Basics
Name: Verity Christa Hughes
Gender: Female
Gender Role: Unspecified Androgynous
Sexuality: Lesbian
Age: 17
Birthday: 1st June
Star Sign: Gemini
Pet Name: Babe comes up a lot between other girls
Hometown: Floaroma Town
Home Region: Sinnoh
Current Place of Residence: Goldenrod City
Physical/Material Facts
Hair: Blonde (bleached, but a natural - if darker - blonde without)
Eyes: Green
Build: Short and thin for her frame, though not thin as far as to say you'd look at her and thin was the first thing you'd see. Large thighs and broad shoulders which often make her look taller and stronger than she actually is.
Clothes: Would love to have the energy to wear her collection of dresses every day, but usually just goes for a leggings/baggy t-shirt combination because mornings are so tiring.
Notable Features: Usually looks really, really tired and hair is never brushed.
Accessories: Glasses, earrings
Mode of Dress: Shirts usually a size or two too big - sometimes her brother's, usually worn over leggings. On a hot day, she sometimes turns the t-shirt into a crop top by tying it up, Britney Spears style.
Grooming: Messy
Posture: Slouch, but a tense kind of slouch
Gait: Slow walker, and a little uneven due to a discrepancy in leg length
Other/Etc: A few small but noticeable patches of vitiligo over the skin
Personality/Preferences
Likes: The Theatre, Being Right, Cracking Jokes, Horror Movies, Rom-Coms
Dislikes: Wasps, Circuses, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tidying Up, Geography
Favourite Food: Macaroni Cheese
Favourite Possession: A pair of clip-on gunmetal grey earrings
Favourite Pokemon: Gardevoir
Hobbies: Reading Modern Classics, Writing Articles and Essays, Watching TV, Going to Parties, Kissing Girls
Dreams: Would like to one day go to a renowned university and do a PhD so that she can be a curator at a top museum. Also would like a secure relationship.
Fears: Wasps, Humiliation, Clowns, Social Rejection
Favorite Season/Time of Day/Holiday: Summer, Evening, Christmas
Personality: Verity is quiet and unassuming at first, with a proclivity towards brooding. However, she also lacks a filter. The lack of filter can be both a help and a hindrance in making friends; she is not a nasty person, but she is quirky to start with and often the things she says can ostracise the people around her as she gives off an air of knowing something that nobody else knows, at her worst moments. She is overly sensitive, though she tries to understand criticism that comes her way; this often leads to deep-seated resentment rather than outright conflict, as she is very quick to believe what other people say about her work and her personality.
Family/Etc
Friends: Not many; an ex-schoolfriend, Tatyana Hayek, is quite unreliable. Some of her classmates are easy to talk to; Celia Moffet, an earnest perfectionist she's known since she was six is one. A second is Ekaterina Khovanskaya, who starts a lot of drama by telling lies and staying passive but has a good heart.
Family: Grew up in a nuclear family; two parents and a brother. Very close to her brother (Huw), and her mum. Both parents work until at least eight in the evening, and Huw no longer lives at home, so she is able to function independently. Mother is very sensitive and can be volatile. Father is tacit, and once had an affair.
Childhood: Not much to speak of, here; ADHD went undiagnosed until she turned 16, so school was often a trouble. That said, it should be noted that she was intelligent which masked many symptoms until she started manifesting depression and anxiety. Could read and spell from a young age, but struggled with learning to write and walk. Was always better at English than Maths. Didn't like playing tag in the playground, but loved playing pretend. Shyness started manifesting aged around eight and didn't go away until she turned 13.
Pokemon Related
Starter: Bulbasaur
Team: Ivysaur, Kirlia, Marowak, Amaura
Favoured Type: Psychic, Ground
Battle Style/Strategy: Not a good battler; likes to attack and inflict status conditions. Too concerned about losing to use stat-enhancing moves until the foe is asleep.
Team (Main)
(M) Ivysaur
Poisonpowder
Magical Leaf
Stun Spore
Take Down
Notes: Starter Pokémon, so meeting wasn't an issue.
(F) Kirlia
Calm Mind
Psychic
Heal Pulse
Shadow Ball
Notes: Looked for a Ralts at all costs early on in her journey - found one.
(F) Marowak
Bonemerang
Earthquake
Flamethrower
Rock Tomb
Note: One of those who outlived a distant relative owner and got handed down in the will
(F) Amaura
Growl
Powder Snow
Discharge
Notes: Tiny baby; Verity thought its egg was a stone (she collects stones), and then it started moving
NB: she's a journalism intern and not a very experienced trainer - prefers to comment and critique than participate herself, though has a smattering of entry-level coordination ribbons