Nickname: Gio
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9
Weight: 135
Age: 19
Birthday: 03/19
Home Town: Olivine City
Orientation: Hedro
Likes: Pokemon, causing a little trouble and talking while traveling with his friends Aiden and Fey. He also has a pretty big thing for Rosette Fairmont. He enjoys meeting new people and lives to meet new Steel Types
Dislikes: Pokemon haters and people who are afriad to get into a little trouble(And low-key water)
Fears: Being eaten by a Sharpedo
Goals/Dreams: His former dream was to locate Jasmine and take her spot as the Gym Leader of Olivine. When he found out she had returned his goal changed. More than anything he wanted to beat her so bad in a battle she would have no choice but to recognize his skill as a Steel Type Trainer. The next goal is to become the greatest Pokemon trainer from Olivine since Jasmine. In order to do that he feels he must become the Johto League Champion. Gio has a strange obsession to discover a previously undiscovered Pokemon. In actuality Gio just wants to prove to himself he is strong and that Steel Types are the strongest Type as well.
Skills: Gio is naturally good at getting along with just about any Pokemon that is a Steel Type for the most part. Except for his Pawniard which seems to hate him for invading and accidentally destroying the Pokemons home in a Gym Battle. (Unfortunately his Pawniard managed to escape into the wild of Ilex Forest). He is really good at training Steel type Pokemon for the simple fact of knowing Type advantage. Besides the Type familiarity his go to slogan is "Strike Hard, Strike Fast. Strike like a Steel Blade leaving no Question with Results. For the most part he's only good at fairly basic skills but Gio is kind of grasping at straws at things he's actually good at outside of battling. However because of his mischievous nature he tends to get him and Pokemon in trouble. Most of the time this is due to him destroying Gyms in battle, but sometimes includes some pretty gnarly events with his Pokemon.
Status: -Trainer, Understudy to Jasmine at the Olivine GYM
Theme Song: Core Pride - UVERworld
Favorite Types: Steel, Water, Psychic, and Fighting
Least Favorite Types: Fairy, Bug, Fire and Water(Sharpedo)
Personality: Stubborn, loud, upfront, forgetful and generally pretty happy. Is into Homographic and recursive puns. Gio definitely thinks he's a lot smoother than he is.
History:
Gio was raised born and raised in Olivine City. His mother was killed by the infamous Team Rocket while trying to protect her own Pokemon, whom also fell to Team Rockets wrath. His father on the other hand was lost at sea when he was three, so he went and lived at a local orphanage. There, he went to a local festival and fell in love with the Local GYM Leader, Jasmine's Pokemon. Gio wanted to be everything that she was and more. For him there was nothing she couldn't do and she walked on Water. Soon Gio found himself going to them GYM to watch her battle. One day he decided to tell her how much of a fan he was. She thanked him and then later found out he lived at the orphanage. So at the age of six the Gym Leader Jasmine took little Gio in and raised him as a Gym Trainer for awhile. Not being old enough to have his own Pokemon she let him borrow some of the Gyms.
Then one day the Gym was beaten by a trainer so fierce Jasmine actually decided to go on her own journey. This caused Gio to follow her. Once she came to Kalos Gio, once again, fell in love with the scenery and decided to stay there for a short time. During this time Giovanni joined Team Snaggem thinking they were nothing but good. Gio saved a young Riolu from an experiment being done by Team Rocket. Snaggem did not want him to keep the Pokemon, despite them being together for several months. The straw that broke the Camerupt's back was when he saw the poor Pokemon hooked up to a strange machine he had never seen before. It wasn't normal and he didn't appreciate the cruelty he witnessed. Gio had sworn he would never take part in these kind of acts so he felt blindsided. Thankfully he was able to help save the Pokemon in his great escape. Unfortunately the damage had been done. Little did Gio know the Pokemon he saved had ended up being turned blind. Regardless of him not knowing it wouldn't change how he felt about his chosen Pokemon. Taking his new partner he visited a few other regions before returning to Johto to start his own Pokemon journey.
He started is Journey in New Bark Town meeting two good friends Aiden and Fey shortly after. He received his first badge which was when he met another young Trainer named October. After a series of unfortunate events Giovanni decided to continue his journey alone. Starting by leading a warpath in Kanto. Gio does not think the best from Kanto can beat the best of Johto one on one. The issue is that he desperately wants to finish up the Johto Eight and begin his Training to take on the League.
Appearance/Physical Description:
Skinny, has a scratch scar on his face from a Growlithe that he had tried to catch with his bare hands when he was younger. Grey hair that comes down past the ears but is kept off the face and to the sides with a bandana and hat. He keeps a necklace that holds a great meaning to him wrapped around his Mega Launcher on his right hand. On his left is just a tactical glove that he uses when hes about to let a Pokemon out of its ball.
