Robin Prince

[Robin Prince]

Name: Astrit "Robin" Prince

Age: 12

Date of Birth: February 17

Birthplace: Born and mostly raised in Veilstone City, Sinnoh; sent to live in Castelia City, Unova, at age ten

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual

Face Claim: I have been persuaded that the best candidate is Shiro Emiya from Fate/stay night

Appearance:

Distinguishing Features:

For reasons probably relating to some sort of spontaneous mutation, Robin has red hair despite having a conspicuous dearth of known redheaded relatives. He also has an assortment of little scars of the type that adventurous young boys with more courage than sense tend to accumulate, and he is rather small and thin of build.

Height: 4' 5.476"

Character Type: Student

Personality:

Robin has a dreamer's heart, which he keeps neatly hidden beneath a thick layer of bravado. He would love it if you thought he was intimidating, all 14 feet over π of him, although (in contrast to his actually intimidating sister) he just doesn't cut a particularly imposing figure.

He's a reader and a daydreamer, though Robin hates to be caught at either pursuit. He's compiled a tremendous (and multilingual!) vocabulary from the former, which he facilely applies to a variety of situations, to the frequent surprise of anyone who falls for his facade. He is particularly blessed with the gift of snark, which he brings out whenever he feels it is called for--that is, frequently.

Robin has high ideals and holds himself to them. He hates lies, and once someone has lied to him he will almost certainly never trust them again. He himself is stubbornly honest and would never tell a lie or break a promise even when it doesn't make sense based on his own idea of the world. He tries to be honorable in other ways as well, such as refusing to get into fights when he thinks he is too much stronger than his would-be opponent (not that that comes up often) and having a tendency to be remarkably polite to people who have both earned his respect and seem to be the type to appreciate courtesy, but is more willing to forgive himself and others for other kinds of failings.

As for the bravado? Robin wants to be seen as a tough guy, because he figures people will be more likely to leave him alone if they're afraid of him. He's positively hungry to finally get a chance to run his own life, and he thinks this is the best way to accomplish that. Secretly, though, he doesn't just want to be the very best. He wants to be a high-fantasy hero.

Likes:

• Reading, particularly fantasy novels
• The colors blue and gold, especially in combination
• Feeling competent and having skills
• Fooooooooooooooood

Dislikes:

• Being treated as a child, or as in any way inferior to anyone
• His own childish side, which he would love to outgrow already
• Sudden loud noises and other unpleasant surprises
• Being clung to by anyone--particularly his own elder sister

History:

Robin was born in Veilstone City, Sinnoh, to a pair of recent transplants from Kalos, who had before then come from another place. He was their second child, the first being a girl who was called Annie.

The predominant thing that can be said about Robin's early life is that he was very happy. His mother loved him dearly. His sister positively doted on him. His father often brought back nice things to eat or play with, though admittedly he was not overly involved in the boy's life.

Everything was perfect, right up until the time when Robin was seven and his loving mother died unexpectedly. For the next three years after that, he was effectively an orphan, as his sister was the only one who seemed to have any interest in raising him. Annie did her best, and Robin was certainly glad that he wasn't just turned out to starve the way his father seemed to think he should be, but she was only three years older and manifestly not ready to be taking care of him. He depended on her, but he was frightened by their mother's death. If anything happened to Annie, what would become of him? And his classmates slowly stopped talking to him, except to tease him, because as time went on he began to seem more and more strange to them. His clothes looked old, he seemed skinnier and underfed because Annie struggled to make edible food for him without annoying their father, and the isolation from everyone except his sister only made matters worse as he began to withdraw into his books rather than think about all the teasing.

He was ten when everything changed all at once, and it was both great good luck and a terrible misfortune. Older, stronger boys were picking on him again, and his sister objected, violently. The bullies were Trainers, and the siblings were not, but Annie nonetheless managed to fight their ringleader and his Pokémon to a draw. Though the fight was on his behalf, Annie forbade Robin interfere, and once he saw what was going on he wouldn't have dared try anyway.

Twice that day, Robin thought for certain that he had just seen his sister die. The first time was when the older boy sent a Starly to attack the unarmed girl rather than engage her in a fair fight. Annie's face was cut open, but she somehow managed to stay alive and conscious and temporarily stun the attacking Pokémon. The second time was when the Starly came back and hit both human combatants, knocking both to the ground. Robin thought then, when his sister did not move to get up, that she was dead. That was when he ran to see if she was still alive. By some miracle, she was; she was unconscious and her blood was everywhere, but she was alive. Robin stayed with her until adults arrived to deal with the matter. They made him go inside with his class.

Robin thought Annie's actions were admirable, but their father (if the man even deserved the term) did not agree--and Robin was scapegoated for it. The boy was sent away to live in Castelia City, in Unova, and that changed everything.

The only thing that Castelia City had in common with Veilstone City was that both were large cities with streets and buildings. Robin knew no one, not even the relative with whom he was living. He was naturally apprehensive, but "Cousin Al," as Robin quickly took to calling his new guardian, turned out to be wonderfully welcoming and fun. Robin's latent tendency to idealism, which had been almost squashed while he was being bullied in Sinnoh, blossomed in the time he spent with his perpetually optimistic cousin.

Robin shaped himself during his time in Unova. Inspired by the incident which had gotten him sent there, and with some consultation with Cousin Al, he began to learn a certain degree of backbone in order to stand up for himself when bullies and the like came by. It was good timing, as at the school Robin was to attend there, there was a certain number of students who had gotten it into their heads that a boy who didn't fight was not worth their time. After a few scuffles, though nothing anywhere near as bad as the one that he had witnessed his sister get into, Robin won a reasonable degree of respect from his new classmates. He did rather envy those who had Pokémon, but contented himself with learning to fight with just his fists or a pocketknife that he took to carrying. (Pocketknives are infinitely useful whether you are inclined to fight or not.) These fights tended to be rather unserious.

A year and a half, he spent there, discovering who he was and what he could do. Then, during his second summer since being sent to Unova, his cousin explained that Annie and her father wanted to meet in Hoenn, where there was a surprise waiting for them.

Hoenn? Well, Robin went, and saw his sister for the first time in a year. She had changed, and so had he. She wanted to control him, he thought, and he didn't like that at all.

The siblings found out, then, that they were to be sent to a school in Hoenn for aspiring Pokémon Trainers. Robin would certainly miss his cousin and his Unovan friends, but he was at the same time excited. Finally, a chance to learn what he had been missing all this time...

Dorm: Lava Dorm

Uniform Color: Brown

Starter Pokémon:

First Starter

Morning, Fennekin ♂
Blaze

• Fire Blast
• Psychic
• Flamethrower
• Psybeam

Second Starter

Star, Fletchling ♂
Big Pecks

• Steel Wing
• Flame Charge
• Acrobatics
• Razor Wind

Played By: Reni

[Akira]

Approved!
Admittedly, I had to look up what "dearth" meant...*cough*
Anyway, not sure if this school is actually in Hoenn, but, that feels like a pretty minor detail. So yeah. You're good to go~