Post by ANTHONY KING on Jan 4, 2012 18:00:31 GMT -6
[/i] unheard of, they did it in a pitying, ‘this is what you get for marrying a foreigner’ way.
ANTHONYdominicKING
"Everything’s in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past, though
Remember when you used to be rascal?"NAME:: Anthony Dominic King
AGE:: Twenty-two
GENDER:: Male [transgendered]
CLASS:: Coordinator
BIRTH SEASON:: Autumn
ORIENTATION:: HeterosexualPOSITIVE TRAITS::
- Hard-working – if there’s a task at hand that needs completing, he’ll set aside the required time and toil away at it until it’s out of the way. Instead of shrinking away from a challenge, he embraces it, eager to puzzle out the most efficient and rewarding way to complete it. When the task is something he genuinely enjoys – fine-tuning a song or a contest piece, for example – his dedication may take a turn to ‘obsessive;’ more than once he’s spent hours basking in the glow of his computer fiddling with a song or forcing his pokémon to practice a move until it’s as close to perfect as possible.
- Organized – the townhouse that Anthony and his soulmate occupy might not look organized – to be honest, it looks more like a perilous and haphazard nest of chaos – but everything does have a particular place that it’s supposed to occupy, right down to the angle it sits at, and Anthony experiences physical discomfort if each item isn’t just as it should be. Contrasting with the apparent chaos of the rest of his home, his desk is a shrine occupied only by his computer and his current project; unrelated papers, books, and folders are banished to shelves and drawers. If one ignores the apparent chaos that engulfs his home, they may notice that every inch of the townhouse is kept fastidiously clean.
- Intellectual – he was brought up to see the pursuit of knowledge as virtuous, and this virtue survived and flourished under the rigors of school; while he’s out of the education system, finding and assimilating knowledge is something he still takes great pleasure in. He particularly enjoys researching pokémon evolution, geography, history, and pokémon contest tactics, though any factoid he absorbs is one that he’ll repeat later in a superior tone.
- Focused – when he’s absorbed in the intricacies of his most recent project, it would take nothing less than a natural disaster or some other sort of catastrophe to sway his attention; if it’s absolutely necessary, his soulmate might be able to redirect his efforts, but otherwise his attention-span seems unlimited.
- Observant – Anthony is very detail-oriented and thus is quick to notice every aspect of a given scene or situation; this trait combined with his excellent memory makes him a reliable and unbiased witness. If a scene is too chaotic for him to absorb every last detail, he’ll recall best the sounds and textures.
- Musically-inclined – he approaches most other aspects of life logically and almost cynically, but music – regardless of whether or not it’s a genre he enjoys – is something he has genuine respect for, and when he’s sitting at a piano or manipulating a song in some software he’s most at peace with himself and the world when involved in the creation or recitation of song.
NEGATIVE TRAITS::
- Distant – It’s not that he’s socially awkward – he can manage well enough in a social setting if he has to – but, as he doesn’t relate to others very well, he tends to hold people at a distance instead of forming meaningful relationships.
- Superstitious – Many are amused to find that Anthony, who typically presents himself as logical, believes in age-old adages that most consider old wives’ tales. (Arceus forbid a Houndour crosses his path.) He also prescribes great significance to numbers and believes that palindromic numbers are fortuitous.
- Suspicious – Some people are naturally trusting or believe in the good of humanity. Anthony isn’t one of those people. Occasionally his logic will derail and he’ll have a debilitating bout of paranoia (and it’ll take his soulmate quite some time to talk him down from it), but most of the time he’s simply distrusting of strangers. If he’s been acquainted with someone for long enough or if their reputation precedes them, he’ll eventually decide that they don’t have any ill will towards him, but it’ll take a few months at least for him to warm up to someone.
- Stubborn – Once his mind is made up about something, it’s unlikely that he’ll ever change it. Even if it becomes clear that he’s made the wrong decision and that there’ll be adverse consequences if he doesn’t change, he’ll stand by the choices he’s made, largely because he refuses to admit that he was wrong about something.
- Pedantic – He’s overly obsessed with details or, more importantly, getting every detail correct. Anthony will follow rules and procedures he deems necessary to the letter even if it causes him great inconvenience, and occasionally he’ll become aggravated if those around him don’t do the same.
- Antagonizing – As a child, he was quite mischievous and would sometimes spend hours setting up elaborate pranks with his soulmate. While he outgrew this particular hobby, he instead evolved into the real-life equivalent of a troll. If he takes to disliking someone (or if he’s bored silly) and he knows what will agitate them, he’ll go out of his way to really tick them off and he’ll get quite a kick out of it.
GOALS::
- To become financially independent from his parents – he hates that, like a spoiled rich boy
which he totally is, he’s reliant on the family’s coffers to fuel his lifestyle, and thus tries to live frugally (by his standards). The man who relies on himself is the man who chooses his own destiny, right? Unfortunately, being independent involves holding a job, and being subordinate to someone is difficult.- To attend a school of higher learning – he might enjoy being a coordinator, but he knows that he’s only an average one (if that), and it’s not something that he can see himself making a career out of.
And if he plans to eventually inherit the family company, he’d best know how to handle it.
FEARS::
- Heights – it’s not that he had a terrible experience with a flying-type pokémon as a child or anything of that nature, and he’s perfectly fine with ascending skyscrapers as long as he doesn’t have to look out any windows. He was just born with a fear of being too far off the ground, and just the sensation of being at high altitudes is enough to nauseate him.
- the supernatural – ghosts, goblins, monsters, and that sort of drivel sound foolish enough during the day, but at night he makes an effort to avoid any mention or thought of paranormal threats. When someone breaks out the Ouija boards, he’s out the door. With such an aversion to things that go bump in the night, it should come as no surprise that Anthony strongly dislikes ghost- and dark-type pokémon.
- mazes – he likes to know where all of the exits are, thank you.
STORY::
While he was born in Aniferna, most of Anthony’s childhood was spent on their estate on outskirts of Goldenrod City in the distant land of Johto. Early in life he didn’t get along particularly well with other children, as because he found their lack of soulmates mindboggling; no wonder the people seemed lonely all the time. They didn’t have a best friend with them at all time. At the private school he attended in Goldenrod he eventually fell in with a group of boys who were willing to overlook the ‘soulmate’ that he wouldn’t battle with (and the stigma of being friends with a girl). When not tagging along after his friends, his primary school years were spent pillaging their library for interesting tidbits of information or exploring the Ilex Forest with his soulmate. More than a few times the two snuck out at night to camp in the Forest or visit the Shrine at its heart, though during most of these nighttime adventures Anthony clung to his mammalian soulmate, frightened by the monsters that were surely lurking in the shadows. His soulmate tolerated this clinginess and would gnash her teeth, pretending to be fierce enough to chase off imaginary threats.
In the tenth year of his life, he was inadvertently introduced to music -- one of the few things he considers sacred in the world – by his paternal grandparents. His mother was pregnant with his little brother and again insisted on returning to her homeland, and with his father too busy with business to stay home he was sent to live with his father’s parents for a month. They were a stuffy couple, elderly, set in their ways, and not as tolerant as his father of his quirks; ‘soulmate’ was a foreign concept to them, and the being that had been constant companion since the moment he was born was treated like an ordinary pokémon (and a common one at that), something that infuriated both Anthony and the creature in question. Part of his grandparents’ routine was attending a concert hall one evening a month to listen to European classical music, and they half-dragged him along – any grandchild of theirs was going to have an appreciation of culture, regardless of what backwater region their mother was from. All that was expected from him was that he sit still and keep quiet for about two hours; while he went expecting to hate the entire experience, he found himself entranced for the duration of the entire show. When he was reunited with his parents at the end of the month, he demanded that they hire him a piano teacher. Anthony had very little interest in baby brother Simon or the baby’s Spearow hatchling; while Arceus had no doubt had some deep reasoning behind representing Simon’s soul as a Spearow, Anthony’s interpretation of it was shallow and unintentionally accurate: both the baby and the soulmate were cute enough when all they did was eat, sleep, and chirp, but once the pinfeathers came in and they flew into action, they were hellions.
Throughout his teenage years he proved to be a dedicated pianist, though his teacher’s Chatot never stopped harassing his soulmate, and he showed even less interest in socializing with others his age than he had before. With the onset of puberty, he was less comfortable with how he was perceived by others; while in childhood his short haircut and choice in clothing had usually been enough to disguise his biological gender from strangers, puberty trumped such attempts. At fifteen, he made a more concerted effort to appear physically male, his mother expressed both concern and incredulity. Eventually, his mother’s less-than-subtle-suggestions that he ‘let that hair grow out’ or ‘wear a nice skirt every once and a while’ became less uncomfortable and more annoying; when his father was home from business, he sat both of them down in his father’s office and bluntly told them that their biologically female child was their son and that the name ‘Anthony’ was preferable. His father accepted this with surprising ease: from what little he’d seen of his child after the boy hit puberty, he’d half-expected ‘Amelia’ to be homosexual, and while he was incorrect with that assumption, that his progeny was transgendered wasn’t too difficult a pill to swallow after already preparing for some sort of revelation. His mother, on the other hand, was stunned and offended; it took more than a year to rebuild that bridge (though most of the effort was reluctantly put forth by his soulmate; Anthony, to be perfectly honest, could care less. His mother had been as domineering and bullish as the pokémon by her side throughout his entire life, and if something irritated her, well, all the better).
For his sixteenth birthday, his father took him to the Safari Zone in Kanto for a week; while he’d previously shown little interest in becoming a trainer or breeder, the experience sparked a permanent interest in pokemon. He caught a Rhydon and an Exeggcute, though he quickly evolved the latter into an Exeggutor; after training with these new companions he challenged the Goldenrod City gym and earned a badge. He and his soulmate were pleased enough with their achievement, but they found battling too barbaric for their tastes. He had no aspirations to ‘become the greatest trainer in the region,’ and he eventually passed the two pokemon onto his friends from primary school, attention returning to music. While his interest in piano and classical music didn’t entirely fade, his interest shifted to electronic music: synthesizers, dubstep, house, and the like. It was an entirely unfamiliar form of music, and while most of the artists were based in Isshu he found himself trying to emulate them anyway. He’d spend long hours at night (to his soulmate’s chagrin, who would rather be sleeping, snuggled up to her human, than hunched over the computer) attempting to create such music of his own, and a few of his creations were passable. As time passed, Goldenrod City seemed dull and confining, and he began to travel with his father, acting as a personal assistant of sorts. Most of the tasks that his father dealt with were tasks that should have been handled by underlings, but he was a micromanager; he personally dealt with acquiring new mines in foreign regions, oil rigs in the ocean, new markets for their goods, and waving away the concerns of environmentalists. Anthony would research obscure region laws, record meetings with other businesses they hoped to assimilate into their own empire, transcribe letters dictated him by his father, whatever odd tasks that needed completed. While in Mossdeep City of the Hoenn region, enjoying a day of leisure while his father negotiated behind closed doors, he eavesdropped on a crowd babbling about ‘pokemon contests,’ and, curiosity piqued, he followed them to the Contest Hall of the city. As Mossdeep hosted the grandest contests in the region, he was impressed by what he saw; there was the fierceness of battle without the savageness, infused with a sort of elegance instead.
Working as his father’s assistant allowed him to travel to regions he would otherwise never see, but it was monotonous and less than fulfilling. Additionally, being surrounded by thousands of humans who carried their souls inside them was starting to grate on his nerves; it had been years since he’d visited family in Aniferna, and he felt like an outsider, surrounded by people whose souls were invisible. While he’d traveled extensively within Johto, Kanto, and Hoenn, he’d never spent much time in the place of his birth, and thus he made the decision to migrate to his maternal homeland – Virenya City to be specific, as he had family in that area. The region was like a utopia to him at first; he enjoyed the independence that permanently leaving Johto afforded him (though, with his hand firmly locked in the family coffers, he didn’t experience the financial hardship that moving away from home typically caused), and after his soulmate’s prompting they began to enter pokemon contests, emulating the coordinators they saw at Mossdeep. It was something they both enjoyed, but if they had a talent for it, they hadn’t discovered it yet; at least being a registered coordinator allowed you to watch contests for free. Rumors of “Unifi” and trainers-without-souls disturbed both he and his soulmate, but instead of returning home or taking some other action they decided to ignore any mention of the group. Sticking your head in the sand when something displeases you always works.
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CLAIM::
[b]Devils Devel Concept[/b] -- [b]Kagami[/b] – Anthony King
OOC NAME:: Kitsune[/blockquote][/blockquote]
EXPERIENCE::Eight or nine years.
HOW DID YOU FIND US?:: Through an advertisement on Pokemon Noctis, I think.
