» Name: Namataki Shamshir (Taki)
» Gender: Female
» Species: #393 Piplup, Penguin Pokémon
» Affiliation: She's a Strong Independent Blue Penguin she don't need no affiliation
» Level: 5
» Energy: 19
» Ability: Defiant: Attack is raised by two stages when the Pokémon has its stats lowered. Doesn't work on self inflicted stat drops or drops from allies
» Moves:
- Pound (Birth)
- Growl (Level )
- Hydro Pump (Egg Move)
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» Personality: Taki is more commonly identified as rather rude and sassy, she isn't afriad to tick others off with what she thinks, and gets a bit cocky when others get angry while she's still keeping her composure. She's a bit of a loose cannon and tends to do what she wants to do rather than listening to her friends, though the idea and concept of teamwork is definitely not foreign to her. She's a bit hot-headed and tends to get fired up rather easily, which can result in her lashing out whether its verbally or physically. She's the only one in her group of friends that swears freely, but usually censors herself since Jade does not quite favor her foul language. She's not the type to apologize, but will still feel immense guilt and it usually festers within her. She's a prime target for guilt tripping.
» Likes:
Being Right - She may not always be right, but when she is, she sure as hell let's you know of it. She wont let you forget it either. She grows rather smug when she's right, the feeling of being superior to someone else is just too good!
Attention - She doesn't care if she's the star or an honorable mention, if she has attention, she's happy. She got quite a bit of negative attention in her life, and has found that she does not quite favor it, so she prefers positive attention and craves for approval from others.
Cake - Sweet foods, they're her kryptonite. She has a sweet tooth, and cake in particular holds a soft spot in her heart. After all, why wouldn't it? It's used to celebrate birthdays, weddings, parties, all kinds of things! She never had much of it as a child, due to her bratty nature, but will do anything she can to get some of that cake!
» Dislikes:
Being Invisible, ostricized, or left alone - Taki just cannot tolerate being ignored, set apart from the rest for bad reasonings, or being left to herself. The feeling of this makes her feel rather insecure due to being set apart from the rest, well for bad reasons. She does not want to be a repeat of her parents, and wants to break a chain before it can begin.
Apologizing - Admitting that she did something wrong is not exactly a strong spot for this little piplup. If she admits that she did something wrong, then that would mean that she did something wrong and might risk her being like her parents. If she just never admitted to doing anything wrong, then nobody could accuse her because in her mind, she's right...right?
Guilt - This monster gnaws away at her heart and soul until she finally does something about it. This is a common occurance for her to have, and often continued to guilt herself over things she had been forgiven for simply for the fact that she had done them and could have easily just not done the thing she's having troubles with thinking of.
» History:
She was born to a family of shame, her Empoleon mother and Clawitzer father were both a part of the police, however her mother was caught tampering with evidence multiple times, eating important apples and using accessories that were vital to crimes. Her father was the disgrace of the force, for when he had been on a case chasing down an eevee murderer who was known for severing eevee's tails after killing them, he had let the murderer slip through his claws and get away. It would have been easily avoidable, but he just didn't catch the murderer.
Once the piplup had become old enough to socialize, she found that she was immediately ostricized. The parents of the other pokemon hated her and her parents, and the children picked up on that hate, and began to hate her as well. Namataki did not know what to do, so she resorted to rebelling against her parents from a young age. At first her parents had thought that this was just a phase, but it kept going and going and going, getting to the point where they needed to use reverse psychology in clever ways to try and get the piplup to do what they really wanted as she would sometimes do the complete opposite.
Once she was a bit older, she was beginning to wise up to their tricks, and they stopped working. She threw fits, embarressed them further by rubbing their shamed names into them in public, but it was working. She now had friends, but that did not mean she did not feel guilty about it. She would usually listen to them when they were in private, but once there was a chance that another pokemon was around to see, rebellious brat mode activated. She never apologized though, not being the type to say 'sorry' but the guilt built up inside.
One day, she had been acting in a rude way in front of her parents again, in front of a strange tepig that was about her age. He questioned her on why she was acting this way around her parents after a stern yelling from them and leaving. Unable to take the guilt anymore, the piplup admitted her horrible ways to the tepig, breaking down and bawling, wishing she had never been born.
However, the Tepig had managed to calm her down, and he promised her that he would be her friend even though her parents were such a disgrace. Those other pokemon were just jerks that judged a pokemon on something they could not help! The piplup was amazed by this new kind of view, and took the tepig's offer up on being friends. She continued to live with her parents, no longer giving them hard times in public and no longer caring if the other pokemon made fun of her. She could now live guilt free, and have at the very least one friend as well!
It did not take long for another pokemon to join the two in friendship, the two had been out for a walk in the winter to search for firewood, and spotted a strange green lump in a sea of white snow. They traversed towards it to find a snivy, beaten pretty badly and seemingly been stuck in the cold for who knows how long! She and the tepig carried the snivy to the nearest home, which luckily had been its own. He was nursed into conciousness, but it seemed that all that time out in the cold had gotten him very ill, so he was not awake for long.
They came back and visitied the snivy and his mothers, concerned for the life they had saved and curious as to what had happened. While there, they had learned that the Snivy's name was Jade. The two were led to believe that Jade was female as well, since his mothers would always use feminine pronouns, though they did not realize that this was merely out of habit seeing as most of the family was female and Jade did not care what he was called.
Once the snivy had recovered enough to be awake, they began to talk while he still was bedridden, until finally he was all better and able to go out and play with the new friend. Taki was a bit jelous that this new "girl" was getting a bit more attention than her with the tepig, but figured it was just a temporary thing since, you know, the snivy nearly died and all and was probably still weak.
A few years later, the snivy had proposed that they leave and go on some adventures. She was excited by this idea, and recieved permission from her parents to get going. However the snivy's parents were a bit more concerned about their "Daughter", and forced the tepig and Taki to take an oath that they would not let anything happen to Jade. The two accepted the terms, and went on their way.
However, a rather large...obstacle, Came in their way. That obstacle? A hurricane. They had been staying at an inn of some town and were blocked in by a large storm that started out normal at first, only it grew worse and worse until it was a full blown hurricane. The snivy was ripped away from them by the winds, and the tepig had fallen into the water. She jumped in to try and save him, but did not notice that he had been saved by some other pokemon, and was left to look around and search for the tepig frantically. The snivy she could not help, but at least she could try and save the tepig.
Her search resulted in failure, especially when she found herself being dragged along the currents, too powerful for her to withstand. She blacked out, and was forced to allow the currents to sweep her wherever they pleased.
She awoke in salt water, she did not mind it, but it certainly was not rain water. She was on the back of a carracosta. The carracosta looked to her and asked if she was okay, her response was a shake of the head. She had lost her only two friends, they were probably dead, and now she was all alone and without a friend in the world. She thanked the carracosta for saving her and keeping her safe, but set out on her own once more, wanting to reach the mainland again.
She traveled for quite a while, exauhsting herself. She barely noticed that she had begun walking on sand, not realizing she was out of the water until she was several feet away from it on the shore of the beach near Rainfront. She collapsed onto the sand, exauhsted, before she passed out again, and this will be where her story will begin.
» Other: Friends with Jade Lacroix and thinks he is female.
Subject: Namataki Shamshir the Piplup 
