Trainer OC intro post!
Probably not gonna talk about her a ton unless people are interested, but here she is!! She's also shipped with Corbeau because I'm normal about him
🌿 Name: Niamh "Cheese" Dwyer 🌿 Age: 26 🌿 Pronouns: She/Her 🌿 Sexuality: Demisexual, Biromantic 🌿 Home region: Galar, been traveling since she was about 20
🌿 Team: 🍃 Cream the Meganium 🪷 Junnu the Gardevoir ⚔️ Chaas the Aegislash 🥐 Daigo the Dragonite ☄️ Gelato the Toxtricity (Lowkey) 🖤 Vla the Krookodile
🌿 Personality: Niamh is pretty relaxed and friendly, always happy to help the people she cares about. Kind of oblivious to the fact that she can be a bit scary at times, it's probably not intentional, but she's a skilled trainer with a powerful team. Seems very sweet, but once you get close to her, she becomes much more sarcastic and snarky.
🌿 Other info: She's about 5'6! She's traveled several regions, and starts a new team in each one! So bad at keeping track of time, there are at least 14 alarms set on her phone at any given time, they do not help. She wasn't particularly scared of Corbeau when she first met him, she'd been traveling for several years at this point and had met "his type" before, she was more worried for friends/Urbain and any consequences they might face. Niamh grew more endeared to Corbeau as she got to know him more, from "another guy trying to extort people I care about" to "Aw he's a sweet guy under everything :)"
🌿 Extra: She's called Cheese because I started naming all my trainers that starting in my play through of Moon, I've only just bothered making her into an actual OC in ZA. All of her pokemon are named after dairy products (I use the Wikipedia list of dairy products for names)
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fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper
update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen
Here's a picture of her, by the way
And her super supportive wife
The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.
The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck
Thinking about how Grisham and Griselle are probably siblings (fraternal twins, even), but refer to each other as comrades. Team members, not family members.
They remember growing up together, getting a pair of Litleo from the same litter as their first Pokemon, clutching their parents' hands for the last time before their first round of aptitude testing with Team Flare, rising up the ranks even before kids older than them, sent out on missions that only the most powerful, the most trusted, can do, handed their Keystones before they're even adults, made in the image of their great leader.
They've been team members to each other for longer than they were ever siblings. But they still stick together just as they used to, because they have no one else now.
Purifier of lost souls, gobbler of eclairs.
here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
