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raisedbymoogles ([personal profile] raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-10-29 09:04 pm
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OC Meme, 29

I wanna be the very best, like no one ever waaaas~

OC #29: Sana [Pokemon]

Sana’s little backwoods village isn’t famous, but if it was, it’d be for the town’s fanatical love of bug Pokemon. There’s a bug Pokemon research facility in the area, the source of half the town’s jobs and a measure of quixotic pride. As far as this village is concerned, bug types are too often overlooked or dismissed as serious competitors in the world of Pokemon battles. Into this village was born Sana and her best friend Ari.

The bug research center is sometimes underfunded, and the year Sana and Ari turn ten, they and the other ten-year-olds arrive at the research center for their first Pokemon (Caterpie, Weedle or Wurmple, natch), they discover that their stock is one short. Ari laments that she’s always left out of these things; Sana, realizing that Ari’s right, slips away quietly while the professor is still trying to sort this out. She wanders in the woods for a bit, vaguely planning to catch her own starter, when the bushes rustle! Sana goes EEP and tosses her Apricorn-ball! And lo and behold, a bright flash indicates she’s caught - …something. Upon investigating she discover’s she’s caught a …Charmander!? A fire type? Enemy of bugs everywhere? Uh oh.

Well, the Charmander appears to really, really like her, so attempts to set it free backfire, and Sana feels like she can’t go back to her village without a proper bug-type partner. So there’s nothing to do but embark on her Pokemon journey with her new partner, and along the way meet a mysterious Yanma that seems to have something important to communicate to her, educate others on the beauty of bugs, and learn to both honor her origins and follow her own path.

(At some point she’ll face Ari again, who’s evolved (see what I did there) into a truly scary competitor. But that’s for like late Act 2. ;) )