Name: Harvey Jay Bennett
Gender: Male
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 127 lbs
Age: 16
Birthday:
Home Town: Eterna City, Sinnoh
Personality: Harvey is fairly mature for his age, coming from a household where the parents acted more like children than the children themselves.Despite how extroverted and charismatic he is, very few people can claim to actually know him.
He loves his motorcycle and sometimes despite being mature can act his age, particularly if he's with friends. Harvey is also cunning and very resourceful, if there’s a way he can do something that is easier or at least more practical than the typical way he will become determined to find it and put it into effect. He's an opportunist above all and prefers methods in which he gains the most while sacrificing the least. He's fairly ambitious, not really torn up at leaving his friends ( his reasoning is he can make more) to get where he wants to go.
History: Harvey was born the second child to Nicholas and Adelle Bennett (nee Trafton). The younger of two brothers, he was a reckless child who would have gotten tagged with middle child syndrome despite having no younger siblings. His home life was less than ideal, his mother had issues including a drug habit which made her extremely irrational. Often times Adelle would throw screaming fits and throw things around the house leading to screaming matches between her and her husband whenever he intervened. She finally got taken away due to substance abuse and causing enough disturbances, leaving him with his father and older brother.
While his father was well intentioned he was often immature and worked long hours in construction to keep his kids fed and well, this led to Harvey and his brother learning to fend for themselves in most things. Growing up as latchkey kids, no one checked their homework or set their curfew. Both boys grew up dictating their own rules and making their own decisions without much, if any parental supervision. At the very least they could say it was -kinda-peaceful.
This wasn’t to last however, not even a year later their dad remarried, something Harvey still considers a rushed decision, if not an outright mistake. Things got more hectic around the house. Harvey's step-mother did not get along with Harvey and his brother. The boys were used to doing things their way, and she took that personally. Harvey in particular would often butt heads with her, not liking at all that someone he had just met was trying to butt herself into his life. This would often lead to her fighting with his dad and his dad fighting with Harvey. While his brother kept calm and focused on his studies and his new-found girlfriend (often escaping to her place to get away from the madness at home.) Harvey took to biking, sometimes out of town. He also more often than not took to acting and lashing out. He'd curse out his dad's wife, get in fights and got sent home with an officer Jenny on more than one occasion.
Things eventually took a turn for the worse in Harvey's 12th year. After a particularly nasty fight which ended in Harvey trying to run away and getting taken home by an officer Jenny, Harvey’s now pregnant step-mother convinced her husband to send Harvey away. He was sent to live with his mother who was out of rehab and living in Canalave City with a live in boyfriend. Said boyfriend, a nameless trainer Harvey doesn’t even bother to remember eventually left the mother and son for a shot at living his dream as a trainer and challenging the gyms.
His mother for her part had developed depression and against everyone’s advice continued to date. With a long line of less than desirable suitors constantly in his home, and a mother who acted like she was a lovestruck teenager half the time and an old miserable woman the other half, Harvey often felt like the grown up in the household, filing out food stamp forms sorting through the mail and buying groceries when his mom forgot. Other times however he was just a scared kid, hiding out in the docks until he could go home without having to fear screams, meltdowns, and sometimes downright abuse from his mother or the many men that came through their lives. More often than not he was tempted to jump on a boat and never look back, he actually tried to once and the screaming match that followed once he was caught and his mother found out left him with a smack to the face and the realization that if he wanted out, he needed to be smart about it. The only benefit he could think of was that life at his mom's held even less rules than living with his dad.
School was the only thing that went somewhat okay, Harvey discovered that making friends was a science. Charisma and good timing would win people over and once he had the formula he became rather social. He wasn't close to any of them but the kids he hung out with made life bearable and allowed him to forget about the hell that was home. He spent most of his time with them, and when one of those friends offered to take him to sandgem on a trip with his folks Harvey found that friends also meant opportunities and that opportunities could take him places outside of Canalave. Actually going to school was a drag for him and he'd much rather spend his time doing things he enjoyed like hanging out with friends and exploring the outskirts of the city but he saw it as a necessary evil. He loved the freedom that came with biking on his own and having no one to answer to and the desire to travel and never have to come home only grew. He was constantly googling ways out of town and kept a map on his wall. At his most desperate moments, he considered joining the military, becoming a trainer (much as he hated them) becoming a ranger, anything to get out as soon as possible. He hated the idea of spending time on something he didn't care about, and so each of this options was discarded for something that would require less commitment and more gratifying results.
Entering high school he saw a chance to leave the city. With some research Harvey found out there was a way to graduate early by taking the core classes that the school required from graduates. He loved the idea of leaving school early, as opposed to wasting four years in general education and more to the point, staying four more years with his mother. Meeting with a counselor, research in hand Harvey asked what the fastest track out of school was. The answer was either a GED or accelerated classes. Harvey figured with a high school diploma, he could at least work part time in a pokemart somewhere and would have more opportunities for a trade school should he wish for one, so he picked the second choice.
When he was in his junior year, his mother's depression got progressively worse. Harvey was forced to miss massive amounts of school and eventually was forced to drop out. He opted to enroll in an online school to make up the remainder of his credits since he was mostly done anyways. Due to taking accelerated classes his freshman and sophomore years as well as AP classes, he graduated high school early. It was during this year that things at his mother's got progressively worse. a few weeks after he graduated Harvey found himself in a living situation he just couldn't handle. After his mother's current boyfriend threw a vase at his head and threatened to beat him next time he saw him, Harvey got on his bike, took his pet lapras, a bag, and a knife with him(for protection) and took off without a backwards glance.
He drifted for a while, trying his luck with the elements and no stars motels. He doesn't like talking about what he went through while he was homeless but eventually it led him to a poke center where he more or less collapsed from malnutrition. One of the Joys helped him out and while there Harvey discovered they were giving a scholarship to students who graduated and completed the full Eighteen Gym challenge. With the promise of a full ride to any university of his choosing, Harvey found he could take this challenge.
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Nickname(s): Harv, Harvey Jay
Orientation: Demisexual
Likes: strawberry ice cream, his pokemon, breeding. ( kind of an interest)
Dislikes: stupid drunk people, excuses, cooked beef.
Fears: failing, big men ( abusive step fathers) being alone.
Goals/Dreams: To make it through the league.
Skills: cooking, playing bar games, hustling pool.
Trainer Class: Traveler -Aspiring Breeder-
Theme Song: You're gonna go far kid ( The Offspring)
Favorite Types: doesn't have one
