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This is pretty much my entry from the FS (originally for Snivy) with the Pokemon species changed. I would really like to use the stuff I came up with for something in this shop because I liked the entire personality and history. Always looking to improve, though, so please crit me!

Species or number: Tangela

Character Name: Briony

Nature: Calm

Ability: Leaf Guard

Skill Set:
- Constrict
- Stun Spore
- Energy Ball
- Power Whip

Personality:
Calm
This Pokemon's nature has quite a lot to do with his personality as well. Though the life of a Pokemon can be dangerous and full of surprises, Briony always takes whatever comes at him with a calm face. Though he might be roiling with emotions on the inside, outwardly it doesn't usually seem like it. If he's mad about something, or at someone, he's much more likely to plot and plan what he's going to do about it than immediately fly off the handle and yell.

Intelligent
Briony has seen a lot of the world while traveling with his trainer, and he's learned a lot on the way. Though most of it is more practical knowledge, such as which moves are better to use against different types of Pokemon, he's almost frightfully quick to pick such things up. Among his trainer's team, he was definitely the smartest Pokemon, though he's not usually one to advertise it. He'd never flat-out say that he's smart, but it's fairly obvious to anyone who's around him for a decent amount of time.

Curious
Hand in hand with his intelligence, Briony is always up for a trip or an adventure that means he'll learn more about the world around him. If Pokemon had libraries and ways of studying without going out into the world, things might have been different for him. But as it is, he's perfectly willing and eager to travel more and seek out new knowledge, particularly about plants. Being a Grass-type Pokemon, other sorts of plants have always fascinated him, and his trainer actually used to carry around a binder full of pressed plants and flowers that he found and brought to her over the course of their travels.

Loyal
Once Briony has decided that you're his friend, you're his friend for life. Same goes with romantic interests, should he ever have any. About the only way to break said friendship would be to seriously compromise his trust in you somehow. He'd do just about anything for a friend, if he was asked, including things that go against his basic beliefs and nature.

Possessive
The other side of the loyalty coin, for Briony, is a possessive streak a mile wide. If you're his friend, you are HIS friend (or love-interest), and no one else's, dammit. It's extremely easy for him to get jealous of friends-of-friends, even to the extent of attempting to break up a friendship that gets too involved - to his mind. This is one of those things that a friend of his would have to notice and tell him not to do, or there could be some major trouble. At that point, it's a very good thing that he is so very loyal to his friends, because as much as it bothered him, he would back off then.

Sensitive
Though usually confident in his own abilities, if something comes up where he's shown up, or criticized (even if said criticism isn't entirely true), this always hits Briony hard. He'll sometimes even retreat into a sort of shell for anywhere from a few hours to a few days. During this time of withdrawal, he'll spend much of his time and energy examining and re-examining himself and/or the situation to try and figure out what and where he went wrong so it NEVER happens again. Because he doesn't want to be looked down upon for some failure in his personality or actions.

Strengths: Briony is a very down-to-Earth sort of Pokemon. He's calm in most situations, making him something of a natural leader. His ability to examine all the facts of a situation and navigate his way through them to a solution generally inspired confidence in others. Though not incredibly strong, he does possess a sort of flexible strength, able to take and dish out physical damage when need-be, though much of his current skill set relies on other abilities. He is an extremely loyal friend, and will protect those he considers to be 'his' with all of his power.

Weaknesses: On the flip side of his loyalty, it is very easy for Briony to get jealous of other people his friends interact with. This can cause him to become somewhat irrational at times when it comes to his friends. Underneath his calm and confident exterior, there are also times when Briony is very unsure of himself, especially when criticized by others. He possesses an almost obsessive desire to better himself so that he can't be criticized again, at least not for the same thing. This can sometimes cause him to be distracted or distant to those around him.

History:
Like many Pokemon, much of Briony's life was shaped by that of his trainer. He was chosen by a particular trainer as a 'starting' Pokemon, given to the young trainer by a Professor who lived in the same town and wanted the trainer to help him complete the Pokedex. They went on many adventures together, and they lived happily ever after. Right? WRONG.

Though Briony was a trainer's first Pokemon, it didn't happen quite like that. His trainer's parents were somewhat famous trainers themselves once upon a time and decided that their child would be just as famous one day. So they took it upon themselves to raise their young daughter surrounded by Pokemon toys, books, bedsheets, clothing, and of course the creatures themselves. However, since they wanted their daughter to be the most amazing trainer ever, the Pokemon they kept around her were all very large and dangerous fully-evolved Pokemon. They were well-trained and would never hurt the child, but that didn't matter. To her, they were SCARY. So when her parents eventually told her that she could choose her first Pokemon and presented her with several choices from among their own Pokemon, she told them she had to think about it. Then she ran out into the garden to hide her tears. She didn't want to be a trainer like that, she didn't care about battles or being famous or any of that.

But in the garden that day, she happened to spot a Pokemon unlike those of her parents. It was small, cute in a way, and very calm as it waddled about on two legs, peering here and there at the plants as vines waved about gently. This, of course, was Briony. He'd been born nearby, actually, in the wild like most Pokemon. But he quickly decided that the wilds were too dangerous a place for a small creature such as he. So, he set out to sneak into the city, where it would be safer, and probably more interesting. It was in wandering about the city that Briony first discovered gardens, areas where humans had taken plants out of the wild and put them into neat rows and other arrangements, encouraging them to grow. The little Pokemon was absolutely fascinated by the idea. To his mind, it was a little bit like what trainers did with Pokemon. They took them out of the wild, cultivated and trained them, helped them to become stronger and better. Of course, there were some trainers who were cruel about it, but it was still basically the same idea.

By the time Briony found himself in his own soon-to-be trainer's garden, he had been in the city for several months, and learned a lot about humans and their day-to-day lives, though there was a lot of it he didn't quite understand. Why in the world were they always in such a hurry for one thing? They'd get to wherever they were going eventually anyway, right? And why did they enter those squareish structures and then never come out for hours at a time? Yes, the structures were nice for when it was cold, or raining ... and perhaps what they did within was important. But the outdoors had to be so much nicer than being cooped up like that the rest of the time!

When the little girl encountered Briony in that garden, she approached him slowly and then simply asked softly if he would be her friend. Briony, young himself, sensed the loneliness in the girl and agreed almost instantly. Here was his chance to see more of the human world, and that of the wilder world he had been born into. Traveling with a human as his trainer would certainly be safer than being out there on his own. And she could likely take him to see other gardens in other human cities! His trainer was his first real friend, and Briony found that he loved having a friend to travel with and talk to, even if she couldn't understand him.

Predictably, his trainer's parents were NOT happy with the girl's choice, but at least she had a Pokemon now. And so they sent her out into the world to begin her journey.

Though she caught more Pokemon after that, Briony was always her first, and her favorite - because he was also her best friend. Though there were some rough times when the girl started to catch other Pokemon (Briony at one point attempted to open all the rest of her Pokeballs to free their occupants so he could be her only friend), things went more or less smoothly for them. When it was time for him to evolve, the girl prevented him from doing so, and because of their strong bond, he was all right with that. She'd told him about her parents' Pokemon and how much their large, evolved forms scared her as a child, so he didn't truly mind never growing into other forms, for her sake. The girl never became as famous as her parents, but she was known and well-liked in many different places around the world because of her friendly and outgoing nature. She wrote letters to her parents and phoned them from time to time, but it was very clear that they didn't approve of her choices in life, and she rarely went home for visits because the atmosphere was far too tense there.

However, tragedy was soon to strike. While traveling through a region known for dangerous Pokemon, she was attacked by a high-level, and very poisonous, Seviper. Whilst Briony and her other Pokemon were trapped in their Pokeballs, she slowly sickened and died, despite another trainer finding her and getting her to the hospital but moments later. Her grieving parents, only now realizing what they had had, and lost, in their kind and unassuming daughter, set all of her Pokemon free at her funeral. But strangely, when they did so ... one of the Pokeballs was completely empty.

Design/References

Eye color: Light silvery sort of blue
Hair color: Dark blue
Hair style: Extremely long~ Possibly in dreads, or just really curly/tangled/vine-like XD
Skin tone: Dark, but not like ... African American dark. More on the black/blue side of the color spectrum than the brown side
Build: Medium height, relatively well-muscled. Not like bodybuilder, but respectable 8D;
Clothing: Mostly dark colors - black & blue. Always wears red boots of some kind (lul). Could have a few red accessories to match those, possibly. Style of clothing should be relatively simple. Everyday street-clothes look, rather than formal or something like that. To go with inspiration from the Pokemon, lots of trailing bits of cloth or stringy sorts of accessories could be used~ XD
Refs:
-- Hair inspirations: [x][x][x]
-- Clothing inspirations: [x][x][x]

Of the top you need to include his interaction with Musharna, and provide what drove him to become a gijinka. Considering how critical this is in terms of how they come to be you need to include it in history.

Calm: In what cases does his facade drop and break, when does he loose his cool?

Intelligent: How this is written as he 'he was the smartest, he's frightfully quick to pick up things'. The wording almost borderline seems to meta-game situations. He's not the best..but he really close to it. He could be the smartest of the team...but to stack it with omg he's uber smart...it comes off as a bit over the top.

Loyal: That is extreme loyalty and if he's willing to go against his own morals due to it, what about his knowledge? What if he is asked, begged, told, ect ect, to go against something he knows is true? Or, back up something he knows in false?

Possessive: This seems kind of thrown in, since not much of his other traits really give in to this, or mesh well. If he's smart then doesn't he realize how he's coming off? If he's curious about things, how does it play into being possessive? Does that mean if he learns something new he won't share that knowledge?

Sensitive: If he's shown up and takes this so hard, that leans more towards pride, so I am going to ask if he is a prideful person? What happens if he does repeat old mistakes, or, he gets flat out rejected by those he was once so loyal too? If he met someone sarcastic or rude, how would he deal with them?

Strengths: When I read this I get a very different vibe from his actual personality. He's gone from having what appeared to be crippling self doubt to charismatic leader type who then becomes contradictory. Those with leadership and carry charisma are 99% very prideful, self confident, people, not prone to shelling up when given criticism.

Weakness: his jealousy was just barely hinted at in his personality. Same with his irrational possessiveness over people and their ties to others, which I didn't notice until now but..how does he even manage to keep friends then? The friend possessiveness is actually borderline creeper/stalker like.

Overall I'm going to agree with Epine that there is a lot going on here but also a lot going on that is unsaid which does need to be said to become a cohesive and whole profile. Considering how much the profile ties into them with the dream and the reason they become a gijinka, you really need to add that in since it can play a huge roll and help give light to his current personality and the way he is.