"We weren't so different, once upon a time. What's changed?"
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INTRODUCTIONS
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⌘Name: Kristina Quinn
⌘Age: 16
⌘Birth Date: 5/12
⌘Gender: Female
⌘Height: 5'1"
⌘Weight: 94 lb
⌘Eye Color: Brown
⌘Hair Color: Black
⌘Deformities: Only the afore-mentioned tattoo on the back of her left hand.
⌘Usual Wear: Kristina most often travels in a strapless turquoise top with a contrasting light red skirt and tennis shoes, with a pink hair ribbon and matching belt. She also wears a single fingerless glove over her left hand, covering a prismatic sigil tattoo on the back of her hand. In colder weather, underneath these she will also put on a thin black sweater and sweatpants, and occasionally put on a dark turquoise hoodie when called for.
⌘Years of Training with Pokemon: Two
⌘Occupation: Psychic/Trainer
⌘Personality: Above and beyond anything else, Kristina holds a number of deep-seated beliefs concerning the relationship between man and Pokemon that allow her a curious sense of mysticism when she gets into it. Other than that, however, she is a kind-hearted and determined girl constantly looking for any way she can to make the world a happier place (especially if doing so also brings about a closer bond between people and Pokemon). Even in a confrontation, she makes it evident that she cares deeply for people and Pokemon alike, to the point of being dreadfully naive and occasionally illogical with her approach to numerous situations. Humble to a fault, Kristina often looks to others - be they other people or Pokemon - for support and friendships, while often dismissing her own contribution to the betterment of society as 'something anyone would have done'.
More recently, Kristina has developed a somewhat different side as well that tends to surface more and more in the face of hostility. While at all times she continues to care about and for those around her - be they person or Pokemon - in the face of adversity she may at times don a sense of mysticism that contrasts her normally bright and humble manner, essentially resulting in barring her compassion from being shown and instead expressing her care as a sense of sorrow.
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SOME HISTORY
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⌘Family: Kristina has no siblings to speak of, and her mother and father (Dolores and Christian, respectively) live in Cerulean City.
⌘Friends: Erik Rysen - Kristina's childhood friend, also introduced her to Sylvera
Sylvera - her first Pokemon (Ralts). Virtually inseparable.
⌘Enemies: No
⌘Romantic Interest(s): No
⌘Life Story: Kristina was raised in a quiet life in Cerulean City, under the persistent and watchful care of her parents. While in her youth she had dreams of adventure and grandeur like anyone else, her parents convinced her to keep safe rather than to put herself in any danger. Through sharing her dreams, she met a young man by the name of Erik Rysen, the son of the Daycare runners south of the city. Incidentally, Erik was raised in the family business, and was quite a competent breeder in his own right - and so introduced Kristina to a sprightly and unique Ralts that she immediately took into her care. Giving her the name 'Sylvera', the two quickly bonded and faced their otherwise peaceful life side-by-side, to the inclusion of Sylvera trying to teach Kristina the basics of telekinesis, with - admittedly - very little success.
Kristina continued as such for about five years before tragedy struck. Four days following her fifteenth birthday, a mob of Team Rocket members struck out on an operation within Cerulean City that quickly called the police into action. The results were catastrophic; many of the officers' loyal Pokemon were outright murdered, and although Kristina and Sylvera struggled to aid the city's law enforcement, she found she had neither the sheer power nor experience to handle the hardened Rocket masses. Haunted by not only the horrific display but by her own failure to change the outcome, Kristina vowed to find a way to turn things around for the better - ideally to show Team Rocket a better way of life, but she was not opposed to stamping them out at that point either.
As it was, her vigilante streak in Kanto proved to be short-lived, as it wasn't long after she set out that Team Rocket disbanded as a whole. Still, rather than turn for home again, she decided to pack her bags and see the world, for more than the slight glimpse of it that she had seen already. However, she soon came to realize that in order to travel safely, she would need to bolster herself to better face against the numerous hostile challenges that would quite certainly face her. As it was, she set out to train, and before too long she found herself in company she deemed adequate at least for travel. With her new companions and with an eye set on seeing the world, she set off on a transregional cruise originally headed for Hoenn.
Incidentally, while the cruise offered Kristina and her Pokemon companions ample time to grow as a team, and she found herself struggling more often than not to overcome a single challenge at a time, the experience brought her and her Pokemon together much more quickly than she had anticipated. Ever the sort to keep at least one (usually Sylvera) out and alongside her at all times, a particular newscast that Sylvera spotted in passing put her well on high alert once its rumors had begun to circulate around the ship. Whispers of a gang bringing terror to Kalos a third of the way around the world quickly put Kristina on edge, and with a little digging she discovered that the actions of this 'Team Void' were entirely beyond her capacity to accept. Haunted both by Team Rocket's actions that had so impacted her life and newly-alert of this newer threat's actions, she arranged another transport as soon as she arrived.
Again on the road to more dire adventure, Kristina reflected back on her original days just outside of Cerulean, and decided it best to - given that she was dealing with entirely dangerous individuals - conceal her identity. Falling back on something barely resembling her name, she adopted the nickname 'Crystal' in an effort to keep herself from being tied to her friends and family back home. Finally arriving in Shalour City, Kristina immediately set herself off in search of any trace of a lead she could find.
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A LITTLE DEEPER
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⌘Hopes and Dreams: Kristina wants nothing more than to bear witness to a world where people and Pokemon coexist in perfect harmony without the need of any influence.
⌘Worst Nightmare: Kristina's worst nightmare she often finds in fellow trainers; to exist in a world wherein Pokemon live in utter disharmony with the people around them (found most often in more elite trainers who express Pokemon as 'having their uses').
⌘Likes: Making friends - any excuse Kristina can find to turn a situation into a potential friendship, she will take.
Pokemon - truth be told, Kristina likes Pokemon more than she tends to like people.
⌘Dislikes: Ghosts - haunted as she is by the catastrophe in Cerulean City that sparked her drive to begin her own journey, that night she saw plenty of ghosts of Pokemon, and as horrified as she is by the prospects of death, she finds them particularly difficult to face.
Pokemon abuse - this might speak for itself for just about anyone, but with Kristina being such a believer in the harmony of man and Pokemon, this may as well go double for her.
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Sirens Cry
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