[A] Selenity Joyce
Oct 8, 2018 13:10:46 GMT -8
Post by selenity on Oct 8, 2018 13:10:46 GMT -8
Trainer Profile
Character Name: Selenity Joyce
Nickname: Sel, Joyful Joyce, Selena, Sels
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Trainer Class: Beauty
Height: 5’3
Weight: 130 lbs
Hair Color & Style: Selenity’s hair is naturally a shade of midnight black in color. At the current slightly past the waist length it is more wavy in style. The shorter in length it gets the more curly it gets. Naturally forming cute ringlets when it is above the shoulder in cut. Selenity hates it when her hair is in tight little ringlets so she much prefers this past the waist length. Due to the thickness of her hair it has caused her to keep her hair in either a Beliaean Braid (French Braid) or a Cecilian Gibson, named after her mother’s style. (A Half Gibson). Once every three months she also heads to a salon to have her hair layered and redyed. She must also brush her hair out every evening before bed at the least. If not every morning and every evening. If she doesn’t want her hair to knot up while she sleeps she must keep it in a pair of braids. On really hot days, or days she needs her hair completely out of the way, she will do her hair up in two ponytails and turn those into braids. That done, she will twist the braid around the base and use another hair tie to keep it in place and pin it securely down. Her hair is a trait her mother proudly proclaims is from her. Cecilia Hayes proudly insists that Selenity's hair is her crowning glory.
Eyes: Selenity has eyes that can be described as expressive and soulful. With deep set, large, cobalt blue eyes that often hold a spark of intelligence or mirth. The deep blue color and accompanying long lashes are traits she inherited from her father. When troubled her father and close friends would sometimes joke it was so easy to tell because it reminded them of the ocean during a storm. Elders that were locals of Aurmouth city said that despite her mother not being native, that showed that she was claimed by the city. Truly one of their own. Her expressive eyes also makes it hard for her to lie or hide strong feelings. Minor sadness, upset, she is able to hide under a sunny smile.
Clothing/Accessories:
Traveling Outfit: Selenity has three pairs of flared, boot cut jeans that she layers with camisole (with laced edge), v neck shirts, and sometimes a sweater. Normally paired with either steel toed hiking boots or black gym shoes similar in model to New Balance shoes. Both shoes have a high arch support insoles.
Around Town Outfit: Selenity will normally wear one of her jeans or a pair of leggings and a more renaissance styled long flowing shirt. A pair of kitten heels in basic black are also in her bag for this to dress it up. In warmer climates she will sometimes go for more bohemian skirt and shirt combo.
Outerwear: Selenity has a corseted with a removable lining trench coat to wear for the cooler months. For colder climates with heavy snowfall a more insulated coat can be found. For Rain her umbrella also has a rain parka attached with a little roll up bag.
With so many clothing options, Selenity will make use of pokemon centers and iron her clothes until she can fold them into very small sizes and then seal them in transporting bags to cut down the size and space they take up in her pack.
Other Accessories: A belt made up of multiple pouches in black leather. These often store potions and other small items, as well as spots for up to six pokeballs. A small cosmetic bag with make up. Body spray, floral deodorant, and another small cosmetic bag with jewelry, mostly pendants and earrings. A white parasol with off white lace detailing is often used during warm weather.
General Appearance:
Selenity’s natural expression is an easy going smile with kind eyes set in a heart shaped face. At first glance one might guess her to be around 16 to 18 years of age depending on her mood. If they see her walking, one would first note the grace and subtle confidence she eludes. Her posture is perfect and if she catches you watching her, a charismatic smile is often offered accompanied with a small wave. When more serious she is sometimes even guessed to be a little older. Her build is that of a slender young woman with more of a woman’s body already. The early bloomer seeming to carry most of her weight in her bust and hips, with a little baby fat still apparent in her face. Her frame is more medium build with more of her height in her torso than her legs. Her calves are defined, swimmer’s legs, given way to her love for water. She was a member of the Swim Club.
Recently, Selenity has dyed her midnight black hair to be more of a silvery white color. This was done as one part rebellion, one part attempting to find her own identity. The result offering her a bit of a more doll like appearance almost. Her alabaster pale skin is kept so through skin care products as well as waterproof sunscreen. At times when the weather is nice and the sun at it’s highest point a parasol will also be used. The overall effect combined with her clothing choices offers a look/impression of a sweet doll like young woman.[/spoiler]
Hometown: Capital City: Batiere, Beliae |&| Aurmouth City, South Godai.
Personality:
Selenity, for the most part, is a carefree young lady. There are four pillars by which she lives her life: Appreciation, Patience, Compassion, and Courage. She strives to appreciate all that is around her. Have patience for her self and others, although she tends to forget this aspect when someone is in danger. Selenity truly does try to put herself in other's shoes and tends to be sensitive to others plight. Courage is something she still grapples with but she views it as incredibly important. Though many would call her courageous, citing her willingness to aid others when they are in trouble no matter the cost to herself.
There have been times when something she's done without a thought has been attributed to one of these four things. She tends to smile and accept the compliment gracefully even if internally she doubts that she deserves the praise. Selenity tends to put out a front of a collected and confidant young woman and it does ring true to some degree. Though much of what she's done has been learned behavior. Appreciation is a value that clearly defines her mother, with most of her early years being spent with her mother and maternal grandparents it was one of the first few things she tried to emulate. Oddly enough, her maternal grandmother would often encourage compassion yet it was not a word that one would say embodied her. Still, to Selenity, it was something her grandmother valued and wanting to be valued by her grandmother the young girl sought to emulate it.
Compassion was a difficult one for Selenity to stay holding onto. The culture of serial Pagentry was not one that tended to breed that trait. One upping and trickery to put it kindly was the learned behavior that would be most likely. Despite this and thanks to a few good examples and role models within that world, Selenity was able to start making progress in truly adapting compassion as a part of herself genuinely. Largely in part thanks to a workshop on empathy one of her pageants had the participants do in an effort to combat a rise in bullying between contestants. Selenity learned a few useful things from that workshop. Journaling became an important structure she utilized when things weren't going as well as she'd like. As well as when things were going better than expected. Selenity has recently come to the realization that she's never gone out of her way to be kind to someone. Her compassion has always happened because of little things that have fallen in her path, like opening the door for someone, healing an injured pokemon with a potion that was in front of her. She's made a vow to actively look for and perform three acts of kindness a day.
Selenity is slow to anger unless one of her triggers versus buttons are being pushed. She has a thin skin and is sensitive to the fact that she is half Beliaen and Half Godaian. It did not help for her that she spent her primary school years in Batiere and then summers in Aurmouth City. Only to switch just before she was to enter Secondary School. Light-hearted teasing she can usually brush away and laugh with others, acting confidant and carefree about it. It's only if someone truly presses or tries to imply that she is inferior or doesn't really belong that she's likely to retaliate either in anger and name calling or bursting into tears depending upon the context and circumstance. One thing she can never seem to abide is someone actively hurting another in her presence, be it verbal or physical. As a child she may have ignored it if it was a pokemon. Since starting to work in her father's breeder's center she's had a shift in attitude and has become rather protective of pokemon. Perhaps a bit overly so in an effort to make contrition for standing by when such things happened before.
Selenity's view of right and wrong are rather simple. As long as the law isn't getting broken and no one is getting hurt things are good. She hasn't had much brought to her in life yet to consider grey areas. Regarding pokemon, she has gone from treating them like an accessory throughout most of her young life to in her adolescent life viewing them as pets and treasured companions. This is very much largely in part to her Parents for this change. Her initial idea of pokemon as an accessory to an outfit came from her Maternal Grandmother and what she'd learned and seen from fellow pageant girls.
As a child Selenity came to think that it was her job to make other people smile and because she looked up to her Maternal Grandmother so much, took just about everything she said as gospel truth. Especially when it seemed to go in hand with other things those she looked up to said. Like inspiring others to be their best selves. In her childlike logic, she always wanted to be her best self for Grandmama so what grandmama said about being the inspiration to others clearly meant that was what she needed to do to be a great woman. While the revelation that if others weren’t smiling around her meant that something wasn’t enough herself bothered her she wasn’t going to give up and was going to be the best woman that she could be.
Finding Beauty in others was just another layer to her in being the inspiration for others to find their best self. When she failed at finding this in others it would sometimes cause her to act rather dejected. Sometimes to the point that she denied herself things for failing. As she aged, she would find that she took this rather personally if someone close to her stayed vapid or shallow. Especially pageant friends as they were with her for so much of the time. If she couldn’t inspire them, it had to be a personal failing with her right?
Being patient was something that was stressed to her repeatedly. So much so, that it was to the point that she knew her elder brother’s biggest failing was a lack of patience before she’d ever met him. At family gatherings for holidays it was even pointed out that she was the patience to his impatience and that the two tempered each other. Granted, some of her reckless bravery may have been gleamed from her brother as well. She didn’t get to see him often, pretty much only at holidays when he wasn’t pursuing his own pokemon goals, but when she did see him well… adventure was always bound to happen. Despite their age difference and lack of time spent together like most siblings the two are very close. Though he is one of the few people to get under her calm persona and get her to yell out truths she’d rather hide. Like the fact that she is jealous of her elder brother for getting to have their parents physically together for his childhood while she had to split up her time like they were divorced.
History:
Selenity has one older sibling who is a good ten years older than her. Basically by the time she was born her elder brother was already off on his own journeys more often than not. She was born to a Pokemon Researcher named Cecilia Hayes and an up and coming pokemon Doctor named Daniel Joyce. Her Mother was from a family with noble blood yet empty pockets and her father had been a wealthy man in his own right. While the marriage may have been encouraged by Selenity's Grandparents it was pursued happily by her parents. A fond story she was told that her Father had whisked her mother away the night before the wedding and the pair had eloped together. They'd wanted to make it clear that they weren't marrying each other out of duty but out of love.
Daniel Joyce Jr. was born a short ten months after the wedding. As the newlyweds were still in the early stages of their careers the pair settled near Cadence in Central Godain while both attended Godain State University. Daniel Jr was able to enjoy the full attention of both parents for his entire childhood. Something his younger sister would come to resent slightly.
When a two year old Selenity moved with her Mother to her Maternal Grandparents she was a carefree and oblivious child. She was doted on by her grandparents and their home was filled with love and adoration. Her maternal grandparents were not able to travel much so only had gotten to have occasional visits with her elder brother. In her Grandmother Selenity found a consistent and constant playmate. Often Selenity would be brought around to see her Grandmother's friends as a younger girl. With her mother burying her head in research, Grandmama Hayes spent much of her time entering her granddaughter in little photo contests and pairing her with some of Grandma's pokemon. To Selenity she was simply playing dress up.
A seven year old Selenity Belmont heard these words from her Grandmother while getting ready for a pageant. This would be Selenity’s first time thinking something about her wasn’t enough. People smiled around her all the time but she couldn’t think of a time where she inspired others to make other people smile. She really wanted to be a Great Woman like Grandmother. So it was her job to become that inspiration. From this moment on Selenity sought to push herself into being the kindest person she could be. Remembering something her father had told her, about how heroines and heroes were so great because they didn’t stop where normal people were and combining that with her mother’s that everyone is the hero or heroine of their own life style birthed her drive to be kind beyond everything else. This may also be what drives her to seek out an apology so quickly sometimes when she realizes she’s wrong or has possibly unintentionally hurt someone. Selenity also began primary school at this age though as a home schooled option. Her Grandparents were her teachers and her days were quickly structured with classes for both pageantry and educational. Her mother would occasionally steal her away for a day or so for little day trips associated with whatever pokemon research she was doing at the time. As much as Selenity loved her mother and her grandparents she found herself longing for summer to see her father. Though when summer came she found herself wishing for her Mother and her maternal grandparents as well. Grandpa and Grandma Joyce were nice and she loved her Father.
She was truly a Daddy's girl but she couldn't understand why her parents were hardly ever in the same place. Granted, they did make sure to come and see each other every two to three months but she never could process how that was okay. When her brother came home to visit from his pursuits he would often go into stories about his childhood with him, mom, and Dad. This often caused Selenity to pout and listen enviously. Still that would be pushed to the side and before long she'd be begging her older brother, to go and do something with her. Be it showing her his newest pokemon or playing a game. For some reason he always indulged her no matter what it was. Though, at the times when he was grumpy or not wanting to put up with his little sister, he'd yell at her instead and start a row. Their rows almost always ended in the pair of them screaming at each other. Daniel blaming Selenity for his mother going away to research in Beliae and Selenity proclaiming at least he got both of their parents together for 13 years. Daniel had opted to do his initial pokemon journey as soon as he'd turned 13 and had done a home schooled course while journeying for his secondary education. Going this route had caused both his journey and his secondary education to take far longer than normal. Though by the time Selenity had come to live with her father for most of the year, Daniel had managed to get into Godain State University like their parents and was studying to be a Pokemon Doctor like their father.
Selenity loves to explore the world around her. For a world that is filled with so much beauty and elegance one can not help but to feel awe and in wonderment. This phrase came from her mother. A time when Selenity was allowed to go with her to a dig site. The feel of the brush in her hand, it had felt so heavy when she was trying to make sure to only very lightly brush the sand and dirt away from the delicate fossil she was revealing. Her mother had been there right beside her.
This alone time with her mother was rare and hearing the pride and conviction in her mother’s voice. Selenity knew that what her mother was imparting to her was important to her. Find beauty and Elegance in everything around you. That soon became her mantra. Scenery and landscape, that was easy for her to find. People she knew that was easy to do to. Strangers were hard for her at first especially if they were being grumpy. It was really hard for her to find beauty or elegance in others when they were like that. Even more so when they were being mean. Selenity honestly didn’t understand why one would lash out to others when they were upset. It simply made no sense to her, didn’t they feel better when they did something nice for someone? Didn’t they like hearing good words from others? Still her mother had said everyone had treasure inside of them and in her childlike logic this prompted her to solve it the only way she knew how. With a gesture of kindness. It was not uncommon for Selenity to approach someone who looked sad and give them a hug with a few words.
A smile and a wave given the petite child would often leave the adult with either a confused look or a smile on their face. Rarely was an adult upset but when they were they would normally address the adult nearest her and remark that they should keep their kid away from strangers unless they want her to get kidnapped. Her family didn’t help as the usual response was a chuckle and a remark about how she meant well and that they would do so. For Selenity this simply reinforced to her that she should be doing this though the danger that someone might kidnap her did have her tugging on the nearest adult and informing them she was going to try and cheer someone up. Taking off before they could tell her not to. At times she could even hear other adults telling her Grandparents or Mother that they had a delightfully sweet kid as she went to do her good deed.
When Selenity was thirteen years of age and on the heels of one of her temper tantrums, where she would be polite and answer questions when asked and interact when she had to with them but otherwise give them the silent treatment and come up with ways to avoid them if she could, her Grandfather Hayes called her into his office. He was incidentally the recipient of her little tantrum and it had been going on for about a week. Patting the chair next to him and giving her a gaze that was stern despite his kindly eyes before motioning for her to come join him and speak with him. After getting her troubles out of her, Grandfather Hayes launched into a story about her elder brother. Just listening and taking in the story. Giggling every so often when the inflection in her grandfather’s tone hinted that he thought what her brother had done had been silly. After the story her Grandfather sent her to get ready for dinner and promised her that he would be at her recital yet reiterated that next time before she got all upset about something important to her to talk to the person and have a little patience. Teasing her not to take after Daniel Jr. For instant gratification.
Selenity enjoyed learning. It came as no surprise that she took well to her educational pursuits. She would begin going to an actual secondary school upon arriving in Godai after submitting her homeschooling paperwork for primary and taking a placement test. Still, to cover basis, she would spend part of her summer break in 'summer school' so to speak before entering into secondary school that fall. Back in Batiere, she'd had quite a few friends from the pageant circle. In an effort to have something familiar it would be an event she would compete in from time to time though not as constant as it had been back in Batiere. Still, Selenity would feel most at home with these girls, many of them were after all, daughters of colleagues of her father's. Or, like her, been in pageants their whole life. Selenity did extremely well in school. She found most of her subjects straight forward. Given the discipline she'd already had to establish to do pageants back in Batiere made the environment feel a little more relaxed here. Idle hands was not something she wanted to keep though. The swim club was joined and at her father's urging more pokemon electives were taken in addition to her duties to helping out at the Pokemon Breeding Center.
Bravery, stupidity, or naivete. A sixteen year old Selenity was unsure which she was being. Still in front of her all she saw were a pair of stuck up boys, around her age, with pokemon picking on younger boys that couldn’t have been more than eleven years old. Her body was moving before she’d even fully surveyed the situation. The elder boy’s Charmeleon almost didn’t stop it’s fire attack in time. Still, helping those that needed help was something that she couldn’t help herself from doing. Though standing there with her arms outstretched and legs spread shoulder with apart did feel a little silly. ‘Kindness, one must remember kindness…’ that thought would have a smile upon her lips as she spoke flattering and admonishing the pair at the same time.
That had caused one of the elder boys to smirk at her before announcing that he was bored and going to go find something challenging to do. His companion scoffing and muttering something about girls butting in where they shouldn’t. Selenity turned to check on the younger kids and their pokemon, pulling out a roll of bandage and her emergency first aid kit for pokemon. The kids, as it had turned out, only had minor scrapes and a couple of potions later with treats had their pokemon right as rain to. The kids had been out with pets and weren’t trainers like she thought but hoped to be. Once she’d seen the kids on their way and out of the alley with a caution to not take the back ways next time, she’d gone on her way. Holding herself together until she’d gotten home where she then proceeded straight to her father’s office to turn in her kit. He’d taken one look at her and simply said, “Spill.”
Selenity, with tears streaming even as she ranted about the boys told her father the entire thing. He’d replaced the potions in the emergency kit nodding while she talked. When she pronounced herself done he pulled her in for a hug as he spoke. He told her to be proud of who she was. A shared chuckle leaving them both when he teased her about looking before she leapt into danger. He reminded her to remain kind and to be brave still and that those that weren't kind would have karma to deal with.
Selenity felt reassured with their talk. Even though her father didn’t give her his full physical attention until after she’d finished ranting she knew he’d listened to her. She pouted about letting karma take care of them and then looked sheepish. That hadn’t been a very kind thought and even though she had been kind she privately felt like they hadn’t deserved it. Did being kind count just to be kind? Did it matter if she thought they deserved it or not? Father didn’t hug people often had she worried him by rushing in like that? Was she going to get herself hurt bad one of these days by rushing in like she did? Maybe she shouldn’t be but then again he did tell her she had done good by standing up for those kids. Well… if Daddy said it was good then she’d done good but maybe there was a little bit to work on.
Selenity graduated her Secondary education within the top ranks of her class. Deciding she wanted to take a pokemon journey, and with her trainer's license she had high hopes. She definitely wanted to go to college, and had her eye on Godai State university. Just she wasn't sure what she wanted to do quite yet. She'd done well in Choir in school, had gotten high marks in Training electives and had found she rather enjoyed her father's breeding center. She wasn't passionate about being a pokemon doctor, not like her father or her elder brother were. Perhaps the journey would help her to figure it out. She hoped so.
Edit: Split up App into two Posts for easier reference later.
Edit: Bolded Ember, Edits to Personality/History, Key item edits done.
Edit: Removed Dialogue from History.
Edit: Updated Personality/History
Edit: Put Personality section revamped.
Edit: Picked Houndour Ability, split things up so they were easier to read and renamed spoiler tags to each section, Fixed Hometown Formatting.
Edit: Cleaned it up so it was easier to read in chunks.
Edit Update: Father is a Pokemon Doctor who started a secondary business as a Pokemon Breeder when Selenity went into Secondary School.
OOC Edit: I feel like somethings missing but I may have looked to long at it. Please do let me know if I need to fix or add anything. I took a guess at the stats so I'm unsure if I did that correctly.
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4x Pokéball 
2x Burn Heal
2x Potion
PokéDex
Journal
Holocaster
900 spent. Selenity purchased 2 Burn Heals and 2 Potions while preparing for her impending Journey. 
