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 Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:19 am
☷ Hazel Hollyhock ☷
The Aspiring Ranger
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birthday: October 21
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 109lbs
Home Town: Verdanturf Town
Theme Song: Wolves Without Teeth
All art (hat and character illustrations) are property of Kayla Marquez.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 9:49 am
 Personality:XXX↳Strengths:
XXXXX➞ Earthy: Hazel is a very grounded person making her very practical and straight forward, if not a little blunt and unrefined.
XXXXX➞ Kind: Hazel’s life motto is “do no harm, but take no s**t”. She treats all living creatures with respect and is quick to trust, though slow to forgive.
XXXXX➞ Empathetic: Hazel cares deeply for all living things, finding it second nature to put herself in others’ shoes. She easily picks up on the moods of others and can often be influenced by them.
XXXXX➞ Just: Hazel is happiest with she is in a situation she deems fair for all. She has a strong sense of justice.
XXX↳Weaknesses:
XXXXX➞ Stubborn: Once she makes up her mind on something, she can be difficult to sway. This may be good when it comes to standing up for what she believes in, but tends to be more of a curse than a blessing.
XXXXX➞ Critial: Hazel has high standards and has no problem telling someone if they’re not living up to them, even if she isn’t living up to them herself.
XXXXX➞ Overly-Reserved: Hazel is more comfortable with Pokemon and nature than she is other people. This makes her seem standoffish and unapproachable when someone first meets her.
XXXXX➞ Self-Conscious: Hazel is not the most confident person and is incredibly harsh on herself.
XXX↳Likes:
XXXXX➞ Nature (Specifically heavily forested areas and mountains)
XXXXX➞ Pokemon, wild or otherwise
XXXXX➞ The time between seasons when everything is changing
XXXXX➞ Discovering new plantlife and adding to her ever growing diary of herbs and medicines
XXXXX➞ Practicing and honing her survival skills
XXX↳Dislikes:
XXXXX➞ Anything that denies her the opportunity to have her feet planted firmly on the ground (swimming, flying, etc)
XXXXX➞ The Ocean
XXXXX➞ Being disliked herself
XXXXX➞ Failing someone who was depending on her
XXXXX➞ Being disliked herself
History:XXX↳ Hazel is the middle-born of three daughters. She and her sisters were raised by her mother and grandmother in a small cottage outside Verdanturf Town where her grandmother had gained the reputation of being a witch. Whether or not these rumors were true, there was no denying that she she was a woman of many talents. She had the greenest thumb in the area and maintained an incredible herb garden which she used to support her equally remarkable gift of healing. For decades the people of Verdanturf Town have traveled to the Hollyhocks’ homy little cottage for various herbs and remedies whenever there was an illness, bump or bruise to be healed. The old woman trained her daughter (Hazel’s mother) in these arts as well, and then as the three sisters were born they too were trained in much the same way.
As the sisters learned and grew, they came to develop their own skills and passions. Hazel’s oldest sister had a certain knack for fertility medicine and midwifery, so she eventually moved to a house in town so she could more easily travel between the neighboring cities and villages to aid new mothers. The youngest sister was more like their mother and decided to remain at the cottage where she could help tend to her grandmother’s herb garden and practice what she referred to as “kitchen magic”. Hazel, naturally, drifted down her own path. She preferred to spend her days out in the surrounding woods where she would seek out wild plants she’d never seen before and spend time with the local wild Pokemon. She’d often return home in the evening with a basket full of strange plants and funguses, and together she and her Grandmother would study them, learning their properties and using them to develop new potions and poultices, and sometimes even new dinner recipes. Hazel learned to become more in-tune with the natural world in ways that the rest of her family was not, and her Grandmother encouraged her every day to find a path that would allow her to take advantage of these gifts.
And so it was that one fateful day Hazel didn’t so much as find her path as it found her. She had been out deep in the woods one night, studying the patterns of a strange mushroom that seemed to double in size under the influence of moonlight. The sudden disruption of a colony of startled Zubat alerted her to the presence of two children stumbling through the woods. Hazel went to them at once and found that they were from Verdanturf Town and had gotten lost in those woods yesterday afternoon. Hazel immediately leapt into action, leading the small scared children out of the woods and home to Verdanturf Town. By the time she returned home she was full of a certain contentedness she had never experienced before. Not only had she been able to help those children, but her confidence and knowledge of the natural world around them had allowed the pair of youngsters to calm down and actually enjoy the trip back to Verdanturf Town. She finally knew what she was meant to do. The next morning she loaded up a pack, bid her family farewell, and made her way to the nearest Ranger station far east of town.
While the Rangers were impressed with Hazel’s knowledge of wild plant life and survival skills, her lack of experience working with or battling Pokemon was her ultimate downfall. She was told that if she could return with her own team of Pokemon and a minimum of five badges, she would be accepted into the training program. And with that, the Rangers pointed her in the direction of Professor [NAME], then shut the door in her face. Frustrated and disappointed, Hazel made the only decision she could; it was time to go see the Professor.
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