ｚｅｒｏ ｃｏｎｆｉｄｅｎｃｅ － ａ ｎｅｗ ｋｉｎｄ ｏｆ ｐｏｋｅｍｏｎ ｊｏｕｒｎｅｙ （ｏｐｅｎ ｔｏ ａｌｌ）

Name: Elizabeth
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Occupation: Cowgirl
Appearance: Elizabeth has dirty blonde hair, hazel eyes and usually wears a pair of frayed overalls and tennis shoes.
Personality: Elizabeth is hard as stone when people first meet her but she is sweet and honest at heart, especially to Pokémon.
Pokemon(if any): Typhlosion, Miltank, and Grovyle
Crush/BF/GF: None
Background: Elizabeth lived on a farm since he was small, helping her family with the Miltanks. She moved away when she turned 13, hoping to become more than a cowgirl.
Other: She can be fierce when people are cruel to Pokémon and won't let anything stand in her way.

OOC: Yay!

Name: Lily
Age: 12 and a half.
Gender: Female.
Appearance: A fair skinned girl with short, light brown hair and deep, steely blue eyes. She sports a cap which portrays pictures of the three main starters of the Sinnoh region. Her shirt is a bit oversized and is colored white and red with the black lines seen on a pokeball in the middle. She tends to wear light jeans with that. Now, she has been spotted in many other outfits, but this is her favorite. Even though it makes her look like a complete poke-nerd.
Personality: Lily is a bit of a stubborn child. She is very do-it-yourself and could care less about the past, history is history, and what use is it to cry over something you can't change? Her main plan for journies is to think ahead and be prepared for whatever might come. She gets lonely a bit easy and often looks to her carefree pokemon, Gable, when she's upset. She gets stressed sometimes and likes to vent, so that's when she prefers to talk to her more uptight pokemon, Buffy. Well, this is meant to be brief, so that's all I'll let on for now. Little details will be revealed in RP.
Pokemon: Gable and Buffy.
Crush/BF/GF: None/may develop.
Background: Well, to be brief, Lily came from a home of very well-known trainer for a mother and a pokeball maker for a father. Her mother insisted that she be a trainer and her father, whatever the heck she wanted to be. Lily eventually gave in to her mother's idea when she reached twelve because she wanted a pokemon. So, her mother gave her a weaker pokemon which lacked a name. She said that she thought it would be a good idea for her to raise and name it herself, that way they would get closer faster. Lily didn't really care, she loved the thing, which happened to be a vulpix, and named it Buffy. Yes, she dedicated much time to Buffy. Well, once it was time for the two to leave, her father gifted her quite a few pokeballs and wished her luck along with her mother. It was somewhere along the woods trail where they found the carefree pikachu which would soon be Gabel. He hung around for a short time before vanishing. Lily was a bit disappointed but didn't think much of it, the extra company had been nice, but she still had Buffy. The next place they reached was a small farm where an older couple lived. Since it had been getting dark at the time, Lily knocked on the door and asked if she could stay the night, offering service in return. They took her in happily, it seemed they didn't get company too often. The new trainer helped the old woman sweep the floor and carry out a few chores. At some point during the night she heard them chatting about a troublesome pokemon that had been causing all manners of mischief around the farm. Now, as you may have guessed, this in particular had caught the trainer's attention. She hastily offered to rid them of this mischievous pokemon. Of, course, they agreed, but insisted she not go out until morning. As planned, she set out to find the pokemon next morning. After some time of searching they uncovered a pikachu who had evidently been causing the trouble. It wasn't exactly the toughest pokemon to fight, but it had been hard to catch. The thing insisted on running away and was, well, surprisingly quick. Finally, she'd caught the thing, though. And once she didn't she dubbed him Gable, but the nickname 'Trouble' still remains and is used in different amounts of frequency depending on who you talk to. Well, that leaves us as close as necessary to now. Sorry if that wasn't brief. I have difficulties being brief.
Other:

Name: Gable and Buffy
Age: (How do pokemon ages work?) I'd say about a year and a year?
Gender: Male and female
Species: Pikachu and Vulpix
Accessories?: Yes, Gable wears a red scarf that he managed to find somewhere, and refuses to take it off. This scarf is a bit too big, slightly tattered in some places, and has a little pocket watch with a pokeball pattern wrapped around an area of it. Buffy proudly sports a small brown bag which is intended to be covered with the badges she's helped her trainer earn.
Shiny?: Nope and nope.
Appearance: Gable is a fairly regular pikachu all around save the lighter than average coloration of fur and a tuft some around the top of his head, looking like a type of 'hair'. He is always sporting a cat-like grin which could easily be compared to the Cheshire cat's, had he been a cat pokemon, that is.
Personality: Gable is a carefree and slightly lazy pokemon who has a knack for art and couldn't care less what supposedly stressing matters are currently happening. Things aren't stressing if you don't let them be. He is a troublemaker and a bit of a thief. He tends to 'accidentally' end up with many a item that doesn't belong to him and don't usually get returned, unless Buffy or Lily confiscate it. He hates it when people play with his little tuft of 'hair' and will generally give a few irritated looks to the offender and allow a few small spark to emit from those little red cheeks. He likes to tease the smaller pokemon and finds fun in all sorts of things that might happen. On occasion, he even likes teasing the larger pokemon, if there;re places to run, that is. He's clever and as you may have guessed, devious. Whether or not he's likable just depends on the person. (Or the pokemon.) Buffy is a bit of a sarcastic know-it-all when it comes to certain others. She hates when you don't follow the rule book at very least loosely and don't focus. Her pet peeve is when others start talking and pause mid-sentence while formulating a reply, that or filling it in with 'uh.' The vulpix loves music and loves to play with radios, but doesn't always like it loud. She has a problem with Gable and is constantly looking him over for 'borrowed' items which he seemed to all to often have. She is a bit, hot-tempered and has slight anger issues, usually because she spends so much time stressing about the next battle, the next gym badge. In a serious battle, victory is everything. She strongly believes loss represents failure and weakness, two things nobody wants to be associated with.
Moveset: Gable: Thunder, quick attack, agility, slam, discharge. Buffy: Payback, will-o-whisp, flame burst, confuse ray.
Background: Gable: Yeah, like all pikachu, Gable started as a pichu. He was, also like most, hatched from an egg. However, it wasn't another pokemon who hatched his egg, it was a human. The newly hatched pichu learned a lot from the child who found and hatched him, particularly, the wonderful art of, well, art. This child kept him for a little while, but Gable had grown attached to him in that short time. This child eventually had a baby sister, who was, ever so inconveniently, allergic to the pichu. With that, the boy's mother forced him to give it away. He chose a good friend to adopt the pokemon and gave him his scarf to remember him by. Next thing Gabel knew, he was in the possession of a young girl named Charlotte, who gave him her favorite pocket watch and played with him all day long. This little girl taught him the arts of mischief and rule-breaking, however, unlike the previous time, this girl lost him accidentally. He fell out of her bicycle basket. Well, somewhere along the road, a trainer picked him up and attempted to train him. He proved troublesome and relatively useless. The trainer made him evolve, hoping that that might make some difference in competency. Well, that did nothing. After little to no progress over a reasonable period of time, the trainer released him into the woods. Now he was getting irritated, he'd gone through three owners and none wanted him from what he could tell. He stayed as a wild pokemon, the slight fondness for humans never quite left, though. He took up residency in a field by a small barn. There he stayed until a fourth human came across him in the wood nearby. He hung around, he snatched a few snacks, she seemed alright, but he wasn't quite ready to accept the idea of adopting another human. They never seem to last. Well, once she came after him, he evading capture for awhile before he was captured. He still isn't certain about this new trainer and doesn't want to get too close, but he'll still put up his carefree attitude that's managed to survive since his original owner.

Buffy: Buffy doesn't have too much of a notable history, she is the daughter of the ninetails who was also Lily's mother's main partner. Might have had a hand in why Lily's Mom chose her as her daughter's first pokemon. The young vulpix had constantly harassed her mother about when she would be training, and was thrilled when the ninetails announced she was going to become Lily's partner. She has a dream to be great pokemon, and maybe help Lily be a great trainer too. But, don't all pokemon dream like that?
Other:

OOC: Isn't it Houndoor?

OOC: Yes! That's it! My brother has one names afte his dog.

IC:
Clumps of dirt flew up as Elizabeth ran through her father's fields, heading to Cherrygrove City. She waved her hand and laughed as she went past the Miltank that grazed in the fenced area her grandfather had built years ago. A green blur raced beside her as she ran. Grovyle! Her fierce grass type smirked and charged ahead, stopping at the farm's gate. The dirty blonde girl stopped beside him and panted, "Looks like you win again."
The Grovyle hopped up and down happily, clapping his hands together.
"Let's get to Cherrygrove." Elizabeth smiled. She began walking along the dirt path, Grovyle close behind.

Elizabeth grinned as she entered Cherrygrove city, the smell of flowers surronded her and she closed her eyes happily, "We made it all the way here." Grovyle clapped his hands together and began nosing her pockets.
"What is it pal?" She saw what he was looking at and laughed, "I see." She took out two Pokéballs and opened them, Miltank and Typhlosion appearing in front of her.