Pepper

Pepper
Created by	Barley
Information
Species	Chikorita
Gender	Female
Orientation	Bisexual
Main Kinks	None
Sexual Position	Switch
Occupation	Sanitation, Landscaping
Family	Mary's Team
Significant others	None Yet
Children	None Yet
Origin	Starter Pokemon
Nationality	Johto Region

Description

Pepper is a Chikorita distinguishable by the gnawed and frayed leaf on her head, and the surgical scar running the length of her back. She is rather stout, and - were she not evolution-locked - may have grown into a shorter, stockier example of your typically Bayleef. She wears an Everstone with a symbol of protection carved into it; a gift courtesy of Hastur the Mimikyu.

Notable Abilities

Many Pokémon are known to use Vine Whip as a convenient extra pair of limbs, but Pepper took this to its logical conclusion. Immobilised by paraplegia, Pepper spent years perfecting the simultaneous use of all eight vines ringing her neck allowing her to swing, skitter, crawl, and roll around at great speed. Furthering this, she's leaned to extend her will to control any and all flora around her, such that her grass knot is functionally a miniature frenzy plant. More than anything else she is clever, and has devised dozens of alternate uses for her vines. As such, her effective move set amounts to not just Vine Whips, Headbutts, Grass Knots and Razor leaf, but also Rock Throw, Sand Attack, Bodyslam, and so many more. It is good that this is so, because she is also her trainer's sole fighter on a team of often very defenceless noncombatants.

Biography

Pepper was born and raised at a Breeders with the explicit intent of being given to a trainer; a so-called "Starter Pokémon". The only girl in a clutch of four, she was learning to fight from the day of her hatching. She took to it quickly; she took no other mon's shit and took no prisoners in a scrap. When her trainer came for her, she made her debut by sweeping every other trainer one after the other. She showed promise, and it was all taken away from her when a Steelix slammed her into the bleachers.

She survived, but lost all use of her legs, and the nurses agreed that she could never fight again. Worse, Pepper's trainer couldn't - or wouldn't - spare the room on his team to accommodate a crippled Pokémon on his journey, so he dumped her at his sponsor's ranch, and more or less left her to rot. It broke her heart.

But not her spirit.

Every day since, she has worked to master what limbs - and vines - she had left. She studied battle tactics, she exercised, she grew stronger. She left the ranch, leaving her old life behind, and found Mary, who took her in as she had so many others. She worked and trained and worked until the day she could once again face other Pokémon in battle.

The day she battled her old trainer and won was the greatest day of her life.

Personality

Pepper is a stubborn, driven individual with more moxie than sense. Her greatest joy in life is battling, and her greatest ambition is to get better at battling. If not battling, then physical exercise and self improvement in general become her focus. For her, there is always progress to be made, and something to improve. She is very intelligent, and a quick thinker, but also very emotional, and in some ways quite vulnerable.

If there is one thing she absolutely cannot stand, its people trying to belittle her. More specifically, people pitying her, or otherwise denying her her right to fight alongside - or more accurately, with - every other Pokémon. She fought to get where she is; to become who she is, and she'll be damned if anyone tries to take it away from her.

Relationships

She loves and is equally close to Cinnamon, Sugar, Mary, and Hastur, and even has a tenuously respectful relationship with Truffles. But none of them share Pepper's love of fighting, and only Cinnamon shows any real drive towards physical excercise, so it is rather difficult for Pepper to connect with them. Mary and her team were, however, the first true believers in her; the first ones to encourage her to go back in the ring. For that, she is endlessly grateful. She is also immensely protective of her peers, so anyone who tries to harm them can expect to leave the Café with a concussion at best, and bruises around their neck at worst.

Among the Café's staff, she is regarded somewhat cautiously. Some see her as a pariah, others as unstable. Even the Bite Club are reluctant to invite her, due solely to her overemphasis on the "Bite" part and lack of interest in anything else. That said, after a somewhat rocky start, she has forged something of a mutual respect with Elegance. The two train together regularly; with Elegance's more rigid and formal doctrines complementing the unpredictable and ad-hoc strategies invented by Pepper.

Sexuality

Pepper is a fighter, not a lover. She shows little interest in sex on its own, or for its own sake. But, if that's what will motivate people to fight her, she'll happily offer it as a sort-of exchange, and even Pepper will admit that a spot of sex after a brawl is a good way to wind down and relax...Assuming both contestants are still conscious. Pepper does not distinguish between the sexes and only has one rule: Winner takes top. So unless they're paying the Café specifically for it, most suitors can expect to find themselves on their backs between the sheets.

Gallery

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  Pepper's Reference Sheet. Pic Courtesy of Volmise