DEBORA, clair avana

[Avykea]

CLAIR AVANA DEBORA
'i'm the world's best dragon master'

NAME, clair avana debora

AGE, twenty-three

GENDER, female

BIRTHDAY, december 21

BIRTHPLACE, blackthorn city, johto

PROFESSION, gym leader


PERSONALITY,

determined - adj. - of unwavering mind; resolute; firm

"clair would never have made it to the rank of gym leader had she not been determined. she trained and trained and trained some more, stretching her and her pokemon their their limits. even now, she is unsatisfied, since clair has not yet beaten her rival, lance."

independent - adj. - capable of acting for oneself or on one's own

"clair has always been independent, maybe even insufferably so. with her pokemon and skills on her side, she has no reason to depend on others for things she can do herself. clair's grandfather, the elder of the dragon den and her caretaker, was always busy when clair was a child; therefore, clair had to teach herself rudimentary survival skills - such as cooking, cleaning, washing, training."

proud - adj. - bold or fearless; having an inordinately high opinion of oneself; arrogant or haughty

"the blackthorn gym leader has always been intensely proud of her talents/skills, her pokemon, and her gym. however, this makes it difficult for her to take defeat; often times, clair will withhold a trainer's rightful badge due to the bitterness of defeat; however, she usually eventually bestows the badge onto the trainer and - in an effort to save some of the irreplacable pride she had lost when she lost to lance - encourages them on defeating the elite four (and therefore lance)."

righteous - adj. - morally upright; without guilt or sin

"tying right in with her pride is clair's righteous behavoir. she believes fiercely in the idea of good vs. evil, and she clearly sets herself on the former side. had it not been for her gym leader duties, clair might've wound up to be a masked vigilante, prowling the streets of random cities."

strict - adj. - precise; exact; rigorous in the imposition of discipline

"clair is extremely strict in nearly all aspects of her life. her training regime is a strict one; it's the only way she knows that she's keeping her pokemon in good shape."

HISTORY,

clair avana debora was born on a wintery december twenty-first, the day of a winter solstice, in blackthorn city, to the gym leader of blackthorn and a woman who served her father in the dragon den. the couple was "famous in a small town" - the pairing had not been surprising. and it was anticipated that the two would live long, happy lives together with their young daughter, clair, succeeding her father at the gym.

sadly, when clair was a year old, her mother was killed in the same stampede that left the young clair scarred for life. she would never be able to look at miltank and tauros the same way again. her father threw himself into fixing their broken family, but the gym suffered because of it. clair's father soon worked himself to illness, and from that, death.

it was now up to clair's remaining family member to take care of her, her grandfather. clair grew up under his stern rules and, when she was fifteen, she took over the gym. it had fallen into disrepair because clair's grandfather had not bothered with it.

when she was twenty, a skilled dragon master already, she met lance, an eager pokemon trainer who also specialized in dragon types. clair suffered her first loss when he defeated her easily. since then, she's been training ferociously in order to defeat lance the next time she meets him.

FAMILY, dragon den elder [ grandfather ]

LIMITATIONS,
- fierce stubborn pride and independence
- phobia of miltank and tauros

LIKES,
- dragon types
- winning
- training
- hard rock music ( the high energy, pulsing music )
- icy weather

DISLIKES,
- miltank and tauros
- losing
- lance ( rival )
- country music
- warm weather

SECRETS,
- when she was young, clair was trapped in a pretty bad stampede of miltank and tauros, thus giving form to her phobia of both. when she grew older, she learned how to deal with it - namely, just riding a dragonite out of the way - but they still terrify her.
- weeeell, clair doesn't know it yet, but she has had a itty-bitty crush on lance when they first met, but it was soon crushed ( or perhaps, overshadowed? ) by the fact that he beat her pretty quickly with his powerful dragon types. she also admires him somewhat for his pokemon.

[Kitaro]

Accepted!