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Name: Sam(antha Hawkins)

Codename: Since they're not actually required, Sam tends to use different codenames on paperwork as the mood takes her. Since she always includes her ID number, she's mostly gotten away with it.

Age: 22 (Born Feb 21)

Gender: Female

Rank: Grunt, ID#13576-4234

Appearace: Standing at 5'6", Sam's hair is a faded sea green, worn short in the back with longer bangs framing her face. She is lightly tanned, and her eyes are a warm amber. Build wise, Sam is lean, with broader shoulders and narrow hips. She likes to be active and loves to show it off even more.

As far as clothes go, Sam wears whatever's comfortable and available. Most of her clothes are plain, and lack designs, she's particularly fond of muted and earthy tones. She is surprisingly fond of jewelry, wearing many, rings and bracelets when the situation permits. She has several piercings: her naval, and numerous piercings in her ears. She absolutely loathes things covering her neck, such as scarves and necklaces. To a much lesser extent, she shares such feelings toward sleeves.

Sam's uniform is the standard Grunt B type uniform, save that hers lacks the turtleneck collar. If she ever is promoted to Agent, she'll wear the Agent B type uniform, again without the collar.

Personality: Sam views life as a journey and does her best to enjoy the ride. She views very few things with dismay, and it takes a lot to get her angry or upset. Her usual state is calm, but cheerful, although always with a maniacal or morbid edge. She takes much glee in pushing limits and boundaries, in herself and in others. She enjoys pushing people's buttons, just to get reactions, although she's rarely crude. Once a person has expressed the desired reaction, Sam stops with the antagonizing and moves on to her next amusement.

She's got a highly developed sense of whimsy and tends to go along with crazy ideas just to see what happens. It's all part of the ride. She's very good at striking a balance between efficiency and absurdity. (Any one can TP a house or put food dye in shampoo, but it takes an eclectic mind to rewire the speakers in a dorm shower to record an elite agent's rendition of "singing in the shower" and upload it to every server in the TR database). Though she's pretty good about only targeting those with a sense of humor or lower ranking. Of course, if she thinks she can get away with something, that's usually motivation enough.

Surprisingly, a polite request to stop whatever deviant behavior she's currently engaging in. As such, her favorite role in Rocket approved operations is to be a distraction or a decoy, and allow someone else to do all the sneakysneaky. It lets her indulge any odd compulsions with rarely any lasting consequences.

Bio: Sam says a lot of things when asked about her history. Most of them are blatant (and obvious) lies. Some of them contain only fragments of truth. However, she does actually slip in the truth of her past, but amidst all the obvious fibberies, it's usually passed over as being an untruth too. Which is the whole point of the exercise. Maybe if she lies enough, it won't hurt quite so much when she says that was deported from the Oblivia region.

Sam just wants to go home. If she has to do so at the head of a conquering army, so be it.

Strengths:Sam has a high tolerance for mundane (read: boring) tasks. Scutwork, go-fering, paperwork, finding needles in haystacks, she doesn't mind any of it. As long as there's a goal to be reached, she's good. She's also got a jack-of-all-trades background, she knows a little about a lot of stuff. Social Butterfree. Sam has no sense of shame, and coupled with her perky demeanor, she can strike up a conversation with anyone.

Weakness: Wanderlust. Sam likes to travel. She likes to see things, to do things. If left to her own devices, she can easily wind up half a continent away and late (or completely absent) to important meetings and missions.
Gossip. Maybe it springs from her fascination with little white lies, but Sam loves rumors and all sorts of sordid little tidbits. Not that she'd ever be so crass as to start any, but she'll happily pass along anything she might have heard, or overheard.

Hobbies: When not on duty or doing Rocket-y things, Sam spends most of her time in Ambergris Town, ah, improving the abandoned buildings with the aid of rainbow arsenal of spray paint. She's also an amateur photographer. With the use of an ever present tablet pc (Sam loves her tech toys), she runs a blog that features pictures of her art along with any other neat graffiti (or any neat thing really) she can find. That she also loots the abandoned houses goes unmentioned. Her other big love is the sea: swimming, sunbathing, surfing, whatever the activity, it's her favorite place to be.

Goals: For all of her lies and embellishments, there is only one answer she ever gives to this question: "Who doesn't want to help conquer the world?" When pressed, Sam will say she really just wants to go home and that means Team Rocket achieving world conquest, so she's very dedicated to seeing them succeed.

Pokemon: Sam has a very curious relationship with her pokemon. They're always well treated, fed, trained and played with to the best of her ability. But there's a subtle emotional detachment on her part. (After all, these aren't really her pokemon. Her companions were taken from her when she was kicked out of Oblivia. These are more like loaners. Stopgaps. While she's invested in their well being as useful and necessary tools in her work as a member of Team Rocket, she just can't see them as being truly hers.)

Current Roster: Teru the Shuppet, Gespenst the Haunter, Neve the Glaceon, Rio the Totodile.

Wanted Pokemon: Sam will take anything she can get. In fact, she much prefers it if she has no say in those she receives. Her avoiding water-types is purely your imagination. Purely.

Random bits:
Aliases Sam has used in the past:
- Jo(sephine) King
- Claire Voyant
- Colin Allcars
- Shirely Hugh Canby-Sirious
- Kerry Atune

Inventory

-Team Rocket Pokedex
-Frost Stone x1 Used to evolve Neve.
-Dark Ball x1

Gestpenst's Post



Nature: Modest

Moveset: Hypnosis, Payback, Focus Blast, Shadow Ball

Personality: Gestpenst is Sam's heavy hitter at the moment. In spite of that, he doesn't let that go to his head and is actually quite embarassed by praise to the point he'll hide in his pokeball to avoid blushing like a schoolgirl.

Acquisition: Sam doesn't take well to things trying to sneak on her when she's sneaking on someone else, as Gestpenst found when he tried to hitch a ride in her shadow. The battle was brief, as Sam complimented him on his skills and rather than run, he wiggle and jiggled and turned an atomic shade of pink. Sam couldn't let such an opportunity pass and a few pokeballs later, he was a member of Sam's team.

Notes: As a gengar, Gestpenst is capable of hiding in shadows and his presence causes the air around him to cool, so he can be frequently fond hanging out with Sam when the A/C is out or when she's out wandering through the desert around Team Rocket HQ. Acquired as a gastly.

Previous Movesets:
Gengar - Hypnosis, Payback, Shadow Punch, Shadow Ball
Haunter - Hypnosis, Shadow Punch, Sucker Punch, Poison Jab

Rio's Post



Nature: Hardy

Moveset: Bite, Ice Fang, Water Gun, Water Pulse

Personality:

Acquisition: Stolen from a trainer on the shores neat Sagestone. No one believes her when she says he keeps the bandana as a memento of his previous owner. ("The 'R' stands for Rio! It's his name!")