Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 29, 2011 11:38:39 GMT -5
Let's Start with the Basics
Full Name: Gwendolyn Maria Thornton
Nicknames: Gwen, “Gwenny” by very few
Gender: female
Age: 23
Sexuality: bi-curious
Home Town: Lium Town
Type: Challenge Arena Head
Diary/Plotpage: click
How About Digging Deeper
Likes:
- Lunar and Solar Ellipses, Gwen is one to stay up for either of such things no matter how fatigued she is. She feels quite a rush of exhilaration when seeing such things and wouldn’t miss it for the world. That being said, you get between her and her sightseeing, she will be mad no ways around it.
- Spending time by herself, Gwen desires greatly to have a certain amount of time per day devoted to nothing but her own peace and quiet. Without such things at least once per day, she is prone to snapping and or being extremely cruel towards those she is around. She often states that this time away is her meditation period of sorts.
- Feeling the rush of emotions as she battles, Gwen can’t help but fall into the exhilaration of battle, and she relishes it quite a lot. However, she tries to not show this and keeps a stoic air about herself while in a battle.
- Practical jokes, though at a first glance, one wouldn’t think this stoic woman to like practical jokes, when she relaxes and actually opens up, Gwen proves that she’s quite a playful person who enjoys tormenting her friends (though never actually hurting them physically or abusively. She will even give credit to someone who has managed to outdo her in some way shape fashion or form on such matters.
- Candy, Gwen seems to be a sucker for suckers when it comes down to it. She loves sweet things and candy in general: her favorite being a sucker that she is often seen eating. She is very much in love with candy and sweets for one reason or another.
- Designing her own clothes, Gwen can sew and seems to have a spark for designing her rather odd clothes, and she often fantasizes herself as some sort of rich fashion designer when not working and when no one is around to see her smiling for what appears to be no reason.
- Though she doesn’t like to admit it to people, Gwen loves to drink. She will often drink a lot when alone and a bit when around people. She doesn’t tend to actually get drunk given her high tolerance, yet she likes the taste and general rush feel of it.
- Kids with general curious and passionate natures, Gwen likes to see those that have a fire in their heart and a passion for things. However, that being said, they must be passionate about the correct things (ie: no being passionate about stealing or something of that matter). That being said, she finds that adults need to be mature or she highly dislikes them for the same things children would express.
- Gwen loves the colors blue, teal, and pink. Most of her designs move around these sort of colors especially when it comes to her fashion.
- Running, though she dislikes other activities of physical strain, Gwen oddly likes to run. She loves the feel of adrenaline in her system and the exhausted feeling after having run for a long time.
Dislikes
- People that are ‘weak’ and won’t stand up for themselves, Gwen finds that these types of people greatly annoy her, and she will often push, shove, and kick someone into actually standing up for themselves even to the point where she becomes the antagonist and can be viewed as rather harsh and mean on such matters.
- Her allergies, Gwen is extremely allergic to pollen and tends to become flat out irritated with just about everything around her when her allergies strike. She takes medications, yet even with an up-douse, she finds herself unable to get away from them.
- Herself, really, Gwen holds quite a bit of self-doubt and insecurities that she hates herself greatly for. She wishes she could simply clear all the worry and what not from her mind so that she could keep moving forwards rather than anything else.
- Sexism, any sort of sexist comment is going to ensure someone gets a punch to the mouth if Gwen overhears it. She highly detests any sort of sexist comments and won’t hesitate to be mean if she feels that it’ll ‘kick the idiot that said it hard enough to shove his brain up from his butt’ (as quoted).
- Self righteous people, Gwen hates those that can't seem to get it through their heads that these are other factors in just about everything.
Phobias
- Being found out that she has a drinking problem, Gwen hates the idea of ‘intervention’ and greatly fears that someone is going to force her to stop or threaten that they’ll never forgive her if she doesn’t stop.
- Closed spaces, Gwen is extremely claustrophobic and tends to become ridiculously on edge when in a confined area.
Overall Personality: Gwen is a person and her front of sorts. Her front is very much stoic and almost outright cold, and she uses this quite a lot in battles often suppressing her exhilaration and glee at battling for a calm and serious air. She is extremely mature in this instance and will think things through logically as needed to ensure that her goal for a particular battle is met. She does feel things for her pokemon and often finds herself talking and apologizing to them later for such things that’s he could have done better in a battle or something of the like, but while in battle, she is simply a strategic machine f sorts.
The more social and lighthearted Gwen often comes about when she slips away from her front of sorts and opens up to people. This side of her is usually very easy to find and come by after some time as long as you haven’t greatly pissed her off somehow (due to the fact that she has a nasty habit of forming rather potent grudges for one reason or another). She likes going out with friends and partying if not extensively. She’s not overly talkative but tends to say what is on her mind if she thinks it worth saying, and because she is rather honest in most respects, she tends to make fuller friends and fuller enemies in both respects. She doesn’t believe in holding things back when they need to be said and can come off as quite rude at times even when she states that she is ‘just speaking her mind’. At parties, she will drink very little, yet when alone, she will often splurge much more on alcohol and the likes. She has quite a knack for hiding this trait of herself but has been caught before and called out on it to which she retaliates rather violently and angrily. Gwen also seems to like a few jokes and practical jokes from time to time often doing them on even the most random of people that she has barely even met if she feels compelled to. She has quite a sense of humor when it comes down to it (rather cruel sense but eh, still a sense none the less).
Gwen is not one to judge anyone or anything, she doesn't feel that it is her place to judge someone on things that could have a back story to. However, when she does learn of a person's past and general disposition, she will make inferences depending on whether she thinks it will help or not. Overall, she keeps her thoughts to herself on such matters unless they are directly addressed by someone for some specific reason. Her nature towards judging being said, Gwen is actually very self conscious about what others thing of her. She would rather have someone have strong feelings towards her in either love or hate rather than just a neutral feeling and therefore drives to get some sort of reaction out of people so that they are not apathetic to her.
Though she does like being around people, Gwen does find that sometimes she simply ‘needs some air’ and time away from people and will literally just up and walk away in the middle of a conversation if she feels that she needs some inner peace of sorts. During these times, she will often retreat to a meditation garden in her backyard and will often refuse to see people until she’s gotten her thoughts and things straight again.
Height: 5’8’’
Weight: 160
Body Type: thin but muscular
Hair Color: light blue sometimes teal in certain lighting
Eye Color: yellow
Health Status: alcoholic / normal
Face Claim: April – Darker than Black
As We Come to a Close
Family:
Mother: Andrea Rema Thornton-Williams :: 42 :: retired coordinator and small time fashion designer :: they get along rather well as long as neither of them brings up any references to clothing seeing as they have quite different tastes
Father: Yvan James Thornton:: 44 :: retired store worker:: they get along well and share in the same drinking problems, it seems.
Sister: Natalie Raine Thornton :: 14 :: hopeful trainer :: they get along well enough though both are a tad spiteful of one another and Gwen believes that Natalie was spoiled
Grandfather: Stephan L. Williams:: 70 :: retired battle arena leader :: “Grandaddy” loves his little “Gwenny” and tends to spoil her on all occasions.
Aunt: Jennifer Angel Favon-Williams:: 39:: mechanic :: for a while, Jennifer was rather irritated at the young child in the house but has since found that Gwen proves to be a strong woman and respects her for it. She is married to Allen Favon
Uncle: Allen Favon :: 40:: mechanic:: he… really doesn’t like most of his beloved wife’s family for certain reasons and therefore doesn’t think much of Gwen.
Uncle: Mathew Jeremy Williams:: 34:: playboy :: “Jeremy”is.. the ‘hooligan’ of the family as well as clinical moocher. He hasn’t worked a straight day in his life and prefers to live off of his father’s welfare and anything else he can get for that matter. Gwen despises him greatly and clashes at certain intervals with him.
History: Yvan and Andrea were very much a young love couple of sorts being high school sweethearts, and by the time Andrea graduated, she was carrying her young Gwen within her womb. Nine months passed, and Gwendolyn Maria Thornton came into the world with quite a bit of fire even for a baby. The days after that were stressful as Yvan tried desperately to find work that would pay for his wife and child as well as himself, and the small family ended up living with Andrea’s family, a group of battelers and coordinators. The head of the household, Stephan L. Williams also the arena leader of Lium, was at first very adamant about kicking Yvan straight out of the house for getting his daughter pregnant at such a young age, yet after a bit of talking with his wife, he inevitably broke down and allowed Yvan to stay as well. It was around this time that Yvan began to drink rather heavily as he found that work was still hard to come by.
Gwendolyn Maria Thornton was a rather quiet child who rarely complained about anything. She would keep to herself most of the time, and most of her childhood memories consisted of hiding when Mommy was upset at Daddy and looking for Grandaddy who would hopefully settle the problems. It was quite a messy childhood, really, as most of the family looked down on Gwen for reasons she couldn’t understand at such an age. However, “Grandaddy” always seemed to love her and take care of her even of “Mommy” and “Daddy” didn’t. This was mostly because Stephan, despite his resolve not to get too attached to the child, had ended up cracking down quite a bit and falling deeply in love with his little grandchild often wishing her nothing but the best in life even while ignoring his own children in response. Over time, Stephan began to start teaching his young grandchild to pay attention to certain things, and the young Gwen slowly began to learn of her own slight psychic powers that according to Stephan “Ran in the family sometimes”. Upon finding that his grandchild had been blessed with such an ability while none of his own children (save for Mathew whom used his developing psychic powers for nothing but self-interest and practical jokes which Gwen actually took up later from him) seemed to have such a power or rather the interest to use it for the right reasons. Because of this, Stephan only increased his ‘training’ of sorts and helped Gwen mature.
At the age of ten, Gwen was given her first pokemon, a Ralts, by none other than her grandfather. Instantly taking a liking to the psychic, Gwen found that she could share her thoughts with someone more around ‘her age’ so to speak rather than the house of adults that she grew up with. Pokemon training became simply a game to the young girl for quite some time until Stephan finally explained why he had given her the pokemon. Instantly becoming more serious on the matter, Gwen took up more work and began training her Ralts, whom she had affectionately named Stephaney after her granfather’s name. Both girl and pokemon grew rapidly and became rather powerful in time. For a while, they even went out and traveled most of the region before finally returning home with more psychics in tow. Later, Stephan would step down and give over his status to his grandchild believing that he was getting ‘too old for this anyways’. Though at first she struggled with her new job, Gwen eventually settled and found that she liked the battles and competition at the end of it all. However, as she turned eighteen, Gwen’s father became ill and was bedridden for quite some time. Though she had not grown as attached to him as she had her grandfather, Gwen took it as a hard blow and stepped down from being the leader for a while to take care of him along with her moth. It was sometime during this short interval that the young woman took up drinking and as her father recovered again, Gwen continued to drink and started to party a bit more. However, she did rise back up and took the job as leader once more given that her grandfather was deeply afraid Mathew would try and take it up for status.
Team Pokemon: PC
