Telma "Boa Sorte" Monteiro [MASSIVE WIP]

-Sabela Monteiro: Mother. Lycanroc (Midnight). Soft-spoken, level-headed. Tends to keep her opinions to herself after the events leading to her becoming ex-communicated from her family. Daughter of a poor family stuck in Grima for four generations. She was encouraged to marry out of the town in order to provide the family with the funds to pay their way out of Grima. Being a lonely character who relied heavily on founded, intimate relationships, she balked at the idea. She accepted her responsibility to help remove the family, but she found no joy in the idea of having to build up a completely new life with a stranger, so intensly so that it brought her to question the traditions her family practiced. She was shamed for evolving during the night and not during the day. Her family had notoriously avoided the evolution due to it's intimidating appeal, and on top of that they believed it would lessen her chances to find a husband - especially outside of Grima. As time passed without Sabela meeting anyone from the outside, she decided that she would not find anyone. She felt she had ruined her chances and chose to accept the proposal from a Lopunny that had been her closest friend in Grima since childhood. She was again scorned for this. When visitors (traveling merchants) finally came by the Grima outpost, Sabela was confronted by a man who was interested in her. She was then shunned entirely by her family for refusing to have an out-of-wedlock relationsip with him.
Despite her excommunication from the family, Sabela still believed in the importance of the tight family unit. She still respected the family caste system and modeled their home life after it's traditions. She also respected Atilio's more liberal family veiws, which they negotiated with. She was willing to forgo some of the tradition she had grown up with as long as the importance of the family remained emphasized. She reacted to most of the events in their family rather mildly and rationally up until the passing of Cintia, Sabela's sister and her emotional rock. After the death of her sister and her sister's husband, she experienced a serious depression. She took in her sister's children and homeschooled them through this. By the time her oldest was old enough to leave home, the stress she experienced had transformed her into a very enigmatic and distant person. There were times where she would even be completely catatonic and unmoved by the people around her. She was eventually rendered entirely mute. She never stopped working in the mines through all this; excluding those catatonic episodes she would experience.

-Atilio Monteiro: Father. Lopunny. A dreamer, an optimist, and highly motivated (especially by family). Son of a poor family that had been in Grima for way more generations. Mother was a small-time criminal and was out of the picture, left him on his father's doorstep. Father worked for a mining company with the rest of the family, trying in vain to pay off a debt that was compounding exponantially. They had stopped outsourcing for financial options, and were involved in the other various financial endeavors in Grima. Because of this, Atilio had far more freedoms and faced far less risk of shame or shunning than Sabela. He had been friends with Sabela since they were small, as part of her family was assigned to work in the mine. The two took solace in each other's various idealisms; Atilio appreciating Sabela's quiet commitment while Sabela admired Atilio's apparent ability to make the impossible possible. He couldn't fully understand why she remained so loyal to the traditions that had tormented her. He tried to introduce her into his family so that she might find she had alternatives; mostly succeeded in convincing his family members to recognize her. Eventually proposed to her privately and arranged a silent wedding so she could avoid more shame. Failed to help her avoid shame, felt terrible, worked twice as hard to help her move on. Switched from mining to pit fighting for a while after finding a vein of mega stone in the mines, worked with his brother who would predict if his opponent would die or if he were about to die, and would fight and throw matches based on this info. Eventually got Sabela's sister's husband involved in this. Brother used these funds to invest in land and work out a new mine, left Atilio out of the deed. Felt responsible for the inevitable death of Sebela's sister and their husband, reviled his brother for it. Eventually had to stop fighting to to permanent damage and return to mining.
Sabela falling ill also required him to take over various home tasks that she was no longer able to complete; such as homeschooling the Barros children. He grew depressed and melancholy himself, but did not fully give up hope and still acts rather amiably, albeit very tired and worn. Plans to gather the family and run away from the Grima with them.

-Uxia Monteiro: Sister, 2nd oldest. Rockruff. As the second oldest, she spent a lot of time helping Telma with the family work from the time she was old enough to start taking on such responsibilities. They spent a lot of time together, so unsurprisingly she and Telma felt like they were the siblings that understood each other the best out of all of them. Uxia was the one Telma confided in, she was the one sibling that Telma didn't feel like she had to carry on her back, and she worked hard to ensure Telma felt that way despite the caste difference that sepparated them. Uxia respected and acknowledged the importance of the ideas behind the system her family followed, but it always irked her that these sepparations had to exist between her and the person closest to her in her life. She assisted Telma in getting out to see what Kit and *insert uncle here* were doing by covering some of her work, and assisted Telma in the sabotage of their uncle very actively, being the second most involved in the revolution. When problems began arising with the other siblings, Uxia would cover work for them as well with the assistance of Tadue and Telma (until Telma's eventual departure) She ensured Telma 's exemption from the family debt was secured. and helped her escape when the time came.

-Rui Monteiro: Brother, 3rd oldest: Lopunny. Dim in the mind but well-meaning and caring outside of the occasional mood swing. He also began working with his two elder siblings and his elder cousin in the mine when he was old enough. Once the stones were discovered, be immediately began training to enter into the fighting enterprise as well, hoping to inherit his father's stone so that his father would stop attending the fights. Due to hoisting the burden of both jobs, Rui lost out on much of the already scant homeschooling that his siblings got, though they helped him catch up as best as they could. After the betrayal of his uncle, Rui had to continue his career in fighting without the aid of the uncle's predictions. He eventually got hurt so badly that he was disabled even after recovery; being rendered immobile due to damage to his nerves. As a paraplegic, he could only continue working in the mine as a sorter and an overseer and mostly had to be supported by the rest of the family. He feels a lot of remorse over being so high on the sibling scale but being unable to do much of anything. To this day, he refuses to tell how he was crippled, or who crippled him.

-Eufemia Monteiro: Sister, 4th oldest. Buneary. The most traditional of the six siblings. Has a neutral feeling towards her mother and her family's plight; she feels her mother's decisions are wrong and the family acts out of tradition but she refuses to shun anyone but the two youngest siblings out of respect for the caste system that applies to age in the culture. She doesn't hide her verbal conflicts with the more liberal siblings like she does he active conflicts, though. The two she has the most contention with are her cousin Carme and Telma. She scorns Telma for the period in time that she starts to drift from her work to investigate Kit and her Uncle, but again due to her respect for Telma as her elder does not shun her. She instead sent the message by protesting her work, making things harder on Telma as what she believes is a message that is well within her right to send. This came back to haunt her later, however. After the crippling of Rui and the process of falling out with Kit's Uncle, Eufemia came under her Uncle's eye as his next fighting enterprise. He saw her little working strikes as pointless and lazy actions,and proceeded to punish her for it until she was forced to stop. Eventually the treatment of her uncle caused her to start begrugingly empathizing with Telma's plans, and when the night finally came she turned a blind eye. After that point, her main concern became caring for the her two youngest siblings, who had endured these tragedies as young children.

-Rute Monteiro: Sister, 5th oldest. Rockruff. Born just a year before the deaths of Cintia and Roque. Also very young during the event of the rebellion against Ulisses, though she was just old enough to start accepting responsibilities. She was very close with Eufemia, so when Ulisses started causing Eufemia to suffer she was outraged. She wanted to be as involved as possible in the strike against their uncle; including transporting secret messages and seeing payment and incentives to those who participated. Had Uxia not prevented her, she would have participated in the hit itself as well. She still has some animosity towards Uxia for this and to Uxia and Telma both for "hogging all the glory" for themselves; believing they wanted to be seen as the "family's saviors" alone. Eufemia's influence encourages her to be civil, but as a child she has a hard time containing it.

-Tadeu Monteiro: Brother, youngest. Rockruff. Born after the time of Cintia and Roque's deaths. Largely uninvolved with the plot against Ulisses, though he has an ideallic veiw of Telma as a hero that stopped a very bad family member from bullying their family. Due to not having a lot of time spent with Telma before her departure, he will grow up with this impression of her. He began working as early as possible in hopes that he could live up to his other elder siblings, wanting to pick up the slack so well that Telma's absence is not felt. He is eager to find her one day and see what such a "heroic" pokemon looks like in real life.

-Cintia Barros: Aunt, deceased. Arbok. Outspoken and ambitious, pig-headed at times, but more often then not ruled by sense (or what she percieves as sense). Sabela's younger sister and closest friend besides Atilio. She left the family with Sabela after the fallout of Sabela's evolution scorning out of respect and concern for her. The family wished to scorn her as well for this, but as the gesture fell in line with the order of respect among the family's age cast they could not condemn what she had doen within their rules. This did not save her from her family's disdain, however; as she was left out and ignored intentionally by many of the family members, and was regarded begrudgingly by the rest. For this reason, she and Sabela grew even closer after their departure, having only each other and their few friends to depend on. When they were children, Cintia introduced Atilio and Sabela; though she found him boring she believed he would be an especially good force of stability in Sabela's life and that they would get along quite well. She witnessed their wedding when no one else in the family would, another action that earned her both respect and disdain. She was the main source of encouragement when Sabela went through the expulsion from her family, and in fact Cintia was a major source of encouragement for the entire family. In general, she looked down on this indecision in her family; often challenging them to "just pick a side" instead of stringing her along half-heartedly. It was quite common for her to make light of the flawed use of the caste system in their family by openly mocking it and joking about it while she and her sister were working.
Her loud humor attracted the attention of her husband Roque Barros. The two of them got along swimmingly, maybe even too much so as their outspoken natures often had them butting heads. Loudly. The one thing they never did, however, was fight seriously. They were not without respect or genuine care, however; it was a way for both of them to relieve the frustration of working a monotonous job that offered little variation. Cintia and Roque were both fairly tough, so it wasn't uncommon for them to take physical jabs intended as emphasis at each other in tandem with the verbal. They came to a point where both had to acknowledge their unrest, leading them to look into fighting. Though they met a rocky start, they began to do exceedingly well when they began to fight as a tag team. They had a fair ammount of infamy and even some fans even before Ulisses came up with his buisness venture, and the addition of the glamour of Roque's mega stone only perpetuated this. When Ulisses opened the family's mine, both she and Roque began mining again in order to hopefully help the family take off. The two of them were the first to start talking down about Ulisses, though his utter disregard for their opinion made it hard for them to argue, frustrating them. They only conceeded to continue working with him in the interest of ensuring their earnings had a chance of making it to the family debt, which Ulisses had since bought out. They were the highest earners in the family at the time, so their presence made a difference.
The fights were not easy on Cintia and Roque, and between that and the mine work the two of them were pushed to their limit. Eventually, Cintia was injured by a slag cart when she found herself unable to push it due to a fight injury affecting her muscle control, and it rolled backwards over her body. She only partially recovered from the injury, and she warned Ulisses upon her return to the ring that she and Roque could no longer handle the more intense fights. She was proved correct when Ulisses entered them in a fight for mega evolutions, and an opposing Slowbro manipulated the wound in the middle of the fight in order to secure the win. Cintia fell almost immediately after this, her conciousness waining as the wound intensified. She had passed before they could even remove her from the ring.

-Roque Barros: Uncle, deceased. Blaziken. Just a guy from Rainfront who gambled waaaaaaaaay too much. His only remaining family was his elderly grandmother, so there wasn't anyone to bail him out of his debt. Due to the amount of money he owned being miniscule (relatively), as well as being the first generation from his family to owe, he was given a pardon in the form of an easier "overseer" position in the work camp. In general, he was mostly annoyed with the inconvenience of his term at the camp. His loud mouth made this apparent where his lack of active protest didn't; meaning though he liked to talk shit about the unfair system he didn't make any attempts to act out against it either. He mostly kept his head down, as his "firey" personality had gotten him in enough trouble in the past that he knew to just do what he needed to get by and get out of that dump. He very quickly took an interest in the equally boisterous personality of Cintia Fonseca, and the two grew particularly close. She drew him into the little satelite family that was forming between herself, Sabela and Atilio. In them, Roque found the beginnings of a nuclear anchor that he hadn't had in his early life. It was around this time that his first kid, Valentim, was hatched. The arrival of a child was a complete surprise to himself and Cintia; they hadn't planned for any commitment that big and he struggled at first with how to handle the situation. He found he warmed up to children rather quickly though, and as the little family grew with the introduction of Telma and Uxia he was more than pleased to horse around with the kiddos. He ended up staying long past his due was paid; sharing the family's responsibility to generate payment now as an actual member. He struggled now and again with depression, but was far too stubborn and committed to turn back on his decisions.
He found an outlet for his conflicting emotions in the fight scheme that had been devised by Ulisses, becoming completely engrossed in it. He started to lose touch with the family ties that had been so richly alive in him before. He grew more and more numb as the days passed. He would have likely carried on like this until he couldn't fight anymore, resigned to a life of indifference, had it not been for the accident that his wife had. Cintia's injury shocked him with deep guilt, and he grew increasingly remorseful. When he and Cintia entered their last fight together, he felt it was his only chance to make things up to the family he had dissappointed. He stayed in the fight until he had been beaten senseless, long after Cintia was already gone. He only lasted a few days with his injuries, passing without ever truly knowing what happened to his beloved Cintia.

-Carme Barros: Cousin (female). Ekans. Same age as Eufemia. She and her brother were raised more liberally than Telma and her siblings due to their father's outside influence. Carme only practiced the caste traditions when she was around Telma's family. She found it to be an annoyance when she just wanted to get close to the older siblings that she admired. She didn't particularly see the value in the system after so much negative feedback from it. She hated being in the same cast as Eufemia as she wanted nothing to do with the caste-appreciating Buneary, and often got into spats with her out of frustration. She got along much better with Rui, breaking the rules frequently to talk deeply with him. He helped her process the loss of her parents, and she still helps him manuever as best as she possibly can. She was outraged by both the death of her parents and the crippling of Rui to the point where she openly cried out for justice to the family members, despite how poorly violence against family members was veiwed. She still sides with Telma and the hit, though she also doesn't believe enough was done. She's still generally not over everything that happened.

-Valentim Barros: Cousin (male). Combusken. Older than Telma by a little over a year. For a time, he was very close with Telma, Uxia, and even Rui during the time when his father would frequently interact with them and take them around. He became close with those three, particularly Telma and Uxia. Valentim had the same liberal upbringing as Carme, although he did not experience the same frustrations as her (he didn't encounter as many in the first place seeing as he was older rather than younger) and moreover embraced this veiw from a completely different place than she did. He developed a much more pessimistic understanding of the events surrounding him. As the attention from his father faded, he began to withdraw again in turn and developed antisocial tendancies; only really communicating well with he three cousins. The verbal and sometimes physical torment he recieved from Claudio also increased as the presence of his father and mother decreased, and while he was small this severly impacted his self-esteem, understandably. The torment from Claudio never really stopped until Valentim stopped it himself, and that experience combined with the other aspects of his world in the camps caused him to develop a very pessimistic world veiw despite the ample postive reinforcement he had access to. He found that involvement in family affairs was typically pointless no matter how you approached them, and refused to get involved in any of it. He preferred getting involved in things with clear, objective gains, such as winning fights and making progress in the mines. Unlike his sister, he heavily protested the plot against Ulisses. He argued that it was a worthless endeavor that would solve no problems and only welcome more problems. Ended up playing a role in the act at the very end despite his adversion, as he decided action was better than inaction.

-Claudio Fonseca: Uncle. Lycanroc (Midday). Older sibling of Sabela. A coward and an ass; generally a source of discomfort in the family. He was shamed by the family and was forced to leave their family "home" for a time to ammend for skimming money from the family to feed taste for black market merchandise. During that time, he had nowhere to go due to a reputation for being an ass and just generally being unpleasent to be around. Sabela [and Atilio] took him in during this time, both out of caste obligation and because they were the only ones who were remotely willing. He was essentially a thorne in the side the entire time he was there. He contributed nothing to the houshold while he lived there (any work he did was counted towards the Fonseca family's dues), he would consistantly berate Sabela and gave none of the adults respect. He would verbally attack the children when the parents weren't around. Valentim in particular recieved a lot of bullying from Claudio when he was small, up until the point where Valentim realized that Claudio was weaker than him. Claudio said and did nothing about the increasingly terrible treatement coming from Ulisses. Left without a word when his family allowed him to return.

-Batari Monteiro: Aunt. Meinshao. A woman from Rainfront who Ulisses married and brought down to the family land before the time of Rui's disabling wound. She was the daughter of a family who specialized in the buisness of entertainment. Batari dedicated a lot of time researching the numbers around what attracted customers and what the public tended to like. She knew gamblers very, very well, in particular. Her skills were unique and for the most part unmatched, but her siblings were all gifted to similar degrees and she ended up with a disproportionately small part of her family's company. She accepted Ulisses's marriage proposal after learning about he fighting plans, seeing the potential that could be raised there. Her skills became the driving force behind their success. The fighting scheme was basically hers and the mines benefitted from her scheduling. She became tired of Ulisses claiming face after a while, his outwardly decietful nature too much for even her buisness sensibilities to handle. She decided to put out the hit on him, in the interest of actually claiming her own accomplishments instead of playing passive like she had before. She slowly set aside a large fund to buy freedom as the reward for the deed, and actually made good on her promise when she did. It is speculated that she is behid why Ulisses still hasn't woken up from his injuries, but there's no confirmation to support it.

-Ulisses Monteiro (in a Coma): Uncle, same age as Atilio. Gothitelle. He was a fairly textbook member of the Monteiro family; he wasn't especially strong in the mines so he ended up doing a lot of advising and medical work. He predicted the average miner death numbers and would either make plans to prevent the deaths or send tips to the mine owners about the oncoming staffing holes so that they could plan ahead. He spent so much time immersed in the statistics of death that he desensitized himself by diminishing the value of life in his mind to cope. He became a frequent liar and would say whatever he thought people needed to hear, however he didn't do this lightly. Rarely did a lie come out of his mouth that he wasn't prepared to hide or obscure in case something fell through. He was careful about preserving his credibility. People became a game to him, without him even realizing it. He only held the very necessary in high regard, such as his equal brother Atilio. He tried to support Atilio through the various dramas in his life however he could; he was rather indifferent to most things himself and most of his investment was just due to the events involving Atilio. He wasn't even sure if he really cared about Atilio, but he also wanted to feel like he had bonds and people who appreciated him. When Atilio introduced Sabela Ulisses was more than happy to accept her for that reason, treating her the exact same way as he treated Atilio. When the two fell out on their own, Ulisses began the fight project as a way to help support them by lessening the impact of the debt they would have to accept to start building their lives. It was meant to be a passing thing, until the discovery of mega stones in the mines made Ulisses more confident. He started organizing more and more and more fights, and it took him no time at all to notice how the earnings were rapidly approaching the point where they would match the interest on the debt. He realized he could actually possibly be free.
He was unsure at first. Though he was selfish, he had never done anything this potently selfish up to this point. He buisied himself in other ways while he debated over his dilemma internally. It was around this point that he came into contact with Batari Tristet, and eventually confided in her the position he was in and what he was thinking about doing. She was all the encouragement he needed to actually act on his motivations; marrying her and using her resource pool to cover the last of what he needed to escape his own debt. He convinced the rest of the family (through Atilio) that he had done this so that he could purchase the rights to a patch of land he had forseen was greatly profitable, and to sequestor the family's debt so that they could pay it off independantly. He gave another great many complicated reasons why his had to be the only name on the deed so that he would be left as the sole proprietor of the family's pursuits and could continue to do as he pleased uncontested.
Ulisses was the first in a nearly untrackable number of his generations to be free from the Grima. The sense of freedom overwhelmed him. He continued to treat his family's as a game, gambling more and more in pursuit of a bigger and better gain. He lost the one tie of respect that had kept him anchored to his family's plight emotionally, though in his mind he was still convinced that working for their benefit. It wasn't entirely false an entirely false thought; but his family was also far from being his first priority at this point. This became glaringly apparent when he chose to bet against Cintia and Roque after forseeing their death in the ring. He grew hostile towards those below him while still ejecting the same lines of familial solidarity at them, swearing that anything he did was in pursuit of good for the family. He relied on the previous reliability of his visions to back him up and keep him useful within the family's eyes; but it was mostly a formality at this point as there wasn't much they could do to protest him. He continued on this way until an attack from his family sent him into a vegetable-like state; unable to forsee his particular demise with the lack of an actual death to clarify his sight.

-Various other near family (Aunts, Uncles, cousins, ect.)