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[chosenofthunder]

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Drag
Contact: tigerscope1994 / DragonScope

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Touya
Age: 14
Canon: Pokemon Black/White Games (White version)
Canon Point: Post-game of B/W, before B/W 2
Character Information:

Touya is a boy who’s lived in Nuvema Town for most of his life, growing up with his childhood friends, Cheren and Bianca. The three of them becoming trainers in the same day, they all received a starter Pokémon and a Pokédex from Professor Juniper. Touya chose to start his adventure with the Oshawott. In the very first battles with his childhood friends, Touya’s little Oshawott defeated Bianca’s Tepig, but lost to Cheren’s Snivy. None of the young Pokemon had a type advantage in their movesets at the time.

Despite struggling to beat Cilan of the Striaton gym for his first badge, then Lenora for the second, it didn’t discourage Touya from his goals. Recognizing that he needed to improve himself as a trainer, he worked closely with the team he had at the time. After the victory against Lenora, his winning streak ceased to end.

As well as encountering and battling said childhood friends again at different later points during his journey, Touya (along with most of Unova) comes into conflict with Team Plasma and their ‘king’, a young man known as N, because of their supposed goal to drive the lives of humans and Pokémon apart from each other. Touya’s first major involvement against Team Plasma’s plans was his assistance in finding the grunts that stole the skull of a fossilized dragon from Nacrene City’s museum (which was given up easily, since they found it had no connection to what they were searching for).

Touya and his friends would later find out that Team Plasma’s goal was to locate the Light and Dark Stones, ancient relics containing the sealed forms of Unova’s dragons of legend, Reshiram and Zekrom. The Light Stone was discovered to be atop Dragonspiral Pillar. Released from its form in the stone, N bonded with Reshiram. As for the Dark Stone? Though its original resting place was the Ruins Castle, it was already in good hands at Nacrene City’s museum. The stone was then given to Touya for safekeeping, since it would still be where Team Plasma would least expect to find it.

Ultimately, Touya was indeed chosen by Zekrom when, in the presence of its white counterpart, the dragon awakened from the Dark Stone. After proving himself worthy by capturing the black dragon within a Pokeball, they clashed against N and Reshiram. After N’s defeat... Ghetsis, the real mastermind of Team Plasma, revealed his true plan: to become the sole master of Pokemon and rule the world, starting with Unova. After his exhausted team received their heroic second wind, Touya battled Ghetsis, and won.

With the threat of Team Plasma seemingly neutralized for good with Ghetsis’s arrest, Touya would later challenge the Elite Four and earn a place in the Unova Pokemon League’s Hall of Fame.

However, eventually Touya received the news from an agent codenamed “Looker” that Team Plasma’s “Shadow Triad” broke Ghetsis out of police custody and that the other ‘sages’ of Team Plasma were scattered about the region in hiding. Touya agreed to help keep a lookout for them, since his travels weren’t over just yet.

But one thing was clear to Touya... it would only be a matter of time until Unova would once again be under peril. And if Team Plasma rose again, it might need both heroes of the legendary Unova dragons to save it.


Personality:
Like most protagonists that began their journey, Touya starts off naive and optimistic, but who wouldn't be when it's an opportunity to explore the world you live in, meet all kinds of new people and Pokemon, and realize what your dream in life is?

Headstrong and brave, Touya never backs down from doing what's right, no matter the danger. When a few members of Team Plasma snatched away a little girl's Pokemon, it was Touya and Cheren that managed to track them down and get it back. When the same happened to Bianca in Castelia City, Touya was quick to help when he found out.

Touya wears his heart on his sleeve, so it's easy to tell when he's feeling bright and cheerful, when he's depressed, and when something leaves him utterly baffled. Sometimes he can be a bit forgetful and need pieces of a puzzle or explanation, like when he was trying to solve Lenora's gym challenge.

Though Touya holds a lot of cleverness and skill as a trainer, his aptitude in that regard is restricted to Pokemon battles, painstakingly honed through extended trial and error and learning from his losses. He’s also quick to judge on appearances, yet also tries to think the best of people he meets, such as when he met N. This can be good or bad depending on who he meets and their true intentions, because one could very easily take advantage of his optimism. However, if someone does seem overly suspicious or unnerving to be around, Touya may hesitate. But even that won't stop him from being anything less than kind to everyone he meets. Even rivals can develop their relationship into something more.

Touya also doesn't see strength as just raw power or the ability to crush the weak under their heel. The bonds between trainer and Pokemon is the driving force for bringing out one's full potential. Therefore, inherent power and unwavering willpower goes hand in hand. It takes time to hit your limits and more to push past them. Touya would know, he made it to the Pokemon League after all! Being such a loving trainer, he's allowed things like letting his starter sleep with him at night and having his Joltik ride and sleep in his hair before it eventually evolved into a Galvantula. And of course, though a few members of his roster have been rotated out over the course of his journey, Touya always took the time to bring out the very best in each member.

When it comes to Pokemon battles, Touya never backs down from a challenge. Win or lose, he makes sure to always give his all. It wasn't just the feat of capturing it that impressed Zekrom, the dragon sensed the strength of his ideals, which was to always do what he knew was right and to never waver whenever he stood by his friends.

Conflict in the Pokemon world tends to form a clear division between black and white moralities. Touya is still young and unaware of how more realistic worlds operate compared to the near-utopian nature of his home. Grayer moralities already tend to throw Touya for a loop, like N’s involvement with Team Plasma, because it’s hard for him to see past the “black and white” of a situation. Fighting to protect those one sees as friends or allies is something that Touya can understand, but not when those that are being protected have been seen doing terrible things.

For example, Team Plasma had been seen harassing or assaulting people and Pokemon left and right, despite their cries of “liberating” Pokemon from humans for some greater good. So as a whole, why would someone side with them? N himself was right that every day, there’s a Pokemon in the world that’s being hurt and abused for no reason by humans, but it didn’t justify trying to drive all people and Pokemon apart.

Through and through, Touya is immensely loyal to those he considers a friend. He'll stick by their side and support them whenever there's trouble. For both the friends he holds dear and his Pokemon team, he'll always be there to pick them up when they're feeling down, to celebrate alongside them when they're happy, and care for them unconditionally.


5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Loyal
- Compassionate
- Reckless
- Courageous
- Optimistic
- Determined
- Naive
- Enthusiastic
- Absentminded

Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits!
Opt-Outs: Nymph, Werebear, Arachne, Troll, Minotaur

Roleplay Sample:

Test Drive Sample

Prose Sample: (As Merperson)

Lying on the floor of a cool lake, perfectly camouflaged beneath the water's surface, was Touya. The changes brought on by the fog included blue scales, the heavy turtle carapace upon his back, the "plastron" serving as armor protecting the sides of his scaled belly, and a mask also made up of the same bony keratin. Immersion into the water had transformed his legs into short reptilian fins. On any other day, Touya might've been amused by the Tirtouga-like feet he had right now. And that back on land, he looked so much like Reef, his Carracosta from back home.

But in this moment, he simply tensed his claws, impatiently waiting for a victim. Yet at the same time, Touya hoped that no one would come. Regular food wasn't satisfying the emptiness that mercilessly gnawed at his insides... But killing people was wrong, it was obvious. The reasons why it has to be done don't matter, because it doesn't make taking a human life any more right. So why couldn't he will himself to back out of this plan and leave?

Then he heard a splash and caught the sight of human feet. His sharp beak opened wide on instinct. There was still a bit more waiting to do since he didn't have a lure for humans, so maybe they wouldn't even get close enough for him to strike. However, fortunately for Touya's hunger for energy, those feet kept stepping forward.

Touya yelled at himself to stop as his body lunged forward to bite...

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Personality Expansion:

From the very start of the game, we see a clear show of Touya's absentmindedness in the form of carelessness, when he decides to hold their first Pokemon battles within his own bedroom. Cheren objects, being the most logical of the trio. However, Touya still agrees at Bianca's insistence.

Much later, arriving on Route 2 after leaving Accumula Town, Touya's mother surprises him from behind and gifts to him the Running Shoes. Using the official English script for the American version, absentmindedness may be hereditary.

However, most of Touya's personality can be found in the translation of the Japanese script instead. Rather than comment on her own room (or wherever she had stashed them), Touya's mother mentions finding the shoes in Touya's room, adding that she should clean it more often, implying that he loses things in his room a lot of the time.

After the unsuccessful search for the Dark Stone in the Relic Castle, Prof. Juniper calls Touya on his X-Transceiver, insisting to him strongly that he needed to get to Nacrene City's museum (which turned out to be because the Dark Stone was there all along).
This could imply a prior history of Touya putting things off, or letting tasks slip from his mind; the professor was firm in that he needed to get there right away and to get going in that instant. As important as the situation was, she normally doesn't need to push him so hard into doing something.

Another example of his absentminded nature can be found in certain dialogue options triggered by standard 'TALK TO EVERYONE' strategies. While speaking to one of the scientists in the Poke Transfer Lab, portions of the dialogue are read “BLAH BLAH BLAH”, indicating that Touya has gotten distracted, tuned them out, then realized it and tried to listen again. ...Multiple times. And to no success.



Touya (while not as badly as Bianca) sometimes gets a bit side-tracked with his pokemon journey in the grand scheme of things. Nimbasa City's "Battle Subway" is a great way to increase battle experience. "Battle points" that are earned can also be exchanged for valuable items such as TMs (disks that teach moves to Pokemon they may not learn otherwise) and vitamins (also specifically for Pokemon). This particular fact ties in Touya's naivete with his enthusiasm.

Naivete can also be seen in how he charges repeatedly after Team Plasma and rather literally walks into many of the scenarios that he does as well; he's blind to the danger, inexperienced, unfamiliar with the risks that could otherwise exist.

Though Touya always works hard to bring out the best in himself and his Pokemon team, he isn't necessarily concerned with gaining power and tends to be oblivious to his accomplishments.

While on the one hand that could be someone who is humble, it's more that he doesn't register that he's achieved so much since he first left for his journey. However, this isn't because he sees everything he's done as insignificant, Touya most likely just doesn't realize that what he's done would be immensely difficult for others to replicate.


All the way from his answers to the many questions about the bond between Pokemon and humans, coupled with his dedication to face N on this matter, we can see that N 'choosing' him fits hand in hand with the optimism that Touya has for the future; his unyielding stance on following 'Ideals' over 'Truth'. Where Cheren and even Bianca worry for the future, Touya seems to blindly go where things (though technically the game's storyline) happen to take him, without any real care or caution.

Touya’s ideals and optimism reflect on his Pokemon to that end. Many times in the game it is commented that his Pokemon are doing well and that he's come remarkably far despite the amount of time that passes between encounters. His hopes for the future drive his reasons for clashing against N's own opinions as well-a contagious optimism that inspires others in the game to follow their own dreams.