Georgia's Pokemon, Georgia was impressed by their teamwork and praised her.
When Iris finally returns to her village, she apologizes to Drayden for running away, and he gruffly acknowledges her growth. She also earns a rematch against Drayden, who she lost to with Excadrill long ago (that same battle that caused the rift between them)... this time, Iris and her Excadrill successfully beat one of Drayden's Pokemon.
Although she put up a great effort and displayed how much more in tune she is with her Pokemon's feelings, she still lost the overall match to the Dragon Master. However, he was so impressed with her, that Iris received the news that he intended for her to succeed him as Gym Leader of the Opelucid Gym!
She needed more time to think about it and opts to continue travelling with Ash a little longer before he goes back to Kanto and they pass through the Decolore islands, where she meets Gym Leader Clair, and decides to train under her in Johto. While she's there, she saves another misunderstood Dragon Type Pokemon who was causing trouble in a city, using her powers again to connect with it, and earns the newest member of her team!
Character abilities: Iris is a Dragon empath! She has empathetic powers that allow her, should she be open to understanding and sincerely forming a connection with a Dragon Type Pokemon, she can receive their memories and feelings for an instant, particularly if she can also make physical contact with them. This power is still developing and she can't always make it work—it needs clarity of mind and a sincere desire to understand.
She claims to have a sixth sense for things like direction, but it's often dead-wrong. She's much better at predicting weather.
Iris is also highly athletic and agile, easily dodging danger and finding her footing even after suddenly hopping onto a very narrow foothold. Iris is quite strong and, having grown up half-feral and taught how to fish and fight by wild Pokemon, she's stronger than one might expect! (Her strength, however, is not otherworldly and she would still be fairly easily overpowered by a non-superpowered, but strong adult).
Iris is skilled at making herbal remedies, often carrying a pestle and mortar to crush herbs. Iris is also good at foraging for fruits and berries to eat.
For each of her specific Pokemon partners' abilities...
Axew is capable of a well-controlled and a truly devastating Dragon Rage attack that forms the glowing-blue aura of a dragon's head which shoots out and causes damage to opponents. His Scratch ability is also very useful, as Iris has used it to free herself, Cilan, and Professor Juniper from metal clasps that were used to bind them by Team Plasma. Outrage causes Axew's eyes to glow red and he will attack nearly-endlessly with his claws, but upon wearing himself out, his eyes will remain in that state for some time and he won't be aware of anything. It causes confusion to Axew himself and leaves him vulnerable. Giga Impact allows him to launch himself at his opponent with great force, aided by extra energy that makes the impact much, much stronger.
Like Axew, Emolga's moveset is mixed. She has one thing she does VERY well and a bunch of others she's so-so about, and then some other things she's really good at but just can't be bothered to put effort into them all the time. She's attractive and she knows it! Her Attract is irresistable to male Pokemon. She's also so charming and cute, she wins over humans rather easily too (as long as they're not paying enough attention to realize her intentions!).
She is so exceptionally lazy that Volt Switch (zap the opponent, go back in your pokeball and send someone else out) is something she likes to use, not as a last resort, but simply because she wants to throw battles onto other Pokemon. xD;;;;
She's an elegant flier (er, glider?) and has Static as an innate ability. What this means is if she doesn't like you? You touch her and there's a chance you could end up momentarily paralyzed. It's a very slim chance, but it could happen!
She is capable of using Discharge (she becomes covered in electricity and will fire off bolts at her opponent, giving them a good shock) and Hidden Power (she'll fire off balls of glowing green energy at her opponent... strong attack, but it also requires time to build up before using, leaving an opening if the opponent is fast).
Dragonite is a powerhouse. Tough as nails. He can fly, punch with electricity (ThunderPunch), breathe fire (Flamethrower), breathe ice (Ice Beam), become enveloped in blue energy forming a giant dragon's silhouette and slam into opponents (Dragon Rush), and generally beat stuff up with brute strength.
Iris' Excadrill can Dig, do Drill Run (brings his claws up to make a drill-like shape and spin rapidly while curled in, making a lot of damage while sustaining little himself, Metal Claw (claws glow, turn metallic, and do extra damage when he slashes at things), and finally Focus Blast (concentrate energy into a ball to fling at its opponent).
Iris has a new baby Dragon Type in Gible. He has no sense of direction, tends to freak out, and bite everything.
Inventory: pestle and mortar, three apples, pokeballs, a pink backpack.