[attr="class","rostername"]@leon

[attr="class","rostersub"]a [twenty six] year old [Gym Leader/Ranger] from [Goldenrod City, Johto]

[attr="class","rostercat"]Leon Reynold Meyvins

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[attr="class","rostercat"]Male

[attr="class","rostercat"]Bisexual [male leaning]

[attr="class","rostercat"]Trainer

[attr="class","rostercat"]Dark

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In the past, Leon was a classic delinquent. Short, cropped hair either gelled back or straight up, swore like a sailor, went around picking fights both physically and verbally, and didn’t listen to orders from anybody. He got into trouble day after day, and only after he was forced to attend the ranger’s seminar did he begin to try and change himself for the better. If he ever wanted a shot at being one, or maybe even something more someday, he couldn’t pick fights with everyone who looked at him a little funny anymore. He had to clean up his act.

These days, Leon doesn’t go around throwing punches anymore. Most of the time, at least. He’s still bad about running his mouth and still likes to choose from a colorful list of vocabulary when he can, but he’s gotten better at keeping those parts of him under control when he’s doing official business. Whether it be an important ranger mission or a gym battle, he’s ususally able to tone it down unless someone eggs him on. That someone tending to be Tony; the Scraggy knows just how to rile him up when he wants to.

For a long time, Leon struggled with accepting his sexuality and his preference for wearing makeup. His confusion and frustration certainly added to a lot of his aggressiveness in his youth, but after a long and arduous process he’s finally accepted that those parts of him are valid and nothing to be ashamed of. He rarely leaves home without at least light makeup, loves body glitter, and he’s had a couple of boyfriends and a girlfriend in the past. If anyone tries to make fun of him or someone else for things like that while he’s within earshot, it’s one of the only times he can’t help but pick a fight.

Because of how he grew up, Leon has abandonment issues. It’s why it can be hard for him to maintain friends sometimes; he worries about getting too clingy, though in his effort to not appear so he can neglect them and they leave him all the same. Plus with his semi-nasty demeanor, it can be hard to make those friends in the first place. However, if you manage to get on his good side Leon is as loyal as they come and would never betray a friend no matter the circumstances. He just doesn’t have many people in his life like that.

When it comes to Pokemon battling, Leon's strategy has evolved with him. Though he once favored brute strength, now he likes to utilize status effects and moves that do more than just land a clean hit. He is very methodical, trying to think of what his opponent will do next in order to counter it with an appropriate move. He also favors attacks with additional effects, whether the be a detriment to an opponent or a buff for his own Pokemon. He'll utilize everything he can to pull out a win, or at least make his opponent have to work hard for their victory.

+ Clever
+ Professional
+ Dedicated
+ Idealistic
= Independent
= Direct
= Challenging
= Strong-willed
- Rude
- Argumentative
- Proud
- Heavy-handed

[attr="class","rostercatsub2"]PERSONALITY

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Abandoned by his parents at a young age, Leon had a troubled childhood. He was shuttled from foster home to foster home, never staying in one place for too long due to his...rebellious disposition. He got into a lot of trouble in school, and was running with some of the rougher circles. A proper delinquent, he got into plenty of fights and found himself skipping classes more often than not, when they didn't focus on Pokemon and battling. Though he had none to call his own, his fascination for Pokemon initially stemmed from his desire to sit at the top of the school. With a strong Pokemon people would definitely have to listen, and treat him with more respect than his post as a parent-less, troublemaking transfer student allotted him.

After one foster family he'd been with moved to Kanto, he found himself stuck in Viridian City for awhile. He hated it there, it was such a quiet city, but there wasn't much he could do about it. Frequently, he would sneak out of the house at night and sneak out to Route 28 to admire the view it had of Mt. Silver. When he was about thirteen years old, one particular night he'd been sneaking around out there he got into a bit of a fight with a wild Sneasel. A form of kinship formed between them as the fight progressed, and by the end of it Leon had earned the Sneasel's respect and he snuck him back home. He managed to keep Sneasel secret for only a few days before his foster parents found out he'd been hiding him in his room, though in the end they let him keep him in the hopes that having a Pokemon might help him deal with his problems and straighten up.

It didn't really work, though his other trouble-making friends admired him for having caught such a Pokemon all on his own. It just swelled his ego, which wasn't good for anyone. What really changed around his attitude was the scheduled visit from a Top Pokemon Ranger from the distant region of Inset in one of his classes when he was about fifteen years old. Hearing the way she described her job, how rangers saved people and Pokemon from disasters, how sometimes they were called upon to catch dangerous criminals, how much respect they garnered the world over, lit something in Leon's heart that had remained extinguished until that very day. Hope. Some way he could claw his way out of the hole he'd dug for himself, a way to become the trainer he always wanted to be and to earn the respect and praise he so deeply craved.

For the next few years nobody could believe the changes in him. He fought less and less, he started attending school regularly, and he even tried to tone down his potty mouth (to varying degrees of success). When school was out he began traveling with Sneasel, planning out his goals along the way. When they were ready they would set out to Inset to apply to be a Ranger-and-Partner team. If there were any other chances at further advancement, they would seize it. He would make a new name for himself in that distant region; a place where he could ditch the shadow of his old life and establish himself properly. During his training he caught two other Pokemon, a Sableye and a Scraggy with whom he also felt a deep affinity for.

When he did arrive in Inset, he applied for the ranger position and got it quicker than he had been expecting. As he began work the big whigs of the nation decided they wanted to open up a Pokemon League all their own, and Liam wasted no time applying for a Gym Leader Position. If that job wouldn't command respect and show just how far he'd come, what would after all? He passed the tests and screenings needed to earn the position, and he realized his future had never looked brighter.

[attr="class","rostercatsub2"]HISTORY