Day 9: Cori (Cilan/Clemont’s son)! He’s an aspiring Performer who is desperate to go on a journey, so when his parents essentially force his older sister, Verbena, to get out of the house some and stop causing trouble at the Gym and travel, he decides … Continue reading
Fankid Week Day 1: Family & Friends Figured these three fit both, being cousins and good friends! Rosemary, Anise, and Verbena in a redraw of their fathers’ card from the Fusion Strike set.
[This content is out of date and no longer canon (Florian is now Augustine/Lysandre’s bio son)] Brothers~Florian (left) is the son of Lysandre and Malva, but he ends up adopted by Professor Sycamore. Basile (right) is the son of Lysandre and Bryony and is about … Continue reading
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07. Is there a catchphrase or sound that they tend to make a lot (likely without being aware of it)?
Verbena whistles a lot without realizing it. She whistles when she’s working on a project, when she’s succeeded in something, when she spots something or someone she likes, she even has a little whistle/finger guns combo she does as a catchphrase à la Fantastic Mr. Fox. She knows she whistles a lot, she just doesn’t realize quite the extent of the habit.
16. Is your character the athletic type or more of a couch potato? What are some sports/games that they like?
You’d think an inventor/programmer like Verbena would be a couch potato, but she actually exercises quite a bit. She hates sitting down for too long and enjoys hitting the gym after a long day working bent over a computer screen. She knows some martial arts learned from Cilan, so she tends to put her favorite pump-up music and go at it with a punching bag for a few hours, or just hit the treadmill if she’s not feeling in the punching and kicking mood that day. She’s pretty in shape as a result, which many don’t realize thanks to her profession and habit of wearing baggy clothing.
20. Does your character like animals? What are some of their favorite animals? Would they want pets? What about mythological creatures?
Gonna sub in pokémon for animals here. Verbena likes electric and ghost types the best. Electric since she grew up surrounded by Clemont’s electric pokémon and learned how they can help out with all her mechanical needs. Ghost since she is a dark mage like Cilan and has an affinity for them, plus they can come in handy for her work as well, being able to go places she can’t and offering a different perspective. Verbena’s starter and closest pokémon is her Rotom, Widget, who is her go-to partner for all her programming needs. Widget usually lives in Verbena’s Holo Caster, but they’ll come out and cause mischief every once and a while.
23. What is your character like when it comes to school? What subjects are they good/bad at? Do they get in trouble a lot or are well behaved?
Verbena is one of those students who does very well in all her classes, but causes a lot of trouble outside of academics. She’s hacked the school network many times and put meme viruses on all the computers, played around with the security cameras, and blasted her favorite electronic music from all the loudspeakers. She got caught a few times at first and was sternly told off by both the Principal and her parents, but that just made her cover her tracks better the next times. A lot of her classmates love her for her pranks, but the teachers are all glad she’s in her last year of school.
30. When it comes to the arts (music, film, theater, etc), what does your character like?
Verbena likes electronic music, especially the headbanging kind. EDM, dubstep, house, etc. She prefers documentaries/non-fiction and sci-fi for movies and books and is subscribed to numerous science and engineering magazines covering a wide variety of topics. She’s not a huge theater person, unlike Cori, but she’ll go to all her baby brother’s shows when she can. Verbena is also an avid blogger, which is where a majority of her entertainment comes from. She’s a bit of a troll to be honest, and has fun getting into arguments with strangers on the internet and driving them crazy.
41. Does your character’s family affect your character in any way?
Definitely. Watching Clemont in his lab inspired Verbena to go into engineering herself and it was with his help that she built her first computer. Cilan was the one to teach her how to code (and to hack, which he later regretted after all the trouble she gets into) and the basics of martial arts. Basile definitely encouraged a lot of Verbena’s more dubiously legal pranks and helped her learn how to cover her tracks better. Cori is half of her motivation to do things she doesn’t want to do, like go see movies in genres she usually doesn’t like, or agree to open up a Maid Café themed Gym with her cousins, not to mention he tends to be the one to help her look more presentable when she goes out (’I refuse to let you leave the house in a sweatsuit!!!’)
It’s Shipping Saturday! Today I’ll share a bit on how the Striation Triplets met their significant others, since I have all of them in rarepairs.
Note: In this universe, the triplets were also the Shadow Triad, so that has a big impact on their characterization.
First up, Cress and Jasmine.
He had met her while she was visiting Kalos for a convention on botany (she was studying herbal medicine at the time, and Cress was there for cooking reasons) and they ended up befriending each other. They stayed in touch after Jasmine returned home, and Cress decided to visit her after a while. While in Johto, he ended up just sort of falling in love with the region and this was around the time he started to fall for Jasmine, not that he realized it at the time. While there, he also became aware of a culinary school in Johto that looked like it would really cater to his own interests in cooking. Cress is the brother who probably loves cooking the most and this just seemed like the perfect opportunity to pursue the professional chef career he had been dreaming of for a while. His brothers convinced him to go to culinary school in Kalos rather than Johto, but Jasmine surprised him by doing a sort of ‘semester abroad’ in Kalos to spend time with him, which was when they started dating. After he finished culinary school was when Cress started seriously considering moving to Johto. Jasmine had her Gym to attend to and he was still interested in the cuisine of Johto and learning more there. It took a lot of convincing and compromising, but he did eventually make the move and was married to Jasmine a few years later. Currently, he’s known as the ‘Ninja Sushi Chef’ of Olivine.
Next, Cilan and Clemont.
For them it was a situation of just running into each other a lot! The brothers were living in Lumiose while trying to settle down and find a way to integrate into society better, and were all working at the same restaurant at this time. Clemont tended to go there pretty often for lunch since it was close to his Gym, which is how he and Cilan started to get to know each other. Being the ‘information specialist’ of the trio, Cilan had a number of shared interests as Clemont in electronics and the like, so they had that as a starting point for their conversations. Clemont was interested how someone with obvious skill in programming and electronics (and who spoke Kalosian with a Unovan accent) ended up working in a cafe and Cilan sort of …. danced around the question. Clemont offered to give Cilan access to his labs and maybe work on some projects together since he needed a fresh pair of eyes to go over some of his more difficult projects. Cilan was actually really surprised that Clemont was willing to trust him with his work so easily which definitely endeared him to him. After that well, the rest is history. They end up dating after so much time spent together.
Finally, Chili and Korrina. While his brothers pursued their cooking skills, Chili focused on being a trainer. He really missed being a Gym Leader and wanted to find a job where he could battle and train with his team. His search led him to Shalour, where he decided to study a bit about Mega Evolution, something that greatly interested him. In particular, he wanted to try and see if he could achieve Mega Evolution with his Absol, his first pokémon who he hadn’t had a chance to use much at all in his Gym Leader days. It was during his time training in Shalour that he first met Korrina and the two at first clashed pretty frequently. Korrina didn’t like Chili’s motivations for training in Mega Evolution, that is, in her words ‘just to see if he could’ and Chili didn’t like how Korrina didn’t understand how important Mega Evolution would be for his bond with Absol. It took a lot of time, but eventually the two of them began to see eye-to-eye and from there their friendship developed into romantic feelings. Chili began working in Korrina’s Gym, eventually taking it over when his (by that point) wife became and Elite Four member.
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