Silver @ Nowhere

OOC Information;
Name; Eq
Personal Journal; dreamofpast
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Other Characters; N/A


IC Information;
Character Name; Silver
Canon; Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver
Canon Point; Post-Game
Age; 13-14

House; Thor
Power; Strength

Personality;
Cool and aloof describes Silver within one phrase. Really, he's not much of a people person and more of a loner who tends to spend his time chilling in the corner whenever a social gathering happens. In addition to that, get him to talk, and you might find him really the gruff type who cares only for power in a world filled to the brim with cute creatures. Then again, if one's persistent enough to pry his shell open, they might find that maybe he's not all dark and cool as he actually looks.

First off, it's not that he doesn't have manners at all! It's just that his concept of manners is pretty much nonexistent due to his rough upbringing in the wild after his father abandoned him. Considering that he spent a certain length of time being a loner as well as giving harsh training sessions to his Pokemon, it was not really surprising for him to lack the proper skillset required to be polite. His manner of speech started to change after being defeated by Lance, exemplified by his more mellow tone as well as actually offering words of support before the player challenged the E4. Though that doesn't necessarily make him less of a social recluse, as he's still a bit awkward with interacting with strangers.

To him, the concept of family is nothing he's familiar with. Considering his father abandoned him after being defeated by Red a long time ago, which prompted him to decide that he'll be the strongest person all by himself rather than repeating the mistakes of his father. Of course, while this drive to be stronger alone died off at the end of the game, he still hated his father and would not want anything to do with him, which really showed when he helped the player defeat the newly resurrected Team Rocket, albeit grudgingly. Long story short, Silver's concept of a family had been shattered ever since three years ago, and for now, there's no telling how he'd feel about this subject at a later time.

He first viewed the player as a naive idiot who believed that Pokemon trainers care for their Pokemon all while aiming for the top. In fact, he's made it really clear that he despised people similar to the player characters as they sickened him with all their trust and happiness. His belief in power within solitude and training was what got him to this point after all. As he slowly changed over his journey, he began to view the player as a worthy rival, and in fact, as more time passed, respect was found for the other trainer, and from that point on both of them became genuine rival as opposed to being in a relationship that involved hatred from both sides.

At the beginning, Silver believed that power and brute force can solve any and all problems in front of him. After all, with enough force, you can break things into pieces, and that's why everyone wants it, right? Which essentially means that he believes that "might makes right", no matter what. He wasn't above training his Pokemon to the brink of exhaustion just so they can learn to use their more powerful abilities, at the expense of their trust to him. He didn't care about just how much the concept of trust is important until he was defeated by Lance, who, alongside his constant defeat at the hands of players finally made him realize that trust is another factor for a trainer to have in order to become a Pokemon Master.

Currently, Silver treats his Pokemon with care, oftentimes respecting their wishes, albeit with a sort of strange look most of the time he does so, as he's still not used to being nice to his Pokemon. Nevertheless, he's getting to the point where he feels comfortable with his Pokemon doing their actions out of their own will rather than having complete reign over their every action. Slowly but surely, a bond was formed with his team, and it really showed by the time the player meets him for the second time at the Indigo Plateau, as his Golbat evolved into a Crobat. This fact is important as a Golbat could only evolve when it's really happy, meaning that Silver had indeed turned over a new leaf.

Samples;
Network Sample; Here!

Log Sample;
There was just a small period of silence as he registered what just happened. To be honest, while power was still something he sought after, albeit in a different way, one does not just react to the revelation of their own super strength with a straight face. Rather, he just looked on at the small... hole in the wall he created with his own... punch with a somewhat perplexed face, while his Crobat just hovered above him, mouth turned into a perfect "o" in tandem with its trainer's surprise.

He had meant to just punch the wall in frustration from all the confusion that arised from his arrival here, and yet here he was looking at it, which affirmed what the strange maid told him, of how he received the blessing of strength, and how said blessing actually enabled him to do that much damage to a wall. At the very least, he could find solace that it was just a piece of concrete, rather than someone's face. Otherwise he'd be into even more trouble than before, and that'd be really messy. He did notice that this revelation was enough for him to realize that he was not exactly in Johto anymore, though.

"Tch."

Turning around, he walked away from the damaged wall, all while cracking his knuckles as his Crobat followed him as he emerged from the alleyway he was just lurking in. It was as clear as a day: He needed to find someone who knew a lot of information regarding this strange place. Asgard, that was its name, wasn't it? Whatever, that's not really important right now to him. What's important to him at this period of time would be to find the location of a certain idiot he heard over the bracelet just a mere few minutes before he punched the wall.

"That idiot better know what's going on, or he's going to know just how it feels to be paste on concrete."